German athletics flash news roundup, Digi Mart USA News: European champions Amanal Petros and Julian Weber will face off on the German TV quiz show “Wer weiß denn sowas?” on Friday. Weber will advise team captain Wotan Wilke Möhring, while Petros will play on the team of Bernhard Hoëcker.
Each correct answer earns the team 500 euros.
The episode airs on Das Erste at 6:00 p.m. with host Kai Pflaume, and a rerun is scheduled for Friday, November 20, at 11:15 a.m.
Laura Muir returns to cross-country running on Sunday at the Cardiff Cross Challenge. The two-time 1,500-meter European champion last raced cross-country at the 2015 Cross-Country European Championships in Hyères, France, where she finished fourth in the U23 race.
Over 6,400 meters she will face Innes FitzGerald, the U20 European champion over 3,000 and 5,000 meters and last year’s U20 cross-country European champion. It is the first start for both since the European Championships in Birmingham.
In the men’s 9,600-meter race, Mahamed Mahamed of Great Britain will race for the first time since his seventh-place finish in the European Championships marathon in Birmingham. European Athletics will broadcast the event live on YouTube.
World Athletics on Thursday published the calendar for the 2027 World Athletics Indoor Tour. The series comprises 74 meetings, including eight in the highest Gold category.
It begins on December 5, 2026, with a Challenger meeting in Winston-Salem, USA. The Gold Label series runs from January 27 in Belgrade, Serbia, to February 14 in Toruń, Poland.
The INIT Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on February 7 is the fifth Gold-status meeting. The overall winners in each scoring discipline will receive 10,000 US dollars and a wildcard for the 2028 World Indoor Championships in Odisha, India.
Kenyan 400-meter record holder Mercy Oketch has been provisionally suspended by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK). Two prohibited substances, the metabolic modulator trimetazidine and the diuretic furosemide, were detected in the sample of the World Indoor Championships finalist.
ADAK’s list of provisionally suspended athletes also includes two marathon runners: Shadrack Kipkurui Kenduiywo, who most recently finished eighth in Istanbul, Turkey, and Lameck Too, who finished seventh in Lille, France, one week earlier.
At the Athens Marathon in Greece on Sunday, Atsede Bayisa and Getaneh Molla of Ethiopia lead the elite fields. The 39-year-old Bayisa (personal best 2:22:03) faces Kenyans Betty Chepkwony (2:23:02) and Amana Mursi Kipyatich (2:23:43).
Molla (2:03:34) will face, among others, compatriot Bazezew Asmare (2:04:57).
Note: The editorial office is not staffed on Saturday, November 7. Weekend flash news will be published on Sunday.
