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Stephen Day of Wellington Scottish ran a personal best marathon by five minutes of 2:32:04 to win the New Zealand marathon title at the Gazley Volkswagen Wellington Marathon on Sunday, while Alice Mason from Cambridge took out the women’s crown. The 41-year-old Day finished second in the race to American...
Thousands of international competitors and their supporters will fly into South East Queensland this week ahead of the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. Tourism and Major Events Minister Kate Jones said more than 3,000 competitors from overseas – including record numbers from Singapore, United States and Indonesia – would take part...
New research has been published today in support of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) currently suspended Hyperandrogenism Regulations. On 27 July 2015 in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) case between the Indian athlete Dutee Chand and the Athletics Federation of India and the IAAF, the CAS made...
Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya is currently the best marathon runner in the world. The 2016 Olympic champion is aiming to run faster at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24 than his compatriot Dennis Kimetto who set the world record on the renowned fast course in 2014, stopping the clock...
London Diamond League Event Videos via IAAF Diamond League London 2017 Highlights - IAAF Diamond League https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVIXFAs9iA8 Mo Farah wins easily with the time of 7.35.15 in the Men's 3000m - IAAF Diamond League London 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4XJClv30U Hellen Obiri 4.16.56 to win the Women's 1 Mile - IAAF Diamond League London 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwcHvDgkaA&t=7s Tianna Bartoletta 7.01 to...
By Grace Kalac reporting from London - Runner's Tribe Fifteen Australians graced London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for the annual Diamond League Müller Anniversary Games on Sunday afternoon, producing a combined four personal bests and four season’s bests. With many of the 15 athletes set to compete in next month’s...
London is calling for Team Australia, with the 37-strong squad making their way to the 2017 World Para-Athletics Championships from airports across the nation overnight. Marking the return of competition to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the resounding success of the 2012 Paralympic Games, the green and gold, including roommates Claire Keefer (F41,...
SWITZERLAND IAAF Diamond League, Athletissima, Lausanne – 6 July 2017 Tom Walsh finished second in the shot put in his season’s best and fourth best ever of 21.97m. Walsh was most consistent throughout his series of six attempts all over 21 metres, 21.97, 21.70, 21.72, 21.46, 21.59, 21.74. Jacko Gill in his...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (12-JUL) -- Three-time Olympian Dathan Ritzenhein of Belmont, Mich., has joined the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance project and will be coached by Keith and Kevin Hanson, Brooks Running announced today.  Ritzenhein, 34, had previously endorsed Nike since wrapping up...
The World Athletics Council has today decided to expel the Russian Federation (RusAF) from membership of World Athletics if it does not make the outstanding payments of a $US5 million fine and $US1.31 million in costs before 15 August. The Council, meeting by teleconference due to the ongoing global Covid-19...