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Welsh Athlete Matthew Janes to debut in Copenhagen Marathon

UK Junior women's team closest to glory at World Cross
The junior women's team came closest to glory for the Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team at the Saturday's IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan. Led by Lauren Howarth (Leigh Harriers) and Charlotte Purdue (Aldershot, Farnham & District), who were the leading Europeans in 13th and 14th, GB & NI placed 4th in the team standings with 82, just six short of bronze medallists Japan. Ethiopia took gold, led by individual gold medallist Genzebe Dibaba and Kenya took silver.

UK World Cross Country preparation

Dobriskey, Soos, Olinger for Midnight Run

UK Dominates at Brussells Euro Cross County
The Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team enjoyed a record-breaking SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Brussels on Sunday, topping the medal table with 12 medals including four gold.

Radcliffe and Yamauchi line up for London
Paula Radcliffe (Bedford & County) will bid to win her fourth Flora London Marathon on 26th April against one of the strongest fields she’s ever faced.

Ian Stewart Appointed UKA Endurance Head
UK Athletics (UKA) today announced two significant moves to address the immediate and long term future of elite level endurance running in Britain.

Yamauchi takes 3rd in Tokyo in 2:25.03 PB
Mara Yamauchi set a brand new personal best of 2:25:03 as she finished third in the Tokyo International Women’s Marathon on Sunday. It rounds off a fine year for the Oxford-born runner who was 6th in the Olympic Games in Beijing in August and also won

England Given Chance to Get Back on Track
Thousands of people across the country will be given the opportunity to make athletics a regular and enjoyable feature in their lives as part of a new campaign launched today.

IAU 100km World Cup Team Announcement
Runners Jeremy Bragg (unattached), Adela Salt (Trentham RC), Emma Gooderham (Malvern Joggers) and Lucy Colquhoun (Carnethy Hill Racing Club) will travel to Tarquinia, Italy to don their GB vests and take on the Ultra distance event.

UK Athletics Announces Tough New Athlete Funding Criteria
UK Athletics have unveiled the new performance criteria designed to ensure that National Lottery support is targeted at providing increased levels of investment to a smaller number of athletes capable of medal success at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Radcliffe, Gomes Dos Santos Win New York Marathon Again

World Champ Kibet to Defend Great South Crown
World marathon champion Luke Kibet is determined to defend his Bupa Great South Run title in Portsmouth at the end of this month.

Runner 100 To Compete In 100th Marathon
The competitor wearing badge number 100 will be taking part in his 100th marathon when the Beachy Head Marathon returns to the South Downs later this month.

Pavey to face tough opposition at Great North 

Twell is Waterford Crystal European Athletics Rising Star 2008
Great Britain continues to provide a good stock of future stars for European Athletics with 19-year-old middle distance runner Stephanie Twell taking the honours as this year's pre-eminent emerging talent on the continent.

Wanjiru determined to compete in Great North Run despite cricumstances

Reed and UK Athletics controversy
Kate Reed and controversy seem to go hand in hand. And again, UK Athletics' fumbling, bumbling and mismanagement rise to the surface with an athlete bringing the sport into disrepute.

Thomas Lancashire runs 3:35.66 in Zurich Golden League meeting

Martin Rooney voted as European Athlete of July
Britain’s latest 400m star Martyn Rooney has been voted the European Athlete of the Month for July.

BOA Announce Athletics Members for Beijing 2008

Brussels to host 2008 Euro Cross Country Champs
European Athletics is pleased to announce that the 2008 SPAR European Cross Country Championships will take place in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Sunday December 14.

Twell Gold, Pallant Bronze at World Junior Champs
Poland - Stephanie Twell executed a perfectly timed race to take Gold in the 1500m at the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships on Sunday.

Richard Limo signs for Great Wales Run

Britain's men and Russia's women win European Cup

Parker takes UK Steeplechase Record

World Record Holder Rees for Great Wales
Organisers are hoping super-vet Martin Rees will compete in this summer's Bupa Great Wales Run after his marvelous age 55 world 10 kilometres record last Sunday. The 55-year-old Corus athlete posted a time of 32minutes 17seconds at the Bupa Great Manchester Run when also going through five kilometres and five miles with world best-ever performances.

Portsmouth Enjoys Another Sporting Triumph

Manchester Basks in Great Run Success

Radcliffe in Olympic team for Beijing

New Sponsor For London Marathon

Weidlinger and Pavey win in Manchester

Yelling to run Sunderland Great Women's Run

Mara Yamauchi wins Matsue Ladies Half Marathon
Mara Yamauchi, who won the Osaka Ladies Marathon with a personal best of 2:25:10 in January, won the 29th Matsue Ladies Half Marathon with 1:09:59 on Sunday.

Bekele sets two-mile world record
Kenenisa Bekele set a new world record for the two miles at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday.

Birmingham makes half-marathon bid
Birmingham is to bid to stage the 2009 World Half-Marathon Championships as part of a campaign to attract more major athletics events in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.

Yamauchi clocks 2:25:10 for Osaka win
Britain's Mara Yamauchi set a personal best time on her way to winning the Osaka International Marathon.

Lagat defends 1 500 title in Glasgow
World champion Bernard Lagat made a winning start to an Olympic year, defending his 1 500 metres title on Saturday at the Norwich Union International indoor meet in Glasgow, Scotland.

Chases hot-up for World Cross places
The territorial cross country championships today provided ample evidence that the pace is hotting-up as athletes prepare to battle for places in the Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland Team at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships to be staged in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, on March 30.

BUPA Great North run reaches 1 million

Bekele 3-peats Edinburgh success
Kenenisa Bekele notched a hat-trick of wins on the men's 9.3km course at the BUPA Great Edinburgh Cross Country.

Belfast - Kipsiro defends, Yelling dominates
Belfast - IAAF world 5000m bronze medallist Moses Kipsiro became only the third man in history to successful defend the Belfast International Cross Country – IAAF Permit - with a blistering mid-winter performance in atrocious conditions at the Stormont Estate on Saturday.

Sanders named athlete of the year
World 400m silver medallist Nicola Sanders has capped a brilliant year by being named as the British Olympic Association's Athlete of the Year.

Brown shifts allegiance to Canada
Marathon runner Jon Brown has decided to represent Canada instead of Great Britain after losing his lottery funding.

UK Athletics’ verdict on World Championships

Osaka: Bekele steps it up a gear
Well, who would have guessed, Kenenisa Bekele can trash talk? It isn't exactly 'trash talk' by any stretch of the imagination of a sprinter's standards or even that of Australia's Craig Mottram however for the Ethiopian to dismiss Mottram in the manner he has, places some fuel to the fire.

Bekele dismisses Mottram as a serious rival
Ethiopian distance running superstar Kenenisa Bekele has dismissed any suggestion of a genuine rivalry with Craig Mottram, claiming the only reason the Australian beat him last year was because he was jet-lagged and tired.

Coe elected IAAF vice-president

Mottram defends Great North title against Lagat
Craig Mottram will have a massive test when defending his 3000 metres title at the BUPA Great North road races on September 29.

Jon Brown returns to his roots for Welsh homecoming

Drugs-in-Sport : Great French drug storm begins to descend
It is quiet incredible that I again find myself penning or for more accuracy, typing another blog regarding Drugs-in-Sport.

French scandal will grow, says athletics chief

Drugs-in-Sport : Ceplak the latest in a week of scandal
The Slovakian, Jolanda Ceplak, has been suspended after testing positive for EPO.

Jolanda Ceplak tests positive for EPO

Great Activity Campaign in sight of The First Million Miles
London’s Hyde Park saw 7,000 runners take part in the highly successful 10k BUPA Great Capital Run on Sunday 15th July - and add another 43,540 miles to the Great Activity Campaign.

Wanjiru Targeting BUPA Great North Run record

Golden League - Golden Troubles
This year controversy seems to be dogging the Golden League series. Last week, in Paris we had the situation of the shambles of the last lap in the Men's 3000m SteepleChase where Kenyan Paul Koech was denied victory after confusion of the last lap.

Training Articles : Why are Runners so hard on themselves?
When you ask a runner what their best time for a particular distance is, there is normally an embarrassed pause, perhaps some shuffling of the feet and finally a quiet response.

Jo Pavey clocks World Champs 10,000m qualifier
Jo Pavey (Exeter Harriers) booked her 10,000m place in the Norwich Union Great Britain and Northern Ireland team at this summer’s IAAF World Championships and Phil Nicholls (Tipton Harriers) won his first national title at the second BMC Nike Grand Prix incorporating the UK Challenge in incessant rain at Watford on Saturday night, 30 June.

Denmark: Claire Peacock of Stragglers UK takes 3rd place at Glitnir Copenhagen Marathon

Britain’s Jo Pavey and Kenya’s Micah Kogo win in Manchester

Farah to lead British challenge in Bupa Great Manchester Run
European Cross Country champion Mo Farah will lead the British challenge for top honours at the BUPA Great Manchester Run next Sunday.

Mutai takes Belfast marathon win
Kenyan John Mutai claimed victory in the 26th Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon on Monday. His winning time was 2:16:24.

Nutrition section: Omega Fatty Acids - a Hype or Help?
Take a tour of any supermarket today, and you will be struck by the number of margarine tubs, cooking oils and even yoghurts and eggs that have “Omega 3 or 6” either in their brand name or added in big letters to the packaging.

Capital Run - Hats off to the Panama running team
There will be a truly international feel to the BUPA Great Capital Run in aid of Help a London Child on July 15th with representatives from a number of Embassies in London signing up for the 10k event.

The 21st Annual Third World Run Belfast
The Annual Belfast Third World Run will be held on Sunday 20th May 2007 in Ormeau Park, starting at 3pm.. The event started in 1987 as a sequel to the Sport Aid "Run for the World" in 1986, inspired by Bob Geldof, and organised in towns and cities all around the world to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Blog: London Marathon delivers the goods yet again

Brit performances at London Marathon 2007
As the temperature climbed towards 25° Celsius, David Weir and Shelly Woods completed a home country winning double in the wheelchair races while Mara Yamauchi and Liz Yelling set the hottest pace of the GB ‘foot soldiers’ in the Flora London Marathon on Sunday 22 April.

Women section: Are there any products which stop sweating?
The best advice is to try to keep the body extremely clean using a pH neutral soap and deodorant, and avoid tight fitting clothing that do not allow air circulate.

Meditation - Good news for the immune system
Meditation can modify the effects of strenuous exercise. Intense training and heavy exercise have been linked with a damping down of immune system activity, leaving some athletes more vulnerable to infections.

Dame Kelly Holmes signs up for Great Manchester Run

Are Drug Cheats plain old fraudsters afterall?
With the recent revelation that Drug Cheat, Tim Montgomery, is to be convicted on charges involving cheque fraud makes you again wonder if those who cheat to get ahead in sport are just plain criminal at heart.

Bupa Great South Run proves inspirational for Brit runners

Pavey to hit the streets of Edinburgh in May
Jo Pavey, the versatile Commonwealth 5000 metres silver medallist in a continuance of her road running career, will line-up at the BUPA Great Edinburgh Run on Sunday May 6.

Clitheroe sets world leading mark over 1500m 06th Feb
Dusseldorf - Helen Clitheroe set a world leading time of 4:08:58 at the PSD Bank International indoor meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Tuesday. This after her previous win in Ghent on Monday.

Great Run grants awarded to British duo
Becky Lyne, last summer's European 800 metres bronze medallist, is one of the British athletic stars awarded a training grant today by sports marketing company Nova International.

Gebrselassie considering Great North Run appearance
Haile Gebrselassie intends waiting until after the Flora London Marathon in April before deciding his racing programme for the next year.

Baby girl for athlete Radcliffe
Monaco - Athlete Paula Radcliffe has given birth to a baby girl at 0943 GMT at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco.

Gebrselassie, Tergat, Baldini, Gharib and Limo set for London
Last year’s fastest marathon runner Haile Gebrselassie will take on his great rival and world record holder Paul Tergat of Kenya, plus Italy’s Olympic champion Stefano Baldini, Morocco’s double world champion Jaouad Gharib, and the reigning London champion Felix Limo of Kenya, in one of the highest quality men’s fields ever assembled for a major city marathon.

UK Athletics announces new Chairman
UK Athletics (UKA) today announces that Edmond Warner, a city businessman, will take up the newly created post of Chairman with immediate effect. Warner, 43, is also a leading commentator on financial issues and a keen amateur runner, and will help lead UKA through its next phase of development into 2012.

Belfast International Cross Country, Kate Reed 4th
BRISTOL athlete Kate Reed finished a fine fourth among a field full of established African internationals at the Belfast stage of the UK Cross Challenge, while Phil Nicholls (Tipton) made it into the top ten in the men's race to place top Briton.

Strength Training: Top 18 Benefits of Weight Training
Ever considered adding weight training to your running routine, well here are 18 benefits to consider. Applying the various tips given as well as using the information available within the Strength Training for runners can only improve your running