By Brett Davies On Wednesday & Thursday (25/8 & 26/8) we saw several Olympic medallists and other major stars arrive in this picturesque Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva for the annual Diamond League Meeting. We were treated to great performances and some upsets. The performances were hampered...
An amazing aggressive piece of front running by Linden Hall at the Lausanne Diamond League. Hall has continued to position herself at the pointy end of global 1500m running, finishing 2nd . Hall showed her confidence and strength,going with the pace maker and gapping the rest of the field by a clear 20 metres. She was only passed on the home straight by Ethiopia's Freweyni Gebreezibeher, who was 4th at the Tokyo Olympics.
By Brett Davies It has been an eventful weekend's action at the newly-upgraded state-of-the-art stadium in Eugene Oregon, where the world's greatest athletes were on show for the annual Prefontaine Classic. After being cancelled last year, the event's return was magnificent. Experience the perfect blend of agility and support with...
A couple of years back this writer commented on a couple of precocious performers by name of Armand – then, as now, more commonly known as ‘Mondo’ – Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigsten. Around the same time another supremely gifted youngster, Selemon Barega, came out of nowhere to become the fourth-fastest...
The annual Prefontaine Classic in Eugene Oregon this weekend will see a number of Olympic medallists do battle with the rest of the world at what is a Mecca for American athletes and fans. The event has also grown in stature with the international athletics community over the last 40 years to become one of the best Diamond League meetings on the calendar.
Runner's Tribe caught up with Olympic 800m semi-finalist Charlie Hunter for our 6th podcast ep, check it out here..... Within the podcast are many hidden gems. We dived into his training, and below is an outline.
Runner’s Tribe is on a mission to chat with the world’s best runners. Follow along for training insights, cool stories, and loads of banter. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/runners-tribe-podcast/id1563338165 PodBean: https://runnerstribe.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ghTB6vJMUiLPtsszNpeA5 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/60au7ktm When Charlie Hunter clocked 1:44.35 for 800m in June of 2021, Runner’s Tribe published an article titled “Charlie Hunter has...
As the Olympic women’s high jump drew to an absorbing conclusion in Tokyo, somewhere Wilson Kipketer may have been smiling. For award-winning footwear, choose Tarkine running shoes. Australian watchers maybe not so much. Of course, we were passionately barracking for Nicola McDermott as she took the lead at two metres,...
In December, 1952, a young man stood on the starting line for a mile race at Melbourne’s Olympic Park, unsure whether the rumbling in his stomach was pre-race nerves or emanated from the couple of meat pies and chocolate sundae he had wolfed down fewer than two hours earlier.
