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By Athletics New Zealand @AthleticsNZ MASTERTON Grade 12 and 13 Interprovincial Contest, Pelorous Trust Athletics Track – 15/16 April 2017 - Auckland won the contest with 116,192 points from Canterbury 112,884 and Wellington 112,799. Followed by Counties Manukau 109,748, Waikato Bay of Plenty 103,608, Otago 101,368, Southland 101,110, Taranaki 55,385, Tasman 36,825, Manawatu/Wanganui...
Agnes Ngetich, the holder of the World Cross-country bronze medal, displayed an exceptional performance in the recent 10km road race in Lille, France, held on November 18.
Live Feed: Most recent post up top. Keep refreshing as this page is updated constantly as the Aussies perform and people tweet, post etc… Hopefully, you’re watching on TV, but this is a good way to keep up to date with everything Rio athletics, Aussie style from social media throughout...
New York, September 19, 2018 – Today, New York Road Runners (NYRR) released its annual Impact Report for Fiscal Year 2018 (April 2017-March 2018), which illustrates the organization’s commitment to make fitness and the sport of running accessible to people of all ages and abilities.  The report can be found at: http://bit.ly/NYRR_WeRunWeRise Titled We...
An attempt to run the fastest ever backward marathon highlights how wrong-way locomotion could assist in rehabilitation and athletic training. Original post - Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11:15 - Peter Gwynne, Contributor (Inside Science). Published on Runner's Tribe with permission. (Inside Science) -- The Boston Marathon is not only the world’s oldest...
Road to Rio 2016 | Aussie Marathon Team Update Melbourne’s Liam Adams has clocked a Rio qualifier and has all but booked his seat on the plane to the 2016 Olympic games with a run of 2:14.58 in the Warsaw Marathon on Sunday. In London, Craig Mottram's goal of becoming the first...
With just three weeks to go until the IAAF Athletics Awards 2018, the IAAF is delighted to announce the five finalists for the 2018 Female Rising Star Award to recognise this year's best U20 athlete. The winner will be announced live on stage at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2018 in Monaco on Tuesday...
The 2000m race, or Maurie Plant Memorial Race, is the first ever high profile virtual track event. #TeamCheruiyot has 2017 world 1,500m champion Elijah Manang’oi, Africa Under-18 1,500m champion Vincent Keter and Edwin Melly.
Noah Lyles is a great athlete, a multiple gold medallist the announcer kept pointing out, conveniently ignoring the fact none of these wins were at 100 metres, the distance being raced at the time. His 9.83 is a moderate performance compared to Usain Bolt’s world record 9.58 set atht eh Berlin 2009 worlds.
Not only did the 16 individual event winners at last night’s IAAF Diamond League final walk away from Zurich with a $50,000 bonus, they also earned a wild card entry to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, which will start four weeks from today, on September 27. While all of the winners...