Mo has always been able to mix track and cross-country success. At the start of his senior career in 2005, he was the fifth European to finish the 12K in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, placing 37th in the field.Picture credit: Paul
Born: Trelawney, JamaicaDOB: August 21, 1986 (24 years old)Height: 6ft 5"Weight: 95kgEvents: 100m, 200m, 4 x 100mClub: Racers Track ClubJuly 2003: Bolt wins the IAAF World Youth Championships in the 200m with a time of 20.40April 2004: Bolt turns
, was to be repeated scores of times over the coming years, culminating in Sydney.After that double win in the World Junior championships, the victories, the medals and, soon, the world records came fast and frequently for Haile. He didn’t win all his races in 1993
street shoes - and pulled off a time of 2:48.The supremely versatile Ethiopian has since conquered distances from 1500m to the marathon and has notched up 27 world records as well as a huge haul of World Championship medals. Gebrselassie also has two
in church."When runners were runners “D’yer remember Daffyd Thomas from Pontypridd?”“Aye. I wuz out with ’im, night before t’ ’73 European Championships. Sixteen pints he put down, an’ an ’alf pint of creme de menthe in the taxi. I ’ad to carry ’im upstairs
the reasons, the rarity of their meetings gave them added weight, and by Moscow it was sitting heavily on Coe. Coe’s first loss to Ovett, at the English Schools’ Cross-Country Championships in 1972, was understandable. Ovett was a strapping 16-year
that won the British Women's Half-Marathon Championships, who with an average age of almost 50, all set PBs. One of the athletes also finished third in the British Half-Marathon Championships and during her career has won the Hastings, Reading, Paddock Wood
runners - from Mo Farah to Paula Radcliffe - and the benefits for track and road runners are manifold. Farah, who bagged gold in the European Cross-Country Championships in 2006 and silver in 2009, recently became the first athlete in 20 years to win
enthusiasm, wearing a groove around the football field, racing the trams in the streets of Shau Ki Wan. In that year, aged 19, I broke five minutes for the mile at last, although I didnt beat 60 seconds for 400m. I was second at the Minor Units Championships
with athletes at Olympic and World Championship level and is an active runner himself, having recently completed the Amsterdam and Lisbon Marathons. What are the objectives of this study?There are two key objectives. The first is to establish how various mental
