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• 01 September 2013
Berlin World Challenge Start Lists

Women

• 01 September 2013
Results Decanation Valence (FRA)

Team Results | Décanation 2013 1 137 pt Unted States 2 121 pt RUSSIA 3 118 pt FRANCE 4 104 pt Germany 5

• 30 August 2013
Tired Bolt Wins 100m in Zurich

Running into a slight headwind Usain Bolt out-sprinted his compatriot, Nickel Ashmeade, and American Justin Gatlin to win the 100 metres at the Zurich Diamond League meeting on

• 29 August 2013
Adams Continues Her Win-Streak in Zurich

Undoubtedly Worlds best shot putter, Velrie Adams, of New Zealand continued her impressive win-streak on Wednesday as she set a new season best mark in the world in the first day

• 29 August 2013
Diamond League Zurich Entry Lists

15 Olympic Champions and 17 world champions will participate at Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League on Thursday Women

• 27 August 2013
Duel - Bolt vs Gatlin in Zurich

After winning 3 gold medals at Moscow World Championships, Worlds one of the most prominent athletes, Usain Bolt, will make his first appearance on Thursday at the Diamond League

• 27 August 2013
Gatlin Defeats Ashmeade at Gugl Games

Challenged by cold rain and Jamaica's sprinter Nickel Ashmeade USA's sprinter Justin Gatlin managed to win 100m at the Gugl Games on Monday (26). Gatlin, who took

• 26 August 2013
Results Gugl Games - Linz, Austria

100m Women Pre Program 100m Men Pre Program 1000m Men Pre Program 400m Show race 100m Women 400m Hurdles Women Long Jump Women 100m Hurdles Women 110m

• 26 August 2013
Pitkamaki 89.03m & Abakumova 69.75m Set WL

Competing in two different competitions in Germany, Javelin throwers Tero Pitkamaki and Maria Abakumova produced years best throw on Sunday, August (25). Competing at the

• 25 August 2013
Symmonds Wins Skolimowskiej Memoriał

Sunday (25) Warsaw, Poland - Americas best half miler, Nick Symmonds, by winning 800m race at the 4th Kamili Skolimowskiej Memoriał in Poland, showed that his silver medal at

• 25 August 2013
Gugl Games to Host Olympic and World Championship Medallists - Sanchez vs Trailbiker

The 2013 Gugl games will take place in the City of Linz, Austria on Monday, August 26. The meeting organizers announced that 12 Olympic and world championships medalists will take

• 23 August 2013
Source Says, Tyson Gay Positive Test was for Streroid

2007 double world champion Tyson Gay, who after being tested positive for- doping test withdrawn from Moscow's World Championships, had taken a banned steroid, the

• 23 August 2013
Merrit Dominates 400m in Stockholm

World Champion LaShawn Merritt won the men's 400 metres at the DN Galan Diamond League meet. Merrit clocked 44.69 beating Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic. Defending

• 21 August 2013
Rodgers Defeats Bronze Medallist Carter

USA Sprinter, Mike Rodgers, defeated Moscow World Champs Bronze medalist Nesat Carter (JAM) in the 100m race on Wednesday at the European Athletics Classic meeting - Memorial

• 21 August 2013
Cuban Hurdler Ortega Flees His Country

The Cuban athletics federation says hurdler Orlando Ortega has not returned to the country after competing in the world championships in Russia last week. The federation said

• 20 August 2013
Carter,Collins, Rodgers to Clash in 100m in Dubnica

On Wednesday, August 21, Moscow World Championships 100m Bronze medalist Nesta Carter of Jamaica, Mike Rodgers (USA), the 6th place finisher in Moscow's World Champs and

• 20 August 2013
Diamond League Meeting Stockholm - DN Galan Entry Lists Available

800m Women ATHLETE DATE OF

• 20 August 2013
12 World Champs to Compete at DN Galan

On Thursday August 22, twelve Moscow World Championships gold medallists will line up in Stockholm to compete at the Diamond League meeting DN Galan, announced meeting organizers

• 19 August 2013
Bolt's Officially One of The Greatest

Usain Bolt became one of the greatest athletes of all time after anchoring the Jamaican 4x100m relay team to victory at the World Championships in Moscow on Sunday. Jamaican

• 18 August 2013
Sum Defeats Savinova to Win World's Gold

Kenya's mid-distance runner Eunice Sum, inspired by compatriots Asbel Kiprop's win in the men's 1500m, defeated Olympic and World defending champion Russian Mariya Savinova at the

• 18 August 2013
Kiprotich Becomes World Marathon Champ

The 2012 London Olympics marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich, of Uganda won world marathon title on Saturday afternoon on the winding Moscow streets. Like in London

• 16 August 2013
Farah Takes Incredible 5000m Gold

Mo Farah added the 5000m gold on Friday to his 10000m world championship gold medal he won last Sunday. The British distance running star, who won 5000m and 10000m at London 2012,

• 16 August 2013
Kemboi Among the Giants of Athletics

Ezekiel Kemboi, with his victory in Thursday's World championships steeplechase final, put himself next to legendary Moses Kiptanui, as the both both athletes have won three

• 15 August 2013
Bondarenko Soars 2.41, Takes World Title

Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko won the men's high jump world title at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow. The 2008 World Junior Champion, Bondarenko, jumped

• 14 August 2013
Yelena Isinbayeva Wins Gold in Pole Vault

Athletic fans at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow went wild as Yelena Isinbayeva won Gold in Pole Vault. Isinbayeva won her third world championship title by clearing 4.89m.

• 13 August 2013
Holzdeppe Denies Lavillenie to Add Another Title

Men's pole vault final saw the same medal winners as in the Londin Olympic Games, but this time the order was different. German pole vaulter, Raphael Holzdeppe, dominated the

• 13 August 2013
Valerie Adams Wins 4th Straight Wolrd Title

Valerie Adams became the first woman to win four straight individual world titles on Monday (12), winning the women's shot put at the world championships in Moscow. The double

• 12 August 2013
Photo: Bolt Strikes Double Lightning in Moscow

A lightning above Luzhniki stadium stroke on Sunday a few moments after 'Lightning' Bolt' crossed the finish line at the Moscow World Championship 100m final. Article Source:

• 11 August 2013
Eaton Scores 8809 Points, Wins First Global Gold Medal - Results Decathlon

PL ATHLETE Points 100 Metres Long Jump Shot Put High Jump 400 Metres 110 Metres Hurdles Discus

• 11 August 2013
Dibaba Wins 10,000m and Makes History by Winning 5 World Championship titles on Track

World Distance Running Queen, Tirunesh Dibaba, of Ethiopia with a massive kick of 59 seconds over the last lap, won her 3rd 10000m world championship title in Moscow. She has now

• 11 August 2013
Bolt Runs 9.77 seconds to Win World Title

Jamaica's 6 time Olympic Champion, Usain Bolt, in the last 20 meters powered by Justin Gatlin to regain the world 100m title. Nesta Carter of Jamaica took third in

• 11 August 2013
Decathlon Summary Day 1 - Eaton in Lead

POS ATHLETE COUNTRY Points 100 Metres Long Jump Shot Put High

• 11 August 2013
Farah and Kiplagat Brilliant in First Day

Great Britain's Mo Farah fought hard to claim the 10 000m world title, while Kenya's Edna Kiplaga, became the first woman to defend the world marathon

• 11 August 2013
World's 3rd Fastest Women Kelly-Ann Baptist Tests Positive

The World 2011 Bronze medallis in 100m Kelly-Ann Baptist of Trinidad and Tobago has tested positive for a banned substance says, the Trinidad Express news.

• 09 August 2013
World Championships Live Schedule

The long awaited IAAF World Championships in Track and Field is set to begin in Moscow's Luzhniki stadium on Saturday (10). The competition will last until August 18 with the

• 08 August 2013
Borzakovskiy Out of his Home World Champs

The 2004 Olympic 800m champion,Yury Borzakovsky of Russia, will miss the World Championships in Moscow. "Borzakovsky has recently caught a cold and had a fever for almost

• 06 August 2013
Bolt & Jamaicans Undergo Dop Test

All of the Jamaican track and field team, including Usain Bolt, were tested on Monday at their Moscow training camp for the athletics World Championships. Jamaican team

• 04 August 2013
3 Borlee Brothers in Moscow 4x400 team

August 15 will be a day that the whole Belgium will remember as a day in which all three Borlee brothers will run in the same race at the Moscow World Championships.

• 01 August 2013
119 Athletes will Form Russian World Championship Team

100 m: Aleksandr Brednev (10.33) 200 m: Aleksandr Khyutte (20.77) 4х100 m: Brednev, Khyutte (10.48), Konstantin Petryashov (10.33), Roman

• 01 August 2013
25 Star Athletes you will not See in World Champs

Taoufik Makhloufi (illness) — 2012 Olympic champion, 1,500 meters Oscar Pistorius (trial) — 2011 world silver medalist, 4×400-meter relay Asafa

• 31 July 2013
Ennis-Hill Also Rules Out of Moscow

The list of high profile athletes that will not participate at Moscow World Championships keeps growing almost every day. Jessica Ennis-Hill is the latest star that has ruled

• 31 July 2013
20 London Olympic Medallists Among USA's Moscow World Champinships Team

Men 100m: Justin Gatlin, Mike Rodgers, Charles Silmon 200m: Curtis Mitchell, Isiah Young, Wallace Spearmon 400m: Arman Hall, Tony McQuay, LaShawn Merritt 800m:

• 31 July 2013
Vlasic and Chernova to Miss Moscow

Defending world champion in heptathlon Tatyana Chernova of Russia and two time world champion in high jump will miss Moscow world championships next month due to injuries they

• 29 July 2013
Bolt Considers To Race Farah in 600m

Double OIympic Champion in 5000 and 10000m Mo Farah has made a challenge to the 6 time Olympic champion in 100, 200, and 4x100m Usain Bolt – to race him at either 600 or

• 28 July 2013
Tyson Gays B Sample Shows Adverse Results, Fails Another Test

United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) confirmed on Saturday, July 27 that Tyson Gay's B sample analysis tested positive for banned substance. "We can confirm that

• 28 July 2013
Lavillenie Steals the Show at London GP

The French pole vault star broke his personal best and national record as he cleared a brilliant 6.02m, overtaking his old mark by a centimetre which had stood since Leiria in

• 28 July 2013
Results Diamond League London

Men 100 m Wind: 0.2 1 Usain Bolt JAM 9.85 SB 2 Mike Rodgers USA 9.98 3 Nesta Carter JAM 9.99

• 26 July 2013
I know I'm Clean - Insists Bolt

Usain Bolt was overwhelmed with questions prior to this weekend's Diamond League meeting in London where the 6 time Olympic champion will race in 100m. "I

• 25 July 2013
Tarabin 88.84m - Sets New World Lead

The 2013 Summer Universiade winner in javelin throw, Dmitriy Tarabin, highlighted the Russian outdoor championships day 3 in Moscow on Wednesday (24). The 21 year old

• 25 July 2013
Isinbayeva to End Career After Worlds

World record holder and two-time Olympic champion in pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva have decided to end her career after next month's athletics world championships