Month: May 2026
Jimmy Gressier will attack Mo Farah’s one-hour record at the Diamond League final in Brussels
French track and field star Jimmy Gressier will attempt to break the world record in the hour-long run at the Diamond League final in Brussels on September 4, the event’s organizers announced. The reigning world 10,000m champion and European half-marathon champion will aim to break the 21,330m mark. The record was set by Britain’s Mo
Selemon Barega tops the star-studded list for the AJ Bell Great Manchester Run 2026
The elite line-up for this year’s Great Manchester Run is filled with Olympic gold medallists, European champions, past winners and a defending champion. Selemon Barega returns as the defending champion in the men’s 10km elite event, having won in 2025 in 27:49 min. He will be followed this year by Uruguayan Santiago Catrofe, who finished
Four world medalists to compete in high jump in Xiamen Diamond League
Four global championship medalists will face off in the women’s high jump at the second round of the Diamond League season in Xiamen on May 23. The 2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson will compete against fellow Olympic bronze medalist Iryna Gerashchenko, world silver medalist Maria Zodzik and world indoor silver medalist Yuliya Levchenko. The competition
Tara Davis-Woodhall showed impressive skills in hurdles
Tara Davis-Woodhall is the current Olympic and world champion in the long jump, and she also boasts a planetary gold medal in this discipline. However, it turned out that the American has not forgotten one of her first loves in athletics – steeplechase. She has a result of 12.83 sec in the 100m hurdles (+3.7
Record holder Jimmy Gressier returns to Paris
World 10,000m champion Jimmy Gressier will return to one of his favorite Diamond League events, the one in Paris on June 28th. A year after setting a French national record at the Charlety Stadium, the reigning Diamond League champion will once again compete in the 5,000m in Paris on June 28th. Jimmy Gressier won the