World Athletics has ratified the London Marathon world records, making Sabastian Sawe’s 1:59:30 the first sub-two ever to count and confirming Tigst Assefa’s 2:15:41 women-only mark, part of a batch of seven senior world records from 2026.
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The U.S. Championships run July 23 to 26 at Icahn Stadium in New York. Here’s every track final and qualifying round, distilled to the running events, with all times in ET.
The fall majors have become the industry’s launch calendar, and nearly a dozen race-day shoes are aimed at them. We have already run in three, one may not exist at all, and every call carries a probability we will grade in December.
For 2027, the B.A.A. will randomly select roughly 1,000 runners who beat the qualifying standard but missed the cutoff, a direct answer to the brutal cutoffs locking out thousands of BQ-holders. Registration runs September 14 to 18.
Garmin has bought TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic, extending its reach from the hardware on athletes’ wrists to the coaching software that sits on top of it. Terms were not disclosed.
Days after his 3:42.66 world mile record in London, Josh Kerr says his hearing cut out with about 110m to go, the second time it has happened in a major final.
Chamonix’s new mayor has confined the UTMB’s brand village to one square this year and wants fewer races, spectator limits, and less night running through nature reserves before registration opens for 2027.
The screen-free Cirqa Smart Band, released Tuesday, carries the training and recovery metrics of Garmin’s high-end watches and costs about what Whoop charges for one year of its cheapest membership.
A trend on TikTok warns that running thickens the waist and builds bulky obliques. The largest pooled studies of aerobic exercise point the other way.
Four days of finals begin Thursday on Randall’s Island, the first national track meet held in New York City since 1991, with Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri Richardson, and the youngest world champion in the sport’s history all entered.
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In fifteen months the city has staged the first sub-two-hour marathon, the end of a 27-year-old mile record, the largest marathon ever run, and the first ballot to pass a million entries. Whether that settles the question depends on what a capital is for.
The For Better or For Worse hosts married July 4 on Prince Edward Island, one day after a guest 5K that drew two sub-2:18 marathoners, an uncle in a fedora, and one loitering complaint.
The 17-year-old, already the youngest individual world champion in track and field history, opens his 800m at Icahn Stadium on Friday, days after finishing second at the Prefontaine Classic for his only defeat of 2026.
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