World Athletics ratifies Kelvin Kiptum’s world marathon record
World Athletics, the global governing body for international track and field competitions, has ratified Kelvin Kiptum’s world marathon record of 2:00:35 set in Chicago last year.
World Athletics, the global governing body for international track and field competitions, has ratified Kelvin Kiptum’s world marathon record of 2:00:35 set in Chicago last year.
Taking place from March 1-3, the World Athletics Indoor Championships will feature more than 700 athletes as they compete across 26 events.
World Athletics, the governing body for track and field and road running events, has ratified World records set by CJ Albertson (men's 50km)
World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field competitions, has ratified World records set this year by Ryan Crouser, Mondo Duplantis and Gudaf Tsegay, while also making official the world U20 record by Reynold Cheruiyot.
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Meanwhile, the IOC chief earlier this week said that the Tokyo Olympics will happen beyond 2020 but not later than the summer of 2020.
The decision from World Athletics comes in the wake of speculations that the Tokyo Olympics, due to start on July 24 could be postponed to the next year.
Sebastian Coe, who is a member of the Tokyo Olympics Games Coordination Commission, conceded in an interview that a delay was possible.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe believes that track and field is well on course to becoming one of the top-four global sports in the next few years
The body has also changed the name of its Twitter handle and URL of its official website.