Beki Smith (NSW) and Declan Tingay (WA) have been crowned Australia’s 10,000m race walking champions for 2018 in Canberra on Sunday morning. Tingay was promoted to first position following a 60-second time penalty to rival Rhydian Cowley (Vic) who had received a third penalty from the judges late in the race, so the chief judge had little...
Sally Pearson’s 2018 100m hurdles campaign got underway at the WA Athletics Stadium on Saturday night, with the dual world champion posting a time of 12.73 (1.4w) at the Jandakot Airport Track Classic in Perth. The packed grandstand cheered Pearson to victory over West Australian Brianna Beehan and Elizabeth Clay (Qld). Pearson admitted that the effort was a...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved HOUSTON (12-Jan) -- Three American records could fall here on Sunday when Jordan Hasay and Molly Huddle do battle at the 17th Aramco Houston Half-Marathon, the first important road race in the United States this year. Both Hasay, 26, and Huddle,...
Friday 12 January: The Gold Coast Marathon today announced Australian distance runners will have a new incentive to run good times as part of the event’s 40th anniversary celebrations to be held on 30 June – 1 July 2018. Organisers are encouraging Australian elite runners by offering a once-only $40,000 incentive to...
Preview: Jandakot Airport Track Classic All eyes are on Perth’s WA Athletics Stadium for this Saturday’s Jandakot Airport Track Classic as a host of Australia’s athletics stars step out to hone their form with just over a month to go before the 2018 Australian Athletics Championships & Nomination Trial. Olympic gold medallist and two-time...
Entries for the inaugural WesTrac Bunbury Geographe Gift open today. With a $78,000 prize pool, the event has already attracted the attention of Australia’s top athletes including Rio Olympian Peter Bol and young gun rivals Jack Hale and Trae Williams. Enter: https://bunburygeographegift2018.eventdesq.com/ With personal bests of 10.21 and 10.27 respectively for...
WILLIS, MARTINEZ LEAD NYRR WANAMAKER MILE FIELDS By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (09-Jan) -- Two-time Olympic medalist Nick Willis and 2013 IAAF World Championships silver medalist Brenda Martinez are the leading entrants for the NYRR Wanamaker Miles, part of the 111th NYRR Millrose...
A team of 111 will represent Australia in athletics at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The news, confirmed by Commonwealth Games Australia (CGA), following discussions with the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), is welcomed by Athletics Australia with CEO Darren Gocher saying that it is a great result for home-grown talent. “We want to send as many Australian athletes as possible...
By Cathal Dennehy, @cathal_dennehy (c) 2018 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved SAFI, MOROCCO (07-Jan) -- Ethiopians Getaneh Molla and Meseret Belete Tola emerged triumphant at the Safi International Half-Marathon here this morning, the pair unleashing impressive sprint finishes on the rain-soaked streets of this Moroccan city on the Atlantic Ocean. On...
The 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon champion Daniel Wanjiru will take on British favourites Sir Mo Farah and Callum Hawkins in a mouth-watering elite men’s race at The Big Half. The 25-year-old Kenyan, who claimed the biggest win of his career at the London Marathon last April, will return to...
