The Gold Coast Airport Marathon has proven a tourism winner with record economic impact, visitor nights and the highest number of international competitors in history.
Tourism and Major Events Minister Kate Jones said the event delivered a record 80,000 visitor nights and economic impact of $24 million to the Gold...
Australia’s marathon running champion will be crowned on the hallowed turf of the Melbourne Cricket Ground this Sunday 16 October, as the Medibank Melbourne Marathon plays host to the national title race.
Entry lists confirm the start of more than 80 athletes in the team based competition, with states and territories...
Essential core exercises for runners: EPISODE 13 Run School Series
RT’s Run School featuring Mark Blomeley. Mark is a strength and conditioning coach with over 10 years experience in the sports and fitness industry. Currently, in Brisbane, he is a specialist strength and conditioning coach for runners from international standard...
Exclusive interview with USA’s world U20 100m champion and double world U18 champion Candace Hill.
Now in its fourth season, IAAF Inside Athletics is presented by Trinidad and Tobago’s 1997 world 200m champion Ato Boldon.
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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BOSTON (10-Oct) -- Emily Sisson won her first U.S. road racing national title on a crystal clear day here at the 40th annual Tufts Health Plan 10-K for Women, serving as the U.S. 10-K Championships. The 24-year-old Providence resident...
Jordan Hasay of Beaverton, Ore. has won the USATF Women’s 10 Mile Championships held in conjunction with the Medtronic TC 10 Mile in 52:49. She also won the $10,000 Equalizer Bonus in the handicapped competition between USATF Championship women and men topping Sam Chelanga of Tucson, Ariz., who won...
St. Paul, Minn. – October 9, 2016 – After 31 years, Phil Coppess, the humble factory worker from Iowa, is no longer the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon record holder. Kenya’s Dominic Ondoro broke the 1985 record by more than a minute, stopping the clock at 2:08:51.
Ondoro outpaced the reigning...
By Chris Lotsbom, @chrislotsbom
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BOSTON (09-Oct) -- Experience proved to make the difference here at the rain-soaked 16th edition of the B.A.A. Half-Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Kenyans Daniel Salel and Mary Wacera pushed through relentless rainfall and...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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Kirui, Kiplagat Prevail At Chicago Marathon
CHICAGO (09-Oct) -- On a picture-perfect fall day here, Kenya's Abel Kirui and Florence Kiplagat won the 39th Bank of America Chicago Marathon using completely different tactics. Kirui, twice the world marathon champion,...
Confident But Cautious, Sambu Ready For Marathon Debut
By David Monti, @d9monti
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CHICAGO (08-Oct) -- The conference room at the Chicago Hilton was noisy as reporters scrambled yesterday to chat up the elite athletes running Sunday's Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Most of the...
