Kenya s Samuel Ndungu regained the Lake Biwa Marathon title three years after he first won the famous Japanese race when he crossed the line in 2:09:08, winning by more than two minutes from Italy s 2014 European marathon champion Danielle Meucci on Su...

A championship record of 6273 in the men s heptathlon by Jeremy Taiwo highlighted the action on day two of the USATF Indoor Championships in Boston on Saturday (28).

Multiple world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt got his 2015 campaign underway at the Gibson Relays in Kingston by running the anchor leg for Racers Lions Track Club in the 4x100m, but the Jamaican superstar s team was surprisingly beaten in the final.

Team Gansu enjoyed the lion s share as Zhang Xinyan swept both of the senior women s titles at the Chinese Cross Country Championships which concluded on Saturday (28) in China s southwest city of Qujing.

It may have been her first ever race on the boards, but when steeplechase specialist Habiba Ghribi won the 3000m at the Sainsbury s Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham earlier this month, she ran with the confidence of a seasoned indoor runner.

Three big names are set to clash at the 70th Lake Biwa Marathon as defending champion Bazu Worku, 2012 winner Samuel Ndungu and Eric Ndiema will line up for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday (1).