Athletics fans of a certain generation will remember the 60s worldwide hit ‘Friday On My Mind and more than a few were humming The Easybeats' famous standard in Hayward Field after Trentavis Friday took the 200m title at the IAAF World Junior Ch...
Geoffrey Kamworor Kipsang and his Kenyan compatriot Rita Jeptoo took the honours at the 15th edition of the Bogota International Half Marathon, the only IAAF Gold Label Road Race in South America, on Sunday (27).
When Trentavis Friday crossed the 200m finish line first at the IAAF World Junior Championships, he became the first US sprinter to win that event in the lifetime of any of the competitors. The last US win came in 1994, when Tony Wheeler took the title...
Barnabas Kipyego led home his Kenyan team-mate Titus Kipruto Kibiego for a double in the men s 3000m steeplechase. Kipyego was clocked in 8:25.57; Kibiego crossed the line in 8:26.15.
During three days of the Russian Championships in Kazan on 23-26 July there was only one European lead Anna Nazarova-Klyashtornaya s 6.93m long jump but there were still a number of close battles and high quality results in other events.