An enthralling Prefontaine Classic track meeting took place in Eugene, Oregon, USA this weekend. The meeting is part of the IAAF Diamond League series and a number of the performances at the meeting are worthy of mentioning. Allyson Felix was impressive over 400m, while Pole vault star Renaud Lavillenie of France set … [Read more...]
Mo Farah for Great North Run
August 12, 2014
Olympic and world champion Mo Farah will race at the 2014 Great North Run half-marathon looking to go one better than last year's second-place... Time-to-Run - Pre-Event and Other news … [Read more...]
Mountain Running Challenge in Keswick
June 18, 2014
There was a mix of new and familiar faces on the top step of the podium at the first race in the British Athletics Mountain Running Challenge, and... Time-to-Run - Pre-Event and Other news … [Read more...]
City Games Manchester Wrap up
May 19, 2014
Great Britain and Northern Ireland athletes captured no less than six victories at the sun-drenched BT Great City Games Manchester this afternoon, as the annual street athletics festival enjoyed its sixth appearance in the north-west of England. Taking place on a purpose built track on Deansgate and around Albert … [Read more...]
Indoor Champs for Poland
February 25, 2014
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...]
2014 IAAF Indoor Meetings
January 24, 2014
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 [...]2014 IAAF … [Read more...]
Perri Shakes-Drayton for Athletics Series 2013
December 9, 2013
World Indoor 4x400m relay champion Perri Shakes-Drayton (coach: Chris Zah) has confirmed her participation in both the Glasgow and Birmingham indoor legs of the 2013 British Athletics Series this winter, running her first ever individual 400m flat indoor races. Shakes-Drayton will start her 2013 campaign at the … [Read more...]
Legends to be inducted
November 15, 2013
IAAF Hall of Fame – 12 legends to be inducted Council approved the names of 12 athletes who will compose this year’s induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame which was inaugurated last year as part of the IAAF’s centenary celebrations. The very strict minimum criteria agreed last year to select the inaugural list of … [Read more...]
Farah wins New Orleans Half
November 15, 2013
Britain’s Mo Farah edged out Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam in a dramatic finish to win the New Orleans half-marathon. The pair left the rest of the field trailing, and it was Farah who grabbed the glory as a sprint finish gave him victory in one hour and one minute. Farah, 29, also beat Gebremariam on [...] The post … [Read more...]
Gergo and Orla conquer 5km
November 15, 2013
The compact frame of Hungarian Gergo Mezei took line honours in the 5km Road Race at the World Transplant Games in Durban today running a time of 17.36 The 25 year old looked comfortable the entire race, running in the lead group of three athletes he made his calculated break just after going through the [...] The … [Read more...]
