Australian Athlete Update
Personal bests were produced by each of the five Australian athletes who competed at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne (SUI).
The best placing went to javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell (Vic) who launched her fifth attempt 66.12m, setting a career best and capping off a quality series of throwing...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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NEW YORK (06-Jul) -- The first Track Town Summer Series Final at Icahn Stadium here delivered a terrific fan experience, punctuated by compelling middle distance races which featured dramatic stretch runs and fast times. A crowd of 3800, many...
Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya is currently the best marathon runner in the world. The 2016 Olympic champion is aiming to run faster at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24 than his compatriot Dennis Kimetto who set the world record on the renowned fast course in 2014, stopping the clock...
The Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller and his Social Democratic Party, who currently form a governing coalition with two other left wing parties in the German capital, continue with their plans to transform the Berlin Olympic Stadium into a pure football arena. Cooperating with local first division club Hertha...
New research has been published today in support of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) currently suspended Hyperandrogenism Regulations.
On 27 July 2015 in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) case between the Indian athlete Dutee Chand and the Athletics Federation of India and the IAAF, the CAS made...
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Oceania Area Championships, Suva – 28 June/1 July 2017
New Zealand athletes won 34 titles at the Oceania Championships in Suva and a total of 74 medals across the six age grades and Para events.
28 June: Samuel Gouverneur 400m 50.35 (1H2), Conor McGiven 400m 51.24 (5H2), Samuel King 400m 51.64...
Women’s race record set and Mungara narrowly denied three-peat
Japan’s Takuya Noguchi spectacularly denied Kenyan Kenneth Mungara his third consecutive Gold Coast Airport Marathon victory while Ethiopia’s Abebech Bekele took the women’s event in equally sensational circumstances on Queensland’s Gold Coast this morning.
Bekele’s time of 2:25:34 slashed a massive one...
Japanese men’s race favourite Hiroki Yamagishi, 26, and US middle distance journeywoman Sara Hall, 34, scored stunning all-the-way victories in today’s ASICS Half Marathon on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
More than 9,100 runners faced the starter in cool and ideal running conditions for the 21.1km race as part of the Gold...
NSW distance running star Eloise Wellings and ACT’s Timothy Lefroy started the 39th annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon race weekend in style with victories in the Southern Cross University 10km Run races this morning.
More than 5,000 runners lined up in the Southern Cross University 10km Run as part of...
Thousands of international competitors and their supporters will fly into South East Queensland this week ahead of the Gold Coast Airport Marathon.
Tourism and Major Events Minister Kate Jones said more than 3,000 competitors from overseas – including record numbers from Singapore, United States and Indonesia – would take part...
