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Favourable weather and male pacers give Assefa her best shot at a PB since 2023, while eight of the men's nine fastest entrants are Ethiopian.
A new one-pull lacing system and a taller stack refine the road-to-gravel hybrid without touching the outsole that made it work.
Three hundred runners are still moving through the Bear River Range as the race's 36-hour cutoff tests a field spread across two nights on course.
A model trained on 643 marathoners predicted injury weeks well overall, but failed to usefully flag risk before a runner felt any pain.
Bahrain's mixed 4x400m quartet ran a Games record 3:12.87 in Nagoya, while Seema Kumari's 10,000m bronze gave India its first medal in the event in 16 years.
Registration has closed on 319 starters from more than 40 countries for Saturday's 07:00 start beneath the Acropolis.
A September update brings climb alerts, an Adventure Journal timeline and power balance data to the Pace, Apex and Dura watches.
A study of 5,205 runners over 18 months found injuries follow a single session's training error, not gradual overuse.
The elite start is 07:45 in the UK on Sunday, with Assefa chasing the world record and no clear favourite in the men's race.
The 19-year-old Shi won by almost four and a half minutes as the Asian Games switched to the new half marathon distance.
Coros's best-built Pace watch costs £160 more than the Pace 4 and puts the brand closer to Garmin on price.
Dentis won in Poland at her eighth World Cup start of the year, and Finlay Grant finished second to lead three British men into the top ten.
An expert panel says HRV isn't a reliable measure of 'vagal tone' and that runners should compare readings with their own baseline, not with published norms.
The United States took both individual titles in Ames, beating world record holder Aleksandr Sorokin, while Britain lost the men's team race by 46 seconds.
Organisers added 16 names and lost six, bringing in a European record holder and losing last year's third-placed man.
Accessibility packs with guide tethers, high-visibility bibs and large-print course maps will go to 100 UK events later this year.
The trail brand becomes IRONMAN's footwear partner from 2027, takes Kona title rights and puts its name on every IRONMAN-owned run course.
Eight women in the elite field have run inside 2:20, and the two at the top of it have very different reasons to be in Berlin.
Seven days of competition across track, road and race walking begin on Wednesday, at the end of the most crowded season the sport has scheduled.
A race that began with 17 entrants now turns away more than 200 from a waiting list, and it closes the American hundred-mile season in autumn colour.
The second product from the Nike and Hyperice partnership arrives with a magnetic pod, an app and a price that buys most of a pair of racing shoes.
The finding is interesting, the sample is small, and the athletes were not runners — all three things are true at once.
The winner's reward at Frozen Head is not a trophy but a place on the start line of the 2027 Barkley Marathons.
Sawe's withdrawal has reshaped the men's race, leaving the fastest story in Berlin on the women's side.
The stiffness that makes a super-shoe fast on tarmac becomes a liability the moment the surface stops cooperating.
Classifying runners who are already injured is a different problem from predicting who will be, and the distinction matters.
The Kenyan broke clear after three kilometres and finished 50 seconds ahead, taking a second off a mark set in 2020.
The Swede lowered his own European record by 35 seconds and beat Nicholas Kipkorir by five.
The 21-year-old Eritrean answered the Norwegian and took the lead with eight seconds left.
Both winners finished more than an hour clear on a course that was wet for most of the night.
Five times the 2026 winner’s prize, funded by one sponsor, for two years only.
Andreas Almgren sets a European Record of 58:06 to win the World Road Running half marathon in Copenhagen! 2. Nicholas Kipkorir 58:11 3. Joshua Cheptegei 58:26 (PB)
— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) September 20, 2026
The Ethiopian's first race of the year comes in a men's field headed by Gabriel Geay, while Vainio is a late addition behind Tigst Assefa.
The women-only series brought seven events to StoneX Stadium, with $65,000 to every winner and a Norwegian record in the 400m.
The Colorado hundred pays seven deep, bars pacers in its prize-eligible division and has $100,000 winner's cheques coming in 2027.
A full-length carbon plate, a new ATPU foam and a 7.4oz claimed weight put Reebok into a category it has sat out for nine years.
The North American record holder could not run on land until mid-May, and now does two recovery runs a week at reduced body weight.
No lanes and no rounds: Nuguse, Ciattei, Farken, Heyward and Coscoran settle a world title on Saturday.
Leicester researchers tracked 2.7 million Majors finishes and found nitrogen dioxide moved the whole distribution.
A plated racer no longer means a flagship price, and the premium tier now has to sell foam rather than carbon.
Kackar drew 1,113 runners and Ultra-Trail Great Wall 7,300, both in only their second edition.
Kasarani will stage the first World Athletics Championships held on the African continent.
Ngetich brings a 1:03:04 Kenyan record to a half marathon that closes the Copenhagen weekend.
Podium finishers at Grindstone, the Julian Alps and Paraty take automatic places at UTMB, CCC or OCC.
The Clifton 11, Arahi 9, Challenger 8, Rincon 5 and Torrent 5 head to big-box shelves from early October.
Fifty medal events across seven days at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, with the marathons on 26 September.
The second session of the Ultimate Championship delivered the sprint titles, a Japanese javelin record and another round of six-figure cheques.
With the defending champion out injured, Berlin's men's race loses its world record storyline and becomes a straight contest for the win.
Mapping has long been the feature that separated premium multisport watches from mid-range running watches, and Coros has just moved it down a tier.
The finding runs against the intuition that injuries follow dramatic spikes in mileage, and it says as much about the metric as it does about the runners.
Six days, 330 kilometres and 24,000 metres of ascent around the Aosta Valley, with sleep treated as a tactical decision rather than a given.
The inaugural championship's opening session delivered six finals, two American hurdles titles and a pair of $150,000 paydays.
Mild conditions and a deep men's field give Sunday's 45th Great North Run its best shot in years at the 58:56 course record.
The final leg of the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning finishes on Saturday evening, with four other significant ultras running alongside it.
A titanium Pace 4 Pro arrives on 22 September, following the same playbook Coros used with the Pace Pro two years ago.
A tightly controlled study found a measurable metabolic advantage at 120g an hour, and gastrointestinal symptoms at every dose tested.
The inaugural three-night championship begins with the mixed 4x100m and packs six finals into a single three-hour session.
With the defending champion out injured, Berlin has assembled unusual depth behind him and a women's race headed by the course record holder.
Adidas has put its fifth-generation racer on the approved list with a launch timed to the Berlin Marathon, and the brief appears to be durability.
Thirty years of coaching orthodoxy rests on a single 1996 paper, and a new comparison suggests the correction it produced is too small.
One ordinary Saturday in September produced 27,000 new barcodes, and the junior network is now a third the size of the adult one.
World Athletics has built a televised programme around the day before competition, including a public lane selection for the 200m fields.
Three world titles across two days, all decided on flat city-centre loops that double as a mass-participation festival.
Suunto has put full offline mapping into a watch that undercuts every mapping rival, and the optical heart rate has held up in early testing.
A new 23.5km race at Suginohara opens the series’ first Japanese round and the run-in to a first Grand Finale in South Korea.
A survey-based study of parkrun participants found no protective association between strength work and running injuries — a finding that needs careful reading.
The inaugural Ultimate Championship opens at the Gyula Zsivotzky National Athletics Centre on Friday with 381 athletes from 65 federations and a record prize fund.
Alex Mutiso and Sheila Chepkirui defend their titles on Sunday as the world's biggest half marathon sends 63,000 runners from Newcastle to South Shields.
At 9.1oz and $170, the second-generation Pegasus Plus swaps the original's narrow fit for a wider last and adds a visible forefoot Air Zoom unit.
A field of 1,100, drawn from more than 1,900 pre-registrations across 86 countries, sets out from Courmayeur on Sunday for 330km and 24,000m of climbing.
NC State begins the season top of the Division I women's coaches' poll, with its entire scoring five back from a fourth title in five years.
Italy's oldest track and field meeting returns on Tuesday evening with a field led by Nadia Battocletti, Gabby Thomas, Kirani James and Andy Diaz.
The Aichi-Nagoya athletics programme spans 50 medal events from 23 to 29 September, with the marathons and race walks staged on city-centre courses.
The 246km run from Athens to Sparta returns on 26 and 27 September, with 75 checkpoints and rolling cut-offs that end most races long before the finish.
A time-series analysis of 74 distance runners across 42,766 training days tests how accumulated workload relates to injury, and where the popular ratio model breaks down.
Around 65,000 runners will race alongside the elite fields in Copenhagen on 19 and 20 September, with 35,000 places in the half marathon alone.
Werro beat Broeders-Bol by six hundredths in the 800m, Dos Santos ran 46.70 and Campbell's 23.08m Jamaican record led a night of seven meeting records at the Memorial Van Damme.
World Athletics has named 270 men and 226 women from 85 federations for the road mile, 5km and half marathon titles in the Danish capital on 19-20 September.
The Diamond League Final was the last qualifying opportunity for the $10m Ultimate Championship on 11-13 September; the Brussels form points to Dos Santos, Werro and Campbell, and raises questions about Tebogo and Hunter Bell.
The third-generation Cloudsurfer, priced at $170 and slated for a late-September soft launch, is the first On shoe to combine PEBA super-foam chemistry with the brand's CloudTec geometry.