With: European Peter Aagaard Dr Kirsten Albracht Malcolm Arnold Speed Benke Bloomkvist Clarence Callender Conference Lloyd Cowan Steve Fudge The Belfry Hotel, Prof Alan St Clair Gibson Sutton Coldfield, Tony Hadley 8-9 November 2014 John Kiely Loren Seagrave • World class coaching line-up, including debut presentations from Steve Fudge and Jonas Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo Tawiah-Dodoo coaches to GB’s sub 10s sprinters James Dasaolu (9.91) and (9.96) • Cutting edge sports science speakers from across the globe • Discounted accommodation and dinner for stay over delegates

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The 2014 European Speed Conference will take place on 8th - Conference venue: 9th November at The Belfry Golf Course in the West Midlands. The Belfry Hotel, Sutton Coldfield Lichfield Road, Wishaw, Sutton This event, which forms part of European Athletics Coaching Summit Coldfield, West Midlands B76 9PR Series, builds on the success of the British Athletics/England Athletics Coaching Masterclass programme. The event continues the Conference fees: exceptional coach development opportunities on offer in the UK with 1-day rate per delegate* £125 an impressive roll call of world class speakers including: 2-day rate per delegate† £175 Peter Aagaard, Dr Kirsten Albracht, Malcolm Arnold, Benke 2-day plus accommodation‡ Bloomkvist, Clarence Callender, Lloyd Cowan, Steve Fudge, Prof (single room) £350 Alan St Clair Gibson, Tony Hadley, John Kiely, Loren Seagrave and 2-day plus accommodation‡ Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo. (double room) £300 The conference aims to deliver high level expertise and provide the * includes lunch on one day only platform for coaches and sports scientists to collaborate and develop † includes lunch on both days ‡ includes lunch on both days and an knowledge and skills. To get the most out of the conference we evening meal on Saturday suggest delegates acquaint themselves with the conference speakers. Booking a conference place: A four-time host of the Ryder Cup, The Belfry is a world renowned Book online at and iconic venue. The Belfry is beautifully secluded, yet incredibly www.EuropeanSpeedConference.com well connected. Located right in the centre of the UK, the venue is just 10 minutes from International Airport, 20 minutes Booking accommodation: from New Street Station and the city centre, and easily accessible Accommodation is available at The from Junction 9 of the M42. Belfry on a first come first served basis for the Saturday evening. To British Athletics have negotiated special accommodation rates for take advantage of the special delegates at The Belfry. delegate rates, please ensure that an ‘Accommodation Ticket’ is A meal will be provided on Saturday evening for those delegates who specified when your are asked book accommodation. which ticket is required during the Details and booking information are available online at booking process. www.EuropeanSpeedConference.com For questions regarding conference and accommodation bookings please email Zena Weeks at [email protected]

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Timetable (may be subject to change) Saturday 8 November 2014 10.00 WELCOME 10.05 KEYNOTE: Multi-direction activities and acceleration Loren Seagrave 11.05 COFFEE BREAK 11.30 WORKSHOP 1 A: To be confirmed To be confirmed B: The development and achievements of Christine Ohuruogu Lloyd Cowan C: Coordination – the most important athletic capacity? John Kiely 12.45 LUNCH 13.45 WORKSHOP 2 D: How much speed, how much strength for sprinters? Steve Fudge E: Functional conditioning of a hurdler Benke Blomkvist F: Is central nervous fatigue in speed athletes fact or fiction? Prof Alan St Clair Gibson 15.00 COFFEE BREAK 15.30 WORKSHOP 3 G: Tendons – Achilles heel of the speed athlete? Dr Kirsten Albracht H: : building a world record holder Malcolm Arnold I: Eccentric training for speed development Prof Per Aagaard 17.00 KEYNOTE: Long term development of a 400m runner Tony Hadley 19.30 EVENING MEAL Sunday 9 November 2014 9.00 WELCOME 9.05 KEYNOTE: Targeted strength training – blending tradition and John Kiely science to optimise speed 10.15 WORKSHOP 4 A: 400m – speed or endurance? Loren Seagrave B: The building blocks for the younger speed athlete Clarence Callender C: Training interventions for the younger athlete Prof Per Aagaard / Dr Kirsten Albracht 11.30 COFFEE BREAK 12.00 WORKSHOP 5 D: Where does rhythm fit in a training year? Benke Blomkvist E: Acceleration mechanics and physical preparation in developing athletes Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo F: Eccentric training for speed development Prof Alan St Clair Gibson 13.15 LUNCH 14.00 WORKSHOP 6 G: The training requirements of a 400m hurdler Malcolm Arnold H: To be confirmed To be confirmed I: How much speed, how much strength for sprinters? Steve Fudge 15.00 COFFEE BREAK 15.30 KEYNOTE: Practical planning for speed coaches Loren Seagrave 16.30 CONCLUSION & FINISH

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS formerly worked as National Event . Lloyd currently works for Coach for Hurdles. He has attended British Athletics as a Coach for Sprints Peter Aagaard (Denmark) every Olympic Games since Mexico and Hurdles. In this role he has seen Per is Professor in Experimental and City in 1968 as a coach to national the men’s 4x400m win the European Theoretical Biomechanics at the teams and has coached athletes to title this season, and Bianca Williams Institute of Sport and Clinical more than 65 major medals over a 44 has made great progress under his Biomechanics, University of Southern year career. He was Director of leadership this year. Coaching for Uganda between 1968 Denmark where he is also Head of the Steve Fudge (UK) Research Unit "Muscle physiology and and 1972 and during this period Biomechanics”. He is recognised and coached John Akii-Bua to Olympic A former UK Athletics Apprentice respected as a world leading Gold in a World Record time in 1972. Coach for sprints, Steve is now researcher in neuromuscular Since 1974 he has worked in various enjoying huge success as a responses to training and has large national coach roles including being Performance Sprints Coach for British numbers of research papers in Director of Coaching and Development Athletics. Steve is currently based at Journals around the world. He has a between 1994 and 1997. Since 1998 he the High Performance Athletics Centre degree in Mathematics, an MSc in has coached at the University of Bath in , and his current crop Physiology and a PhD in and coached athletes at of athletes include Paralympic and IPC Neurophysiology from Copenhagen Commonwealth, European, World and Athletics World and European 100m University and was previously Olympic level. Athletes that he has Champion Jonny Peacock, European Professor of Biomechanics at coached have included Colin Jackson, 100m Champion James Dasaolu University of Southern Denmark and Dai Green, Jack Green, , (9.91s) and European 200m Champion visiting Professor in the Department of Craig Pickering, Lawrence Clarke and . Eilidh Child. Integrative Biology at the University of Prof Alan St Clair Gibson California (Berkley). His areas of Benke Blomkvist (Sweden) interest include neuromuscular (South Africa) Benke is the former long-term coach plasticity and adaptations in neural Alan ‘Zig’ is now Head of the School of of women’s 60m Hurdles World Record function, muscle structure, muscle Medicine at the University of the Free holder Susanna Kallur. In 2008 he tendon architecture and biomechanical State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He spent a short period as a UKA sprints responses to training and detraining. left his position as Head of the and hurdles coach in where he His research has specifically Department of Sport Exercise and was responsible for revitalising the addressed the influence of Rehabilitation earlier this year before careers of and World physiological and biomechanical which he was Director of Research in 400m Hurdles Champion Dai Greene – factors upon muscle function the Department of Sport and Exercise who has since gone on to experience (eccentric and concentric contraction Sciences at Northumbria University great success with another conference force production, rate of force and Associate Professor (Human speaker Malcolm Arnold. production and power), muscle Biology) at the University of Cape architecture, tendon and aponeurosis Clarence Callender (UK) Town, South Africa. He graduated from function and muscular work efficiency. the University of Cape Town with an England Athletics’ National Coach MBChB in 1990, a PhD in 1997; and an Dr Kirsten Albracht (Germany) Mentor for Speed, Clarence is a MD in 2002; and has previously been a Dr Albracht is a research fellow at the former Olympic silver medallist in the Research Fellow at the Human Motor Institute of Biomechanics and 4x100m relay and two-time Control Unit, National Institute of Orthopedics at the German Sport relay Neurological Disorders and Stroke, University Cologne, one of the largest medallist. He is also the head coach at National Institutes of Health in and best equipped centres in Track Academy, an educational, Washington DC, USA, in 2002-2003. He for sports and clinical biomechanics. mentoring and sports programme that is currently a Chair in Integrative She holds a PhD in Biomechanics, and supports the personal development of Neuroscience and his main research specialises in musculotendinous young people living in London. interests include the physiological and interaction within the leg-extensor Lloyd Cowan (UK) psychological mechanisms which muscle-tendon units. Dr Albracht also regulate human function and activity, conducts research into health and Lloyd is best known for coaching the conscious perception of these performance in youth and elite sport. double World Gold medalist and control mechanisms, the Olympic Champion Christine Ohuruogu psychopathology of excessive activity, Malcolm Arnold OBE (UK) and 2013 World Championship Bronze basic brain function and behavioural Malcolm is currently a senior coach medalist, 2010 European Champion bio-ethics. working for British Athletics and and 2010 Commonwealth Champion

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Tony Hadley (UK) Loren Seagrave (USA) namely athletics. His coaching British Athletics' Event Group Lead for Loren has won four NCAA Track and methodology aims to identify Sprints, Tony is hugely experienced Field national championships at contributory factors to barriers to and a former National Coach Mentor Louisiana State University and has performance and then establish an for England Athletics. He was worked with over fifty Olympic and approach for working to overcome previously Chair of the Event World Championship medalists, them. Management Group for Sprints and National and World record holders, Hurdles. He has coached world class and Collegiate All-Americans. sprinters including Derek Redmond, Amongst his charges have been Duaine Ladejo and Phil Brown. His Donovan Bailey, Andre Cason, Dawn current crop of athletes includes 2014 Sowell, Sheila Echols, and Gwen European Silver medallist over 400m, Torrence. Loren's coaching experience Matthew Hudson-Smith. includes other sports such as football, baseball, soccer, basketball, and ice John Kiely (UK) hockey. Since 1998 he has as a speed John studied at Limerick University and conditioning coach with the (Sport & Exercise Science) and Atlanta Falcons, and has consulted University (MSc Strength & regularly with the Detroit Lions, Conditioning). He is now Senior Jacksonville Jaguars, and other NFL Lecturer in Elite Performance at the teams. He is presently coach to Institute of Coaching and LaShawn Merritt, World Champion in Performance, University of Central the 400m. Lancashire where he manages one of the first Professional Doctorate Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo (UK) programmes in the UK and is studying Another former UK Athletics for his PhD in ‘Understanding and Apprentice Sprints coach (along with Optimising athletic coordination’. He Steve Fudge), Jonas began his has been a competitor himself winning coaching career working in rugby. As the Irish ,‘North-Atlantic’ and ‘World’ an Apprentice Coach, Jonas worked Kickboxing Light-heavyweight titles alongside Dan Pfaff in the build up to and the Irish heavyweight boxing title the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, on two occasions. John was Head of working with athletes such as Greg Strength & Conditioning at UKA where Rutherford and Jonny Peacock. he also consulted as a conditioning Following Dan's return to the USA, and sports science specialist. He has Jonas is now Greg's lead coach, and personally coached both able bodied also includes sub 10s 100m man and Paralympic Chijindu Ujah (9.96s) in his group of athletes and was a specialist power athletes. coach in rowing and rugby amongst Jonas has a BSc in Coaching and other sports. He has written widely on Conditioning and MSc in Coaching neuroscience, movement, stress and Science. His thesis for his MSc was performance and his highly respected written on Elite Training Systems used for his critical thinking and problem within High Performance Sports, solving.

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