SOUTH AFRICA — Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk opened his 2021 season with a modest 20.64 seconds performance in challenging conditions to win the men’s 200 meters at the ACNW OPEN Invitational in Potchefstroom on Tuesday night.
MIAMI — Wayde van Niekerk has set his sight to breaking his own 400m world record and the Olympic champion has once again made a bold move to train with some of the top sprinters in the world.
Following months of speculation, the Jamaica Observer are now reporting that teenage track star Ramone “Batman” McKenzie – the 2007 World Youth Championships 200m gold medallist – has gone professional. McKenzie, who will celebrate his 19th birthday on November 15, started training with respected American coach Lance Brauman earlier this week. “Ramone has decided to…
Much about Anthony Carpenter – the man who for the foreseeable future will coach two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown – remains a mystery, almost two weeks since it was revealed he will be the new man in charge of guiding her progress when the 2010 track season begins. Even a photo of the coach is…
Recently I talked about the elite level of the sport and the effect that money has had as the sport has attempted to grow from an amateur sport into a professional one. The “growing pains” that have stressed the sport on the money front has seemingly spilled over to the coaching front. I say that…
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior and Youth 100m champion Dexter Lee has settled into his new home in Atlanta, Georgia and has started training in preparation for the 2010 season. The former Herbert Morrison High runner, who added the Class One 100m title to the Class Two and Three titles he had…
By Gary Smith, World-Track KINGSTON, Jamaica — Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Omar Brown has not ruled out defending his 200 metres title at the New Delhi Games in India next year. Brown, who won the title in close finish with Stephan Buckland of Mauritius and fellow countryman Chris Williams at the 2006 event in Melbourne,…
