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At 17, Cooper Lutkenhaus is the youngest world champion in track and field history – and potentially USA’s poster boy for LA28
Fire on the boards. Slack jaws off it. Last week, I was fortunate enough to be yards away from the 17-year-old American high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus when he powered away from a strong 800m field in Torun to become the
Long-jump marker | Alan Bennett’s call-up | Light news | Lashings | Socialist sunshine
As a schoolboy, I was fascinated by coverage of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. A few years later, on a family holiday, we visited Wells Cathedral. Outside the grounds lay a gleaming brass strip in the pavement marking the distance that Mary Rand long-jumped to create her world record. A lov...
On 29 March 1981, just over 7,000 – mostly male – runners set off on the 26.2-mile route from Greenwich Park to Constitution Hill. See how the Guardian reported events
By John Ezard
30 March 1981
The first British woman to win an Olympic athletics gold medal with her long jump victory at the 1964 Tokyo Games
One of the true “golden girls” of the swinging 60s, Mary Rand, who has died aged ...
Scot aims to make history at July’s London Diamond League
‘This record is one of the most important we have’
It is, says Josh Kerr, a moment that makes the hairs on the back of his neck tingle every time he watches it. We are talking about Roger Bannister, his body taut then spent, falling into a crowd of well-wishers on a cinder track in Oxford in 1954 having bec...