European Athletics reached a crossroads in Belgrade last month  with a Presidential election between two candidates promoting very different views. History records that the incumbent, Dobromir Karamarinov, held off the challenge of vice-president Libor Varhanik by 28 votes to 21.

I consider that we are the main Olympic sport so we can co-ordinate the TV programme.

We are ready to co-ordinate with the other main Olympic sports just to share the revenue of this - but

Our concept is different to the World Athletics model because we include a marathon and the longest distance

in the World Athletics event is the half marathon.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Botswana's men's 800 metres Olympic silver medallist Nijel

have been disqualified from June 4 2022 in addition to the ban.The 29-year-old won Botswana's first Olympic

metabolic modulator, a category which covers substances that modify how the body metabolises fat.Kenyan marathon

the presence of testosterone and its metabolite in an in-competition sample provided at the Singapore Marathon

years starting from February 21 2023, with all results from December 4 2022 including her Singapore Marathon

years.Moroccan distance runner Jouaher, who ran a personal best 2 hours 8min 42sec to win the Riyadh Marathon

Amir Khan is currently in the jungle. No, not to rumble like Ali and Foreman back in the 1970s but as a contestant in the hit TV reality show "I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!"

The former Olympic silver medallist and two times world professional light-welterweight champion is among

French female runner came up with the seemingly incredible excuse that during heavy rainfall in a half-marathon

unidentified medical waste was washed on to the road and was splashed all over her.According to the coach of Olympic

ImagesI first saw him win a schoolboy championship as a 15-year-old in Barnsley, and two years later the Olympic

£70,000 ($87,000/€79,000).He once split temporarily from his wife, alleging she was having an affair with Olympic

London is still struggling to untangle the respective claims of athletics and football at its main 2012 Olympic

The Budapest Marathon, the Budapest Half Marathon and the Vivicittá City Run attract nearly 100,000 people

every year.On the closing weekend of the World Championships, the world's best marathon athletes will

There were and are many possibilities in this city as to how to draw a route for a marathon.

The most important aspect in setting the start time of a marathon is what conditions can be expected

The 19th World Athletics Championships is due to take place in Budapest over nine days of competition, from August 19 to 27, in the 35,000-capacity National Athletics Centre that has been newly built on the banks of the River Danube. 

as it is the only event on the programme where men and women compete together for medals.The men's marathon

, has taken a first step into marathon running but is training to do these two track events at Budapest

  Back to topDAY 8  –  August 26Women's marathon 7.00 CETIt's hard to know at this distance

of the Boston Marathon, return to challenge?

Back to topDAY 9  –  August 27Men's marathon  7.00 CETMosinet Geremew of Ethiopia won

The Paris 2024 Marathon for All will take place on the evening of August 10 on the same course as the

men's Olympic marathon earlier in the day.

confirmed.This event is a first, as no such general public event has ever been organised in the history of the Olympic

The Paris 2024 Marathon for All on the evening of August 10 will follow the Olympic route and be run

following the morning's men's Olympic race ©Paris 2024There are still 35,000 participant bibs to be won

Invalides.An historic route awaits runners past the finest monuments in the Paris region.The women's Olympic

marathon will take place on the following day.

How to explain Sifan Hassan? If she were in Friends, she would be Phoebe. She has that same unpredictability - you think she might be an airhead and then - boom! - she gets right to the point.

When I woke up this morning I was telling myself I was stupid to run a marathon, and what is wrong with

Sifan Hassan's London Marathon victory in her first race at the distance was a surprise to her - and

 A timely deployment of chicken nuggets may have played a part in Usain Bolt's first Olympic 100

Eating chicken nuggets in the athletes’ bus en route to an Olympic 100m final, as Usain Bolt reportedly

But on the next occasion the other marathon runners will have a better idea of what to expect.

Two staggering performances made the 43rd London Marathon arguably the greatest seen as Sifan Hassan,

outsprinted the event's finest to claim a shock win and then Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum, in only his second marathon

Hassan has won Olympic and world titles on the track, but her victory on the rainy roads of London today

her left leg.She resumed however - and after catching a lead group that contained Kenya’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic

Her comments offered no clues: "I am going to finish the marathon or the marathon is going to finish

me…sometimes I wake up and think 'why the hell do I decide to run a marathon?'"

three minutes of running.But this race lacked nothing in terms of talent or drama.Britain's four-time Olympic

A study from the International Longevity Centre UK has used Commonwealth Games record to find that elite athletes can live more than five years longer than the rest of the population.

The report Marathon or sprint: do elite-level athletes live longer than average?

As people watch the efforts of the London marathon runners with awe, perhaps they might reflect that

said British Olympic silver medallist Sharron Davies."

The four fastest marathon runners in history will assemble at the start of tomorrow’s TCS London Marathon

- Britain’s multiple world and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Sir Mo Farah, means that the

year in running 2hr 17min 26sec, will defend her title against a fearsome field that includes Kenya’s Olympic

is running her first marathon since having to miss last year’s New York City Marathon on November 6

Maybe I will finish the marathon, or maybe the marathon will finish me!"

Sometimes I wake up and think ‘Why the hell do I decide to run a marathon?’"

Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw, who will defend her title in the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (April

Sometimes I wake up and think ‘Why the hell do I decide to run a marathon?’

Olympic 5,000 metres and 10,000m champion Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands, who will make her marathon

No, I don’t consider running a World Championship marathon," Hassan said."

Maybe if I run well I will consider another marathon at the end of the year."

I'm disappointed and know I'm ready to run a good marathon..."

European Athletics is at crossroads in Belgrade this weekend during its Congress, involving a Presidential election that will result in the organisation being taken in one of two very different directions.

Romania's Beijing 2008 women's marathon champion Constantina Dita is one of the 25 candidates vying for

seats on the Council include several former top class athletes including Romania's Beijing 2008 women's marathon

champion Constantina Dita, Italy’s 1986 European 10,000m champion Stefano Mei of Italy and Belgium’s 2008 Olympic

Sir Mo Farah, who will run what he says will be his last TCS London Marathon on Sunday (April 23), says

run towards the tables and covered one with orange powder, Britain’s 40-year-old multiple world and Olympic

But I think the London Marathon has always done a great job and I think they’ll continue to do a great

I like to think, if anything, that the London Marathon as a sporting event stands out as something to

My mum’s running her first marathon this weekend, she’s pushed herself in ways she never thought before

Britain’s European cross-country silver medallist Emile Cairess, 25, who will make his marathon debut

Following their finishes at the Canadian Open Water Swimming Trials, the four open water swimming athletes for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games have been named.

Swimming Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have added Benjamin Cote, Abby Dunford, Emma Finlin

Open water swimming, also known as marathon swimming, will see 20 swimmers per gender racing a 10km course.The

discipline has been on the Pan American Games sport programme since Rio 2007, and the Olympic sport

Sport has long been an easy target for those militants determined to draw attention to whatever cause they believe they represent, worthy or otherwise.

 Activists are expected to target the Olympic Games in Paris ©Getty ImagesThere is no love lost

 The London Marathon is bracing itself for a mass invasion of multi-group protestors this weekend

anarchy.Police say they are worried that angry spectators may take the law into their own hands if the marathon

disrupted.Similarly, the bold gendarmes of Paris are said to be deeply concerned about next year's Olympic