The British 800m record holder and Tokyo Olympics silver medalists, Keely Hodgkinson with her new found confident tried her speed over the shorter 400m in a low key Nottingham meet on Saturday (28). The teenage British sensation, Keely did not disappoint as she raced to impressive new best of 52.61s. In the 3000m, Dani Chattenton […]
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Muir had the option of contesting both the 800m and 1500m events in Tokyo but made the “very hard decision” to drop the shorter distance; opened up on why she decided to stay with 1500m in an interview with the BBC. “Two events was the original plan, but what I really want is a medal […]
The British Olympics 800m hopeful Oliver Dustin was earlier thought to have gone ‘Sha’carri’s way when a traces of a cocaine metabolite were found in his sample following an in-competition test in France. But in a cheering news few minutes ago, the British athletics has decided to exonerate the young British middle-distance runner and subsequently […]
The European 800m bronze medalist, Irish Mark English booked his Tokyo Olympics spot yesterday in a scintillating fashion by breaking the national record. The 28 years old middle distance now hold both indoor and outdoor record. At the Meeting in Castello near Barcelona on Tuesday. English clocked 1:44.71, well inside the 1:45.20 automatic qualifying time for […]
The PhD physics student at Cambridge University, Irish Louise Shanahan did herself proud in Czech on Monday (7). In the 800m, Louise kicked beautiful on the home straight to finished third in 2:01.99. Mercurial Georgie Hartigan followed suit to pick fourth in 2:02:13. Elsewhere in Finland, Nadia Power powered home on 800m in fifth with […]
At the Ostrava Golden Spike earlier today, Irish Champion Nadia Power led in the top performance recorded by the Irish athletes on parade on the night. On the night the Uganda mutiple world record holder, Joshua Cheptegei failed to break Daniel Koeman 3000m record, Irish Sean Tobin was impressive with fourth place 7:49.37 run. Nadia […]
The 18-year-old British young sensation, Max Burgin was in devastating form earlier today at Ostrava Golden Spike. The young British runner notched a new personal best by destroying a stark field from start to finish; in the process broken European U-20 record in 800m. He stopped the clock at 1:44.14 , a time which is […]
Double Olympics 800m Champion, Caster Semenya who tried her legs on 2000m two weeks ago, on Thursday (6) at Potchefstroom South Africa Meet tried 3000m this time around. She won in 9:04.20. In the 400m hurdle for women, South Africa Champion Wenda Nel was outright impressive as she won her race in 55.16s while the […]
Following incredible performance across the field on Sunday (9) USATF Golden Games, World Athletics Silver Medalist, Rai Benjamin was really smoken as he took everybody to a cleaner to run a world leading 47.13s to win. The British Island Kyron M McMaster broke national record in 47.50s to take second while Brazilian new national record […]
The world University Games Champion, Mexican Jesús Tonatui Lopez has finally climbed to be the man to beat in 800m. The Mexican 800m record holder has broken his national record again by a spectacular 1:44.40s finishing performance on Saturday (1) at Trial of Miles Kansas City. Now the world leader in the event with that […]
At the Canyon Invitational in Pheonix, Arizona on Saturday (24) night, it was the 400m that had world class athlete on parade. But when the curtain was brought down on 400m men, the best result of the meet was from 400m. The 2012 Olympics Champion in 400m, Granadian Kirani James locked horn with 2012 Olympics […]