Blair McWhirter and Alice Mason were the overall winners at the Rotorua Marathon claiming the 2018 New Zealand marathon titles raced on Saturday around Lake Rotorua.
McWhirter from the Sumner Running Club in Christchurch went to the front of the race from the outset with young Lake City runner Michael...
The 2018 IAAF Diamond League is the ninth edition of the annual IAAF Diamond League, a fourteen-leg series of track and field meetings. It is the second edition to feature the new championship-style system.
Doha Diamond League
Doha (Hamad Bin Suhaim), 04/05/2018
Men's results
200 Metres - Men Wind: +1.3 m/s
Pts
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The Russian Athletics Federation has been notified that the IAAF Doping Review Board has decided to revoke the Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) status granted to five race walkers: Klavdiya Afanasyeva, Olga Eliseeva, Yuliya Lipanova, Sergey Sharypov and Sergey Shirobokov.
The decision has been made pending further investigation into a number...
Three-time World 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop denies using banned substances - accuses officials of contaminating urine.
Olympic 1500m champion, Kiprop has denied taking any performance enhancing drugs and he maintains his innocence and raises some serious issues in the statement that he has released.
News of the failed test was first...
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Three-time Olympian, Jared Tallent OAM (SA) has arrived in Taicang this week for a now-familiar procedure, a medal upgrade ceremony. Tallent will be awarded two gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships 50-kilometre race walk, following the recently confirmed positive doping test of the...
Alice Mason will be up against an unknown over the marathon distance in Olivia Burne, in the defence of her national marathon title at the 54th Rotorua Marathon on Saturday.
Mason (30) won the title in last year's Wellington marathon in 2:48:36. She has since gone on to run a personal best...
With the imminent start of the 2018 IAAF Diamond League, the IAAF is happy to announce the return of the Fantasy Diamond League.
As in previous years, the 2018 edition follows the athletes who compete in the 32 event disciplines at the 14 meetings of the IAAF Diamond League this year. This...
Dave Bedford has announced his decision to leave his role as a consultant with London Marathon Events, which includes recruiting the elite fields for the London Marathon and all other running events organised by the company. He will step down in November.
Bedford, a legendary runner on the track and...
Ethiopians world-class runners dominated the Haspa Marathon Hamburg, taking all three places on the podium: Solomon Deksisa won with 2:06:34, the third fastest time ever in Hamburg. Debutant Tadu Abate took second with 2:06:54 while Ayele Abshero was third in 2:07:19. Kenya’s Solomon Yego finished fourth with 2:07:37 while the 2012 Olympic Champion Stephen Kiprotich...
