Olympic Track And Field News

Her Excellency Aloun Assamba with Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen , Earl Jarrett of the Jamaica National Building Society, join Zena Wooldridge , director of sport at University of Birmingham; Councillor Mike Whitby; Professor Edward Peck, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Gaynor Whitby.

Jamaica dominated the sprint races at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai yesterday, with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning the women's 100 metres and Warren Weir capturing gold in the men's 200 metres.

USC's Haley Anderson and fellow U.S. Olympian Andrew Gemmell won the 5-kilometer races Sunday at the U.S.open water national championships to earn berths at this summer's world meet in Barcelona, Spain.

Track and field events held on Tuesday, May 14 got off to a great start with cool temperatures cobalt blue sky and the Rocky Mountains building a scenic back drop.

Ivet Lalova , Bulgaria's top sprinter and one of the hottest athletes in the world, is to tie the knot with Italian colleague Simone Collio on September 21, the happy future bride has revealed.

Ridgway Secondary School's 28 graduating seniors will be inspired to relentlessly pursue their own personal best - whatever that might be - as Olympic discus thrower Lance Brooks takes the stage to deliver a rousing commencement address at their graduation ceremony next Friday, May 24.

The multiple state champion will attend Texas A&M in the fall on a track scholarship.

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.

A year ago Grace Graham-Zamudio settled for runner-up, third- and fourth-place finishes at the state championships.

Dozens of boys and girls called themselves the fastest in the state at Saturday's state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium.

Amazing efforts of athleticism, the thirst for higher education, the quest for economic success all come into play for participants at the annual Penn Relays, the University of Pennsylvania-sponsored track-and-field meet for college, Olympic-caliber and high school athletes, that's become an anticipated destination for scholastic competitors from ... (more)

Carmelita Jeter, left, grimaces in pain as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, right, sprints to victory in the women's 100 metres at the Diamond League track and field meet Saturday in Shanghai.

Thousands of spectators cheered and hollered as track runners bolted toward the finish line in this weekend's Special Olympics Florida's Summer Games.

Matt Hughes doesn't want to downplay or overplay the significance of winning the first 3,000-metre steeplechase race of the track-and-field season.

Olympic High School long jumper Tommy Secrest hits the pit to win the event at the Class 2A West Central District track and field meet at Sunset Chev Stadium in Sumner.

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.

Track and field expert Geoff Gowan is shown in Ottawa in this March, 1996 photo.

Jesse Owens, of Cleveland East Tech High School and Ohio State University, runs a 200-meter preliminary heat at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he won four gold medals.

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.

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