Written by Ben Traynor, for Runner’s Tribe The Megablast sits at the sharp end of ASICS’ Blast lineage—the Novablast that lit the fuse, the Superblast that pushed stack height and versatility, and now this: a max-stack, non-plated trainer wrapped around a new slab of FlyteFoam Turbo². ASICS’s ATPU blend is...
And on the last day it rained. Almost from the moment the program for the final day of the world championships got under way the rain started to tumble down. Like all rain, it felleth on the just and the unjust alike. It might be a question, however, as to...
A column by Len Johnson Mackenzie Little took Australia’s third bronze medal of the championships in the women’s javelin, Beatrice Chebet out-ran Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay and others in a 5000 metres that Sebastian Coe would hope will become a template for the Ultimate Championships but it was Emmanuel Wanyonyi...
Ah, the glorious uncertainties of sport. One night Jess Hull is down and out, victim of a fall in her heat of the 800 metres. Twenty-four hours later, reinstated on appeal, she broke the Oceania record and will now run the final. She’s something special (sorry Bruce, but I’m borrowing...
Sometimes it seemed there was a better field watching the men’s world championships 1500 metres final than there was running it. Jakob Ingebrigtsen couldn’t run himself into fitness – not 1500 fitness, anyway; he may still win his third straight 5000 gold – in time. Out he went in the...
In her last race before the world championships Jess Hull fell apart in the final metres to allow Nelly Chepchirchir to slip past to take the Diamond League final by three hundredths of a second. Come the final of the world championships, if Hull stole a glance at the big...
Western Australia’s Kurtis Marschall soared to new heights Tuesday night in Tokyo, delivering Australia its first medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships with a dramatic bronze in the men’s pole vault—a repeat of his podium feat from 2023 and a testament to his enduring class amid the event’s...
When I went to school, oblique lines went off at angles. Sunday night at the Japan National Stadium, Oblique Seville proved the fastest man up the straight on his way to a shock victory in the men’s 100 metres. It was supposed to be a rematch of the epic Paris...
Day one of the Tokyo 2025 world championships was amazing in its own right; from Evan Dunfee and Maria Perez in the 35km road walk early on a hot and steamy morning, to Beatrice Chebet and Ryan Crouser on a still hot and still oppressive opening night it dripped...
A record 88 athletes will represent Australia at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo this month, marking the nation’s biggest team ever assembled for a global championships.
