Yomif Kejelcha Breaks the Half-Marathon World Record He Used to Hold
The 29-year-old Ethiopian ran 56:51 in Buenos Aires on Sunday, 29 seconds inside Jacob Kiplimo’s mark from March, which World Athletics has still not ratified.
Comrades Expands Its 100th Anniversary Field to 28,000 With Half the Places Going to a Ballot.
Entries for the June 13, 2027 down run open Tuesday, but general applications do not open until Sept. 9, with the draw on Sept. 23. The centenary race goes ahead without Athletics South Africa’s sanction.
Sydney Marathon Says Finishers Will Get the Medal With the Wrong Stadium
Two days after the error surfaced, and after it reached the AFP world wire, the organizers responded on Instagram. The statement concedes the mistake and says nothing about a replacement.
Humanoid Robot Runs 9.39, Beating Usain Bolt’s 100m World Record by 0.19
Tien Kung Ultra covered the distance on the opening day of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. No independent body ratified the time, and the federation that sanctions the event grew out of the event itself.
Everything You Need To Know About UTMB 2026 Race Week
Eight races run in Chamonix from Aug. 24 to 30, and the 846 elite entrants are 34 more than last year. Kilian Jornet, Jim Walmsley, Tom Evans and Katie Schide are not among them.
Sydney’s Marathon Medal Shows the Allianz Arena, Not the Allianz Stadium
The skyline on the reverse of the 2026 finisher medal includes Allianz Arena in Munich, not the Sydney ground of nearly the same name that sits on the course at Moore Park.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Returns to the Diamond League in Silesia. Here’s the Full Schedule.
The Kamila Skolimowska Memorial runs Sunday at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzow, with the international broadcast starting at 10 a.m. ET and five global 100m medalists in one women’s final.
COROS Teams Up With SATISFY To Release a $520 Watch
The 46mm edition reached both brands’ sites Friday at $520. The bezel, the straps and the watch faces are new, and nothing else is.
Jim Walmsley Withdraws From UTMB, Leaving the Race Without Its Two Top-Rated Men
His representatives confirmed the withdrawal to Marathon Handbook on Friday. The knee that stopped him at Western States in June has cost him the race where he still holds the course record.
European Record Holder Andreas Almgren Chose One of the Hardest Majors for His Marathon Debut
The 31-year-old Swede holds European records at 5,000m, 10K and the half-marathon. His first marathon will be in New York on Nov. 1.
Boston Won’t Take the Adjusted Times Edmonton Is Promising
The Boston Athletic Association says an official Edmonton finish time can still be submitted, but not one a race has restated.
Leon Baptiste, Reported Missing in Morocco, Is Serving a Prison Sentence in Marrakech
The 41-year-old British sprint coach was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor and is serving eight months at Al-Oudaya prison, BBC Sport reported. Four publicly funded British athletes are still listed under his name.
Jenny Simpson Survived a Cardiac Arrest, But Her Diagnosis Means She Cannot Run Again.
Simpson went into cardiac arrest at a community mile in Raleigh on June 16, arrested a second time in hospital and spent nine days at Duke. She said Thursday that the inherited condition behind it rules out running.
Daddy Pig Is Running The Berlin Marathon, But He’ll Have To Watch The Cutoff Time
The Peppa Pig character is entered for Berlin on Sept. 27. Runners who fall behind the limit there are removed from the marked course, with no finishing time and no medal.
Kilian Jornet Is Missing UTMB for Surgery on the Knee He First Broke in 2006
The 38-year-old said Thursday that he and his medical team have chosen surgery after a conservative approach failed, eight days before UTMB. He started two races in 2026 and finished one.
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