Article archive for category "Athletics"
Monday 05 September 2011
- REVIEW: Lightning Bolt strikes late to light surprise-filled worlds
Sunday 04 September 2011
- Bolt delivers at last for 200 gold; Paerson, Kiprop shine
- Kirui wins more gold for Kenya in marathon repeat
Friday 02 September 2011
- Bolt untroubled, Pistorius medals, Phillips gets fourth gold
- PREVIEW: Usain Bolt wants gold at last as worlds reach final weekend
- Bolt back to business as usual after false-start debacle
Tuesday 30 August 2011
- Mitchell Watt's return to athletics is a blessing for Australia
Monday 29 August 2011
- Bolt DQ shock opens door for Blake; Jeilan pips Farah
- BACKGROUND: Bolt first big victim of strict false start rule
- Council likely to discuss false start rule, unlikely to change it
Sunday 28 August 2011
- Jeter: women's 100m dash is bigger than men's at worlds
- Bolt coasts into 100m final at worlds
Saturday 27 August 2011
- Hooker out of worlds after no-heighting
- PREVIEW: Bolt goes to work on legend status, Bekele eyes fifth title
- Kiplagat wins marathon gold in historic Kenyan sweep
- IAAF blood tests 1,400 athletes at worlds
Thursday 25 August 2011
- PREVIEW: Bolt seeks a third treble, Pistorius happy to be at worlds
- Athletics world championships all but sold out
- Allyson Felix gets all the help in 200/400m double bid at worlds
Tuesday 23 August 2011
- Daegu worlds are the latest signal of South Korean sporting ambitions
- Injuries and suspensions could give Bolt free 100m ride at worlds
- Lamine Diack seeks final term as IAAF boss
Monday 22 August 2011
- Athletics worlds have come a long way since 1983 debut
Friday 12 August 2011
- All athletes at worlds to be blood tested
Wednesday 03 August 2011
- Wariner withdraws from athletics worlds
Saturday 02 July 2011
- INTERVIEW: Carl Lewis turns 50: 'It's kind of starting over again'
Monday 16 May 2011
- Olympic marathon champion Wanjiru dies
Monday 18 April 2011
- Mutai breaks record, wins Boston marathon
Saturday 16 April 2011
- Wirtz re-elected as European athletics boss
Friday 28 January 2011
- Bolt and Rudisha to run at Golden Gala meet in Rome
Tuesday 11 January 2011
- Usain Bolt to run 200m at Oslo meet in June
Friday 03 September 2010
- Slovak shot putter Haborak banned for life over doping
Sunday 22 August 2010
- Kenyan Rudisha sets 800m world record, win for Semenya
Wednesday 11 August 2010
- Pettigrew death leaves athletics stunned and saddened
Sunday 01 August 2010
- In Pictures: 'European Athletics Championships 2010'
Tuesday 06 July 2010
- Semenya 'thrilled' after being cleared by sex tests
Sunday 28 March 2010
- Kenya sweep all eight golds at cross-country worlds
Sunday 28 February 2010
- Marathon in disarray as lead car goes wrong way
Thursday 31 December 2009
- 2009 YEARENDER: Usain Bolt is closer to sports pantheon; Semenya's tragedy
- 2009 YEARENDER: Bolt and Phelps deliver again but sport also sees scandals
Tuesday 10 November 2009
- Women's athletics award shortlist with Richards, Isinbayeva, Vlasic
Friday 04 September 2009
- Richards, Bekele and Isinbayeva share one million dollars
Saturday 29 August 2009
- Bolt wins again; three on course for Golden League pot
Monday 24 August 2009
- REVIEW: Usain Bolt towers over everyone at great athletics worlds
Sunday 23 August 2009
- Xue Bai gets first marathon world title for China
- Bolt completes treble; but Wlodarczyk gets world record
- Dwight Phillips back on top in special long jump
Saturday 22 August 2009
- US disqualified from men's relay
Friday 21 August 2009
- Kirdyapkin gets second 50km walk world title
- Fans, tourists cheer Bolt's second world record in downtown Berlin
- Bolt makes history for himself - and sponsor Puma
- PREVIEW: Usain Bolt looks to compete another big event treble
Thursday 20 August 2009
- Qualified Hooker doubtful; Radcliffe out of marathon
- Johnson: Bolt can take 400 record, but only with hard work
- Jamaican delight; Harting's show; Semenya controversy
- Bolt coasts into 200m final
Wednesday 19 August 2009
- PREVIEW: Usain Bolt and high jump showdown to stand out Thursday
- Merritt, Wariner into 400m final; Semenya controversy
Tuesday 18 August 2009
- Richards beats her demons to get 400m world title
- Kemboi wins steeplechase worlds gold at last
- Gold at last for Richards; Bolt strolls into 200m semis
Monday 17 August 2009
- Fraser wins from Stewart as Jamaica rules women's sprint
- Isinbayeva meets disaster; Fraser and Bekele shine
- Tyson Gay pulls out of 200m
- Kozmus gets historic worlds gold for Slovenia; fast Jamaican women
- Bolt smashes world record for 100m gold at worlds
- Ennis in super comeback for heptahlon glory
Sunday 16 August 2009
- Appeals: Jepkosgei advances; Taylor out for good
- Kaniskina wins walk; Jamaicans, Americans advance in 100m
Saturday 15 August 2009
- Favourite Borchin gets first gold at Berlin worlds, in 20km walk
Friday 14 August 2009
- PREVIEW: Bolt and Gay start their 100m duel as worlds get underway
Wednesday 12 August 2009
- IAAF introduces no-false-start rule from 2010 onwards
- Powell, five other Jamaicans to be withdrawn from worlds
- Berlin ready to embrace the athletics worlds
- Powell and five other Jamaicans to be withdrawn from worlds
Tuesday 11 August 2009
- IAAF announces more than 1,000 doping tests at Berlin worlds
Sunday 09 August 2009
- Diack: Usain Bolt has the class to become an icon like Jesse Owens
Wednesday 01 July 2009
- Gay and Powell to race against each other in Rome
Sunday 28 June 2009
- Bolt secures world championship place with victory over Powell
Wednesday 10 June 2009
- Bolt wins Laureus sports award
Wednesday 20 May 2009
- Usain Bolt is a key asset as IAAF seeks bright future
Monday 20 April 2009
- Ethiopian Merga, Kenyan Kosgei win Boston Marathon
Saturday 21 March 2009
- IAAF unlikely to address Chambers issue at Berlin meeting
Thursday 19 March 2009
- Bolt to compete in Golden League meeting in Paris
Tuesday 17 March 2009
- Italian marathon runner Di Cecco gets 2-year doping ban
Saturday 20 December 2008
- YEARENDER: Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt stand out on Planet Olympia
- YEARENDER: China's first Olympics leaves pride, regrets
Monday 15 December 2008
- Bolt sets his sights on 400m world record - in 2010
Tuesday 04 November 2008
- In photos: 'Press Day with 2008 ING NYC Marathon Winners'
Sunday 02 November 2008
- In photos: 'USA New York Marathon'
- Radcliffe triumphs for third time at New York marathon
Saturday 06 September 2008
- Track star Marion Jones released from prison
Thursday 28 August 2008
- World record bait for Bolt as Olympic stars gather in Zurich
Friday 04 July 2008
- Merritt takes 400 metre-title from Olympic champion Wariner
Monday 30 June 2008
- Wind-aided Tyson Gay sprints 100m in 9.68 seconds
Friday 27 June 2008
- Court ends Gatlin's Olympic dream
Friday 06 June 2008
- Gatlin misses Olympics as CAS upholds four-year ban
Wednesday 04 June 2008
- Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo, Rio get initial 2016 Olympics nod
Monday 02 June 2008
- Beijing organizers apologize for offending disabled athletes
Sunday 01 June 2008
- Jelimo makes headlines again over 800m
- Bolt betters 100m world record - eyes Olympics
Friday 30 May 2008
- Disgraced coach Graham convicted of lying in doping probe
Monday 21 April 2008
- Kenya's Cheruiyot, Ethiopia's Tune, win Boston marathon
Friday 11 April 2008
- Olympics a means for national healing for Kenyan runners
Thursday 10 April 2008
- IOC strips Jones' relay team-mates of Olympic medals
Sunday 06 April 2008
- Paris marathon wins for Ethiopian Kebede, Kenyan Komu
Friday 11 January 2008
- Marion Jones gets six-month prison sentence
Wednesday 12 December 2007
- Marion Jones stripped of Sydney Olympic medals
Sunday 04 November 2007
- Britain, Kenya rule NY marathon, but Wami gets jackpot
- Former champion dies during Olympic qualifying race
Sunday 14 October 2007
- Lornah Kiplagat sets new half marathon world record
Friday 05 October 2007
- Marion Jones faces loss of gold medals over alleged doping confession
Saturday 22 September 2007
- Powell shines at World Athletics Final
Friday 21 September 2007
- All doping tests at worlds negative
Friday 14 September 2007
- Meseret Defar runs two-mile world record, Richards stays ontrack
Sunday 09 September 2007
- Powell breaks 100 metre record
Sunday 02 September 2007
- Lagat emulates El Guerrouj, Nurmi - Vlasic delight
- Duels, not records, and stars delight worlds
- Ndereba gets a second gold as Kenya dominates marathons
Saturday 01 September 2007
- Tyson Gay in sprint pantheon with worlds treble
- Sebrle finally has a good javelin memory in world title
- Chinese celebrate first men's win at world athletics championship
- Deakes gives Australia a race walk gold at last
- Japanese walker is the final victim of walks official errors
Friday 31 August 2007
- Tyson Gay hailed as great champion by IAAF chief
- Felix upstages Wariner and Liu with awesome win
- Kaniskina cruises to 20km world title, Ivanova quits
- Holder Ivanova quits walk early at worlds
Thursday 30 August 2007
- Rawlinson gets second hurdles title for Australia
- Gay gets double, Saladine wins long jump thriller
- Friday night athletics gala with Wariner, Liu, Campbell
- Christine Ohuruogu can't run away from her past
Wednesday 29 August 2007
- Lagat ends American 1,500m wait - British 400m delight
- Hosts Japan struggle at worlds
Tuesday 28 August 2007
- Kenya's Jepkosgei upstages Isinbayeva at worlds
- Wariner strolls, Gay has to run in first round
- Nagging illness puts Dibaba in doubt for 5,000m
Monday 27 August 2007
- Tsikhon gets a late hat-trick - Volkova dominates
- Campbell gets revenge for Jamaica in photo-finish drama
Sunday 26 August 2007
- Tyson Gay delivers after Mom's confidence-booster
- Sprint king Gay, heptathlon queen Kluft get Royal blessing
- Greek athletes mourn forest fire victims
- Perez gets 20km walk world title hat-trick for Ecuador
- Austrian steeplechaser in hospital after bad fall
Saturday 25 August 2007
- Dibaba wins 10,000m for fourth world title
- Powell, Gay have contrasting fortunes - Kenyan marathon joy
- Luke Kibet gets a rare marathon gold for Kenya at worlds
- The heat is on at athletics worlds - quite literally
Thursday 23 August 2007
- IAAF stands tough, calls for four-year doping bans
Monday 20 August 2007
- Powell-Gay sprint showdown to stand out at Osaka worlds
- Osaka welcomes worlds with food, humour, sports passion
- Tyson Gay is the latest US sprint hope
- The day Mike Powell soared past Carl Lewis and Bob Beamon
- Second best no longer good enough for soaring Vlasic
Monday 06 August 2007
- Result of Lysenko's B-sample expected on August 14
Thursday 26 July 2007
- IAAF and Pistorius to settle case with biomechanical analysis
Saturday 14 July 2007
- Long jumper Sdiri escapes javelin accident with small wound
- Frenchman Sdiri rushed to hospital after hit by javelin
Friday 15 June 2007
- Ethiopia's Meseret Defar beats own 5,000m world record
Friday 20 April 2007
- Tergat and Gebrselassie face off in star-studded London marathon
Monday 16 April 2007
- Cheruiyot wins second straight Boston Marathon
Sunday 15 April 2007
- Mubarak Hassan Shami and Tafa Magarsa get Paris marathon wins
Saturday 14 April 2007
- European athletics championships due to take place every two years
Tuesday 10 April 2007
- Boston Marathon - Cheruiyot, Jeptoo return to defend titles
Monday 08 January 2007
- Carolina Kluft voted European Athlete of the Year in EAA poll
Monday 01 January 2007
- Eliud Kipchoge sets new 10 km world record
Friday 22 December 2006
- The 100 metres in 9.29 seconds? In theory, it's possible
Thursday 14 December 2006
- Disgraced Olympic sprinter Kenteris eyes Beijing Games comeback
Tuesday 12 December 2006
- China dominates final athletics day, Qatar get 5,000m gold (Roundup)
- Wins for favourites Liu and Jamal as Qatar get 5,000m gold
Sunday 10 December 2006
- Defeat for world champion Ramzi in 1,500m
- Qatar's Shami takes marathon, Yaseen gets silver in photofinish
Saturday 09 December 2006
- Bahrain, China and Saudi Arabia each take two athletic golds (Updated)
- Zhou wins marathon for China, Jamal takes gold for Bahrain
Friday 08 December 2006
- Fukushi obliterates field in women's 10,000 metres
Sunday 03 December 2006
- Gebrselassie wins marathon in Fukuoka
- Five bidders for 2011 and 2013 athletics worlds
Saturday 02 December 2006
- Deakes improves 50km walk world record
Thursday 30 November 2006
- Sweden to bid for World Championships in Athletics
Saturday 25 November 2006
- Mumbai gears up for 'Greatest Race on Earth'
Sunday 12 November 2006
- IAAF wants talks with Stuttgart over World Athletics Final deficit
Friday 10 November 2006
- Big deficit endangers World Athletics Final in Stuttgart
Monday 06 November 2006
- Brazilian surprise at NY marathon; Armstrong finishes under 3 hours (Roundup)
Sunday 05 November 2006
- Hail Brazil: Gomes captures NYC Marathon
Saturday 04 November 2006
- Lance Armstrong aims high in New York marathon
Friday 03 November 2006
- Track and Field coach Graham indicted
Wednesday 01 November 2006
- Largest marathon prize purse draws crowd to NYC
Sunday 22 October 2006
- Cheruiyot wins Chicago Marathon; injured after fall
Sunday 08 October 2006
- Kiplagat sets road race world record over 20 kilometres
Sunday 24 September 2006
- Haile Gebrselassie takes Berlin Marathon
- Ghanaian sprinter Zakari given two-year doping ban
Friday 22 September 2006
- Disgraced Olympic sprinter training for comeback: reports
Monday 18 September 2006
- Delhi to host international athletics meet
Friday 15 September 2006
- British runner Ohuruogu banned one year for missing drug tests
Thursday 07 September 2006
- Jones 'ecstatic' after negative doping test
- Report: Marion Jones' 'B' sample negative
Sunday 03 September 2006
- Wins for Spotakova, Simpson at start of Berlin ISTAF
- Mathias, former Olympic decathlon champ dies
Friday 01 September 2006
- Preview: Six athletes seek jackpot share
Tuesday 29 August 2006
- European athletics association to publish doping results Friday
Friday 25 August 2006
- Report: Another US sprinter trained by Graham tests positive
Wednesday 23 August 2006
- Gatlin admits doping - gets eight-year ban, loses world record
Tuesday 22 August 2006
- Justin Gatlin receives eight-year suspension
Monday 21 August 2006
- IAAF concerned by Gatlin, Jones doping cases, more than 2,000 tests
Saturday 19 August 2006
- Report: Marion Jones fails drug test
- Powell equals world record again in end of Letzigrund era
- Powell matches 100-meter record, again
Friday 18 August 2006
- Marion Jones leaves Zurich for home ahead of race
Sunday 13 August 2006
- Stefano Baldini is a championship marathon runner
- Averbukh in pole repeat - Russia with four titles on day
Saturday 12 August 2006
- Olsson strikes gold in emotional Ullevi return
- Alesia Turava emulates her sister as Belarus rule
Friday 11 August 2006
- Swedish night turns Belgium with golds from Gevaert,Hellebaud
- Yordanova teases Russians in 1,500m, favourites through in hurdles
- Russia meets its Euro target before the halfway mark
Thursday 10 August 2006
- Obikwelu is Europe's sprint king with a rare double
- Stambolova gives Bulgaria first 400m Euro title; Diniz wins walk
- Diniz walks through thunderstorm to 50km Euro-title
- Coach Graham under investigation by IAAF
Wednesday 09 August 2006
- Gevaert is sprint queen; three titles for Russia (Roundup)
- Baala retains 1,500m Euro title, Lebedeva leaves it late
- Turava gets 20km walk title by leading all the way
- Graham passes polygraph test - but USOC keeps up site ban
- Preview: Obikwelu seeks sprint double - Russia 400m, 800m titles
Tuesday 08 August 2006
- Obikwelu is sprint king, Kluft heptathlon queen
- Merlene Ottey is back at 46 - beats 15-year-old Diane Borg
- Veteran Ottey into 100m semis with Gevaert - Kluft leads
- Preview: Veteran Zelezny eyes Euro-title at last
Monday 07 August 2006
- Abitova and Bartels win first Euro-golds
- Andrew Howe to rock Gothenburg and break some hearts
Sunday 06 August 2006
- Preview: Kluft and Obikwelu start quest for Euro-titles
Friday 04 August 2006
- Kluft and Co. set for big title bash at home Euro
- Preview: Chambers seeks drug-free sprint glory, Sweden five golds
Monday 31 July 2006
- Gatlin a sabotage-victim, says his controversial coach
