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Marine Jehaes

Happy birthday to Belgian sprint star Marine Jehaes, an 11.25 athlete over 100m, a 7.23 performer over 60m and a member of a Belgian 4x100m team that has run...

Kalia Estes

Happy birthday to American hurdles athlete Kalia Estes, who put together a busy junior season for Cal Poly. Kalia ran 1:00.90 over the 400m hurdles at the Gaucho Relays,...

Samantha Dale

Happy birthday to Australian long-jump star Samantha Dale, a three-time national champion, Oceania champion and five-time Australian representative. Samantha has reached 6.31m in 2026 after a 2025 season that...

Liiljan Neerot

Happy birthday to Estonian combined-events athlete Liiljan Neerot, whose World Athletics résumé covers the pentathlon, heptathlon, hurdles, high jump, shot put and 800m. In other words, her actual specialty...

Maria Stavrianou

Happy birthday to Greek middle-distance runner Maria Stavrianou, who enters her twenties with a 2:09.77 personal best over 800m and useful range extending through 1500m. We have not yet...

Veronika Voykina

Happy birthday to Russian long-jump prospect Veronika Voykina, who reached the Russian U20 final last summer and produced a legal 5.77m jump for seventh place against a strong national...

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Snizhana Dzhychko

Happy birthday to Ukraine's sprinter Snizhana Dzhychko, who won the youth national title and took senior national silver in the very same race. At the...

Candela Gonzalez

Happy monumental birthday to Spain's sprinter Candela González, who closed one of the hardest seasons of her career by running the fastest outdoor 200m...

Ida-Louise Øverland

Happy birthday to Norway's sprinter Ida-Louise Øverland, a Paralympian whose career already includes both the 100m and the 200m on the biggest stage her...

Léa Da Silva

Happy birthday to France's 400m hurdler Léa Da Silva, who ran the fastest race of her life two months ago and has been hurdling...

Moriah Oliveira

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Happy birthday to the United States' 400m sprinter Moriah Oliveira, who has a habit of doing her very best running...