NEWS / Athletics

On Sunday, Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa succeeded in setting a new world record in a women's only marathon race at the London Marathon.

The Antwerp 10 Miles has been a staple on the road racing calendar in Belgium for decades.

After 'Breaking2', here comes 'Breaking4'!

All the attention of sports fans went last weekend to Paris-Roubaix and the European running championships in Leuven and Brussels, but also in Rotterdam there was a competition of absolute top level.

Chloé Herbiet and Juliette Thomas delivered the highlight for Belgian fans at the European road athletics championship in Leuven on Saturday.

Frenchman Yann Schrub seems to have a knack for Belgium, as after winning his European cross-country title in Laken Park (Brussels) in 2023, he took gold last weekend in the first European road athletics championship in Leuven with a blistering final kilometre.

The inaugural European Running Championships took place in Brussels-Leuven on 12-13 April and was a record-breaking success, attended by Philippe, King of Belgians, around 28,000 runners, thousands of spectators and the continent’s finest distance runners grabbing gold.

The 27-year-old Jimmy Gressier is in the form of his life and demonstrated that this past weekend in the streets of Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium.

World Athletics has given the go-ahead for the introduction of a test to determine if an athlete is biologically a woman. This comes after increasing consternation in recent years that certain athletes may have a biological advantage causing unfair competition.

We are certain: no one prepared for the 2007 Boston Marathon the way Suni Williams did.

Belgian and European record holder Bashir Abdi will not be appearing at the start of the Rotterdam marathon in April after all.

The global athletics federation announced this week that the 300 metres hurdles will become an official event at all championships.