The 2023 edition of the Run Larapinta Stage Race has left a capacity field of 200 runners from across Australia raving about their experience! Over the course of four days and four stages, participants took to the most spectacular sections of the iconic Larapinta Trail in the Northern Territory, resulting in overwhelmingly positive sentiment towards the event.
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom
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BOSTON (10-Oct) -- In running, careers have a funny way of coming full circle. Sometimes when an athlete least expects it, she finds herself back where she began.
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Kenyan maestros Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei delivered landmark performances to illuminate another record-breaking edition of the Virgin Money London Marathon as more people than ever before finished the 39th edition of the world’s greatest race on Sunday.
Kipchoge cemented his reputation as one of the finest athletes of all...
New Zealand athletes will be taking part in an exciting, innovative athletics series in Melbourne over the next week. Coles Nitro Athletics Melbourne is the brainchild of Athletics Australia in a bold attempt to create a new format to attract more fans to the sport.
The world’s best ever sprinter,...
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Nyang’s tale,...
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Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim and Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2017, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Friday (24).
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Women to the fore on day 2 of NZ Track & Field Championships
The women’s 800m at the Jennian Homes New Zealand Track and Field Championships promised to be a close race and it delivered on that prediction, with five-times winner Angie Petty adding title number six to her bag...
Aussie have never been slower - Basic Stats Analysis
Article by Ivanka Nikolova Ph.D.
Participation in marathons has increased x 8 over the last 20-years – however data shows that Aussie marathon runners are slowing down. Why is this?
*Note from editor: This is a generalised stats analysis that has not taken into...
