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Full stage dress rehearsal and debut before the general public: the 76th edition of ISTAF this Sunday has plenty to offer. 180 elite athletes will be performing once more in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and among them are eight gold medallists from the recent World Championships in London as well the cream...
Entries are now open for the fourth edition of the Margaret River Ultra Marathon on 1 May 2021 in south-west, Western Australia. After a record field of 1,300 participants turned out for the 2020 (postponed) event last month, organisers are expecting the running community to once again embrace the magnificent course by confirming their entries now and avoid missing out.
Athletics New Zealand Weekly Results Update By Athletics New Zealand @AthleticsNZ AUSTRALIA                                                                                                                     Australian Track and Field Championships, Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre – 26 March/2 April 2017 27 March: The New Zealand relay team of Kamal Patwalia, Harry Symes, Felix McDonald and Nick Smith set a New Zealand under 19 record of 41.47 in...
Australian athlete Peter Bol's case is causing concern among experts in sports integrity worldwide after two independent scientific reports commissioned by Bol's lawyers raised questions about the testing methods used in his doping case. Bol, a silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games, tested positive for synthetic erythropoietin (EPO), a performance-enhancing drug, in January. However, last month his B-sample returned an atypical finding, allowing Bol to return to competition as Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) investigates the matter.
Day 3 of the 2018 Australian Junior Championships saw some of the best performances yet with records tumbling and more U20 World Championship and Youth Olympic Games qualifiers on Friday. The name Sophie White now sits proudly alongside Sally Pearson with the West Australian equalling the reigning world and Olympic...
Ahead of the IAAF World U20 Championships, Townsville sprinter Jake Doran, just 17 years old, has smashed the Australian Under 20 100m record with a spectacular 10.15 (+1.5m/s) in Finland this morning. Competing in the central Finnish city of Jämsänkoski, Doran’s time breaks Jack Hale’s national Under-20 mark of 10.21...
A cohort of British athletes is poised to challenge their limits at the upcoming Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso on Sunday (Dec 3), eyeing not only personal bests but also aiming to set the stage ablaze with potential record-breaking performances. Among the notable participants are Lily Partridge, Clara Evans, Sonia Samuels, Phil Sesemann, and Mahamed Mahamed. However, the spotlight is firmly fixed on Joshua Cheptegei, the Ugandan sensation who has carved his name in history books with world records in the 5000m and 10,000m disciplines.
The provisional entry list for the IAAF World Championships London 2017, which take place from 4-13 August in the British capital, is now available. The entries, as at 29 July, are now available via the athletes page on the IAAF World Championships London 2017 mini-site where users can quickly search and browse all 2034 athletes from more...
Athens Marathon confirms its unique status, Christoforos Merousis wins classic event “The Athens Marathon. The Authentic” asserted its status as a unique race despite the problems by financial crisis in Greece. A record number of 16,000 runners went to the start line of this classic race at the very source of...
In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the World Health Organisation today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer...