Athletics News
• 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2007 double world champion Tyson Gay, who after being tested positive for- doping test withdrawn from Moscow's World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
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.
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• 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
• 22 July 2013
Brianna Rollins Blazes 12.47 in Finland
Worlds season leader in 100m hurdles Brianna Rollins of the United States blazed to a victory in 100m hurdles clocking 12.47 seconds at the 2013 Savo Games in Lapinlahti
• 21 July 2013
Kevin Borlee Roars 44.73 at Belgium NC
The 2011 World Championships bronze medallist Kevin Borlee with an oustanding run of of 44.73 in 400m set one of the fastest times in the world this season at the Belgium
• 20 July 2013
Farah Breaks European 1500m Record
Mo Farah broke 28 -year old European
record on Friday with a brilliant run in the 1500m at the IAAF Diamond
League in Monaco.
The double olympic champion in 5000m and 10000m
• 20 July 2013
Results Diamond League Monaco
Men
100 m
Wind: -0.4
1
Justin Gatlin
USA
9.94
2
Dentarius Locke
USA
9.96
PB
• 19 July 2013
Makloufi Out of World Champs
The 2012 London Olympics 1500m Champion Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria withdrew on Thursday from next month's world championships
in Moscow, Russia.
The source says that the
• 19 July 2013
4th Jamaican Tests Positive in 4 Days
Traves Smikle, the Jamaican Discus Thrower has tested positive for banned substance. The athletes urine sample taken in June at Jamaican National Championships showed adverse
• 18 July 2013
Entry Lists Diamond League Monaco
World and Olympic champion Sally Pearson of Australia is returning to Monaco after having very successful races in the past years, she will be facing the newly