The bulk of the Scotland team for the Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match on Saturday 24 January has been announced. Nine Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games representatives are already confirmed as competing against athletes from Great Britain & Northern Ireland, Germany and France at the Emirates Arena next … [Read more...]
McConnell and Bowie inspire
March 11, 2019
Former Scottish athletics star Lee McConnell and world indoor 4x400m silver medallist Jamie Bowie will fly the flag for Scotland at the Emirates Arena, ahead of the Sainsbury’s Glasgow International Match which takes place at the venue on 24th January. A home team from Scotland will compete against Great Britain & … [Read more...]
IAAF and Park Run join forces
March 10, 2019
The latest partner of the IAAF’s landmark new social responsibility programme Athletics for a Better World (ABW) is parkrun. parkrun, founded a decade ago in 2004, currently has an established presence in nine countries across the world. It is a simple concept: adults have the chance to run over 5km every Saturday in … [Read more...]
Anti-doping : IAAF and UCI Comparisons are Misleading
March 9, 2019
Antidoping – In response to a number of media inquiries into comparisons between the annual expenditure of the IAAF and the world governing body of cycling UCI, we would like to underline a number of facts for the record. IAAF expenditure on Anti-doping At the risk of sounding repetitive by reiterating what we … [Read more...]
Callum Hawkins sets Scottish half-marathon record in Japan
March 8, 2019
Callum Hawkins continued his great start to 2017 when winning the half marathon at the Kagawa Marugame International in Japan, in a new Scottish record with a time of 60:00. Callum Hawkins great start to 2017 The 24-year-old won the event, finishing ahead of Ethiopian record holder Atsedu Tsegay. His time beat the … [Read more...]
Laura Muir opens with 3000m win
March 7, 2019
Laura Muir showed how much she wants to challenge herself this year after her sensational 2017 by opening her season in a mixed race on Sunday (7) at the GAA Miler Meet in Glasgow. The Brit made a good start to her winter campaign, securing the Scottish national title in 8:37:21 in a race won [...] Time-to-Run … [Read more...]
Cape Wrath Ultra 2018 gets underway
March 6, 2019
Almost 200 runners will set off on Sunday (May 20) at 10am from Fort William in the Scottish Highlands for the extreme Cape Wrath Ultra Race 2018. Cape Wrath Ultra 2018 gets underway – 190 runners on Cape Wrath Ultra 2018 start line – Fort William to Cape Wrath, Scottish Highlands – 8 days, 400km, … [Read more...]
Jornet, Gerardi win Glen Coe Skyline 2018
March 5, 2019
Spain’s Kilian Jornet and American Hillary Gerardi battled the worst of the weekend’s weather in the Scottish Highlands to triumph in the Salomon Glen Coe Skyline race yesterday (Sunday). Kilian Jornet and Hillary Gerardi win Salomon Glen Coe Skyline 2018 In rain and strong winds, 200 athletes from across the world … [Read more...]
Muir middle distance double in Glasgow
March 5, 2019
Scotland – Laura Muir wrote her way into history – yet again – while final day victories for Marcin Lewandowski in the 1500m and in the women’s 4x400m relay in the final event of the programme saw Poland top the medal table again at the Glasgow 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Two days after winning … [Read more...]
Kipsang conquers Great North
September 19, 2018
Wilson Kipsang produced a superb sprint finish to win the Great North Run from fellow Kenyan Micah Kogo. Kipsang, who took bronze in the London Olympic marathon, produced a late surge to pass Kogo and win the half marathon in 59 minutes and six seconds. Ethiopia’s Imana Merga was third with Britain’s Chris … [Read more...]
