Quadriple World champion and an Olympic champion in 20km racewalk, Chinese Liu Hong has again lowered her own women’s 35km Asian record at the 62nd All Japan Race Walk in Wajima, Japan. Liu, who turns 36 next month, clocked two hours, 38 minutes and 42 seconds to finish first and register a new Asian mark, […]
The Olympics champion and 400m record holder, South African Warde Van Niekerk seems to have been caged by injuries since his surprised move into United States of America. Thought he has recovered from an injury shake up at South African trials; but that seem not to be. Few minutes ago in Italy, Niekerk pulled up […]
It seems Olympic 400m champion, Steven Gardiner has all eyes on world record as the giant man of Bahamas smashed his own national record again just two weeks ago after breaking one. At the South Carolina Invitation on Friday (28), Steven went further to notched the 300m indoor World Best ever with a stunning  31.56s. […]
The Ghanaian high jump indoor record holder, Abigail Kwarteng seems to discover her sterlin form she had last in 2019 when she first broke Ghana indoor national record with 1.82m clearance. At the Nashville indoor on Friday (14), Abigail was sublime in her first outing of the season with a near perfect high jump clearance […]
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra’s coach Klaus Bartonietz has been rewarded with a contract extension till the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) announced on Sunday. Klaus Bartonietz helped javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra win India’s first track and field medal – a gold – at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in August last year. Bartonietz who took […]
The fastest living woman, Shelly-Ann Fraser- Pryce confirmed her ratin by running another scintillating time of 10.71s to win the Jamaica championship on Friday (25). But in the final there was an upset, the Olympics champion Elaine Herah was displayed to third place by the dark horse Shericka Jackson. Jackson ran 10.82s to Elaine 10.84s. […]
Double Olympics 800m Champion, Caster Semenya who tried her legs on 2000m two weeks ago, on Thursday (6) at Potchefstroom South Africa Meet tried 3000m this time around. She won in 9:04.20. In the 400m hurdle for women, South Africa Champion Wenda Nel was outright impressive as she won her race in 55.16s while the […]
At USAF Meet today, Olympics Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo churned out another stellar performance as she smashed facility record and become the fastest over 400m this season in 49.08s win. Now the world leader in both 200m and 400m. Africa Champion, Blessing Okagbare looked sharp as she scotched out 10.97s run to win 100m. In the […]
Double Olympic medallist Duncan Scott was impressive on the first of four days of the trials as he went under the British record with a time of 1:55.90 in the 200m individual medley. Scott now hold British record in three events; in addition to 200m and 100m freestyle. Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty sent an ominous […]
Two of China’s top gold medal hopes for Tokyo 2020 were in world-record form at the Men’s National Championships in Kaihua, where a teenager made his mark in sensational style. It was a mirror of the Women’s National Championships last week where three lifts were above world-record level and an “unknown” teenager excelled. Shi Zhiyong stands way […]
In what look like a beaming sound of drum of retirement, the Kenya World javelin champion, Julius Yego says the Tokyo 2020 will likely be his last Olympics. “This will be the last Games in which I will be able to compete at the highest level”, Yego said. Yego, matured under the tutelage of coach […]
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was one of the thousands of fans who tuned in to watch the ultimate garden clash involving Modo Duplantis Vs Renaud Lavillenie vs Sam Kendricks. “I am so proud of these three talented athletes,” said Coe. “This is a brilliant initiative, great fun and really innovative. My thanks go to […]
The Aries Merritt the 110m hurdle World record holder and Olympics Champion still want to prove a point for his last Olympics next year if he qualify. Merritt broke the world record and also became Olympics Champion in 2012. But soon after 2013 World championship, it’s has been struggle with illness despite managing to win […]
There are innate strength in a man, once it’s fire is litted for a goal; no challenge or situation can overpower or outmuscle it to a halt. This is what is playing out all over the World as covid-19 imposed lockdown has made training to be difficult. But different World class and Olympians around the […]
The fourth time Olympics Champion Mo Farah has reacted to Tokyo Olympics Postponement with some elation. Feel the postponement will not affect him from featuring in rescheduled Olympics despite he will be 38 years by then. “Olympics was about the last thing to get cancelled. In a way obviously it’s disappointing it has been cancelled […]
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