News Source: Star Phoenix
| 3 months ago
Brianne Theisen sits in a Berlin hotel room on the cusp of her debut at the world championships in track and field. For a week and a half, the heptathlete from Humboldt trained quietly at a remote camp in Kumen, Germany...Athletes are pouring in at...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 3 months ago
Olympic champion Olga Kaniskina retained the women's 20km walk title and earned Russia their second gold medal at the 12th World Championships here on Sunday. The 24-year-old, who won the event in Osaka 2007 and Beijing Olympics, dominated...
News Source: Sify News
| 3 months ago
Linet Masai ended a 12-year title drought for Kenya with victory in the women's 10,000m while Usain Bolt exchanged smiles with a training partner on his way to the 100m semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships. Masai, 19, took full advantage...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 3 months ago
Olympic champion Olga Kaniskina of Russia won the women's 20-kilometer walk Sunday, defending her world championship title from two years ago. The 24-year-old Kaniskina won in 1 hour, 28 minutes, 9 seconds. Olive Loughnane of Ireland finished a...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
J essica Ennis produced an outstanding display on the first day of the women's helptathlon at the athletics World Championships in Berlin...With a lead of 300 points only a catastrophic showing on day two will deny her a gold medal. Elsewhere, Usain...
News Source: Times of Oman
| 3 months ago
Usain Bolt should finally meet Tyson Gay over 100 metres in the centerpiece of Sunday's second day of the world championships. The world's top two sprinters have not raced this year and both triple Olympic gold medallist Bolt and double world...