by trackadmin | Aug 8, 2004 | Athens 2004
The report has been reshuffled to place it from start to finish. This is the race as it happened. The marathon gets underway on a warm evening in Athens, with race favourite Paula Radcliffe, Great Britain, to the fore of the pack immediately. A hard and gruelling...
by trackadmin | Dec 28, 2003 | Women
As mentioned, the Women’s 800m record will have stood for 30 years in July 2012. This is under the name of the Czech powerhouse, Jarmila Kratochvílová, with 1:53.28 Maria Mutola who for a long time was seen as a suitable candidate to challenge this record; when...
by trackadmin | Dec 28, 2003 | 800m
2003 saw the World Championships in Paris as the ‘premiere’ event of the season. This event in itself produced a massive shock when the much unheralded Saïd-Guerni Djabir of Algeria, blasted past Yuriy Borzakovskiy, the highly fancied Russian, to take top...
by trackadmin | Dec 28, 2002 | 800m
The 800m event for 2002 saw a group of 5 Kenyan athletes make their presence felt on the International Race circuit, by winning the A and B events at a number of the European meetings through the season. There were a few athletes who improved on their Personal Bests...