The IAAF Heritage Collection is very proud to announce the latest addition to its archive of athletics memorabilia on the anniversary of one of the most celebrated feats in athletics, a signed programme from the Oxford University Athletics Club v Amateur Athletic Association match on 6 May 1954 which...
The IAAF today announced the creation of IAAF Run 24:1, a series of 24 one-mile runs that will be contested around the world to celebrate Global Running Day on 6 June. Partnering with sports ministries, city governments, race organisers and member federations around the world, the IAAF initiative incorporates races to be...
In an historic morning for Australian race walking, Claire Tallent (SA) displayed career-defining grit and determination in difficult conditions. Bouncing back from a heartbreaking disqualification on the Gold Coast mere weeks ago, Tallent’s tenacity was rewarded with a World Race Walking Team Championships bronze medal. Setting a new personal best...
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 1...
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...
