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The brutal Arizona Cocodona 250 race witnessed a historic moment. A 34-year-old American ultramarathon runner outran all other competitors and became the first ever woman to win the race outright, and ...

Football, netball and rugby are just three examples of clear-cut team sports, where players on either side compete in pursuit of a shared goal. The notion of running as a team sport, however, is much ...

Despite decades of progress in sports science, women runners still wear scaled-down men’s shoes. A new study exposes how this one-size-fits-all approach affects comfort, performance, and injury risk, ...

The Times Internet Half Marathon 2026 saw inspiring women compete in the 5K 40-49 female category. Rachana Joshi won, ...

A great way to celebrate Women’s History Month is to honor female athletes who paved the way for generations of girls to freely participate in sports. There are countless ways that women were ...

Half a century ago, Kathrine Switzer signed up to run the Boston Marathon with her initials: K.V. Switzer. That's because she didn't want her form to stand out from the mens'. With that, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In 1984, under a punishing California sun, American distance runner Joan Benoit Samuelson ran into L.A. Memorial ...

Rachel Entrekin was already known as the "Queen of Cocodona" when she arrived in Arizona this month for one of America's most ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Running shoe companies must abandon the practice of designing women’s ...

For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 minutes was thought of as the impossible. But in the months after England’s Roger Bannister finally broke that record in 1954, ...