The captain of the Australian athletics team, Sally Pearson has been forced to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games due to her Achilles injury. The 31-year-old Olympic gold medalist, who has been battling an Achilles injury, walked her Surfers Paradise leg of the Queen's Baton relay yesterday. At this point it looks...
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games 5000m medallist Zane Robertson has pulled out of the New Zealand Commonwealth Games team. A groin injury picked up earlier in the year forced the Kenyan-based Kiwi to miss several weeks of training at a key stage of his preparation for the Games and while he...
CGF President hails “Commonwealth Connection” as 1.5 billion tune in for ‘the Friendly Games’ Commonwealth athletes encouraged to embrace “diverse yet unified” family of nations HRH The Prince of Wales officially opens the Games on behalf of the Head of The Commonwealth, Her Majesty The Queen Ceremony celebrates key Australian and Commonwealth...
The Commonwealth Games Federation Athletes Advisory Commission (CGFAAC) held its first ever meeting today, on the Gold Coast, Australia, and pledged to instil a culture of pride and purpose in being a Commonwealth athlete. Meeting on the eve of Gold Coast 2018, the seven-member CGFAAC made a specific commitment to...
Stawell Gift Champions Crowned Monday April 2 2018 Stawell, VIC: Two 21-year-olds today claimed the crowns at the Stawell Gift, Australia’s richest footrace. Jacob Despard, a Tasmanian who moved to Victoria in November, won the Stawell Athletic Club Stawell Gift, and Queenslander Elizabeth Forsyth won the Australia Post Women’s Gift. Despard went in to the...
Brought to you by RunnersTribe, your number one source for comprehensive running news from around the world. Julian pitches a potential new segment for the show as he works on strength and hills before his high mileage takes a hit with illness. His morale and workout on Saturday gets a...
31-year-old Athletics legend, Usain Bolt is pursuing his second professional career in sport after securing a trial with German Bundesliga giants, Borussia Dortmund. The Jamaican sprinter has spoken at great length about his ambition to play for a professional soccer team in the past and is well-known for his...
IAAF/TRINIDAD ALFONSO WORLD HALF MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS VALENCIA 2018 MEN - POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK 1 116 Geoffrey Kipsang KAMWOROR KEN KEN 1:00:02 SB 2 24 Abraham Naibei CHEROBEN BRN BRN 1:00:22 SB 3 56 Aron KIFLE ERI ERI 1:00:31 PB 4 74 Jemal YIMER ETH ETH 1:00:33 5 72 Getaneh MOLLA ETH ETH 1:00:47 SB 6...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved VALENCIA (24-Mar) -- A mighty wind blew through this Spanish coastal city today, but it failed to stop Kenya's Geoffrey Kamworor or Ethiopia's Netsanet Gudeta Kebede from dominating the 24th edition of the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso World Half-Marathon Championships here...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved VALENCIA (23-Mar) -- After turning 43 last December, two-time Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat did not think he would make another appearance at an IAAF World Championships. Beginning with the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in 2001, Lagat had qualified...
