Usain Bolt launches Nitro Athletics
A new world of athletics, ignited in Melbourne
Thanks to @AthsAust
The world’s greatest athlete, Usain Bolt, will compete and captain the ‘Bolt All-Stars’ in a new sports entertainment series set to revolutionise global track and field.
A high energy, team-based competition, Nitro Athletics will see the stars...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
(c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
NEW YORK (03-Nov) -- It's often said that the marathon is magical, both in the literal and figurative sense. Traversing 26.2 miles can give runners a euphoric high, carrying some to incredible personal bests and triumphant wins. The roads...
The disciplines for the 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour were confirmed on Thursday (3).
The 2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour will consist of five meetings staged throughout January and February.
• New Balance Indoor Grand Prix (Boston, USA) Saturday 28 January
• PSD Bank Meeting Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, GER) Wednesday 1 February
• Indoor...
Athens will celebrate 120 years since debut marathon of Modern Olympic Games
Reigning Olympic Champions Eliud Kipchoge and Jemima Sumgong will receive 2016 AIMS Best Marathon Runner Awards (BMR); Haile Gebrselassie will receive 2016 AIMS Lifetime Achievement Award
The AIMS Best Marathon Runner for 2016 Awards and the “Athens Marathon. The...
Mark Korir won a three-way Kenyan contest and took the 35th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:06:48. The 28 year-old beat fellow Kenyans Martin Kosgey and Cybrian Kotut who ran 2:07:22 and 2:07:28 respectively.
Mamitu Daska took Frankfurt for the second time after winning in...
Fate Tola has good reason to be cheerful after winning German title in Mainova Frankfurt Marathon
After Fate Tola had closed the gap on the eventual women’s winner, Ethiopia’s Mamitu Daska, to just 15 seconds at the finish in Frankfurt’s Festhalle, she was asked if she might have made up...
Athletics NZ weekly round-up 31 Oct 2016
By Athletics New Zealand @AthleticsNZ
ASB Auckland Marathon and Half Marathon – 30 October 2016
Oska Inkster-Baynes put eight months of planning and training for an assault on the Auckland marathon title on the line with an outstanding display of front running to win by six...
Mark Korir wins three-way Kenyan contest, Mamitu Daska just holds off Fate Tola’s late surge
Mark Korir won a three-way Kenyan contest and took the 35th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon with a time of 2:06:48. The 28 year-old beat fellow Kenyans Martin Kosgey and Cybrian Kotut who ran...
Mark Korir and Cybrian Kotut are among the favourites for Sunday’s Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. The Kenyans have both already won the Paris Marathon and clocked their respective personal bests at this spring race. While Korir ran 2:05:49 in Paris in 2015, Kotut became his successor this year with 2:07:11.
With...
Frankfurt expected to deliver its traditionally high quality serving of fast times
The 35th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon shows every sign of maintaining tradition by serving up high quality racing in depth and fast performances on Sunday. The elite men, who will be led by Ethiopia’s Tadesse Tola...
