McColgan runs 30:08 to reclaim European women's mark while Andreas Almgren clocks European men's record of 26:45 and Joe Wigfield runs a British record of 27:38.
Eilish McColgan has endured a long and tough road back from injury in the past three years. The 35-year-old underwent knee surgery among...
Tunis, Jan 8 — Ali Abdi, Ahmed Jaouadi, Wafa Masghouni, Amenallah Tissaoui and Raoua Tlili have been named Tunisia's top athletes of 2025 in the annual poll conducted by Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) news agency.
The results were announced on Thursday at the headquarters of the Arab States Broadcasting...
Saturday 10th January 2026
Photo by Bobby Gavin
Inter District Results
*Note: this is a quick report and subject to further checks and additional photos.
Parkrun events the length and breadth of Scotland – and across the wider UK – were cancelled as winter’s icy grip took hold.
It denied many their Saturday...
Ahead of the 46th edition of the event in Florida, we reflect on the history of the event through Mark Shearman's photos over the decades.
Three years ago the World Cross Country Championships marked its 50th anniversary, with Bathurst in Australia providing a unique experience as athletes ran on...
Rwanda has never won a medal in standard athletics at the Olympics or World Championships. However, the country has achieved success in Paralympic athletics: Jean de Dieu Nkundabera won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Paralympics, and Cliff Muvunyi secured gold at the 2013 IPC World Championships.
Despite...
Few people forget their school cross-country days, trudging through murky playing fields on freezing winter afternoons, invariably clad in kit sourced from the lost property bin.While park runs, trail runs and marathons boom in popularity among the masses, cross-country appetite from the general public is almost entirely absent,...
Friday 9th January 2026
Laviai Nielsen (photo courtesy of British Athletics)
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Top athletes are headed to Scotland for our second EAP Glasgow Indoor International – and double Olympic relay medallist Laviai Nielsen will lead the British cohort.
Tickets remain on sale for our big night at the Emirates Arena...
We speak to an up-and-coming distance athlete who has not had a typical route to representing Great Britain.
Michael Clark summed up his European Cross Country debut last month as “bittersweet”. Losing a shoe a little more than a minute into the under-20 race could have ended his day,...
Musa Bala Sati (male) and Hope Lebe Mbeabuari (female) have emerged winners in the 8th edition of Opobo Marathon held in Opobo Town, Rivers State, with athletes from across the country competing in the annual road race.
The 2026 edition was dedicated to the late Amanyanabo of Opobo, King...
Ciara Mageean has expressed her gratitude for the "kind words of support" she received during chemotherapy treatment.The European champion and two-time Olympian from Portaferry in Northern Ireland revealed in July that she had been diagnosed with cancer. Mageean, 33, posted on Instagram on Thursday to share what she...
