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...
Here is a selection of YouTube videos we found that relate to the top 9 Fastest Marathoners on Record-Eligible. A few of the races weren't available in any language or quality. Hence we've selected a variety you can watch and or scroll through that tell the story of the race.
Number...
Episode 12 RUN SCHOOL: Stability Training for running
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 elites to...
The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) is delighted to announce that Ethiopian Marathon Legend Haile Gebrselassie will be honoured with the AIMS Lifetime Achievement Award at the fourth annual AIMS Best Marathon Runner’ (BMR) Awards Dinner Reception to be held in the birth place of the...
Sixty-two able-bodied and forty para-athletes have today been extended the offer of National Athlete Support Structure (NASS) membership by Athletics Australia.
Capturing Rio 2016 Olympic Games medallists Jared Tallent (Vic) and Dane Bird-Smith (Qld) and Paralympic champions Scott Reardon (ACT), Brayden Davidson (SA) and James Turner (NSW), the NASS is...
The following world records have recently been ratified…
World U20 record
Men's javelin: 86.48m Neeraj Chopra (IND) Bydgoszcz 23 Jul 2016
Previous: 84.69m Zigismunds Sirmais (LAT) Bauska 22 Jun 2011
World records
Women’s 100m hurdles: 12.20 (0.3m/s) Kendra Harrison (USA) London 22 Jul 2016
Previous: 12.21 (0.7m/s) Yordanka Donkova (BUL) Stara Zagora 20 Aug 1988
Women’s...
