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Introducing our May front cover 🥁 With a theme of "racing against time", we focus on breaking barriers and their impact in the sport 🔥 🇬🇧 Marking the 70th anniversary of Roger Bannister's sub-four-minute-mile and its legacy 🇯🇲 Inside Jamaica's sprint factory – we go behind…
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A duck ran the New York Marathon at the weekend 🦆 Yes, you read that right.
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These were Eliud Kipchoge's splits for his world marathon record of 2:01:09 in Berlin 🤯 5km: 14:14 10km: 28:23 15km: 42:33 Half-way: 59:51 25km: 1:11:08 30km: 1:25:40 35km: 1:40:10 40km: 1:54:53 Finish: 2:01:09
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An amazing moment at the European Team Championships 🔥 Belgium's Anne Zagré was going to run the 100m hurdles but got injured 🇧🇪 So shot putter (with every point counting) Jolien Boumkwo stepped in at the last minute and this was the result 🤯
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Sydney McLaughlin has become the first woman in history to break 13.00 for the 100m hurdles, 23.00 for 200m and 53.00 for the 400m hurdles.
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Sha’Carri Richardson will race Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce over 100m at the Eugene Diamond League ( @nikepreclassic ) 🔥 The line-up also includes Shericka Jackson, Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Mujinga Kambundji, Javianne Oliver, Briana Williams and Teahna Daniels.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce decided to take part in the parent race at her son's Sports Day 🇯🇲 It was only ever going to go one way...
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Just Olympic and world 800m silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson hanging out with Ella Toone, who just won the Euros with England 🔥 History makers both then and now.
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Every superhero has a sidekick and Eliud Kipchoge's was Claus-Henning Schulke 💥 Known as "Bottle Claus", he kept up with Kipchoge on his bike 🚴 Every time he successfully gave the Kenyan a bottle he fist bumped the air 💪 📹 @AMReportsHQ
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“I don’t have the best technique as a sprinter so I have to be so deliberate to make sure I cement those phases. “I’m walking away with a PB and I’m so excited!” @realshellyannfp on her 10.60 victory, the third fastest time in history. #LausanneDL 🇨🇭
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We're sad to report that world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach have lost their lives in a road accident in Kenya. Kiptum was 24 years old and ran his world record of 2:00:35 at last year's Chicago Marathon.
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Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are re-writing history 🇯🇲 1⃣0⃣.5⃣4⃣ (Second fastest in history) 1⃣0⃣.6⃣0⃣ (Third fastest in history)
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WORLD RECORD History! Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own world marathon record with an astonishing 2:01:09 – 30 seconds off the previous WR – at the Berlin Marathon 🔥 The greatest of all-time over 26.2 miles 🐐 #BerlinMarathon 🇩🇪
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World Athletics president Seb Coe says the global governing body has decided at this week's council meeting to exclude transgender women from female events.
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This was the reaction when Faith Kipyegon broke the world 1500m record. Her competitors all went and hugged the double Olympic and world champion. No surprise as Kipyegon is one of the most popular athletes on the circuit.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has the highest number of sub-10.8 times in 100m history. 🇯🇲 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce: 20 🇯🇲 Elaine Thompson-Herah: 11 🇺🇸 Sha'Carri Richardson: 4 🇯🇲 Shericka Jackson: 4
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🇬🇧 Eilish McColgan smashes her British half-marathon record of 66:26 to win the Berlin Half in 65:43.
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🙏 RIP Tori Bowie (1990-2023) 🙏 🥇 World 100m champion (2017) 🥇 Olympic 4x100m champion (2016) 🥇 World 4x100m champion (2017) 🥈 Olympic 100m silver medallist (2016) 🥉 Olympic 200m bronze medallist (2016) 🥉 World 100m bronze medallist (2015)
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Kelvin Kiptum runs the fastest debut marathon in history to win in Valencia with 2:01:53. 😮 It's the fourth-fastest marathon ever from the Kenyan as he is followed home by a host of super-fast times.
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An amazing story at the London Marathon 🙏 David Picksley, with the help of a walking stick, completed the 26.2 mile course in an amazing 7:57:15 🇬🇧 The 91-year-old finished on Sunday despite falling on a bump in the road at 15 miles and suffering a bloody nose 🤯 📸…
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Sydney McLaughlin in 2021 😍 Olympic gold medals ✅ World record ✅ Engaged ✅
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For the first 72 years at the Olympic Games, athletes jumped forwards in the high jump 🏃 Then, at Mexico 1968, Dick Fosbury came along with his "Fosbury flop" and changed the sport forever 🙌
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Remembering the life of Kelvin Kiptum and the impact he made on the sport 🕊️ 🇪🇸 Fastest marathon debut in history, in Valencia (2:01:53 – December 2022) 🇬🇧 Ran what was then the second ever quickest marathon, in London (2:01:25 – April 2023) 🇺🇸 Set the world marathon record,…
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When you complete the race and then propose at the finish line 😍 #Paralympics #Athletics
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In 2012, Sally Pearson set the Olympic record in the 100m hurdles with 12.35. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn has just obliterated it with 12.26 👏 #Athletics #Olympics
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The moment that Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim decided that they'd share the gold medal in the high jump. #Athletics #Olympics
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Sifan Hassan's last 100m in the 10,000m was 13.6. To put that into context, Faith Kipyegon's last 100m in the 1500m was 15.4 and Athing Mu's in the 800m was 14.0. #Athletics #Olympics
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After becoming world 2019 champion, KJT had to bounce back from a ruptured Achilles tendon and then a torn calf injury 🇬🇧 Four years after her first crown, she secures a second world title in Budapest 🔥 And produced a stunning 800m personal best of 2:05.63 when it mattered 💥
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Eliud Kipchoge now holds four out of the fastest five marathon times in history 🔥 Kipchoge 🇰🇪 2:01:09 (Berlin 2022) Kipchoge 🇰🇪 2:01:39 (Berlin 2018) Bekele 🇪🇹 2:01:41 (Berlin 2019) Kipchoge 🇰🇪 2:02:37 (London 2019) Kipchoge 🇰🇪 2:02:40 (Tokyo 2022) #BerlinMarathon 🇩🇪
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"Just as a minority of athletes dope to win, we need to acknowledge the idea of male athletes identifying as females to win." @paulajradcliffe on the future of women in athletics 🎙️ Print: Digital:
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BRITISH RECORD A truly stunning achievement by @EilishMccolgan 🔥 In clocking 30:00.86 at the @sound_running Ten in California, she breaks the previous record of 30:01.09 set by @paulajradcliffe back at Munich 2002 🤯 A historic run 🇬🇧
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Fred Kerley has become just the third athlete in history to break 10.00 for 100m and 44.00 for 400m.
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Happy birthday to the fastest man who's ever walked the earth, @usainbolt ⚡️ 🇨🇳 9.69 🇬🇧 9.63 🇧🇷 9.81
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Ferdinand Omanyala is re-writing history in the 100m. He sets an African record and is now the eighth fastest person in history.
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What's the best coaching pep talk you've ever had? This advice on winning from the legendary @frankdickcoach will take some beating.
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a double world champion 🔥 🇶🇦 Doha 2019 🇭🇺 Budapest 2023 History in the making 🙌
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A sixth world 100m medal (five of them gold) for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 🇯🇲 She ran 10.77 in the final and continues to amaze at the age of 36 🙌 🥇 Berlin 2009 🥇 Moscow 2013 🥇 Beijing 2015 🥇 Doha 2019 🥇 Eugene 2022 🥉 Budapest 2023
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The final standings from that women's 200m: 🇳🇦 Christine Mboma 21.84 🇯🇲 Shericka Jackson 21.95 🇬🇧 Dina Asher-Smith 22.04 🇺🇸 Sha'Carri Richardson 22.45 🇳🇦 Beatrice Masilingi 22.50 #BrusselsDL 🇧🇪
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This was the monsoon like scene during the men's 100m at the UK Athletics Championships ☔️ Imagine running in those conditions 🤯
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9⃣.5⃣8⃣ It's 13 years to the day since @usainbolt set the world alight in Berlin with his electric 100m world record of 9.58 ⚡️ History maker.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 🇯🇲 ✅ Third fastest time in history ✅ Third fastest woman in history ✅ Personal best #LausanneDL 🇨🇭
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Elaine Thompson Herah with back-to-back Olympic 100m golds 🇯🇲 With 10.61, she is now the fastest woman alive 🔥 #Athletics #Olympics
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If you didn’t know, Emma Raducanu and Dina Asher-Smith both went to Orpington's Newstead Wood School. Imagine the sports day 🤯
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BRITISH RECORD That's how you finish the year! @EilishMccolgan breaks her own British 10km record with a stunning 30:18 at @GreatScotRun 🔥 A historic 2022. #greatscottishrun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Maria Andrejczyk put her Olympic silver medal up for auction to fund a young Polish boy's heart surgery. The company which won the auction, Żabka Polska, then decided to give the medal back to Andrejczyk and fund the surgery 👏
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An incredible victory for @lauramuiruns in New York as she runs the fastest ever time (4:14.8) by a female in the history of the 41-year-old event 🔥🗽 She's also the sixth British female to win the prestigious mile! 📹 @Cathal_Dennehy #NBthAveMile
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It's international dance day 🕺💃 Here's @usainbolt inspiring the next generation of kids through dance as well as athletics 🇯🇲
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Two kids had a dream of winning major titles on the global stage 🙏 They are now both world 1500m champions 👑 @joshk97 🤝 @JakeSWightman
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The top five 100m hurdles times in 2021 are all held by @JCamachoQuinn 🇵🇷 12.26 12.32 12.34 12.37 12.38
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This is 90-year-old David Picksley who was the oldest finisher at this year's @LondonMarathon 💥 He consistently averaged around 50 mins for his 5km splits and finished in 7:16:46 🙌 A true hero 🔥 #LondonMarathon
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Josh Kerr is a world 1500m champion 👑 He beats Jakob Ingebrigtsen down the home straight in Budapest 🔥 History 🇬🇧
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🇦🇺 Sinead Diver smashes the Australian marathon record with 2:21:34 in Valencia. The Irish-born athlete turns 46 in February and her previous best was 2:24:11.
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BRITISH RECORD Wow. Zharnel Hughes clocks 9.83 (1.3) in New York to win a historic 100m 🔥 He takes down Linford Christie's 30-year-old British record of 9.87 🇬🇧 Hughes' 9.83 is the second fastest time by a European in history 🤯
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It's 12 years to the day that @usainbolt stunned the world by clocking 9.58 in the 100m in Berlin. Lightning ⚡️
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BRITISH RECORD Another astonishing run sees @EilishMccolgan win the Berlin Half Marathon and smash her own British record 🔥🇬🇧 She clocks 65:43 and takes apart her previous mark of 66:26 to go fourth on the European all-time list 💥 Amazing preparation for @LondonMarathon 🙌
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Never put an age on fulfilling your dreams. This man was 102 when he completed the 100m.
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Ultrarunning legend Aleksandr Sorokin has just smashed his own record (192.252 miles) of distance covered in 24 hours of running 🔥🇱🇹 The Lithuanian has just covered 318.8km / 198.1 miles (unofficial) – 7:15/mile and 4:30/km pace...over a day 🤯
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English Schools Cross Country Champs statement ahead of today’s event amid bad weather warnings.
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WORLD RECORD Letsile Tebogo has just smashed the world 300m record 🔥 Over at the Simbine Curro Classic in South Africa, Tebogo has ran 30.71 – bettering Wayde van Niekerk's mark of 30.81 from 2017 🌍 To put that into context, Michael Johnson clocked 30.85 in 2000 and Usain…
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“Free Tigray” protestors demonstrating on the concourse at the World Champs in Eugene.     One banner reads: “The Tigrayan-Ethiopian athletes’ families are under siege. Gidey hasn’t spoken to her family for 2 years! Pray for Tigray.”
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Rhasidat Adeleke is 19 and just ran a 49.80 anchor leg in the mixed 4x400m relay at her first ever World Athletics Championships 🇮🇪 Wow. #WorldAthleticsChamps
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“No, we’re not listened to. I’m the Olympic and world champion and it’s like my opinion doesn’t even matter.” Miltiádis Tentóglou says World Athletics don’t respect athletes and that the governing body haven’t listened to them 💬 The now double world indoor long jump champion…
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WORLD BEST Just stunning from 400m Olympic and world champion @SpeedyStevie as he clocks the fastest 300m indoors in history with 31.56 at the South Carolina Invitational 🇧🇸
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BRITISH RECORD Laura Muir produces a stunning run in a historic mile race to clock 4:15.24 in Monaco ⚡️ She breaks Zola Budd's 38-year-old British record of 4:17.57 🇬🇧 Melissa Courtney-Bryant also goes under the old NR with 4:16.38 💥
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If Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wins gold in the 100m, she'll become the first ever woman to become 100m Olympic champion on three occasions. The only other person to win three Olympic 100m gold medals is of course Usain Bolt. #OpeningCeremony #Tokyo2020
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Christine Mboma is the youngest woman to win an individual flat sprint medal in 49 years. A bit of history for Namibia 🇳🇦 #Athletics #Olympics
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Only two athletes in history have gone sub-10 for the 100m, sub-20 for the 200m and cleared 8m in the long jump 🔢 One is @matthew_boling1 and the other is @Carl_Lewis 🚀
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What a day for sprinting 🔥 @TrayvonBromell has just set a new WL in the men's 100m with 9.77 (1.5) PB. Only six men have ever run faster.
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Training in -21C conditions 🤯 We’ve all known @kwarholm likes to train differently but this is something else 🔥 The world 400m hurdles record-holder, Olympic and triple world champion did a workout in a snowy Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 📹 @kwarholm / @redbullnorge
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An amazing moment at the Leeds Marathon as Kevin Sinfield carries Rob Burrow over the finish line ❤️ The marathon has now been named after Burrow 🙌
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Congratulations to Allyson Felix and Kenneth Ferguson on their vow renewal 🙌 📸 Michael Segal
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At just 18, Christine Mboma was the youngest track and field medallist from the Tokyo Olympics.
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WORLD RECORD Femke Bol has just shattered the women's world indoor 400m record with an astonishing 49.26 🔥🇳🇱 She breaks Jarmila Kratochvílova's mark of 49.59 which goes back to 1982 🤯
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WORLD RECORD Faith Kipyegon has done it!!! She takes apart the world 1500m record and runs 3:49.11 at the Florence Diamond League 🔥 The previous WR of 3:50.07 has been held by Genzebe Dibaba since 2015 🤯 #FlorenceDL 🇮🇹
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Letsile Tebogo has just created more history 🇧🇼 ✅ World U20 100m record (9.96 / 1.9) ✅ Botswana national 100m record ✅ World U20 100m champion from 2021
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A truly historic season for Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce as she becomes the first woman in history to run seven sub-10.7 times in the 100m in one year 💥🇯🇲 10.67, 10.67, 10.67, 10.66, 10.67, 10.62, 10.65.
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BRITISH RECORD @EilishMccolgan finishes sixth and clocks a British record of 1:06.26 at @rakhalfmarathon 🔥 She takes down the 21-year-old record of @paulajradcliffe (1:06.47) in the process.
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Charlotte Purdue runs a superb 2:22:17 at the #BerlinMarathon The 32-year-old takes more than a minute off her PB and passes Jess Piasecki and Mara Yamauchi to jump from No.4 to No.2 on the UK all-time rankings.
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Imagine being 70 and dropping 13.47 for the 100m 🌬️ That's what Michael Kish just did at the Penn Relays. 📹 @FloTrack
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New survey shows 87% of grassroots volunteers believe males who have been through male puberty should not be allowed to compete in women's athletics.
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Grassroots opposition to World Athletics’ transgender proposals - AW

Maths and data experts from Mornington Chasers Running Club find 87% of club representatives in Britain do not want transgender athletes in women’s events

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Allyson Felix has been named by @TIME as one of the most 100 influential people of 2021. At Tokyo, she became the most decorated US track and field athlete in history.
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What a moment for British middle distance running as Jemma Reekie, Alex Bell and Keely Hodgkinson all qualify for the women's 800m final 🇬🇧 #Athletics #Olympics
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What a moment for @EilishMccolgan at the Great Manchester Run🔥 ☑️ European 10km record ☑️ British 10km record ☑️ Second at the Great Manchester Run behind @hellen_obiri
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This all just got a lot more real. What an amazing Olympic Opening Ceremony! #OpeningCeremony #Tokyo2020
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The Bahamas have dominated the 400m at the Olympics 🇧🇸 🥇 Steven Gardiner 🥇 Shaunae Miller-Uibo #Athletics #Olympics
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🥇 European Indoor Champion 🥇 Keely Hodgkinson does it again 🔥 She retains her Euro Indoor title with a time of 1:58.66 in a race she completely dominated 🇬🇧 #Istanbul2023
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EUROPEAN AND BRITISH RECORD An amazing run from @EilishMccolgan as the Scot sets a European and British 5km record with 14:43 at the @ASICSUK META:TIME:TRIALS event 🔥
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Elaine Thompson-Herah in 2021 🇯🇲 ✅ Fastest woman alive ✅ Olympic champion ✅ Diamond League champion #WDLFinal 🇨🇭
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Jake Wightman wins world 1500m gold in 3:29.23‼️ 🇬🇧 What a run from the British runner as he defeats Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen with a brilliant move over the final 200m.
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The Olympic record was 10.62, set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988. Elaine Thompson Herah had other ideas... #Athletics #Olympics
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Yep, Dina Asher-Smith is in shape.🙂
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Eilish McColgan breaks Paula Radcliffe's UK record for 10 miles by almost half a minute with 50:42 (TBC) at the Great South Run. She also beats Sonia O'Sullivan's course record by 18sec. Jack Rowe wins the men's race. #GreatSouthRun 📸 @matty5573
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🏆 World Indoor Champion 🏆 She's done it on home soil 🔥 Molly Caudery continues her sensational 2024 season with a world indoor pole vault title in Glasgow 🇬🇧 A best clearance of 4.80m is enough on countback and her face tells a thousand words 💥
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The fastest four times that @realshellyannfp has ever clocked have come after she turned 34. Longevity. 1️⃣0️⃣.6️⃣0️⃣ 🇨🇭 (26/8/21) 1️⃣0️⃣.6️⃣3️⃣ 🇯🇲 (5/6/2021) 1️⃣0️⃣.6️⃣7️⃣ 🇰🇪 (7/5/2022) 1️⃣0️⃣.6️⃣7️⃣ 🇫🇷 (18/6/2022)
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🏆 Athlete of the Year 🏆 Junior female athlete of the year is Tina Clayton 🇯🇲 ✅ World U20 100m and 4x100m champion ✅ Set a championship record of 10.95 ✅ CARIFTA 100m and 4x100m champion
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Beth Potter has run faster than Beatrice Chepkoech's world 5km record of 14:43 and Paula Radcliffe's UK record 14:51 with a yet-to-be-confirmed time of 14:41 at the Podium 5km in Barrowford, Lancashire.
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Usain Bolt and David Beckham 🤝 Plus a gold medal 😉
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WORLD RECORD Simply speechless 🔥 Femke Bol has just broken her own world indoor 400m record again to claim the world title in Glasgow 💥 She clocks an incredible 49.17 in a Dutch 1-2 with Lieke Klaver 🇳🇱
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An incredible moment between @LylesNoah and @zharnel_hughes on the men’s 100m podium 🙌 @LylesNoah broke down in tears of happiness as all the emotion came out 🇺🇸 Brothers in arms, @zharnel_hughes was there for him 🙏
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Kelvin Kiptum has taken part in three marathons 🇰🇪 🇪🇸 Valencia (2:01:53 – December 2022) 🇬🇧 London (2:01:25 – April 2023) 🇺🇸 Chicago (2:00:35 – October 2023) Astonishing 🤯
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