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Lead Stories: Sunday, September 7, 2008

IAAF Announces Venues for 2009 Half-Marathon Champs, World Athletics Final

Posted April 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 AM by Bob Ramsak

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field

Birmingham, England, will host the 2009 World Half-Marathon Championships, the IAAF announced yesterday after its two-day Council meeting in London.

The 21.1 km event, the only global championship set aside solely for road running, returns to Great Britain for the third time. In 1992, Tyneside played host before returning in 2001 to Bristol. This year’s edition will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October.
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Lemoncello Carries British Hopes into World Cross

Posted March 28th, 2008 at 7:07 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field

It’s not often that a major world championship comes to Great Britain, seemingly a prime opportunity for the host country’s best athlete’s to shine. However, only a handful of Britain’s best have answered the call to run for Queen and country, and an athlete with an American father and a Scottish mother who works part-time at a restaurant in Flagstaff, Ariz., will be the U.K.’s top man when the gun sounds for the senior men’s 12 km race here on Sunday afternoon.

Andrew Lemoncello, a talented steeplechaser who starred at Florida State University and won the ACC indoor titles at 3000m and 5000m last year, is excited to compete in Holyrood Park. Rooming with Irishman Martin Fagan in high altitude Flagstaff where he is coached by American Greg McMillan, Lemoncello has come through a snowy winter with some solid training under his belt.
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Conditions Excellent for Today’s USA XC Champs

Posted February 16th, 2008 at 11:30 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Cross Country

With a beautiful two kilometer loop course in Mission Bay Park bathed in Southern California sunshine, conditions are excellent for today’s USA Cross Country Championships, the selection trials for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships next month in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Athletes warming up on the course yesterday commented favorably on the smooth and soft grass surface, which resembles the manicured turf of a golf course.
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Hall, Ritzenhein Interview Excerpts from USATF Teleconference

Posted February 14th, 2008 at 11:00 AM by Jeremy Sussman

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Cross Country, Track & Field, Olympics, Special Features, Interviews

USA Track & Field served as the host to a media teleconference Wednesday afternoon featuring Team USA men’s squad members for the 2008 Olympic Marathon in Beijing, China, Ryan Hall and Dathan Ritzenhein.

Hall and Ritzenhein discussed their preparations for the 2008 USA Cross Country Championships in San Diego on Saturday, where both open and junior men and women will look to earn a spot on the Team USA squad for the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 30.

The championships in San Diego will feature six races that will determine national champions for masters men and women; junior men and women; and open men and women. The event will be televised in association with the AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships February 24, from 5-7 p.m. on ESPN 2.

Excerpts from Wednesday’s teleconference with Ryan Hall and Dathan Ritzenhein follow:
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Caine To Recruit Athletes for Nova International

Posted December 13th, 2007 at 4:11 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results

Nova International, which produces Britain’s Great Run series of road races, has tapped Andy Caine to be their elite race manager following the departure of Matt Turnbull. Caine, a Scotsman, will recruit all professional athletes for events like the BUPA Great North Run, BUPA Great Manchester 10-K, and BUPA Great Capital Run.

“It really is a dream job as far as any career goes in my opinion,” Caine wrote in an e-mail message. “It will also be a tough one. I’ve got some big boots to fill, but I’d like to think my past 12 years competing and my time at Nike will give me the skills required to make a big impact.”
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Doha & Istanbul Will Host World Indoor Champs In 2010 and 2012

Posted November 24th, 2007 at 4:50 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: News & Results, Cross Country, Track & Field

On the second day of its meeting in Monaco, the IAAF Council agreed a number of hosts for future events.

There were two candidates for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the second most important competition on the IAAF calendar, Doha, Qatar and Istanbul, Turkey. Following excellent presentations from the two candidates, a question and answer session, Council voted, and the winner was Doha, host of the 2006 Asian Games.

However, due to the excellence of the Istanbul candidature, Council also agreed to award that city the 2012 edition of the same competition.

“These were clearly two top class candidates demonstrating not only excellent facilities and organizational capabilities but outstanding levels of support from public authorities,” said IAAF President Lamine Diack. “I am glad that Council agreed that we should take this opportunity to ensure that the next two editions of the World Indoor Championships would help us in our aims to universalize our sport.”
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Radcliffe considering a World Cross hat trick in Edinburgh

Posted October 16th, 2007 at 1:48 PM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Cross Country, Olympics

British running legend, Paula Radcliffe, announced today that she was considering an attempt at her third World Cross Crown at the 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships to be held in Edinburgh in March 2008.

Radcliffe, who is currently high altitude training in Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees in preparation for her long awaited Marathon return in New York, took World Cross gold in both 2001 and 2002, and would be keen to run again on home soil if it fits in with her Beijing training schedule,

“That’s definitely an option I think, especially because it’s in Edinburgh. It depends on whether I do another spring marathon or not… Everything would be sort of planned to make sure it works the best way it can do going into Beijing.”
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