With great conditions at what organizers billed as the highest-label half marathon in the southern hemisphere, the only half marathon in the south with a World Athletics Elite Label or better, Japan’s Teruki Shimada and Australian Commonwealth Games champ Jessica Stenson broke the men’s and women’s course records at the McGrath Launceston Running Festival Peppers Silo Half Marathon Sunday in
The Asian Athletics Championships wrapped up Saturday in Gumi, South Korea with a string of record-setting performances.At the top of the list was the men’s 200 m final, where Towa Uzawa ran a championships record and PB 20.21 (+0.8) to win gold, putting him at all-time Japanese #4 and all-time Asian #6. Saudi Abdul Abdu I Atafi and India’s Animesh Kujur took silver and bronze in 20.31 and 20.32,
The Gumi Asian Athletics Championships rolled on Thursday and Friday. In top Japanese results:Gold medal favorite Rachid Muratake came through in the men’s 110 mH final, the only athlete under 13.3 at 13.22 (+0.7) for the win over China’s Liu Junxi and Qin Weibo.Yumi Tanaka added a silver to the count in the women’s 100 mH final, 2nd in 13.061 (-0.1) in a photo finish with bronze medalist Wu
On May 30, 1975, the running world lost one of its greatest distance running stars
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