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May 2026

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Road

Fukuda and Keetels run furthest as 346,527 people race the Catcher Car

Jo Fukuda's 78.9 km in Fukuoka and Mikky Keetels' 62.2 km in Breda led the world on 10 May, in a run held in 173 countries that raised 9.2 million euros.

May 10, 2026
Road

Mercy Chebwogen runs 2:22:08 on her 30th birthday to break the Copenhagen Marathon record

The debutant took more than a minute off the race record on 10 May; Tadesse Kassa won the men's race in 2:08:26, five seconds outside the course record.

May 10, 2026
Ultra

David Sinclair and Blandine L'Hirondel break both Transvulcania course records

Sinclair ran 6:32:24 for the 75 km, about 20 minutes under the old mark; L'Hirondel's 7:43:47 took 19 minutes off Ruth Croft's record from 2024.

May 9, 2026
Ultra

Rachel Entrekin wins the Cocodona 250 outright in 56:09:48, the first woman to do it

She beat every man in the field by 79 minutes and Dan Green's overall course record by more than two hours; Kilian Korth set a men's record of 57:28:36.

May 6, 2026
Track

Botswana wins the World Relays 4x400 m at home in 2:54.47; Jamaica runs 39.62

The hosts ran the third-fastest 4x400 m ever to close the meeting, the USA set a mixed 4x400 m meet record and Jamaica beat its day-old mixed 4x100 m world mark.

May 3, 2026
Road

Mikky Keetels sets a Vancouver Marathon record of 2:33:02 as 25,000 run the city

The Dutch runner took 85 seconds off the event record on 3 May; Kosuke Fujiwara won the men's race in 2:22:03 and Natasha Wodak set a half marathon mark.

May 3, 2026
Road

Berehanu Tsegu wins the Prague Marathon in 2:05:52, nearly two minutes clear

The Ethiopian beat Kenya's Felix Kipkoech by 1:54 on 3 May; 9,076 runners finished, and Yann Havlena was first Czech home in 2:17:49.

May 3, 2026
Track

Canada and then Jamaica break the mixed 4x100 m world record in the Gaborone heats

Canada ran 40.07 in heat one of the World Relays; two heats later Jamaica ran 39.99, the first time the year-old event has gone under 40 seconds.

May 2, 2026

April 2026

16 stories
Gear

Adidas puts the 97-gram Adios Pro Evo 3, the sub-two shoe, on general sale at about $500

The shoe Sawe, Kejelcha and Assefa wore in London has a 39 mm stack, a carbon rim instead of a full plate, and a claimed 1.6 per cent economy gain.

April 30, 2026
Road

Sabastian Sawe runs 1:59:30 in London, the first marathon under two hours in a real race

Sawe took 65 seconds off Kelvin Kiptum's world record; Yomif Kejelcha ran 1:59:41 on his debut and Jacob Kiplimo 2:00:28 for third.

April 26, 2026
Road

Tigst Assefa defends London in 2:15:41, a women-only world record, by 12 seconds

Assefa, Hellen Obiri and Joyciline Jepkosgei all broke 2:16 in the same race for the first time; Obiri ran 2:15:53 on her London debut.

April 26, 2026
Road

El Goumri wins Hamburg in a Moroccan record; Kipkoech sets a 2:17:05 course record

El Goumri's 2:04:24 is the first Moroccan win in 40 editions; Samuel Fitwi was second in 2:04:45, Germany's first men's podium there since 1999.

April 26, 2026
Trail

Hartmuth and Esmiol win the Madeira Island Ultra-Trail on a course restored after fire

Hartmuth led the 110 km from the start and won by nearly an hour in 14:54:59; Esmiol ran 12:49:03 across the island from Porto Moniz to Machico.

April 25, 2026
Trail

Adam Peterman wins Canyons 100K as he, Zach Miller and Hayden Hawks take Golden Tickets

Peterman led from halfway to win in 8:18:47 on the Western States trails above Auburn; Riley Brady ran down Careth Arnold to win the women's race in 9:41:09.

April 25, 2026
Track

Oregon wins the Penn Relays distance medley by a tenth, the closest finish this century

Simeon Birnbaum held off Villanova's Marco Langon on the Franklin Field straight, 9:32.08 to 9:32.18, for Oregon's first Penn DMR title since 2017.

April 24, 2026
Track

North Carolina runs 10:36.82, a collegiate DMR record, to win at Penn by half a step

Vera Sjöberg out-leaned Stanford's Mena Scatchard after Juliette Whittaker's record 1200 m leg; both teams beat Harvard's 2024 mark of 10:37.55.

April 24, 2026
Road

Nuguse runs 3:54.06 in Des Moines, a US all-comers road mile record; Addy Wiley wins

Nuguse beat two-time champion Vince Ciattei at the USATF 1 Mile Road Championships; Wiley won the women's race by 0.22 and both earned Copenhagen places.

April 21, 2026
Road

Sharon Lokedi wins Boston again in 2:18:51; Jess McClain fastest American woman there

Kenya swept the podium, McClain was fifth in 2:20:49, Annie Frisbie beat Shalane Flanagan's old American mark too, and four Americans made the top ten.

April 20, 2026
Road

John Korir runs 2:01:52 to win Boston again and take 70 seconds off the course record

With a tailwind from Hopkinton, Korir beat Geoffrey Mutai's 2011 mark, three men broke 2:03 and Zouhair Talbi ran 2:03:45, the fastest marathon by an American.

April 20, 2026
Road

Tigist Gezahagn, a two-time Paralympic 1500 m champion, breaks the Vienna course record

The visually impaired Ethiopian ran 2:20:06 to beat Haftamnesh Tesfaye by 12 seconds; Fanny Kiprotich won the men's race in 2:06:53, alone from 32 km.

April 19, 2026
Track

37.78 and 41.70 in Gainesville: Lyles and Richardson anchor the fastest April relays ever

Three men's teams broke 38 seconds at the Tom Jones Memorial, Jordan Anthony ran 9.91 and the US women ran the fastest 4x100 ever recorded before June.

April 18, 2026
Track

Simeon Birnbaum runs 3:31.69 at Hayward Field, a collegiate 1500 m record by a second

Paced through 1100 m by a teammate, the Oregon junior closed in 53.59 and took more than a second off Liam Murphy's 2025 collegiate record.

April 18, 2026
Track

Jane Hedengren runs 14:50.50, a collegiate 5000 m record, in her first outdoor 5000

The BYU freshman led from the gun at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa and beat Parker Valby's 2024 record by more than a second, her third NCAA record.

April 17, 2026
Road

Guye Adola wins Rotterdam in 2:03:54; Mekides Shimeles, 20, breaks the course record

Adola came past Bashir Abdi in the last two kilometres; Shimeles ran 2:18:56 to beat Tiki Gelana's 2012 women's mark by two seconds.

April 12, 2026