By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
(21-Dec) -- Olympic medalists and Rio 2016 Olympians Shalane Flanagan, Meb Keflezighi and Galen Rupp will lead the home country charge at the 2017 Boston Marathon, organizers reported today, just three of a strong American team which will toe...
World Athletics has made a bold step by announcing its innovative plan to award prize money during the Olympic Games, signaling a major change in how the world recognizes athletes' achievements. Athletes will be rewarded with US$50,000 if they win the gold medal in any of the 48 athletics events starting with the next Olympic Games in Paris.
Ahead of next month’s World Athletics Awards 2021, World Athletics is delighted to announce the five nominees for the 2021 Female Rising Star Award to recognise this year's best U20 athlete.
The nominations reflect the many incredible performances that the sport has witnessed this year, at the World Athletics U20 Championships...
Australia’s Richest Outback Mile is underway!
Written by Caitlin Murdock - Runner's Tribe
Results from last night’s Elite Mile Heats at the Leonora Golden Gift
With stacked fields in both the men’s and women’s races, spectators lined Tower St in Leonora to watch some of Australia’s best athletes compete for their chance at...
Wednesday 1 June
The 2016 Gold Coast Airport Marathon will welcome one of the fastest international elite fields in Australian marathon history headlined by the return of last year’s winner and Australian all comers record holder Kenneth Mungara on Sunday 3 July.
The 42-year-old Kenyan shaved 32 seconds off the previous...
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2010 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
PALO ALTO (01-May-2010) -- Galen Rupp came here tonight to the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational to beat Meb Keflezighi's American 10,000m record of 27:13.98. Keflezighi's mark had stood for nine years and Rupp, with the help of two Kenyan...
Budapest, August 17, 2023 – Recent claims suggesting Tobi Amusan's exoneration from doping allegations and her subsequent eligibility to compete in the upcoming World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary, have been firmly contradicted by the World Athletics Organization.
Madison de Rozario (WA) is world champion for the first time, after storming past the race leader in the closing stages to win GOLD in the T53 wheelchair 800m at the IPC Athletics World Championships.
Positioned amongst the pack as athletes approached the final bend, de Rozario gutsily moved off...
Competition kicked off today at the 2019 Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville.
Australia is one of 22 member Federations competing at the Championships, which have been organised by the Oceania Athletics Association.
Double world and Olympic champion David Rudisha has withdrawn from the IAAF World Championships after straining his quad muscle in a training session in Kenya.
Kenya's current Olympic 800-meter champion and world-record holder (1:40.91), Rudisha said an MRI scan on the right-leg injury showed it would not heal in time...
