The men’s title at the World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia went to Uganda today - but it was 19-year-old Jacob Kiplimo rather than the three-time 2020 world-record breaker Joshua Cheptegei who took gold, after Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir had beaten her own women-only world record to win a dramatic women’s race.
Joshua Cheptegei, whose three appearances in this COVID-disrupted year have seen him break three world records, wants to complete a special hat-trick of world titles tomorrow at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, where he will be making his debut at the distance.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted that he has "no problems" with the pacing light system officially introduced this season and used to support a slew of recent track world records.
Vladimir Lisin, President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), has warned that the absence of shooting from the 2026 Commonwealth Games programme of prospective hosts Hamilton, would "negatively affect" a significant number of nations, including Canada.
The NN Valencia World Record Day lived up to its billing tonight as Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda set a men's 10,000 metres world record of 26min 11.00sec shortly after Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey had broken the women’s world 5,000m record with a time of 14:06.62.
Newly established men’s London Marathon champion Shura Kitata paid fulsome tribute to race favourite Eliud Kipchoge today – and revealed that his own coach had tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before he was due to travel with him.
In perhaps the biggest shock in the history of the London Marathon, the overwhelming men's favourite, Eliud Kipchoge, was soundly beaten as Ethiopia's Shura Kitata sprinted home to win in 2 hours 5min 41sec amidst the wind and rain of the looped, closed 1.3 miles course around St James's Park.
Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge will aim to complete a hat-trick of consecutive London Marathon victories in a race which will not include his expected main rival Kenenisa Bekele, who withdrew with a calf injury yesterday.
World champion and women's 3,000 metres steeplechase world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech produced a winning final flourish at the inaugural Kip Keino Classic meeting in Nairobi as Kenya marked its return to hosting top class sport post-lockdown.
Shooting events will not be included in the Commonwealth Games if Hamilton’s bid to stage the 2026 edition proves successful in its current form.
Tomorrow’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi’s newly-renovated Nyayo National Stadium will be the first sporting event to be staged in Kenya since lockdown measures against the COVID-19 pandemic were introduced in March.
Kenenisa Bekele, who had been set to go up against defending champion Eliud Kipchoge in an eagerly-anticipated clash at the 40th London Marathon on Sunday (October 4), has withdrawn because of a calf injury.
Simone Manuel, who became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming at Rio 2016, has revealed that racism almost cause her to give up the sport as a youngster.
Kenya’s world record holder Brigid Kosgei will use Sunday’s (October 4) Virgin Money London Marathon race to try and confirm her place at next summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, if the events goes ahead as planned.
Organisers seeking to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Hamilton in Canada will tomorrow vouchsafe to the City Council that there will not be any post-Games financial obligations for the running of venues.
The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam saw a number of important milestones, but one we still all benefit from today is revolutionising car parking. Like other cities around Europe in the late 1920s, the streets of Amsterdam were filling up fast with cars, and during the Games this issue was more pressing than ever, so organisers were forced to rack their brains in search of a solution. The allotted parking area next to the Olympic Stadium had room for a maximum of 2,000 vehicles, nowhere near enough to meet the demand during Games time. In response, the City Council provided a number of other sites that took parking capacity up to 3,500 vehicles and 2,000 bicycles. However, no sooner had one problem been solved than another was created: how were drivers and cyclists supposed to find their way to the new car parks? A solution was found in the shape of small blue panels with a white capital "P" in the middle. So it was that the international traffic sign for parking was born.
FIFA - Senior Multimedia Manager - Zurich, Switzerland
Implementing all multimedia content requirements for delivery of standard competition and corporate coverage and campaigns across FIFA’s owned and operated digital platforms according to deadline and budget. To support our Communications Division, FIFA is looking to recruit a flexible and analytical person as a Senior Multimedia Manager.
A chaotic week for the International Weightlifting Federation has seen the governing body have three Interim Presidents in as many days. Brian Oliver looks back at a bizarre sequence of events as well as looking forward to where the sport may go next.
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