Smashing the British record Eilish McColgan took the GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON with 65:43. This is also a European lead and the Scot became the fourth fastest European half marathon runner ever. Berlin Half Marathon 2023 Sawe wins, McColgan sets British record The 32 year-old improved her own national record time … [Read more...]

Northern Ireland – Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw took 19 seconds off the world half marathon record, running a remarkable 1:03:43* at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon, a World Athletics Label Road Race, in Larne, Northern Ireland, on Sunday (29). Yehualaw becomes the first woman to break 64 minutes for the half … [Read more...]

Scotland – In the first major international event of 2019, Team Europe celebrated victory at the Simplyhealth Great Stirling XCountry, a European Athletics Cross Country Permit event, as they successfully defended their title at a competition which has traditionally been held in Edinburgh. Team Europe triumphed … [Read more...]

Jodie Williams voted women’s 2011 European Athletics Rising Star British sprint sensation Jodie Williams is the 2011 winner of the women’s European Athletics Rising Star award presented by MONDO. The world junior champion burned up the track in the women’s 100m final at the European Athletics Junior … [Read more...]

Christophe Lemaitre, the 22-year-old French sprint sensation and Europe’s fastest man this year, will run in London for the first time ever as he takes on a host of global Olympic contenders over 200m at the Aviva London Grand Prix in Crystal Palace on Saturday 14 July. Lemaitre, who this evening will defend his … [Read more...]

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team enjoyed six victories as the British Athletics Grand Prix returned to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, in arguably the world’s finest indoor event this afternoon. Mo Farah (coach: Alberto Salazar), Nigel Levine (Linford Christie), Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff/Scott Simpson), … [Read more...]

Mo Farah has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2013 World Athlete of the Year award. The 30 year old, who won double gold over 5,000m and 10,000m at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August, has been named on a ten man shortlist for the men’s prize that includes the likes of eight time [...] Time-to-Run … [Read more...]

There is just over a week to go until the start of both the 2014 IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting season and the 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. Saturday 1 February sees the German city of Karlsruhe stage the first of six top-level indoor meetings during an action-packed two weeks which will act as a prelude … [Read more...]

In just two weeks’ time, the focus of the athletics world will fall on Sopot, Poland as the 15th edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships gets underway on 7 March. Much of the spotlight will be on the combined events, as both world champions from Moscow will be competing. World and Olympic decathlon champion … [Read more...]