Monaco – Usain Bolt (JAM) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) were today named the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year for 2013. [Read more…]
Athletes of the Year – Women finalists
With less than two weeks to go until the 2013 World Athletics Gala, the IAAF has the pleasure in announcing the names of the three female athletes who are still in contention to become the 2013 World Athlete of the Year. [Read more…]
Goteborg 2013 to become Eco Champs
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 completing 10 climate promises and becoming “Eco Champs”. The initiative, which has been designed in collaboration with the Swedish Society for Nature […]
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UK Team for Euro Indoors 2013
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 at the British Athletics European Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield earlier in February. The 21 year […]
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Olympic champions for Shanghai
Three more Olympic gold medallists and one world champion have been added to the star-studded roster for the 2013 Shanghai Diamond League meeting on 18 May. Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, British long jumper Greg Rutherford, and Ethiopian distance legend Meseret Defar have joined the entry lists for the second meeting in the IAAF’s 2013 Diamond League calendar, while world sprint hurdles champion Jason Richardson has been lined up to face Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt. [Read more…]
AC announces 2013 participation
OTTAWA – Athletics Canada is pleased to announce today the organizations, clubs and provincial branches who were chosen as recipients as part of the 2013 Branch Grant Program. The program was established in 2011 to encourage and support new and existing programs in the areas of grassroots athletics and first contact initiatives. Funded projects […]
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Willis runs World qualifier
Sydney Track Classic, Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre – 9 March 2013
Olympic Games 1500m silver medallist Nick Willis produced a qualifying time for the world athletic championships in Moscow in August with an impressive 1500m victory in 3m 34.68s in Sydney on Saturday evening. [Read more…]
The Beast, sprint power to Shanghai
Yohan Blake, “The Beast”, bringing sprint power to Shanghai
The second fastest man of all time in the 200m, Yohan Blake, will head to Asia for his start of the summer season. Blake confirmed his participation on the 200m at the Samsung Diamond League in Shanghai, May 18 2013. It will be the first time for “the beast” to come to the Chinese metropolis. The introduction of Blake to the fast track in the Shanghai stadium will be a great sprint spectacle. [Read more…]
Birmingham Indoor Thriller 2013
The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team enjoyed six victories as the British Athletics Grand Prix returned to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, in arguably the world’s finest indoor event this afternoon. [Read more…]