Home News Page 255

News

Latest news from the world of Athletics

By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (30-Mar) -- The world's fastest 5 km road race, the Carlsbad 5000 in Carlsbad, Calif., returns on Sunday for the 32nd edition, and will feature USA Olympians Shannon Rowbury, Paul Chelimo and Brenda Martinez facing a strong intentional field,...
Leila, Liina and Lily Luik received a considerable share of awareness at the Olympic Marathon in Rio 2016. Being the first triplets in the history of sports who competed at Olympic Games they got featured in many international media. The Estonian trio is now heading to the Vienna City...
Josphat Ndambiri selects Duesseldorf for his comeback race Josphat Ndambiri has chosen the METRO Marathon Duesseldorf for his comeback race. After a long injury break the Kenyan now targets the race along the river Rhine on April 30. With his personal best of 2:07:36 Ndambiri is currently the fastest runner...
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games medallist, Isis Holt (Vic), has delivered the girl’s under 20 para-athletics sprint double on day three of the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships. Stopping the clock at 14.01 (w: -0.6) to win the 100m this evening, Holt was victorious in the 200m in a time of 28.97...
video
The fourth episode of the current season of IAAF Inside Athletics and features an exclusive interview with world 10,000m record-holder Almaz Ayana. Last year the Ethiopian distance runner broke the long-standing world record in the 10,000m on her way to winning the Olympic title in her event. She went on to...
Darcy Roper & Conor Warren farewell junior competition with gold, as #AAC17 gets underway in Sydney Darcy Roper (Qld) has capped off his impressive junior career with victory in the boy’s under 20 long jump as the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships launched at the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre. Soaring to...
Geoffrey Kamworor successfully defended his crown from 2015 in 28:24 at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017. His back-to-back wins mean he is the first senior man in 11 years to successfully defend his cross country title. On the women's side Kenya's, Irene Chepet Cheptai broke from teammates...
On the eve of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017, some of the world’s top middle and long distance runners joined IAAF President Sebastian Coe, dignitaries from the Local Organising Committee and IAAF Ambassadors Tegla Loroupe and Paul Tergat at the pre-event press conference at the Sheraton...
The IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala 2017 takes place at the Kololo Independence Grounds on Sunday (26), and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website. Time Schedule Local Time (Uganda) 14:00 Mixed Relay Final - 10:00pm (AEDT) – Australian Eastern Daylight Time 14:30 Women U20 Race Final - 10:30pm...
Australia’s men’s team at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships should not be ignored according to confirmed starter Patrick Tiernan (Qld), as he gets set to line up at the first major international event of the year in Kampala (UGA) on Sunday 26 March. To be joined on the start...