Geoffrey Kamworor's world half marathon record of 58:01 has been ratified.
In a sensational run, Kamworor chopped 22 seconds from the previous record at the Copenhagen Half Marathon on 15 September, coming tantalisingly close to breaking the event's 58-minute barrier.
It was an apt setting for the 26-year-old Kenyan who won the first...
Eighteen-year-old Queensland sprint sensation Gout Gout has delivered one of the most electrifying performances in Australian athletics history, running 19.67 seconds to obliterate his own national 200-metre record at the Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney.
Bolt and Ayana crowned 2016 World Athletes of the Year
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2016, held at Sporting Monte Carlo on Friday (2).
Bolt, who won the award five times between...
By Brett Davies
The Final night at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium was magical. Nicola McDermott was absolutely brilliant in the high jump, She beat her national record (2.02m) to win the silver, showing composure and nerves of steel to jump her way into history. She was chasing the Russian Mariya Latiskene...
RUNDIES on RUNNER'S TRIBE
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Complete Paris Diamond League Results
27/08/2016
Meeting de Paris
Paris Saint-Denis (Stade de France), 27/08/2016
Men's results
100 Metres - Men Wind: -0.1 m/s
Pts
1 Meité , Ben Youssef CIV 9.96 10
2 Simbine , Akani RSA 10.00 6
3 Martina , Churandy NED 10.01 4
4 Fearon , Joel GBR 10.05 3
5 Vicaut , Jimmy FRA 10.12...
With only 50 days remaining until the World Athletics Relays take place in Nassau, the legendary Carl Lewis has been named the event's ambassador. With nine Olympic gold medals and eight world championship championships under his belt, Lewis is a legendary athlete who will provide his knowledge and enthusiasm to the relay event set for May 4-5 in Nassau.
Athletics New Zealand has received good news from High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) heading into the next Olympic Cycle.
Athletics has moved up the ladder to reach Tier 1 status, joining Cycling, Rowing and Yachting to secure a minimum level of funding for the next four years through to...
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...
Luke Mathews (Vic) has won his first ever race on the international circuit in Oslo (NOR) this morning, with the 20-year-old clocking 3:37.99 to take out the men’s 1500m.
Not to be outdone, Mathews’ was joined on the green and gold highlights reel by Genevieve LaCaze(Vic), who ran a 3000m...
