KINGSTON, Jamaica (Sporting Alert) — Defending champions Jamaica College and Holmwood Technical will start the defense of their titles when the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships starts this week. The well-hyped championships, which is regarded as the perhaps the biggest of high school track and field championships in the world, will run from March 28 to 31. Jamaica College... 

Executive Director Norbert Sander has made several announcements for 2013 off the heels ofan extremely successful Millrose Games’ debut at the Armory. The biggest news is Ray Flynn, an Olympian and world-class miler before becoming president of Flynn Sports Management, will return as Meet Director. Flynn and the Armory have agreed on a three-year commitment. “We are more than... 

The course record will be the goal in the men’s race of the Vienna City Marathon on 15th April. Organisers of Austria’s biggest sporting event, who had recently signed superstars Haile Gebrselassie and Paula Radcliffe for a unique chase race in the half marathon, have now announced a first set of names for their main event, the Vienna City Marathon. Both the defending champions, John... 

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will open his campaign at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet on May 5. Bolt was supposed to kick-start his Olympic campaign in Jamaica last month, but he was forced to delay on his first because of what his management said was for business reason. “It is always a great privilege to run in front of my home fans,”... 

The UK Athletics has denied that sprinter Dwain Chambers has been working with the 4x100m relay squad. Reports claimed that reigning World Indoor 60m bronze medallist, who is currently banned from competing for Great Britain at the London Olympic Games this summer, has been training with the sprint relay squad. However, the nation’s governing body dismissed the reports on BBC. UK... 

Haile Gebrselassie will return to the Vienna City Marathon on 15th April. As last year the great Ethiopian will run the half marathon, which is staged parallel to the main event. Similar to 2011 a chase race is arranged, but this time the opponent is a woman: Haile Gebrselassie will compete against Paula Radcliffe in the OMV Champions Race! The British world marathon record holder had been... 

All-Athletics.com announces the Top 10 male and female performances respectively at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. The lists were set up by using the rules of the All-Athletics.com World Rankings. The next updated All-Athletics.com World Rankings will be published on Wednesday, 14 March. Istanbul 2012 – Top 10 Name Event Pos. Result Performance Score Men Ashton... 

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Veronica Campbell-Brown won defended her 60 metres title at the World Indoor Championships on Sunday. The Jamaican two-time Olympic 200m champion recovered from a poor start to chase down the front runners and win in a world-leading time of 7.01 seconds – just off her personal best of 7.00. Murielle Ahoure (CIV) set a national record of 7.04 on her way to taking... 

ISTANBUL — Results from day two at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday. Amongst the winners on day two were American Justin Gatlin, who won the men’s 60m dash in 6.46 seconds, Nery Brenes of Costa Rica, who produced a world-leading 45.11 to take the men’s 400m, Sanya Richards-Ross from the United States, who won the women’s 400m dash... 

ISTANBUL, Turkey (Sporting Alert) — American Justin Gatlin won the men’s 60m dash at the IAAF World Indoor Championships on Saturday. Also on the day, Ashton Eaton of USA set a world record of 6645 points to win gold in the men’s Heptathlon. “It feels good. Coming into the competition, I knew I could break the world record,” said Eaton. “The competition...