A headline panel of elite athletes including World, European, and Commonwealth medalist Jo Pavey MBE has been announced at this year’s British Science Festival.
Hosted by the University of Exeter, the audience will also get a chance to hear from Olympic coach Gavin Pavey at the discussion, alongside runners Jake Smith and Innes FitzGerald, as ‘How to make an athlete’ closes the 2023 event.
Honorary University of Exeter graduate Jo Pavey MBE said: “I’m so excited to be speaking on a panel of such a talented group of British athletes. I can’t wait to hear more about their...
Most of us have religiously shown our appreciation for NHS staff and key workers by raising the roof each week but very few will have gone to the lengths Devon Olymipan Jo Pavey has.
In an Astley Media In Conversations With webcast she revealed that on one occasion she took part in the 8pm tribute while running on a treadmill.
Jo had been asked to take part in a live-streamed, fundraising indoor relay but realised her slot coincided with the regular Thursday night celebration.
The countdown is on to the UK’s only marathon challenge series exclusively for women – and it looks like being the last one ever.
The Women Can Challenges on Sunday May 26 offer full, half and quarter marathon options, all mainly off-road and taking in the spectacular East Devon countryside and coastline.
Organisers Pauline Beare and Peg Wiseman are retiring after the event and founder Jo Earlam has stepped down after two years at the helm.
With no-one to take it on, 2019 will bring the curtain down on this unique women-only experience, which is supported by Devon...
Six of the West Country's top sporting stars will descend on Exeter's Sandy Park for the third Question of Sport night, in aid of the Exeter Foundation.
Olympic Gold Medal winning hockey player Giselle Ansley and fellow Olympic athlete Jo Pavey head up a star-studded list of sporting guests, which also includes Exeter Chiefs stars Julian Salvi and Gareth Steenson, Somerset Cricket's Lewis Gregory and Exeter City's Lee Holmes.
Based around the hit BBC show, the stars will have their sporting knowledge tested during a series of fun-filled rounds that will be overseen by...
Five-time Olympian and 2014 European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey today visited her former secondary school, The King’s School, Ottery St Mary, to present a commemorative piece of the London 2012 athletics track, that she and so many other Olympic legends raced on four years ago.
The 43 year-old from Honiton, East Devon, presented a large, decorative framed piece of the track to the school as a memento of her sporting achievements. The mother of two was also presented with a piece of the track.
The London 2012 track that Pavey ran alongside athletics stars such as Mo Farah,...
Standing on a chair taking pictures is not ideal, but when the local newspaper photographers turn out in force to an official event its best you give them the front row.
A media frenzy in Devon, well yes, sort of. Press photographers were eagerly snapping Exeter’s sporting heroine Jo Pavey as she opened our new £1.2m day hospice in Honiton.
Flashbulbs were going off like crazy, watched by patients, supporters and staff who loved being part of the action. Being the Hospiscare press officer is more than balancing on a chair taking photographs, I also had to balance a pad and...
Olympian Jo Pavey, MBE, officially opened our new £1.2m Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton today.
Jo, who lives locally said: "I am deeply honoured to be asked to open this fantastic building in the town where I was born.
"It’s wonderful that such great care is available to local patients and their families. It’s really inspiring to see all the nurses here in this day hospice.
"Congratulations to everybody, all the staff, volunteers and fundraises from the community for all their hard work. It’s going to be such a benefit.
We are thrilled to announce that Exeter athlete Jo Pavey will officially open our new £1.2m Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton next month.
Jo, who grew up near Honiton, says she is delighted to open the new centre which provides much needed support to terminally ill patients and their families living in East Devon and which is already oversubscribed.
Glynis Atherton, Hospiscare chief executive, said: “Jo lives locally so we are thrilled she has agreed to open Kings House which is proving so popular with local people.”
With just a few days until Exeter’s Great West Run, sponsored by Tozers, the 4,000 runners signed up for this year’s event are sure to be feeling a mix of nerves, anticipation and above all, excitement ahead of their half marathon challenge on Sunday 18th October! The race will be started by four-time Olympian, European 10,000 metre champion, and local hero, Jo Pavey, at 9am on Sidwell Street.
This is also the perfect city centre location to grab a great spot and soak up all the excitement that comes with race day. There is always plenty of room in the city to get a good view of...
Devon runner Jo Pavey is taking a stand against drugs cheats by agreeing to make her blood test results public.
Following a national newspaper investigation, athletes were warned last week against publishing their test results. British Athletics feared releasing selective data could be “misinterpreted” and may also imply those not publishing their data were “guilty by omission."
But Mo Farah, whose coach, Alberto Salazar, was the subject of doping allegations – and has since denied any wrongdoing – broadcast in a BBC Panorama programme in June, along with Jo are among eight...
