World number one race walker Jemima Montag says the pressure that comes with the title won’t stop her from performing at her best when she toes the line in the Women’s 20km Race Walk tomorrow on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.
Muir and Reekie are currently training independently at Loughborough University as they assess their options. However, sources indicate that the end of their partnership with Young could leave the athletes without a coach, just 15 months before the Paris Olympics.
On March 2, Scottish athletics sensation Laura Muir is poised to captivate her home crowd at the Emirates Arena as she readies herself for the 3000m final. This event promises to be a marquee spectacle, marking the culmination of major championships just before the grand stage of Paris 2024.
Australia's fastest ever 800m runner, Peter Bol, has finished second at the Doha Diamond League Friday night. Bol clocked 1:49.35 in a tactical affair, in quite windy conditions. Bol beat home some huge names for his first ever Diamond League podium finish.
Kenyan middle-distance maestro Faith Kipyegon regained the world 1500m title with yet another imperious display at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon today.
Superstars of Australian athletics will take on the world’s best in a high-profile track and field meet on home soil, with World Athletics and the Victorian Government today announcing their support of a World Continental Tour Gold Level meet in Melbourne in February.
By Caelus Murphy for Runner’s Tribe
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe believes that the regulations on the use of cannabis by athletes should be reviewed after rising track and field star Sha'Carri Richardson missed the Tokyo Games when she tested positive for the substance.
Richardson, who won the 100m at the...
Less than two weeks after his 17th birthday, Myers clocked 3:36.10 over 1500m in Pfungstadt, Germany, to better Ryan Gregson's 3:37.24 Australian Under 20 record. Myers also broke his own U18 Australian record in the process (3:38.02).
Australian 3000m steeplechase runner Ben Buckingham has posted an 8:24.39, to finish 5th at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland. The Australian steeplechase champion, James Nipperess, in the same race clocked 8:30.48 for 7th. The race was won by Finnish athlete Topi Raitanen, who clocked an impressive 8:19.57.
Australian Abbey Caldwell set a new British Milers Club 800m record a few days ago in Manchester, England, stopping the clock at 1:58.92. It marked one of the highlights of the first Saucony Grand Prix of the season.
