by trackadmin | Jul 3, 2012 | NewsFeed
Jonnie Peacock (coach: Dan Pfaff) created a huge shock overnight (30 June) running 10.85 seconds (+0.7m/s) for the T43/44 100m at the US Paralympic Track & Field Trials, a World Record mark that eclipses the times set by South African `Blade Runner’ Oscar...
by trackadmin | May 28, 2012 | NewsFeed
Graeme Ballard (coach: Steve Thomas) smashed the men’s T36 100m World Record in today’s BT Paralympic World Cup (Tuesday 22 May) in 11.98 (+1.9m/s), becoming the first cerebral palsy athlete in history to duck under 12 seconds in that category. 32-year-old Ballard...
by trackadmin | May 28, 2012 | NewsFeed
Nolene Conrad shaved over 30 seconds off her 5000m best at the Koblenz Mini-Internationales meeting in Germany on 23 May, finishing fifth in the process. Conrad clocked 16:05.98 improving on her previous best of 16:39.12, which she ran in Stellenbosch on 30 April...
by trackadmin | May 8, 2012 | NewsFeed
2010 World Junior Champion Sophie Hitchon (Derek Evely) continued her great start to the season by breaking her British hammer record for a second time in a week, and in doing so achieving the Olympic A standard. Hitchon threw 71.61m twice in the ‘pre Olympic...
by trackadmin | May 8, 2012 | NewsFeed
INDIANAPOLIS – Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Brown-Trafton set an American record of 67.74m/222-3 on Friday at the Altius TC Throwdown in Maui, Hawaii. Brown-Trafton’s mark improved her own personal best from 2009 by more than five feet, and this was her...