Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised the event with a radically different jumping technique that was eventually named after him, died on Sunday aged 76, his agent Ray Schulte said on Monday (Tuesday AEDT). Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he jumped back […]

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson defended her European Indoor Championships 800m title in style as she ran away […]

Fred Kerley will break 20 seconds when he runs the 200m at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne on Thursday night. He is the world’s fastest man, so when he states this prediction as fact, there is no reason to doubt him. Kerley is racing the 200m – against Australia’s fastest man, Rohan Browning, who […]

Australian middle distance champions Ollie Hoare and Stewart McSweyn say they still have confidence in the anti-doping system despite the recent experience of their friend and teammate Peter Bol. Bol tested positive to EPO in one drug sample and was provisionally suspended on January 10 this year, but his secondary test sample came back with […]

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Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Thanks for signing up to the Sport email Eilish McColgan believes her athletics future lies in marathon running as she prepares to make her debut […]

Australia will bring some of the biggest names in world athletics to Melbourne next month to go head-to-head with Australia’s best in a major upgrading of the Melbourne track Classic to honour athletics luminary Marie Plant. Athletics Australia says it will have at least three top 50 names in no fewer than 12 athletic events […]

By Georgina Robinson Charlie Maher started running marathons to get away from his demons. He kept running marathons to stay ahead of them. But it was grief that propelled him towards the finish line of his sixth race and into the history books last month as the first Indigenous Australian to finish the six ‘majors’: […]

The creaking body of Kenenisa Bekele appears finally poised to reach the start line, at the time of writing, no doubt galvanised by Kipchoge’s latest breakthrough at 37 years of age. The 40-year-old logged a DNS at London two years ago, which was followed by third in Berlin with 2:06:47, a disappointing 2:12:52 in New […]

“The race was meant to be like training, afterwards he was excited to train harder for London. Things were going very well but sadly his hip started bothering him. “He’s been my mentor over the years, because of him I start to believe more, I can reach more and get medals, run fast. It’s sad […]