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Tanner and O’Connor prevail at New Zealand Schools Cross Country Champs

Athletics New Zealand Sam Tanner from Bethlehem College in Tauranga and Hannah O’Connor from Sacred Heart in New Plymouth were the big winners at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Cross Country Champs in Christchurch. Tanner took out the senior boys title...

Something to be said for insomnia: A column by Len Johnson

Something to be said for insomnia There’s not much to be said for insomnia. Nothing to be said for it, in fact, for those who suffer from the full-blown sleeping disorder. There’s little more to be said for the occasional sleepless...

Hasay to Challenge Flanagan at Peachtree 10-K

By David Monti, @d9mon (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (15-Jun) -- After running the fastest debut marathon ever by an American woman at the Boston Marathon last April (2:23:00), Jordan Hasay will return to competition at the AJC...
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McCartney stumbles at Oslo Diamond League

Eliza McCartney suffered a rare bad day in her second Diamond League meeting of 2017, failing to clear a height, after finishing third the previous week in Rome. Starting at 4.55m, the 20 year old from Devonport had three misses,...

ASICS Half Marathon assembles stellar cast of elite runners

An American distance running duo, representatives of Australia’s marathon team for the World Championships, a strong Japanese contingent and four previous race winners will headline the ASICS Half Marathon on the Gold Coast on Sunday 2 July. Leading US distance...

Aussie Jack Bruce Impresses at NCAA Championships

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (13-Jun) -- Ole Miss miler Craig Engels drew a lot of attention for his mullet and mustache at last week's NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships. But another...

Three-time Olympian Lee Troop runs out of retirement for his dad

US-based three-time Olympian Lee Troop will come out of retirement when he returns to Australia to race the Gold Coast Airport Marathon in honour of his dad Joe who recently overcame brain cancer. Troop, who ended his elite career in...

Athletics NZ Weekly Global Results Roundup

Athletics New Zealand AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Grand Prix Cross Country and Teams Championships, Barry Curtis Park East Tamaki – 10 June 2017  National Cross country champion Jono Jackson is on track to defend his title at the end of July, following an...

RT Journal By Emma Kraft: Started from the Bottom, now I’m here….

Started from the Bottom, now I’m here…. RT Journal by Emma Kraft - Runner's Tribe I started writing this blog for Runner's Tribe over 1 month ago and I honestly have no idea why it has taken me so long to...

Rogers Leads Oregon To Historic Triple Crown In Stunning Fashion

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved EUGENE, Ore., USA (10-Jun) -- Oregon's Raevyn Rogers didn't settle on making history by becoming the first woman to win five NCAA 800m titles indoors and out. The junior...