April 2026

3 stories

Ultra

Brogan 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.

April 11, 2026Trail

Ryan 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.

April 11, 2026Trail

Bartosz 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.

April 11, 2026

March 2026

21 stories

Road

Amanal 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.

March 29, 2026Track

Two 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.

March 28, 2026Track

Hodgkinson 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.

March 22, 2026Road

Kibiwot 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.

March 22, 2026Track

Kerr 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.

March 21, 2026Trail

Will 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.

March 21, 2026Ultra

Courtney 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.

March 21, 2026Track

World 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.

March 20, 2026Road

Haftu 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.

March 15, 2026Road

Hellen 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.

March 15, 2026Road

Fotyen 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.

March 15, 2026Track

Hedengren 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.

March 14, 2026Ultra

Britain 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.

March 14, 2026XC

Elisha 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.

March 14, 2026Trail

Merillas 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.

March 14, 2026Track

Jane 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.

March 13, 2026Track

Mondo 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.

March 12, 2026Road

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, 2026Road

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, 2026Road

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, 2026Trail

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