Christopher Kelsall
Runner, writer, race director, coach, website-guy and Lydiard advocate.
British athletes set to light up London Stadium this summer
Six British athletes with legitimate world‑class credentials will step onto the London Stadium track on Saturday, 18 July for the Novuna London Athletics Meet, the eleventh stop on the 2026 Wanda Diamond League circuit. Organizers report that 50,000 tickets...
Femke Broeders-Bol wows home crowd in Hengelo with an 800m personal best
There is no place like home for Femke Broeders-Bol. Or as she put it, "There is nothing like home love."
For that, the Fanny Bankers-Koen (FBK) Games allowed Broeders-Bol to shine in her new distance event, the 800 metres.
Approximately 9000...
Novuna UK Championships: Eduan, Anning, Hunter Bell and Wightman headline a blistering second day...
Alexander Stadium delivered a second straight day of sharp, uncompromising championship racing as a wave of emerging British talent forced the established names to defend their turf. Performances came thick and fast, but none more arresting than the 200...
Day 5: Audrey Leduc and Aaron Brown rule the sprints in Ottawa
Audrey Leduc knows exactly how to put on a show for the home crowd. For the second consecutive year, Leduc captured both the women's 100-metre and 200-metre titles at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Ottawa, just across...
Novuna UK Championships open with fireworks, records, and a few well‑timed surges
Day one of the Novuna UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham delivered the sort of chaos‑and‑quality cocktail that domestic meets occasionally promise but rarely sustain. This one did. From the sprints to the throws to the para events, athletes arrived...
Day 4: Katzberg throws a clinic, Dunfee breaks a record, and Arop stretches it...
The Terry Fox Athletic Facility in Ottawa played host to the definitive weekend of Canadian track and field. With Commonwealth Games roster spots on the line for Glasgow, the nation’s best put on a show under the hot Ottawa...
Patrick Kipngeno takes his second Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent win in three years
Kenya’s Patrick Kipngeno proved his dominance once again, securing his second victory at the 2026 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent. The 2024 champion reclaimed the top spot against a deeply competitive international field.
Following his win, the two-time World Mountain Running...
De Grasse delivers again as weather fails to stop Canadian Championships
The weather did its best to interfere. Cold rain swept through the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, temperatures sagged, and athletes spent more time searching for warmth than personal bests. None of it mattered to Andre De Grasse.
Canadian championships have...
Day 2 in Ottawa: Rogers rolls on, distance runners deliver, and the decathletes survive...
There is something about the trending numeronym "6 7" that brings the numbers to the cultural fore. We now seem them everywhere; they are inescapable. The numerical motif is a meaningless semantic placeholder, or it can mean whatever one...
WADA and USADA at it again: Tygart pushed back on the global authority
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) continue to clash over how doping control should be governed.
USADA chief executive Travis Tygart criticized WADA for proposing changes he says would weaken the authority of national...
