Olympic Athletics News

DOHA: This week's 18th Arab Athletics Championships will be accorded more importance than usual by the participants as the medal winners in Doha will move a step closer to securing a ticket to IAAF Athletics World Championships to be held in Moscow this year, a top official said yesterday.

The last time we saw her beaming so radiantly, she was draped in a Union Jack and about to be handed a cherished Olympic gold medal after trouncing her rivals on the track.

SANTA CLARA – Ricardo Lockette is so intent on landing a spot on the 49ers' roster that he bought a white board and markers so he could chart and study plays on his own time.

Atlanta hosted the best track and field athletes in the world on Friday night at Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross with a first class event in the Atlanta Grand Prix.

Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce eased to victory on a damp evening at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Saturday while world champion Carmelita Jeter was stretchered off the track after finishing third.

Setting the bar high: Mohd Rizzua Haizad of Sarawak hopes to win his third consecutive gold medal in the 110m hurdles.

Men's favourite Stephen Mokoka says he will not compete in Sunday's SA 10km Championships in Durban, choosing instead to focus on the international track season.

According to the Canadian Press , Canadian track and field broadcaster Geoff Gowan of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has passed away after a battle with Parkinson's disease at the age of 83 on Friday.

CREWE and Nantwich AC runner Jack Williamson won the 2013 junior killer mile race at Mow Cop in a time of 6min 12 seconds.

THEY are two athletes with three things in common. They were drafted in from another school, they are now Fiji squad mates and are the reason why Adi Cakobau's School's 12-year reign as girls champions of the Coca-Cola Games came to a shock end.

OLYMPIC javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell plans to return and make Ballarat her home base as she works towards the 2016 Rio Games.

Like the many elite runners around the globe, Kiplagat and Araptany's target is to qualify and do well at World Athletics Championships due August in Moscow, Russia.

CHINA can produce another Liu Xiang if the former Olympic 110-meter hurdles champion retires, according to another Chinese athlete who hopes to follow in the superstar's footsteps.

Johannesburg Athletics SA administrator Zola Majavu says a lack of governance was at centre of the federation's problems.

RISING Dinas athlete Tom Atkinson has taken part in a special training session with Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell.

Several championship rings and Olympic rings were stolen from track-and-field gold medalist DeeDee Trotter's Altamonte Springs home, police said Friday.

IT was a sad day for all Essex distance running afficianados on Sunday though not a bad one for Billericay Striders' Crispian Bloomfield.

JAMES Ratcliffe won a clean sweep of medals at the Cheshire and Greater Manchester County Athletics Championships at Longford Park, Trafford.

CANVEY'S middle-distance star Jessica Judd admits being the fastest 800m runner in the world this season "feels a bit surreal". Judd, 18, raced to a personal best time of 2m 00.37s in Watford making her not only the fastest under-20 in the world at the moment, but the fastest female full stop over the two-lap distance.

DAN Cossins is hoping to play his own small role in rejuvenating Great Britain's relay culture after being appointed as coach for the junior relay squad for this summer's European Under 20 Championship, writes Kevin Fahey.