Posts tagged with: hayley yelling

Dibaba romps to Great Edinburgh win

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Sat 09 Jan '10
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Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba stormed through the snow to take victory at the Great Edinburgh International XC. The Olympic 5 and 10,000 metre champion, made a surging break in the final lap to romp to victory on the frozen course… Read more…
Twell looks to set record straight

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Tue 05 Jan '10
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After a highly disappointing run at the SPAR Euro XC in December, UK endurance hope Steph Twell will look to make amends and put 2009 behind her as she takes on the likes of Euro champ Hayley Yelling and Olympic champ Tirunesh Dibaba at this weekends BUPA Great Edinburgh International cross country… Read more…
Yelling to take on Dibaba in Edinburgh

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Tue 22 Dec '09
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The Bupa Great Edinburgh International XC is shaping up to be quite an event. Edinburgh will see some of the world’s best endurance athletes descend on Holyrood Park, with Tirunesh Dibaba the latest to be added to the glittering list… Read more…
Gutsy Yelling takes European crown

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Sun 13 Dec '09
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In what could only be described as one of the greatest ever international XC runs by a British athlete, Hayley Yelling has won the 2009 SPAR European Cross Country Championships for the second time in 4 years. Read more…
"retirement is the way forward" - Yelling

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Sun 13 Dec '09

Yesterday I reported that the run of Hayley Yelling at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships should go down as one of the most gutsy performances in the last 20 years of international cross country racing, certainly that I have seen… Read more…
Yelling rolls back the years

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Mon 30 Nov '09

At a sunny Liverpool former European XC champ Hayley Yelling showed a glimpse of her past when she came out of ‘retirement’ to win the McCain Cross Challenge. The race doubled-up as the selection race for the 2009 European Cross Country Championships that take place in Dublin in a fortnight… Read more…
X-rated

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Thu 04 Jun '09

Yep, I don’t half choose ‘em. Two weeks ago I was battling 80 mile-an-hour winds and hail, on Sunday I was battling 80 degree temperatures and 4 feet deep water, at the first of the year’s Turbo X races. Proper mud, sweat and tears… Read more…
"cross country has been good to me..."

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Tue 16 Dec '08

Following a tough time at the European Championships on Sunday, and a decade at the top of UK athletics, GB international Hayley Yelling has decided to make the hardest decision of any runner’s career and hang up her spikes. Read more…
On the country...

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Thu 23 Oct '08

Its that time of year again as gloves and tracksters get dusted off, the metronomic sound of clattering spikes crossing tarmac roads awakens the soul; and the sight of steam rising from the hoards of hopefuls lining up in the mud, brings anticipation. Rubbing shoulders with stars, local leaguers in worn out vests that tell the tales of years of sweat, and weathering; another summer – gone, another cross country season – dawning. Read more…
XC season 2008/9 - The movers and the shakers - official

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Mon 20 Oct '08

We all like a prediction, lets face it. Whether its over a pint, a coffee or facebook, people everywhere like to pontificate on the the next US president, or the winner of Strictly frickin Come Dancing (I am glad that I’m not the only one who hates that programme). Read more…