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• Marathon great Kipchoge to race London in April
  Posted on Friday January 17, 2025
  Distance running great Eliud Kipchoge will return to the London Marathon in April.
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• Cairess leads British charge at London Marathon
  Posted on Wednesday January 15, 2025
  Emile Cairess leads the British charge at this year's London Marathon, where Eilish McColgan will make her debut over the distance on 27 April.
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• McColgan to make belated London Marathon debut
  Posted on Thursday January 16, 2025
  Eilish McColgan will make her debut at the London Marathon, competing over 26.2 miles for the first time.
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• Olympic high jump silver medallist Hopkins dies
  Posted on Tuesday January 14, 2025
  1956 Olympic high jump silver medallist Thelma Hopkins, who won Empire Games gold for Northern Ireland and held the world record, dies aged 88.
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• Olympic champion Hassan set for London Marathon return
  Posted on Monday January 13, 2025
  Sifan Hassan returns to the London Marathon in 2025 as all four reigning Olympic and Paralympic marathon champions take to the streets of the capital in April.
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• From 'skinny wimp' to world's best - the Colin Jackson story
  Posted on Tuesday January 14, 2025
  BBC Sport Wales' Legends of Welsh Sport documentary 'Colin Jackson: Resilience' hears from the man himself, as well as his family, friends, former coach and fellow athletes.
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• Leonard breaks men's British 10km record in Valencia
  Posted on Sunday January 12, 2025
  European Under-23 champion Rory Leonard knocks six seconds off the British men's 10km record set by Mo Farah.
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• Chepngetich breaks marathon world record
  Posted on Sunday October 13, 2024
  Watch Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich break the world record to win the Chicago Marathon.
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• Brown beats GB's Neita to claim Diamond League 200m title
  Posted on Saturday September 14, 2024
  Watch as USA's Brittany Brown comfortably wins the 200m final race clocking a time of 22.20 beating Great Britain's Daryll Neita in the Diamond League at Brussels.
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• 'Biggest shock of the night' - GB's Dobson wins 400m
  Posted on Friday September 13, 2024
  Watch Great Britain's Charlie Dobson pull off the "biggest shock of the night" as he wins the men's 400m final in 44.49 at the Diamond League meeting in Brussels.
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Athletics Weekly

• Seyfu Jamaal and Annabel Gummow impress at Fred Hughes 10
  Posted on Tuesday January 21, 2025
  Road racing round-up from around the UK during the mid-January period .
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• Slow release energy for athletes
  Posted on Tuesday January 21, 2025
  Plant-based snacks have been engineered to be digested slowly and provide sustained dextrose release into the blood stream for up to five hours .
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• Molly Caudery on why the Keely Klassic could be the missing link
  Posted on Tuesday January 21, 2025
  Pole vaulter says new event in Birmingham on February 15 will help draw interest in athletics ahead of the UK Indoor Champs a few days later .
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• North Eastern Harrier League wins for Lydia Turner and James Johnson
  Posted on Tuesday January 21, 2025
  All the news from the past few days on the UK cross-country running circuit .
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• Evan Grime sets UK U17 indoor 1500m record
  Posted on Monday January 20, 2025
  The teenager starts 2025 off with a bang after clocking 3:49.47 over 1500m at the BMC Sheffield Grand Prix  .
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• Georgia Bell, Molly Caudery, Jake Wightman sign up for the Keely Klassic
  Posted on Monday January 20, 2025
  Exciting new event on February 15 in Birmingham will feature a number of record attempts .
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• Patrick Dever runs 60:11 at Houston Half Marathon
  Posted on Sunday January 19, 2025
  The long-distance runner goes fourth on the UK half-marathon all-time list after his fifth place finish in Texas .
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• Ben Higgins retires from athletics due to “heart issue”
  Posted on Sunday January 19, 2025
  The British 400m runner revealed that he's had to step away from the sport after receiving medical advice from doctors  .
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• Phoebe Gill runs 53.65 over indoor 400m at Lee Valley
  Posted on Saturday January 18, 2025
  The current British 800m champion went under 54 seconds for the first time ever in an indoor 400m .
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