Young middle distance stars Sifan Hassan and Faith Kipyegon will renew their 1500m rivalry at this year’s Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 14 May, the meeting organisers announced today. Kipyegon beat Hassan to the silver medal at the World Championships in Beijing last summer as world record holder Genzebe Dibaba...
The Gold Coast Airport Marathon is set to attract more competitors from China following a landmark agreement with leading Chinese sports media company, Sina Sports. Minister for Tourism and Major Events Kate Jones said the agreement with Sina Sports and Events Management Queensland would deliver a major boost for the...
20th Annual Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational Track and Field Meeting Event Details Venue: Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, California USA. Date: Sunday, 1st May (Monday, 2nd May AEST) - Main Events commence at 11:00am (AEST) Australians Entered (16): Men's 1500m: Jordan Gusman, Josh Wright, Hugh Nicklason (Section 1: 12:46pm and Section 2: 12:40pm) Men's...
Double Olympic champion Felix Sanchez has just announced his retirement at the age of 38. Evidently he will not defend his title at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Between 2001 and 2004, he won 43 consecutive races. Sanchez's is ranked 8th all-time with his 47.25 in the 400m hurdles. He made...
Two days remain for runners to take advantage of the early bird registration fees for races at this year’s 38th annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon to be held on the weekend of 2 – 3 July. Events Management Queensland, the event organiser, has set this year’s early bird entry deadline at midnight...
A rather comfortable victory in a personal best here for Kenyan-born Turk Ali Kaya over the world record holder, Zersenay Tadesse of Eritrea, missing the course record set by Evans Kiplagat last year by 3 seconds. Kaya --the former Stanley Kiprotich Mukche who won not only the European cross...
With deep sadness, we confirm the death of a participant in the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon. David Seath, aged 31, from Cowdenbeath in Fife and a serving officer in the British Army, collapsed at the 23 mile mark and, although he received immediate medical treatment, he died later in...
Road to Rio 2016 | Aussie Marathon Team Update Melbourne’s Liam Adams has clocked a Rio qualifier and has all but booked his seat on the plane to the 2016 Olympic games with a run of 2:14.58 in the Warsaw Marathon on Sunday. In London, Craig Mottram's goal of becoming the first...
By Steven Mills, @trackside2016 (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved Jemima Sumgong has been the perennial bridesmaid in Abbott World Marathon Majors races with runner-up finishes in the Boston, New York and Chicago Marathons to her name, and that banner win seemed an improbability with about eight kilometers remaining...
By Steven Mills, @trackside2016 (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved LONDON (24-Apr) -- Even without a world record or an Olympic title to his name, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has put together a record befitting the title of the greatest male marathon-runner of all-time. With his second victory in the...
