Voting for the World Athletes of the Year closes at midnight on Saturday 28 October. At the conclusion of the voting process, five women and five men finalists will be announced by World Athletics on 13-14 November.
The next stop on the circuit is on Saturday, with Tokyo's Showa Linen Park hosting the qualifying half marathon for Hakone's 100th running. Usually limited to Kanto Region schools, this year the Hakone qualifier is open to any school that can make its top 13.
Emma Oosterwegel and Karel Tilga have been confirmed as the winners of the 2023 World Athletics Combined Events Tour, which rewards their season-long consistency in the heptathlon and decathlon, respectively. The Combined Events Tour takes each athlete’s best three marks across the series and conver...
Sifan Hassan further demonstrated her immense ability across all distances and surfaces as she dominated the Chicago Marathon on Sunday (8), triumphing in the second fastest time in history of 2:13:44. Hassan’s time was also a European record, shaving almost two minutes from Paula Radcliffe’s mark o...
“I knew I was coming for a course record, but a world record – I am so happy,” he said. “A world record was not on my mind today, but I knew one day I would be a world record-holder.”
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