Olympic Track And Field News

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.

After graduating from Elphinstone Secondary School in 2009, Kendra Pomfret's track and field and cross-country career has certainly taken off - in a big way.

Sanya Richards-Ross will make her season debut at the Diamond League meet in New York City on May 25.

Up to a few years ago, a sports fan might not find it unusual to read what pretty much amounted to an obituary for track and field.

For a group of students at Resurrection Catholic Secondary School, participating in the Special Olympics Ontario's soccer championships was such as big deal that most of them could hardly sleep the night before.

The top-ranked women team were granted 22 entries from 19 different athletes, while the men who are ranked 21st, earned 13 entries.

The Town of Princess Anne last Saturday hosted Street Fest. The event engaged the community and the town in events to celebrate the area and had events for children of all ages.

Members of the Wilton Y Special Olympics team traveled to Weston High School this past Saturday to compete in the Regional Games.

The former Auburn University, Team USA, and Olympic basketball player, Vickie Orr, will be one of eight to be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

That is the reason she established the Veronica Campbell Brown Foundation in 2011 and pledged to give a portion of one of her competitive race fees, each year, to the foundation's cause.