A record total number of 386,050 applicants from the UK and overseas registered for a ballot place in the 2018 Virgin Money London Marathon when the application system closed on Friday 5 May. This is the highest number of applicants for any marathon in the world.
327,516 of those applicants...
Competing athletes at the 2018 Blackmores Sydney Marathon will be in the box seat for selection to the Australian team bound for the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha, with Athletics Australia confirming Priority Status for the event.
Priority Status ensures the victorious athlete sits ahead of all other...
Once in a Century Olympic Champion Headlines Pre Classic's Bowerman Mile
(The 43rd Prefontaine Classic, a member of the IAAF Diamond League of elite international track & field meets, will be held May 26-27, 2017 at historic Hayward Field.)
Eugene, Oregon – For the first time since his historic win in...
Double Olympic champion David Rudisha is one of four Kenyan track stars set to take centre stage at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting this Saturday, 13 May, when many of the greatest distance runners in the world will be stretching their legs in pursuit of early season points.
Rudisha was...
An exciting team of 11 athletes has been selected for the Commonwealth Youth Games athletics in Nassau, Bahamas in July.
The team will feature a number of New Zealand's talented youngsters, including distance runners Hannah O'Connor and Katrina Robinson and throwers Connor Bell and Nick Palmer.
Hurdler / jumper Kayla Goodwin...
The Brooks International Beer Mile, May 13, 2017 - George Knott Reserve, Clifton Hill, Victoria.
On May 13, Melbourne will host the Brooks International Beer Mile. The event features former world record holders, Lewis Kent (Canada) and Josh Harris (Australia). The beer mile, classically a college and athletic club ‘underground sport’...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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PALO ALTO (01-May-2010) -- Galen Rupp came here tonight to the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational to beat Meb Keflezighi's American 10,000m record of 27:13.98. Keflezighi's mark had stood for nine years and Rupp, with the help of two Kenyan...
Video: Ryan Gregson's Season Best - Men's 1500m IAAF Diamond League Doha 2017
Results
1500M MEN
05 May 2017 19:14
Splits Download (PDF)
RankNameResult Q Pts.Q Rank
1 KEN MANANGOI, Elijah Motonei 3:31.90 WL 81
2 KEN KIPLAGAT, Silas 3:32.23 SB 72
3 KEN BIRGEN, Bethwell 3:32.27 SB 63
4 KEN KIBET, Vincent 3:32.66 SB 54
5 KEN CHERUIYOT,...
Replay: Nike's Breaking2 sub-two-hour marathon attempt
The BREAKING2 run will take place in Monza, Italy on Saturday morning when Eliud Kipchoge, Lelisa Desisa and Zersenay Tadese will all attempt to do what no runner has ever done before: run a complete marathon in under 2 hours. All three racers will...
Japanese runners-scored a double at the 53rd running of the Rotorua Marathon, taking out both the men's and women's races on Saturday morning.
Saeki Makino won the men's race in 2:21:58, the fastest winning time in the race since 2001, while compatriot Yuki Ogawa took out the women's race in...
