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Latest News from the IAAF
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Elgoibar cross country unveils formidable line-up - PREVIEW
9 January 2009 - The current economic downturn has not been a barrier for race elite coordinator Zigor DĂez to bring together a star-studded cross country field for the “66th Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza” meeting which will be held on Sunday (11 Jan) in Elgoibar, Spain.
Plätzer planning the climax to her race walking saga
Approaching the age of thirty seven (on 18 January), and having seemingly achieved neat enough symmetry to her Olympic career in Beijing by winning a silver medal in what will be her last Games to match her achievement in the first Olympic outing in Sydney back in 2000, you’d have been forgiven for expecting Norway’s Kjersti Plätzer to be planning a quieter 2009.
Dibaba to return to Boston for another 3000m outing
9 January 2009 – Tirunesh Dibaba, the 2008 Olympic champion at 5000 and 10,000 metres will return to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston, USA on 7 February, a venue which has twice witnessed her successfully break the World indoor record for 5000m.
Records set in Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k
9 January 2009 - Cross country and mountain runners certainly have to race in some appalling weather conditions, and the average club runner or journeyman jogger might understandably curse about having to occasionally train in the cold and wet of winter but ladies and gentlemen you have nothing to complain about compared to the intrepid competitors who take part in the Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k each year.
How Abakumova’s energetic feeling helped her premonition come true in Beijing
8 January 2009 - Mariya Abakumova was very much the surprise package of the Beijing Olympic women’s Javelin Throw final. The Russian let fly a short-lived European record of 70.78 metres in the fourth round, which was only pipped for gold by Czech Barbora Spotakova’s last round 71.42 release which further improved the continental mark.
