Athletics Illustrated Magazine

A global summer parks challenge has been launched for runners with Strava accounts. The event provides weekly and summer‑long challenges, pitting runners against other park‑running competitors—and themselves. The Summer Parks Challenge (not affiliated with parkrun) originates in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,...

The 2026 Vancouver Marathon was won by Japan's Fujiwara Kosuke in 2:22:02 and Dutch athlete Mikky Keetels in 2:33:01, respectively. Sunday brought warm temperatures, but that didn't stop Keetels from taking down Dayna Pidhoresky's course record of 2:34:27 from 2023....

Natasha Wodak of North Vancouver finished the BMO Vancouver Half Marathon in a new course record of one-hour and 12 minutes and one second (1:12:01), for the win on Sunday. Meanwhile, Max Turek of Whitby, Ontario, clocked a 1:03:28...

Challa Gossa and Stacy Ndiwa spent Sunday morning in Cali doing what altitude, humidity, and defending champions could not: they took control of two messy, attritional races and made them their own. The Cali Marathon, now swollen to more...

Old Town Square paid witness to new marathon champions on Sunday. The 31st edition of the Vodafone Prague Marathon was completed fastest by the Ethiopian athlete Wendemu Tsegu Berehanu, who crossed the finish line in an excellent time of...

Julien Alfred got her 2026 season off to a flying start by winning the sprint double at the Texas Invitational. She first won the 200 metre dash in 21.86 seconds on Thursday. The Olympic champion was the class of...

UK Athletics has named its marathon squad for the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, and the selections read like a snapshot of a discipline that has quietly—almost stubbornly—rebuilt itself into relevance. The race, set for 16 August, will wind...

"Run in Heaven's Capital," this is the motto for the second edition of the Cali Marathon on Sunday. Organizers of the race located in southwestern Colombia intend to build on the success of last year's inaugural event and move...

© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated The Athletics Integrity Unit had provisionally suspended Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman for Whereabouts Failures and Ethiopian Bone Cheluke for testing positive for performance-enhancing substances. The two athletes are now fully suspended....

UK Athletics has confirmed the selection of Cameron Corbishley for this summer’s European Championships in Birmingham, a call-up that reflects both consistency and quiet progression in a discipline currently undergoing significant change. The Medway and Maidstone athlete, coached by Andi...