Athletics: Bekele world record
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Kenenisa Bekele eclipses Haile Gebrselassie's two-mile world record at the Norwich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham.
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RIETI, Italy - Asafa Powell set another world record in the 100 meters, and suspects he can go even faster.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele motored away to a third straight 10,000 meters title while only a freeze-frame could separate Veronica Campbell from her 100m rivals on a dramatic night at the world championships on Monday.
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Names Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva were named male and female athletes of the year by the world track and field federation. Isinbayeva set eight world records in 2004, including one while winning the gold medal at the Olympics. Bekele won the 10,000 meters in Athens and finished second to Hicham El Guerrouj in ...
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Liu Xiang of China took the Olympic men&#39;s 110 metres hurdles gold medal in a world record-equalling time of 12.91 seconds on Friday.
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Paula Radcliffe holds the world record for both the marathon and the 10K. She won the world championships half-marathon three times in the last five years.
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Kenyan Bernard Lagat sets a meet record in the mile and blisters the competition with an impressive time of 3 minutes 52.87 seconds at the Millrose Games in New York.
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Australia set a world record in the women&#39;s 400-meter medley relay at the Olympics, as Giaan Rooney, Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas and Jodie Henry covered the distance in 3 minutes, 57.
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A month ago, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia thought there was a decent chance she could contend for the world record in the women's 5,000-meter race at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. But that confidence was eroded somewhat over the last couple of weeks because she had altered her training in hopes of qualifying for the World Cross Country Championships scheduled ...
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America's Aaron Peirsol breaks his own  200m backstroke world record at the Short Course World Championships.
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Lioubov Galkina sets an Olympic record as she wins the women's 50m rifle three positions.
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ATHENS -- Did Japan's Kosuke Kitajima break the rules when he beat world record-holder Brendan Hansen by 17-100ths of a second in yesterday's Olympic 100-meter breaststroke? Absolutely, insisted Hansen's US teammates, who claimed Kitajima routinely uses the illegal dolphin kick.
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Kenenisa Bekele used a breathtaking final 400 meters late Friday to claim the Olympic 10,000-meter throne previously occupied by his Ethiopian countryman, Haile Gebrselassie.
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Morocco&#39;s Hicham El Guerrouj, who won the 1500m earlier this week, completed a rare Olympic distance double Saturday night by outkicking Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia
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Hungary&#39;s Robert Fazekas was stripped of his discus gold medal and a Belarusian high-jumper was banned, setting a record for the number of doping violations at an Olympics.
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Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in 5th.
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Russia&#39;s Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the pole vault last night to win a showdown with teammate Svetlana Feofanova for the gold with an effort of 16 feet 1Â¼ inches.