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Jake and Zane Robertson added to athletics team for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games African-based brothers Jake and Zane Robertson have been added to the athletics team for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Gold Coast will be the second Commonwealth Games for both, having competed at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games,...
32-year-old Australian distance runner, Cassie Fien has accepted a nine-month ban and waived a hearing after testing positive for the banned substance Higenamine. ASADA collected an out-of-competition sample from Ms Fien on 20 April 2017. Her sample was analysed at the Australian Sports Drug Testing Laboratory, part of the National...
By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (03-Feb) -- On an afternoon that included a world record and a world best, it was Chris O'Hare who put an exclamation point on the 111th NYRR Millrose Games here, holding on for a thrilling win in...
In its continued efforts to bring its events to a global audience, the IAAF will live stream the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, the first meeting of the IAAF World Indoor Tour, on Saturday (3). Action from Karlsruhe’s Messehalle will be shown on a live stream which will be available on the IAAF’s Facebook page and YouTube channel....
By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (02-Feb) -- Kate Grace estimates that over the five previous years of professional running she probably wasn't able to finish a workout no more than two or three times. "And when it happened it was a huge deal,"...
Fifteen New Zealand athletes have been named in the Athletics team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, announced today at the AUT Millennium track by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. The team is a strong mix of experience and young talent with two athletes, 1500m specialist Nick Willis and shot...
Swirling winds on day three of the Australian Capital Territory Championships didn’t gust Sally Pearson’s (QLD) way as she endured a headwind in her build up to the Australian Championships and Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. In just her second hurdle race of the summer, Sally Pearson clocked 12.87, foiled by a headwind...
Near perfect conditions greeted the athletes on day two of the Australian Capital Championships, being held in Canberra this weekend. The athletes responded with a host of qualifiers, but none were more impressive and important than men’s 800m where three athletes, clocked Commonwealth Games A qualifiers, bringing the total...
Eliza McCartney
McCartney brings her game to the Potts Classic Eliza McCartney was in exquisite form in the women’s pole vault Commonwealth Games trial at the 2018 Potts Classic in Hastings on Saturday, clearing 4.70m off a short ten-step run-up. Vaulting with ease off the shortened approach used in the very early stages...
Dubai (UAE): Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew won the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon with a course record of 2h:04m:00s in one of the most thrilling finishes in marathon history. The 27 year-old, who entered the race just days before, sprinted across the finish line followed by four more runners within eight seconds....
                   

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