Running

Wisconsin sprinter Kenny Bednarek won his second silver medal at the Summer Olympic Games on Thursday. 

Sprinter Kenny Bednarek can outrun the fastest athletes in the world. But, before the track and field star won a silver medal in the men’s 200 meter event in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, he was a kid racing his brother in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Now, he’s heading to his second Olympic Games…

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter takes us through the top names with Wisconsin connections in this year’s summer Olympics

Martinus Evans has run hundreds of races, started the Slow AF Running Club and written a book to encourage non-elite runners. He spoke with Larry Meiller about some of the challenges and triumphs he’s encountered in his beloved sport.

When Amanda Braun became the director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013, women represented about 1 in every 5 athletic directors in college sports. Today, a decade […]

Tribal youth from across Wisconsin are taking part in the 2023 North American Indigenous Games this week in Nova Scotia, Canada. More than 5,000 Indigenous participants from more than 750 […]

At an early age, Kenny Bednarek knew he was an explosive runner. As a middle schooler in Rice Lake, a small town in northwest Wisconsin, he was pitted against high […]

Endurance athlete Brad Birkel took a little more than three days in October to run over 200 miles nearly nonstop. More impressive is where he ran it and how. Propelling […]

Participation in Wisconsin high school sports remained below pre-pandemic levels last year, according to newly released figures from an industry group. The National Federation of State High School Associations found […]

Molly Seidel finished with a bronze medal at the Tokyo Games in only her third career marathon. The American runner from Wisconsin was surprised by the medal after a sweltering […]