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Mary Keitany, Paul Kosgei and Gilbert Kirwa chase world records at the BIG 25 Berlin on Sunday
Three Kenyan top stars will run the 30th edition of the BIG 25 Berlin this Sunday: Mary Keitany, Paul Kosgei and Gilbert Kirwa are ready for fast times. The jubilee edition of Germany’s oldest big city road race is very likely to see two world record attempts. The BIG 25 Berlin boost the strongest international field of any road race in Germany this spring. Organiser BERLIN RUNS expects a total field...
Women’s 100m and strong fields in the throws to take the spotlight in Osaka
Two reigning World champions and a pair of reigning Olympic champions will headline the Osaka Grand Prix on Saturday, the second IAAF World Challenge meeting of 2010.
Leading the field in the women’s 100m will be Jamaica’s two-time Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown. Earlier this year, Campbell-Brown won the World indoor title in the 60m in Doha, and outdoors has run 22.32 in the 200m.
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Bolt and four others line-up for Lausanne
World Athlete of the Year Usain Bolt, and another four IAAF Diamond League Ambassadors have been announced by the organisers of Athletissima for the meeting which will take place in Lausanne’s Pontaise stadium on 8 July.
Joining him will be his fellow national representative, Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica, the Olympic and World 100m champion, will face World silver medallist Kerron Stewart in the...
Complete Results From Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar
Complete Results From Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar, on April 24.
Among the highlights at the meeting were Poland’s World Hammer Throw champion Anita Wlodarczyk who easily won that event with a massive 75.13m effort to see off the challenges.
Also on show were Jamaica’s Sheri-Ann Brooks who won the women’s sprint double while her fellow countryman Lerone Clarke took the men’s...
Boston Marathon affects latest World Rankings
World Rankings
The latest All-Athletics.com World Rankings have been released. This week the biggest effect came from the Boston Marathon.
Men’s winner Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya moved from 28th to the 6th position, while Ethiopian Tekesde Kebede, who was second in Boston, went from 24th to 13th place.
Winner of the women’s race, Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia, improved from 17th to the...
Bolt, Powell And Gay will clash over 100m in Brussels
This clash is no mythical fantasy, this clash is no April Fool’s Day joke! The three fastest names in sprinting Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell will line up in the Men’s 100m at the Brussels IAAF Diamond League on 27 August 2010.
Usain Bolt (R) Tyson Gay (C) and Asafa Powell in the 100m in Berlin
Today Bolt has confirmed that he will be present at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme for what...
Usain Bolt To Attack 300m World Record In Ostrava
Usain Bolt (r) of Jamaica on his way to victory in the men’s 200m during day two of the IAAF World Athletics Final at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium
Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt will make a rare appearance in a 300-meter race at the Czech Golden Spike meet in May.
Organizers announced on Wednesday that Bolt, the Olympic and World sprint champion over the 100 and 200 metersand world...
Justin Gatlin will not be allowed to make early comeback
[picappgallerysingle id="6612343"]Controversial American sprinter Justin Gatlin will not be allowed to make an early return to competitive competition, the International Association of Athletics Federations said on Monday.
Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic 100metres champion was given an eight-year ban, reduced to four on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, after he tested positive for elevated...
Christian Cantwell becomes first ever 3-time World Indoor SP champion
By Steve Campbell, IAAF, World-TrackChristian Cantwell of the United States
Christian Cantwell became the first ever three-time World Indoor champion, after heaving a spectacular sixth round 21.83m effort in Doha on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the women’s 60m hurdles gold medal saw American Lolo Jones defending her world indoor title in stunning style 7.72secs, a new championships record. The performance...
World Indoor 60 favourite Ivory Williams tests positive for marijuana
American world indoor 60m favourite Ivory Williams has withdrawn from this weekend’s IAAF championships because of a positive test for marijuana, his manager said on Wednesday.
“He had a marijuana positive,” Ray Flynn said in a telephone call from the United States.
“To the best of my knowledge it was at the US championships,” Flynn added.
With the positive, Williams was...
