Some snaps from photographer Ewa Facioni of the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships. Music used with permission from The Passion HiFi (c) Video produced by Runner's Tribe
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (15-Apr) -- In an Olympic year which began with the painful disappointment of missing the 2016 USA Olympic Trials Marathon last February, things nearly got even worse for marathoner Sarah Crouch. After running the United Airlines NYC Half on...
Chinese long jump stars to take on world’s best at Shanghai Diamond League China’s teenage long jump star Wang Jianan will lead a quartet of homegrown talent against two of the world’s best leapers at the 2016 Shanghai Diamond League on 14 May, the meeting organisers announced today. Wang was two...
With 117 member federations already signed up for this year’s edition, IAAF World Athletics Day once again looks set to be one of the busiest weekends on the 2016 athletics calendar. Now in its 21st year, the annual worldwide athletics festival offers the opportunity to promote the sport through youth...
Shot putter Damien Birkinhead is one of Australia's big medal hopes in the upcoming Rio Olympics.
At the forthcoming IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 on 7-8 May, women will be able to participate in the senior 50km race walk event. In August 2015, IAAF Competition Rule 261 was amended by IAAF Congress to include the women's 50km race walk as a listed world...
Robert Chemosin could hardly have made a more fitting statement with regard to this year’s motto of the Vienna City Marathon: Theatre of Emotions. Asked about the significance of his victory the 27 year-old said that „this marks the beginning of a new life for me“. In blustering winds...
Lusapho April wins Hannover for the third time Lusapho April took the HAJ Hannover Marathon for the third time after 2011 and 2013. The South African became the first male runner in the history of the event to achieve three victories. While he clearly missed his own course record of2:08:32...
Robert Chemosin won the Vienna City Marathon, clocking a fine 2:09:48 in very windy conditions. After two Ethiopian victories in the past two years this edition was dominated by the Kenyans again. Charles Cheryuiot (2:10:09), Suleiman Simotwo (2:10:15), Silas Limo (2:10:16) and Raymond Choge (2:11:07) finished in places two...
The 21-year-old was taken to hospital by ambulance after falling heavily during a training jump at the WA Institute of Sport high performance centre in Mt Claremont. A WAIS statement confirmed she had fractured the tibia in her right leg. Parnov will undergo surgery today morning which will require her to...
