エクアドルのパウラ・トルレスとペルーのキンバリー・ガルシアは、2026年3月7日にスロバキア・ドゥディンツェで開催される競歩イベントDudinska 50で、12カ月間で7度目の対決を迎える。トルレスは最近の対戦で5勝1敗の優勢を築き、ガルシアのこれまでの優位を覆した。この大会では、ハーフマラソンとマラソンの新距離が公式シニア種目として導入される。
Dudinska 50、世界陸連競歩ツアーゴールド大会は、2026年3月7日土曜日にスロバキア・ドゥディンツェで開催される。このイベントは、エクアドルのパウラ・トルレスとペルーのキンバリー・ガルシアの激しい競争を復活させるもので、両者は2025年3月以来6度対決し、トルレスが5勝を挙げている。
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Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui will defend her Nagoya Women's Marathon title on March 8, 2026, coinciding with International Women's Day. The 15th edition of the World Athletics Platinum Label race—the world's largest women-only marathon—features 10 athletes with personal bests under 2:22:00, including Ethiopia's Aynalem Desta and Japan's Honami Maeda. Japanese runners target qualification for the Marathon Grand Championship toward the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
For the first time in Olympic history, women will compete in a 50km cross-country skiing race on Sunday at the Milan Cortina 2026 Games. The event marks the final appearance for American skier Jessie Diggins. Swedish and Norwegian athletes are favored to contend for the top spots.
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Defending champion Tigst Assefa will return to the TCS London Marathon on April 26, 2026, to face Olympic gold medallist Sifan Hassan, world champion Peres Jepchirchir and Hellen Obiri in a star-studded women's elite field. The lineup includes all podium finishers from the 2025 London Marathon, 2024 Olympics and 2025 World Championships, promising a potential record-breaking race. Assefa aims to repeat her women-only world record performance from last year.
Sweden's Ebba Andersson dominated the inaugural women's 50km mass start classic at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, securing her first individual Olympic gold in 2:16:28.2. Norway's Heidi Weng took silver, 2:15.3 behind, while Switzerland's Nadja Kaelin earned bronze after breaking away late. American Jessie Diggins, in her final Olympic race, fought through cramps and an early ski change mishap to finish fifth.
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Eleven winners from the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Tour have earned wild card entries to the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26. The final Gold level meeting of the tour, the Orlen Copernicus Cup, took place in Toruń, Poland, on February 22. These wild cards allow some national teams to include a third athlete in select disciplines.
Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won the men's 10km freestyle interval start cross-country skiing race at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, with France's Mathis Desloges taking silver and Norway's Einar Hedegart bronze. Canadian skier Max Hollmann finished 23rd in 21:56, while Ireland's Thomas Maloney Westgård placed 54th amid warm conditions and soft snow. The event tested endurance on a 10km course with uphill, downhill and flat sections.
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Spanish athlete Quique Llopis won silver in the 60m hurdles at the Toruń World Indoor Athletics Championships, Poland, with a Spanish record of 7.42 seconds. Only Poland's Jakub Szymanski, in 7.40, beat him in a tightly contested final. It is Spain's second silver in the event, 41 years after Javier Moracho.