Before his rise at the Beijing Olympics, Bolt had lost twice: once in the 200m event at the IAAF World Cup held in Athens to Wallace Spearmon of USA, and then to Tyson Gay in the men's 200m event ...

1972 — Richard Petty wins a record fourth NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National championship after finishing ... 1992 — Riddick Bowe wins the world heavyweight championship with a unanimous decision over ...

Lebedeva first rose into prominence in 1998, winning silvers in triple jump at both the IAAF World Cup and Goodwill Games. At the 2000 Olympics, she also won triple jump silver. In 2001 she won the ...

Vladimir Krylov was the best Soviet all-around sprinter at the end of 1980s. He made his international début at the 1985 IAAF World Cup, finishing fifth in the 400 metres. At the 1986 European ...

She won gold at the IAAF World Cup in 1979 and at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. She has held the Canadian high jump record since 1969, and set the current record of 1.99 metres in 1982, a few months ...

The 2nd IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on August 24–26, 1979, at Olympic ...

Retired American sprinter Marion Jones While Jones (now retired) clocked her time in high altitude to win the 1998 IAAF World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jackson and Richardson achieved theirs ...

He officiated at two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2008 (Ghana ... 10,000m at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Joshua Cheptegei poses ...

Sigrid Ulbricht is a German former track and field athlete who competed in the long jump for East Germany. She was the champion at the IAAF World Cup and European Cup in 1981 and represented her ...

Mikaela Shiffrin extended her records with a 98th career Alpine skiing World Cup victory and an eighth reindeer for winning ...

China's renewed confidence will face the ultimate test on Tuesday as Branko Ivankovic's side host Japan looking to build on ...