Athletics
Trayvon Bromell: “I’ve got a real strong connection with both Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake”
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Tuesday, 04 January 2022 04:12
US sprinter on becoming the fastest man in 2021, friendship with Bolt and Blake plus using Tokyo disappointment for 2022 goals Trayvon Bromell ends 2021 as the fastest human on the planet this year. A time of 9.76, set at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi on September 18, saw the 26-year-old American top the men’s 100m tree and it…
Three-time Olympic triple jump champion Viktor Saneyev dies
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Monday, 03 January 2022 04:46
Winner in Mexico 1968, Munich 1972 and Montreal 1976 also won Olympic silver in Moscow 1980 plus two European titles representing the Soviet Union Triple jump great Viktor Saneyev, a three-time Olympic champion and former world record-holder, has died aged 76. Born in Georgia in 1945, he competed for the USSR but has passed away in Australia, where he had…
UK road results, December 31, 2021
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Monday, 03 January 2022 02:40
New Year’s Eve events from around the nation Advanced Performance New Year’s Eve 10km, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, December 31 Overall: 1 C Dockerill (Kent) 33:23 2 J Orrell (Hunts, U20) 34:22 3 S Edwards (Poole R) 34:33 4 A Lydon (Hunts, U17) 34:43 5 D Tomaselli (Hunts, U20) 34:52 M40: 1 D Lewis (P’boro &NV) 35:15 @media only screen and (max-width:…
UK fell results, December 31, 2021
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Monday, 03 January 2022 02:58
Hill runners end the year with lung-bursting efforts DALESIDE BREWERY AULD LANG SYNE, Haworth, December 31 Jack Willis, a former North East Cross-Country Championships bronze medallist, was an easy winner of the New Year’s Eve event as he took the title by just under two minutes in 42:49. Hinda Hardaker, 47, won the women’s race by just over a minute…
Centenary celebrations for women’s athletics in Britain
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Sunday, 02 January 2022 03:58
Amid a backdrop of prejudice and male chauvinism, the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association was created in 1922 and it proved a huge success as female athletes went from strength to strength over the next 100 years When the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association (WAAA) was formed in 1922, the male-dominated administrators of track and field felt that females had no place…
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