Manchester will host its annual Great Manchester run this Sunday as part of a fantastic weekend of sport in the City.
With the Great City Games also being hosted on Saturday, Manchester is attracting some of the biggest stars in world athletics such as Olympic long jump Greg Rutherford, Alison Felix and Paralympic star Jonnie [...]
The BT Great CityGames returns for its fifth consecutive year at the centre of Deansgate tomorrow. 2013 sees the games hold one of its strongest fields yet in what is to be an explosive day of track and field action!
London 2012 triple gold medallist Allyson Felix tops the line up, running in the 150m [...]
Mo Farah will target his fifth straight victory at the 2013 Bupa London 10,000 road race on Bank Holiday Monday, 27 May, when he headlines an elite field containing some of Britain’s finest distance runners.
The double Olympic champion has been an ever-present at this 10km central London road event since it started in 2008. [...]
David Weir and Richard Whitehead are just two of the thousands of athletes who will be part of a new Mile event held in central London on Sunday 26 May.
Paralympic gold medallists Weir and Whitehead will both be competing alongside previous paralympians Noel Thatcher and Simon Butler.
The Bupa Westminster Mile, organised by the [...]
Jonnie Peacock is sat in one of Manchester’s grander hotels, looking fashionable in slim-fit denim and boy band scuff-stubble and chuckling drily at a prophecy made by the Guardian after his 100m T44 Paralympics gold medal. In the giddy delirium of that September night, when the first breath of autumn was warmed by 80,000 people [...]
Lisa Dobriskey has rarely enjoyed a period free of injuries but goes into this Sunday’s Westminster Mile off the back of a largely uninterrupted winter and an encouraging early start to her season five days ago.
The UK’s second-fastest female 1500m athlete of all-time tasted victory at the Loughborough International Athletics event and says she is [...]
TWEDDLE was in the city today to help launch the Athlete Career Enhancement Programme which will help athletes who are approaching the end of their career or suffering from injury.
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Former world 800m champion Caster Semenya has her funding withdrawn ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
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London Olympic semi-finalist Lee McConnell has announced she will not compete this year as she is expecting her first child with husband Craig Bonthron in early November.
“The pregnancy has come as a bit of a surprise but we are absolutely delighted with the news,” the 34-year-old 400 metre runner said. “I plan to continue [...]
“I will be fit but while running is one thing, I am not sure what it will be like climbing up a mountain at two in the morning in the snow,” said Chambers, who finally won his battle to compete at the Olympics last summer after helping overturn the British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban on [...]
As you enter the small town of Iten, up in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a sign over the road reads proudly: Home of Champions. This is no understatement.
If you get up at 6am on virtually any day, the dirt roads that criss-cross the countryside around Iten will be full of runners, passing each other like [...]
The iconic Bowerman Mile annually closes the Prefontaine Classic – the second US leg of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League – but this year’s finale on June 1 seems destined to send Eugene’s fans into orbit.
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David Weir refuses to sign a contract with UK Athletics after he accused the governing body of lacking “respect” towards his long-term coach, Jenny Archer.
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Commonwealth Games javelin star Lee Doran is helping to inspire teenager Natasha Wilson’s dream of reaching Glasgow 2014. Wilson underlined her potential by making her Great Britain debut at the Loughborough International on Sunday, where she finished fifth overall with her throw of 46.24m even though she was three years younger than most of her [...]
A Derbyshire teenager has become the fastest 14-year-old to run 200m in European history, according to British Athletics’ statisticians.
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Oscar Pistorius’ older brother cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the death of a woman in a road accident.
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The British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has been forced to pull out of the Hypo Meeting in Gotzis this weekend with an ankle injury.
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NEWS: Hammer coach has died aged 76
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“Come on guys: stretch, extend your toes!” shouts Rimas Kurtinaitis, 1988 Olympic basketball champion and current head coach of the Moscow-based Khimki team. As soon as Ivan Ukhov steps on to the basketball court, he’s straight to it, sitting down and stretching.
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Which British athletes are going to the NCAA in 2013?
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Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis is to open her 2013 season competing at Edinburgh Leisure’s Meadowbank Sports Centre, in the UK Women’s Athletic League Premier Division next month.
The appearance, which will mark Ennis’ first outdoor competition since her outstanding success at London 2012, will see her compete in three events for her club, Trafford [...]
British Athletics has today received a further commercial boost with the signing of Channel 4 as broadcaster for its elite para athletics fixtures, starting this summer with the two events within the Sainsbury’s Summer Series.
The deal guarantees high profile, terrestrial coverage of the first ever Sainsbury’s IPC Athletics Grand Prix Final in Birmingham on [...]
After returning from his doping wilderness for Olympic year, Chambers is preparing in the Alps for new challenges in 2013, he tells Matt Majendie.
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Eilish McColgan believes Commonwealth Games standards which are “fair” are driving Scotland’s track and field stars to Hampden.
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