Runner's Tribe

Below is the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games Athletics Schedule along with the Aussies competing in their respective events.  Friday, July 30 Session time (AEST) Event details Venue 10am – 1:30pm Men’s 3000m steeplechase round 1 - Aussie reps: Ben Buckingham, Matthew Clarke, Edward Trippas. Olympic Stadium....

Both Zoe Hobbs and Eddie Osei-Nketia qualified for the Tokyo Olympics and were invited by the IOC to compete in Tokyo. But Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) have denied them selection, arguing that both would struggle to make it into the top-16.

By Len Johnson They’re not necessarily the sort of figures you’d like associated with your name, but Stewart McSweyn now boasts a pair of impressive performances at 3000 metres. Seven minutes 30 seconds for 3000 metres represents 60 seconds per lap. Not...

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/runners-tribe-podcast/id1563338165 PodBean: https://runnerstribe.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ghTB6vJMUiLPtsszNpeA5 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/60au7ktm Jenny Blundell has been one of Australia’s biggest middle-distance talents for many years now.  A crazy talented junior, she is one of the rare few who has been able to convert her junior talent into success as...

Two local businesses have demonstrated their conviction that blockchain technology is the key to providing participants with a free travel experience, thus boosting the local economy, since they geared up for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Estate collaborated...

Brad freezes in Canberra but still rolls smoothly for some 200s. Julian remembers just how cold Anglesea can get in Winter. Brady skips Gold Coast and leads the Bats out at Cruden Farm. Matthew Clarke is selected to represent Australia at the...

The 10th edition of the Surf Coast Century is cementing its’ reputation as one of Australia's must-do ultra trail marathons, attracting a number of past winners from ultra running events across the country.

The click-bait articles were quick to flood the internet, but authorities have cleared 20-year-old Oliver Dustin of cocaine use, accepting there had been cross-contamination of a sample that contained small traces of cocaine. Earlier, Dustin was told he had returned an adverse analytical finding for traces of a cocaine metabolite in France. It has put his first Olympic outing in doubt, just 10 days before the opening of the Games in Tokyo. 

The world's best 1500m runner and the 2019 1500m world champ, Timothy Cheruiyot, has been added to the Kenyan Olympic team to race the 1500m, in a last second switch.  Cheruiyot replaces teenager Kamar Etiang, who finished second at the Kenyan trials. Etiang has recently come into some grief by failing to comply with the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) doping measures requiring three out-of-competition tests in the last 10 months, Kenyan athletics officials said.

Mohamed Katir and Stewart McSweyn have had another awesome battle at the 2021 Muller British Grand Prix.  Just days ago Katir just beat McSweyn over 1500m in Monaco, now he has won again in England. The fast finishing Spaniard is in the process of re-writing the Spanish record books. In Monaco his 3:28.76 broke Fermin Cacho's 1500m record. Cacho won the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, with similar finishing kicks, it wouldn't shock to see history repeat. Katir's winning time in Gatehead of 7:27.64 is a meet record and takes him to number 15 on the all-time rankings list.