Athing Mu, the legendary American middle-distance runner, and Olympic gold medalist has had an outstanding start to her professional career. In 2022, she won nine out of ten races and secured a world-leading season’s best time of 1:56.30 at the World Championships, earning herself a gold medal. Despite being just 20 years old, Mu has already achieved remarkable success, including a World and Olympic gold medal, the American record, and an unbeaten 800m professional career.
Peter Bol is clean; apologies, and answers, are in order.
Good grief. Are the national championships really coming up in Brisbane in a week’s time. I guess they must be. I’ve been getting emails advertising the fact all this past week.
When Abbey Caldwell became the second-fastest Australian woman over 800 metres in Sydney on 11 March, she renewed an age-old debate among those of who follow the middle distances. To wit: is it better to be coming down to the 800 from the 1500 metres end of the spectrum, or moving up from the 400 metres end.
kunanyi Mountain Run returns for its second year with an exceptionally strong field of 800 plus runners, including some of Australia’s fastest trail runners. With automatic spots up for grabs for the Australian team at the 2023 World Trail and Mountain Championships and the 2024 Skyrunning World Champs, the Ultra 67km and Vertical Kilometre have quickly made the event a huge drawcard.
For the sake of British athletes, let’s hope that the tough talk remains just that. Talk tough and select them all.
Now, after the dramatic championships just staged in Bathurst, it is time to re-visit that question. What’s changed for the better? What’s changed for the worse? Has anything changed at all?
Started with Bathurst, finished with Melbourne. World cross-country champions crowned; world track and field champions acclaimed at Lakeside Stadium.
By Brett Davies
We were very fortunate to have the Kenyan distance superstar Paul Tergat as the Ambassador of the 44th World Cross-Country Championships - a highly successful event, certainly one of the best organised and captivating championship events ever held in this country. As one of the greatest distance...
Written by Michael Beisty
“Some people simply aren’t motivated to train and don’t push themselves anywhere near their limits in a race.” (Joe Friel 2015) (1)
“Everything evolves from the enjoyment. The national titles, international successes, world records and gold medals are signposts along the way. They are not the end...
