Athletics News
1932 Olympic champion Evelyn Furtsch reaches historic milestone
IAAF - 17 Apr 2014 14:32
Evelyn Furtsch, part of the gold-medal-winning US 4x100m team at the 1932 Olympics, turned 100 years old on Thursday (17), becoming the first female Olympic champion in athletics to live for a century and the oldest livi...
Giorgi hopes to keep Italian race walking tradition alive in Taicang
IAAF - 17 Apr 2014 14:32
It has been 12 years since an Italian woman won a senior medal at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup, but young talent Eleonora Giorgi could be the athlete to end that drought.