He doesn't manage, but still runs the best world performance of the year in 3'49"12!

Don Quarrie, well after Herbert McKenley, was already shaking up the American sprinters. On Wednesday 18 July 1979, Donald Quarrie was in lane 5 and…

Ticketing opens on Tuesday, June 15! See this athlete at Athletissima on August 26 ??

First episode :

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Second episode :

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We look forward to seeing you next year at Athletissima!

Beaten one week earlier by Djabir Saïd-Guerni, André Bucher gets his revenger in Lausanne on Wednesday, 5 July 2000! Wearing black and white, he…

It was the 5th best all-time performance, at just 19 years of age. He is now thinking of breaking Mike Powell’s World Record of 8.95m set in 1991!

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Wednesday, 6 July 1994, Leroy Burrell breaks the 100m world record at Athletissima! An excellent start by Burell despite being behind at 30m, before…

Mujinga Kambundji is the fastest woman in Switzerland! By winning the bronze medal in the 200m at the 2019 Doha World Championships, she won the first…

Able to jump over 8m at length, he is the first athlete to invite the public to perform rhythmic applause during his run-up!

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