After guiding Tom Walsh to a slew of medals, the Australian coach has now taken Valerie Adams under his wing.... Read More
Initiative designed to allow runners around the world to participate and interact with each other in the year leading to the main event.... Read More
Athing Mu missed world indoor U20 800m record by 0.04, KC Lightfoot topped an early-season world lead of 5.94m in Lubbock while Rohan Browning sped to a wind-assisted 9.96 clocking over 100m at the Illawarra Track Challenge in Wollongong, Australia.... Read More
World bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango produced the first standout athletics moment of 2021 by sailing to a world indoor triple jump record of 18.07m* in Aubiere on Saturday (16).... Read More
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While for many people 2020 was a year to forget, for sprint hurdler Aaron Mallett the year could not have tasted much sweeter.
In 2019 the rising Icelandic star finished last at the World Championships. After a breakthrough throw last year, he enters 2021 as one of the best discus throwers in the world.
Edoardo Scotti’s 45.21-second run in the 400m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome last year was more than just a PB.
Abe Gashahun and Tsigie Gebreselama were the winners of the 2021 Great Ethiopian Run
The 19-year-old displayed solid early season form, equalling her indoor career best.
The Melbourne Cup in horse racing is known as the race that stops the nation but, in truth, there’s an event in athletics that holds a country in a far-more-captivated grasp: the Hakone Ekiden.
The events include the new World Athletics Road Running Championships.
Lockdowns and travel restrictions have kept them apart for 15 months.
While the staggering marathon feats of Eliud Kipchoge and to a lesser extent Kenenisa Bekele have quite righty earned the bulk of media attention in recent years, it would be a little churlish not to also acknowledge the feats of Ethiopian marathon ace Birhanu Legese.
Normally at this time of year we’d be looking back at race highlights from the mountain running circuit, remembering the World and European Championships and World Cup winners. However, there was little normal about 2020.
When Nicholas Kimeli looks back on 2020, he is under no illusion how fortunate he has been to have such a successful season during the most unexpected of years.