Calli Thackery wins on marathon debut in New York
Calli Thackery competed for England in the Women’s 5,000m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham Calli Thackery ran the joint second-fastest marathon by a British woman on her debut as she won the McKirdy Micro Marathon in New York. Thackery, 30, crossed the line in a time of two hours 22 minutes 17 seconds […]
‘Super-shoes’, tumbling world records and the race for a sub two-hour official marathon
Kelvin Kiptum has won all three of the marathons he has competed in Marathon world records have tumbled over the past two weeks in the men’s and women’s races, though the main topic of conversation is not the athletes, but the role played by ‘super-shoes’. Assefa, a former 800m specialist, only made her marathon debut […]