Athletics
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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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Balzan, Hili take Dingli 10 honours
The 23rd Nestle Fitness Dingli 10 took place on Tuesday as is traditional with this annual race organised by St Patrick’s AC. Over 250 athletes participated in the 10 mile road race, the junior 2km race and the 8 mile walkathon. The 10 mile road...
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Bolt to run 100m in Rome Golden Gala
Six-times Olympic Games champion Usain Bolt will run the 100 metres race at Rome’s Golden Gala meeting on June 6, organisers revealed this week. The Jamaican world record holder has already announced appearances in the 200m at Oslo’s Bislett Games...
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IAAF cites former champions for failing dope tests
Six athletes, including former Olympic and three-times world hammer champion Ivan Tsikhan of Belarus, were named by the sport’s governing body yesterday for failing doping tests after samples taken at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki were...
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Pavey to miss Worlds
Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m finalist Jo Pavey will sit out the World Championships in August after announcing she is pregnant with her second child. Pavey, who also claimed the silver medal at the European Championships in Helsinki in a memorable...
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Blake to run at Doha meet
Jamaica’s 100 metres world champion Yohan Blake is the first high-profile athlete to sign up for the opening Diamond League event in Doha, organisers said yesterday. The meeting on May 10 in Qatar is the first of the 14 Diamond League...
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Hard work pays off
After months of hard work and preparation, last week’s Malta Marathon once again saw a record number of participants, registering 403 finishers in the marathon and 2,385 in the half marathon and walkathon. The overall number of finishers increased...
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Ransley breaks new ground in shot putt
Only 10 months ago, Lawrence Ransley managed to shatter a national record that had been 21 years in the making. Two centimetres shy of 14 metres, it was predicted that this threshold would probably not last that long with the form the Pembroke...
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Winner Hajjy sets new record
Moroccan runner Mohammed Hajjy and Carmen Hili again stole the limelight at the 2013 Land Rover Malta Marathon after retaining their respective titles in impressive fashion yesterday. A record 3,200 participants took part in yesterday’s three...
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Sammut, Kazmierczac take Half honours
Angele Sammut kept the Maltese flag flying high in the Land Rover Half Marathon after the St Patrick’s athlete won the race for the second year running yesterday. In the men’s race, the honours on the day went to young Pole Mateusz Kazmierczac who...
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Britain’s Farah sets course record in New Orleans
Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah won the New Orleans half marathon in a course record of one hour 59 seconds after holding off Ethiopian Gebre Gebremariam in a sprint finish yesterday. Ethiopia’s 5,000 metres Olympic gold medallist Meseret...
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Marathon Majors impose tougher doping penalties
Stricter anti-doping penalties will be applied to elite athletes in the World Marathon Majors (WMM), the series that brings together six of the world’s top races, organisers said. Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York have collectively...
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