Double European under-23 champion beats Laura Muir to smash Jenny Meadows’ UK mark with 1:57.91 Jemma Reekie stormed into 2020 in style as she smashed the British indoor 800m record during an invitation women’s 800m race at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena on Saturday. Not only did her winning time of 1:57.91 improve on Jenny Meadows’ 10-year-old UK mark of 1:58.43 but…

The England international’s London Marathon finish line fall featured in the world’s media but that was only part of her journey. In a new documentary Stéphanie Garstin follows her highs and lows during a transition to the track before an autumn marathon When my friend Stéphanie first suggested making a film I was a little reluctant. There had been a…

Both world record-holders are selected, as Kipchoge defends his title in Japan Kenya’s two world marathon record-holders, Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei, are among the athletes to have been selected for the Olympic Games in Japan. Kipchoge will defend the marathon title he won in Rio in 2016, while Kosgei makes her Olympic debut. They are set to be joined…

Nike’s controversial NEXT% shoe gets green light, says World Athletics, but governing body bans new prototypes with thicker heels and multiple carbon plates The Vaporfly has survived World Athletics’ much-anticipated and long-awaited ruling on so-called shoe-related ‘technological doping’, but Nike’s famous footwear has effectively been forbidden from having any children. Nike’s next generation models such as the Alphafly worn by…