Athletics
Marc Scott and Hellen Obiri take 40th Great North Run honours
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Sunday, 12 September 2021 06:21
Briton succeeds Mo Farah as champion, while Kenyan wins brilliant battle with Eilish McColgan as showpiece event makes a memorable return The Great North Run celebrated its 40th birthday in fine style as mass participation running returned to Britain’s streets and the elite athletes produced a memorable day of racing with some terrific performances befitting the landmark occasion. The theme…
Great North Run at 40: the idea which became a phenomenon
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 12:41
On the eve of its landmark staging, event founder Sir Brendan Foster explains how a vision was turned into record-breaking reality Sir Brendan Foster had an idea, he just didn’t have a plan around how to turn the vision into reality. In the end, he got by with a little help from his friends. It was late 1980 when the…
Eilish McColgan broadening her horizons at 40th Great North Run
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 06:26
British 5000m record-holder’s half-marathon debut will aid her athletics education as she plots a potential route towards the marathon in 2022 Eilish McColgan is an athlete who has never been afraid to try her hand at a variety of distances. Just during the course of this year alone, so far the former steeplechaser has raced across 1500m, 3000m, 5000m and…
Keely Hodgkinson: “Going into that Olympic final, I refused not to be on the podium”
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Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:07
Olympic women’s 800m silver medallist and British record-holder on Tokyo success, the feeling of driving James Bond’s Aston Martin and long-term 4x400m ambitions The name is Hodgkinson, Keely Hodgkinson. In 2021, the 19-year-old 800m sensation has become European Indoor champion, Diamond League champion, won an Olympic silver medal, broken Kelly Holmes’ 26-year-old British record and driven James Bond’s £3.3m Aston…
Centenary celebrations for ISTAF Berlin
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Friday, 10 September 2021 07:05
Karsten Warholm, Malaika Mihambo and Mariya Lasitskene are among the athletes competing in the Continental Tour meeting in the German capital on Sunday The Internationales Stadionfest meeting – or ISTAF as it is commonly known – was first staged in July 1921 and is the world’s oldest one-day invitational athletics meeting. This means the event is 100 years old and…
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