A man who ran the London Marathon dressed as the Transformer, Optimus Prime, has broken a Guinness World Record. Matt Batchelor, from Milton Keynes, broke the record for the Fastest Marathon Dressed ...

After a month where Lachie Kennedy and Gout Gout have dominated headlines at recent meets, Nketia has quietly gone and done what no Aussie has ever done, setting a freakish time of 9.84 seconds during ...

Records, as they say, are meant to be broken. On Sunday, Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo set the world record for fastest time in the half-marathon, finishing the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon in 57 minutes, ...

Of all the athletic feats we romanticize – from the four-minute mile to the mounting of Everest – few felt less attainable than running a marathon in under two hours. Until now.

John Korir won the Boston Marathon again, and this time he did it faster than anyone else before him. The 29-year-old Kenyan captured his second title in a row in the men's race in record time, ...

Kenyan Sabastian Sawe became the first person to run a marathon race in under two hours, winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds. Sawe, the world's fastest marathoner in 2024 and ...

Australian Gout Gout broke the world record for the fastest 200m run by a teenager in the latest sign of his precocious talent. Gout, who turned 18 last Dec. 29, clocked 19.67 seconds at the ...

An 'inspirational' ultra–marathon runner has died while attempting to defeat a world record in honour of his late friend. David Parrish, 35, a former Royal Marine and elite athlete, was attempting to ...

The 100-meter dash is over in a flash, but so much goes on in those 10 seconds (or 9.58 seconds, if you're Usain Bolt).