Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
Richardson, Gatlin, Houlihan, and Valieva cases do not demonstrate racial bias; but the optics...
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) fell down during a key moment of truth at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. They failed by lifting the suspension of Russian figure skater Kamila...
Italian indoor 3000m record and 800m meet record go down in Val-de Reuil, France
Italian 3000m indoor record
Italian, Nadia Battocletti, broke her first Italian senior record on Monday in the 3000m event at the Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil. She clocked an 8:41.72 performance at the World Indoor Tour Silver Meeting.
Nadia Battocletti...
Athletes with 36 Olympic or World medals in action as Müller Indoor Grand Prix...
Start lists are live for the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham with 10 reigning Olympic or world champions competing in the Utilita Arena on Saturday 19 February.
Athletes in the line-ups have a combined number of 136 world and Olympic...
Course and masters records set at First Half Marathon, 400 compete in the Hatley...
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The men
Vancouver's Luc Bruchet with Miles2Marathon and Prairie Inn Harrier, Natasha Wodak, set new course records at the First Half Marathon in Vancouver on Sunday. Bruchet clocked a finish time of one-hour,...
Mo Ahmed, Grant Fisher, Marc Scott break three national records in one 5000m race
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Nike's Bowerman Track Club continues to dominate the North American indoor circuit. For example, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford broke two national records in less than a week. This time it was a trio of...
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford breaks Canadian 5000m indoor record
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Less than a week after breaking the Canadian indoor 3000m record, Toronto's Gabriela DeBues-Stafford took down the Canadian indoor 5000m record. She clocked 14 minutes, 31.38 seconds to improve upon her own...
Adelaide Invitational preview
The Adelaide Invitational is just two sleeps away and the meet is shaping up as an explosive start to the Australian domestic circuit, headlined by loaded sprinting fields and ample middle-distance class.
Men’s 100m:
Rohan Browning (Andrew Murphy) was a drawcard in 2021,...
Paralympic champions Hahn and Young star in Birmingham
Paralympic champions Sophie Hahn (coach: Leon Baptiste, club: Charnwood) and Thomas Young (Joe McDonnell, Loughborough Students) headline the mixed class Para 60m sprint events at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham at the Utilita Arena on 19 February.
Hahn, the...
UKA confirms BBC as broadcast partner for 20222 major events series
UK Athletics (UKA) Thursday, confirmed the BBC as the broadcast partner for their 2022 Major Events series.
In an exciting year for the sport boasting no less than four major track and field championships, BBC Sport will bring the key...
Bar set high as Lasitskene and Borthwick prepare to clash in Birmingham
Olympic and world champion Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) and current world leader Emily Borthwick (GBR) will go head-to-head in the women’s high jump at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – at...
