Jamaica: World and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Melaine Walker has been confirmed for the 100m hurdles at the Jamaica International Invitational (JII) Meet on May 4.
Walker will be running the sprint hurdle in a competitive event for the first time since 2006 when she was a student at the University of Texas.
She is expected to face off against London Olympic Games 100m hurdles silver medalist Dawn Harper of the US, and Jamaica's Olympic Games semi-finalist Shermaine Williams.
One of the most anticipated events is the women's 100m highlighting a clash between Veronica Campbell Brown and American Allyson Felix and includes double Olympic sprint finalist Murielle Ahoure of the Ivory Coast, and Trinidad's Kelly Ann Baptiste, who was sixth in London....
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02:36 PM, Apr 24, 2013
London: Usain Bolt will return to London to compete in the IAAF Diamond League meeting at the Olympic Stadium in which he achieved a clean sweep of gold medals last year. The Jamaican six-times Olympic champion will head a glittering cast as London's Queen Elizabeth Park celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Olympic opening ceremony. The meeting, held on July 26-28, will feature 29 Olympic medallists, including 12 champions and...
01:56 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell has been forced to withdraw from his first meeting since last year's Olympic final because of a hamstring injury, Athletics Australia said on Tuesday. ...
12:42 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Seventeen athletes face doping bans after abnormalities were detected in the IAAF biological passports. ...
09:28 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Six athletes, including former world hammer champion Ivan Tsikhan were named by the sport's governing body for failing doping tests. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The list includes the likes of double Asian Games gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji who are now serving a two-year ban for doping. ...
04:44 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Monaco: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, Kenya's David Rudisha and US hurdler Aries Merritt are in the running for the World Athlete of the Year Award. Three-time winner Bolt is heavily favoured to claim the accolade for a second-straight year after sweeping the sprint titles at the London Olympics. The 23-year-old Rudisha, who won in 2010, was nominated after shattering the 800 metres world record in the London final. Merritt, meanwhile,...
11:36 AM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: India has nothing to boast of in terms of achievements at world stage in athletics, but the country has topped in the number offenders caught for doping under IAAF rules. In the latest IAAF list of dope offenders updated till October 31, a whopping 40 Indian athletes figured in the list out of 204 dope offenders all over the world. Among the top Indians in the list were...
08:45 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: The hearing on the appeal by IAAF in the case involving six Indian women quartermilers, including Asian Games double gold medallist Ashwini Akkunji, was held at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) at the headquarters at Lausanne, Switzerland today. "Some athletes attended the hearing by a teleconference instead of travelling to switzerland," sources in the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said. "The decision on the case is...
11:47 PM, Jul 16, 2012
London: Sebastian Coe and Sergei Bubka are the latest two legends to be named among the 24 inaugural members of the Hall of Fame of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the governing body of athletics. "I am delighted that two more of my Council colleagues will join the inaugural membership of the IAAF Hall of Fame," IAAF president Lamine Diack said on Monday. Coe is head of the London...
02:30 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Istanbul: Natallia Dobrynska of Ukraine set a new world record in the Pentathlon tallying 5013 points to win the world title on the opening day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships here. Dobrynska, the 2008 Olympic champion, on Friday became the first pentathlete to break the 5,000-point barrier while eclipsing the previous world record of 4991 points set on Feb 15, 1992 by Russian Irina Belova. In addition to the...
05:02 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Beijing: The 2012 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Indoor Championships to be held from March 9 to 11 in Istanbul will become the biggest gathering in terms of participating member federations, the world athletics governing body IAAF confirmed. "With 172 IAAF national member federations having entered athletes to compete at the Atakov Arena next week, Istanbul 2012 should surpass Valencia 2008 where 147 countries, also a participating record...
03:59 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Daegu, South Korea: Usain Bolt brought world-class pizzazz to the athletics world championships on Saturday where one Olympic champion ducked out without completing even a single pole vault and another was in tears after false-starting in her 400 metres heat. Bolt, the world's fastest man, left the rapidly emptying stadium all smiles after posturing his way through a simple 100 metres heat. His grin was matched by the joyful Kenyans...
11:00 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Washington: Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser, is holding off on complying with a government request to remove a software tool meant to circumvent official efforts at curbing Internet piracy. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the US Department of Homeland Security, has been seizing the Internet addresses of sites accused of piracy, so that visitors can't reach them by typing in those domain names. The...
07:24 AM, May 07, 2011
South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 metres world title. ...
10:41 PM, Nov 19, 2009
Tests had kicked off international row over 18-year-old Semenya's gender. ...
09:00 AM, Sep 20, 2009
Newspaper says 800-m champion has male, female sex organs. ...
12:51 PM, Sep 11, 2009
The medal may not depend on the outcome of her gender test. ...
12:30 AM, Sep 10, 2009
South African Caster Semenya isn't too bothered by the gender row. ...
02:38 PM, Aug 21, 2009
The IAAF allowed Semenya to run with the gender test result still awaited. ...
11:59 AM, Aug 20, 2009
