Miguel Francis, who clocked the world’s seventh fastest 200m of 2016, will run for Great Britain after switching allegiance from Antigua and Barbuda. The 22-year-old, born in Montserrat, is a training partner of Usain Bolt, with whom he shares a coach, Glenn Mills. Francis ran a personal best of 19.88 seconds in Jamaica in June … Read more
Jamaica may have another sprinting sensation on their hands, after a 12-year-old female athlete posted a record time at the 2017 Boys and Girls Championships over the weekend. Brianna Lyston left her competitors in her wake to win the 200m race in the Caribbean nation, clocking a time of 23.72 seconds – almost within two seconds … Read more
Kenya dominated the World Cross-Country Championships on Sunday, Geoffrey Kamworor defending his men’s title, Irene Cheptai leading a historic cleansweep in the women’s race and Asbel Kiprop helping to secure a third gold in the mixed relay. Kamworor had to rely on a late break to win the men’s race in 28min 24sec, making him … Read more
Kenya and their east African middle and long-distance running rivals, Ethiopia, will come face-to-face again at the 42nd World Cross Country Championships in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Sunday. The two countries who have dominated the global event more than any other nation, have strong teams at this year’s event which is held at the … Read more
The fastest man on earth, Usain Bolt, has hinted that he will not run as a political candidate following his retirement from track and field this summer. In an interview with a group of Malaysian and international journalists, Bolt was confident that there will not be another Usain Bolt-ever! The Olympic champion earlier gave a … Read more
The World Cross Country Championship takes place in Kampala Sunday in Uganda’s biggest ever sports showpiece, with the traditional rivalry between Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes set to dominate the event. More than 550 athletes from 59 countries and one refugee team from South Sudan will take part, making the event the biggest cross country meeting … Read more
China will ban marathon cheats for life to clamp down on scandals that have dogged the fast-growing sport, which saw nearly three million participants across the country last year. The Chinese Athletics Association (CAA) said in a statement late Monday that people who run under false names, or cheat in other ways such as replacing … Read more
Frankie Fredericks carried the Olympic torch on its journey to Rio 2016 Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks has stepped down from two key administrative roles after corruption claims. IAAF council member Fredericks has quit as head of the evaluation commission for the 2024 Games, having already left a taskforce helping Russia return to international … Read more
Former 100m and 200m champion Frankie Fredericks has decided to step aside from the five-member IAAF Taskforce coordinating the re-admittance process for suspended Russian athletes. Fredericks, Namibia’s only Olympic medalist in history, was recently implicated by a Le Monde report, which accused him of bribery to the tune of $245,000. “I have decided to step … Read more
Former Olympic 110m hurdles champion Aries Merritt signaled a return to form after a 2015 kidney transplant by winning the 60m hurdles crown on Sunday at the US Indoor Track and Field Championships. Merritt captured his first US Indoors title since 2012, the year he also won the world indoor and Olympic hurdles titles, in … Read more
Britain’s Andy Pozzi raced to gold in the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Athletics Championships on Friday. The 24-year-old was slow out of the blocks in Belgrade, but powered through the field and an extravagant dip on the line was enough to earn him a first major triumph. Just three hundreths of a second … Read more
Reigning world indoor champions Michelle Carter, Jenn Suhr and Vashti Cunningham are among 39 Olympians in the field for the US Indoor Track and Field Championships that start Friday. The three-day meet at Albuquerque, New Mexico, also boasts 2012 Olympic champion Aries Merritt and two members of the US women’s gold medal 4x400m relay from … Read more
Yohan Blake, the 2011 World 100m champion, says he can successfully replace Usain Bolt as Jamaica’s leading male sprinter. The Racers Track Club athlete anchored his team to a comfortable world-leading 38.59 seconds to win the men’s 4x100m relay at Saturday’s Puma Gibson McCook Relays, at the National Stadium in Kingston. Following the win, Blake … Read more
US track queen Allyson Felix said on Monday she has set her sights on the 2020 Olympics after winning a record sixth gold medal at last year’s Rio games. The 31-year-old 400m and 200m star revealed she plans to compete in at least one more Olympics after being honored as female athlete of the year … Read more
Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang stormed to victory in the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday in the fastest race ever run in Japan. The former world record holder clocked 2hr 3min 58sec over a flatter course than in previous years as he added the Tokyo title to victories in London, New York and Berlin. Sarah Chepchirchir won the … Read more
Ghana Athletics Federation (GAF) President, Prof. Francis Dodoo, says he is optimistic 800m runner Martha Bissah will run faster than her current time. The budding athlete earned the Most Outstanding Track Athlete honours at the MEAC Indoor Track & Field Championships last Saturday, winning two more gold medals in addition to two from earlier in … Read more
Ethiopia’s Bizuneh Melaku Belachew danced on the finish line as he smashed his personal best to win the Hong Kong Marathon Sunday in a new course record. The 27-year-old performed a jig to celebrate with the runner-up, Kenya’s Julius Kipyego Keter, who finished just three seconds behind, because “I’m so happy”. Belachew slashed almost a … Read more
Rio Olympic champions Shaunae Miller of Bahamas, Omar McLeod of Jamaica, Derek Drouin of Canada and Katerine Stefanidi of Greece won titles Saturday at the 110th Millrose Games indoor athletics meet. Miller, who dove across the line to edge American Allyson Felix for 400-meter gold last year in Rio, won the 300m in 35.71 seconds, … Read more
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt secured a classy win for his All-Stars team with two impressive runs on the final night of the inaugural Nitro Athletics, saying the new format was exactly what track and field needs. After restricting himself to a leg of the mixed 4x100m relay on each of the first two nights … Read more
Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia has set a new indoor record in the women’s 2,000m world record at the Miting International de Catalunya event in the Spanish city of Sabadell on Tuesday. She finished the race in a time of 5:23.75 which eclipsed the previous record by just about seven seconds. That record was set 19 … Read more