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Runner's Tribe News Ethiopian middle distance runner, Chala Beyo has been banned from competition for 2-years after punching his coach upon learning he did not make the team for the 2017 IAAF World Championship in London early next month. The 21-year-old, Beyo, ran for Ethiopia in the 3,000 meters steeplechase at...
Wesley Korir will be hoping to resume his racing career with a flourish at the 16th edition of the BLOM Bank Beirut Marathon on Sunday (11), a day that will see almost 50,000 runners take to the streets across the various races. The 35-year-old Kenyan, a winner of the Boston...
Register in the Father’s Day WARRIOR Run and celebrate the great men, the noble WARRIOR, in your life. Challenge your Dad, challenge your kids, or challenge your workmates and claim bragging rights in your household or workplace! You might even out-run Deek! Be at Centennial Park, Sydney, Sunday 4...
Australian sprinter Lachlan Kennedy has made history by clocking 9.98 seconds in the 100m final at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, Kenya, becoming only the second Australian to break the 10-second barrier after Patrick Johnson’s 9.93 seconds in 2003. Kennedy's landmark run earned him a gold medal and placed...
Marathon running is something that’s gone from a curiosity to a number of very fit hobbyists, to a global phenomenon with thousands of races taking place throughout the world each year. Between 2009 and 2014, the popularity of marathon running grew globally by 13.25%. During the same period in...
In a poignant conclusion to his illustrious career, Mo Farah celebrated as one of Britain's most exceptional athletes of all time, marking the end of an era with a fourth-place finish in his final race at the Great North Run. The 40-year-old four-time Olympic champion found himself trailing early in the renowned 13.1-mile race, a captivating journey from Newcastle to South Shields. As the dust settled, he crossed the finish line, a full three minutes and 30 seconds behind Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola, who seized victory with an impressive time of 59 minutes and 58 seconds.
Complete Shanghai Diamond League Results IAAF Diamond League Shanghai Shanghai, 14/05/2016 Men's results 100 Metres - Men Race 1 Wind: -0.7 m/s 1 Tang , Xingqiang CHN 10.30 2 Xu , Haiyang CHN 10.40 3 Andrews , Nicholas AUS 10.51 4 Slowikowski , Przemyslaw POL 10.51 5 Ma , Jianliang CHN 10.54 6 Wu , Zhiqiang CHN 10.59 7 Grzeskowiak...
This week Adams was working atop an icy shed roof in two degrees in Melbourne, so the lure of a sunny Gold Coast is strong. Even stronger is his desire to utilise the fact that the Gold Coast Marathon, on Sunday 7 July, is also host of the IAAF...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PROVIDENCE, RI (18-Sep) -- Ryan Hill and Aliphine Tuliamuk reigned supreme here at the USA 5-K Championships, held in conjunction with the CVS Health Downtown 5-K through the streets of Providence. Hill waited until 200 meters remained to jump...
Kenya's Rosemary Wanjiru and Ethiopia's Deso Gelmisa emerged victorious in the women's and men's categories, respectively, at the Tokyo Marathon, held on Sunday, March 5, 2023.