And, as we look ahead to 2024, one of the programs we’re most excited about is the 100th anniversary of the Boston Marathon start in Hopkinton. (In its earliest days, it began in neighboring Ashland.) We’ve planned a host of activities that we’ll be rolling out in the next few months, many featuring...
The Hakone Ekiden broadcast's highest average ratings came in 2021 when Komazawa University won for the first time in 13 years, when 31.0% watched day one and 33.7% day two. Tokai University's first-ever win in 2019 also attracted ratings over 30% both days, with 30.7% watching day one and 32.1% day...
Abigail Pawlett (coach: Ashley Bryant, club: Trafford AC) and Sam Talbot (John Lane, Sheffield & Dearne) were crowned UK pentathlon and heptathlon champions respectively at the England Athletics Combined Event Championships in Sheffield on 6-7 January. Abigail Pawlett started her campaign strong...
More seriously, these results will provide little encouragement to first world long distance runners. Already long aware that being born and nurtured at altitude gives a huge advantage to Ethiopians and Kenyans in particular - training in thinner air, then coming to race at sea-level is the human eq...
Josai University’s Yuito Yamamoto was the only individual athlete to set a new course record for one of the Hakone Ekiden’s ten stages, but the 100th was still a record-breaking edition in other ways. Both defending champion Komazawa University and eventual winner Aoyama Gakuin Universit...
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