Justin Gatlin's coach Trevor Graham has been banned from using US Olympic Committee (USOC) training centres and facilities. The extraordinary action is being taken "based on the unusual number of athletes he has coached who have been convicted of...
Olympic and world 100 metres champion Justin Gatlin will attend a hearing before the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in the near future after failing a drugs test for testosterone. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said in a...
Attard qualifies automatically for China worlds
Joint 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell stretched his unbeaten run to 11 races this year with victory in 9.91 seconds at the London grand prix on Friday. Powell, who shares the world mark of 9.77 seconds with American Justin Gatlin, powered...
Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson powered to victory at a super grand prix meeting on Tuesday but pole vault supremo Yelena Isinbayeva was surprisingly upstaged following a lacklustre showing. Despite enjoying a near perfect start to...
The Ladies Running Club will be holding their annual six-mile race on September 15 at 6 p.m. A successful addition to last year's race was a four-mile walk held at the same time. This event will again be included in this year's 16th edition. The race...
Make clean sweep of all three titles at stake
Positive results for Xuereb twins
World indoor champion Wilfred Bungei got the better of his outdoor counterpart Rashid Ramzi and world leader Amine Laalou to win a high-class 800 metres at the IAAF Grand Prix in Madrid on Monday night. The Kenyan beat his own meeting record and set a...
An unusual route was dominated by unfamiliar faces at this year's Birzebbuga 10k. Road works forced organisers St Patrick's AC to alter the route of this popular summer race for the first time in eight years. Australian Jeremy Horne became the first...
100m record not upheld due to strong following wind
World and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner became the fourth fastest 400 metres runner in history with a time of 43.62 seconds at the Golden League meeting in Rome on Friday. Jamaican Asafa Powell came up short in his bid to take sole ownership of the...
Jones on form again
Joint 100 metres world record holder Justin Gatlin hopes to recover from a knee injury in time for London's July 28 meeting. "I'm still staying in shape," Gatlin told Reuters. "I'm trying to make sure my sharpness is still there, so I can get ready for...
After the first day of the Malta Amateur Athletics Association (MAAA) Clubs' League held last week, Pembroke Athleta emerged as the dominant force, heading the team standings in all three categories - Men Open, Women Open and Youths...
Powell, Jones win sprints
British sprinter Dwain Chambers has been stripped of his 2002 European 100 metres title after admitting he took the steroid THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) that year. A statement from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said all...
Russia's Tatiana Lysenko set a world record in the women's hammer with a throw of 77.41 metres at the Znamensky memorial athletics meeting on Saturday. The 22-year-old reclaimed the record from compatriot Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at...
European 100 metres champion Dwain Chambers has been included in the British squad for this month's European Cup just 10 days after his competitive comeback from a doping ban. Chambers clocked 10.07 in Gateshead on June 11, finishing third to...
The Combined Team, representing the small states of Europe in the European Cup Second League, had promised a fine fare in Serbia when the entry forms were submitted some weeks ago. The registration for both teams had promised a full field with most...
A selection of nine Maltese track and field athletes is currently in Novi Sad, Serbia, taking part in the European Cup (Second League). They are forming part of the Combined Team representing the Small States of Europe. The other members in the team...
Asafa Powell equalled the men's 100 metres world record with a time of 9.77 seconds at a grand prix meet yesterday in Gateshead. Powell set the world best in Athens in June 2005 which was matched by American Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin in...
Americans Marion Jones and Justin Gatlin ruled the sprints on Saturday with emphatic wins in their respective 100 metre races, and Meseret Defar of Ethiopia capped off New York's rousing grand prix meeting with a world record in the women's 5,000...
Joint world record holder Asafa Powell raced to victory in 9.98 seconds over 100 metres at the Bislett Games Golden League meeting on Friday. However, Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele's hopes of a Golden League clean sweep in the distance events were ended...
The hotly anticipated 100 metres showdown between US Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin and co-world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica will likely take place next month. Gatlin's agent, former hurdles champion Renaldo Nehemiah, said he...
Francesca Xuereb emerged from the shadow of her sister Martina a few days ago when she twice broke the 400m junior and youth records. During the Youth Championships, held at the Matthew Micallef St John stadium in Marsa, she clocked 56.67 seconds to...
Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin clocked 9.88 seconds to outperform joint world record holder Asafa Powell in separate 100 metres races at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon on Sunday. Gatlin used his powerful acceleration from about 40 metres...
A proposed 100 metres showdown between co-world record holders Asafa Powell of Jamaica and American Justin Gatlin in Gateshead, England, next month will not take place. The race would have been the third in two weeks for the two athletes, who share the...
The weather may be the biggest obstacle to fast times when co-world record holders Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell compete in highly publicised but separate 100 metres races at the Prefontaine Classic tomorrow. Temperatures in the mid-60s F (18 C) and...
Joelle Cortis recently took part in a 3,000m race at the Marsa track and field stadium and finished comfortably inside the Maltese national junior record for girls. Although no Maltese female athlete under 20 years of age has ever run faster for the...
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