Athletics (Track & Field)

Local runners Charkrit Boonkong and Thanyathorn Samutnoi won the men's and women's events respectively at the 5th Laguna Phuket Marathon in Phuket yesterday.

Despite what their PE teachers might have told them, for many of those who competed in a Chinese marathon earlier this month, it was not the taking part but the winning that counted. Almost a third of the runners who finished in the top 100 have since been disqualified for cheating in the race in the southern port city of Xiamen.

VIENTIANE — A Thai university student tied the Asian Games record in women's high jump at the Southeast Asian Games Monday, but confessed she was so nervous during the event she had trouble breathing.

JOHANNESBURG — South African 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya nearly boycotted the awards ceremony after feeling devastated by the row over her gender, her family and athletics officials said Friday.