HISTORIC PARTNERSHIP TO PUT ATHLETICS AHEAD OF THE RACE Sally Pearson announces drive to increase participation in athletics Athletics is a major step closer to achieving its goal of becoming the largest participation sport in Australia, with a new drive to boost involvement at all levels. Fresh from her win at the world...
The lure of $1 Million to break the world mile track record has attracted a record international field for the 2017 Lottoland Mitchell Street Million Dollar Mile. Minister for Tourism and Culture, Lauren Moss, today confirmed the men’s elite mile race will be a world-class field with Kenyan champion, Silas...
By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (10-Sep) -- Experience counts on 5th Avenue. Jenny Simpson and Nick Willis proved that here today with emphatic wins down the famed New York City boulevard. Simpson scored a record sixth title at the New Balance 5th Avenue...
The world’s greatest distance runner Sir Mo Farah announced today that he will return to the Virgin Money London Marathon in 2018. Farah retired from track competition this summer with an historic record of 10 global gold medals at World and Olympic Games over 5,000m and 10,000m. Now he wants to...
Mo Farah becomes the first person to win the Great North Run four times in a row, while Mary Keitany claims victory for the third time. Top 10 results #GreatNorthRun2017 Mo and Jake really motored the second half. pic.twitter.com/WaAwbp2aLw — Dan Lilot (@Lilot1TrackMind) September 10, 2017
Australian Jordy Williamsz will come to next Sunday’s Lottoland Mitchell Street Million Dollar Mile in the form of his life after claiming one of the biggest wins in his career last night. He will be joined by Melbourne Track Club training mate and Rio 800m Olympian Selma Kajan. 25-year-old Williamsz won the...
SUB-30 IN PRAGUE? Much talk about the men’s sub-two-hour marathon, but the women’s first sub-30min 10k may just unravel on the streets of the Czech capital on Saturday evening in the Birrell Prague Grand Prix, the penultimate event in the hugely successful RunCzech Running League (all seven races have an IAAF Gold...
By Rich Sands, @Sands (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (07-Sep) -- For most elite middle distance runners, the 2017 track and field season has ended. But a group of 45 athletes --including 29 who competed at the IAAF World Championships in London last month-- will have...
Last Year’s Runner-Up Fate Tola returns, Abebech Afework and Sara Hall boost Frankfurt field Fate Tola missed victory at the last year by a hair’s breadth. The 2016 runner-up will be back this time to the race where she ran her first marathon as a German citizen, becoming the fourth...
With the series having concluded at the IAAF World Championships London 2017, Colombia’s Eider Arevalo and Brazil’s Erica de Sena have been confirmed as the overall winners of the 2017 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. The scoring system takes each athlete’s three best marks from the series with points being awarded to...
