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Fourteen years ago when London hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, its official motto was “Inspire a Generation.” One month ago, Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe and Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa did just that when they crossed the finish line at the TCS London Marathon in respective record time — Sawe became the first person to […]
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European Athletics has announced that Glasgow, Scotland, will host the 33rd SPAR European Cross Country Championships in 2027, following a successful bid process led by UK Athletics. It will be the first time that Glasgow has hosted the Championships and 24 years after the event was last held in the UK, when Holyrood Park in […]
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When Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe crossed the finish line in 1:59:30 at the TCS London Marathon last Sunday, he didn’t just become the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race — he defied physics and human belief. Sawe wasn’t even alone in his historic accomplishment, as Ethiopian debutant Yomif Kejelcha finished in […]
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For more than a century, London has set the pace in the marathon world. During the 1908 Summer Olympics in that city, the official race distance was moved from 25 miles to 26.2 miles for reasons that remain unclear to historians but may have had something to do with wanting to appease the king and […]
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World Athletics has outlined a strategic roadmap for the future of distance running by taking the marathon out of the World Athletics Championships program and creating a standalone World Athletics Marathon Championships from 2030. While the marathon will remain a discipline at the World Athletics Championships in 2027 and 2029, it will move to its […]
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The southern city of Guiyang will host pentathlon’s flagship competition in August 2026, kickstarting a two-week festival of UIPM (Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne) sports in China styled “Race Across China.” The UIPM 2026 Pentathlon World Championships (August 24–30) in the capital of Guizhou Province will be followed closely by the second edition of the […]
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Tallahassee, Florida, is preparing to become the latest U.S. city to host a major world championship as the destination welcomes the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Tallahassee 26, starting January 10. The event will be staged at Apalachee Regional Park. Elite runners and Olympians, including cross country powerhouses such as the United States, Kenya, Uganda, […]
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The UTMB World Series has added the new Rothrock by UTMB to its circuit, the series’ second event in the Eastern United States alongside Grindstone Running Festival by UTMB in Virginia. The inaugural Rothrock by UTMB is scheduled for May 16–17, 2026, near State College, Pennsylvania, bringing the UTMB World Series to Rothrock State Forest […]
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The 2025 Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati, produced by Pig Works, generated an estimated $45.9 million in total economic impact for the region, according to a new report from the Center for Research and Data at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. According to the study, the May 2–4, 2025, race weekend drew more than 51,000 […]
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Ironman will launch of a new event in Northern California, the Ironman 70.3 Northern California triathlon. The inaugural race will be held August 16, 2026, with a scenic swim, bike and run course through Redding, California, and the surrounding Shasta Cascade region. General registration for the new event opens on November 13. Framed by Mount Shasta […]
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