Chinese stars Gong Lijiao, Liu Shiying and Feng Bin will ensure plenty of interest as World Athletics’ flagship competition gets underway on Saturday The 2024 Diamond League season kicks off on Saturday (April 20) with the first meeting staged in Xiamen. It is the first of two early-season Diamond League events in China and could prove a livelier start than you might imagine. All eyes will be on the TCS London Marathon on Sunday, but the track and field season has been bubbling into life in recent weeks and along with the Xiamen Diamond League there is the Kip Keino Classic in Kenya. The Xiame ..read more

From Tokyo 1964 to Paris 2024, the GB team outfit over the years has undergone plenty of transformation The official Team GB and Paralympics GB kit for the Paris Games has been unveiled and features a bold but relatively plain design from Adidas. The outfits are dominated by navy blue but the tracksuits that will be worn on the podium have a white base with a union flag on the arm. Adidas say this will result “in a clean radiant kit that allows the medals to shine”. The kit will also use a typeface that has been inspired by the 1924 ‘Chariots of Fire’ Games in the French capital 100 years ago ..read more

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Over 200 runners will be in with a chance of winning an ASICS sponsorship purely for the joy of running ASICS UK in partnership with Sportsshoes.com is sharing the opportunity for a runner to become the brand’s very first Move Your Mind ambassador. In a quest to reward runners for both the physical and mental benefits of exercise, ASICS will recruit one runner to be supported by the brand, based purely on their uplift from running. To recruit the ambassador, ASICS has created a dedicated Move Your Mind run to take place as part of the ASICS x Podium 5km at Dulwich Park on Saturday (April 20 ..read more

Tribute is planned for the fastest marathon runner in history, who died in a car accident in February The TCS London Marathon will pay homage to Kelvin Kiptum, the current men’s world marathon record-holder who sadly lost his life in a car crash, with a series of tributes this Sunday (April 21). Kiptum won last year’s London Marathon in a course record of 2:01:25, narrowly missing Eliud Kipchoge’s previous world record by just 16 seconds. Then, last October, Kiptum blitzed Kipchoge’s mark of 2:01:09 with a stunning 2:00:35 at the Chicago Marathon, becoming the first ever person to go sub-2:01 ..read more

Highgate Harriers are expanding the number of 800m events at the Night of the 10,000m PBs meeting on May 18 Following the success of the middle-distance races for young athletes at last year’s Night of the 10,000m PBs at Parliament Hill, the organisers are adding under-13 and under-15 races to the programme to complement the under-17 and under-20 races. Ben Pochee, the meet director, says: “The inclusion last year of the age group 800m races received such positive feedback from athletes and parents/coaches that we’re expanding it for this year we and have scheduled invitational 800m events for ..read more

Everything you need to know about this weekend’s big event including leading athletes and details of how to watch and follow If Tigist Assefa, Peres Jepchirchir, Brigid Kosgei, Ruth Chepngetich and Yalemzerf Yehualaw bring their A-game, the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (April 21) could see the greatest women’s race in history. Assefa of Ethiopia ran a world record of 2:11:53 at the BMW Berlin Marathon last September, beating the previous best mark of 2:14:04 set by Kosgei of Kenya in 2019. The two women meet this weekend in London, in addition to Olympic champion Jepchirchir of Kenya, the 2:1 ..read more

American meet sees best 2024 marks in many events plus results from Australia and China, with an amazing javelin throw for 15-year-old Ziyi Yan Tom Jones Memorial, Gainesville, Florida, USA, April 12-13 It’s not unusual to see fast sprint times in this Tom Jones Memorial and teenager Kaylyn Brown won the women’s 400m in a world outdoor lead of 49.95 – her previous outdoor best was a mere 53.11 though she had run 50.83 indoors. Aaliyah Butler was second in a 50.05 PB and NCAA champion Amber Anning, an Arkansas team-mate of Brown, ran a 50.08 PB to go No.7 all-time in the UK. In a good sign for ..read more

Teenager sets UK all-time records in the under-15 boys’ age group as we bring you our latest results round-up TRACK & FIELD BE FIT TODAY TRACK ACADEMY OUTDOOR SERIES 1, Lee Valley, April 14 Ade Adewale, who ran a PB 6.67 in winning the South of England indoor 60m title, clocked a UK 100m lead of 10.25 /1.4 in his outdoor debut ahead of Nick Walsh’s 10.30. The latter edged the second round race 10.30 to 10.34. The star performances, though, came from 14-year-old Divine Iheme who achieved UK all-time under-15 age group bests of 10.76/0.5 in the 100m and 21.74/0.6 in the 200m. The Radley spri ..read more

Ahead of the Bannister Miles anniversary event in Oxford on May 6, Gavin Riley recalls a prophetic ‘demonstration mile’ featuring Roger Bannister at Motspur Park in 1953 When Roger Bannister achieved athletics immortality 70 years ago by becoming the first athlete to run the mile in under four minutes, it was the realisation of an ambition he had nursed privately for more than a year. As a member of the last generation of “gentleman” athletes – well-educated, academically gifted, assured of a rewarding professional future – Bannister had to assume the role of the gifted amateur whose sport was ..read more