By Rich Sands, @sands
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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...
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....
The 100 metres events highlighted a terrific day one of the Australian Capital Territory Championships in Canberra. Riley Day started the new year with a personal best, while in the men’s race, the photo finish judge needed to take the times to thousandths of a second to split the medallist.
The much-anticipated...
Four Olympic champions, five World champions and six European gold medallists will be in action at the fifth edition of the ISTAF INDOOR meeting in Berlin on Friday evening. Renaud Lavillenie of France and Brazil’s Thiago Braz, winners of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic titles respectively, will meet in...
Defending champion to take on Radcliffe’s historic time of 2:15:25
Kenyan will have male pacemakers in bid to set new mark
Kenya’s Mary Keitany will make an attempt to break Paula Radcliffe’s world record at the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday 22 April.
Just as Radcliffe did when she set the world...
Isaiah Priddey ran an outstanding race to crush the New Zealand under 18 record and win the New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1500m trial race in Whanganui at the Cooks Classic meeting on Tuesday evening.
The seventeen year old Hamilton athlete ran 3:44.34 to slash 1.76s off the record held by Southlander Eddie...
