Category: ATHLETICS
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Doha will stage IPC Athletics Championships
Germany, Jan 15, 2013: Doha, Qatar, will stage the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, the International Paralympic Committee has announced. The event will be the last major gathering of top international athletes before the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and is expected to attract around 1,300 of the world’s best athletes from 90 countries and will…
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IPC Athletics statement on grand prix series media reports
Germany, Jan 13, 2013: Following some British media reports on Sunday (13 January) claiming that a global series of para-athletics grand prix events will be trialled in 2013 by IPC Athletics, the global governing body has made the following statement. Craig Spence, the IPC’s Director of Communications, said: “Following the success of London 2012, IPC…
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German Public Service Broadcaster agreement
Monaco – Jan 11, 2013: Broadcaster Agreement, The IAAF is delighted to announce the conclusion of a broadcasting deal in Germany for the 2013 IAAF World Championships, Moscow, Russia. The agreement was concluded between Sport A, the sports buying rights agency of German public service broadcasters ARD/ZDF, and IEC in Sports, the IAAF’s exclusive media…
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2012 End of Year Reviews begin tomorrow
Monte-Carlo – Dec 20: It has become a tradition that the IAAF publishes its annual ‘End of the Year Reviews’ on the IAAF website – www.iaaf.org. The 2012 series, which is composed of eight event category reviews, will begin tomorrow. The authors, renowned statisticians A. Lennart Julin (SWE) and Mirko Jalava (FIN), begin their analyses…
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London to host 2017 Athletics Championships
Bonn – Germany, Dec 19: After staging one of the best and most-talked about Paralympic Games in history this summer, London was announced as the host city of the 2017 IPC Athletics World Championships on Wednesday, 19 December. The Championships will be held in July 2017 at the Olympic Stadium, just a month before the…
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IAAF Centenary Gala Show brings together
Barcelona – Spain, Nov 25: The spectacular IAAF Centenary Gala Show which took place tonight in Barcelona’s Palau Nacional was the highlight of a momentous year of celebrations which have marked the IAAF Centenary. The Palau Nacional, built for the 1929 International Exhibition, is the home of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and…
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Bolt and Felix are World Athletes of the Year
Barcelona – Spain, Nov 24: Usain Bolt (JAM) and Allyson Felix (USA) were today named the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year for 2012. Bolt, who won the award for the fourth time, and Felix, a first-time winner, received their trophies and US$100,000 prize at the Athletes of the Year Awards Ceremony in…
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Athletics: Spirit of World Plan Awards
Barcelona – Spain Nov 23: Spirit, Marking the conclusion of the IAAF’s current strategic policy, the Athletics’ World Plan 2003-2012 which was designed to ensure that the sport of Athletics and its world governing body was fit and ready for the tasks of the next 100 years, a special award ceremony took place in the…
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2015 World XC and Youth Champs
Barcelona – Spain, Nov 23: Guiyang, The second day of the IAAF Council meeting presided over by President Lamine Diack saw the confirmation of the host venues for two IAAF World Athletics Series events which will take place in 2015. 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Guiyang, China The delegation from Guiyang, China, was headed…
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IAAF Athletics: Spectacular IAAF Centenary celebrations
Monaco, Nov 20: Centenary, The focus of the Athletics’ world shifts to Barcelona, Spain, this week with the Catalan capital preparing for one of the greatest ever celebrations in the sport’s history. The annual World Athletics Gala of the International Athletics Foundation, usually hosted in Monaco, has exceptionally moved to Barcelona, and will serve as…