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Kenya's Hillary Yego set the Bird's Nest Stadium alight with an area record in the 3,000m steeplechase as former World 1,500m champion Alfred Kirwa staged an inspiring comeback at the IAAF World Challenge Beijing. African record holder and champion ...

Nairobi, Kenya: World 5,000m and 10,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot will not defend her titles at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, this August. Athletics fans around the world will miss what has been an exciting clash between ...

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of men's pole vault at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing here on Tuesday: 1. Igor Bychkov, Spain, 5.60 meters 2. Vladislav Revenko, Ukraine, 5.50 3. Yang Yansheng, China, 5.40 4. Yao Jie, ...

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In a letter to SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) CEO Tubby Reddy last week, Cheikh Thiare, director of the executive office of the IAAF president, said Sascoc had failed to inform the international athletics body that all 11 ASA ...

Thabiso Sithole Beijing Olympics silver medallist Khotso Mokoena has once again failed to get onto the podium - this time at the Beijing leg of the IAAF World Athletics Challenge. Mokoena could only finish fourth with a distance of ...

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- World and Olympic champion Tatyana Lysenko of Russia won the women's hammer throw at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing here on Tuesday. Lysenko, winner of the event at the Daegu Worlds and London Games, threw 73.12 ...

BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of women's hammer throw event at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing here on Tuesday: 1. Tatyana Lysenko, Russia, 73.12 meters 2. Eva Orban, Hungary, 73.00 3. Wang Zheng, China, 71.91 4. Zalina ...