PARIS (AP) — Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the women’s marathon for runners with visual impairments on the last day of the Paralympic Games. El Idrissi finished in 2 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds on Sunday, beating the previous record from Japan’s Misato Michishita in Hofu City in December 2020 … Read more
Madison de Rozario has revealed she considered returning to Australia and abandoning her Paralympic campaign after receiving news in the hours after she was a flagbearer in opening ceremony that her father had died. De Rozario won silver in the T54 marathon on Sunday, adding to a bronze she picked up in the 5000m earlier … Read more
Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei is in hospital after she was allegedly set on fire by a former lover. The 33-year-old Ugandan athlete reportedly received burns to 75 per cent of her body in the incident. Reports say Cheptegei was in Kenya after the Olympics, and the alleged attack happened in her house in the … Read more
The coach of four-time Australian Olympian Lisa Weightman has taken a sarcastic swipe at Athletics Australia in the wake of her well documented marathon snubbing. Weightman was controversially overlooked for what would have been her fifth Olympic berth in Paris when Athletics Australia chose Jess Stenson, whose qualification time was slower than Weightman’s, Sinead Diver … Read more
Ethiopian Tamirat Tola has ended Eliud Kipchoge’s Olympic reign in the marathon with a stunning victory in Paris on Saturday. Kenyan legend Kipchoge was chasing an unprecedented third-straight Olympic title, but was never really in it and eventually pulled the pin at 31km. The 39-year-old, who has won just about every major marathon in the … Read more
Australia’s much-loved marathon-man Liam Adams is not giving up hope of heading to this year’s Olympic Games after recently learning — in crushing circumstances — that he had missed the cut. Adams, the popular ‘sparky’ marathon runner who finished an impressive 24th in the last Olympics in Tokyo, had thought that he had made the … Read more
Whether you’re lacing up your running shoes for the first time or a seasoned runner looking to up your game, the arrival of marathon season brings a time of excitement and challenge for people of all levels. Marathon season offers a range of distances to run, from the quick sprint of a 5K to the … Read more
Russell Cook is due to finish the challenge on 7 April. Ultramarathon runner Russ Cook, also known as “Hardest Geezer,” is about to achieve a remarkable feat: running the entire length of Africa. This ambitious journey, dubbed Project Africa, will see him become the first person to ever complete such a trek. Cook began his … Read more
