Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw smashed the women’s half marathon world record at the Antrim Coast event in Northern Ireland. The Ethiopian was under world record pace all the way was immensely benefited from excellent work from her male pacemakers on the coastal course around Larne. Yehualaw, 22, clocked 63 minutes and 43 seconds which cut 19 […]
The Olympics Youth Games champion and World Championship silver medalist, Australia’s Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record in 100m backstroke just 10 months after the death of her father. The 19-year-old Queensland born set the world benchmark at Australia’s Olympic trials in Adelaide on Sunday night. She later confessed that the death of her […]
A former Jamaica 100 yards record holder and an Olympian who went on to equalled the 100 yards world record of 9.3sec four times in 1961, Dennis Johnson has died aged 81 after being admitted to hospital with Covid-19. Johnson, a former director of sports at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), was born in […]
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei broke the men’s 10000m World record with an astonishing 26:11.02 in Valencia on Wednesday, October 3. Cheptegei smashed legendary Kenenisa Bekele’s 10000m World record of 26:17.53 that has stood since 2005 by 6.5 seconds at the NN Running Valencia World Record Day. Letesenbet Gidey clocked a sensational 14:06.65 to break women’s 5000m record […]
Great excitement rent the air in Chinese Swimming Team as the National day championship produces a world record and several Asian and national record. Since the outbreak, the Chinese team has conducted three intra-team championship in March, May and July, with all producing impressive performance. But the National day’s event brought out outstanding results, […]
The Ugandan reigning 10000 World Champion, Joshua Cheptegei broke the men’s 5000m with a stunning 12:35.36 at the Herculis Monaco Diamond Leagu on Friday (14). Cheptegi, who was following right behind the pacers Roy Hoorwe (NED) and Matthew Ramsden (AUS), split 2:31.87 for the first kilometer. The following kilometer they covered almost identically 2:31.90. After […]
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