Category: ATHLETICS
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Minister of Sport, Mayor of Beijing, Liu Xiang and Kamworor join President Diack to launch online ticket sales for Beijing
Beijing, March 29, 2015: The Minister of the General Administration of Sport of China and Chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee Liu Peng, Mayor of Beijing Wang Anshun and IAAF President Lamine Diack today met in the Golden Room of China’s National Stadium, better known as the Bird’s Nest, to unveil the design of the…
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Two IAAF challenge series set to kick off in Melbourne
Monaco, March 19, 2015: On Saturday (21), Melbourne will mark the beginning of the sixth editions of both the IAAF World Challenge and the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. Both series will pass through numerous countries around the world before reaching a conclusion in Rieti on 13 September. The challenge events will also cross over throughout…
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80th Asian Athletics Association Council Meeting 2015
Jakarta, March 15, 2015: 80th Asian Athletics Association Council meeting, chaired by President Dahlan Al-Hamad, was held in the Fairmont Hotel, Jakarta (Indonesia) on Thursday (March 12). It was the last meeting of the existing council members ahead of the Congress in Wuhan in June 2015 which will elect new council members for the period…
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IAAF Diamond League Online Media Accreditation is open – new accreditation system launched
March 13, 2015: With little more than two months to go to the launch of the 2015 season of the IAAF Diamond League in Doha on 15 May, the IAAF Diamond League has today opened a new centralised Online Media Accreditation System for 2015. Via the new system, media representatives can make accreditation applications for…
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One month to go – IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015
Monaco, Feb 27, 2015: There is little more than a month to go to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 on Sunday 28 March when the spotlight will be shone on the Chinese city. The oldest of the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions, this year’s event will be the 41st staging of the…
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Adelaide to launch 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge
Monaco, Feb 20, 2015: Hot sun and hot competition is expected as Adelaide launches the 2015 edition of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Sunday (22). Adelaide, capital city of South Australia, is usually hot and dry in summer and this year is no exception. Temperatures for Sunday’s men’s and women’s Oceania and Australian 20km…
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Top Chinese stars mark 200-day countdown to IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015
Monaco, Feb, 3, 2015: With 200 days to go until the Chinese capital hosts the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, seven leading athletes have been made ambassadors of the championships, which will run from 22-30 August. Three of the seven ambassadors appeared at a press conference on Tuesday (3). Liu Xiang, the 2004 Olympic 110m…
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Robust IAAF anti-doping programme – Zaripova and Chernova
Monaco, Feb 2, 2015: The disciplinary cases concerning the anti-doping rule violations of Tatiana Chernova and Yulia Zaripova, notified by RUSADA at the end of last week, are the latest illustration of the robustness of the IAAF anti-doping programme. The case of Yulia Zaripova was based upon irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) profile…
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2015 IAAF Indoor Permit meetings get underway this weekend
Monaco, Jan 30, 2015: The 2015 IAAF Indoor Permit meetings get underway this weekend with two of the most famous and historic events on the indoor calendar: the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Saturday (31) and then the Russian Winter meeting in Moscow on Sunday (1). Across a three-week period, the series moves on from Germany…
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Media Accreditation procedure for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015
Monaco – Jan 30, 2015: The online Media Accreditation procedure for written press and photographers wishing to cover the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 in China on 28 March 2015, is now open. The deadline for journalists and photographers wishing to apply for accreditation (and accommodation) via the IAAF Accreditation Registration System is…