Sebastian Coe was elected as the sixth IAAF President at the 50th IAAF Congress in Beijing, China on Wednesday (19). The voting was as follows (207 IAAF Member Federations cast their votes): Sebastian Coe (GBR) 115 votes, Sergey Bubka (UKR) 92 votes. New IAAF President Seb Coe “I am deeply honoured that our sport has […]
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Tallinn Marathon – More than 18,000 recreational athletes from a record number of 56 different countries took part last weekend in Estonia’s largest marathon. SEB Tallinn Marathon won by record time for the Baltic states and Nordic countries The winner of SEB Tallinn Marathon was Kiprotich Kirui from Kenya who achieved a world class time […]
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Russian steeplechaser Yulia Zaripova has been banned for two and a half years for doping offences, the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA said (www.rusada.ru) on Friday. Zaripova, 28, was suspended after her biological passport showed abnormalities and her results from June 20 to Aug. 20 2011 and July 3-Sept. 3 2012 have been annulled. Zaripova won […]
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Laura Muir sets new European 3,000m indoor record in Karlsruhe, Germany. Laura Muir eyes European Indoor Champs The Scot, 23, built on her current form by taking 1.45 seconds off Russian Liliya Shobukhova’s record, with a time of eight minutes 26.41 seconds, fifth on the world-best list. Muir is preparing for next month’s European Indoor Championships. […]
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Frankfurt Marathon – After running the fastest marathon by a Briton in three years with 2:09:49 for fifth place in Frankfurt; and on his debut at the distance, Dewi Griffiths laughs when asked if his running and lifestyle is a “throwback” to the 1980s, an era when British men and Europeans in general had considerably […]
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John Kyalo Kyui of Kenya won the Zurich Marathon with a top time of 2:09:59.6, ahead of Russia’s Aleksey V. Solokov and Abraham Tandoy. Daniel Kiptum (Kenya) came in fourth, beating his world record among deaf runners with a time of 2:11:31.1. The Ukrainian Svitlana Stanko took first place among the women, ahead of the […]
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Samorin – Late replacement, Tom Marshall, led Great Britain to an historic gold medal in the inaugural mixed relay at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. Marshall anchors team to inaugural mixed relay gold in Samorin After a memorable day of cross country racing, what a finale this race proved to be with excitement until […]
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Samorin – Harriet Knowles-Jones gave Great Britain a glorious start to the European Cross Country Championships, finally landing the individual gold medal that she has spent the winter aiming for. Harriet Knowles-Jones gets her Gold in Samorin   After winning silver in Hyeres in 2015 and bronze in Chia last year, Knowles-Jones – in her […]
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