Stefanidi set for Karlsruhe debut
Katerina Stefanidi has won almost all there is to win in the pole vault and has competed at most top-level meetings on the international circuit, but the 28-year-old from Greece will make her Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe debut when she appears at the IAAF World Indoor Tour fixture on 2 February.
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Gen 10: distance maestro Rhonex Kipruto
Looking ahead to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, we're highlighting the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Gen 10: one-lap wonder Salwa Eid Naser
Looking ahead to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, we're highlighting the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Road round-up: Course records smashed in Shenzhen, Ethiopian double in Kolkata
Kenya’s Edwin Kipngetich Koech produced the Shenzhen Marathon’s first ever sub-2:10 performance, while Ethiopia’s Mulu Seboka improved the women’s course record by more than six minutes at the IAAF Silver Label road race on Sunday (16).
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Lyles' Doha ambition: ‘I want to be the world champion before I go to the Olympics’
“I get excited when I lose,” says Noah Lyles, a statement that appears at odds with the 21-year-old’s ravenous thirst for winning – but hear him out on this.
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Gen Ten: long jump star Juan Miguel Echevarria
Looking ahead to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, we're highlighting the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Course record assaults on tap in Shenzhen and Mersin - weekend road racing preview
Mulu Seboka of Ethiopia will return to the Shenzhen Marathon on Sunday (16) eyeing to improve on her runner-up finish from last year and chase the course record at this IAAF Silver Label road race in the process.
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Gen 10: speed sensation Briana Williams
Looking ahead to the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, we're highlighting the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Niiya and McSweyn take Zatopek: 10 victories in Melbourne
There is a long tradition of distance running in Japan. There is a long tradition of distance running in Australia. But the twain had scarcely met before Hitomi Niiya won this year’s annual Zatopek 10,000m race in Melbourne on Thursday (13) night.
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Ruswahl Samaai: I love jumping because…
World bronze medallist Ruswahl Samaai successfully defended his African long jump title earlier this year and went on to win at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018. The South African is in a bit of a love-hate relationship with his event, though…
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High and low – Yorgelis Rodriguez
Yorgelis Rodriguez is Cuba’s leading heptathlete, but despite being just 23 years old, the all-rounder has still had some ups and downs in her career.
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Gen 10: distance prodigy Selemon Barega
With one eye on the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the other on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, we're highlighting the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Minsk to host Europe vs USA match in 2019
An exciting Ryder Cup-style match between Europe and the United States will be staged at the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk, Belarus, on 9-10 September ahead of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.
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UN Sports for Climate Action Initiative launched at COP24 in Katowice
The global sports sector and UN Climate Change launched the Sports for Climate Action Framework at the COP24 Conference in Katowice, Poland, today (11), an effort to gather sports organisations, teams, athletes, and fans in a concerted effort to raise awareness and action to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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Gen 10: all-round sprint star Sydney McLaughlin
With one eye on the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the other on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, over the course of the next two weeks – Monday through Friday – we'll highlight the rise of a new generation, 10 exciting prospects under the age of 21 who are set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Przybylko's hunt for World Indoor Tour crown to begin in Karlsruhe
European high jump champion Mateusz Przybylko has his sights firmly set on winning the IAAF World Indoor Tour crown in his event this winter.
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Kevin Mayer's story behind the picture
French multi-events star Kevin Mayer reflects on this magical moment of pure elation when setting the world decathlon record of 9126 points in Talence last September.
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Kawauchi and Linden to defend Boston Marathon titles
Yuki Kawauchi and Desiree Linden will return to defend their titles at the Boston Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label road race, on 15 April, 2019.
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Gen 10: rising pole vault star Armand Duplantis
With one eye on the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 and the other on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the IAAF highlights 10 exciting prospects set to become stars of the sport over the next few years.
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Ingebrigtsen and Can impress at European Cross Country Championships
Endurance may be the key component when it comes to success at this discipline, but at the European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg, the Netherlands on Sunday (9), senior champions Filip Ingebrigtsen and Yasemin Can showed it also helps to have little speed.
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