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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...
Entries for the 2023 Gold Coast Marathon open today with a surge in international participation expected and a special incentive for locals to be a part of the 1-2 July race weekend. Unleash your full potential with Tarkine Goshawk shoes, where cutting-edge technology meets unparalleled performance for the dedicated...
Two Olympic qualifiers from Eleanor Patterson and Nicola McDermott in the women’s high jump have lead the charge at the 2020 Canberra Track Classic. Although both Patterson and McDermott had already jumped the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying height (1.96m), McDermott in June 2019 in Ostrava and Patterson in January 2020 in Canberra, they both again cleared 1.96m at the meet.
Brad gets pulled along with Josh Johnson and finds another gear in training. Julian paces Bri along to a 10K PB for the Run Strong Virtual Race. Brady replaces his Rotterdam Marathon with a 10K hitout in the Alphaflys. Summer of the 2022 set for a stacked schedule with Worlds, Commonwealth Games...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved LAUSANNE, SUI (24-Aug) -- It's a race that's positioned as the main event of tomorrow's Athletissima Lausanne IAAF Diamond League meet, the highly anticipated battle between two welterweights: newly crowned Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz and three-time world champion...
Tuesday 9 April The 2019 Gold Coast Marathon is shaping up to be an exciting one with the announcement today that long term rivals Kenyan Kenneth Mungara and Japan’s Yuki Kawauchi, who produced one of the closest finishes in the event’s 40-year history, will once again face each other. Mungara edged...
Ben St Lawrence fills in for Moose as he comes off the Burnie 10. Brad pulls up sore after Melbourne Half, taking some time off. Brady runs for a whole week and wins the Sweat Vs Steam in Echuca. Stewart McSweyn wins the Burnie 10 in a course record of 28:03, ahead...
Australian college students have won three NCAA titles, at the famed Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. In the women’s 1500m, Albion Park girl Jess Hull, running for the Oregon Ducks, took out the 1500m with a new personal best time of 4:08.75.  Jess is the first Duck to win the...
The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON will get underway on Sunday, September 26 with high-quality elite fields headed by the Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele on his fourth appearance in Germany’s biggest and most spectacular marathon, while his compatriot Hiwot Gebrekidan will run in Berlin’s women’s field for the first time. Gebrekidan is...
An attempt to run the fastest ever backward marathon highlights how wrong-way locomotion could assist in rehabilitation and athletic training. Original post - Friday, April 13, 2018 - 11:15 - Peter Gwynne, Contributor (Inside Science). Published on Runner's Tribe with permission. (Inside Science) -- The Boston Marathon is not only the world’s oldest...