The European Indoor Championships get underway in Gothenburg, Sweden, tomorrow with a 28-strong team representing GB & NI. Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff, Scott Simpson) will go into the pole vault with a European leading mark of 4.77m set … [Read more...]
Radcliffe backs WMM anti-doping penalties
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
World record holder Paula Radcliffe has welcomed the decision of World Marathon Majors (WMM) to revise their athlete contracts to include stricter anti-doping penalties. The organisers of the Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New … [Read more...]
Goteborg 2013 to become Eco Champs
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Swedish athletics legend Carolina Kluft and the organisers of next week’s 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championship are challenging athletics fans in Sweden to help raise the event to world-class status for sustainability by … [Read more...]
UK World Cross Trials
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The UK’s best cross country runners will battle it out for a place on the GB & NI team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships as they line up at the World Cross Country Trials & Inter County Championships inc. McCain … [Read more...]
6 of the Best for Finland
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Six Scottish athletes have today been named in Team Great Britain for the European Championships in Finland later this month. The pool released by UK Athletics is a provisional one with those men and women who secure spots at London 2012 … [Read more...]
Cheats exposed from Helsinki 2005
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
No matter how slowly the wheels may turn when it comes to catching cheats, the mere fact that it is happening shows that even after a period of 8 years there can still be justice. The International Association of Athletics Federations … [Read more...]
Sugut returns to Vienna
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Vienna City Marathon is one or Europe’s most traditional big city races over the classic distance. When it will see its 30th edition on 14th April there will be an elite men’s field that will fit to the occasion. Defending champion and … [Read more...]
Andrea Lalli to Zurich 2014
February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It is a time of year when many athletes have their mind concentrated on the major indoor event of the winter, but Italian Andrea Lalli is a bit different. … [Read more...]
McConnell seeks solo spot
December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Lee McConnell has a relay place assured for the European Championships with Team Great Britain in Helsinki next week and looks a good bet for the team event at London 2012. But Scotland’s most high-profile athlete in recent years is … [Read more...]
Europeans truimph in Dallas
December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DALLAS – Vladimir Safranov of Russia and Nastassia Padalinskaya of Belarus won the 43rd MetroPCS Dallas Marathon, benefiting Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The event recorded 4,866 finishers in the marathon race, 9,872 in … [Read more...]
