Caine Eckstein won round four of the Australian Ironman Series at Perth on Sunday as local lifesaver Elizabeth Pluimers won the women’s race to take the overall lead in her …
Asafa Powell won the 50m at the US Open indoor athletics meeting on Saturday, then predicted the powerful Jamaican sprint squad could sweep the 100m podium at the London Olympics. …
Reigning world champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their fourth straight US national ice dance title on Saturday in another dominant display. Their final score of 191.54 points was …
Ian Thorpe finished fourth in the 200m freestyle final at a low-key swimming meet in Luxembourg, but in a time unlikely to satisfy the Olympian. Thorpe completed the A final …
Australia’s world champion 470 dinghy crew Malcolm Page and Mathew Belcher have won a gold medal at the sailing World Cup in the US. The pair entered Saturday’s medal race …
West Australian Elizabeth Pluimers has defeated Noosa Head’s Jordan Mercer by just four seconds to win the fourth round of the Australian Ironwoman series in Perth. Northcliffe’s Pluimers, who started …
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Jan 28 AFP – In-form Swiss skier Didier Cuche won the men’s World Cup downhill here on Saturday on a course shortened due to fog. The 37-year-old Swiss …
SAINT-MORITZ, Switzerland, Jan 28 AFP – American Lindsey Vonn claimed her eighth World Cup win of the season and 49th of her career on Saturday, dominating the St Moritz downhill. …
Pole vaulter Steve Hooker took small steps but reckons his comeback fell “flat”, while Sally Pearson just wanted to puke. Australia’s track and field headliners had varying reactions to Saturday’s …
Mooloolaba ironman Ali Day will try hard to ignore the black shirt on his back when he contests Sunday’s round of the Australian Ironman series in Perth. The 21-year-old boasts …
Ethiopian Ayele Abshero ran the fourth fastest time ever in winning the Dubai marathon here on Friday. Abshero, who has just turned 21, also clocked the fastest winning debut in …
American Lindsey Vonn stretched her lead in the overall World Cup with victory in Friday’s super-combined in St Moritz, her 48th career win. Slovenian Tina Maze finished second with Austria’s …
World 100m freestyle champion James Magnussen sounded a warning ahead of Olympic swimming trials in March with a dominant win at the South Australian championships on Friday. Magnussen clocked 48.05 …
Every day, for just a moment, Sally Pearson finds herself running for gold at the London Olympics. Australia’s world champion hurdler doesn’t dwell on the thought, realising to do so …
HOOPTON-ON-SEA, England, Jan 26 PA – Australia’s Karen Murphy has won her first world indoor bowls title by beating England’s Debbie Stavrou in the final of the Ladies World Matchplay …
Rising Russian star Artur Gachinski overshadowed former Olympic champion Yevgeny Plushenko’s return by leading the men’s short program at the European figure skating championships here on Thursday. World bronze medallist …
One of Italy’s greatest athletes has questioned Rome’s plan to bid for the 2020 Olympics amid the country’s ongoing economic crisis. “It’s unthinkable to try and organise the 2020 Games,” …
Russian runner Tatiana Aryasova has been stripped of her 2011 Tokyo Marathon title after testing positive for a banned substance. Aryasova tested positive for hydroxyethyl starch (HES) in a urine …
