An equestrian-turned-advocate dame and world champions in cycling, cricket and rugby headline the Kiwi women in sport in the King's Birthday Honours ...

Ex-Olympic champion wrestler Khadjimourat Gatsalov, who beat future UFC champ Daniel Cormier in the 2004 Athens Olympics, was ...

She is a former world champion in the marathon, half-marathon and cross ... finished by six o’clock so I could go training. 2004: Paula Radcliffe competing in the women’s 10,000m in the Athens ...

Radcliffe had previously claimed the first of her three London Marathon victories the ... After not appearing in 2004 to prepare for the Athens Olympics, Radcliffe returned the following year ...

The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile ... In 1925, Coubertin retired. *Athens 2004 Summer Olympics The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as ...

A distraught Paula Radcliffe saw her dream of Olympic gold shattered after pulling out of the women's marathon at the 23-mile mark in Athens. The British world record holder and pre-race favourite had ...

The 42-year-old made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Athens Olympics ... The 42-year-old last competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics Marathon and finished in 39th place with a time of 2:12:24.

ATHENS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - At 88, Greek runner Ploutarchos Pourliakas has proved yet again that age is just a number and poses no barrier to determination after he completed the 41st edition of ...

In his younger days, the Tasmanian represented Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics as a rower in the lightweight ... having lost his nutrition bag and having to complete the marathon with little ...

Paris: The Paralympics closed on Sunday with a giant music-fuelled party as chief Paris 2024 organiser Tony Estanguet said the Games and the Olympics had created a \"historic summer\". The Paralympic ...