Mumbai, Jan 5 (IANS) Six-time world pole vault champion Sergey Bubka was on Friday named as the international event ambassador for the 15th edition of the $405,000 Tata Mumbai Marathon, to be held on January…
Nairobi, Dec 20 (IANS) Kenya’s Paul Tergat might have hung up his running gear, but he has stepped into new shoes as the head of his country’s Olympic Committee, where more is required of him….
Kolkata, Dec 16 (IANS) Legendary long-jumper Mike Powell on Saturday helped aspiring local athletes with valuable tips here, asking them not to think much about faulty jumps. “Be an aeroplane. Run as fast as you…
Kolkata, Dec 16 (IANS) Defending champion and course record holder G. Lakshmanan and L. Suriya, who just scorched the Delhi Half Marathon, could be the top Indian contenders in the TSK 25K here on Sunday….
Nairobi, Dec 15 (IANS) Revenge will be in the air when Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet of Bahrain meets Kenya’s Alice Aprot during the international cross country meet in Marca, Spain on Sunday. During…
Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) Lamenting the fact that track and field athletes of today don’t come up to their seniors for advice but want to break their records, Mike Powell, the owner of the 26-year-old…
Kolkata, Dec 14 (IANS) Putting Usain Bolt alongside legendary track and field athletes Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens as one of the greatest of all time, long jump world record holder Mike Powell said on…
Nairobi, Dec 8 (IANS) Marathon athletes wishing to represent Kenya in Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in April will not be allowed to sign contracts to run in other competition in the build up…
Kolkata, Dec 5 (IANS) Veteran long-distance runner Kenensia Bekele of Ethiopia will lead the mens field while Helah Kiprop and Valentine Kipketer (both Kenya) will compete in the womens in the TSK 25K marathon here…
Paris, Nov 30 (IANS) Qatari high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim and Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi have confirmed their participation in the IAAF Diamond League in Monaco next July, the International Association of Athletics Federations…
Kampala, Nov 30 (IANS) The 2012 Olympic gold medallist Stephen Kiprotich has vowed to impress at Japan’s Fukuoka Marathon that takes place on Sunday. “I have trained really hard and my body has been responding…
Nairobi, Nov 30 (IANS) The allure of representing Kenya at Commonwealth Games in marathon will inspire Bedan Karoki and Lani Rutto when the duo line up at the streets of Fukuoka on Sunday. For a…
Addis Ababa, Nov 27 (IANS) Tragedy struck the 17th edition of the 10 km Great Ethiopian Run (GER) held here when two amateur runners died from heat stroke, an official said. Speaking to the media,…
Dongguan (China), Nov 26 (IANS) T. Gopi created history by becoming the first Indian man to clinch the gold medal in the Asian Marathon Championships here on Sunday. The 29-year-old Kerala long-distance runner completed the…
Monte Carlo (Monaco), Nov 25 (IANS) Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam were respectively named Male and Female Athlete of the Year here, while retired sprinting legend Usain Bolt of Jamaica received the…
Seoul, Nov 25 (IANS) South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Saturday asked for the international community’s support to make the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games a peace festival. “(South Korea) will make…
Addis Ababa, Nov 23 (IANS) Kenyan Olympic champion Vivian Cheruiyot will be a guest of honour at the Great Ethiopian Run (GER), an Ethiopian official said. GER Director Ermias Ayele said the invitation to Cheruiyot,…
Nairobi, Nov 22 (IANS) Kenya’s Lilian Kasait on Wednesday expressed her confidence in winning the fifth African cross-country championships 2018 in Algeria. Kasait, who was third at this year’s World Cross Country Championships, her debut…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Reigning marathon world champion Geoffrey Kirui and London Worlds and Olympic 10,000 metre champion Almaz Ayana will be the cynosure of all eyes on Sunday’s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM),…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) British 100 metre sprint legend Linford Christie feels the racing fraternity gave too much importance to sprint greats Usain Bolt and Mo Farah and failed to identify the next in…