Several of New Zealand’s stars from Rio 2016 including medallists Tom Walsh, Eliza McCartney and Liam Malone will be in action against top international athletes this February in the Athletics New Zealand International Athletics Series.
The series of three events will give New Zealanders the chance to see world class...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(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...
Dame Valerie Adams DNZM
Valerie Adams has been appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year honours for services to athletics.
From humble beginnings in South Auckland the 32 year old has risen through the ranks of athletics to dominate the women’s shot put...
With one month to go, Nitro Athletics is the innovation athletics needs, says Coe
Athletics needs innovative new concepts to attract new fans to the sport and IAAF President Sebastian Coe believes the Australian organisers of the new Nitro Athletics series may have a hit.
The two-time Olympic champion, who became...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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NOTE: It will be 10 years this week since Ryan Hall broke the USA (and North American) half-marathon record at the Aramco Houston Half-Marathon on 14 January, 2007. Since Galen Rupp may be trying for Hall's record on the...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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NEW YORK (11-Jan) -- New York City runners have a new home away from home at the NYRR RUNCENTER featuring the New Balance Run Hub, located on Manhattan's West Side just two blocks south of Central Park. The newly...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(12-Jan) -- Forty-four elite runners representing ten different nations will compete in the 121st Boston Marathon on Monday, April 17, led by world record holder Dennis Kimetto and two-time world champion Edna Kiplagat, organizers announced today. These elite athletes...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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HOUSTON (14-Jan) -- Here's an assortment of news items ahead of tomorrow's Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half-Marathon:
GOUCHER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HASAY: Olympian Kara Goucher, who is in Houston as both a commentator for the television broadcast and to...
Athletics NZ Weekly Roundup 16 January
By Athletics New Zealand @AthleticsNZ
HASTINGS
Allan and Sylvia Potts Classic, Hawke’s Bay Regional Sports Park – 14 January 2017
Angie Petty made it eight years in a row in the Sylvia Potts Memorial 800m. Petty had to work hard over the final 150 metres to head in...
Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday (January 20)
The Ethiopian legend will lead the Marathon field in the Middle East’s biggest mass participation event in what will be only his second appearance on the Dubai roads – a surface he will share with more than 30,000 “running mates”.
