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...
Cross country running should move towards a more extreme, edgier style to attract new audiences as well as a new breed of cross country runner to the discipline.
That was one of the main recommendations made by the IAAF Cross Country Committee at its meeting on Saturday (20) in Seville.
Meeting on the...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(23-Jan) -- The fastest-ever European over the marathon distance, Norway's Sondre Nordstad Moen, will compete in the fifth annual Napoli City Half-Marathon on Sunday, February 4, organizers announced today.
The 27 year-old Moen has a half-marathon personal best of 59:48 and...
Joseph Millar ran an excellent race to win the men’s 200m Commonwealth Games trial in at the Capital Classic meeting, recording 20.68. The winning time was just 0.24 outside the Games B standard. Second was William Smart in 21.55 while Alex Haye finished third in 22.12.
The meeting was relocated...
Three legends to go head-to-head on Sunday 22 April
Bekele announcement is the first to be revealed as part of the Virgin Money London Marathon Elite Week
The three greatest distance runners of their generation will race the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon after Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele today confirmed he will...
Rio Olympian Linden Hall was impressive in the performance of the meet at the Hunter Track Classic, winning the women’s 5000m in a Commonwealth Games A qualifying and world leading time of 15:18.77.
The 1500m specialist finished ahead of the ACT’s Emily Brichacek (15:46.58) and Victoria’s Melissa Duncan (15:52.89).
Hall, Duncan and Brichacek had a comfortable 50 metre gap...
USA's Christian Coleman has just run 60 meters in 6.37 seconds evidently breaking the world record formerly held by fellow American Maurice Greene set at 6.39 in February 1998. Coleman broke the 20-year-old record at the Clemson Invitational in South Carolina. The 21-year-old world 4x100m silver medallist has a PB...
