Category: ATHLETICS
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IAAF World Indoor Championships Sopot 2014
Monaco, Feb 07, 2014: The athletics world has been treated to two world indoor records already this year, courtesy of Genzebe Dibaba, so hopes are high that there will be more record-breaking performances in Sopot when the Polish city hosts the IAAF World Indoor Championships (7 to 9 March) exactly one month from today. Since…
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Suhr excited with a month to go until Sopot
Monaco, Feb 05, 2014: As the reigning Olympic champion and world indoor record-holder, pole vaulter Jenn Suhr will head to Sopot, Poland, next month for the IAAF World Indoor Championships on 7-9 March as one of the USA’s biggest gold medal favourites. With little more than one month to go until the biggest global athletics…
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2014 IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings and IAAF Race Walking Challenge
Monaco – Jan 24, 2014: There is just over a week to go until the start of both the 2014 IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting season and the 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge. Saturday 1 February sees the German city of Karlsruhe stage the first of six top-level indoor meetings during an action-packed two weeks which…
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IAAF World Indoor Championships Ambassadors
Monaco, Jan 17, 2014: The IAAF have appointed Canadian sprinter Bruny Surin, US hurdler Allen Johnson and Ukraine multi-events exponent Natallia Dobrynska as Ambassadors to the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, which will be held in the Polish city of Sopot between 7-9 March. Each of the trio, in addition to all their other accolades,…
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IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running
Belgrade – Serbia, Dec 10, 2013: More than 100 participants from all six of the IAAF Area Associations gathered in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running on Monday (December 9). The chair and moderator was IAAF Vice President Sebastian Coe and the seminar addressed a variety of issues…
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IAAF Ambassador Kipketer gets Sopot
Monaco, Nov 29, 2013: Sopot running, More than 700 amateur athletes raced through the streets of Sopot on Thursday (28) to mark the 100-day countdown to the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships. They were joined by IAAF Ambassador Wilson Kipketer, Denmark’s three-time World 800m champion, along with some of Poland’s top athletes, including 2009 World…
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Event disciplines per each meeting – IDL
Monaco, Nov 28, 2013: The IAAF Diamond League is delighted to announce the distribution of event disciplines for the 2014 season. Commencing on 9 May 2014 in Doha (QAT), the fifth season of the IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across…
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IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running
Monaco – Nov 22, 2013: The IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running will take place on 9 December 2013 in the Serbian capital Belgrade and will discuss the major issues facing Cross Country participation, and Cross Country running in general. The seminar will be chaired by IAAF Vice President, Lord Sebastian Coe and has…
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Bolt and Fraser are crowned 2013 World Athletes
Monaco – Nov 17, 2013: Usain Bolt (JAM) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) were today named the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year for 2013. Bolt, who won the award for the fifth time, and Fraser-Pryce, a first-time winner, received their trophies at this evening’s IAAF World Athletics Gala held at the Salle des…
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Portland 2016 and Birmingham 2018
Monaco – Nov 15, 2013: Portland 2016 and Birmingham 2018, The IAAF Council chaired by President Lamine Diack today met in the Fairmont Hotel, Monaco, for the second and final day of its traditional autumnal session in Monaco. Dominating today’s meeting were the bid presentations by the potential hosts for three IAAF World Athletics Series (WAS)…