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World Athletics announced a major restructuring of marathon competition on the global stage, with a dedicated World Marathon Championships set to debut in 2030. The inaugural edition may be hosted in Athens.
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💚 Wicked star Cynthia Erivo announces that she is running the London Marathon on April 26.
She ran 3:57:07 at the 2016 New York City Marathon and then lowered her personal best to 3:35:36 at the 2022 London Marathon.
💎 Stockholm Diamond League organizers announce 800m World Indoor champion 🇺🇸 Cooper Lutkenhaus will make his Diamond League debut on June 7th.
He's also slated to race the 800m during the Friday night session on July 3rd at the Prefontaine Classic.
2021 New York City Marathon champion Albert Korir 🇰🇪 has been handed a five-year ban after testing positive for CERA across three separate out-of-competition samples in October 2025.
All results since October 3, 2025 (including any medals, prize money, and appearance fees) are forfeited.
🕰️ World champion Josh Kerr will attempt to break the mile world record of 3:43.13, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999.
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🎧 Hear Kerr talk about the attempt in a fresh episode of The CITIS MAG Podcast.
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The Diamond League has issued an update regarding the status of the Doha meeting, scheduled for May 8. 🇶🇦
"The Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha is currently scheduled to go ahead as planned on May 8.
…The safety of athletes and spectators is our primary concern”
Making World Indoors Worth The Trip ✈️🇵🇱
“It’s on the folks in charge of incentive structures—namely, World Athletics, national governing bodies, meet organizers, and sponsors—to make World Indoors 'worth it.'"
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World Athletics Is Going To Accidentally Recreate Eurovision 🇸🇪🎤
“Mondo is already a lock as an entrant. We’ll see if Jakob Ingebrigtsen can get back into fighting shape/churn out another Norwegian-language pop banger.”
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Jess Hull Should Be Seb Coe’s Favorite Athletes
"Since graduating from Oregon in 2019, Jess Hull has run at EVERY championship that she could have reasonably competed in—all 13 of them!”
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According to @seaningle of The Guardian, the London Marathon is in advanced talks to stage a two-day “Double London Marathon” on April 24-25, 2027. The proposal is believed to have the backing of the mayor’s office, though formal approval has not yet been granted.
Should other marathons adopt this?
More Details on USATF's Expanded Women’s Half Marathon Team for World Road Running Championships After The Atlanta Debacle ⬇️
🇺🇸 On a strictly one-time basis, World Athletics has approved an expanded seven-woman U.S. team for the women's half marathon at the 2026 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen (Sept. 19-20), up from the standard four.
More details in thread ⬇️
Olympic champion Sifan Hassan🇳🇱 has withdrawn from the 2026 London Marathon due to an Achilles injury that she sustained while training on the treadmill about 6 weeks ago.
The field for London still includes: Tigst Assefa 🇪🇹, Joyciline Jepkosgei 🇰🇪 and Hellen Obiri 🇰🇪
Never count her out 👋
Eight years after her first global medal, Nadine Visser 🇳🇱 finally wins her second, taking silver in the 60m hurdles final at World Indoors in 7.73.
Visser first won bronze at World Indoors in 2018 and had come up empty in six World finals since, she’s back for good. 😤
Just adding fuel to the fire ⛽️
A pentathlon silver medal in Poland today may have not been exactly what Anna Hall was looking to get out of these World Indoor Championships, but that second-place step on the podium is only going to serve as more motivation for the defending World heptathlon champ.
A pretty stellar Top 3 🥹
Nikki Hiltz returned to the global podium this afternoon with a 1500m bronze at the World Indoor Championships. Hiltz needed a big final 100m to earn their medal, eventually beating France’s Agathe Guillemot to the line by just .03 seconds, securing third place.
Pressure? WHAT PRESSURE?! 🗣️
Georgia Hunter Bell welcomed lofty expectations ahead of these World Indoor Championships, and she delivered in every way she could. When she stopped the clock at 3:58.53 this afternoon in Poland, Hunter Bell met the moment as the winner of the 1500m final 🙌
The magic of no longer needing to run cross country ✨
With the ability to actually take some time off this fall, Cooper Lutkenhaus was a whole lot more prepared for his second global championship experience. He became the youngest gold medalist ever at the World Indoor Championship.
Picture perfect tactics 🤏
Mariano García’s 1500m win in Poland this afternoon was a work of art, as the Spaniard picked up the pace every 100m from the 400m mark to 1400m, but he was still able to hang on from there for the win.
Tired legs are NO excuse 😎
Just 55 minutes after winning the World Indoor 800m final in a championship-record 1:55.30, Keely Hodgkinson 🇬🇧 puts the team on her back and doubles back to the 4x400m, clocking a 50.10 split (the fastest in the field) to anchor Team GB to a 3:28.09 fifth-place finish.
Oh-my-Caudery 😱
Molly Caudery 🇬🇧 gets back atop the World Indoor podium in the pole vault, first winning gold in 2024 and then falling to fourth in 2025.
This time, Caudery’s second-attempt clearance at 4.85m earned her second gold, as the Brit bested silver medalist Tina Šutej 🇸🇮 by 5 centimeters.
RUN IT BACK 🔁
Team USA defends its World Indoor title in the 4x400m, running 3:25.81 to take down Netherlands, the 2024 champs, by 0.21 seconds.
Bailey Lear and Rosey Effiong ran on both the 2025 and 2026 relays— seems worth it to keep them around!
Three straight medals!! 🥈🥈🥉
At the last three global championship, Kate O’Connor 🇮🇪 has medaled every time, adding a bronze in the 2026 World Indoor pentathlon to go with her silver from last year and outdoor silver in the heptathlon.
POLISH PRIDE 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
Pia Skrzyszowska breaks her own national record and brings home a bronze medal to the adoring home crowd, running 7.73 in the World Indoor 60m hurdles final just 0.005 out of silver.
Never count her out 👋
Eight years after her first global medal, Nadine Visser 🇳🇱 finally wins her second, taking silver in the 60m hurdles final at World Indoors in 7.73.
Visser first won bronze at World Indoors in 2018 and had come up empty in six World finals since, that changed today.
Showed up when it mattered 🇺🇸
After a shaky prelim, Team USA gets the job done in the men’s 4x400m, running away from the field from the second leg onward to take gold in a championship record 3:01.52.
Splits:
Justin Robinson 46.15
Chris Robinson 45.16
Demarius Smith 45.56
Khaleb McRae 44.65
Anna RUNS this game 😤
In her World Indoor debut, Anna Hall 🇺🇸 takes silver in the pentathlon with 4,860 points, just 28 points behind winner Sofie Dokter 🇳🇱. Hall won both of the running events, sandwiching the five events with event wins in the 60m hurdles and 800m.
The Dokter is IN 👩⚕️
Sofie Dokter 🇳🇱 puts up 4,888 big points to win the World Indoor pentathlon over World heptathlon champ Anna Hall 🇺🇸. Dokter won bronze in 2024 and won both the high jump and long jump to upgrade to a gold in Toruń.
Her marks:
60H 8.19
HJ 1.87m
SP 13.92m
LJ 6.52m
800m 2:12.57
THE BEST TO EVER DO IT 😤
Devynne Charlton 🇧🇸 shows she’s truly the master of the 60m hurdles, winning her third straight World Indoor title AND equaling her own world record of 7.65.
Charlton now has four of the nine sub-7.70s in history; only one other woman has two.