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March 2026

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Road

Sheila Chepkirui beats Sayaka Sato by two seconds to keep her Nagoya title

The New York champion won the world's largest women-only marathon in 2:21:54 on a cold, windy day, with Japan's Olympic selection places at stake.

March 8, 2026
Road

Jacob Kiplimo runs 57:20 in Lisbon, a half marathon world record with no pacemakers

The Ugandan took ten seconds off Yomif Kejelcha's official mark on the course where he set his own in 2021, passing 10 km in 27:00 and pulling clear at 15 km.

March 8, 2026
Road

Nathan Martin wins the LA Marathon by a hundredth of a second

A 36-year-old Michigan teacher caught Michael Kamau in the last steps for the closest finish in 41 editions; Priscah Cherono, 45, led from mile one.

March 8, 2026
Trail

Sean Riedel and Lotti Brinks win the Way Too Cool 50K on Western States ground

Riedel ran 3:37:19 and Brinks 3:51:42, sixth overall, on the single-track course out of Cool, California, where the first eight men broke four hours.

March 7, 2026
Ultra

Jonathan and Henriette Albon win both Transgrancanaria Classic titles

A married couple swept the 126 km World Trail Majors race on Gran Canaria, Jonathan in 12:58:08 and Henriette in 15:16:33 after a cold, wet night.

March 7, 2026
Road

US half marathon title decided after the lead car sent the top women off course

Jess McClain, Emma Grace Hurley and Ednah Kurgat were led off the Atlanta course a mile from home; Molly Born won in 1:09:43, Wesley Kiptoo in 1:01:15.

March 1, 2026
Road

Brigid Kosgei runs 2:14:29 in Tokyo; three men finish within a second

Kosgei took the Tokyo course record with the seventh-fastest marathon ever, while Tadese Takele beat Geofry Toroitich on the line to repeat.

March 1, 2026

February 2026

17 stories
Track

Hocker, Nuguse and Young finish within 0.04 in the USATF Indoor 3000 m

Cole Hocker won in 7:39.25 at Ocean Breeze; Emily Mackay beat Elle St. Pierre with a meet record 8:30.01 and Chase Jackson set an American shot put record.

February 28, 2026
Road

Ibrahim Hassan and Mare Dibaba set course records at the Osaka Marathon

Hassan ran a Djibouti record 2:05:20 after reeling in debutant Hibiki Yoshida; Dibaba won in 2:21:44; unsponsored American Ethan Shuley ran 2:07:14.

February 22, 2026
Track

Eliott Crestan wins the Copernicus Cup 800 m and the Indoor Tour title in Toruń

The Gold series ended in the World Indoors hall: Crestan ran 1:44.07, Zaynab Dosso an Italian 60 m record of 6.99, and eleven tour winners took wild cards.

February 22, 2026
XC

Hugo Milner and Lucy Jones win the English National at Sedgefield

Milner beat James Kingston by three seconds over 12.4 km of Hardwick Park; Jones took her first national title in a field of about 3,800.

February 21, 2026
Ultra

Ashley Paulson runs 100 miles in 12:19:34, a women's world record, at the Jackpot

On a 1.19-mile loop in Henderson, Nevada, the 44-year-old beat Caitriona Jennings' mark by more than 17 minutes and won the USATF 100 mile title.

February 20, 2026
Track

Keely Hodgkinson runs 1:54.87 in Liévin, the 800 m world indoor record by nearly a second

Jolanda Ceplak's 1:55.82 had stood since March 2002; Hodgkinson passed 400 m in 56.00 and finished 0.26 outside her outdoor best.

February 19, 2026
Road

Seville photo finish: Shura Kitata and Asrar Hiyrden both clock 2:03:59 and both fall

Judges gave Kitata the win after the two Ethiopians went down on the line; Finland's Alisa Vainio won the women's race in a national record 2:20:39.

February 15, 2026
Road

Hagos Gebrhiwet runs 58:05 in Barcelona; Weini Kelati sets an American half record

The Ethiopian won by more than a minute from Dominic Lobalu; Loice Chemnung took the women's race in 1:04:01 with Kelati second in 1:06:04.

February 15, 2026
Track

Keely Hodgkinson runs 1:56.33 in a heat in Birmingham, a British indoor record

The Olympic champion led from the gun at the UK Indoor Championships, moved to third on the world indoor all-time list, and skipped the final to aim at Liévin.

February 14, 2026
Trail

Ruth Croft and Daniel Jones win Tarawera 102K for the fourth time each in the mud

Rain turned New Zealand's biggest ultra into a slog: Croft ran 8:41:11 and Jones 7:31:27, neither near the course records they set a year ago.

February 14, 2026
Track

Cole Hocker runs 3:45.94, the second fastest indoor mile ever, in Winston-Salem

At the first ASICS Sound Running Invite, Hocker took the American indoor mile and 1500 m records; Cooper Lutkenhaus ran a world under-20 800 m record.

February 14, 2026
Road

Geoffrey Kamworor wins Ras Al Khaimah in 58:14, five men under 59

Thirteen years after his first RAK win, Kamworor beat Birhanu Balew by nine seconds; Asmarech Anley won the women's race on her half marathon debut in 1:07:22.

February 14, 2026
Ultra

Hans Troyer and Jennifer Lichter break both Black Canyon 100K course records

Troyer ran 7:20:00 and Lichter 7:57:05 on the desert trail north of Phoenix; Molly Seidel was fourth in her 100K debut and took a Western States Golden Ticket.

February 14, 2026
Trail

No one finishes the Barkley again; only Sébastien Raichon completes the Fun Run

The earliest start in the race's history met rain, fog and mud at Frozen Head; 12 of 40 starters finished a loop and Raichon's three took 38:05:46.

February 14, 2026
Track

Khaleb McRae runs 44.52 in Fayetteville, a world indoor 400 m record if ratified

At the Tyson Invitational the American took 0.05 off Kerron Clement's 2005 mark on the same track; Jordan Anthony ran 6.43 and Julien Alfred 6.99.

February 13, 2026
Track

Georgia Hunter Bell runs 4:00.04 in Karlsruhe as the Indoor Tour Gold reaches Europe

At the Europahalle, Hunter Bell took the 1500 m from Birke Haylom, Azeddine Habz won the men's race in 3:33.36 and Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.01 m.

February 8, 2026
Road

Joshua Cheptegei wins Dubai's Burj2Burj half in 59:26, four seconds covering the podium

The Ugandan beat Nicholas Kipkorir and Alphonce Simbu by two seconds each in his London Marathon build-up; Irine Cheptai led a Kenyan one-two in 1:06:57.

February 8, 2026