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Craig Mottram – One Special Day

In late 2004 Craig Mottram wrote an Olympic diary from the Athens Olympics. Today, we restore this masterpiece on Runner's Tribe, to inspire the new generation. Many thanks to Neil Macdonald (and Craig) for the below article. Craig Mottram -...

Star-studded Javelin duel in prospect with Olympic champion Röhler versus World champion Vetter

Star-studded Javelin duel in prospect with Olympic champion Röhler versus World champion Vetter The Olympic champion against the World champion, that’s the scenario for a big showdown at the 76th ISTAF meeting on August 27. The Olympic champion Thomas Röhler and...

Four Coaches and Four Memorable Workouts by NZ’s Matt Baxter

In the Runner's Tribe workout series we ask the world's best athletes to share and explain some of their key training sessions which were integral to their success. The latest awesome edition is from NZ's Matt Baxter. Matt Baxter -...

Using Physics And Other Factors to Explain Usain Bolt’s Speed

In mid 2015 Runner's Tribe was given permission to re-publish and offer content suggestions to Inside Science which is an editorially independent non-profit science news service run out of the American Institute of Physics and supported by a coalition of...

Danni nails it at the last: A column by Len Johnson

Len Johnson Reporting from the World Champs, London – Runner’s Tribe Eight years ago the world seemed to be at Dani Stevens (then Dani Samuels) feet. On a rainy night in Berlin, she handled the difficult conditions far better than her...

The most compelling and competitive World Championships of all time

IAAF World Championships London 2017 - the most compelling and competitive championships of all time Speaking ahead of the final evening session on Sunday (13), IAAF President Sebastian Coe described the IAAF World Championships London 2017 as the most competitive and compelling...

No Mo; no Mo’ Bolt either – but Pearson persists: A column by Len...

Len Johnson Reporting from the World Champs, London – Runner’s Tribe For the world championships, the penultimate day was Super Saturday, the departure of Usain Bolt from all competition and of Mo Farah from track racing. In the end, each of these...

Edris Topples Farah At World Championships 5000m

By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved LONDON (12-Aug) -- Over 55,000 fans packed London Stadium here tonight on the penultimate day of the 16th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, most with the same goal: see Mo Farah...

Sally Pearson is world champion once again

Sally Pearson (Qld) is a champion once more, clocking 12.59 (w: +0.1) to win a stunning gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London (GBR). Providing a fairy tale ending to arguably Australian athletics’ most famous comeback story, Pearson’s...

Sally Pearson Wins World Championship Gold

Australia's Sally Pearson has completed one of histories most epic sporting comebacks overcoming two years of injury to win the world 100 metres hurdles title in London. RESULT POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK MS* REACTION TIME 1 3632 Sally PEARSON AUS 12.59 0.127 2 4338 Dawn HARPER NELSON USA 12.63 SB 0.167 3 3925 Pamela DUTKIEWICZ GER 12.72 0.143 4 4339 Kendra HARRISON USA 12.74 .736 0.146 5 4353 Christina MANNING USA 12.74 .737 0.183 6 3675 Alina TALAY BLR 12.81 SB 0.139 7 4137 Nadine VISSER NED 12.83 0.154 8 4311 Nia ALI USA 13.04 0.149