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There is just over one month to go until the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 when the athletics world will focus its attention on the Ugandan capital as it hosts this biennial gathering of the world’s finest middle and long distance runners on Sunday 26 March. The oldest...
 Jessica Augusto will have her sights set on record-breaking when she stands on the start line of the Haspa Hamburg Marathon on April 23. It's a record with special significance for the Portuguese runner on Hamburg's fast course because Augusto will be going for the Portuguese national record, still...
The IAAF Doping Review Board has today agreed that the applications of 3 Russians have met the exceptional eligibility criteria to compete in International Competition as Neutral Athletes under Competition Rule 22.1A(b) while the Russian national federation (RusAF) remains suspended. The Doping Review Board, which is composed of Robert Hersh...
Eliza McCartney
Eliza McCartney starred in more ways than one in the Atrium in Auckland’s CBD Britomart complex on a warm summer Wednesday evening at the Les Mills supported Vertical Pursuit pole vault competition. The Rio Olympic medallist won the hearts of the crowd who packed into the unusual pole vault venue...
Double Olympic gold medallists Helen Glover and Heather Stanning spent six years taking on the world together – now they are to race each other at the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon. The rowers formed one of the most successful ever female partnerships in British Olympic history, winning GB’s first...
Experience the hinterland of South Africa’s Western Cape through the lenses of Oakpics as they captured the action and emotions of the Tankwa Trail. Words and captions by Seamus Allardice. The Tankwa Trail is a South African three day stage race set in the Koue Bokkeveld and Witzenberg Valley regions...
From Nitro to Indoor – No Rest for our Skippers By Grace Kalac - Runner's Tribe Australia’s current premier distance runner Ryan Gregson has claimed his fourth race win in under a fortnight, winning the mile race at the AIT International Grand Prix meet in Athlone, Ireland on Wednesday in a...
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Ryan Gregson (AUS) 3:56.49 - 1 mile - AIT Int. GP, Athlone, IRL - Feb 15, 2017 AIT International Grand Prix, Athlone, IRL, Febr 15, 2017 – 1 Mile, men: 1 4 87 GREGSON Ryan AUS 3:56.49 2 6 92 ROGESTEDT Johan SWE 3:58.11 3 2 83 MARSHALL Tom GBR 3:59.84 4 5 89...
New Atlanta Track Club Elite Olympic Development Team members (from left to right): Jim Rosa, Patrick Peterson, Carmen Graves, Rob Mullet, Megan Malasarte and Joe Rosa (photo courtesy of the Atlanta Track Club)
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (15-Feb) -- Officials of the Atlanta Track Club announced today that they have expanded their Elite Olympic Development Team by seven athletes with the ambitious goal of qualifying at least one athlete for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. ...
The first episode of the fifth season of IAAF Inside Athletics is available to watch bellow and features an exclusive interview with Ethiopian distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__jIZKBPSM In addition to his two Olympic and four world championship titles in the 10,000m, Gebrselassie broke 27 world records on the track and...