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Sep 11, 20231 min read
Hull and McSweyn named on Australian team for WRRC Riga 23
Oceanian record-holders Jess Hull and Stewart McSweyn are part of a 14-strong Australian team named for the World Athletics Road Running...
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Sep 11, 20231 min read
Ngetich breaks women-only world 10km record in Brasov
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich broke the women-only world 10km record* at the Trunsylvania 10km, clocking 29:24 at the World Athletics Elite Label...
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Sep 9, 20232 min read
Ingebrigtsen sets world 2000m record in Brussels
Brussels’ re-vamped King Baudouin Stadium, with its super-fast new track, was able to celebrate a world record on Friday (8) in the...
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Sep 9, 20231 min read
Road mile performances from Hiltz and Prakel submitted for world record ratification
The winning times from this year’s US Road Mile Championships – 4:27.97 for Nikki Hiltz and 4:01.21 for Sam Prakel – have been submitted...
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Sep 4, 20232 min read
WCH Budapest 23’s Sport Director appointed Director of Competition and Events for World Athletics
Marton Gyulai, the Executive Director of Sport for the widely acclaimed World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, has been appointed...
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Aug 29, 20235 min read
Most engaging World Athletics Championships in history finishes on a high in Budapest
The World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 concluded on Sunday (27) after nine days of thrilling action in which superstars of the...
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Aug 29, 20234 min read
Chopra back on top with historic gold for India in men's javelin
Each time Neeraj Chopra gets on the runway of a global championship, he takes down a slice of history. And it was no different in the...
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Aug 27, 20232 min read
USA sets championship record to win women's 4x100m in Budapest
In the end, the women's 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 came down to a battle between the newly-crowned world...
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Aug 27, 20234 min read
Kiplangat's marathon victory completes golden 2023 treble for Uganda
In the end, as he approached the finishing curve in the sunbathed Heroes’ Square, Victor Kiplangat could afford to snatch his national...
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Aug 27, 20232 min read
Duplantis delivers gold again and – almost – another world record
Duplantis delivered another peerless exhibition of cool pole vaulting to retain the world title he won last year, but unlike that...
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Aug 27, 20231 min read
Kipyegon completes historic women’s 1500m/5000m double
Kipyegon, who had already won a third world 1500m title here, duly added gold in the other championship event in which she has set a...
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Aug 27, 20231 min read
Treble for Lyles and a relay championship record on night when Kipyegon and Duplantis shine
Day eight at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 ended in joyful fashion for the United States as Noah Lyles and then Sha’Carri...
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Aug 26, 20232 min read
Jackson and Lyles retain 200m titles, Rojas and Kitaguchi snatch gold in final round
With a bullet start, powerful pick-up, brilliant bend and utterly scintillating home straight, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson sprinted deeper...
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Aug 26, 20235 min read
Beriso Shankule leads Ethiopian 1-2 with marathon win in Budapest
Amane Beriso Shankule led an Ethiopian one-two in the women’s marathon at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, clocking 2:24:23...
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Aug 25, 20232 min read
New Athletes' Commission members announced
World Athletics is pleased to announce the results of the Athletes' Commission elections, which took place during the World Athletics...
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Aug 25, 20233 min read
Watson stuns to get 400m gold, 40 years after Cameron’s triumph
In a deep field that had two former world champions headlining the race – one of them also being the world record-holder – not every...
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Aug 25, 20231 min read
A day of doubles and redemption on gold rush Thursday in Budapest
It was a dramatic day of doubles all round, it seemed, on gold rush Thursday at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23. There were...
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Aug 24, 20234 min read
Perez breaks 35km championship record to complete golden race walk double in Budapest
Spain’s Maria Perez completed a golden double here as she added the women’s 35km race walk title to the 20km gold she won on Sunday,...
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Aug 23, 20233 min read
Super Kipyegon claims record third world 1500m title in Budapest
Just moments after US discus thrower Laulaga Tausaga produced the biggest shock of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 so far,...
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Aug 22, 20233 min read
Cheptegei joins all-time greats after winning third world 10,000m title in Budapest
As in Oregon last year, and as in Doha in 2019, there was no stopping Joshua Cheptegei when it came to the crunch in a World...
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