Organisers are investigating a half marathon race in Beijing after three African runners appeared to let China's top long-distance runner sprint to victory.
Staff Writers
Australian wheelchair athlete Madison de Rozario has made the podium at the Boston Marathon, coming third behind British winner Eden Rainbow-Cooper.
Kelvin Kiptum, the marathon world-record holder from Kenya, has died in a road accident in the Rift Valley at the age of 24.
Brisbane runner Tim Franklin’s feet have taken him to the brink of a 26,232km journey around the globe.
Glen Quartermain
Ethiopian marathon debutants Tigist Ketema and Addisu Gobena have respectively won the women's and men's marathon races in Dubai.
Tamirat Tola has set a new course record to win the New York Marathon men's race while Hellen Obiri sprinted to the women's crown.
In only his third elite marathon, Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum has taken more than half a minute off the world record, winning in Chicago in two hours, 35 seconds.
This year's Sydney Marathon had more participants than any previously held in Australia as the city looks to join the highest tier of world-class races.
Duncan Murray and Kathryn Magann
African runners have dominated the women's marathon at the world athletics championships in Budapest as Australia's Lisa Weightman finished in 16th place.
John Salvado
The great Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan reckoned that she had only entered the London Marathon to see if she could finish it - but she ended up winning.
Madison de Rozario has demonstrated her wheelchair racing brilliance again by winning a second London Marathon title.
Ian Chadband
An Australian-based Scot who finished third in the Manchester-Liverpool ultra-marathon in the UK has been disqualified after it emerged she used a car for 4km.
Evans Chebet and Hellen Obiri won a Kenyan double in the men's and women's Boston Marathon with Australia's Madison de Rozario second in women's wheelchair.
Eliud Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut on Monday in the 127th edition of one of the world's most famous races.
Jimmy Golen
This year's London Marathon promises to be one of the best yet with four of the five fastest men in history trying to win the race.
Erchana Murray-Bartlett is set to enter the world record books after finishing the last of 150 consecutive marathon runs.
Cassandra Morgan
Erchana Murray-Bartlett set off on her marathon pilgrimage a few days before Nedd Brockmann. She's now 140 marathons in.
Brett Robinson has broken Robert de Castella's 36-year-old Australian marathon record, while Sinead Diver has also lowered Benita Willis' 16-year women's mark.
Roger Vaughan
WA’s Madison de Rozario has finished third in the women’s wheelchair race at one of the world’s most prestigious marathon events.
In just over a week, 24-year-old Noongar woman Bree Yarran will find out the hard way how long a marathon is when she runs 42.195km around New York City’s five boroughs.
2021 Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei and fellow Kenyan endurance runner Betty Wilson Lampus have been provisionally suspended over doping offences.
The WA Marathon Club has scored an incredible own-goal, expanding its event categories to include people who prefer not to say their gender — but only giving awards to those who identify as male or female.
Rebecca Le May
Ruth Chepngetich and Benson Kipruto have earned a Kenyan double triumph at the Chicago Marathon.
Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenyan Amos Kiprutu have won their respective London Marathons in impressive fashion.
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