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Cheptegei fails to add world 3000m record to his kitty ​ By IANS | ​ 0 Views Cheptegei fails to add world 3000m record to his kitty. Image Source: IANS News Ostrava : , May 20 (IANS) Joshua Cheptegei, the world champion in 10,000 metres, failed to break long-standing men's 3000m world record in the Continental Tour Gold meeting here on Wednesday night. The 24-year-old talented runner clocked 7 minutes 33.24 seconds, a personal best and a world leading time for the 3000m race, but was nearly 13 seconds short of Kenyan Daniel Komen's time of 7 minutes 20. 67 seconds set in 1996. After an ...

Mixed evening for Ireland's Olympic hopefuls at Golden Spike meet in Ostrava There were personal bests set, while Nadia Power was ‘fairly disgusted’ with her showing in the 800m final. By The42 Team Wednesday 19 May 2021, 8:30 PM 5 hours ago 4,170 Views 0 Comments Nadia Power (file pic). Image: Morgan Treacy/INPHO IT WAS A mixed evening for Ireland’s Olympic hopefuls at the Golden Spike meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Nadia Power fini...

Cheptegei contributes one of five 2021 world bests on chilly night in Ostrava Wednesday, 19 May 2021 Uganda’s world 5,000 and 10,000 metres record holder Joshua Cheptegei showed he is human after all as he found the 25-year-old 3,000m world record of 7min 20.67sec set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen beyond him at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava. But his front-running personal best of 7:33.24 was still one of five world bests set on a thoroughly chilly evening at the Městský Stadion in what was the 60 th Golden Spike meeting. The men’s javelin stadium record was b...

(Removes incorrect reference to Kerley being one of only three men to have gone sub-10 for the 100m, sub-20 for 200m and sub-44 for 400m.) By Mitch Ph...

Keely Hodgkinson is a special talent but might be cautious over trying to make the Tokyo Olympics British Athletics head coach Christian Malcolm was full of praise for teenager after dominant showing at the European Indoor Championships 9 March 2021 • 7:00am It has taken Keely Hodgkinson little more than five weeks to catapult herself from promising junior to international recognition. Fresh from becoming the first British woman to break a world under-20 record since Zola Budd 36 years ago, Hodgkinson on Sunday became Britain’s youngest European indoor champion for more than 50 years with...