A major new cycling event is taking place in Yorkshire this summer to mark the 10th anniversary of the county’s unforgettable staging of the Tour de France Grand Depart. The mass participation event, named Legacy Ride, will be held on Sunday, July 7, with amateur cyclists getting the chance to retrace the route followed…
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Sport and business was hailed as a winning combination for Leeds as the countdown to this year’s UK Corporate Games got under way in earnest. The city was announced in September last year as the host of the 2024 edition of the Games – Europe’s largest multi-sport festival for businesses. The build-up to this…
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Leeds welcomes the Queen’s Baton Relay with Olympic legends the Brownlee brothers. Birmingham 2022 is hosting the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – a journey which brings together and celebrates communities across the Commonwealth during the build up to the Games. In England, the Queen’s Baton Relay will provide the opportunity for communities to…
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A new state of the art gym has been opened at John Charles Leisure Centre, as part of Leeds City Council’s ambition to ‘get more people, more physically active, more often’. Significant investment has been made into new equipment and a wider refurbishment at the centre, with the gym sporting brand new upgraded Technogym…
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Queen’s Baton Relay coming to Leeds Dock and city centre on Tuesday 12 July. Leeds Olympic gold medallists Alistair and Jonny Brownlee will be joined by local singing stars Class Dynamix as the city celebrates welcoming the Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay next week. Arriving in late afternoon on Tuesday 12 July, the Baton…
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The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay is confirmed to visit Leeds during its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed. Birmingham 2022 is hosting the 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay – a journey which brings together and celebrates communities across the Commonwealth during the build up to the Games.…
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There are just 50 days to go until the eagerly-anticipated AJ Bell 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series Leeds kicks off and there’s still time to join the world’s best to swim, bike, run across the weekend around Roundhay Park. Leeds will play host to a two-day triathlon festival on 11-12 June for a sixth…
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New state of the art gyms have been unveiled at two popular Active Leeds Leisure Centres, as part of Leeds City Council’s ambition to get more people moving. Significant investment has been made into new equipment and wider refurbishments at Pudsey and Garforth Leisure Centres, with just under a million pounds being invested across…
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Following the success of the event moving to see all races start and finish in Roundhay Park in 2021, this year’s routes will once again see the park be the focal point of the weekend to create a festival atmosphere around the site. The event provides the opportunity to compete on much of the…
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Highly renowned for delivering world class events, Leeds is looking to continue this success and reinforce its place on the global stage through bidding for future events such as the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup and the Tour de France if it comes to the UK again in 2026. A report being presented to…
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Yorkshire’s Stars of the Olympic and Paralympic Games were given a homecoming to remember at a major arena event. Having made history by representing their country at the Olympics and Paralympics, the athletes were unable to celebrate in front of a crowd at the Games as no spectators were present. But their achievements were…
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The Royal British Legion’s annual Poppy Run event is taking place on Saturday 30th October in Leeds, Middleton Park. Choose to run, jog or walk 5km on 30 October – the event is open to all ages and abilities, including four legged friends. The Leeds Poppy Run is £15 to enter and under 18’s…
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Leeds City Council is wishing all athletes that are from or based in the city, the very best of luck in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games. After a year’s delay, the games will take place from 24 August to 5 September 2021. Councillor Salma Arif, Leeds City Council’s executive member for public health…
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Sportsmen are so often denied the perfect ending but Jonny Brownlee was able to bow out in style on the biggest stage of all as he completed the full set of Olympic medals. After the relative disappointment of the individual event, where Brownlee finished fifth, he played a key role in a dominant British…
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Leeds residents are being given the opportunity to offer their views regarding the proposed transformation of a former golf course in South Leeds. This follows an announcement by Leeds City Council in June 2021 of proposals to redevelop 48 hectares of land located on the former site of South Leeds Golf Course into a…
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An Olympic cyclist with strong links to Bradford has been described as a ‘once in a generation’ rider after he stormed to gold at the 2020 Tokyo games. Tom Pidcock won the men’s mountain bike race by 20 seconds to capture Britain’s first ever medal of any colour in the event. The 21-year-old Yorkshireman started…
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Leeds City Council would like to wish all athletes that are from or based in the city, the very best of luck in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Councillor Salma Arif, Leeds City Council’s executive member for public health and active lifestyles said: “Being selected to compete in an Olympic Games is alone a tremendous…
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A tennis coaching programme undertaken in communities across Leeds has received a prestigious national accolade. In recognition of the efforts made through the ‘Leeds Parks Community Tennis Programme’ to adapt to Covid-19 restrictions and inspire a new generation of adults and children to take up the game after lockdown, the initiative was named as…
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Leeds is proud to be a host city for the Rugby League World Cup 2021. We can’t wait to welcome the men’s teams from Jamaica and Ireland, and the women’s teams from Brazil, Canada, Papua New Guinea and hosts England for the Rugby League World Cup 2021. There is sure to be a carnival atmosphere…
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Leeds City Council is urging people to plan ahead for this weekend as the city prepares to host AJ Bell 2021 World Triathlon Leeds for the fifth time. This year all races will start and finish in Roundhay Park, with all routes finishing outside the park’s Mansion House. Thousands of athletes are set to compete,…
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In line with the lifting of national lockdown restrictions next Monday (29 March), the council-owned golf courses at Temple Newsam and Roundhay Park are set to officially reopen. Working with England Golf and government coronavirus guidelines, a number of measures will be in place to ensure golfers can enjoy their games safely. These include…
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For the first time all races at AJ Bell World Triathlon Leeds will start and finish in Roundhay Park, with all routes reaching the same finish line outside the park’s Mansion House. With a packed weekend of action on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 June, British Triathlon have released the confirmed routes for all…
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