Australia’s Tokyo stars shone bright on Day 6 of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA with reigning world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber (QLD), Olympic finalist Mackenzie Little (NSW) and Tokyo hero Peter Bol (WA) all advancing on their pathway to the podium.
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...
With time running out to quality for the Tokyo Olympics, Charlie Hunter has clocked the second fastest ever 800m by an Australian, stopping the clock at 1:44.35 in Portland. Running for the university of Oregon Hunter missed Joseph Deng's Australian record by just 0.14 of a second.
Nicola McDermott has broken her own Australian record (previously 2.00m), clearing 2.01metres at the Stockholm Diamond League. The jump confirms Nicola as a serious medal contender for the fast approaching Tokyo Olympics.
Irish masters runner Shane Healy has redefined the global standard for 55-year-old distance runners with an incredible feat of skill. In the M55+ 3,000m, Healy not only won the race but also broke the world record by 11 seconds, finishing in an incredible eight minutes and 47 seconds on January 6 at an indoor track meet in Dublin.
Melbourne, Australia; 4 February 2024 - Five of the 10 fastest Australian women in history over 5000m are bound for the Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne, as track specialists and versatile marathoners combine to chase an Australian victory over Ethiopian teenager and African Under 20 record holder Aynadis Mebratu at Lakeside Stadium.
Two Olympic qualifiers from Eleanor Patterson and Nicola McDermott in the women’s high jump have lead the charge at the 2020 Canberra Track Classic.
Although both Patterson and McDermott had already jumped the Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifying height (1.96m), McDermott in June 2019 in Ostrava and Patterson in January 2020 in Canberra, they both again cleared 1.96m at the meet.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yared Nuguse delivered an electrifying performance in the Bowerman Mile during a sun-drenched opening day of the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in Eugene. Ingebrigtsen, the reigning Olympic gold medalist, set his sights on Hicham El Guerrouj's 24-year-old world record, captivating the attention of 12,364 spectators.
Five reigning Olympic champions showed their supremacy with victories at the 41st edition of the FBK Games in Hengelo on Monday (6), with Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis shining brightest of all, clearing 6.01m in the pole vault – the highest outdoor clearance this year.
American Olympic champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the high jump with a technique known as the Fosbury Flop, has passed away at the age of 76. Ray Schulte, his former agent, announced the news on Monday via Instagram. According to Schulte, Fosbury passed away peacefully in his sleep after a short battle with lymphoma recurrence.
