OGOROAD
YEAR OF THE PERFECT RUN........a quest
NEWS:- 2013
25th Feb - Road Running - Britain's 10,000/5000m
Olympic champion Mo Farah beat former New York marathon winner Gebre Gebremariam
in a sprint finsih to the New Orlean's Half Marathon to win in a British
record breaking 1h0m59s. report
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11th Feb - Orienteering - Thierry Gueorgiou (Fra) and
Simone Niggli (Switz) won all three preliminary events and the chasing
start final at the Portugal O-Meeting. For Gueorgiou it was a return
to the top after injury spoiled his 2012 season. See results under main
class heading at Results
3rd Feb - Orienteering - David Anderson (Swe),
Amelie Chataing (Fra), Frederic Tranchand (Fra), Anastasia Tikhonova (Rus),
Mja Lam (Den) and Philippe Adamski (Fra) were all winners over the three
days of the Norte Alentanjo O-Meeting where big elite fields turned out
for the first event of the European Foot O Season. results
27th Jan - Orienteering -New Zealand's Chris Forne won
the S Island Long Championship beating Norwegian world champs runner Oystein
Osterbo into 2nd by six minures with his time of 1hy19m21s.. British
internationalist Helen Palmer won the women's title by a four minute margin.
results
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20th Jan - Crosscountry - Australian Olympian Collis
Birminham heads for his 6th World Cross Champs after winning the national
trial at Canberra. But the team will be rich in new young faces. report
12th Jan Crosscountry - Kids
go barefoot in Borneo Cross-country trial. report
6th Jan 2013 Orienteering - Helena Jansson
(Swed) and Fabian Hertner (Switz) were winners over the New Zealand dune
terrain at the first of the World Orienteering Cup Series near Wellington.
resultsreport
30th Dec Orienteering - A strong turnout
at this weekend's pre- Oceania Championships which includes the World Cup
Series opener sees wins from William Lind, Marius Odum, Peter Oberg and
Tove Alexandersson. Results
23rd DEC Crosscountry - World junior
5000m silver medalist Ruti Aga won the IAAF Lotto Cross Cup 6000m race
in Belgium beating Ireland's European Champion Fionuala Britton into second.
The Ethiopian finished three seconds ahead in 20m48s.
1 26 Aga Ruti 94 ETH sen NA 20.48
2 21 Britton Fionuala 84 IRE sen NA 20.51
3 24 Gebriwoth Elini ETH sen NA 21.20
4 40 Chepkwoni Caroline 85 KEN sen NA 21.24
5 3 Dejaeghere Veerle 73 BEL mas AVR 25 21.31
6 41 Kosgei Cynthia 93 KEN sen NA 21.35
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16th Dec Mountain Running - Olympic
marathon runner Martin Dent won the Tour de Ridges mountain half marathon
near Canberra beating Ozzie orienteers Rob Walter and Grant Bluett into
second and third with his record time of 1h 18m 58s report
10th Dec Cross country - Italy's Andrea
Lalli, already a title winner at junior and under23 levels took the senior
title at the European Cross country Championships in Budapest. Report
1 Fionnanula Britton won the women's title for the 2nd
year in a row and again led Ireland to team gold. Report
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2nd Dec Cross-country
A field of 1200 (including a horse) turned out for a back-to-basics crosscountry
race near Chicago in the USA. report
26th Nov
Marathon - Scots doctor Andy Murray got his 7 marathons in 7 days jet setting
tout de force of to a winning start with victory in the Antarctica Marathon.
report
18th Nov Marathon
- Turin marathon gained from New York's misfortunes as runners disappointed
by the US cancellation put their training to good use in the Italian event.
They included world bronze medalist Sharon Cherop who won in Turin with
a course record breaking time of 2h 23m 57s report
11th Nov - Marathon
- Kenya's Raymond Bett, who won the Athens marathon for a second time on
Sunday, said that his hill running training was the secret of his success.
report
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6th Nov Orienteering
- Bulgarian number one Kiril Nikolov and Finland's Heini Saarimaki
were overall winners at the Istanbul Five Day Event in Turkey. Nikolov,
who finished 6th in the long world championship, notched up three
wins and two second placings while Saarimaki went one better with four
wins and a 2nd for her best resulst of the year..
- M21E (48)
Pl Stno Name YB Club S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 Time
1 643 Kiril Nikolov - Disl 82 BUL-152 SCO Lovech 1:11:35 1 46:06 1
34:24 1 39:55 2 31:50 2 3:43:50
2 635 Ivan Sirakov 88 BUL-152 SCO Lovech 1:18:11 2 48:05 4 35:55 3
41:53 3 30:37 1 3:54:41
3 71 David Lingfors 87 SWE-030 OK Linné 1:20:43 3 49:15 5 40:23
7 39:35 1 32:02 3 4:01:58
4 620 Aleksandr Kharchenko 84 RUS-165 Voronezh 1:25:17 5 47:43 3 35:39
2 47:04 12 34:32 6 4:10:15
5 48 Jakob Eng 77 SWE-019 IFK Göteborg 1:23:45 4 47:19 2 42:50
8 46:03 11 32:52 4 4:12:49
6 560 Håkan Svensson 63 SWE-161 Bredaryds SOK 1:25:19 6 55:00
11 39:46 5 45:46 9 34:52 8 4:20:43
W21E (16)
Pl Stno Name YB Club S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 Time
1 392 Heini Saarimäki 87 FIN-124 Angelniemen Ankkuri 1:08:08 1
47:08 2 35:46 1 38:49 1 36:33 2 3:46:24
2 364 Franziska Wolleb 82 SUI-111 ULU'S REISEWELT 1:21:09 2 42:07 1
42:09 6 43:31 2 34:29 1 4:03:25
3 358 Christine Stalder 80 SUI-111 ULU'S REISEWELT 1:28:03 3 51:10
4 41:54 5 57:37 7 37:09 3 4:35:53
4 49 Annica Eng 79 SWE-019 IFK Göteborg 1:31:57 4 1:04:38 6 39:49
3 43:31 2 38:23 4 4:38:18
5 80 Emine Sezgünsay 86 TUR-012 GATA DO?K 1:32:53 5 52:26 5 45:20
7 1:00:02 9 38:30 5 4:49:11
6 158 Natalia Khokhlova 79 RUS-057 Mos.compass-orienta 1:44:58 7 1:17:07
8 1:00:43 12 58:48 8 50:51 12 5:52:27
29th Oct Road Running - Late entry Stephen Mokoka played
with the opposition before taking the Portsmouth Great South 10 Mile Run
in GBR with a sprint finish. Time after time the S African surged away
from the opposition only to fall back when no one would come with him.
His final spring trumped the surprise break by Ayad Landassem to give him
easy victory in 46m40s. Jo Pavey broke clear of the women's field to claim
an easy win. report
22nd Oct Orienteering - Sweden's Emma Johansson, ranked
a lowly 61st in the world rankings, won all three open events at the North
American Orienteering Championships at Delaware Gap.
W-21+ (28) Long
Pl NAOC? Name Club Time
1 Emma Johansson 1:01:30
2 Y Alison Crocker CSU 1:04:50
3 Y Samantha Saeger NEOC 1:10:50
4 Y Louise Oram GVOC 1:12:17
5 Iliana Shandurkova QOC 1:14:04
6 Elin Dahlin 1:19:57
W-21+ (36) 4.3 km 130 m 19 C Middle
Pl NA Eligible? Name YB Club Time
1 Emma Johansson 81 33:30
2 Y Alison Crocker 84 CSU 35:27
3 Y Samantha Saeger 82 NEOC 35:46
4 Y Louise Oram 84 GVOC 38:02
5 Elin Dahlin 81 40:14
6 Iliana Shandurkova 84 QOC 40:26
W-21+ (37) Sprint
Pl Stno Name Club Time
1 216 Emma Johansson 13:06
2 231 Samantha Saeger NEOC 13:42
3 208 Alison Crocker CSU 14:05
4 232 Iliana Shandurkova QOC 14:29
5 225 Louise Oram GVOC 15:13
6 218 Alexandra Jospe CSU 15:30
15th Oct Roads -
A tiring Kiptola Chumba (Kenya) held out to win the Eirnhoven Marathon
in a course record breaking 2h5m46s. reports
8th Oct Orienteering - Soren
Losch and Christine Trosse won the German elite long distance titles near
Dresden. Losch went inside 6m/km on a 16.6km course that climbed 480m clocking
89:45 while Trosse broke 8m/km to win the women's title by over 9m
with her time of 77m52s for 9.9km. results
01st Oct - Road - A stomach upset derailed
Geoffger Mutai's World best bid at the Berlin Marathon but he held on to
win in 2h 4m 15s.. report
23rd Sept - Road Kenyan 24 year
old Leonard Komon won the Dam to Dam 10 miler but was a disappointed man
as he failed to beat Gebrselassie's world best with his time of 44m 48s.
report
17th Sept Road
Kenya's Wilson Kipsang whose eratic Olympic marathon run saw him beaten
into bronze surprised his opponents once again as a late sprint took him
to victory in the Great North Half Marathon Run (Newcastle/England) report
10th Sept Track -
Olympic hurdling chapion Aries Merritt iced the final of the IAAF Diamond
League Series with world record breaking victory in the 110m hurdles clocked
at 12.80s report
3rd Sept - Mountain Racing -
Eritrea's Petro mamo won the World Mountain Racing Championship title in
Italy clocking 61m34s for the 14 km course which climbed over 1500m. There
were three africans in the top four places. reportmenwomen
27th Aug Marathon
- Zimbabwe's Brighton Chepere won the first Nelson Mendela Day Marathon
in S Africa but with Struggle Hill and Challenge Climb slowing the pace
he finished well down on his 2:12 best in 2:28:32. report
19th Aug - Orienteering - World champion
Simone Niggli won her national Swiss long distance title for the
seventh time, over five minutes clear of the best of the rest. report1GPS
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12th Aug - Track - David Rudisha
won the Olympic 800m in a world record breaking 1m40.91s leading from the
gun. The field finished inside 1m44s - possibly the equivalent of the 10s
100m. report
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6th Aug - Track -
Mo Farah fulfilled British expectations winning the Olympic 10000m title
in London. report
30th July Orienteering
- Norway's world long champion Olav Lundanes won the prestigious Swedish
O-Ringen five day event just over a week later finishing first in four
of the five events and 2nd in the other. result1result
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23rd July - Orienteering - The Czech
trio of Thomas Diabaja (4th), Jan Sedivy (1st) Jan Pochazka
(not one of them in the top 35 of the world rankings) held off strong Swedish
and Norwegian opposition to win the World Orienteering Championship relay
title at Lausanne. Pochazka out sprinted long distance champ Olav Lundanes
to win by six seconds. report
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16th July Track -
Botswana 18 year old Nijel Amos wins the world junior 800m title
in 1m 43.79s report
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25th June - Track - Kenenisa Bekele laid
out his claim for a 10,000m presence at the London Olympics with a record
breaking run in Birmingham - report1report2
11th June Track - Kenya's world
champion and record holder David Rudisha outclassed the opposition as he
took the 800m in 1m41.74s at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in New York.
report.
4th June - Track - On a night of high
speed running, Ethiopia's Abebe Aregawi ran a superfast 1500m at the Diamond
League meeting in Rome to break her national record. Her time of 3m56.54s
saw her finish almost three seconds clear and is the fastest for six years.
Rome
report
27th May Track - World hurdles record
holder Dayron Robles fell to rising star and Cuban compatriot Orlando Ortega
in Havana.
Ortega got the better start as Robles was one of several
to have probles with a "faulty" start pistol. report
20th May Orienteering - Switzerland's
Simone Niggli made an impressive championships comeback after a childbirth
break to take all three individual titles at the European Championships
in Sweden. middle
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Other details and daily write ups at Details
13th May Track - The IAAF Diamond League
opener in Doha provided a string of top class performances. But with Ethiopian
ace Kennenisa Bekele finishing well off the lead in 7th place in the 3000m,
is it too soon to question his running demise and no show on the Olympic
podium. meeting
report
06th May Norwegian club Halden won both the
men's and women's relays at the classic 10 Mila orienteering relays in
Sweden. Three hundred and thirty teams started out on the men's ten,
through the night event. With most of the world's top runners in the field
just two weeks before the European Championships, former world champion
Olaf Ludanes brought Halden home on the final 17.2km leg to take the title
for the first time since 2007. results
29th April It was that old aphorism -
everyone was a winner at Sunday's Manchester Marathon as the 8000? field
battled against storm conditions - gusting wind and heavy rain. Dave Norman
was first hoe in 2h 24m54s while Rebecca Johnson was first women
in 3h 5m 26s Sixties marathon ace Ron Hill was starter.
results
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22nd April Wilson Kipsang, out to break the
course record was second fastest ever in London with 2h04m44s. Two times
winner Martin Lel was runner up in 2:6:51 as he came through from 5th at
the 40km mark. Keitany surged just after the 20 mile mark and never looked
like being caught. She clocked an African record time of 2h18m37s as she
beat world champion Edna Kiplagat into second by 1m 13s. report
results
5th April Orienteering
- Easter weekend sees major events in Sweden, Britain New Zealand,
Czech Rep., Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Spain and Australia. Follow with World
of O link (scroll
down)
4th Apr Track
- Bernard Lagat will finish his Olympic 5000m buildup racing the Emsley
Carr Mile in London in July Report
3rd Apr Marathon-
Norway based Ethiopian refugee, Urige Buta, trains in a tunnel.
Report
2nd Apr Roads
- Italy'ds 100km world champion Giegio Calcaterra won the 39.3km Ron Hill
Connemarra ultra marathon clocking 3h56m56s to finish 25m clear of the
field. Results
1st Apr
Road - Only the fierce wind in Prague kept Ethiopian Atsedu
Tsegay from a world half marathon record, said his chief rival, after seeing
his course record breaking sub 59m timing. Report
31st Mar Marathon
- Ireland breaks the city marathon pattern with tomorrow's Ron Hill event
in the Connemarra countryside. A marathon,, half marathon and a 39.3km
ultra marathon are on the menu. InfoPreview
30th Mar Track -
Kenenisa Bekele takes the record of 1920's "Flying Finn" Pavo Nurmi for
holding both the 5000m and 10000m world records at the same time. Report
29th Mar Athletics- A busy
championship weekend sees national title events in cross-country in the
Ukraine, mountain racing in Russia, and road running in Spain, Switzerland
and Montenegro. In addition, there is the Balkan Cross-country Champs in
Turkey plus the Bratislava marathon and the Prague half marathon all on
the European calendar.
19th Mar Roads - Deriba
Merga (Ethiopia) and Kim Smith (New Zealand) went all out from the start
at the New York City Half marathon but they didn't go fast enough. Report
18th Mar Marathon - Kenya's
Wilson Loyanae Ebuke, winner of the Mombasa marathon bettered his pb by
almost four minutes winning the Seoul International event in 2h5m37s. The
26 year old led almost from start to finish. Report
17th Mar Orienteering - World sprint
champion Linnea Gustafsson is one of two top Swedish women heading for
Scotland and the British Jan Kjellstrom International. She is joined by
2008 double world junior silver medalist Beata Falk, making a comeback
after a season out of top level competition. ReportReportReport
16th Mar Roads - Kenya's Patrick
Komon, world record holder over 10 and 15km will bid to better the half
marathon mark when he races in Pargue on Mar 31st. Eritrean Zersenay Tadese
holds the current record with 58m 23s. Report
14th Mar - Track - A move by Kenyan Athletics to hold
their 5000m/10000m Olympic track trials in the USA (sponsored by a shoe
company) has been stepped on by their government. The people have the right
to see the spectacle on a home track, they say. report
13th Mar - Orienteering - Orienteering gains Olympic
connections today in Hong Kong. The urban race starts from Olympic
Square in the city centre park. The square was used for the opening ceremony
when the SE Asia Games were held in Hong Kong.
16th Jan Orienteering - Thierry
Gueorgiou got the year underway with really fast runs in Portugal where
he won both the middle and long events. Sweden's Tove Alexandersson went
one better witha women's hat trick. Results
15th Jan - Cross-country - Former world champion Linet
Masai (Ken) was runaway winner at the Italica Crosscountry International
in Seville. She finished the 8km event in 25m42s to finish 18 secs clear.
European champion Fionnualla Britton was 8th in 28m54s.
Results
14th Jan Track - Emirates 32
year old Fahad bin Breik is chasing an Olympic 10,000m qualifying time,
The sub 29min man has been taking time off work to train in Kenya.Report
13th Jan Cross country
- Ireland's European champion Fionnuala Britton, winner in Edinburgh last
weekend, takes on the world's best at the Cross d'Italica in Seville
on Sunday. In a season without a world champs it could provide an
indicator of the Irish women's Olympic potential. Report
12th Jan Track - New Zealand cross-country
internationalist Andrew Davidson won the home straight sprint to take the
Otago 10000m title by just a tenth of a second from Daniel Balchim, in
Dunedin. ReportBio
11th Jan Road Running
- Could you survive the Bermuda Triangle? This weekend's offer is three
races in three days - a Friday Mile, a Saturday 10k and a half marathon
on Sunday. In addition there is a full marathon on the Sunday on the programme.
More
10th Jan Crosscountry- The Big Cross weekend
finished in Spain on Sunday with the Amorebieta International meet and
victory for Kenya's 2010 world champion Joseph Ebuya.
The women's race turned up another surprise with the
little known Eritrean Nazaret Weldu. Report
9th Jan
Marathon - Australia's former World Cross Champ Benita Willis bids
for an Olympic qualifying time as she runs in the US Olympic trials in
Houston on Sunday. Strong US and Easy African opposition will put her bid
in perspective. More
8th Jan Trail - Markers were moved and arrows turned
to face the wrong way at today's Sai Kung Mountain Marathon near Hong Kong.
But the race carried on with Will Davies winning the tough 29km event in
3h 49m06s. Report
7th Jan Cross-country
- World 1500m champion Aspel Kiprop (Ken) won the 3000m at the Edinburgh
International Cross-country but it was British teenager Jonny Hay who attracted
attention.
On the last day of the year, over the roads in Madrid,
Ethiopian 17 year old Hagos Gebbreiwot surprised with his sprint
finish win against world cross silver medalist Medhin (Erit), Today
Hay failed to win but a late surge and a final sprint saw the European
junior 3000m champion snatch second ahead of olympic 5000m runnerup
Eliud Kipchoge (Ken). Hay's smiles from the podium said it all. moremore
Crosscountry- Edinburgh stages the second event
in the Big Cross weekend with Kenenisa Bekele the star of the show.
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4th Jan Cross
country - World Crosscountry champion Imane Merga tops the lineup in Italy
on Friday when the Campaccio Cross-country International gets this weekend's
big programme underway at San Giorgio. Report
3rd Jan Marathon
- With the entry lottery for the New York marathon underway (Monday)
runners face an entry fee up by 20% or more. The overseas entry is now
a whopping $347. Report
2nd Jan 2012 Road Racing - Tirunesh
Dibaba and unknown Ethiopian teenager Hagos Gebrehiwot won the final IAAF
race of the year in Madrid. It was a comeback after 16 months for double
Olympic champ Dibaba. But Gebrehiwot was the one to grab the headlines
as the 17 year old beat world cross country runnerup Terklemmariam Medhin
in a sprint finish. Report
31st Dec Orienteering Yannick
Micheils (3 wins) and Czech Michaela Gomzyc Omova (2 wins) were overall
winners at the Sylvester 5 Day even in Belgium Results
while David Shepherd (4 wins) and Rachael Effney (3 wins) were winners
at the Australian Xmas 5 Day. Results
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30th Dec Road Racing -
Double Olympic champion (5 and 10,000m) Tirunesh Dibaba makes her come
back from injury at the San Silvestre Vallecana 10km in Madrid (31st).
The 26 year old last competed in London in Aug 2010 but she has had two
years hampered by injury. Read
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29 Dec Road
Racing - The final IAAF road race is staged in Madrid on the last day of
the year. The San Silvester Vallecana 10K has attracted a record field
of 38,000.
28th Dec Orienteering - Rachel
Effeney makes it two out of two while David Shepherd moved into the overall
lead with second day victory at the Australian Xmas 5 Day. Results
with route gadget maps
27th Dec Bare foot runner Nick Wightman
won the Rip to River 10km race at Geelong in Australia. Report2It
was his second win in a row . 2010
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26th Dec Road Racing - European
u-23 Triathlon Championship bronze medalist David McNamee finished runner
up in the Ayrodynamic Boxing Day 10km at Ayr in Scotland. He finished 42s
down on the winner Sturat Gibson (Cambuslang) with a down on best time
of 33m14s. results
23rd Dec
Orienteering - Boxing Day (26th) sees 315 enthusiasts head for the
Sylvester 5 Day event in Flanders. There are four classic runs and one
middle distance on the programme. Entry on the day is available on the
long (7km) and short (4km) courses for 6 Euros. Follow
here
22nd Dec
Marathon - Former Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi will run in next month's
Osaka women's marathon but the Athens title winner faces stiff opposition
Beijin medalist Constantina Dita also in the proposed lineup. Report
21st Dec
Crosscountry - Ireland's Euroepan gold medal winner Fionnula Britton
relives her title winning run. Report
19th Dec
Track athletics- World and European 5000m champion Mo Farah gets his Olympic
year underway racing over 1500m at the Glasgow Indoor meeting on
January 28th. Report
16th Dec Orienteering
- Some 3000 orienteers from 50 countries voted Thierry Gueorgiou (France)
and Ida Bobach (Denmark) as competitors of the year in the World of O Achievment
awards. Report
with pics and interviews.
14th Dec
Trail Running - Runners, badly burned when they were caught in an
Australian bush fire are demanding that the authorities hold an inquiry.
The Kimberley Marathon was organised by Racing Planet in Hong Kong. ReportsReport
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13th Dec Marathon
- Women's London Marathon trophy holder Mary Keitany, and world champion
Edna Kiplagat are in the strong Kenyan entry for next year's London Marathon.
More
12th Dec Road
Running - Marathon ace Paula Radcliffe won a fast, if low key 10K road
race in Monaco in 32m04s. REPORT
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11th Dec Crosscountry
- Belgium's Attelaw Bekele and Ireland's Fionnualla Britton ran away
with the senior titles at the European Crosscountry Championships in Slovenia.
But team gold for all three women's teams and the junior men, led British
overall domination. Emma Pallant and Emelia Gorecka won the u23 and junior
titles while the u23 and senior men's teams won silver. Report
10th Dec Crosscountry
Lebid goes for Euro title number ten. ResultsReports
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9th Dec
Track - Australian internationalist Craig Mottram goes for a London 2012
quailfying time over 10000m at tomorrow's Zatopek 10 Meet. Report
8th Dec
Orienteering - World cup winner and world championship gold medalist Daniel
Hubmann is short-listed for the Swiss Sportsman of the Year Award. In Sunday's
presentation he joins a formidable lineup which includes tennis legend
Roger Federer Olympic cycling time trial champion Fabian Cancellara.
MORE
7th Dec
Road Running - Britain's Paul Radcliffe has been selected for her
5th Olympics and 3rd Olympic marathon. With the British marathon lineup
for London due to be finalised following the London Marathon in April,
Mara Yamauchi and Scott Overall also gain early selection. Details
6th Dec
Cross-country - Freya Murray, placed 3rd in the Gb trials, could be the
dark horse in the British team at this weekend's European Cross-country
Championships in Slovenia. Having worked her way back from injury earlier
this season she has the big-raver pedigree that could stand her in good
stead. Report
5th Dec Cross-country
Eritrean Kidane Tadese beat 2010 World champ Joseph Ebuya at Alcobendas.
With Ebuya a victor over current champ Merga (Ethiopia) last weekend, Tadese,
who finished runner up to Komon in in Llodio last week, could be the man
to beat in the season ahead. Report
4th Dec Road
Running - A fast 14:32 5km burst gave Kenya first timer Josphat Ndambiri
victory in the Fukuoko International Marathon in Japan. When the pace makers
dropped out at 25km Ndambiri, a sub 27 minute 10000m man, moved in front,
and dropped fellow Japan based Kenyan Joseph Mwangi with his surge. ReportResults
3rd Dec Orienteering
- Highland Perthshire is gearing up to host Britain's biggest event of
2012. The Jan Kjellstrom International weekend goes to Scotland next Easter.
Report
2nd Dec Road Running -
There is a 5:15 am start for runners in tomorrow's Reggae Marathon at Negril
in Jamaica as competitors from 11 different countries bid to miss the worst
of the heat. Temperatures will be over 25degrees by 8 o'clock. website
1st Dec Orienteering
- Norway's 2010 world champion Olav Lundanes heads the entry for January's
Big Five multi day event in S Africa. The 183 strong entry may be small
by European standards but it includes runners from eleven countries. MORE
30th Nov Trail Running - From Gorak Shep
at 5184m to Namache Bazaar at 3446m, Sunday's Everest Marathon lays
strong claims to being the toughest in the world. The overall downhill
course make all the demands of altitude and very rough going underfoot.
See more at the marathon website
29th Nov - Cross-country - Andy vernon and Hatti Dean,
winners of the British trial at Liverpool head the team announced today
for the European Cross-country Championships in Slovenia next month.
Report&Results
22nd Nov Crosscountry - Britain's Steph Twell is
reportedly hoping to compete at the European Cross Championships in Slovenia
next month. The British trials are being staged in Liverpool this
weekend. Twell broke her ankle running crosscountry in January and missed
the summer season as a result. Twell is expected to race in Liverpool
following a spell of training in Kenya.
20th Nov - Road Running - Haile Gebrselassie was in dominant
form as he won today's 15km Zevenheulelenloop in the Netherlands. One of
three running clear at 5km he was 10s clear as he went through 10km in
28m35s. He beat Kenya's Daegu Marathon runnerup Vincent Kipruto into second
by half a minute after crossing the line in 42m42s. Results
Fellow Ethiopian Waganesh Mekasha won the women's race
by over a minute with her time of 48m32s.
19th Nov Crosscountry - Kenya's Vincent Chepkok
seeks his second win in two outings of the IAAF world cross permit series
when he runs at Soria in Spain tomorrow (Sun). Preview
18th Nov Road Running - Haile Gebrselassie and
Japan's 2004 women's olympic marathon champion Mizuki Noguchi are in the
lineup for Sunday's Zevenheuvelenloop in the Netherlands. Racing over 15km,
the Ethiopian faces Kenyan's Vincent Kipruto (Runner up in Daegu marathon)
and David Tumo (5th in the Daegu) while Noguchi lines up against Mekasha
from Ethiopia and Kenya' Elizba Cherono - both sub 32:30 runners over 10km.
Details
17th Nov Orienteering - This weekend's two day Juniper
Open in Hungary's Kiskunzag National Park near Szeged offers something
unusual. 1. No sprint in sight, runners will have two long distance runs
e.g. M elite 9.6km and 13km. 2 .The negative feature terrain is an unusual
mixture of "fight" and open - website maps and photos SITE
16th Nov Trail Running - Sunday's Toi Challenge
run on New Zealand's north-east coast follows ancient Maori tracks, taking
in beach, hinterland and historical Maori sites on the 18km course close
to Wakatane. MORE
14th Nov - Australian Lisa Weightman ran her 2:29+ Olympic
qualifier in Frankfurt in her first road race for over a year
"The second half of the race my legs started to complain
that I hadn’t raced on the road in over a year!" she says. REPORT
13th Nov Cross-country - Norway based Ethiopian
Urig Buta won the Nordic X-country championship title at Eddevalla, finishing
18s clear of Swedens' Mikael Ekvall over 9km with a time of 27m12s.
International orienteer Jerker Lysell was 4th in 27:12.
Norway's Tone Hjalmansen won the women's 7.5k championships
in 25:46.
12th Nov Road Running - New Zealand horse
racing jockey Lisa Robertson has her sights set on a marathon place at
the London olympics following her recent win in the Auckland championships.
MORE
11th Nov Orienteering - The Venus Street International
- possibly the most difficult, certaily the most famous urban-O event in
the world takes place on Sunday. Britain's Murray Strain heads the
166 strong men's field over 11km while Germany's Karin Schmafeld starts
as possible favourite of 52 in the elite women's 8km event. MORE
10th Nov Orienteering - Rebellion against
proposed world championship changes, continues to ferment amonst the world's
best orienteers who earlier this autumn, signed a petition questioning
the developments proposed by the IOF as reducing the stature of traditional
orienteering. Now (as reported by World of O) they have asked
Swedish Orienteering to back a drive towards separate sprint and forest
orienteering championships in consecutive years. Details
Two IOF proposals are currently with national bodies for discussion.
8th Nov Orienteering - The international
season over, the top Danes keep on competing. Signe Soes, Maja Alm and
Tue Lassen are all entered for this weekend's Jaettemilen event north of
Copenhagen. Details
7th Nov - Monday Piece - Half a dozen hopefuls
are ready to fight for a place in the British women's olympic marathon
trio. London in May could be decision day. MORE
6th Nov Cross-country - The European scene hots up with
the first individual event in the Lotto Cross Cup at Mol in Belgium. Ethiopian
Dame Tasama won the men's 9.2km eace in 28m12s - 21 s ahead of Belgian
Lander Tutgat. (Britain's /Scotl's0 Derek Hawkins finished sixth. And in
the women's 6.2k race Belgian Olympian Veerle Dejaeghere won 18s clear
in 21:50.
5th Nov Road Running - Australia's
former world record holder Rob de Castella is at the New York Marathon
this weekend, but not to run. The 1983 world champion has Olympic ambitions
but not for himself. He is at NY for the second year in a row leading his
team of indigenous Australian marathon hopefuls as part of a social work
project. MORE
4th Nov Orienteering - French legend Thierry
Gueorgiou lost out to surprise winner Vincent Coupat in the French sprint
championships but came back to finish the 3 Days in Provence undefeated.
Details
3rd Nov -Road Running - The ING New York City Marathon
is the "big one" on Sunday. Check out the elite runners at Line
up
They
include one time orienteer IsabellahAndersson. more
2nd Nov Orienteering - It's tough at the top.
Leading Finn, Pasi Ikonen, reveals that he spent 650 hours in training
last year. Maybe surprisingly, that includes sessions in cycling, swimming
and hiking. But he spent 496 hours either orienteering or running, covering
a total of over 5200km. See details
1st Nov Orienteering - Elite competitors from 13
countries sign in today as they join the Turks at this weeks two continent
5 Day event at Istanbul. Details
31st Oct Road Running - Makau's recent world
marathon record came under assault in Frankfurt when Wilson Kipsang ran
another superlative time. He missed the mark by just four seconds. Report
30th Oct Road Running- Pre-race favourite
Leonard Komon (Kenya) (46:18) won the Great South 10ml Run in Portsmouth
ahead of fellow Kenyan Abel Kirui..
But behind them in 4th place, Euro 10,000, silver medalist
Chris Thompson was first British finisher clocking 48:07, one place ahead
of Andrew Lemoncello (48:17) while new British marathon team contender
Scott Overall was 7th in 48:23. Ireland's Alistair Cragg was 3rd in 47:14.
Orienteering - Duncan Archer and Shane Ohly snatched victory in the two
day/ 80km Original Mountain Marathon in Scotland by just over half a minute.
On the second day, they came through from third to beat overnight leaders
Tim Higginbotham and Chris Near into second with a total time of 10h56m50s.
Adrian Davis and Alex Keith were veteran winners in 7th place.
29th Oct Orienteering - Thierry Gueorgiou, the ten times
world title winner, heads the large entry for this weeks 5 Jours de Provence
near Avignon. Today, he runs in the sprint. Details
28th Oct Orienteering - Keswick's
Steve Birkenshaw and Jethrow Lennox from Glasgow, runners up last year,
head the elite field for this weekend's Original Mountain Marathon in Scotland.
The 67 pair strong elite field will cover 80kms over two days running
in the mountains to the south of Loch Tay. They will meet strong
opposition from Tom Owens (Glasgow) teamed with Oleg Chepelin (Edinburgh)
and Doug Tullie (Edinburgh) teamed with John Rocke (Sheffield). Line
up
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25th Oct Road Running - running
the roads and marathon running in particular take their toll. With 14,000
people expected at this Sunday's Dublin marathon - medical services expect
to cater for around 600 casualites says the Irsh Times. REPORT
24th Oct Orienteering - Simone
Niggli continued her comeback running at elite level in the Swiss Grand
Prix final on Sunday.
The former world number one who missed most of this year in the lead up
to having twins was competing for the second time but on her first outing
at elite level. She finished third in the 7.9km mass start race, 45 secxond
down on the winner, Sabine Hauswirth in a time of 50m28s.
In the elite men's final, Fabian Hartner beat world cup
winner Daniel Hubmann into second by 8 seconds over 9km with a time of
46m 27s.
23rd Oct Orienteering - Ewan McCarthy
won the Scottish League 11.3km dune course at Barry Buddon (Carnoustie)
in 62m16s, almost three minutes up on Felix Spaeth (M20) from OLG Siegerland.
Results
Road Running - Heile back on form in Birnmingham. Report
22nd Oct - This weekend hosts two marathons with a difference.
The Polar Circle marathon in Greenland, including a stretch over the polar
ice cap and other pretty rough going is run with temperatures around -5C.
Website (see below) has some dramatic pics. Meanwhile at 8pm this evening
in northern Spain, a field of over 3000 set out along a riverside route
in the Bilbao Night Marathon (and half marathon).
POLAR BILBAO
21st Oct Road Running - Heile Gebrselassie, who
arrives in Birmingham today, is the star attraction at Sunday's half
marathon in the city. But will he last the distance. Fingers will be crossed
that the Ethiopian does not suffer another attack of exercise induce asthma
which forced him to drop out the recent Berlin Marathon.
Orienteering - Despite some notable absentees, this weekend's Home Countries
International in S Wales is promised a strong turnout and promises a close
run finish.
16th Oct Orienteering - Simone Niggli made a winning
comeback at the Swiss Long Distance Championships. But the former world
number one, who has missed most of the season as she waited the arrival
of a twin addition to her family, won the short 4.4km short course title
finishing seven minutes up with her time of 25m57s.
Sara Luscher was surprise winner of the elite title.
Matthias Kyburz coninued his breakthtough year by taking
the men's elite title with World Cup winner Daniel Hubmann in third.
15th Oct Orienteering - Three times world medalist
Anders Nordberg won the Blodslitet (Blood and Grind) Norwegian Ultra Long
Championship at Fredrickstad. After losing his early lead in this mass
start international event, he worked his way back through to retake the
lead just before half way. He finished almost five minutes up on 2010 long
distance world champ Olav Lundanes with a time of 2h30m14s for 23.5km..
Swedish nineteen year old junior Tove Alexandersson rounded
off a brilliant season with women's open victory. The winner of the World
Cup middle distance event in Switzerland last month, clocked 2h 1m 15a
for the 15.6km course and for narrow victory by just 41s.
14th Oct - Orienteering - Over 1400 are expected in Fredrickstad for tomorrow's (Sat) Norwegian Long Distance Championships - the Blodslitet - Blood and Guts or Blood and Grind. The mass start event for 170,000 Krona in prizes has the top men running 23.5km while the women tun 15.6km in the woods near Trondalen. See mapused in 2002.
13th Oct Orienteering - Swiss mother of three
Simone Niggli started the year as world number one but inevitably dropped
down the rankings as she took pregnancy leave. Now, two babies (twins Anja
and Lars) the better she makes her competitive comeback in Sunday's Swiss
Long Distance Orienteering Championships.
But Niggli is not going in at the deep end. She gives
the 11km elite course a miss at Les Pres d'Orvin north of Biel and runs
the 4.4km short event instead.
Daniel Hubmann heads a star studded men's elite entry.
9th OCT Marathon - A perfect run took Lilya Shobukhova
to her third Chicago Marathon win in a row. "I put my performance today
at 10 out of 10," she said. "I set a personal best, ran under 2:20 (2h18:20)
- a Russian record, and qualified for the 2012 Olympics."
IAAF
report , results
Melbourne was first marathon to finish on a busy marathon sunday. Kenyans
dominated yet again.
Japhet Kiphorir won for the second year in a row with
Julius Karinga 2nd. While in the women's field Commonwealth silver winner
Irene Mogaba while Margaret Njuguna "45 year old mother of 5" was second.
The Ozzie titles went to steeplechaser Peter Nowill and
tri-athlete Kirsten Molloy who with three Ironman outings behind het=r
this year found a marathon relarively easy going. Report
8th Oct Orienteering - British internationalist
Matt Crane won the Australian Long Distance title near Cooma in New South
Wales.
The Sheffield club runner seemed to be running
for silver until long time leader Rob Preston lost a minute at the 18th
of 30 controls. He went another minute ahead when Preston dropped another
minute at the next.
Crane's time of 1h22m30s bear Rob Walter into 2nd on
1:23:44 while Preston finished 3rd on 1:24:11.
Jo Allison, winner of the Oceania title last weekend,
completed the double with national championship success. She led
from the 6th control on the women's 27 control course, where New Zealand's
Lizzie Ingham dropped a minute she never manage ro recover.
Allison clocked 1h01m12s whiile Ingham took 2nd in 1:02:15.
Crane's Australian wife Grace finished 3rd in 1:03:15.
Results at winsplits
7th Oct Road Running - Kenya's Moses Mosop, who tan the
world's fastest marathon on his distance debut over the downhill Boston
course earlier this year heads the entry in Sunday's Chicago Marathon.
www.chicagomarathon.com
But on a busy marathon weekend, the most picturesque
outing must be over the part trail course around Kielder Water in Northumberland
(UK). Kielder
Marathon
6th Oct - Road Running - Double World Marathon Champion Abel Kirui will race the Great South Run (Portsmouth UK) later this month. Britain's Chris Thomson makes his return from the injury which kept him off track this summer. www.Iaaf.org
5th Oct - Extreme marathon - Competitors head for Augrabies
National Park in the Kalahati desert where the 241km seven day S African
Extreme Marathon gets underway on Saturday.
Last year's winner Dick Cloete (S Africa) finished with
a running time of 23h26m02s runs again this year.
The course takes in 33km/ day 1; 31/day2; 41/day3; a
mighty 74km on day 4; Day 5-rest; 37/ day 6; 25/Day7.
For details and pics go to www.extrememarathons.com
3rd Oct - Orienteering - Switzerland's men and Sweden's
women dominate the World Cup rankings.
The Swiss men, headed by Daniel Hubmann have five in the top seven of a
list which sees them share the top ten with France (Thirry Gueorgiou 2nd),
a Fin (Ikonen) in 6th, a Norwegian (Ludanes) in 8th and Swedes (Lysell
and Holmberg) in 9 and 10.And so it continues - Austria (Kerschbaumer -11th)
and Britain (Fraser 15th) are the only two other countries to make the
top twenty.
There are nine countries in the women's top twenty but
with Helena Jansson number one Sweden has four in the top seven.
2nd Oct Marathon- Winners on a busy marathon sunday
were Cologne- Samson Barmao (Ken) 2:8:53; Kosice- Elijah Kemboi (Ken) 2:11:13;
Bodensee- Marko Kipchumba (Ken) 2:11:18 course rec.and Brussels- Paul Kiprtop
(Ken) 2:14:51.
Orienteering - Daniel Hubmann (Switz) and Minna Kaupi (Finland) won
the urban sprint finals to the World Orienteering Cup in La Chaux de Fonds.
Hubmann consolidated his top of the table placing but it was 2nd overall
for Kauppi.
With with double points on offer Sweden's Helena Jansson
came through from 4th to take the title while Kaupi climbed from ninth
to finish runner-up by just 20 points out of 300.
1st Oct Orienteering - World Cup leader Daniel Hubmann,
last out at the World Cup middle distance event in Switzerland, sprinted
down the final slopes towards the finish area, home fans shouting him on.
But he had left himself with all too much to do and double world champion
Thierry Gueorgiou won the day.
The 13 second advantage he had built up in the first
five minutes proved decisive for Hubmann, who was closing towards the finish,
finish, ended up 13 seconds down on his French rival in 36m05s.
Swedish junior Tove Alexandersson was surprise winner
of the women's trial beating World Champion Helena Jansson into second
by almost one and a half minutes with her time of 33m16s.
30th Sept Orienteering - World Cup leader Daniel Hubmann
enjoys home advantage as the World Cup series draws to an exciting climax
in Chaux de Fond this weekend with Saturday's middle dstance leading into
Sunday's final sprint.
With double points available, Hubmann could find his
148 point lead whittled away by French rival Thierry Gueorgiou, A double
win could see the double world champion come through to join girlfriend
Annika Billstam, the world long distance champion and women's world cup
leader, on the top step of the podium - see www.postfinancesprint.ch
19th Sept - Mountain Bike Orienteering - Erik Skovgaard Knudsen, Denmark, the current leader in the men’s World Cup standings by a large margin, extended his lead and was crowned European Sprint Champion today with victory by 9 seconds. Marika Hara, Finland, previously joint leader in the women’s standings, is European Champion with a win also by 9 seconds. see IOF http://orienteering.org
18th Sept - Road Running- Kenya's Martin Mathathi and
Lucy Kabuu were in a class of their own as they won at the Great North
Run half Marathon on Tyneside, England.
Mathathi - world 10,000m bronze medalist in 2007 and
holder of the world junior 10 mile record with 44m51s, became one of only
six men to run inside 59m for the distance. On what is admitted to be a
down hill course he finished well clear of the opposition in a course record
breaking 58m56s.
Kabuu made an early move and was never troubled. She
crossed the line in 65m06s, the third fastest for the course behind
Paula Radcliffe.
15th Sept - Orienteering - Double world title holder
Thierry Gueorgiou is looking forward to next week's World Cup event
in Liberec where Saturday's middle distance will decide the chasing start
in Sunday's long distance.
"It looks to be a great terrain", he says "I don't know
yet how (fit I'll feel) when I show up
in Czech Republic..... but I'll try to get a good start
with the middle distance as the course setters in Czech are always good
at
making orienteering challenges. Then I will give my all
for the chase start. I think it is going to be fun and I looking forward
to it!”
13the Sept - Orienteering - Finland's Minni Kaupi says
she is out to put a bad season beind her when she runs in the world cup
in the Czech Republic in 9 days time. "Usually have been quite tired
of orienteering after WOC", she says, " but as the season has been so hard
I'm more than motivated to get back in my best form and I think it's possible
to get the form before Liberec.
I want to do best possible performances on all disciplines.
Of course, the middle is my favorite, but this time I'm really waiting
all the
competitions with hunger.”
11th Sept Orienteering - Swedish Championships - It was the duel of the champions. World middle distance champion Helena Jansson beat world long champion Annika Billstam to win the Swedish long distance title finishing over two minutes up with her time of 1h 21m 05s for 8.8km.
11th Sept. Orienteering - Danish Long Distance Championships - Emerging star Signe Soes came out of top in a battle with Alm Maja to take her National title by 1m49s with her time of 1h13m 28s for 11.8km.
10th Sept Mari Fasting (NTNUI) made it two out of
two at the Norwegian Championships as she added the middle distance title
to her long distance success on Thursday. She finished over half a minute
clear with a time of 35m59s for 4.4km.
National team runner, Lars Skjetset (FROL) beat 2010
world champion Carl Waller Kaas into second by just one second as he won
the men's 5.8km event in 36m47s.
8th Sept Norway's 2010 world orienteering champion Olav
Lundanes (Halden) won his national long distance title today (Thursday).
Clocking 6:44 per km he finished the 16.7km course in 1h32m45s to finish
3:44 clear of the opposition.
Mari Fasting (NTNUI), the 2005 world junior champion
who finished overall 6th in this year's Nordic Tour, continued her return
to form by taking the women's title 2:46 clear with her time of 1h 09m
26s.
7th Sept Albania hosts its first international sports
championship this weekend as the World Mountain Running Trophy is staged
in the capital Tirana.
Africans have dominated the men's championship in the
past two years winning all three individual medals and team gold.
On Sunday, the men's 12.7km course takes in three laps
of a heavily forested cicuit on a 323m summit on the edge of the city climbing
799m in total.
The women run 8.59km climbing 547m.
4th Sept - Double indivdual world champion Thierry Gueorgiou
(France) added the Finnish long distance title to his world successes of
last month competing today (Sunday) but it was a near thing.
Running for Finland club Kavelan Rasti, Gueorgiou, who
won the long and middle distance world championships on home soil, some
two weeks ago, before anchoring his national team to the relay title,
ran a fast 1h 28m 56s for the 16.7km coures to finish just six seconds
up on 2009 national team runner, Topi Anjala.
Problems continued for long time women's number one Minna
Kaupi. In France, Kaupi, favourite for the women's long distance title
dropped out after she failed to find the first control.
Today, Kaupi, who missed out on training earier this
year due to illness, was beaten into second by Merja Ratanen who won long
bronze at the Worlds..
Gueorgiou explains his success in an article on his website
at his website http://tero1.free.fr
- "The more you miss the more you win"