What is Power of 10?
Since 2006, the Power of 10 has been the silent driving force behind the steady rise in UK athletics performances
— from school tracks to the Olympic stage. Its mission is simple but powerful: to motivate athletes of all ages
by setting clear performance targets and providing a trusted system to track results, rankings
and progress year after year.
We collect performance data for the following categories: Track & Field, Cross Country and Road & Distance
The general remit of the Power of 10 website is to record all performances achieved by UK athletes, in line with
agreed entry standards, in order to maintain a clear and accurate record of how performances are improving in all
areas and across all age groups.
We can only include verifiable performances in bona-fide UK Athletics/Home Country Federation (Athletics Northern
Ireland, Welsh Athletics, Scottish Athletics) licensed competitions where the level of officiating is of a
consistent standard.
Track & field performances will also be excluded that otherwise meet the criteria when:
- The level of officiating is not of an acceptable standard.
- Races were not started by a gun.
- Times in races that were manually timed and not recorded to 0.1 seconds.
WOMENS 2026 TRACK & FIELD TARGETS
Under 20 Women
Top 10
Top 100
Under 17 Women
Top 10
Top 100
Under 15 Women
Top 10
Top 100
100
11.75
12.5
11.95
12.5
12.25
12.8
200
24.1
25.6
24.5
25.9
25.1
26.5
300
39.5
41.8
40.5
43
400
54.9
59.5
800
02:08.0
02:16.0
02:09.0
02:17.0
02:13.0
02:19.0
1500
04:25.0
04:42.0
04:28.0
04:46.0
04:35.0
04:50.0
3000
09:35.0
10:35.0
09:45.0
10:45.0
09:55.0
11:10.0
5000
17:10.0
19:00.0
1500SC
05:05.0
05:50.0
05:10.0
06:00.0
75 Hurdles
11.35
12.1
80 Hurdles
11.5
12.4
100 Hurdles
14.1
16
300 Hurdles
44
49.5
400 Hurdles
62.5
72
High Jump
1.74
1.56
1.68
1.58
1.63
1.52
Pole Vault
3.5
2.7
3.3
2.4
2.85
2.15
Long Jump
5.9
5.25
5.7
5.2
5.4
4.9
Triple Jump
11.7
10.45
11.5
10.3
10.6
9.25
Shot
13
10
13.6
10.8
12
9.7
Discus
40
27
36
26
30
23
Javelin
42
31
41
32
37
28
Hammer
47
30
51
35
43
25
Pentathlon
3000
2500
Heptathlon
4800
3000
4600
3500
MENS 2026 TRACK & FIELD TARGETS
Under 20 Men
Top 10
Top 100
Under 17 Men
Top 10
Top 100
Under 15 Men
Top 10
Top 100
100
10.6
11
10.8
11.2
11.3
11.75
200
21.4
22.5
21.9
22.8
22.9
24
300
36.7
39
400
48
50.7
49.5
52
800
01:50.0
01:55.5
01:53.0
01:59.0
02:00.0
02:07.5
1500
03:47.0
03:58.0
03:54.0
04:08.0
04:08.0
04:25.0
3000
08:15.0
08:45.0
08:35.0
09:05.0
09:05.0
09:55.0
5000
14:25.0
16:00.0
1500SC
04:30.0
05:00.0
2000SC
06:10.0
07:00.0
80 Hurdles
11.4
12.5
100 Hurdles
13.5
14.9
110 Hurdles
14.2
17
400 Hurdles
54.5
60
56.5
63
High Jump
2.02
1.81
1.96
1.8
1.79
1.66
Pole Vault
4.5
3.2
4.15
2.9
3.4
2.3
Long Jump
7.1
6.3
6.7
6.2
6.2
5.55
Triple Jump
14.1
12.3
13.9
12.15
12.5
11
Shot
15
11.6
14.9
12
13.7
11.3
Discus
47
34
45
35
40
30
Javelin
58
44
57
43
48
36
Hammer
55
30
53
30
45
27
Pentathlon
2700
2000
Octathlon
4800
3600
Decathlon
6400
4000
The track & Field targets for the 2026 season will be available to view here, once they have been published.
What do the targets mean?
UK 10 Target:
These figures are raised in line with performance progression in each event during the previous 12 months. Each
event makes progress at a different rate.
UK 100 Target:
These lines act as a progressive step, a marker for both coach and athlete that indicates where they have come
from and where they then aspire to. They can be seen as an aid to planning coaching progression.
We collect and record performances from all licensed cross-country events across the United Kingdom.
For road and multi terrain, we include performances from races that have been awarded a UKA licence or one of the
Celtic national governing bodies.
In road races, the times recorded for rankings purposes will be the “gun” times. This is to ensure consistency
over all races both now and in the past to reflect that rankings represent a record of performances done under
direct competition whereby the results of a race are ordered by the order that athletes cross a common finish
line after a common start. This is also the common method used by statisticians worldwide.
We do recognise that in some large races some athletes may not have a clear run as soon as the gun goes and so,
when available, we will also endeavour to record “chip” times and to present these alongside the “gun” times to
assist the reader in comparing performances.
Further, the road rankings shown on the site are taken from performances on actual road (not multi terrain)
courses, where the course has a measurement certificate and where the course, as measured, was actually run
by the competitors.