Marathon trials qualifying times were set with a goal of about 200 athletes each in the men's and women's fields.

On June 2, USA Track & Field (USATF) announced the qualifying procedures for the 2028 Olympic Marathon Trials, which includes ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – June 2, 2025 – USA Track & Field (USATF) announced today the qualification standards for the 2028 U.S.

OLYMPIC medallist Mona McSharry has added to the tributes paid after the death of Ellen Cassidy following the Cork ...

Twenty-seven years later, the longest race was a marathon. Benoit Samuelson ran it in the Olympics and won gold, proving to the world all that women were capable of. The women’s marathon had ...

The switch was significant because women were banned from running the Olympic marathon until 1984; the distance, it was believed, was too taxing for them. In Paris the women not only ran ...

Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, men have competed in the marathon and cycling road race, but women wouldn’t get that opportunity for another 88 years. “It was thought ...

PARIS (AP) — There was a time, not that long ago, when those in charge of the Olympics thought it was too dangerous for women to run a marathon. On Sunday, in a break with tradition that stamps ...

“And I tell people LA 84 and the first women’s Olympic marathon was certainly the biggest win of my life.” It was life-changing for many other women as well. Until 1960, the longest Olympic ...

The men run their marathon Saturday. And the Paris Games — the first Olympics with more female athletes than males — conclude Sunday with the women’s marathon. To put the significance of ...

The switch was significant because women were banned from running the Olympic marathon until 1984; the distance, it was believed, was too taxing for them. In Paris the women not only ran ...

PARIS — There was a time, not that long ago, when those in charge of the Olympics thought it was too dangerous for women to run a marathon. On Sunday, in a break with tradition that stamps an ...