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McColgan smashes 10,000m personal best as Gidey wins Ethiopian world trial at Hengelo

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Britain’s Eilish McColgan took almost 40 seconds off her 10,000 metres personal best as she won at Hengelo’s Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in 30min 19.02sec in a race where world record holder Letesenbet Gidey ran tactically to be first home in the incorporated Ethiopian World Championships trial.

Olympic men’s pole vault champion and world record holder Mondo Duplantis of Sweden won with an effort


Bol’s 400m hurdles opener and Ethiopian women’s 10,000m trials prompt FBK Games sell-out

  • Athletics

Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol of The Netherlands will make her 2022 debut over 400 metres hurdles at the traditional home of Dutch athletics in Hengelo tomorrow, just six days after shattering the 300m hurdles world best in Ostrava.

World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting also features four Olympic champions - Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis

his world record of 6.20m at the Dutch venue where he achieved the best outdoor vault of 2021, 6.10m, Duplantis


Duplantis, Mahuchikh and Allman win displaced events as Prefontaine’s Friday night misses world marks

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The Prefontaine Classic meeting's traditional Friday night distance races, supplemented this year by three fugitive field events from Saturday’s Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon following forecasts of rain and high winds, failed to produce any hoped-for world records.

Kazakhstan’s Nadezhda Dubovitskaya, who both cleared 1.93m.Olympic champion and world record holder Mondo Duplantis

2020 champion, raised her national record to 71.46m in April and delivered on the same expectation as Duplantis


Prefontaine Classic promises world record attempts and rich competition despite late losses

  • Athletics

It is a measure of Eugene’s Prefontaine Classic meeting - which tomorrow forms the third stop on the Wanda Diamond League tour - that it can lose four Olympic gold medallists at late notice and still remain packed with compelling competition and world record attempts.

- on Saturday.Accordingly the men's pole vault, featuring Olympic gold and silver medallists Mondo Duplantis



Peters flies to 93.07 metre javelin throw as Doha hosts windy Diamond League season-opener

  • Athletics

An ill-wind that blew the men’s pole vault event out of the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha did the men’s javelin throwers, and Anderson Peters in particular, good tonight as Grenada’s world champion won with a last throw of 93.07 metres to go fifth on the all-time list.

While the blustering breeze prevented the Olympic gold and silver medallists Mondo Duplantis of Sweden


Joint Olympic high jump champions Tamberi and Barshim meet again in Doha Diamond League opener

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Nine months after their decision to share the Tokyo 2020 high jump title created one of the most beautiful moments in Olympic history, friends and rivals Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim converge again for tomorrow’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha.

in the Ooredoo Doha Meeting at the Qatar Sports Club Stadium.Olympic men’s pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis



Germany's "fantastic record of staging major athletics events" gives Karamarinov confidence 100 days out from Munich 2022

  • Munich 2022

There are now just 100 days until the European Athletics Championships as Munich continues to prepare to stage the multi-sport European Championships, its largest sporting event since the Olympic Games 50 years ago.

continent's impressive showing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis

international stage at the European Championships in Berlin.Ingebrigtsen took 1500m and 5,000m titles and Duplantis


New York and Bermuda added to World Athletics Continental Tour Gold circuit

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Twelve meetings have been confirmed as part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold calendar for 2022, with New York and Bermuda being the latest additions to the circuit.

September 4 and 11 respectively.So far, men's pole vault world record holder and Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis



Olympic champions in place for long-awaited World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade

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Twenty Olympic champions have converged in Serbia for the three-day World Athletics Indoor Championships that start in Belgrade tomorrow - four years after the normally biennial event was last held in Birmingham.

present a rich array of talent - they will be well worth the wait.Olympic men’s pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis

men who have cleared 6.00m or better, and none is in better form than the man who took silver behind Duplantis


Duplantis breaks own pole vault world record with performance he calls "perfection"

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Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his own pole world record in Belgrade tonight with 6.19 metres in a performance

The 22-year-old added a centimetre to the previous record he had set in Glasgow in February 2020.Duplantis

A height like 6.19 - it demands perfection," said Duplantis."All the numbers have to be right."

Duplantis had tried unsuccessfully jumping 6.19m after winning the Olympic gold at Tokyo last year.At

Duplantis hinted that he believes he can improve the record when the Serbian capital hosts the World

 "I don’t think this is the highest that I’m ever going to jump," Duplantis said."



Thompson-Herah to open season in Birmingham as Duplantis returns to British action

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Birmingham tomorrow at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix, which features two other Tokyo 2020 champions in Mondo Duplantis

Kambundji, who beat Thompson-Herah to world indoor 60m bronze in Birmingham in 2018.Like Thompson-Herah, Duplantis

recently set a personal best of 6.56 in winning at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in New York.Mondo Duplantis