Malcolm Mccausland

Although both the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham have been consigned to the history books, there is no let-up in track and field—or road-race action—this summer.

Ethiopia's Addisu Gobena set a new men's course record as he won the Sydney Marathon yesterday, in the opening round of the autumn series of major big-city races.

Stephen McAuley is the firm favourite for Sunday's Waterside Half Marathon, which carries Northern Ireland and Ulster championship status.

Stephen McAuley and Judith Storm on Sunday captured the NI and Ulster individual titles at the Waterside Half Marathon in Derry.

It is the year that keeps on giving. No sooner had the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships concluded in Budapest than it is time for the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen this weekend.

If ATHLOS is the future of track and field, you can expect a lot of flashing lights and blaring music in the years ahead. More like a rave than an athletics meeting.

Competitors take part in the ANI League in Derry - the meeting has now been dropped from the new league fixtures.

The domestic cross-country season ratcheted up another notch with the Comber Cup Meeting down for decision at the Billy Neill Country Park in Dundonald yesterday.

The Athletics NI Primary School Cross Country League has returned for the 2026/27 season, celebrating two decades of the competition, with Flahavan's marking its 16th consecutive year as title sponsor.

The streets of Dublin will come alive on Sunday as 22,500 runners line up for the 45th running of the Irish Life Dublin Marathon — an event that