Category: ATHLETICS

  • IAAF World Challenge opens in Melbourne

    IAAF World Challenge opens in Melbourne

    Monaco, Mar 28, 2013: With the international indoor and cross country seasons completed, the focus of the athletics world is shifting to the outdoor track and field season with the world’s best athletes set to embark on another world-wide tour as the 2013 IAAF World Challenge series of one-day meetings begins in just over a…

  • 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships

    2014 IPC Athletics European Championships

    Germany, Mar 21, 2013: Swansea, Wales will stage the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced, the first time the event has been held in Great Britain. Around 600 athletes from 40 countries will compete in the event which will be staged at Swansea University between 18 and 23 August…

  • Course and scoring details – Bydgoszcz 2013

    Course and scoring details – Bydgoszcz 2013

    Monaco – Mar 21, 2013: Myslecinek Park, on the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, is being prepared to welcome more than 400 runners from 47 different countries at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday 24 March2013. The park was the venue for the championships three years ago but the circuit design has been…

  • Bolt back in Brussels Samsung Diamond League

    Bolt back in Brussels Samsung Diamond League

    Monaco, Mar 20, 2013: For the sixth time in his outstanding career, Usain Bolt will compete at the Belgacom Memorial, the second of two finals of the Samsung Diamond League, on 6 September 2013. He will decide later in the season whether he will contest the 100m or 200m in Brussels, but either way he…

  • Bolt to return to Rome Samsung Diamond League

    Bolt to return to Rome Samsung Diamond League

    Monaco, Mar 19, 2013: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, the back-to-back Olympic champion in the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m, will compete for the third time in a row at Rome’s Golden Gala, the fifth leg of the Samsung Diamond League, on 6 June 2013. To date, Bolt has left two impressive marks on Rome’s Olympic Stadium track…

  • 27th Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan

    27th Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan

    Kazan – Russia, Mar 15, 2013: From 6 to 17 July 2013, Kazan is hosting the 27th FISU Summer Universiade, the largest multi-sport event staged in Russia in the last 30 years. During these World University Games 351 sets of medals are at stake in 27 sports. It is expected that more than 13,500 athletes…

  • Merga motivated to defend his Cross Country title

    Merga motivated to defend his Cross Country title

    Monaco – Mar 14, 2013: Ethiopia’s defending senior men’s champion Imane Merga can hardly wait to stand on the start line at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, which will be held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz on Sunday 24 March. “Training has been going very well. I feel very strong, very confident…

  • On-line Media Accreditation is open

    On-line Media Accreditation is open

    Monaco – Mar 08, 2013: The Samsung Diamond League has today opened its central Online Media Accreditation System for the2013 season. Via the Media Centre on the Samsung Diamond League website you can make accreditation applications for one or more of the 14 Samsung Diamond League meetings in 2013. If you used the system in…

  • Helsinki re-tests reveal six adverse findings

    Helsinki re-tests reveal six adverse findings

    Monaco – Mar 08, 2013: The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has re-tested a selection of doping samples collected at the 2005 IAAF World Championships, Helsinki, Finland, from a wide range of disciplines and nations, and the results have revealed a further* six adverse findings. The IAAF, as part of its strategic anti-doping policy,…

  • Pointers from IAAF Cross Country Permit

    Pointers from IAAF Cross Country Permit

    Monaco – Mar 07, 2013: The curtain came down on the 2013 IAAF Cross Country Permit series two weeks ago but traditionally many of the winners at these meetings make their presence felt at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. So just who could be a factor at this year’s edition, which will be staged…