2010 World Junior Champion Sophie Hitchon (Derek Evely) continued her great start to the season by breaking her British hammer record for a second time in a week, and in doing so achieving the Olympic A standard. Hitchon threw 71.61m twice in the ‘pre Olympic...
The British Olympic Association (BOA) announced today that Lee Merrien has been added to Team GB to compete in the men’s marathon at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Merrien was the first British man home in last weekend’s London Marathon in a new personal best time of...
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...
Anniversary: the 10th Zurich Marathon will be held in 2012 In 2012 the popular Zurich Marathon will be even more special for all those involved – because the coming marathon through the fastest Swiss city is also a unique one: The Zurich Marathon will be held...
European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz has called on the continent’s athletics leaders to embrace creativity and innovation in order to make the sport sustainable and self-reliant. President Wirz was addressing the leaders from 47 Member Federations at the...
