May 2026
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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 2026
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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.