Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Edmonton and Calgary may offer joint hosting bid for 2030 Commonwealth Games
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The 2030 Commonwealth Games need a host location. The 2026 Games have been awarded to Victoria, Australia — the state, rather than a city as is typical. Perhaps the price tag to host...
Trevor Hofbauer was led off course in Vegas, ran a short “half marathon”
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Unnacceptable. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, unless you mess with a runner's race.
Trevor Hofbauer ran the Rock 'n Roll Half Marathon in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The lead vehicle driver...
Vienna City Marathon features promising field for jubilee race
Vienna features promising mix for jubilee race
The men’s elite race of the Vienna City Marathon promises to present an interesting mix of athletes with different time goals on 23rd April. While there will be a group of Africans who...
Canadian Cameron Levins seeking new national marathon record in Tokyo
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Canada's Cameron Levins is racing the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, March 5 (local) or Saturday, March 4 (in North America). He will be looking to improve his own national record of 2:07:09,...
Ethiopian Emane Seifu Hayile set 50K world record in South Africa
Ethiopia’s Emane Seifu Hayile improved the women-only 50 kilometre world record by four minutes at the Nedbank Runified Breaking Barriers Ultramarathon. She won the race in the time of 3:00:29 in Port Elizabeth or Gqeberha, South Africa on Sunday,...
Record setting weekend for Armand Duplantis and Ferdinand Omanyala
Armand Duplantis
Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, the 23-year-old Swedish world record holder in the pole vault did it again on Saturday. He cleared 6.22 metres and one centimetre at the All Star Perche at the Maison des Sports located in Clermont-Ferrand,...
Explosion injures 19 Kenyan athletes at Buea, Cameroon Trail race
Nineteen runners were apparently injured and sent to the Buea Regional Hospital in Beau, Cameroon during an annual trail race on Saturday. The Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), who seek separation from French-speaking Cameroon carried out the attack.
According to the...
Keely Hodgkinson dazzles again with new British 800 metre record
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Keely Hodgkinson dazzled a good-sized crowd in Birmingham with yet another British 800 metre indoors record. She clocked a winning time of 1:57.18 at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham on Saturday.
The...
Coach of Iraqi flag bearer at 2012 London Olympics banned for life
Dana Abdul Razak Hussain, the Iraqi flag bear at the 2012 London Olympic Games, was apparently doped without her knowledge by her coach Karok Salih Mohammed. For that, the coach has been handed a lifetime ban by the Athletics...
Olympic silver medallists Hodgkinson, Muir and Holloway fuel world record talk in Birmingham
The pursuit of world records is officially on at the World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham as three of the world’s best athletes set out their expectations for them to fall at the freshly laid track at the Utilita...
