By Len Johnson for World Athletics
For a moment off the final bend in the John Landy Mile at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne, it looked like teen phenom Cameron Myers might pull off a similar victory over 2022 World 1500m champion Jake Wightman and Stewart McSweyn. Having tracked the big two...
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"The road Mile is a very American event and we're quite experienced in them. I'm very proud of myself.”
From World Athletics
World records set in the road Mile by Diribe Welteji and Hobbs Kessler at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23 have now been ratified.
At the...
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"The road Mile is a very American event and we're quite experienced in them. I'm very proud of myself.”
From World Athletics
Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji and USA’s Hobbs Kessler shattered the world records to win two thrilling road Mile races at the World Road Running Championships Riga 23 on...
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By Jon Mulkeen of World Athletics
Faith Kipyegon showed with her 5000m world record earlier this year that she doesn’t fear the unknown.
She had raced just twice over the distance before that, some eight years prior. But she took on – and ran...
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