The double IPC European medallist spoke to Matt Long about her progression
Mel Nicholls took silver over 800m to go with her bronze over 100m at the IPC European Championships in Swansea in August. Not content to rest on her laurels, she followed those...

After her huge breakthrough at the Great North Run, Gemma Steel thinks she could get close to Paula Radcliffe’s mark in Portsmouth on Sunday
The woman heading the startlist at the Bupa Great South Run this Sunday will be a name that has become sy...

Former world 800m champion and Olympic silver medallist has died aged 34
South Africa’s 2009 world 800m champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi has died at the age of 34 in a car accident.

The middle-distance runner won Commonwealth gold in Manchester in 200...

Stats website All-Athletics.com puts United States at No.1 based on top athletes
United States is the best athletics nation in the world ahead of Russia and Great Britain, according to a system devised by renowned statistical website All-Athletics.com....

Stiff legs make for faster sprinting, as John Shepherd explains
If you look at a top-class sprinter in full-flight in slow-motion you ll see that any degree of bending at the knee joint after ground contact on foot-strike in terms of an absorbent react...

A look ahead to Sunday’s 25th edition of this iconic 10-miler, with Emmanuel Bett, Andy Vernon, Polline Wanjiku and Gemma Steel among those in action
The Bupa Great South Run celebrates its 25th edition on Sunday with athletes looking to join an ...

Event to be held at Virgin Money London Marathon in April ahead of World Championships in October
The IPC Athletics Marathon World Championships is to be held in London in 2015, six months before the IPC Athletics World Championships takes place in Doh...

Alex Mills blogs about his 26.2 mile debut at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon
Almost everyone who has run a marathon describes it as the biggest challenge they have ever endured, so I feel like I am merely echoing the proverbial clich when I say that is ho...

Part of our Young Athletes series, AW hears how the young athletics talent has loved his first proper season in the sport
After first joining an athletics club and only starting training in March, 15-year-old Ben Harris showed his potential in the spor...

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Celebrate the 25th staging of the Bupa Great South Run by taking home a specially commissioned painting produced by acclaimed artist Jim Edwards.

The world s leading 10-...