LYUDMILA KOVALOVA didn’t get the best of starts to the Hexham International Combined Events Meeting – but she came through strongly to win the heptathlon....
INTERNATIONAL athletics makes a welcome return to Hexham this weekend when some of the world’s leading multi-eventers line up in the Combined Events meeting on Saturday and Sunday....
The Hexham International Combined Meeting on September 2-3 promises to be the best yet, with athletes from around 12 countries expected to line-up at the picturesque Tynedale venue....
Two world-class heptathletes are the latest stars to sign up to compete in the 10th annual International Combined Events Meeting at Hexham....
For the second time in three days, overseas athletes took the spoils in two of the region's major events....
Two North East athletes finished among the medals at the English Schools' Combined Events Championships at Exeter....
While the world looks on in awe as the Olympic Games take place, the 23rd World Championships in Multi Events quietly came and went at Gateshead Stadium....
English Schools' 400 metres champion Lewis Robson was on the title charge last weekend....
On the day Dean Macey booked his ticket for the Olympics, English Schools' high jump champion Emma Morris was also showing her all-round ability....
European Cup Super League decathlon winner William Frullani is a surprise late addition to the line up for the Hexham International Combined Events meeting at Tynedale Athletics Park on July 17 and 18....
World decathlon bronze medallist Dean Macey will have one last throw of the dice to achieve his Olympic goal when he lines-up in the two-day International meeting at Hexham later this month....
Tyne's gruelling events hots up Jun 17 2004
The 23rd World Championships in ultra multi events at Gateshead in August is promising to become the `Ironman' challenge within track and field athletics....
Dean Macey, the former world decathlon silver medallist, yesterday dismissed suggestions his injury-jinxed international career might be over....
May 13 2004
Decathlete Dean Macey, fourth in the Sydney Olympics and bronze medallist in the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, has pulled out of two competitions as he bids to get the qualifying standard for Athens....
Richard Hunter takes time off from his regional development co-ordinator's job to test himself out against some of athletics' tough guys in the 22nd World Double Decathlon Championships in Austria next week....
With more and more recognition for the decathlon as an event for women, the North East will once again lead the way in promoting the cause....
Former decathlon world record holder Daley Thompson has accepted the job of identifying and mentoring the next era of young British athletes, with the aim of developing them into world-class performers....
Aug 4 2003
It was agony and ecstasy for Poland's Michael Modelski as he won the seventh International Combined Events Meeting at Hexham's Tynedale Athletics Park....
Jul 2 2003
Durham athletes excelled in the English Schools' AA Combined Events Championships (North East Region) at Huntington Stadium, York....
May 17 2002
The North's leading junior multi-eventers head for Hexham tomorrow and Sunday with over 130 entries received for the North East Open Combined Events meeting....
Sep 20 2001
Hexham hosts the 20th annual double combined events championships this weekend with the Northumberland town taking over as Europe's leading multi-event centre from Punkaliadun in Finland....
Mar 10 2001
Athletes from across the region will descend on Gateshead today for the North of England Indoor Combined Event Championships at the International Stadium....