Mo Farah demonstrated he has no plans to relinquish his world titles this summer with a blistering performance at the Prefontaine Classic; IAAF Diamond League series, in Eugene on Saturday, his last ever track race in the United States. Mo Farah strong in Eugene at Prefontaine Classic Farah, who will be chasing his third track […]
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IAAF comment on sanctions for Russian Race Walkers. In light of media inquiries into sanctions announced yesterday in the Russian media, the IAAF would like to clarify a number of points. All athletes were caught under the IAAF Athlete Biological Passport programme (ABP) although, as per IAAF Rules, the cases are sent to the Russian […]
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Estonia – Tallinn Marathon 2017 produces a new course record of 2:09:22. Kiprotich Kurui, of Kenya, became the first runner of the Tallinn Marathon to break the 2:10 barrier. Tallinn Marathon 2017 provides a Kenyan 123 From the start, the Kenyan trio of Kirui, Dickson Terer and Robert Magut set a brisk pace which would […]
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Moonlight Half Marathon, Venice – All previous records have been broken with 3,673 finishers on the Half Marathon and 1,752 finishers on the 10K Kenyans dominant in Moonlight Half Marathon 2017 The 7th Moonlight Half Marathon applauded the victory of two Kenyan athletes: Julius Kipngetich Rono who won with 1h04’08 and Pauline Eapan with 1h15’26. […]
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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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