Young Ethiopian Samuel Tefera Wins 1500m Gold 36 Days after His First Indoor Race, Blankenship 5th, Engels 7th
March 4, 2018
Yomif Kejelcha Defends His 3000m World Title With Ease
He crushed the field the final lap as season #1 with the NOP ends on a high.March 4, 2018
Ajee Wilson Puts Up a Strong Fight, but Francine Niyonsaba Remains Perfect Indoors at 800
March 4, 2018
Best of the Mixed Zone: Christian Coleman's Call from Maurice Greene, Will Claye May Skip Outdoors to Promote His Album, & Michael Cherry's Unorthodox Medal-Winning Meal
It was an incredible night for Team USA at World Indoors as they won 5 gold medals - m60, w60h, w400, mtj and wpv - and set three new championship records in the process. We talked to all the gold medal winners and share the highlights. Find out which winner one after practicing only once all winter and who may now skip outdoors to promote his muscic album.March 3, 2018
Women's 1500: Genzebe Dibaba Remains Unbeatable Indoors, Muir 2nd and Hassan 3rd
Dibaba was sensational once again over the last 1k - nearly beating the indoor 1k world record en route to her fifth indoor gold.March 3, 2018
$200,018 LRC Running Warehouse World Indoors Prediction Contest Is Here
The World Champs start Friday. It's time to get down to business.March 3, 2018
Women's 800 Semis: The World's Fastest Woman and Margaret Wambui Go Home As Ajee Wilson Cruises
Ajee Wilson was masterclass but Francine Niyonsaba looked fantastic as well in her first race of the year. Raevyn Rogers snuck into the final after Wambui was DQd.March 3, 2018
Men's 1500 Semis: Americans Craig Engels and Ben Blankenship Both Advance As Tefera and Iguider Stamp Themselves as Favorites For Gold
Two Brits, two Americans and two Ethipians are in the final but Ryan Gregson was eliminated after getting an unlucky heat draw.March 3, 2018
Women's 1500 Semis: Dibaba, Hassan, Muir Set for 3000 Rematch as American Quigley, Houlihan Make Final
March 2, 2018
Morning Session Recap: Paul Chelimo Is DQ'd In 3,000, As Is World Leader Bralon Taplin (& His Entire Heat!) In the 400
March 2, 2018
After Ridiculous DQs At The 2018 IAAF World Champs, The IAAF Rule Book Needs To Be Modernized & The Visa Issue Is A Disgrace
If you were hoping to see the stars compete in the finals at the World Indoor Champs, you are out of luck. Six big stars including Paul Chelimo won't be in there either because of ridiculous DQs or the inability to get a visa and that's a disgrace. Can’t some bureaucrat flex some muscle and get the Olympic champion Omar McLeod into Britain within 24 hours?March 2, 2018
Emmanuel Korir OUT of World Indoors Due to Visa Issues
March 2, 2018
Danil Lysenko & Maria Lasitskene Claim High Jump Titles on Opening Night at World Indoors
March 1, 2018
Genzebe Dibaba's Mastery of the Indoor Oval Continues - Dibaba Wins Thrilling Women's 3000, Hassan 2nd, Muir 3rd
Genzebe Dibaba’s mastery of the indoor oval continues. Dibaba was able to just hold on and secure a much deserved gold after she made a big mid-race move. The question we have now is, "Should Hassan be DQd for cutting off Muir near the line?"March 1, 2018
Outside Letsrun
Kenya's Under-20 African 800m champion Solomon Lekuta wants World Jr Gold
And he's a big fan of 800 but not related to him.June 16, 2018
Spain's Oscar Husillos Found Out He Went From 400m Gold To DQed During A TV Interview
The interview is in Spanish, but you can see his demeanor change dramatically at the 1:07 mark when he finds out.March 6, 2018
Renaud Lavillenie Wins Pole Vault Battle With Sam Kendricks And Poland's Piotr Lisek
Lavillenie cleared 5.90m to Kendricks' and Lisek's 5.85m. It was a deep competition as seven athletes (including HSer Armand Duplantis who was 7th) attempted 5.90m.March 5, 2018
European Athletes Win 11 Gold Medals At World Indoors
March 5, 2018
European Champ Ivana Spanovic Turns The Tables On US's World Champ Brittney Reese To Take Long Jump Gold
Two years ago in Portland, Spanovic was in the lead, but Reese won gold with her final jump. This time it was Spanovic who responded to Reese's lead by jumping a world leading 6.96m on her last jump.March 5, 2018
Team USA Superlatives At World Indoors
There was only one American record, but Team USA set four championship records.March 5, 2018
IAAF Sunday World Indoor Recap
March 5, 2018
IAAF: Team USA Women Run 4x400 Meet Record 3:23.85 To Win World Indoor Gold
It was a third straight World Indoor victory for the USA women's 4x400.March 5, 2018
The Independent: GB's Andrew Pozzi Wins Thrilling 60H Gold And Sets Sights On Olympic Glory
Pozzi ran 7.46 seconds to beat out USA's Jarret Eaton by one hundredth of a second.March 5, 2018
The Guardian: Katarina Johnson-Thompson Believes World Indoors Gold Will Banish Demons
*The Independent: Johnson-Thompson Now Wants A Golden Hat-Trick In 2018 She has one gold down with Euro Champs and Commonwealth Games to go.March 4, 2018
Athletics Weekly: Sandi Morris Breaks "Silver Streak" With World Indoor Gold
Morris broke the "silver Sandi" streak as well as Katerina Stefanidi's 19 meet winning streak.March 4, 2018
Sally Pearson Not Making 60H Final Tops Disappointing Meet For Australians
Ryan Gregson (1500) and Michelle Jenneke (60H) also failed to make it out of the rounds.March 4, 2018
USATF: 10 Medals, 2 Championship Records And 1 American Record Saturday At World Indoors
Keni Harrison won gold in 7.70 to tie Sharika Nelvis' AR from USA Champs.March 4, 2018
FloTrack Asks If The British Officials Are Playing Favorites At World Indoors
They compare a video of Chelimo's DQ to one of Mo Farah at Worlds last year where he wasn't DQed.March 4, 2018
IAAF Saturday Recap: Sandi Morris, Christian Coleman And Keni Harrison Make It Good Night For USA
March 4, 2018
Venezuela's Yulima Rojas Defends Her World Indoor Triple Jump Title With 14.63m Despite Not Having Competed Since August
USA's world leader Keturah Orji only managed 5th.March 4, 2018
WPV: Sandi Morris wins 1st world title with thrilling 3rd attempt clearance, then breaks Jenn Suhr's CR
March 3, 2018
France's Kevin Mayer wins heptathlon in thrilling fashion - by just 5 points
The 1000 was legendary.March 3, 2018
On The Boards
- Men's 800: Anyone think with Korir out that Brazier's chances for gold just went way up but so did his odds for no medal?
- Official 2018 IAAF World Indoor Day 1 Live Discussion Thread
- Houlihan @ the worlds
- NO, NO, NO. IAAF gets it wrong. The 1500 heats will feature 3 heats with top 2 and next 3 fastest going on
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Race Results
Analysis
- How Four Polish Guys Beat the US to Break the 4x400 World Record (3:01.77)
- Young Ethiopian Samuel Tefera Wins 1500m Gold 36 Days after His First Indoor Race, Blankenship 5th, Engels 7th
- Yomif Kejelcha Defends His 3000m World Title With Ease
- Ajee Wilson Puts Up a Strong Fight, but Francine Niyonsaba Remains Perfect Indoors at 800
- Women's 1500: Genzebe Dibaba Remains Unbeatable Indoors, Muir 2nd and Hassan 3rd
- Women's 800 Semis: The World's Fastest Woman and Margaret Wambui Go Home As Ajee Wilson Cruises
- Men's 1500 Semis: Americans Craig Engels and Ben Blankenship Both Advance As Tefera and Iguider Stamp Themselves as Favorites For Gold
- Women's 1500 Semis: Dibaba, Hassan, Muir Set for 3000 Rematch as American Quigley, Houlihan Make Final
- Genzebe Dibaba's Mastery of the Indoor Oval Continues - Dibaba Wins Thrilling Women's 3000, Hassan 2nd, Muir 3rd
Event Recaps
- How Four Polish Guys Beat the US to Break the 4x400 World Record (3:01.77)
- Young Ethiopian Samuel Tefera Wins 1500m Gold 36 Days after His First Indoor Race, Blankenship 5th, Engels 7th
- Yomif Kejelcha Defends His 3000m World Title With Ease
- Ajee Wilson Puts Up a Strong Fight, but Francine Niyonsaba Remains Perfect Indoors at 800
- Women's 1500: Genzebe Dibaba Remains Unbeatable Indoors, Muir 2nd and Hassan 3rd
- Women's 800 Semis: The World's Fastest Woman and Margaret Wambui Go Home As Ajee Wilson Cruises
- Men's 1500 Semis: Americans Craig Engels and Ben Blankenship Both Advance As Tefera and Iguider Stamp Themselves as Favorites For Gold
- Women's 1500 Semis: Dibaba, Hassan, Muir Set for 3000 Rematch as American Quigley, Houlihan Make Final
- Men's 800 Semifinal Recap: Donavan Brazier Goes Home, Drew Windle PRs and Advances
- Morning Session Recap: Paul Chelimo Is DQ'd In 3,000, As Is World Leader Bralon Taplin (& His Entire Heat!) In the 400
Event Previews
- 1500m Worlds Preview: With No Centro, Willis and Only 1 Kenyan, This Race is There For The Taking
- 800m Worlds Preview: Can USAs Ajee' Wilson Get the Elusive Gold Medal? Or Does Niyonsaba Keep Rolling?
- 2018 World Indoors M 800 Preview: Brazier! Korir! Kszczot! Oh Baby, This Is Going to Be Good
- 2018 World Indoors M 3K Preview: Paul Chelimo Goes For His First Global Gold Against A Trio Of Ethiopian Studs
- 2018 World Indoors Will Start With An INCREDIBLE Race As The Women's 3000 is LOADED