An individual first place finish in the junior race for Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s Emelia Gorecka (coach: Mick Woods) highlighted a good all-round display from the British team as they finished second overall against victors Team … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
Meadows leads UK Indoor Team
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Reigning European 800m Indoor Champion Jenny Meadows (coach: Trevor Painter) has been announced as the captain for the GB & NI team for the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden on 1-3 March. Meadows, who made her … [Read more...]
Stellar field for NYC Half
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
NEW YORK – Olympic bronze medalist Wilson Kipsang of Kenya and three-time Olympian Kim Smith of New Zealand will headline the international fields for the NYC Half on Sunday, March 17; World Championships bronze medalist Bob Tahri of … [Read more...]
Dam tot Damloop awarded Silver Label
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Dam tot Damloop has been assigned the Silver Label for Road Races by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The organiser, Le Champion, meets the stringent requirements that the IAAF has attributed to the label. … [Read more...]
Team for World Cross Champs
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
After topping the medal table at the European Cross Country Championships in December, a 23-strong GB & NI team has been named for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday 24 March. Emelia Gorecka … [Read more...]
Tadesse and Stublic set new Zurich records
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
At the 11th edition of the Zurich Marathon, the course records were broken despite low temperatures and grey skies: Tadesse Abraham (Eritrea) set a time of 2:07.44 hours and Croatian Lisa Stublic destroyed the old course record with a time … [Read more...]
Stublic achieves Zurich breakthrough
April 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Lisa Stublic made a huge breakthrough when she won at the Zurich Marathon 2013 in a Croatian national record of 2:25:44 on Sunday, taking more than five minutes off her own previous record of 2:30:46. … [Read more...]
Kenyans take Berlin Half Title
April 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
Kenyans Jacob Kendagor and Helah Kiprop took the 33rd edition of the Vattenfall BERLIN HALF MARATHON. For the first time in his career Kendagor clocked a time of 59:36 minutes. It is the fifth fastest result in the world this year, … [Read more...]
Russians banned for doping
April 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
Former world and Olympic champions Svetlana Krivelyova and Olga Kuzenkova have been banned for two years each for failing drugs tests after their samples were re-examined, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said on Tuesday. … [Read more...]
UK Team for Euro Indoors 2013
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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...]
