It was a night of finals for Athletics Australia on Day Four of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, as Stewart McSweyn (5000m), Matthew Denny (Discus) and Genevieve Gregson (3000m steeple chase) all took on the very best in the world. Stepping into the cage ready to go, Denny...
More than a few athletics journalists were wondering before the race if the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday was going to mark the end of Kenenisa Bekele’s remarkable career as one of the long distance greats. Had he succumbed to injury and dropped out, why should he, a triple Olympic...
Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce was next level. She missed the 2017 London World championships because she had her first child, Zyon. But she's certainly back and basically better than ever (well 0.01 away from being better than ever). Her hair may have changed colour between the heats and tonight’s semi & final, but the trademark missile start certainly hadn’t changed. Clocking 10.71 for the win (her pb is 10.70) she’s destroyed all around her.
Kenenisa Bekele made a sensational return to his international best with victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, missing the world record by just two seconds. For good measure, the 37-year-old Ethiopian set a national record and the fastest time in the world this year. Only his great Kenyan rival Eliud...
The Abbott World Marathon Majors – the world’s elite series for marathon running – has crowned their Series XII Champions following today’s BMW BERLIN-MARATHON. Eluid Kipchoge kicked-off the elite men’s Series in style with a new world record time of 2:01:39 at the 2018 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, and followed up with a new course record on...
Following the retrospective doping ban of a number of Russian race walkers, Jared Tallent has been presented with his two upgraded world championships medals from the IAAF here at the World Championships in Doha. He has moved from bronze to silver in both the 50km Race Walks at the 2011...
On the second day of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, Matthew Denny qualified for Monday’s Discus final with a throw of 65.08m – the furthest an Australian has ever thrown at the World Championships. Finishing with the third longest throw across both groups, Denny was pleased with his...
The first world record* of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 came just half way through the second session of competition as USA won their heat of the mixed 4x400m on Saturday (28). The event, making its debut at the championships, attracted the powerhouses of one-lap sprinting, many of whom were...
Dabo helps Busby The gold medal for sportsmanship went to Braima Suncar Dabo, the 5,000-meter runner from Guinea-Bissau who stopped his own race to help a struggling competitor finish Friday night. Guinea-Bissau’s Braima Dabo held up an exhausted Jonathan Busby and together they staggered around the last turn and over the...
OHA, Qatar (AP) — You didn't need a stopwatch or a measuring tape to identify the biggest winner on the first night of track and field's world championships. The gold medal for sportsmanship went to Braima Suncar Dabo, the 5,000-meter runner from Guinea-Bissau who stopped his own race to help...
