Athletics Illustrated Magazine

© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated A city of beer, replete with historic baroque façades and warm late-May evenings, what more could a distance runner ask for from a half-marathon? The weather will likely be a factor in 2026,...

© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated American professional debutant Parker Valby has been off due to injury. For a year and a half, she has been building on her rehab and fitness. Saturday, at the Sound Running meet...

The Wanda Diamond League stop in Xiamen rarely disappoints, but 2026 may go down as the edition where the sport collectively experienced a jaw drop. World leads fell, meeting records evaporated, and an 18‑year‑old produced a javelin throw so...

The old European city squares were never designed for silence. They were built for markets, celebrations, declarations, and now, increasingly, road racing. On Saturday, May 30, more than 8,000 runners will converge on České Budějovice for the 14th edition...

Elvis had left the building at 3:05 per kilometre pace. Kenyan Elvis Cheboi won the 2026 Ottawa Marathon in a time of 2:09:22. Gizealew Ayana took second just four seconds back at 2:09:26, and Canadian Rory Linkletter took third...

After Mohamed Esa considered his Cape Town Marathon plans, failure was not one of them. He experienced a setback in April's Boston Marathon and redeemed himself nicely on Sunday in South Africa. Esa didn’t just win the Sanlam Cape...

Another Kenyan marathoner, Deborah Sang, has been handed a five-year ban after testing positive for two performance-enhancing substances, testosterone and prednisolone. The 26-year-old first tested positive for testosterone late in 2025. Later, she tested positive for prednisone and prednisolone. The...

The European 10,000m Cup returns Saturday, May 23, in La Spezia, Italy, promising the sort of distance‑running theatre that doesn’t require lasers, smoke machines, or a DJ yelling “Make some noise!” every four minutes. The racing alone should be...

© Copyright - 2026 - Athletics Illustrated Twenty-seven-year-old recreational runner Patricia Alvarez of Oviedo, Spain, was provisionally suspended in December 2025 for a doping-related offence. She can appeal the latest outcome, which is a two-year suspension after testing positive...

The dsm‑firmenich Running Team has finally lifted the curtain on what has been months of quiet buzz: Eliud’s World Tour is officially underway, beginning this week in South Africa. The premise is disarmingly simple—classic Kipchoge, really. Over the next...