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Shanghai Golden Grand Prix
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Saturday 19 May
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17 May 2012 - Eugene, Oregon – Even the best in the world have competition, and the reigning World Champions in the men’s and women’s 400m at the 38th Prefontaine Classic are no exception.
17 May 2012 - Monte-Carlo - Poland’s Irena Szewinska, the multiple Olympic champion and World record breaker is the latest athletics legend to be named as one of the 24 inaugural Members of the IAAF Hall of Fame.
17 May 2012 - Brazilian Maurren Higa Maggi, the 2008 Olympic champion in the Long Jump and South American record holder, produced the best performance of the São Paulo stop of the “Brazilian Athletics Tour” by winning her event with a season’s best of 6.85m.
17 May 2012 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Dubai Marathon champion and world leader Ayele Abshero and recently-minted national women’s record holder Tiki Gelana will lead Ethiopia’s strong Marathon squad for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The last affiliation year saw a record number of more than 121,000 athletes registered for an England Athletics competition licence plus the associated benefits by their clubs. And since April this year’s numbers are running even higher – make sure you are part of the action, including the special member benefits such as exclusive offers from Sweatshop.
Sheffield Running Club have achieved the England Athletics club accreditation award for adult only clubs. The club applied to reaccredit in Jan 2012 and work hard to achieve the award in 3 months.
This year the Loughborough International takes place on Sunday 20th May and we'll see a great line up of athletes competing, but also a number of coaches taking an opportunity to develop as team staff members and operate at a major championship.
Since the 2010 pilot a number of athletics clubs in teh Sussex Atheltics Network have implemented the Athletics 365 programme to complement their weekly club coaching sessions. For several of these clubs Athletics 365 now provides the building blocks of introductory athletics coaching for young athletes.
Russian pole vaulter Anastasiya Savchenko continued her upward progression when she won at the Colorful Daegu Championships Meeting, and IAAF World Challenge meeting in the South Korean city of Daegu on Wednesday.
Russia's head coach for walking Viktor Chegin has announced two-third of the team that will be sent for the three walks at the Olympic Games this summer, following last weekend's World Race Walking Championships on home soil in Saransk.
European Athletics is pleased to announce that Belarus hammer thrower Oksana Menkova and Slovakian walker Matej Tóth have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for April.
Juan Manuel Molina has announced his retirement from international athletics at the age of 33 following the Spanish walker's failure to finish the men's 50 km race at World Race Walking Cup in Saransk, Russia, on Sunday.
Inaugural event kicks off city's annual Rose Festival; sold out race attracts nearly 14,000 entrants; Kevin Rudolf to headline finish line concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
Wait no longer, OXY Heat Sheets are hot off the press! Check out who your favorite athletes are stacked up against in the best mid-distance meet of the year.
Brad Hudson addresses his detractors and answers some questions from previous videos. He talks about recent progress at Hudson Training Systems and expands on what it takes for an athlete to be considered for his club.
Former Idaho man now Asics thower Russ Winger is always on his game. Being a shot puter in the US is not easy, and taking on the discuss as well means constantly adjusting the most minute details. Winger is not backing down from the challenge at the trial
The Dream 100 and Dream Mile are again destined to be among the most hotly contested events at the adidas Grand Prix on June 9. In its eighth year as one of the premier track-and-field events in the world, the adidas Grand Prix, at Icahn Stadium on Randal
May 17 - The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, here as part of the official party that will attend the Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony tonight, has vigorously defended the investment made for the Athens 2004 Games, and added that it was in no way a contributing factor to the current parlous economic state Greece finds itself in.
May 17 - A minute's silence at London 2012 in honour of the 11 Israeli athletes killed during the 1972 Munich Olympics would harm the "unity" of the Games, according to Alex Gilady, a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
May 17 - Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, has denied that any pressure has been brought to bear upon Stuart Pearce, coach of the Team GB football squad for this summer's Games, to include David Beckham, who will be here at the Panathenaic Stadium for the Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony tonight.
By Tom Degun May 17 - Argentina have signed a deal to join the World Series of Boxing (WSB) and they will make their debut in it later this year at the start of season three, when the entire format for the competition will be revised.
May 16 - The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have said that they are not considering putting forward a Dallas bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games at this stage after amid reports that the city in Texas is looking to be a future American Candidate City.
Crowds of people lined The Mall to cheer Claire Lomas home when the paralysed athlete finished the London Marathon in her bionic suit, 16 days after she set off.
May 16 - Israeli swimmer Itzhak Mamistvalov has been awarded the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month award for April as he tries to rebuild his reputation following a car accident in which he killed two people.
May 15 - Three of the teams who have been chosen as Torchbearers for the London 2012 Paralympic Torch Relay congregated here at the site where the English Flame will be lit on August 24 and got their first grasp of the Torch while wearing their newly designed adidas uniform.
May 15 - Reigning Olympic 400 metres champion LaShawn Merritt admits that he has concerns about the prosthetic legs used by four-times Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius – and has urged the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to keep a close eye on the situation to ensure the South African doesn't enjoy an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes.
May 16 - International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven has received the Order of Friendship for his work in developing the Paralympic Movement from Russian Deputy Prime Minster Dmitry Kozak during a two day visit to the country to check on preparations for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
May 16 - Goyang in South Korea is to host next year's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Ice Sledge Hockey A Pool World Championships, it has been confirmed.
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