Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon lowered her own 1500m world record to 3:48.68 at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, improving on her previous mark of 3:49.04 set in Paris in 2024. The reigning Olympic champion used her trademark finishing kick to pull away from Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji and Australia’s...
Paris, France; July 10, 2023 - Day Two of the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships witnessed Jaryd Clifford (VIC) find the silver lining in being unable to defend his 2019 world title, proving that character matters when adding to Australia’s medal tally with an inspirational run.
Three more Australian track and field athletes are Oregon bound, with Tokyo Olympic bronze medallists Kelsey-Lee Barber and Ash Moloney, as well as World Athletics Indoor Championships silver medallist Eleanor Patterson named as the newest additions to the Australian team heading to the World Athletics Championships this July.
The current European indoor champion, Jason Joseph, drew attention in the Swiss Indoor Championships in St. Gallen on Sunday (18) with a captivating display of athletic excellence. Joseph achieved the second-best time of his career in the final, clocking in at equal third fastest globally this year with a spectacular timing of 7.43. Interestingly, Simon Ehammer, the silver medallist in the European Decathlon, significantly improved his lifetime best from 7.70 to 7.55, placing him in second place.
Luke Mathews (Vic) has won his heat of the men’s 1500m to advance to the semi-final at London 2017, where he will be joined on the entry lists by his teammate Jordan Wiliamsz (Vic).
Ensuring that Team Australia has two starters in second round of the event at the IAAF World Championships for...
IAAF/TRINIDAD ALFONSO WORLD HALF MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS VALENCIA 2018
MEN -
POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK
1 116 Geoffrey Kipsang KAMWOROR KEN KEN 1:00:02 SB
2 24 Abraham Naibei CHEROBEN BRN BRN 1:00:22 SB
3 56 Aron KIFLE ERI ERI 1:00:31 PB
4 74 Jemal YIMER ETH ETH 1:00:33
5 72 Getaneh MOLLA ETH ETH 1:00:47 SB
6...
Written by Brett Davies
This weekend (Sunday 26/9) will see the return of the Berlin Marathon, arguably the world's premier marathon. The event began in 1974 and has been held annually on the last weekend of September - except for 2000, 2018 and of course, 2020, when it was cancelled...
Kenyan marathoner Alexander Mutiso Munyao has pledged to put behind the Paris Olympics heartbreak and defend his London Marathon title with a new Personal Best time.
Mutiso was heavily regarded as a medal prospect in the Paris Games, but he fell short of expectations, finishing a disappointing 21st after clocking...
Eliud Kipchoge and Mary Keitany are officially the top marathon runners of 2017. The Kenyans were announced as the winners of the AIMS Best Marathon Runner (BMR) Awards at the Gala in Athens on Friday. The event was organised by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS)...
The General Assembly of the IAAF Diamond League met today in London’s Olympic stadium to review the 2017 season and the structure of the sport’s top tier one-day meeting circuit from 2020 and beyond.
The 2017 season marked the first stage of a fundamental restructuring of the IAAF Diamond League which adopted a championship-style model with the...
