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Olympic champion Caster Semenya will not defend her 800m crown at the World Championships in Doha in September after the Swiss Federal Court reversed it's previous ruling.
Dalilah Muhammad broke the world 400m hurdles record* on the final day of the US Championships, clocking 52.20 on Sunday (28), the final day of action in Des Moines. The Olympic champion, drawn in lane four, went out hard and quickly made up the stagger on the athletes outside her,...
Under sunny skies more than 6,000 people took part in the Real Insurance Sydney Harbour 10k where Lisa Weightman won the women’s 10k event and smashed the course record in 31.55, Lauren Reid came in second in 33:29 and third place went to Marnie Ponton in 33:49. Victorian, Lachlan Barber...
This episode is sponsored by New Balance, listen in as the boys wear test and give a review of the newly released FuelCell Rebel. Julian doubles his mileage to 200km the week after his Doha announcement. Brad suffers from post-Melbourne deja-vu same with his banged-up knee. Brady mixes up his fartleks and...
Four world-class Ethiopian runners have set their sights on breaking the recent Kenyan dominance when the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON takes place on September 29: Guye Adola, who finished second in an unofficial world record debut two years ago in Berlin, as well as Leul Gebrselassie, Sisay Lemma and Birhanu Legese...
An Australian 800m record of 1:58.78 by Melbournian Catriona Bisset has led the results of 23 Australian performances at the London Diamond League.
Australia's leading middle distance runner Stewart McSweyn has posted another impressive run at the London Diamond League clocking 13:05.48 for 4th. Fellow Aussie Patrick Tiernan finished in 8th with 13:12.68 and 4-time NCAA champion Morgan McDonald finished in 9th with 13:18.91. Both Tiernan and McDonald posted A qualifying times for the Doha World Championships in a few months time. Australia had three other starters in the race; Brett Robinson finished 13th in 13:39, Sam McEntee 16th in 13:55 and the Australian champion, Jordan Gusman, DNF'd.
Under Armour (UA) has continued it's assault on Nike, signing Australian superstar Morgan McDonald. A domain long dominated by Nike, UA are showing they mean business having already signed Luke Mathews, the 2019 Australian 1500m champion.
089: Jessica Hull - This week’s episode is sponsored by New Balance, tune in episode 90 for their product review about their upcoming innovative shoes. Julian Spence has been announced to represent Australia at the World Championships Athletics in Doha running the marathon at midnight, 5th October 2019.Brad debuts for...
Overnight Australia's Peter Bol has clocked in an 800m Doha world champs qualifier in Barcelona with 1:45.56. It was only five days ago Bol ran his slowest time this season 1:50.56 coming last. Athletics is indeed a strange sport as stated by Bol post race. View this post on Instagram   Tonight in Barcelona...