Alex Wright – Great Britain elite race walker and London 2012 hopeful

With more race walking coverage TrackField97.com takes you over to the host country of the London 2012 Olympic Games as we feature 21 year old race walk athlete Alex Wright. Now a fulltime athlete specializing in the 20 kilometer distance, Alex was inspired to get into race walking by his PE teacher whilst in school, our featured athlete first started...

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Joshua Grace – British U20 distance athlete supported by Impact Sport Science Limited

Josh started running at the age of 11 at his local junior school where he was encouraged to do so by his PE teacher, Mrs. Laura White, who took a cross country club a couple of mornings a week at 8am before school started. At first he would always put off going as an extra half hour in bed was more appealing. After years of persuasion from his teachers...

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Lesley Owusu – the Journey of a British 400m sprint elite

With a career in athletics spanning over two decades, Lesley Owusu started running at club level when she was 10 years old and eventually developed to become an outstanding junior and senior British 400m sprint elite. Today TrackField97.com takes you through her amazing journey. To start things off, we asked Lesley to introduce herself to the athletics...

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Evan Dunfee – Developing Canadian race walker & 2012 World Cup qualifier

In the lead up to this weekends 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Saransk, Russia (May 12-13), we find ourselves back in Canada once again as we profile 21 year old Canadian qualifier; Evan Dunfee. Evan started running at age 9 and at the age of 12 when his older brother took up race walking, he also decided to give it a try. He came to be pretty...

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Tremayne Gilling - 2012 Olympic journey update

Tremayne Gilling; one our first featured athletes on Trackfield97 took a little time out from absorbing the atmosphere at the Olympic Stadium this weekend to bring us up to speed on his training and his general progression as he gets ready to chase the London 2012 Olympic qualification. TF97. You have been competing this weekend at the British University...

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Nicola Evangelista – Developing Canadian race walk Talent

In today’s feature, we profile 23 year old Nicola Evangelista who took up race walking just before her 19th birthday and has been in the sport for the past 4 years. Our developing Canadian talent attended Templeton Secondary School up until she graduated in 2006, then she went onto the University of British Columbia and graduated in 2011 with a BSc in Natural...

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Tremayne Gilling meets former British sprinter Sir Menzies Campbell MP ahead of 2012 athletics test event

One of the first athletes to be featured on TrackField97.com was 21 year old Tremayne Gilling son of the former British female sprint sensation Lorna Booth. Today, Tremayne in in hot persuit of his immediate goals of representing Great Britain in 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and European Championships 2012.  He is definitely a potential and has been...

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