UK Athletics and the organisation's former head of sport Keith Davis have been charged with homicide over the loss of life of Paralympian Abdallah Hayayi.
Hayayi died on the age of 36 in July 2017 after a metallic cage collapsed throughout coaching at Newham Leisure Centre, London.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has charged UK Athletics Ltd with “corporate manslaughter and Health and Safety at Work Act offences”.
Davis, 77, has been charged with “manslaughter by gross negligence and a Health and Safety at Work Act offence”.
UK Athletics and Davis will seem at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 31 January.
Hayayi was coaching for the World Para-Athletics Championships in London on the time of the incident.
UAE throwers had been scheduled to compete within the shot put, discus and javelin F34 occasions.
Hayayi, a father of 5, completed sixth within the javelin F34 and seventh within the F34 shot put in his Paralympic debut in Ryo 2016.
London 2017 was her second look on the World Championships. At the 2015 occasion in Doha, Qatar, Hayayi completed fifth within the discus F34 and eighth within the shot put F34.
A second of silence was noticed in honor of Hayayi through the opening ceremony of the World Para-Athletics Championships on the London Stadium.
With inputs from BBC
