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LBU hosts European Endurance Conference
The event, which is being held in the university’s Carnegie School of Sport building from 12 to 14 November, is part of the European Athletics Coaching Summit Series and is focused on endurance disciplines, titled “Achieving Excellence in Healthy Endurance Environments”.
The weekend features lectures from Olympian Helen Clitheroe and Dr Andi Drake from Leeds Beckett University, Dr Arturo Casado, Professor Andy Jones and World 50km Champion Aly Dixon.
There will also be a question and answer session with Alex Bell, who trains with the Leeds Talent Hub and was an Olympic finalist at Tokyo 2020.
Dr Brian Hanley, Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Biomechanics within the Carnegie School of Sport said: “We look forward to hosting world-class athletes, leading coaches and scientific experts at our Headingley Campus.
“The Leeds Talent Hub is an important development centre for elite young athletes and, alongside our extensive research on optimising endurance performance, has led to the university’s great reputation for improving performance in distance running and race walking.”
The Carnegie School of Sport Building boasts a wealth of outstanding facilities including dedicated research laboratories, a hypoxic laboratory, a health and wellbeing studio, a covered rooftop 60m sprint track, enhanced strength and conditioning spaces, and changing and recovery facilities.
The facility at Leeds Beckett University’s Headingley Campus is a base for the Carnegie School of Sport’s undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes and provides a hub for the elite athletes who use the University’s sports performance expertise.
More information about the 2021 European Endurance Conference is available on the Leeds Beckett University website.