カテゴリー: Athletics
Sam Ruthe, 16, was the youngest person to break the four-minute mile in 2025 and this year the ‘remarkable’ running talent extended his record streakBefore the teenage New Zealand runner, Sam Ruthe, took to Boston University’s famous indoor track in Ja…
A recent winner of four Masters Games gold medals, Sawang Janpram began competing at 97 – motivated by his daughter, now 73For the 105-year-old Thai athlete Sawang Janpram, the day normally starts at 5.30am. He has a breakfast of two boiled eggs, some …
Javelin thrower who won Pakistan’s first ever medal in track and field has done ‘the impossible’, says brotherThe latest medal table | Live schedule | And full resultsArshad Nadeem’s Olympic gold was celebrated with dancing and sweets in his small vill…
Veteran long-distance runner Sharon Firisua among stars competing in the two-week tournament set to begin in HoniaraCrocodiles are a dangerous part of life in Solomon Islands, and when two-time Olympian Sharon Firisua saw eyes peering out of the Yarra …
Picture of athletes’ ‘6/4’ race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacreA photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women’s race numbers inadvertently formed a reference …
Shot put champion Gong Lijiao quizzed about boyfriends and settling down into ‘a woman’s life’The Chinese state media channel CCTV has been roundly criticised after a TV anchor described an Olympic medallist as a “manly woman” and asked her if she had …
After a year’s delay, the Games begin this week. But it is an event that few in a fearful host nation now want as infections rise againThe joy and anticipation that greeted the International Olympic Committee’s decision in 2013 to award the 2020 Games …
One of India’s greatest track athletes, known as ‘the Flying Sikh’, who won gold at the 1958 Commonwealth GamesOne of India’s greatest track athletes, Milkha Singh, who has died aged 91 of Covid-19, was known as “the Flying Sikh” in recognition of his …
Narendra Modi leads tributes to ‘Flying Sikh’, who won India’s first Commonwealth gold in 1958Milkha Singh, one of India’s first sport superstars, has died of Covid-related complications at the age of 91.Singh, who was popularly known as the Flying Sik…
Twenty-one competitors died in the freezing Chinese mountains, raising major questions about safety in the sportAt the starting line of the Gansu ultramarathon, it was cold but the sun was shining. One competitor struggled to warm up, even after joggin…