2026 in running
Every story the journal reported this year, month by month. 220 so far.
October
14 stories
RoadAmos Kipruto outruns Kiplimo to win Chicago, Feysa repeats
Amos Kipruto ran 2:01:09 to beat Jacob Kiplimo in Chicago, Hawi Feysa repeated in 2:13:33, and three women broke 2:15 for the first time.
XCChepkoech beats Kipkore by a tenth of a second at the Nuttycombe Invitational
Florida's Judy Chepkoech caught Iowa State's Betty Kipkore right at the line, while West Virginia and New Mexico took the team titles in Madison.
GravelMarianne Vos becomes the first rider to win the gravel world title twice
Vos attacked over the final climb in Nannup, Australia and soloed to the win after Rosa Klöser crashed chasing her down the descent.
TrailCape Town marks one year until the 2027 World Mountain and Trail Championships
World Athletics marked one year out from the 2027 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, the first edition held in Africa.
TrackWorld Athletics names 20 nominees for its 2026 Athlete of the Year awards
World Athletics put forward 10 men and 10 women for its 2026 World Athlete of the Year award, with a public vote open through October 17.
TrackAvery Pearson becomes first Canadian to join On Athletics Club
Saskatchewan 800m runner Avery Pearson signed with On Athletics Club in Boulder, becoming the first Canadian on the pro training group.
RoadTroutner and Venters break championship records at the USATF 10K
Aidan Troutner and Emily Venters set USATF 10km Championship records in Minneapolis-St. Paul, with the men's top six separated by five seconds.
RoadLilian Chebii breaks a 25-year-old record at Twin Cities Marathon
Lilian Chebii ran 2:25:26 to take down the Twin Cities Marathon course record set in 2001, and Victor Shitsama won the men's race in his marathon debut.
RoadJepkosgei takes 12 seconds off the Cardiff Half record as Kenya wins both races
Joyciline Jepkosgei ran 1:05:40 in Cardiff for a course record that had stood since 2017. Gideon Kiprotich won the men's race in 59:34.
XCBraelyn Combe wins the Chile Pepper 5K by a tenth of a second
The Arkansas freshman caught UT Arlington's Dorcas Jepkosgei on the final stride, 15:59.0 to 15:59.1, and the Razorbacks won the team title at home.
UltraCristofer Clemente wins the Chihuahua by UTMB 118K in the Copper Canyon
The Spaniard ran 13:58:51 over 5,600 metres of climbing. Alexa Romano won the women's race; Rarámuri runners took second in the 118K and won the 93K.
XCHeat stops the Paul Short Run after Sloff and Cheruiyot win the Gold races
Lehigh cancelled six afternoon races in rising heat after Penn State's Nick Sloff and Pitt's Maureen Cheruiyot won the Gold races.
XCNC State women and Notre Dame men win the Blue races at the Joe Piane Invitational
Hannah Gapes won the 5K in 15:22.60 as NC State took the team title at Notre Dame; Daelen Ackley led a Fighting Irish 1-2 in the 8K.
RoadRichmond Marathon weekend sells out for a second straight year
All 21,000 places across the Richmond Marathon, half and 8k are gone six weeks before race day, with the marathon filling faster than it ever has.
September
25 stories
UltraTamás Bódis runs 19:40:51 from Athens to Sparta, a Spartathlon course record
The Hungarian beat four-time winner Fotis Zisimopoulos, whose 19:55 mark he broke, by 52 minutes; Despoina Simantrakou was first woman in 24:45:43.
TrailKipngeno wins on the Great Wall, six for six in Asia; Gitonga comes from two minutes down
At Jinshanling, 24 km with 1,889 m of climbing and 1,000 steps on the Wall, Kipngeno ran 2:12:30; Ruth Gitonga caught Gröber and Kimutai to win.
RoadAssefa wins Berlin in 2:11:04 after her world record attempt breaks down at 40 km
Through 40 km in 2:03:00 and on 2:09:44 pace, the Ethiopian limped the last two kilometres and still took 49 seconds off her own course record.
RoadGuye Adola wins Berlin again in 2:02:50, nine years after his debut there behind Kipchoge
Nine men were together at halfway in 1:01:01; Adola went to the front at 30 km and ran alone through the Brandenburg Gate. Gemechu Dida was second in 2:03:19.
XCNew Mexico's men beat No. 1 Oklahoma State at the Cowboy Jamboree; BYU's women win again
Pasanjo Kitonga won the 8 km in 23:24.4 in his cross country debut and the Lobos scored 28; BYU put six in the top ten for 32 points in the women's 6 km.
TrailKipngeno wins Myoko Trail, his third Golden Trail race in Japan; Gröber leads throughout
On the series' first visit to Myoko, 24 km with 2,000 m of climbing, Kipngeno ran down Timothy Kibett late; Hanna Gröber won by 2:48, her first GTWS win.
UltraCharlie Lawrence and Courtney Olsen win the 100 km world titles for a US sweep in Spain
Lawrence held off world record holder Aleksandr Sorokin in 6:09:25; Olsen ran down Miho Nakata in the 17th of 20 laps to win in 7:10:31.
RoadAgnes Ngetich runs 1:05:15, a women-only world half marathon record, for world gold
Alone from the first kilometre in Copenhagen, the world cross country champion took one second off Peres Jepchirchir's 2020 mark and won by 50 seconds.
RoadAlmgren outkicks Kipkorir for world half marathon gold in a European record 58:06
The Swede, who began as a 400 m runner, took 35 seconds off his own continental record and moved to ninth all time; Joshua Cheptegei was third in 58:26.
UltraSullivan and Allgood break both Run Rabbit Run records in a night of rain at Steamboat
Ryan Sullivan ran 17:03:38 and Hannah Allgood 19:01:59 over 101.5 miles and 20,391 feet of climbing; each took 20,000 dollars, with 100,000 promised for 2027.
TrailJoseph Gray wins a sixth Pikes Peak Ascent by seven seconds; Anna Gibson 13 minutes clear
Gray, 42, reached the 14,115-foot summit in 2:15:14 after 13.3 miles up Barr Trail; Gibson's 2:37:22 is the 11th-fastest women's time in the race's history.
XCBrighter Jepchumba breaks an 18-year-old course record on the NCAA championship course
The Eastern Kentucky runner's 19:14.0 at the John McNichols Invitational took 14.1 seconds off Sally Kipyego's mark; Kelvin Cheruiyot won the men's 8 km.
RoadGuillemot runs a European record 4:22.74 and Farken 3:51.80 for world road mile gold
On the V-shaped course along Østerbrogade, both champions waited and then went with about 20 seconds to run; Luxembourg's Ruben Querinjean took bronze.
RoadDawit Seare passes Ingebrigtsen in the last 100 m to win the world 5 km title in 12:56
The Eritrean's national record came 30 seconds after Ingebrigtsen took the lead; Likina Amebaw won the women's race in 14:41, six days after Budapest.
XCIsabelle Schmitz runs 19:44.8 to win the 40th Roy Griak Invitational on its new course
Minnesota's women scored 26 points at Fort Snelling Golf Course, the first Griak away from Les Bolstad; Schmitz won the 6 km by 8.7 seconds.
UltraJiaju Zhao sets a Tor des Géants record of 65:55:22; Katharina Hartmuth is third overall
Over 330 km and 24,000 m of climbing around the Aosta Valley, Hartmuth cut 12 hours from her own women's record and finished 75 minutes behind the winner.
TrackKerr takes the Ultimate 1500 m in 3:29.35; Sedjati and Amebaw also win on the last night
A 26.02 last 200 m beat Cam Myers by 0.33. Sedjati ran 1:41.91 to pass Arop in the 800 m and Amebaw broke the 5000 m field from 3 km.
RoadTalbi becomes the first American winner of the Great North Run; Kosgei wins in 66:15
On the 45th edition, the biggest yet with 63,000 runners, Talbi closed a 4:18 last mile to beat defending champion Alex Mutiso by 14 seconds in 59:47.
RoadJemma Reekie runs 4:13.8 on wet roads, the fastest mile ever on Fifth Avenue
A week after her European road mile record in Düsseldorf, the Scot took a second off Laura Muir's course record; Marco Langon won the men's race in 3:45.0.
UltraStewart and Ostaszewski win the Wasatch Front 100 as 236 of 396 starters finish
Kevin Stewart ran 20:41:09 to beat two-time winner Jose Cruz by 33 minutes; Sarah Ostaszewski's 25:18:50 put her hours clear of the women's field.
TrackWerro beats Hodgkinson and Broeders-Bol in 1:55.88 to finish an unbeaten outdoor season
The Swiss led from the gun in Budapest and held the same 1-2-3 as the European final; Kazimierska won the 1500 m an hour later over Hunter Bell and Hiltz.
TrackIngebrigtsen kicks 12.60 for the last 100 m to win the first Ultimate 5000 m in 12:59.24
On the opening night in Budapest the Olympic champion closed a 54.39 last lap to beat Cole Hocker and Parker Wolfe, both just outside 13 minutes.
UltraMegan Eckert runs 636.482 miles in six days, a world record and the American record
On an 898 m loop at Balatonfüred, Hungary, the Santa Fe teacher beat her own 2025 mark by 33 miles and became the first woman past 1,000 km in six days.
TrackKazimierska runs 3:54.05 and Balew 12:45.70 as the Diamond League season ends in Brussels
Seven meeting records on the final night. Werro held off Broeders-Bol by 0.06 in the 800 m and Gemechu Godana, 20, outran El Bakkali in the steeplechase.
TrackWanyonyi runs 1:41.80 for a fourth Diamond League title; Myers takes the 1500 m by 0.04
On the first night of the final in Brussels, Kebinatshipi ran 43.40, Cherotich a steeplechase meeting record and Hailu led an Ethiopian 5000 m sweep.
August
23 stories
RoadAddisu Gobena runs 2:04:42 in Sydney, seven men under the old course record
The 21-year-old Ethiopian took 84 seconds off Hailemaryam Kiros's mark; Peres Jepchirchir won the women's race by nearly four minutes in 2:18:31.
UltraBlandine L'Hirondel wins UTMB in 21:54:49 and completes the OCC, CCC and UTMB treble
The first woman under 22 hours walked the last descent into Chamonix and still won by 21 minutes from Rachel Entrekin; Emily Schmitz was third.
UltraBen Dhiman wins UTMB in 18:16:29, the first man under 19 hours around Mont Blanc
After a two-hour storm delay, the American who lives in France led from 40 km and won by 31 minutes; Chassagne beat Olson by 46 seconds for second.
UltraMinoggio, 42, wins a muddy CCC; Kaspersen is the first woman to win it twice
The Italian passed Hans Troyer on the climb to Trient to win in 10:21:48; Kaspersen came from outside the top ten at halfway to win in 12:01:14.
TrackAudrey Werro runs 1:53.70 in Zurich, the third-fastest 800 m in history
The Swiss passed Femke Broeders-Bol on the final bend at Letzigrund for a Diamond League record; only two times from the early 1980s are faster.
TrackTwo world records in 40 minutes at Letzigrund: dos Santos 45.80, Masai Russell 12.09
Alison dos Santos took 0.14 off Karsten Warholm's 400 m hurdles record and Russell 0.03 off Tobi Amusan's in the 100 m hurdles at Weltklasse Zürich.
TrailTranchand leads the OCC from start to finish; Lauren Gregory wins by three seconds
The Frenchman won the 60 km from Orsières in 5:10:08; Gregory ran down long-time leader Naomi Lang in the last kilometre into Chamonix.
UltraRémy Brassac and Sarah Vieuille win a cold, wet TDS from Courmayeur to Chamonix
Brassac passed Clovis Chaverot in the Beaufortain and won by 45 minutes in 19:28:43; Vieuille led from the first checkpoint and was ninth overall in 22:08:16.
TrackEthan Strand wins the Silesia 1500 m in 3:30.77; Ingebrigtsen fourth on his return
In front of 38,073 at the Silesian Stadium, Strand came from well back to beat Koech and Hocker, and Tsige Duguma ran a world-leading 3:55.06.
RoadIsaia Lasoi and Daniel Mateiko both break the Antrim Coast Half Marathon record in Larne
Lasoi won in 58:26 by four seconds from Mateiko, with Kenya taking the first four places; Girmawit Gebrzihair won the women's race in 1:06:12.
UltraAdrian Macdonald wins a third Leadville 100 on a course rerouted around the Willow Fire
Macdonald ran 15:47:23; McKendree Hickory won the women's race in 19:39:12 in her first 100-miler, tenth overall, on a course without Sugarloaf or Powerline.
TrackWerro beats Bol in a meeting record at Athletissima; Wanyonyi runs 1:42.19 in Lausanne
Five meeting records fell at the Pontaise, where Birhanu Balew won a 5000 m with four men under 12:59 and Winfred Yavi ran 9:00.04.
RoadHabtom Samuel runs 30:53 at Falmouth, the first sub-31 in the race's 54 years
The Eritrean took 15 seconds off a record that had stood since 2004; Pamela Kosgei beat Jess McClain in a photo finish, both timed in 35:25.
RoadPetros and Vainio win the European marathon titles on the streets of Birmingham
Petros, so often the runner-up, won in 2:09:11 from Pietro Riva; Vainio ran a championship record 2:22:26 and won by five minutes.
TrackStefan Nillessen kicks past a bunched field for a surprise European 1500 m title
The Dutch European U23 champion won in 3:35.70 with the top five inside a second; Andrew Coscoran came through on the inside for Ireland's bronze.
TrackAndreas Almgren runs 27:23.44, a championship record, for the European 10,000 m title
The Swede split 21:59.0 at 8000 m and closed the last 5000 m in 13:17.74 to win by 19 seconds from Dominic Lobalu in Birmingham.
TrackAudrey Werro beats Keely Hodgkinson for the European 800 m title, a day after a fall
Reinstated on appeal after going down in her semi-final, the 22-year-old Swiss ran the last lap in 56.45 to win in a championship record 1:54.81.
TrackBattocletti completes the European distance double with the 10,000 m in 31:41.17
Three days after the 5000 m, the Italian won again at Alexander Stadium, with Maureen Koster of the Netherlands second and Jana Van Lent of Belgium third.
TrackMark English, 33, wins the European 800 m, Ireland's first individual men's title
Third at the bell behind Bloudek and Attaoui, the Donegal doctor went past inside the last 100 m to win in 1:45.26 in Birmingham.
TrackNadia Battocletti wins the European 5000 m; Sarah Healy misses bronze by 0.30
The Italian controlled a slow, tactical final and won in 15:37.84 from Spain's Marta García and her teammate Micol Majori at Alexander Stadium.
TrackIngebrigtsen wins a fourth European 5000 m title in his first race since Achilles surgery
Boxed in coming into the straight, he found a gap and passed Florian Bremm in the last 50 m to win in 13:15.29 at Alexander Stadium.
TrailPhilemon Kiriago wins a third Sierre-Zinal in 2:26:24; Madalina Florea takes her first
Kiriago broke Patrick Kipngeno on the descent to Zinal for a Kenyan sweep of the podium; Florea held off defending champion Caroline Kimutai by 46 seconds.
TrackEmmanuel Kiprono, 17, solos 7:28.28 at the World U20 Championships in Eugene
The Kenyan went through 400 m in 1:01.96, led by nine seconds at 1600 m and won by 19.51 seconds, 0.09 off the world U20 record.
July
22 stories
TrackGeorgia Hunter Bell wins the Commonwealth 800 m, breaking the race with 200 to go
The England runner ran 1:59.51 at Scotstoun; Lilian Odira took silver in 2:00.58 and Sarah Billings bronze, 0.03 back, for her first senior medal.
TrackRose Davies completes the first Commonwealth 5000 m and 10,000 m double by a woman
Davies beat Jessica Hull 14:44.53 to 14:45.01 at Scotstoun, with Scotland's Megan Keith third in 14:49.10 after leading into the last two kilometres.
TrackCherotich runs a Games record 9:01.76; Myers takes Keino's mile mark in a heat
Cherotich beat Elise Thorner and Peruth Chemutai by nearly four seconds; Myers ran 3:53.85 in round one of the first Commonwealth mile since 1966.
TrackKy Robinson wins Commonwealth 10,000 m gold; Isle of Man's Mullarkey takes bronze
Robinson sat through 15 slow laps and wound it up over the last ten to win in 27:48.93 from Gulveer Singh (27:49.78) and Mullarkey (27:50.28).
UltraJolliffe breaks 21 hours at Badwater; Carmen Maria Perez second overall in 21:05:32
Both course records fell on the 135 miles from Death Valley to Whitney Portal: Jolliffe 20:53:41, Perez 39 minutes under the women's mark.
TrackRose Davies wins the Commonwealth 10,000 m in Glasgow; Kenya sweeps the steeplechase
On the opening night at Scotstoun, Davies ran 31:39.32 to win by ten seconds; Edmund Serem led Simon Koech and Leonard Bett in 8:18.23.
TrackCooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins the US 800 m title in 1:43.48 with a 25.32 last 200 m
On the final day in New York, Lutkenhaus completed an indoor-outdoor sweep; Vincent Ciattei and Emily Mackay won the 5000 m titles in sprint finishes.
TrackHiltz wins a fourth straight US 1500 m title by 0.04; Nathan Green takes the men's
Slow finals at Icahn Stadium came down to the last lap: Hiltz 4:06.92 over Addy Wiley and Emily Mackay; Green 3:50.27 over Vincent Ciattei by 0.05.
RoadEverlyn Kemboi and Mohammed El Youssfi win the Bix 7 in Davenport
Kemboi ran 35:30 up and down Brady Street for the women's title; El Youssfi became the second Moroccan to win the men's race.
TrackKincaid closes in 54.89 for a third US 10,000 m title; Sydney Vaught wins her first
On the opening night at Icahn Stadium in New York, Kincaid held off Grant Fisher 30:13.66 to 30:14.46; Vaught ran 33:30.60 after a 3:13 opening 800 m.
TrackBrandon Miller runs 1:42.19 and Keely Hodgkinson holds off Femke Bol in London
Mark English ran 1:42.97 for second behind Miller; Hodgkinson beat Bol 1:56.21 to 1:56.46; Jessica Hull led an Australian one-two in the 3000 m.
TrackJosh Kerr runs 3:42.66 in London to break the 27-year-old mile world record
Paced by Brannon Kidder and Žan Rudolf, Kerr took 0.47 off Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 mark in front of 60,000; Yared Nuguse was second in 3:45.69.
TrailSommerseth and Wylezalek win the Eiger Ultra Trail E101 out of Grindelwald
The Norwegian ran 11:44:03 for 101 km and 6,700 m of climbing; Wylezalek, of Poland, ran 14:01:24 for ninth overall.
UltraPommeret, 50, wins a third straight Hardrock in record 21:11:36; Dauwalter takes a fourth
On the clockwise loop from Silverton, the Frenchman cut 22 minutes from his own course record; Courtney Dauwalter ran 26:03:10, fifth overall.
TrackEmmanuel Wanyonyi breaks the 1000 m world record in Monaco, 2:11.83 in his first try
On his debut at the distance, the Olympic 800 m champion took 0.13 off Noah Ngeny's 1999 mark; Jake Wightman was second in 2:12.77.
TrackAgnes Ngetich runs 8:08.95 for 3000 m in Monaco, the third-fastest time ever
The world cross country champion went through 2000 m in 5:24.08 and finished 15 seconds clear of Aleshign Baweke; Faith Kipyegon was fourth.
RoadStrintzos runs 2:06:20 at Gold Coast: Australian record, first home win since 2006
The 26-year-old from Melbourne took 73 seconds off the course record and beat a Japanese chase pack; Almaz Kebebe, 20, won the women's race in 2:24:53.
UltraSantos Gabriel Rueda and Katarzyna Dombrowska win the 163 km Val d'Aran by UTMB
Rueda ran 21:32:05 through 10,000 m of Pyrenean climbing after a Friday afternoon start in Vielha; Dombrowska led the women from start to finish in 27:33:14.
TrackCameron Myers runs 3:46.06, an Oceanian record, to win the Bowerman Mile
The Australian beat Yared Nuguse by half a second at Hayward Field, the first Australian to win the race; Robert Farken set a German record in seventh.
TrackNikki Hiltz outkicks Faith Kipyegon in the Prefontaine mile, 4:17.49 to 4:17.80
At Hayward Field, Hiltz ran a world-leading 4:17.49 to beat the world record holder and Dorcus Ewoi in a five-deep sprint for the line.
RoadPatrick Kiprop repeats and Tsigie Gebreselama wins by a second at Peachtree
Kiprop ran 27:37 for his second straight Peachtree 10K title; Gebreselama beat Melknat Wudu 31:02 to 31:03 in front of more than 50,000 runners.
TrackBrandon Miller beats Lutkenhaus in Eugene as Parker Wolfe wins a slow two miles
Day one of the Prefontaine Classic went to the kickers: Miller 1:43.68 for 800 m, Wolfe 8:10.13 for two miles, Wilma Nielsen 4:05.60 for 1500 m.
June
21 stories
TrackCameron Myers runs 3:28.00 in Paris, an Oceanian record, and Grant Fisher wins the 5000 m
The 20-year-old Australian took nearly two seconds off his best in a non-Diamond 1500 m; Fisher's 12:54.80 beat Jacob Krop and Andreas Almgren by 0.58.
TrackArop runs 1:41.84 and Werro 1:53.80 in Paris, the third-fastest women's 800 m in history
At Stade Charléty, Werro took her own Diamond League record under 1:54 again and finished half a second from the 1983 world record; Arop ran a world lead.
TrailRémi Bonnet and Tove Alexandersson win the Marathon du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix
Bonnet ran 3:33:14 for 42 km and 2,540 m of climbing, two and a half minutes clear of Frédéric Tranchand; Alexandersson won the women's race by 23 minutes.
UltraJenn Lichter breaks Courtney Dauwalter's Western States record in her first 100-miler
Lichter ran 15:28:05, a minute and a half inside the 2023 mark, after going clear on the climb to Devil's Thumb; Riley Brady was second, Marianne Hogan third.
UltraVincent Bouillard runs 13:46:15 at Western States, 23 minutes under Jim Walmsley's record
On the third-coolest finish day in race history, the 2024 UTMB champion passed Francesco Puppi at Quarry Road and three men broke 14 hours.
UltraHannes Namberger and Sunmaya Budha set course records at the Lavaredo 120K
Namberger broke away on the last descent to Cortina for 11:45:31; Budha caught Lucy Bartholomew near Croda da Lago and won in 13:33:18.
UltraLouison Coiffet beats Ben Dhiman by 40 seconds over the 90 km du Mont-Blanc
Nine and a half hours, 88.8 km and 6,256 m of climbing around Chamonix; Candice Fertin-Baccon won the women's race in 11:53:31.
TrailPhilemon Kiriago breaks the Broken Arrow 23K record; Mădălina Florea wins $30,000
Kiriago surged in the last minute to beat Elhousine Elazzaoui by 13 seconds in 1:42:59; Florea led the women from the Stairway to Heaven descent.
RoadAmanuel Mesel wins Grandma's Marathon in 2:11:21 and Dakotah Popehn takes her third title
The Eritrean beat Elisha Barno by 89 seconds in Duluth; Popehn, from Hopkins, Minnesota, ran 2:28:51 to win the women's race by 45 seconds.
TrailAnna Gibson and Patrick Kipngeno win the Broken Arrow Ascent up the Stairway to Heaven
Gibson passed Joyce Njeru in the last metres to win the uphill in 43:15 and the US title; Kipngeno ran 37:59 with Cam Smith second.
TrackNoah Lyles runs 14.67 for 150 m in Ostrava, a quarter of a second under the world best
At the Golden Spike, Lyles beat Kishane Thompson's mark from earlier this year; Audrey Werro ran 1:54.45 and Nathan Green a 3:49.44 mile, both meeting records.
TrailChris Lundy wins the 115th Dipsea outright, 7.4 miles of stairs and trail to the beach
On the handicapped race from Mill Valley, Lundy's adjusted 45:43 beat every man in the field; Eddie Owens was first man and second overall in 47:30.
RoadGerda Steyn wins a fifth Comrades in 5:44:53, five minutes inside her own up run record
Steyn dropped Nobukhosi Tshuma on the last climb to win by eight minutes, her fourth straight title; Irvette van Zyl was third.
RoadGeorge Kusche runs 5:15:56 at Comrades, nine minutes inside an 18-year-old up run record
Kusche passed Mbuti Mollo with 10 km left on the climb to Pietermaritzburg; the top five all beat Leonid Shvetsov's 2008 mark of 5:24:49.
TrackSanu Jallow runs a collegiate 800 m record of 1:56.85; Georgia wins the NCAA women's team
The Arkansas runner beat Athing Mu's 2021 mark in Eugene; Mercyline Kirwa won the 10,000 m, Rosemary Longisa the 1500 m, and Georgia scored 50 points.
TrackHabtom Samuel doubles at the NCAA Championships and Arkansas takes the men's title
The New Mexico junior won the 10,000 m and 5000 m in Eugene; Simeon Birnbaum won the 1500 m, Colin Sahlman the 800 m, and Arkansas scored 56 points.
TrackJa'Kobe Tharp runs 12.75 in an NCAA heat, a 110 m hurdles world record if ratified
The Auburn junior took 0.05 off Aries Merritt's 2012 mark with a legal 1.0 tailwind at Hayward Field, then won Friday's final in 12.90 into a headwind.
TrackCooper Lutkenhaus, 17, beats Emmanuel Wanyonyi by a hundredth in Oslo with 1:42.08
The Texan's world lead at the Bislett Games is the fastest 800 m ever by an under-18; Addisu Yihune ran 12:47.62 for 5000 m and Freweyni Hailu 8:24.22.
TrackAudrey Werro runs 1:53.98 in Stockholm; Keely Hodgkinson's 1:54.33 is a British record
At the BAUHAUS-galan, Werro's Swiss record was the fastest 800 m in Diamond League history; Cooper Lutkenhaus won the men's race in 1:42.70.
RoadAgnes Ngetich runs 30:07 in Central Park, a course record at the New York Mini 10K
Ngetich won her Mini debut by 46 seconds from Tsigie Gebreselama; 10,084 women finished, the first time the race has gone past 10,000.
TrackThree Ethiopians inside 14:19 in Rome as Likina Amebaw runs a world-leading 14:18.41
At the Golden Gala, Amebaw beat Aleshign Baweke and Freweyni Hailu by fractions, Georgia Hunter Bell won the 1500 m and Noah Lyles the 100 m in 9.88.
May
23 stories
TrackYared Nuguse holds off world champion Isaac Nader in Rabat; Max Burgin runs 1:42.98
In his first track race of the year Nuguse won the 1500 m in a meeting record 3:30.35; Burgin beat Emmanuel Wanyonyi over 800 m and Audrey Werro ran 1:56.56.
TrackFrederik Ruppert runs 7:57.80 in Rabat, the first European steeplechase under eight
Soufiane El Bakkali won his fifth straight Rabat steeplechase in a world-leading 7:57.25; Ruppert's 7:57.80 behind him is a European record.
RoadPatrick Kiprop and Rebecca Mwangi win the BOLDERBoulder as 47,645 finish in Folsom Field
With three-time champion Conner Mantz not racing, two Kenyans took the Memorial Day 10K pro races in 28:35 and 32:23 at a mile above sea level.
RoadAbeba Aregawi sets a Swedish marathon record of 2:23:12 in the rain in Ottawa
Aregawi won the Ottawa Marathon on 24 May; Kenya's Elvis Cheboi took the men's race in 2:09:22 from a pack of six that included Rory Linkletter.
RoadEliud Kipchoge runs 2:13:29 for 16th in Cape Town, his first marathon on African soil
Cape Town was the first stop of the seven-continent tour he announced after New York; he finished eight and a half minutes behind Mohamed Esa's 2:04:55.
RoadMohamed Esa runs 2:04:55 in Cape Town, the fastest marathon ever on African soil
The Ethiopian took more than three minutes off the course record and 97 seconds off the continental best; the first ten men were all inside the old record.
TrackPeruth Chemutai runs 8:51.06 in Xiamen, the eighth-fastest steeplechase ever
A week after winning by 0.01, Chemutai beat Winfred Yavi and Faith Cherotich; Addisu Yihune ran 12:57.32 for 5000 m and Masai Russell 12.14 in the hurdles.
RoadSuldan Hassan wins Göteborgsvarvet by one second from Sondre Nordstad Moen
The Gothenburg local won the 55,000-runner half marathon in 1:03:30 into a strong wind; Meraf Bahta's 1:13:03 was the first Swedish women's win in 24 years.
TrackIliass Aouani leads from the gun to win the European 10,000 m Cup in 27:50.05
The Italian won by 2.61 seconds in heat above 25 degrees; Poland's Elżbieta Glinka took the women's race in 31:45.36 and Italy's women won the team title.
TrailTove Alexandersson breaks the Zegama-Aizkorri record by eight minutes on her first try
The Swedish orienteer ran 4:08:09 on 17 May to beat Nienke Brinkman's 2022 mark; Elhousine Elazzaoui won the men's race in 3:45:07 by 20 seconds.
TrackIzzy Fry and Joe Wigfield take the British 10,000 m titles in Loughborough
Fry won in 32:12.91 after taking the lead at the bell; refugee-team runner Kadar Omar won the men's race in 28:29.38 with Wigfield first Briton in 28:56.39.
UltraMichael Dunstan and Katarzyna Dombrowska win the UTA100 in the Blue Mountains
Dunstan ran the 100 km in 9:04:19 after his heart-rate monitor died at the front; Dombrowska led almost all day and held on up the Furber Steps for 10:50:55.
TrackFaith Kipyegon opens her season with a 14:24.14 5000 m win by 0.07 in Shaoxing
The world lead came in her first track race of 2026 at the Diamond League opener, with Likina Amebaw 0.07 back and Ethiopians filling the next seven places.
TrackMohamed Abdilaahi takes five seconds off a 28-year-old German 3000 m record in Shaoxing
His 7:25.77 led 14 men under 7:30, the deepest 3000 m ever run; Peruth Chemutai beat Faith Cherotich by 0.01 in the steeplechase and Mark English ran 1:43.85.
TrackKevin Chesang outkicks Hagos Eyob by 0.13 to win the African 10,000 m title in Accra
Kenya's Chesang ran 28:30.44 on day two of the African Championships at the University of Ghana stadium, with three men inside 2.3 seconds of each other.
RoadFukuda 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.
RoadMercy 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.
UltraDavid 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.
UltraRachel 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.
TrackBotswana 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.
RoadMikky 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.
RoadBerehanu 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.
TrackCanada 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.
April
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GearAdidas 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.
RoadSabastian 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.
RoadTigst 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.
RoadEl 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.
TrailHartmuth 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.
TrailAdam 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.
TrackOregon 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.
TrackNorth 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.
RoadNuguse 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.
RoadSharon 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.
RoadJohn 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.
RoadTigist 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.
Track37.78 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.
TrackSimeon 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.
TrackJane 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.
RoadGuye 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.
RoadYemaneberhan Crippa wins the Paris Marathon; Shure Demise sets a 2:18:34 course record
Italy's Crippa broke clear at 39 km to win in 2:05:18; Demise took more than a minute off the women's record and the top four all beat it.
RoadGraydon Morris and Emma Grace Hurley take USATF 10 mile titles at a record Cherry Blossom
El Youssfi beat Morris by a second and Asayech Ayichew won the women's race in 50:37, as a record 20,079 finished Phil Stewart's last race as director.
UltraGerda Steyn wins a seventh Two Oceans; Arthur Jantjies takes the men's race on debut
Steyn ran 3:27:43 for the 56 km in Cape Town, nearly six minutes clear, and Jantjies won in 3:09:25 after taking the lead near 50 km.
UltraEl Morabity and Nakache win the 40th Marathon des Sables; Des Linden third woman
El Morabity beat his brother Rachid by nearly half an hour, Nakache won all six stages, and Linden was third woman in her first Marathon des Sables.
UltraBrogan Austin and Sarah Morrison win the USATF 100 km titles at Mad City
Austin ran 6:34:01 on the Lake Wingra loops in Madison; Morrison took nine minutes off Camille Herron's course record with 7:17:01 in her first 100 km.
TrailRyan Sullivan and Fiona Pascall win the Lake Sonoma 100K; Robbie Simpson takes the 50K
Sullivan ran 8:36:09 and Pascall 10:13:24 on the Lake Sonoma trails in Healdsburg, California; Britain's Simpson won the 50K in 3:39.
TrailBartosz Gorczyca and Marina Oana win the Istria 100 by UTMB 168K
The Pole ran 17:56:25 for the 168 km across Croatia's Istrian peninsula; Oana of Romania was first woman in 21:36:12.
March
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RoadAmanal Petros runs a German record 59:22 as seven men break the hour at the Berlin Half
Andrea Kiptoo won in 59:11 with his pacemaker alongside, Petros took nine seconds off his own mark, and Likina Amebaw won the women's race in 1:05:07.
TrackTwo national records inside 27 minutes at The TEN; Shelby Houlihan debuts in 30:50
Mohamed Abdilaahi's German record 26:56.58 beat Ky Robinson's Australian record 26:57.07 by half a second; Houlihan ran the year's fastest women's 10,000 m.
TrackHodgkinson runs 1:55.30 and a 17-year-old wins the men's 800 m on Toruń's last day
Keely Hodgkinson set a championship record, Cooper Lutkenhaus became the youngest world indoor champion, and Hunter Bell and García won the 1500 m titles.
RoadKibiwot takes the Rome Marathon course record by eight seconds; Rutto wins again
Pascaline Kibiwot ran 2:22:44 alone from 25 km; Asbel Rutto broke Henry Kichana with a kilometre to go to win in 2:06:32, two years after his first Rome win.
TrackKerr and Battocletti take the 3000 m titles in Toruń; Ehammer breaks a 14-year-old record
Kerr ran 7:35.56 to beat Cole Hocker by 0.14, Battocletti won Italy's first women's 3000 m gold, and Simon Ehammer scored 6,670 for a heptathlon world record.
TrailWill Murray and Andrea Lee win the 32nd Chuckanut 50K above Bellingham
Murray ran 3:33:54, seventh on the course's all-time list, and Lee beat defending champion Jade Belzberg by nearly three minutes in Washington state.
UltraCourtney Dauwalter switches islands for a vineyard and wins the Chianti 120K
With her Tenerife race cancelled by weather, Dauwalter flew to Tuscany and won in 11:31:55; Thomas Cardin ran 9:58:38, 70 seconds under Walmsley's 2025 time.
TrackWorld Indoors open in Toruń: Jordan Anthony wins the 60 m, the distance heats shake out
Anthony ran a world-leading 6.41 on day one in Poland, Thompson and Bromell split silver and bronze by a thousandth, and the 800 m and 1500 m heats were run.
RoadHaftu Teklu defends the Seoul Marathon in 2:04:22 in the rain
Five men broke 2:04:36 from Gwanghwamun to the Olympic Stadium, and Haven Hailu Desse led an all-Ethiopian women's podium in 2:19:09.
RoadHellen Obiri sets an NYC Half record in the largest half marathon the US has run
Obiri ran 1:06:33 from Prospect Park to Central Park, Adriaan Wildschutt won the men's race in 59:30, and 30,229 people finished, the most in NYRR history.
RoadFotyen Tesfay runs 2:10:53 in her first marathon, the second-fastest woman ever
The Ethiopian 10,000 m runner went through halfway in 65:05 in Barcelona and finished 57 seconds off the world record, taking nine minutes off the course best.
TrackHedengren doubles with a 3000 m record; Arkansas and Georgia win NCAA team titles
The BYU freshman ran 8:36.61 to win by seven seconds, Colin Sahlman got the men's 3000 m after a disqualification, and the hosts won a 22nd title.
UltraBritain sweeps the 50 km world championship podium in New Delhi
Alex Milne ran a European record 2:46:09 and Naomi Robinson 3:13:39 on ten laps of a 5 km city loop at a championship postponed from December.
XCElisha Yeko and Lucia Arnoldo win the World University Cross Country titles
258 student athletes from 27 countries raced at Cassino; Yeko took the men's 10 km in 30:27 and Arnoldo gave the hosts their first individual title.
TrailMerillas and Alonso win Acantilados del Norte on La Palma's cliff path
Manuel Merillas won the Skyrunner World Series race in 2:31:54, 13 seconds off the record, and Sara Alonso set a women's course record of 3:00:43.
TrackJane Hedengren wins the NCAA indoor 5000 m as a freshman; NAU takes its first DMR
BYU's Hedengren ran 15:00.12 in Fayetteville, Habtom Samuel took the men's 5000 m, and Northern Arizona won the distance medley on day one of NCAA Indoors.
TrackMondo Duplantis clears 6.31 m in Uppsala, his fifteenth pole vault world record
At his own indoor meeting in Sweden he took four jumps, raised the bar 23 cm after 6.08 and went over first time, one centimetre above his Tokyo mark.
RoadSheila 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.
RoadJacob 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.
RoadNathan 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.
TrailSean 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.
UltraJonathan 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.
RoadUS 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.
RoadBrigid 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.
February
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TrackHocker, 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.
RoadIbrahim 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.
TrackEliott 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.
XCHugo 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.
UltraAshley 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.
TrackKeely 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.
RoadSeville 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.
RoadHagos 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.
TrackKeely 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.
TrailRuth 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.
TrackCole 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.
RoadGeoffrey 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.
UltraHans 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.
TrailNo 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.
TrackKhaleb 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.
TrackGeorgia 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.
RoadJoshua 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.
RoadWorld Athletics will not ratify Jacob Kiplimo's 56:42 half marathon
A year after Barcelona, the governing body ruled the lead car gave Kiplimo pacing assistance; Yomif Kejelcha's 57:30 from Valencia 2024 stays the record.
TrackCole Hocker outkicks Josh Kerr in the Millrose two mile, Cam Myers takes the Wanamaker
A 56.45 last quarter gave Hocker 8:07.31 over Kerr's 8:07.68; Myers ran 3:47.57, Nikki Hiltz 4:19.64 and Doris Lemngole a collegiate 3000 m record.
RoadRichard Etir breaks the Marugame course record with 59:07 into a headwind
The Kenyan ran alone from 15 km to win the Kagawa Marugame Half by nearly a minute; Dolphine Omare took a third straight title and Eilish McColgan was second.
RoadNibret Melak wins Dubai in 2:04:00 on his marathon debut
The 25th Dubai Marathon went to two Ethiopians, Melak in a world-leading 2:04:00 in his first marathon and Anchinalu Dessie in a 2:18:31 personal best.
RoadGetachew Masresha wins Beppu-Oita in 2:06:49, student Asahi Kuroda third
The Ethiopian broke a 20-man pack inside the last 10 km; Yuya Yoshida and student Asahi Kuroda led six Japanese men into the LA Olympic trials.
January
23 stories
TrackRoisin Willis runs 1:57.97, an American indoor 800 m record, at the BU Terrier Classic
Willis was second to Britain's Isabelle Boffey in Boston but took down Ajee' Wilson's 2020 mark of 1:58.29, six days after winning at the Indoor Grand Prix.
GearHoka launches the Cielo X1 3.0, its lightest racing shoe
The third Cielo X1 weighs 213 g in a men's 10, drops the lateral foam cutout and keeps the 37 mm stack, at 275 dollars.
RoadStella Chesang wins Osaka in 2:19:31, the first Ugandan to take a Platinum Label marathon
Chesang pulled away from Bedatu Hirpa and Workenesh Edesa in the last 2 km in Osaka; Mikuni Yada ran 2:19:57, the fastest marathon debut by a Japanese woman.
RoadMoroccans win both Marrakech Marathon titles and Hayat Benhima sets a course record
Abdelhadi Labali won the men's race in 2:07:34 and Benhima led a Moroccan sweep of the women's podium in 2:24:48 at the 36th edition.
TrackJosh Hoey runs 1:42.50 in Boston to break a 29-year-old 800 m world indoor record
Paced by his brother, Hoey took 0.17 off Wilson Kipketer's 1997 mark at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, the first Gold meeting of the World Indoor Tour.
TrailLeng and Ha finish the Hong Kong 100 hand in hand; Qin Guidu wins the men's race
On a landslide-shortened 93 km course, the two women crossed together in 10:43:35 to open the World Trail Majors season; Qin won the men's race in 8:52:36.
TrackHobbs Kessler breaks Bekele's 2000 m world indoor record, with Fisher under it too
Kessler ran 4:48.79 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, taking 1.2 seconds off a record from 2007; Grant Fisher's 4:49.48 was also faster than the old mark.
RoadBoston names its 2026 fields: Korir and Lokedi defend, 25 men under 2:07
The B.A.A. announced the professional fields for the 130th Boston Marathon on April 20, led by defending champions John Korir and Sharon Lokedi.
RoadTadu Abate and Yeshi Chekole win an Ethiopian double at the Mumbai Marathon
Abate broke clear in the last kilometre to win the Tata Mumbai Marathon in 2:09:55; Chekole's 2:25:13 was the fifth-fastest winning time in the race's history.
RoadBelachew wins the Hong Kong Marathon as 74,000 runners fill the city
Ethiopia's Bizuneh Melaku Belachew won in 2:09:39 and all three men on the podium broke 2:10; Shitaye Eshete of Bahrain took the women's race in 2:27:03.
XCAregawi wins Elgoibar for the third year running; Yavi takes the women's race
Eight days after his World Cross silver, Berihu Aregawi won the Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza in the Basque Country; Winfred Yavi won by over a minute.
UltraTyler Juza takes twelve minutes off the HURT 100 course record
Juza ran 19:22:44 over five loops of Honolulu's jungle trails to break a mark that had stood since 2013; Aimee Warnke won the women's race in 27:24.
TrackCam Myers runs 3:49.81 in Seattle, the fastest mile ever in January
The 19-year-old Australian won the Washington Indoor Preview mile by five seconds, a facility record and the quickest indoor mile ever run in January.
UltraRaichon and Troup win the Winter Spine Race through storms on the Pennine Way
Sebastien Raichon finished the 268-mile Montane Winter Spine Race in 95 hours 43 minutes on Thursday morning; Anna Troup won the women's race in 106:19.
RoadDawit Wolde and Ruti Aga defend their Xiamen Marathon titles
Ethiopia filled both podiums at the C&D Xiamen Marathon, with Wolde winning a four-second finish in 2:09:18 and Aga clear in 2:22:45.
RoadAlmgren and McColgan set European 10K records in Valencia, 19 national records fall
Andreas Almgren ran 26:45 and Eilish McColgan 30:08 at the 10K Valencia Ibercaja, where a record 14,134 runners finished and 233 broke 30 minutes.
XCGRC and Minnesota Distance Elite take the club cross country titles on the Worlds course
The club championships ran the Worlds loops a day later; GRC Tracksmith won the men's team title and Minnesota Distance Elite the women's.
RoadZouhair Talbi runs 2:05:45 to win Houston as an American, a course record
Talbi broke his own Houston record and became the first American man to win the race since 2003; Calli Hauger-Thackery won the women's race in 2:24:17.
RoadHabtom Samuel runs 59:01 in his half marathon debut as four Americans break 60
A course record for the NCAA cross country champion, 59:23 for Alex Maier, a Canadian record for Rory Linkletter and 66:20 for Taylor Roe in Houston.
UltraMolly Seidel wins the Bandera 50K outright in her first ultra
The Olympic marathon bronze medallist ran 4:09:39 on the rocky Texas Hill Country loops to beat every man in the field and set a women's course record.
XCAgnes Ngetich wins the women's World Cross by 42 seconds
Kenya's Agnes Ngetich ran alone for most of 10 km at Apalachee Regional Park to win her first global title, the second-biggest margin in the race's history.
XCAustralia wins the mixed relay at World Cross as Kenya misses the podium
Jessica Hull ran down France on the last leg to give Australia the 4 x 2 km mixed relay in Tallahassee, while Kenya finished fourth for the first time.
XCKiplimo wins a third straight world cross country title in Tallahassee
Jacob Kiplimo ran away from the field on the last lap at Apalachee Regional Park to win the senior men's race at the World Cross Country Championships.