Sifan Hassan has been added to the elite field of the Sydney Marathon on August 31, race organizers announced on Thursday, which likely rules her out for world championships. Hassan, 32, is the current Olympic marathon champion and has only raced once this year, finishing third in London Marathon in 2:19:00 in April. The late …
Nearly three years ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, USA Track and Field announced on Monday that the marathon trials qualifying standards are two minutes quicker for men and stay the same for the women. Men will have to post a qualifying time of 2:16, which is two minutes quicker than 2024 while …
From a vantage point that rivals riding in the back of the media truck on race day, the photo bridge is a castle guardtower of sorts that looms over the finish line in plain sight — with none of the fanfare that’s occurring down below. Still, so many of the winning moments, down to the …
Tigst Assefa broke the women’s-only world record in the London Marathon on Sunday as Sabastian Sawe used a dominant performance to reach the top of the podium in a stacked men's race. Assefa, 28, crushed the record by 26 seconds by clocking a 2:15:50 that passed Peres Jepchirchir’s 2:16:16 mark that was set last year …
Sunday's London Marathon will be one of the most stacked in racing history with past winners, Olympic champions and the next wave of distance running all vying to close out the spring majors season at the top of the podium. Meanwhile, more than 56,000 participants are expected to take to the streets of London, passing …
London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher confirmed on Thursday that the race left the social media platform X in January, saying it "descending into a gutter." The race is the first of all seven major marathons to publicly affirm that it will no longer use the social media platform. During a press event for Sunday's …
The title of world largest marathon has changed hands several times in the last two years and Sunday's Paris Marathon is now the world largest race of it's kind — even beating out the majors. According to organizer, Amaury Sport Organization, 56,950 participants took to the streets of Paris and have joined the ranks of …
North Korea held its first Pyongyang International Marathon in six years on Sunday, with around 200 foreign runners to participating in the event in the reclusive country's capital. The race was founded in 1981, but was last held in 2019 and was put on hold the following year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the …
The road to another one of this year's marathon majors got a little bit tighter as the New York Road Runners announced on Wednesday that just three percent of lottery applicants will run the 2025 New York City Marathon. According to NYRR, over 200,000 applications were submitted for the drawing — a new record for …
The Shanghai Marathon was officially announced on Wednesday as China's representative for consideration to be included as a Abbott World Marathon Majors membership in 2027. Abbott announced the change, since the Chengdu Marathon was previously China's candidate race. The Shanghai Marathon now joins the Sydney Marathon and Cape Town Marathons hoping to be one of …