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Berlin set for classic marathon

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-15

LAST year's winner Patrick Makau of Kenya will run this month's Berlin marathon, setting up a mouth-watering showdown with world record holder Haile Gebrselassie, organizers said yesterday. Makau, who ran the...

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Bolt sprints to season's best after Daegu shock

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-15

WORLD record holder Usain Bolt won the 100 meters dash at an IAAF World Challenge event on Tuesday in a personal season's best time of 9.85 seconds on a hot and humid evening in Croatia's capital Zagreb. Having...

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Blake clocks personal best as Isinbayeva flops again

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-10

SHOWING the swagger that comes from being world champion, Yohan Blake ran a personal best time of 9.82 seconds to win the 100 meters at the Weltklasse meeting in Zurich on Thursday. The 21-year-old Jamaican stumbled...

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Pistorius says will focus on training rather than debate

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-9

DESPITE his trailblazing success at the world championships in Daegu, Oscar Pistorius knows he still hasn't convinced everyone he belongs on the track next to able-bodied runners. The double-amputee sprinter,...

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Praise for Bolt

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-7

CALLING Usain Bolt "the Muhammad Ali of athletics," Sebastian Coe predicts the Jamaican sprinter will steal the show again at next year's London Olympics. Coe, the former middle-distance running great, heads the organizing...

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Bolt leads Jamaica to relay gold with record

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-5

IN one whirlwind week, Usain Bolt turned the biggest disappointment of his career into another golden show capped with a world record. After opening with a false start in the 100 meters final last Sunday, Bolt...

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Defiant IAAF to stick with false start rule

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-5

THE IAAF has no plans to change its stringent false start rule for next year's London Olympics despite the disqualification of Usain Bolt in the 100 meters at the world championships. IAAF President Lamine Diack...

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Gold for Bolt in fourth-best 200 dash

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-4

SIX days and a slow start later, Usain Bolt finally won gold at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, running the fourth-fastest 200 meters in history to back up his showmanship with a stunning performance. ...

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Excluded Pistorius gets silver for relay

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-3

DOUBLE-AMPUTEE runner Oscar Pistorius won a silver medal yesterday at the world championships despite being excluded from the starting lineup in the 4x400-meter relay race. One day after helping South Africa qualify...

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Campbell-Brown strikes gold

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-3

VERONICA Campbell-Brown ripped Allyson Felix's 200 meters crown from her grip yesterday while another Jamaican scorched up the road to redemption and into the hearts of the Daegu crowd at the world championships in...

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Powell Out Of Jamaican Relay Team

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-2

ASAFA Powell pulled out of the Jamaican 4x100-meter relay team yesterday because he has not sufficiently recovered from a groin injury. Powell's agent, Paul Doyle, said it would be too much of a risk for the team...

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Kemboi dances to glory

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-2

EZEKIEL Kemboi retained his world 3,000 meters steeplechase title yesterday while compatriot Brimin Kipruto was involved in a controversial fight to the finish for silver. Kenya has now claimed nine of the 13 world...

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United States wins 3 golds at worlds

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-2

IN a golden half hour for the United States, three Americans won world championship titles in Daegu yesterday, none more surprising than Jennifer Barringer Simpson getting the first 1,500-meter victory since Mary Decker-Slaney...

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IAAF will not change rule after Bolt fiasco

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-1

THE International Association of Athletics Federations will not be rushed into revising the controversial false-start rule that sent Usain Bolt crashing out of the world championships 100 meters, a top official said...

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Robles claims being Cuban cost him hurdles gold

Sports | Athletics
2011-9-1

CUBAN hurdler Dayron Robles has claimed he wouldn't have been disqualified from the 110-meter hurdles at the world championships if he came from a more powerful country. Robles was stripped of his first-place...