Robert Tobin News

VICTORY is in sight for a Gazette -backed campaign to get a full eight-lane running track built at Basingstokea s Down Grange sports complex.

Olympic and world 400 meters champion LaShawn Merritt won the men's 400 meters title at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix here on Sunday.

Kate Dennison has broken the British pole vault record for the seventh time this year at the Pedros Cup in Poland.

BASINGSTOKE athlete Robert Tobin picked up his first Grand Prix win in Italy on Sunday - " beating a field including two Olympic medallists.

Britain's Lisa Dobriskey beat world 1500m champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal at Italy's Rieti Grand Prix on Sunday.

Britain has won the 2012 Olympics but the World Championships are proof of the nation's decline.

British quartet Conrad Williams, Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney and Robert Tobin celebrate taking silver behind the US in the 4x400m relay enlarge For poor Lisa Dobriskey, there is just no getting away from haunting thoughts of what might have been, it would seem.

WHILE some African athletes are scooping medals at the 12th International Association of Athletics Federation World championships in Berlin, Germany, Zimbabwea TMs representatives have failed dismally, raising questions over the countrya TMs capability to compete at this level.

SOUTH Africa's world champion 800 metres runner Caster Semenya is undergoing a gender verification test after her improved form this year raised an alarm with athletics officials, the International Association of Athletics Federations has confirmed.

Michael Bingham stormed into the 400m final in Berlin but GB team-mates Martyn Rooney and Robert Tobin missed out.

Usain Bolt showed no ill effects from his record-breaking heroics on Sunday evening as he cruised into the second round of the 200metres at the World Championships.

UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee claims the decision to pick controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers to run the sprint double at next month's World Championships in Berlin was "easy". The 31-year-old, who served a two-year ban from athletics for testing positive for THG in 2003, was named in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team on ...

Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers will race over 100 and 200 metres at next month's World Championships after being named in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad.

UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee claims the decision to pick controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers to run the sprint double at next month's World Championships in Berlin was "easy". The 31-year-old, who served a two-year ban from athletics for testing positive for THG in 2003, was named in the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team on ...

THE Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the World Championships in Berlin is announced tomorrow, with only a few places likely to cause much debate when the selectors meet today.

BASINGSTOKE athlete Robert Tobin will continue his preparation for the World Championships by running at the London Grand Prix later today.

Jessica Ennis, the world No 1 in heptathlon and one of Britain's biggest gold medal hopes at next month's World Championships in Berlin, is considering doubling up in Germany in the 100 metres hurdles after yet another scintillating performance at the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships.

ROBERT Tobin is hoping to secure his place at the World Championships by claiming the British title this weekend.

FORMER Lady Lumleya s pupil Richard Buck is aiming to make the a Aa standard before next montha s World Athletics Championship trials.