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The streets of Adelaide (SA) will welcome a quartet of Rio 2016 Olympians this Sunday 18 September, as the Sunday Mail City-Bay Fun Run plays host to the Australian Road Running Championships. With entry lists confirming the start of Eloise Wellings (NSW), Madeline Hills (NSW), Liam Adams (Vic) and Brett...
Re-Published with thanks to http://athletics.com.au/ Medals aplenty during first week of Paralympics Pure athletic talent and stories of achievement over adversity have compelled viewers during the first week of the 2016 Rio Paralympics. At the athletics, Australia has claimed 12 medals to sit equal seventh on the total medal tally. With one gold, four...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved SOUTH SHIELDS, ENGLAND (11-Sep) -- Four-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah of Great Britain became the first-ever athlete to win the Great North Run half-marathon three years in a row, defeating American Dathan Ritzenhein by eight seconds after a...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved GATESHEAD, ENGLAND (10-Sep) -- Two-time Olympic 800m gold medalist David Rudisha of Kenya ran the fastest-ever 500m time at the Great North CityGames here, clocking 57.69 seconds for the rarely-run distance. Clad in red adidas kit and wearing road racing...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved GATESHEAD, ENGLAND (09-Sep) -- Four-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah moved through the lobby of the Hilton hotel briskly here this morning, the hood of his Nike sweatshirt pulled over his head.  He was on his way to a...
Complete Brussels Diamond League Results AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme Bruxelles (Boudewijnstadion), 09/09/2016 Men's results 200 Metres                                           Wind: +0.8 m/s Pts 1 Forte , Julian                   JAM      19.97         20 2 Gemili , Adam                    GBR      19.97         12 3 Martina...
The second of the two IAAF Diamond League finals for this season brings the curtain down on the IAAF one-day meetings for 2016, and should do so in spectacular fashion with the 16 remaining Diamond Race contests being decided at the AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on...
Thanks to Athletics Australia Forty-five of Australia’s best para-athletes are set to realise their Paralympic dream as they prepare for competition in Rio over the next eleven days. Twenty athletes will making their Paralympic debut, with at least one representative from across seven states and territories. Entering his fifth and final Paralympic...
Complete Zagreb IWC Results IAAF World Challenge Zagreb 2016 Zagreb (Sports Park Mladost), 06/09/2016 Men's results 100 Metres                                             Wind: +1.5 m/s 1 Powell , Asafa                   JAM      10.01 2 Fearon , Joel                    GBR      10.06 3...
***Jenkins Upsets Centrowitz in Men's Race*** By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved Simpson Takes Home Record Fifth New Balance Fifth Avenue Mile Title NEW YORK (03-Sep) -- A pair of scintillating races captured thousands of spectators' attention here at the 2016 New Balance 5th Avenue Mile, with...