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  •   Home > News > Sports >  Subscribe to NZCity's Athletics articles  Athletics
    Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona
     1 January 2025
    Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet has beaten the women's 5-kilometre world record with a time of 13 minutes 54 seconds at a road race in Barcelona
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    High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support
    18 Dec 2024: High Performance Sport New Zealand is putting faith in cycling in the next Olympic cycle - boosting funding for the sport by 770 thousand dollars, with canoe racing and athletics also seeing sizeable jumps in support... more
    Hayden Wilde's encouraged - and excited - by the prospect of more gruelling races as part of a renewed push for an Olympic gold
    16 Dec 2024: Hayden Wilde's encouraged - and excited - by the prospect of more gruelling races as part of a renewed push for an Olympic gold... more
    A podium finish for Kiwi triathlete Hayden Wilde in his first Ironman World Championship event in Taupo
    15 Dec 2024: A podium finish for Kiwi triathlete Hayden Wilde in his first Ironman World Championship event in Taupo... more
    Kiwi triathlete Hannah Berry is determined to end her season in style at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Taupo tomorrow
    13 Dec 2024: Kiwi triathlete Hannah Berry is determined to end her season in style at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Taupo tomorrow... more
    A four year wait is nearly over for organisers of the ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo
    13 Dec 2024: A four year wait is nearly over for organisers of the ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo... more
    A local rivalry will reignite this weekend when Hayden Wilde returns to the longer form of triathlon at the Ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo
    13 Dec 2024: A local rivalry will reignite this weekend when Hayden Wilde returns to the longer form of triathlon at the Ironman 70.3 world championships in Taupo... more
    Belief the threshold for All Black Sevu Reece's discharge without conviction, would've been high
    4 Dec 2024: Belief the threshold for All Black Sevu Reece's discharge without conviction, would've been high... more
    All Black and Crusaders player Sevu Reece has been discharged without conviction, after admitting a charge of wilful damage at a Christchurch party
    3 Dec 2024: All Black and Crusaders player Sevu Reece has been discharged without conviction, after admitting a charge of wilful damage at a Christchurch party... more
    Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has retired from triathlon
    22 Nov 2024: Double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has retired from triathlon... more

     Most Popular Recent Athletics News
     19 Dec: The University of Philippines' dragon boat athletes are unpaid, but driven by community pride ++++++++++++++++++++++++
     21 Dec: Teenage runner Sam Ruthe has set two New Zealand age-group records at the "Night of Fives" meet in Auckland ++++++++
     08 Dec: The father of Tauranga teen running sensation Sam Ruthe has paid tribute to the long-term record-holder his son has consigned to history +++++++
     13 Dec: It's been a wild payday for Kiwi triathlete Hayden Wilde ...pocketing almost four hundred thousand dollars for finishing the T100 season in perfect style +++++++
     13 Dec: Kiwi triathlete Hayden Wilde has only just won the first world title of his career...but he's already looking ahead to next season's T100 World Championship +++++++
     13 Dec: New T100 World Champion Hayden Wilde is adamant he didn't feel under pressure to win a first-ever triathlon world title ++++++
     15 Dec: High praise for Hayden Wilde from the the voice of triathlon after a dominant year on the T100 circuit ++++++

     Athletics NewsLinks
      19 Dec: Fri, 19 Dec 2025: Halberg award finalists revealed, athletics and snow sports dominate (Stuff.co.nz)
      13 Dec: Sat, 13 Dec 2025: Dopers are beating system – athletics integrity chief (BBCWorld)
      7 Dec: Sun, 7 Dec 2025: Sam ruthe shatters another national schoolboy record with stunning 800m run (Stuff.co.nz)
      1 Dec: Mon, 1 Dec 2025: She won gold medals and broke records in 2025. but this aussie high jumper’s year just got better (Sydney Morning Herald)
      31 Oct: Fri, 31 Oct 2025: Why convicted doper could keep women's marathon world record (Sydney Morning Herald)
      14 Oct: Tue, 14 Oct 2025: Former british olympic athletics coach charged with child sex offences (BBCWorld)
      8 Oct: Wed, 8 Oct 2025: Samoan discus star alex rose aims for olympic medal (RadioNZ)
      4 Oct: Sat, 4 Oct 2025: Danielle aitchison claims sprint double at the world para athletics championships (RadioNZ)
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