I do not have access to all the additional data that Bob had in his database, such as places, so the list is limited to names and dates. I do not expect to update the list in the foreseeable future.

You can access the list at the following link or via the sidebar under statistics.

All sub-4 minute milers + their best times

Powell to play safety first
The Age, Australia - 7 hours ago
It is increasingly unlikely that Asafa Powell will run in tomorrow night’s Melbourne Grand Prix meeting, the first on the international World Athletics Tour …

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Alana’s Olympic vault
Sunshine Coast Daily, Australia - 7 hours ago
Boyd will compete in the University of the Sunshine Coast event on Saturday, and will book her place in Australia’s athletics squad for Beijing should she …

Asafa Powell says he has a good time in Australia
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 7 hours ago
The stitches came out on Saturday night, but not being able to straighten your leg for nine days is not ideal for a sprinter who pounds the track with the …

Time to scrap world records and start again
The Age, Australia - 8 hours ago
Flo-Jo, who died at the age of 38, is widely regarded in the athletics community as a drug-taker and retired on the eve of the introduction of random …

In the lord’s realm, Coe’s dreams ring true
The Age, Australia - 8 hours ago
Speaking at the John Landy lunch in Melbourne yesterday, he said there were only three truly universal sports: soccer, tennis and athletics. …

Wroe ready to go against world champ
The Age, Australia - 8 hours ago
… lost another race in London and then pulled up with a hamstring cramp 30 metres from the line while leading the World Athletics Final race.

Powell to miss Melbourne athletics meet
The Age, Australia - 15 hours ago
With the Beijing Olympics looming on the horizon, 100m world record holder Asafa Powell is likely to err on the side of caution and not risk his cut knee in …

Powell likely to miss Melbourne meet
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 17 hours ago
Jamaican sprint superstar Asafa Powell seems set to lose his race against time to compete in the 100m at Thursday’s Melbourne Track Classic. …

Keilor Gift taken
Roxburgh Park, Craigieburn Star, Australia - 20 hours ago
Homebush Bay sprinter Iain Macfarlane is the second New South Wales competitor in as many years to defy a predominantly Victorian field to win the 120m …

West celebrates states success
Keilor, Taylors Lakes, Sydenham Star, Australia - 21 hours ago
Western Athletics competitor Brodie McDowell runs a close second behind Box Hill’s Bridget Aughton in the women’s under 20 400m hurdles at the Victorian …

Woods keeps Olympic dream alive
Dubbo Daily Liberal, Australia - 21 hours ago
ATHLETICS: Brad Woods is one step closer to realising his dream of representing Australia in the 1500 metres at the Beijing Olympics following a sensational …

Peacock does the math right
Athletics Australia
Seventeen year-old Hamish Peacock is an athletics development success story. Better still, his book is still being written. Hamish’s athletics career began like many, on a Saturday morning at little athletics. …

One-lap wonder seeks sub-45 in Melbourne
Athletics Australia
The World Athletics Tour meet in Melbourne will celebrate its 21st birthday with a bang at Olympic Park this Thursday, February 21. …

Q & A with Coach Francis
Athletics Australia
Sports coaches and athletics enthusiasts have the opportunity to hear from the man behind world record holder Asafa Powell. …

Athletic achievement – Wellington club plays host to mammoth event
Wellington Times, Australia - 16 hours ago
Tent city descended on Rygate Park on Saturday with the start of the Regional Little Athletics Carnival. Attracting some 900 athletes and thousands of …

New Zealand/Oceania

Full news conference with Valerie Vili
TV3 News, New Zealand - 5 minutes ago
… Halberg’s in Christchurch last night to pick up her supreme award in person – instead she was competing at an international athletics meet in Auckland. …

Valerie Vili puts family first
Radio New Zealand, New Zealand - 2 hours ago
It was also a good meet for sprinter James Dolphin, who won the 200 metres in 20.74 seconds but not for Beatrice Faumuina and Stuart Farquhar, …

Athletics: World-best throw caps magic night
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 5 hours ago
Sprinter James Dolphin, undefeated over 200m in Australia and New Zealand this season, powered away to win in 20.74s, the fastest he has run in New Zealand …

Vili and Drysdale top NZ athletes
The Nelson Mail, New Zealand - 5 hours ago
She also became only the second New Zealander to win a senior world track and field title, following in the footsteps of discus thrower Beatrice Faumuina, …

Vili shot to glory at Halberg Awards
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 5 hours ago
… Osaka and becoming only the second New Zealander to win a senior world track and field title, following Beatrice Faumuina, who won the discus in 1997. …

Lorraine Moller on life and the Olympics
TV3 News, New Zealand - 11 hours ago
“I was the oldest track and field medallist in those games, 37, I’d been competition since I was 14-years-old, so it was the culmination of many many years, …

Valerie Vili highlight at Black Singlet Invitational
Newstalk ZB, New Zealand - 17 hours ago
Kiwi sprinter James Dolphin says today is one of his biggest meets as he will not be competing in next month’s world indoor championships. …

Shot putter lands scholarship
The Nelson Mail, New Zealand - 20 hours ago
Kirk is competing at the Canterbury track and field championships this weekend, followed by the South Island secondary schools championships in Timaru next …

Niko celebrates birthday in style
Fijivillage, Fiji - 18 hours ago
Former Suva Grammar sprinter, Niko Verekauta celebrated his 21st birthday last Saturday in style with a very impressive run in the Auckland Athletics …

UK

Chambers plays waiting game
Times Online, UK - 5 hours ago
Clearly, the 29-year-old does not possess funds of that quantity, indeed he is struggling to repay the International Association of Athletics Federations …

Chambers delays Olympics appeal
BBC Sport, UK - 5 hours ago
He already owes the International Association of Athletics Federations £100000 from prize money he had earned while using steroids. …

BEKELE SET TO RACE IN EDINBURGH
Sportinglife.com, UK - 7 hours ago
But significantly Dube Jillo, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation technical director, said today: “He is saving himself for the world cross country. …

National boost for Tom Humphries
BirminghamMail.net, UK - 9 hours ago
UK Athletics senior coordinator for endurance Spencer Barden said: “We hope Frank has only a niggle. But he has missed a week’s training and looks like …

Loughborough pole-vaulters on form as athletes achieve World …
Loughborough News, UK - 10 hours ago
Loughborough graduate Becky Peake, who continues to train at the University’s world class athletics facilities, won silver in the shot with a distance of …

‘Dancing On Ice’: Steve Backley
Digital Spy, UK - 10 hours ago
I never had that with athletics, it was always black and white as to who would win.” Do you feel that being a sportsman gave you a bit of an edge over other …

PICKERING PULLS OUT
UK Express, UK - 11 hours ago
CRAIG PICKERING has been forced to end his indoor season with a knee injury, leaving Simeon Williamson a clear path to joining Dwain Chambers in Britain’s …

COMEBACK QUEEN RADCLIFFE IS SNUBBED
UK Express, UK - 11 hours ago
But none of them saw the Comeback of the Year, awarded to Radcliffe for her stunning New York marathon win after two years away from athletics. …

Powell recovering but uncertain for Melbourne start, Wariner ready
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 12 hours ago
Athletics Australia track agent Maurie Plant, who has escorted Powell and his MVP squad while in Australia, admitted: “When I saw him train on Monday I was …

DE VOS SLAMS WEAK DRUGS RULES
Sportinglife.com, UK - 17 hours ago
By David Martin and Rich Jones, PA Sport UK Athletics chief executive Nils de Vos has blasted athletics’ soft treatment of drugs cheats – claiming a …

Williamson hot for Valencia spot
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 19 hours ago
UK Athletics had let Chambers’ legal team know that they had been reminded by the British Olympic Association that the deadline was last Friday to ensure a …

Europe

(RRW) Athletics: World Record Holder Wanjiru To Return To CPC Half
RunnersWeb, Canada - 5 hours ago
By Wim van Hemert with David Monti THE HAGUE (19-Feb) — World record holder Samuel Wanjiru will again compete at the Fortis City-Pier-City Half-Marathon in …

O’Rourke still plans to defend World title
Irish Times, Ireland - 9 hours ago
Athletics: Derval O’Rourke’s management company confirmed today that the Cork athlete still plans to defend her 60 metres hurdles title at next month’s IAAF …

Arron to lead the French to Valencia
European Athletics, Switzerland - 13 hours ago
The French Athletics Federation have announced their first wave of athletes for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain on the 7-9 March. …

Asia

Ruqaya ‘top role-model’
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - 21 hours ago
Ruqaya recently came away with a golden double (60m and 400m) during the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha, which was her first competition since …

National athletes allowed to make a return to Sukma
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - 22 hours ago
In athletics, national athletes can compete in two individual and relay events respectively. “But the national athletes must be below the age of 23. …

Africa

Bekele’s team to manage top Ugandan athletes
New Vision, Uganda - 52 minutes ago
They also organise athletics events, including the Hengelo Golden League meet. Global manages top world Ethiopian stars Haile Gebrselassie, Bekele, …

ATHLETICS: Defar, Burka lead Ethiopia squad
Daily Nation, Kenya - 59 minutes ago
Double World indoor 3000m champion and 2007 IAAF World Athlete of the Year Meseret Defar will lead a strong Ethiopian squad of seven athletes for the 12th …

Pillay looking to emulate Evette de Klerk
Independent Online, South Africa - 3 hours ago
Training at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria, Athletics South Africa (ASA) has provided a strong support structure to assist her with her overseas …

SA athletes qualify for Beijing Olympics
SABC News, South Africa - 6 hours ago
“We hope that in the next four weeks the rest of the squad will qualify for Beijing,” says Athletics SA spokesperson, Wilfred Daniels. …

Kenya retains the GROE marathon title
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, Kenya - 8 hours ago
Athletics Kenya chairman Isaiah Kiplagat said Kenya will host senior African athletics championships in 2010 which for the first time will be used as a …

(RRW) Athletics: Bekele To Skip World Indoor Championships In …
RunnersWeb, Canada - 8 hours ago
“He is saving himself for the world cross country,” said Dube Jillo, Technical Director for the Ethiopian Athletics Federation, in a story published on the …

Juniors show talent in EP athletics meetings
The Herald Eastern Cape, South Africa - 16 hours ago
TRACK and field athletics is in full swing at the moment with the zonal meetings taking place in the Metro. This weekend, the PE zonal meeting was held at …

New series has produced three Olympic qualifiers already
Business Day, South Africa - 16 hours ago
… a national junior record and several personal best performances have been produced in the first half of this year’s Yellow Pages athletics series. …

Hendrick Ramaala takes it over 10 000m
The Mercury (subscription), South Africa - 17 hours ago
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s former New York Marathon champion, Hendrick Ramaala, prevailed in the 10 000m event at the Eastern Province Athletics …

Carribean

‘Superman’ soars to victory
The Freeport News, Bahamas - 4 hours ago
The jump by Makusha, 7.93m, surpassed the automatic qualifying standard set for the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NC-AA) Indoor Championships. …

Carrie Russell: JA’s eastern star
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 17 hours ago
Take TEENage’s advice and be sure to look out for Carrie Russell at this year’s instalment of GraceKennedy ISSA Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships, …

Melville, Baird cop MEAC titles
Trinidad & Tobago Express, Trinidad and Tobago - 20 hours ago
Trinidad and Tobago athletes Cuquie Melville and Natoya Baird were both in winners’ row at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Indoor Track and Field …

USA/Americas

Athletics: Bilbrew, Balumbu Earn Weekly Conference Honors
RunnersWeb, Canada - 13 minutes ago
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Razorbacks Chris Bilbrew and Nkosinza Balumbu earned weekly track and field awards given out by the Southeastern Conference, …

Ritzenhein outruns his expectations at US meet
The Register-Guard, OR - 4 hours ago
Members of the Duck cross country teams will be on hand, along with coach Vin Lananna and UO director of athletics Pat Kilkenny. Oregon no longer owns the …

A visit with Century grad and potential Olympian Karl Erickson
Post-Bulletin, MN - 18 hours ago
By Pat Ruff Former University of Minnesota and Rochester Century star track and field thrower Karl Erickson is continuing his training as a 2008 Summer …

Canada/Other Americas

High jumper makes Canadian squad
Mississauga News,  Canada - 2 hours ago
Nicole Forrester from the Mississauga Track and Field Club has been named to Canada’s 2008 World Indoor Athletics Championship Team. …

Jefferson, Paquillo, and 14 countries confirmed for Race Walking …
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 11 hours ago
Raul Gonzalez, the 1984 Olympic champion and the head of the race walking commission in the Mexican Athletics Federation (FMA), said that the FMA will pay …

Sprints to record
Chilliwack Times, Canada - 14 hours ago
Chilliwack’s own Tyler Christopher, the track and field phenom, sprinted to a new Canadian record in the 400 metres indoor at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham, England on Saturday. …

Games/General

Asian Games success will help Doha 2016 bid
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 4 hours ago
… international sporting events on an annual basis, such as the Qatar Open tennis tournament, Golf Masters, Qatar Motor Rally and an athletics Grand Prix. …

Stadium for 2012 may be named after a company
This is London, UK - 9 hours ago
But it remains far more likely that the Olympic stadium, which after 2012 will have a capacity of 25000, will be home to athletics, Leyton Orient FC and, …

Bubka and Radcliffe take top Laureus Awards
European Athletics, Switzerland - 11 hours ago
Athletics recieved double honours at the prestigeous Laureus World Sports Awards held in St Petersburg (RUS) last night. Britain’s distance running queen …

This Babe went tee to green with the guys
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - 16 hours ago
Zaharias, considered one of the best women athletes of the 20th century, was an Olympic medalist in track and field and was making her mark in professional …
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Merryn Sherwood
Canberra Times
19 February 2008

Canberra racewalker Nathan Deakes will this weekend compete in Australia for the first time since winning the 50km world championship in 2007.

He will also compete with a much needed new sponsor on his back.

Deakes was unceremoniously dumped by his shoe and apparel sponsor two weeks after winning the world title.

Last year after the European racing season, he was forced to sell his car to finance flights for he and wife Antoinette to come home. But Deakes’ story did pick him up a fan in Canberra, and McDonald’s ACT licensee Garry Moffitt tracked him down to help out with the four-time Commonwealth gold medallist’s travelling costs and the 20 pairs of shoes he goes through each year.

“It just came as an incredible surprise to me…,” Moffitt said. “And I just though, here is someone who is the ultimate ambassador for Australia and he hasn’t even got a sponsor, so I decided to do something about it.”

This weekend Deakes will contest the Australian Open 20km Road Walking championships in Melbourne.

And while he’d like to think there will be a few people there to welcome his racing return to Australia, he is equally excited to just compete again after his last race well over two months ago.

“I’m just really looking forward to it myself and hopefully a lot of other people are.” Deakes said.

“It’s obviously great for the sport: in the past the coverage we have had may have been negative, although I suppose any publicity is good publicity, but to actually have someone doing well is great for our sport. So hopefully people will come out on the weekend, and support myself and the rest of the walkers trying to qualify for the Olympic games.”

Deakes will race against fellow AIS athletes Jared Tallent, Adam Rutter and Luke Adams this weekend, who have all qualified for the 50km event in Beijing and said despite not racing for a few months, he was ready to tackle the 20km distance again.

“Training is going well, I’m feeling fit and I even surprised myself when I did my first speed workout in a while last week. So it’s all coming together.”

After this weekend Deakes will race in Mexico next month, before heading off to Arizona for five weeks of altitude training. After that it’s back to Canberra for six weeks, then Europe, before finally in August, reaching Beijing.

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Europe governing intervenes with Tariku Bekele
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 7 hours ago
Bekele’s match-up with Mottram over 5000m was one of the headline acts of the World Athletics Tour event at Olympic Park. It is understood the Ethiopian’s …

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Asafa Powell no certain starter for Melbourne Grand Prix
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 7 hours ago
ASAFA Powell rates himself an 80 per cent chance of getting to the start line for Thursday night’s Melbourne Grand Prix. The world 100m record holder hit …

All must reach Mottram’s standard
The Age, Australia - 8 hours ago
IT WOULD seem obvious that Craig Mottram is the biggest obstacle facing Collis Birmingham in the 5000 metres at Thursday’s Melbourne Grand Prix meeting. …

Mottram rival pulls out of Melbourne showdown
The Age, Australia - 16 hours ago
Athletics Australia said Ethiopian athletics chiefs had told him to stay in Europe to prepare for next month’s world indoor championships. …

Collectors’ paradise at sports night
Lithgow Mercury, Australia - 1 hour ago
The curtainraiser to the Lithgow Flash Gift to be held next Saturday — The Sports Night of Nights — has attracted the cream of Australian sportspersons. …

Dent’s running brave
Athletics Australia
If Martin Dent doesn’t make this year’s Olympic team, it won’t be through lack of effort. The 29 year-old turned in a bold performance at Saturday night’s Sydney Grand Prix …

State glory the next step for our athletes
Maitland Mercury, Australia - 40 minutes ago
The road towards State glory begins for 29 athletes this week, following a weekend of outstanding results at the Northern Country Regional Little Athletics …

Super park dream is off and running
Bundaberg NewsMail, Australia - 21 hours ago
Once formally approved, construction on the Johanna Boulevard development will pave the way for the Bundaberg Athletics Club and West Bundaberg Little …

New Zealand/Oceania

Athletes stand guard after ‘terrible’ attacks on track
MyTown Bay of Plenty, New Zealand - 4 minutes ago
As a result, Millennium Trust president Garth Mathieson has compiled a roster of Tauranga Ramblers athletics club members, who – armed with just a …

Vili, Drysdale tipped for honours
The Timaru Herald, New Zealand - 6 hours ago
The Aucklander won New Zealand’s first world track and field championships gold medal in a decade in Japan last year and is now ranked No. 1 in the world. …

Records tumble at track and field championships
Taranaki Daily News, New Zealand - 11 hours ago
A total of 35 records were broken or set at the Athletics Taranaki track and field championships in Inglewood on Saturday. Inglewood’s Raewyn Grigg set the …

Makelesi comes second to Jamaican
Fiji Times, Fiji - 4 hours ago
The Australian athletics season heated up over the weekend with the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix featuring some of the biggest names in world athletics. …

Star sprinter takes time out to educate students
The National, Papua New Guinea - 21 hours ago
She attributed her success to them and to the stars of PNG athletics in the last fifteen years in the likes of Jeffery Bai, Clement Abai and Australian …

UK

DE VOS – ‘TWO YEAR BAN A SIGNIFICANT OWN GOAL’
Sportinglife.com, UK - 50 minutes ago
By David Martin, PA Sport UK Athletics chief executive Nils de Vos is confident the “outrage” at Dwain Chambers’ return to the track will provide the …

Samson pleased with second place
Croydon Guardian, UK - 3 hours ago
“It was fairly good despite a hesitant start when I struggled to jump 2.19,” said Oni, who works for Southwark Council coaching athletics to troubled …

Turner fifth in Grand Prix sprint
Harrow Times, UK - 4 hours ago
LAURA TURNER warmed up for next month’s World Indoor Athletics Championships by finishing fifth in the 60m sprint at the Norwich Union Grand Prix on …

Dwain Chambers misses Olympic application deadline
InTheNews.co.uk, UK - 5 hours ago
Chambers’ controversial return to athletics was completed earlier this month with victory in the 60m sprint in the world indoor trials which resulted in his …

Track plan needs to run up support
Basingstoke Gazette, UK - 5 hours ago
By Peter Phipps A MOVE to improve the athletics track in Basingstoke could receive a massive shot in the arm from a national community sports fund – but it …

I just want to be positive
The Voice, UK - 5 hours ago
“I’m here to put myself and British athletics back on the map in a positive way, yes its going through its ups and downs but I am not here to create any …

Chambers misses Olympic deadline
BBC Sport, UK - 9 hours ago
Dwain Chambers will not be able to compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing after he missed the deadline to appeal against his lifetime suspension. …

On right track at Norwich Union Grand Prix
BirminghamMail.net, UK - 10 hours ago
FANS flocked to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena to get a glimpse of their sporting heroes as the city staged one of the most prestigious athletics …

Tanni Grey-Thompson advocates eight-year ban for drugs cheats
Times Online, UK - 11 hours ago
The former Paralympic champion has been appointed to lead the task force looking into UK Athletics’ (UKA) doping policy following the uncertainty over the …

FAST SHOW HAS SIMEON SWEATING
UK Express, UK - 13 hours ago
“Kelly is is in the frame,” confirmed Dave Collins, UK Athletics’ national performance director. “I wish I could clone these multi-eventers with the way …

Sotherton puts up her hand for Beijing relay team
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 19 hours ago
“She is is now in the frame for the relay in Beijing,” said Dave Collins, the UK Athletics national performance director. “I wish I could clone these …

Williamson left in limbo over GB sprint selection
Independent, UK - 20 hours ago
The spectre of the uninvited Dwain Chambers was present at a feast of athletics served up in Saturday’s Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham – the …

Bouncy Kelly Sotherton close to matching legendary Swede
Times Online, UK - 22 hours ago
After a torrid week for athletics, it was left to Kelly Sotherton to provide a restorative tonic. Dwain Chambers may have been crucified for allowing …

Europe

Engeset living the dream
Yahoo! Eurosport, UK - 7 hours ago
However, the fact that she is involved in athletics at all came more through accident then design. “When I was younger I was just doing everything, …

European Athletics Indoor Cup, Moscow in review
European Athletics, Switzerland - 7 hours ago
The thunderous applause in Moscow’s historic CSKA Arena, left little doubt about the winners of the 4th edition of the European Indoor Cup as host nation …

Finland should build new flagship stadium -FM Kanerva
Newsroom Finland, Finland - 8 hours ago
Mr Kanerva told the paper that Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium was a fine as an athletics museum but failed to meet modern criteria. …

Rising Star in Athletics Breaks Icelandic Record
IcelandReview, Iceland - 10 hours ago
… record in women’s pentathlon (80-meter hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump and 200 meters) in the National Athletics Championship yesterday. …

Veerle Dejaeghere wins the Diekirch Eurocross (Roschk Kohl)
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 10 hours ago
“This is only the start of my athletics career today. There is much more to come”, said Kimurer, who trains a lot in Italy. “What impressed me is that a …

Athletics: Disappointment as O’Rourke scrapes third
Irish Independent, Ireland - 17 hours ago
Derval O’Rourke failed to build on her promising opening run of the season when she had to settle for third place in the 60m hurdles at the indoor meeting …

Asia

Priyanka, Monica likely to throw their weight around
Delhi Newsline, India - 4 hours ago
New Delhi, February 18 The Federation Cup athletics championships, beginning in Bhopal from February 26, provides Delhi youngsters a great chance to …

Southeast Asian track-and-field “queen” leaves Thai Nguyen
VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 12 hours ago
Huong is now meeting with other members of the national track-and-field team at the National Sport Training Center 1 in Hanoi to prepare for the Asian Grand …

Africa

Athletes start preparations for Olympic
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, Kenya - 7 hours ago
Athletics Kenya has selected 13 athletes to start race walking training in preparation for the Africa Senior Championships slated for May in Ethiopia and …

Zimbabwe: Athletes to Remit 3 Percent of Earnings
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 11 hours ago
ZIMBABWE’S foreign-based athletes will now be required to remit 3% of their winning cash purses to the National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe (NAAZ). …

Rwanda: Rukundo Wins Cross Country Championship
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 12 hours ago
Police Athletics Club athlete Sylvain Rukundo won this year’s national cross country championship at Kigali Golf Club, Nyarutarama yesterday. …

Carribean

Sherone Simpson more confident following win in Sydney
radiojamaica.com, Jamaica - 5 minutes ago
… who experienced a lull in form last season, said her confidence was back after winning the 200 metres at the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix in Australia. …

Asafa Powell wants life ban for drug cheats
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 17 hours ago
Jamaica’s 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell is calling for a life-ban on drug cheats. In a Sunday Herald newspaper story, Powell suggested that …

Anderson off to a blistering start
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 17 hours ago
JAMAICAN athletes continued to show that they are among the best in the world as they displayed outstanding performances in Indoor track and field meets in …

USA/Americas

Athletes not political pawns, says Moses
The West Australian, Australia - 20 hours ago
The selection of British sprinter Dwain Chambers, who in 2005 completed a two-year ban for doping, to contest the 60 metres at next month’s world indoor …

Hardbarger Breaks 23-Year Old Men’s Track and Field Record at Kane …
RIT Athletics, NY - 6 hours ago
… the RIT men’s indoor track and field team had a bevy of excellent showings at the Kane Invitational hosted by Division I Cornell University on Saturday. …

Track and field excels at Tysonn Invitational
Red and Black, GA - 12 hours ago
Georgia track and field registered five NCAA provisional qualifying marks to highlight the opening day of the Tysonn Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., …

Tar Heels prove better, faster, stronger at Chick-fil-A Invitational
University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel, NC - 16 hours ago
North Carolina freshman Patience Coleman moved one step closer to her dreams of Olympic gold Saturday during UNC track and field’s Chick-fil-A Invitational. …

‘Cats’ Olamigoke jumps at offer
The Free Lance-Star, VA - 17 hours ago
A reliable connection helped Mountain View track and field coach Dave Davis land a scholarship for one of his most talented athletes. …

Canada/Other Americas

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Games/General

Court asks government to hold mobile courts for beggars
Indian Muslims, CA - 6 hours ago
… Court Monday asked the state government to consider the option of holding mobile courts to make Delhi a beggar-free area by Commonwealth Games 2010. …
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Clarke steps up the pace
Geelong Advertiser, Australia - 5 hours ago
Clarke’s coach Simon Lewin said the performance was an ideal preparation for Thursday’s Melbourne Athletics Grand Prix, where she will attempt to run the …

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Birmingham inspires fast finish
Athletics Australia
He was third but Victoria’s Collis Birmingham can take a lot of the credit for Saturday night’s ripping 1500 metres at the Sydney Grand Prix. …

Tamsyn’s new foe on track
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 8 hours ago
RISING 800m star Madeleine Pape has slammed Tamsyn Lewis’s suggestion that she lacks competition in Australia. After an enthralling contest at Saturday night’s Sydney Grand Prix …

Matt Shirvington and Daniel Batman back in Beijing mix
Courier Mail, Australia - 9 hours ago
Batman, who has had his disagreements with various Athletics Athletics figures, just missed his first Olympic B-qualifying time in the 200m, …

New star emerges to spice things up just in nick of time
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 hours ago
ATHLETICS Australia needed a young, talented, high cheek-boned beauty to help sell the sport and, right on cue, one emerges. That the rookie takes on the …

No hosing down an Olympic ambition
The Age, Australia - 9 hours ago
BRAD Woods reckons the groundsman at his home track, Dubbo’s Barden Park, used to set his watering schedule by him. …

Lewis creates a stir
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 9 hours ago
Tamsyn Lewis, right, showed her staying power on Saturday night, holding off Madeleine Pape to win the 800m at the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix. …

Shirvo excited about last hurrah
Fox Sports, Australia - 15 hours ago
By James Dampney MATT Shirvington knows he is virtually a forgotten man in Australian athletics, but the veteran sprinter still feels he has one last good …

Other Sports Lauren chasing a fourth berth
Fox Sports, Australia - 19 hours ago
Quinn said Hewitt almost gave athletics away at the height of her injury troubles. “The Olympics are six months away and the next few months will be crucial …

New Zealand/Oceania

Vili sends Olympic message
The Timaru Herald, New Zealand - 6 hours ago
Valerie Vili defied a back injury to record her longest shot put of the season and send a message to her Olympic rivals in Sydney on Saturday night. …

Blincoe plans Quax attack
Wanganui Chronicle, New Zealand - 10 hours ago
By DAVID OGILVIE Adrian Blincoe s eyes are now on Dick Quax s long-standing New Zealand national 5000 metres record after becoming Cooks Gardens 51st …

More milers maybe?
Wanganui Chronicle, New Zealand - 10 hours ago
“We’re asking Athletics New Zealand to support us better if they want this to be an elite event, as it is, they need to tell their athletes to attend it,” …

UK

Chambers’ real crime was telling us all the dirty truth
Daily Mail, UK - 1 hour ago
The demonising of Dwain Chambers by British athletics is giving away their sport’s dirty little secret. In so doing they are bringing ever closer the day …

THOMPSON – WHY DID CHAMBERS CHEAT?
Sportinglife.com, UK - 4 hours ago
“As a sport athletics has to decide what it wants its destiny to be because it’s not fair to the sport and not fair to the athletes what we’ve just been …

Coe voices ‘wrestling’ fears for dope-hit athletics
Yahoo! Eurosport, UK - 8 hours ago
LONDON (AFP) – Sebastian Coe warned Sunday athletics could be reduced from a sport to the ‘entertainment’ status of American professional wrestling if it …

Rep down the Dwain
ic Newcastle.co.uk, UK - 9 hours ago
by Ken Oxley, Sunday Sun NOT content with making himself the pariah of the athletics world, drugs cheat Dwain Chambers has gone one stage further by …

Chambers offered help – by the rival he cheated
Sunday Mirror, UK - 9 hours ago
By Richard Lewis 17/02/2008 Dwain Chambers was given a lifeline in his battle to win respect in the athletics world again yesterday – by the man he cheated …

Crazy politics are tearing sport apart BUT FANS HIT BACK
Sunday Mirror, UK - 9 hours ago
But aren’t UK Athletics being hypocritical by slamming Chambers yet applauding the return of Christine Ohuruogu, who was banned for missing drug tests? …

Coe supports European ban on Chambers
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 11 hours ago
Coe, a twice Olympic 1500 metres champion, is also a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations which has been lobbying the …

Athletics Still Run By Dopes
Glasgow Sunday Mail, UK - 16 hours ago
The stampede for the moral high ground from all the sirs and dames of the athletics world is sickening. Chambers hasn’t broken a single rule or law with his …

Athletics: Bekele sets new world two-mile best time
Yahoo! Eurosport, UK - 18 hours ago
BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb 16, 2008 (AFP) – Ethiopia distance-running great Kenenisa Bekele added to his collection of notable landmarks by setting a new …

Chambers will run and run
Independent, UK - 22 hours ago
By Simon Turnbull, Athletics Correspondent At last, a break in the pantomime that is the Dwain Chambers Affair – a chance for the other cast members of …

Tom English – Hypocrites running scared of Chambers
Scotland on Sunday, UK - 22 hours ago
HOW’S this for a tale of hypocrisy from the twisted world of British athletics. At the Sydney Olympics of 2000, the English sprinter Darren Campbell was …

The Nick Townsend column: Athletics has to share guilt with …
Independent, UK - 22 hours ago
Only in athletics, many will conclude as they survey the latest developments in this Mad Hatter’s tea party of the sport’s administration. …

Europe

Woodie’s DIY Junior Indoor Championships
Athletics Association of Ireland, Ireland - 1 hour ago
The Woodie’s DIY junior indoor championships completed an excellent weekend of athletics at Nenagh today. As always there were some superb performances …

Lalli, Romagnolo nab wins in Monza – Italian clubs Cross Country …
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 3 hours ago
… purposes for the National Club Championships as his team Esercito (the Italian Army Athletics team) was not in contention for the Italian Club title, …

Kravchenko takes fierce battle with Karpov as both tally world …
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 9 hours ago
The 11th annual European Athletics Combined Events Meeting Reval Hotels Cup ended with close Heptathlon conclusion and a great Pentathlon. …

As Russians Sweep, Borisov and Friedrich impress – European Indoor Cup
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 13 hours ago
Moscow, Russia – Russian athletics flexed its muscles and gave a timely reminder of the impact it may make ahead of the IAAF World Indoor Championships in …

Bekele Breaks Indoor 2-Mile World Record
Washington Post, United States - 14 hours ago
In Donetsk, Ukraine, Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own indoor world record in the women’s pole vault, clearing 16 feet 2 3/4 inches. …

Asia

ATHLETICS: Kenya win in Hong Kong to keep GROE title
Daily Nation, Kenya - 1 hour ago
Kenyan runners in the Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth (GROE) marathon are Sh140 million richer after winning the Hong Kong Marathon Sunday. …

India dominate on final day
Gulf Times, Qatar - 16 hours ago
By Suman Malla INDIA dominated the final day of the third Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winning seven medals, including three gold, yesterday to top …

Africa

Kiprop’s victory in Eldoret highlights busy Kenyan Cross Country …
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 6 hours ago
Nairobi, Kenya – Athletics action in Kenya hit a notch higher this weekend with three regional Cross Country meetings held in Eldoret, Kericho and Kisii, …

Carribean

Jordan Tigers roar
The Nation Newspaper, Barbados - 11 hours ago
… it was the Jordan Tigers who ruled at the end of the St Lucy Secondary School Inter-House Track and Field Competition at the school on Friday. …

Hot shot John-o
Nation News, Barbados - 11 hours ago
… Kemar Jones won the Under-17 high jump at 1.85 metres and Rommel Burgess of Track and Field Academy threw the Under-20 javelin 54.39 metres. …

Barnett smashes two records at UWI Invit’l
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - 17 hours ago
In the meantime, president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletics Federation (JAAA), Howard Aris, yesterday announced that 1976 Olympic 200m silver medallist …

Close second
Trinidad & Tobago Express, Trinidad and Tobago - 18 hours ago
Trinidad and Tobago sprint star Darrel Brown just missed out on gold in the men’s 100 metres “A” race at the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix, in Sydney, …

Jamaicans show promise at New York meet
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 20 hours ago
THE SPARKLING two-day New Balance Collegiate indoor track and field meet at the Armory in New York came to an end last Saturday evening. …

Records tumble at Stadium
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 20 hours ago
… were broken in early action at yesterday’s sixth University of The West Indies (UWI)/Gatorade Invitational track and field meet at the National Stadium. …

Sherone Simpson wins 200m in Sydney Grand Prix
radiojamaica.com, Jamaica - 21 hours ago
Jamaica’s Sherone Simpson continued her winning form this season capturing the 200 metres at the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix, in Australia. …

Team Jamaica on the Road to Beijing
TropicalFete.com, NY - 22 hours ago
The Jamaica Amateur Athletics Association (JAAA) has indicated their support and endorsement. Mr.Donald Quarrie Jamaica’s most eminent Olympian will be a …

USA/Americas

Ritzenhein claims second national crown
The Register-Guard, OR - 5 hours ago
BIRMINGHAM, England — Galen Rupp placed 11th in the 1500 meters at the Norwich Union Grand Prix indoor track and field meet on Saturday. …

FSU track team sets records
Tallahassee Democrat, FL - 6 hours ago
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — In day two of competition at the Tyson Invitational, the Florida State track and field squad took another step closer to NCAA …

Athletics: Flanagan, Ritzenhein dominate at USA Cross Country …
RunnersWeb, Canada - 8 hours ago
SAN DIEGO-2004 Olympic team members Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, NC) and Dathan Ritzenhein (Eugene, Ore.) each scored convincing victories at the USA Cross …

AG’s Hasay repeats as USA Junior champion
Santa Maria Times, CA - 14 hours ago
She’s won the Junior Nationals Cross Country race twice, the USATF Junior Nationals Track and Field 3000 and 1500 meter races and the 2005 Foot Locker …

Carter sets Tech shot put record
LubbockOnline.com, TX - 15 hours ago
FAYETEVILLE, Ark. – The Texas Tech women’s track and field team set another record in the shot put Saturday. This time, it came from a different athlete. …

Canada/Other Americas

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Games/General

London 1948 to London 2012: Rags to riches for the ‘high-class Del …
Independent, UK - 22 hours ago
Sixty years ago, Nankeville was one of the biggest names in British athletics, a champion miler who took part in the last Olympic Games to be held in London …
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Asafa Powell convinced he will run aganinst drug cheats
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 9 hours ago
THE world’s fastest man, Asafa Powell, is convinced he will race against drug cheats at the Beijing Olympics. The Jamaican has refused to name those he …

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American John Woods for eligible Aussie national selection
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 9 hours ago
Athletics Australia has nominated Woods, 25, for a Distinguished Talent visa, which could hasten his bid for permanent residency. …

Sprinter Lauren Hewitt back racing for Beijing quest
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 9 hours ago
SPRINTER Lauren Hewitt has endured more setbacks than most, but she is prepared to risk all again in pursuit of a place on the greatest stage. …

Vili, Lewis impress, Batman defeats Wariner at 200m – Sydney report
International Association of Athletics Foundation, Monaco - 9 hours ago
The Sydney Athletics Grand Prix is one of a select group of Area meetings at which points can be acquired by athletes to qualify for the 2008 IAAF / VTB …

Batman kapows American superstar
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 10 hours ago
Daniel Batman caused a boilover at the Athletics Grand Prix meeting at Sydney Olympic Park, knocking off American superstar Jeremy Wariner in the men’s 200m …

Lewis leads the way
sportal.com.au, Australia - 10 hours ago
Tamsyn Lewis has held off a strong challenge from Victorian Madeleine Pape to win the women’s 800 metres at the Sydney Athletics Grand Prix on Saturday …

Last gasp lunge sees Woods win
The Age, Australia - 10 hours ago
BRAD Woods, who started training on a grass track in Dubbo, made a huge step forward last night when he won the 1500 metres at the Sydney Grand Prix meeting …

Sprinters in awe of Lithgow Flash’s dash for no cash
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 10 hours ago
Breen, 17, who won $5000 in last year’s Queanbeyan Gift and lists competing in an Olympic final as her career goal, will line up for her share of $11000 in …

From the cheap seats
The Age, Australia - 10 hours ago
No doubt the same way that the Olympics lowers interest in athletics and swimming every four years. Somehow you just KNOW that the very same people who are …

Powell expecting to run in Melbourne GP
Ninemsn, Australia - 11 hours ago
A decision on whether Powell will run in the World Athletics Tour event in Melbourne will be made after he has undertaken some training. …

Olympic champion Wariner beaten in Sydney 200m
Yahoo! Eurosport, UK - 11 hours ago
SYDNEY (AFP) – World and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner was beaten by Australian Daniel Batman in the 200 metres at the Sydney athletics Grand Prix meeting …

Donna’s fantastic dash
The Mercury, Australia - 11 hours ago
DONNA MacFarlane had a hard time pretending there were 20000 people in the stands at yesterday’s interclub athletics meet at the Domain in Hobart. …

Wariner tamed by Australian Batman
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 11 hours ago
SYDNEY, Feb 16 (Reuters) – American 400 metres world champion Jeremy Wariner suffered a surprise loss to Australian Daniel Batman over 200 metres at the …

Powell positive of recovery for Melbourne meet
ABC Online, Australia - 16 hours ago
… says he expects to be fit to run in the IAAF World Athletics Tour event in Melbourne next week and remains confident of running ever faster times. …

Time’s running out for athletes
Fox Sports, Australia - 23 hours ago
By Scott Gullan But two weeks out from the biggest event on the national athletics calendar and the overwhelming sense is one of frustration. …

Lewis, Pape make memorable Sydney Grand Prix
Athletics Australia
Eight years on from the Olympic Games, track and field returned to its rightful atmosphere of excitement and drama in Sydney on Saturday night. …

New Zealand/Oceania

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