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Firstly covering the Aussies. All ladies performed exceptionally well at the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff (Wales). Milly Clark captured a huge PB finishing just behind Eloise Wellings. Cassie Fien also recording a PB. Our girls finished 4th in the teams, just missing out on a team medal by 23secs. 1. Peres JECHIRCHIR...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CARDIFF (25-Mar) -- In order to win his first IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships title tomorrow, Mo Farah will not only have to overcome a stiff challenge from a stacked Kenyan team led by defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor, but also...
Athletics Australia Chief Executive Officer, Phil Jones, has applauded the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport that will see all competitive results obtained by Sergey Kirdyapkin from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 disqualified. This will result in Kirdyapkin being stripped of his gold medal in men’s...
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Bydgoszcz (POL) from 19-24 July 2016. Boasting the newly crowned national junior record holder Trae Williams (Qld, 100m, 200m), IAAF World Youth Championships medallists Darcy Roper (Qld, long jump) and Ned Weatherly(Vic, hammer throw) and Youth Olympic Games champion Jessica Thornton (NSW, 400m), the squad includes 48 athletes competing in...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PORTLAND, ORE. (20-Mar) -- American distance running history was made on the final day of competition here at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, as the red, white, and blue took home a total of four medals over four events...
Latest Aussie updates for the IAAF World Indoor Championships  Fabrice Lapierre wins silver in the men's long jump with 8.25 Brett Robinson finishes 11th overall with 8.11.11 in the 3000m final A gutsy front-running performance by Melissa Duncan (Vic) has delivered her 6th place in the women’s 1500m final at the IAAF World...
New York, March 20, 2016  – Three event records were broken on the streets of Manhattan at the 2016 United Airlines NYC Half on Sunday, March 20, in an event that featured 12 Olympians and 12 Paralympians. Molly Huddle, an Elmira, NY, native, defended her United Airlines NYC Half title,...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PORTLAND, ORE. (19-Mar) -- March Madness is generally a term reserved for basketball in the United States, yet it could fittingly describe tonight's competition at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. For the first time in history, the United States...