Russian Yelena Isinbayeva after breaking her own world record in the women Pole Vault final at the 10th IAAF World Athletics Championships on August 12, 2005 in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Mark Lee/Allsports) Four of the superstars of the sport of track & field Athletics, Kenenisa Bekele, Yelena Isinbayeva, Tyson Gay, and Sanya Richards, will compete in the 36th annual Prefontaine Classic on Saturday,... 

American 400m hurdler Bershawn Jackson in actio at Pre-Classic PHOTOS/ Randy Miyazaki 2005 World Outdoor men’s 400m hurdles champion Bershawn “Batman” Jackson will face a tough challenge from Trinidad & Tobago’s 2009 World Outdoor Championships 400m bronze medalist Renny Quow in the men’s 600 yards on January 29 at the 103rd Millrose Games in New York City. The Millrose... 

By Samantha Bishop, World-Track After shaking off the bugs and getting her season up and running with a dominant victory in Belgium last week, Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo now targets a place on the Kenyan 800m team to Berlin. She races in that event at the Kenyan Championships to pick the team the IAAF World Athletics Championships. A setback in December had Jelimo running on rocky roads, following... 

By Miranda Morgan, World-Track EUGENE — Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt does not believe that Michael Johnson’s 400-metres world record is under threat this season. It was suggested that a fast race between himself and Jeremy Wariner could see the record lowering. Merritt, however, despite staying optimistic, thinks for someone to challenge the 43.18-seconds world mark of Johnson set in... 

By Miranda Dunn, World-Track EUGENE, Oregon — American indoor champion Mike Rogers says he will not get carried away by his recent form that saw him winning back-to-back races in the last two weekends. For the second successive weekends, Rogers outshined a strong line up to win the men’s 100-metres dash on American soil. At the Reebok Grand Prix in New York last Saturday, Rogers ran a wind-aided... 

By Gary Smith and Christine Taylor (Action Sports), World-Track Photos by  Track And Field Photo Magazine EUGENE, Oregon — Former world champion Bershawn Jackson recovered well from hitting a hurdle early in the race to finish on top of perhaps the strongest assembled 400m hurdles field this year at the Prefontaine Classic Grand Prix. Strong finish for Jackson Jackson finished with a late... 

By Gary Smith and Symone Goss, World-Track EUGENE — Paul Doyle, agent of former 100-metres record holder Asafa Powell, believes the Jamaican is not too far from being at full strength. Optimistic about come-back Powell has been slowed down by an ankle injury in last couple of months, but Doyle said the sprinter is recovering well. "He was able to train on it this week without any problem,... 

Moscow, Russia – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, the 2004 Olympic 800m champion and recent winner of the European indoor crown, successfully completed his core training for the summer season and is now ready to go at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene this weekend (Sun 7). Eugene, the next stop on the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Tour, is going to bejust one more event on his schedule designed to give him excellent... 

Talence DecaStar – IAAF Combined Events Challenge; September 19 – 20 Berlin Marathon, September 20 Philadelphia Distance Run, September 20 Shanghai Grand Prix; September 20 World Athletics Final, September 12 – 13 | Day 1 | Day 2 | Rieti Grand Prix; September 6 Brussels Golden League, September 4 Rovereto, September 1 Gateshead Grand Prix, August 31 Zagreb Grand Prix, August 31 Padua,...