Having dropped out of the Hakone Ekiden's Second Stage after sustaining a stress fracture in his right shin, Yamanashi Gakuin University second-year Enock Omwamba appeared at the team's post-race assembly on crutches to address the rest of the team. Speaking in Japanese, he told them, "...
Dave Bedford, one of the most recognisable characters in the history of British Athletics, has been awarded the OBE in the 2014 New Years Honours List. Dave, a former world record holder himself, has been instrumental in gathering the world’s best athletes on the streets of London
Before 2009 Toyo University had only finished in the top three once in the history of Japan's biggest sporting event, the Jan. 2-3 Hakone Ekiden university men's road relay championships, all the way back in 1960. In Hakone's 85th anniversary running in 2009, the tens of...
The British Athletics Cross Challenge rolls on to Antrim, Northern Ireland, on Saturday (4 January) as world class fields line up at the IAAF International event. Andy Vernon (Coach: Nic Bideau) is the leading British entry in a senior men’s field that includes a host of
Today we look back at the 2013 European Mountain Running Championships in Borovets, Bulgaria, where Italy’s Bernard Demattei dethroned previous 6-time winner Ahmet Arslan. On a glorious morning in the Bulgarian hillsides of Borovets, Italy’s Bernard Demattei demonstrated that you should...
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