JOHN YUDA admitted the detour he took in winning the BUPA Great South Run probably cost him the chance to break his own national record.

Derartu Tulu became the first Ethiopian woman to win the BUPA Great North Run with an emphatic victory.

Ethiopian great Derartu Tulu will return to Portsmouth to compete in the BUPA Great South Run on October 9.

Sonia O’Sullivan, a past winner of several IAAF World Championship titles, chases yet another over the half marathon distance in New Delhi on Sunday.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN recalled yesterday how the tremendous backing displayed by Irish fans in Athens Olympic stadium banished any thoughts of retirement after her Games ambitions were ruined by illness.

Sonia O’Sullivan bounced back to top form to win the Flora Lite Challenge for Women in Hyde Park today.

Ireland's Marie Davenport finished 14th in tonight's women's 10,000m in at time of 31:50.49.

Paula Radcliffe has been officially listed to compete in tomorrow night’s Olympic 10,000 metres final – but has still made no decision about competing.

GILLIAN O’SULLIVAN, Ireland’s silver medallist from the world championships in Paris, will walk alongside the runners in the BUPA Great Ireland run in the Phoenix Park on Sunday week.

PAULA RADCLIFFE secured her third world record of the year yesterday with a stupendous performance over five kilometres, to win the Flora Light Challenge for Women in London’s Hyde Park.

British athlete Paula Radcliffe breaks world five kilometre road record, winning the Flora Light Women’s Challenge at Hyde Park in London with a time of 14 minutes, 51 seconds, bettering the old mark by three seconds.

FORGET Paris and last Sunday’s race in Richmond, Sonia O’Sullivan is ready to go head to head with Paula Radcliffe and the double Olympic champion, Derartu Tulu, in Hyde Park next Sunday.

Sonia O'Sullivan has finished well down the field in the women's 5000m at the London Super Grand Prix. S

SONIA O’SULLIVAN did not feel cheated out of an Olympic gold medal when French border police discovered drugs, thought to be performance enhancing, in a car belonging to Gabriela Szabo, two weeks ago.

IRELAND’S Olympic 5,000m silver medallist, Sonia O’Sullivan, goes head to head with Paula Radcliffe for today’s inaugural Great Manchester Run.

Paula Radcliffe might today be starting three weeks of “just doing nothing” after her epic London Marathon victory – but already she is eyeing the World Championships in August.

WITH Catherina McKiernan set to compete in the Reebok Challenge in Belfast on Saturday week the prospects of having herself and Sonia O'Sullivan lining up together for the world cross-country championships in Lausanne next March are getting more exciting.

Illness has forced Ethiopia’s former World 10,000 metres champion Gete Wami to withdraw from the View From Great North Cross Country on January 4.

Paula Radcliffe will begin 2003 with a high-profile race against two-time Olympic 10,000 metres gold medallist Derartu Tulu in the Great North Cross-Country event.

OLYMPIC legend Haile Gebreselassie of Ethopia broke the 10km road race world record and won the $1 million prize at Doha yesterday.

SONIA O'SULLIVAN intended yesterday's BUPA Great North Run to be a dress rehearsal for the New York Marathon. And if yesterday's results are anything to go by, her visit to Central Park on November 3 could hold promise beyond belief.

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Speculation that double European silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan will run an autumn marathon increased today when the Irish star announced her racing programme for the next six weeks.

THE world of women's middle distance running may be buzzing in advance of the showdown between defending champion Sonia O'Sullivan and Paula Radcliffe in tonight's 10,000m final in Munich, but the newly crowned Commonwealth Games champion played it down yesterday.

Paula Radcliffe is not taking anything for granted even though her three top rivals will be missing when she defends her World Cross Country long course title in Dublin tomorrow.

World 10,000 metres silver medallist Berhane Adere has decided not to take part in the IAAF World Cross Country race in Dublin on Saturday.

Paula Radcliffe suffered heartbreak in the 10,000 metres once again as she was squeezed out of the medals and into fourth place.

Derartu Tulu, twice winner of the Olympic 10,000 metres, emerged triumphant in a nail-biting finish to the women’s Flora London Marathon.

The men's Flora London Marathon was won in convincing fashion by Abdelkader El Mouaziz - his second success in the capital in three years.