tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46618398584525553222020-02-29T02:36:14.495-05:00Hightlights of Track and Field across the globe.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger593125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661839858452555322.post-83671373867511980442016-04-19T21:52:00.001-04:002016-04-19T21:52:21.926-04:00

(BBC) Athletics has "come through the worst" of its doping problems and the London 2017 World Championships will be the "cleanest ever", according to the event's director Niels de Vos. The sport remains dogged by allegations of doping, with Russia and Kenya facing bans from this summer's Olympics for failing to tackle cheating athletes. But UK Athletics chief De Vos said: "I think we're

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Stellenbosch - Stealing the show from a reigning world champion, Caster Semenya won national titles in the 400, 800, and 1 500 metres and ran Olympic qualifying times in the first two events at the South African championships on Saturday. Looking sharper than she has in years, the former 800 metre world champion set world-leading times in the 400 and 800. Finishing with the 1 500, Semenya

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(Denver Post) Russian track and field athletes were barred from international competition last November after an investigation revealed state-supported doping on a massive scale COLORADO SPRINGS — When David Oliver won a gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2013 world championships in Moscow, Russian Sergey Shubenkov claimed bronze. Last year Shubenkov succeeded Oliver as world champion,

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American Justin Gatlin ran the joint-sixth quickest 100m time in history to dominate the field in the Diamond League opener in Doha. The 33-year-old, who has served two doping bans, sprinted away to win his first race of 2015 in a time of 9.74 seconds - a world best for this year. It was a bad night for Britain's James Dasaolu , who finished last in the race in a time of 10.14. And Britain's Mo

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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will not appeal the one-year ban handed down to Tyson Gay for doping which has put the United States’s second-place finish in the 4x100 metres relay at the 2012 London Olympics in jeopardy. Gay, the world’s joint second fastest man, was banned for one year following a 2013 positive test for an anabolic steroid and stripped of all

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Three months after turning 20 the British sprinter Chijindu Ujah turned plenty of heads in the athletics world on Sunday evening by running 9.96sec for the 100 metres at the BFK Games in the Netherlands. He becomes only the fifth Briton to break the 10-second barrier and leaps to third on the all-time list behind the Olympic and world champion Linford Christie, who has run 9.87sec, and James

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“The IAAF’s faith in the innovative IAAF World Relays, a new event with a new presentation concept and The Bahamas ability to deliver a top global sports entertainment product have been richly rewarded this weekend” said IAAF President Lamine Diack. “In the ‘sun, sea and sand paradise’ that The Bahamas markets itself, we have experienced a true sporting paradise which has excelled beyond our

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Monaco - The 1st IAAF World Junior Coaches Conference will be held in Eugene, USA, on Monday 28 July, giving the opportunity for coaches from nearly 180 national teams assembled for the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships the chance to attend. Held at the University of Oregon campus in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom, near Hayward Field where the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships will be

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Nassau: Yohan Blake is back after a season blighted by a troublesome hamstring and announced on Friday he was ready to anchor Jamaica to more team success at the inaugural IAAF World Relays over the weekend. Jamaica, led by sprint legend Usain Bolt, have recently dominated the 4x100m relays at world and Olympic level. The Caribbean island have won the past three world titles, the past two

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FORT WORTH — Olympic gold medal winner and track and field coach Jon Drummond is suing top sprinter Tyson Gay and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, alleging that they falsely accused him of administering and providing performance-enhancing drugs to the star athlete. The defamation lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Tarrant County civil court against Gay and Travis Tygart, the chief executive officer

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A total prize purse of USD $1.4million will be paid by the IAAF for the men's and women's races at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 24-25 May. Team prize money for each race (all amounts are in US$) 1st – 50,000 2nd – 30,000 3rd – 20,000 4th – 12,000 5th – 10,000 6th – 8000 7th – 6000 8th – 4000 World record bonus Any team who breaks a world record in

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Tyson Gay did all the right things when he failed a drug test before the 2013 world championships. The U.S. sprinter immediately withdrew from competition, cooperated with authorities and, eventually, accepted a one-year ban. Now, it seems, he is going a step further. Gay is returning approximately $500,000 in prize money he earned at events while using a banned anabolic steroid, according

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Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay received a reduced one-year suspension for testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid last year, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday. Gay, 31, a four-time U.S. champion in the 100 meters, has returned his silver medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay from the 2012 London Olympic Games. Gay had no comment on the matter, a representative for the sprinter

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Monaco - Now in its 19th year, the IAAF World Athletics Day is the sport’s annual worldwide festival of youth and one of the busiest programmes of competitions in the athletics calendar. The World Athletics Day offers the opportunity to promote the sport through youth participation in clubs and schools. The IAAF World Athletics Day when it began in 1996, was initially planned exclusively

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International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack today announced plans for ‘Athletics for a Better World’ (ABW) a new social responsibility programme that will use the universality of athletics to make a positive difference in the world. The IAAF will cooperate closely with organisations including Peace & Sport, The United Nations and The IOC in the development of

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KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson has been handed an 18-month ban from competition, 10 months following her positive doping test. The sentence was handed down earlier today by the disciplinary panel that presided at her doping hearing at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston. In announcing the verdict, Lennox Gayle, chairman of the three-member Jamaica Anti-Doping

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Olympic 800m champion and world record-holder David Rudisha will return to IAAF Diamond League action at the Doha 2014 meeting on Friday 9 May. Rudisha’s appearance in the Qatari capital, the seventh of his career, will signal the Kenyan’s eagerly anticipated comeback after a knee injury cut his 2013 season short after just two races. For the home crowd, no appearance will be as keenly

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By Nick Zaccardi -- Trayvon Bromell has never heard of Zharnel Hughes, but they combined to put track and field on notice over two days and two countries last week. The Baylor freshman Bromell ran a 100m heat in 10.02 seconds in Austin, Texas, with a legal wind of +.9 meters per second (+2.0 is the maximum legal wind reading) on Friday. Hughes, from the Caribbean island of Anguilla, won the

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Longstanding partners in the field of sport and peace, ‘Peace and Sport, L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport’ and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have once again pooled their knowledge and shared values to organise a peace relay at the Stade Louis II in Monaco on Friday 4th April 2014. To celebrate the first ever International Day of Sport for Development

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American World Championships silver medallist Justin Gatlin has been confirmed for the Jamaica International invitational to be held at the National Stadium on May 3 it was announced this morning. Gatling has been confirmed to contest the men’s 100m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting. He will join 12 others who were confirmed earlier this week including Jamaica’s World Indoor 60m gold

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Veronica Campbell-Brown, the Jamaican sprinter, has been cleared to resume her career by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after successfully appealing against a two-year ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Campbell-Brown, 31 and who won 200m gold at the Athens and Beijing Olympics, escaped with a reprimand from Jamaica's national federation last year

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British Athletics has named a 35-strong team for next month's World Indoor Championships in Poland, but one of the strongest hopes for a gold medal is missing Sprinter James Dasaolu, ranked number one in the world in the 60 metres this year after posting a personal best of 6.47 seconds in the semi-finals of the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday, will be missing from the GB

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(Reuters) - Twice Olympic 100 meters champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will run in this year's Commonwealth Games, she said on Friday. The Jamaican, who won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at last year's world championships in Moscow, is undecided on which events she will contest in Glasgow. "I'm not sure if it's the 100m or the 200m, but I'm looking forward to doing that... I've

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Kenya's Florence Kiplagat set a world record for the women's half marathon with a blistering performance at a race in Barcelona on Sunday, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said. The 26-year-old recorded a time of one hour five minutes and 12 seconds, beating the previous best of 1:05:50 set by compatriot Mary Keitany in Ras Al Khaimah in February 2011. Kiplagat's

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OLYMPIC and World champion Haile Gebrselassie will be Mo Farah’s pace maker when he makes his marathon debut in London. Gebreselassie, regarded as the greatest distance runner of all time, has accepted the job of leading the Virgin Money London Marathon field to a fast time. Farah is currently at high altitude training in Kenya preparing for his eagerly-awaited first full marathon on April 13.

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