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The awards, announced today, add to an impressive award tally for the winery’s 2008 and 2009 vintages. The four gold medals were awarded to the 2009 Mud House Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, the 2009 Mud House South Island Pinot Gris, the 2009 Mud House...
Tags: Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, gold medals, Australia, Hay
Bolt set five world records on his way to winning the 100m, 200m and 4x100m in Berlin and in Beijing before that. "I'd love to try the long jump before I retire because I think I'd be very good at it," said the 23-year-old Jamaican. Bolt has also floated...
Tags: Usain Bolt, long jump, Berlin, world championships, world records, gold medals
China's Xue Bai raced away from Yoshimi Ozaki of Japan to win the women's marathon at the World Championships. Bai, 20, won in a time of two hours, 25 minutes and 14 seconds, while Ethipia's Aselefech Mergia took bronze. There was no British representative...
Tags: China, Xue Bai, Yoshimi Ozaki, world championships, Berlin, marathon world, Japan, Mary Davies, gold medals, Bai Xue
While you were in the land of Nod, the world's fastest man won another gold medal and Australia's Steve Hooker soared for a world title. Bolt has delivered on his promise to win three gold medals but couldn't pull off a treble of world records. Jamaica...
Tags: Steve Hooker, world records, world championships, Australia, pole vault, gold medals
According to the Sunday Express, Samon possesses the same steely determination and muscular build that top sprinters need...He also holds the 100 metres record at Bolt's old school, Waldensia All-age in Trelawny, and he is in the sprint team at William...
Tags: Berlin Wall, world championship, gold medals, United States, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, Jamaica, Shericka Williams, metre relay, LaShawn Merritt, Australian
I am happy to get a bronze medal," said Jackson. Former two-time world champion Felix Sanchez had looked to be returning to something approaching his best after several years of poor form and injuries. However, the 31-year-old 2004 Olympic champion's...
Tags: Berlin, Usain Bolt, world championship, gold medals, athletics championship, world record, Kiwi Monique Williams, Jamaica, hamstring injury, Jesse Owens
Bolt's Jamaican teammate Steve Mullings was the fastest qualifier into the semi-finals clocking 20.23sec with Panama's Alonso Edward next on 20.33sec. Beijing silver medallist Shawn Crawford looked sharp, comfortably winning his quarter-final in 20.37sec.
Tags: Berlin, Phillips Idowu, Shericka Williams, world championships, Novlene Williams-Mills, gold medals, Ruben Ramolefi, distance runner, world champion
Olympic 200m champion and world record holder Usain Bolt got his bid to claim a world sprint double off to the perfect start when he cruised through his heat here on Tuesday. The 22-year-old Jamaican, who set a new world record of 9.58sec in winning the...
Tags: Sanya Richards, Shericka Williams of Jamaica, Usain Bolt, world record, Beijing, Jamaican, Phillips Idowu, gold medals
Michael Phelps will have to appear in court, according to police, after the Olympic champion presented an expired driving licence following a car crash in Baltimore. Phelps escaped unhurt from the collision along with his two passengers when his vehicle...
Tags: Michael Phelps, gold medals
On the opening weekend of the World Championships, the first major track and field championships to be held in the grand Olympiastadion here since the Olympic Games of 1936, Jessica Ennis – Jess, to her friends – produced a tour de force of a performance...
Tags: Jessica Ennis, world championship, Britain, world heptathlon, UKA, gold medals