Jack Bruce won his first national senior track title. Genevieve Gregson yet again emphasised her competitiveness, and versatility. Jude Thomas broke the national U20 record previously held by Ryan Gregson.
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Such were the main takeaways from the national 3000 metres...
The womenâs race had barely sunk in â a sub-30 from Ethiopiaâs world cross-country silver medallist Tsigie Gebreselama, 30:35.66 from Lauren Ryan in third place, breaking Benita Willisâs Australian record set way back in the 2003 world championships â when eight men came in under 27 minutes in the menâs with another five, including Jack Rayner in another AR 27:09.57, between 27:07 and 27:10.
It was supposed to be the day when Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce, the engaging Jamaican who has been the queen of womenâs sprinting for most of this century was displaced by Americaâs ShaâCarri Richardson in the 100 metres.
Len Johnson Reporting from the World Champs, London â Runnerâs Tribe
Day six at the world championships and it was one of those this way, thataway, havenât we been here before scenarios so beloved of film directors. Sliding doors, chances taken, chances missed â that sort of thing.
One place we definitely...
What more can Kipchoge do?
A Column By Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
Itâs that end-of-the-year time when we (some of us, anyway) turn our attention to who might be the athlete of the year. AOY as the most common abbreviation goes.
The IAAF AOYs will be announced this weekend. At the...
Letesenbet Gidey and Joshua Cheptegei smashed the world records for menâs 10,000 and womenâs 5000, respectively, on a warm, still night in Valencia.
On 15 May 1983, Petranoff launched his Pacer III javelin from one end of Drake Stadium just down the road from Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and it landed 99.72 metres away perilously close to the other end of the oval. It was enough to make governing bodies ponder the eventâs future.
Women didnât get to make distance running history. Paternalistic notions about the impact of physical stress on women which, in truth, were too often misogyny disguised as medical science, saw to that.
Pheidippedes hijacked the whole marathon myth thing with his ârejoice, we have won,â message to Athens, collapse and...
nne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, launched herself into the Seine this week. Not in response to a suggestion from an aggrieved citoyen or  citoyenne that she should go and do so, but to celebrate the fulfilment of a pledge that the French capitalâs iconic waterway would be ready to play its part in the Paris24 opening ceremony and as the venue for the Olympic triathlon swim legs and the marathon swim.
Len Johnson - Runner's Tribe
One of the beneficiaries of the decision to compete in Moscow was Rob de Castella, who made his first of four Olympic teams in the marathon.
âDeekâ finished tenth in the marathon in Moscow, his first experience of the surging sort of running required to win...
