Athletics
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Lang posts best time in Gozo half marathon
The 38th Gozo half marathon and affiliated races, held recently, again attracted a record number of participants. In fact, over 340 runners, including some foreigners, took part in this year’s races with the half marathon alone taking athletes...
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Injured Bolt to skip meeting in Jamaica
Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt has been ruled out of Saturday’s Jamaica International Invitational meeting because of a slight hamstring strain, his agent said. The 100 and 200 metres world record holder felt tightness in training over...
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Sammut hits 1,500 record
Shaving off nearly six seconds from a record last inked in nearly 28 years ago is quite remarkable, by any standard. Being a youth category record does not lessen any merit from this feat achieved by 15-year-old Laura Sammut at a track and field...
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Fast times for two Maltese sprinters at Modena meet
Steve Camilleri and Rebecca Camilleri took part in an athletics meeting in Modena, last week. The two sprinters, coached by Jivko Jetchev, competed in Italy as part of their preparations for next month’s Games of the Small States of Europe in...
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Farah confirmed for Gateshead
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will headline Britain’s quest for victory at the Euro Team Championships in Gateshead on June 22-23. Farah has told UK Athletics head coach Peter Eriksson that he will be available for the team event. Farah is no...
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Saints leave their mark in Marsascala
A double event in Marsascala, held recently, brought the MAAA non-stadia competitions to a close for this season. Two consecutive 10km races, the second reserved solely for the Masters’ category, open for athletes aged 35 years and over, sealed the...
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Sarè leaps to MQS at Marsa
With performances coming on nicely to peak in time for the Games of the Small States of Europe, the general feeling at the Marsa stadium last Saturday was upbeat. Having witnessed Andy Grech dip below 11 seconds at the beginning of the month and...
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300 runners for Gozo Half
Over 300 athletes will be participating in this year’s Gozo Half Marathon on Sunday, organised by the Gozo Amateur Athletic Club (GAAC) in conjunction with Xagħra Youth Centre and the Xaghra Local Council. This year’s edition is expected to have the...
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Jeptoo keeps her feet for Kenya
Priscah Jeptoo took advantage of a fall by Ethiopia’s Olympic champion Tiki Gelana to give Kenya a third successive victory in the women’s race at the London Marathon yesterday. Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede made up for missing out on the Olympics and...
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Bolt to head cast at ‘Anniversary Games’
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 Games champion will head a glittering cast as London’s...
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Camilleri leaps past MQS limit
It was certainly a memorable time for athletics events at the Marsa Stadium last week. Staged over two afternoons, most satisfaction was that derived on Friday when Athletics Malta organised competitive events not usually included in the regular...
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Pembroke races on Sunday
Malta’s leading long distance runners are expected to take part in this year’s Pembroke Road Races on Sunday. Victor Camilleri, president of the Pembroke Athleta Athletics and Triathlon Club, told a news conference that entry for the 10km race, the...
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Powell withdraws from Melbourne meeting
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell (picture) has been forced to withdraw from his first meeting since last year’s Olympic final because of a hamstring injury. The 30-year-old Jamaican, who has run the 100m in less than 10 seconds...
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Athleta make strong start
Victorious in half of the 31 events at stake, Pembroke Athleta emerged as clear leaders in all three classifications at the end of the first meeting of this season’s Track and Field leagues, organised by Athletics Malta at Marsa. The meet was...
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Usain Bolt shy of record
Usain Bolt fell just short of his 150 metres world mark as he opened his season with victory on Copacabana beach in Rio, yesterday. The six-time Olympic champion crossed the line in 14.42 seconds on a four-lane track assembled on Rio’s iconic...
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Pistorius would be welcomed by race organisers – agent
Oscar Pistorius would be welcomed back to certain athletics meetings when he decides to return to competition, his agent Peet van Zyl has claimed. Pistorius is allowed to travel abroad for competitions after a judge changed his bail restrictions...
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Bolt out of the blue for London
Usain Bolt looks likely to race at the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium in July. Bolt’s agent confirmed “positive negotiations” had been held with the organisers with a view to the world’s fastest man competing at the Diamond League...
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Rio stadium shut for structural repairs
Rio de Janeiro’s Joao Havelange stadium, scheduled to host athletics at the 2016 Olympic games, was closed this week to undergo roof repairs, the city’s mayor said. The stadium, completed less than six years ago, is currently the city’s main soccer...
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Former Olympic 200m champion Mennea dies
Former Olympic champion Pietro Mennea, whose 200 metres world record lasted more than 16 years, has died in a Rome clinic at the age of 60, the Italian Olympic Committee CONI said yesterday. “Italian sport is in mourning,” it said on its website...
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Race is on for MQSs
Some of the athletes taking part in the first race of the Challenge series some days ago obviously had their eyes on the Minimum Qualifying Standard (MQS) for the GSSE set by the Maltese Olympic Committee (MOC). Comfortably close to the MQS, Rebecca...
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