Eliud Kipchoge News

By JO ATKINSON THREE-time winner Kenenisa Bekele will bid to regain the Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country title next month.

The organisers of the Bupa Great North Run have arranged for Paul Collingwood to be at the start line in Newcastle this morning, waving a replica of the Ashes at the 50,000 participants in the half-marathon race.

SCOTTISH 10,000 metres champion Freya Murray showed she is equally at home at the distance on the roads when she was crowned Bupa Great Yorkshire Run champion in Sheffield yesterday.

FREYA Murray surprised herself and everyone else today to pull off a thrilling women's race victory at the Bupa Great Yorkshire Run in Sheffield.

LONDON: Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Ejagayehu Dibaba will have to sit out Sunday's 10km Great Yorkshire Run after she was unable to obtain a visa to enter the United Kingdom, media reports said yesterday.

Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele and U.S. sprinters LaShawn Merritt and Sanya Richards collected their second gold medals on the final day of the world track and field championships on Sunday.

Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele and U.S. sprinters LaShawn Merritt and Sanya Richards collected their second gold medals on the final day of the world track and field championships on Sunday.

The days before the World Championships are very busy for me as I work through the thousands of names on the provisional entry list and strive to update my records for each and every one of them.

Former world 5000 metres champion Eliud Kipchoge will head what is set to be a star-studded field for the Bupa Great Yorkshire Run on Sunday September 6. The 24-year-old will be bidding to regain the title for Kenya after his fellow countryman John Kibowen won the inaugural race over 10 kilometres in Sheffield two years ago.

Kenya has selected a total of 41 athletes to represent t he country at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, 15-23 August, according to the world athletics governing body IAAF.

An engaging mix of west London and east Africa, the European 5,000 metres silver medallist has come a long way to be a Beijing contender thanks in part to the generous encouragement of Paula Radcliffe ROBERT HALLAM Mo Farah looks forward to the Olympics in two months' time.

Olympic silver medallist Asbel Kiprop and steeplechaser, Paul Kipsiele Koech sustained their good early season form at Sunday's Pre Fontaine Classic meeting in Oregon, US.

After a Scorching 200 Meters in NYC, Tyson Gay Expects to Get Faster There was reason to believe that the best days of sprinting for the 2007 Track & Field Athlete of the Year, who struggled with injury in 2008, might be behind him.

The 10,000m races at the June 25 to 27 National Championships will be used to select athletes who will represent Kenya at the distance in Berlin.

The 35th Prefontaine Classic international track and field meet is Sunday at Hayward Field and meet director Tom Jordan has distance runners set to pursue records at some unusual distances.