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Choosing the best online bookmaker for something is not an easy task, especially in a country where there are all kinds of sites to pick from. Some bookies specialize in different areas, whereas others try to offer good options for everything in an attempt to lure more clients.

Although finding the right bookmaker can be a challenging process, some of the best reviews of these operators always come in handy. Interestingly, Efirbet can help you make the right choice of bookmaker because the site includes reviews by people who follow all operators up close. Therefore, those who like specific sports, such as athletics, will have access to the best names in the business.

Speaking of betting on athletics, the latter is not the go-to sport for most, which means that not all bookmakers offer quality services. However, some brands are a lot more special and have a variety of additional options. So, lets learn more about them and see what we can expect.

It starts by checking the number of athletics events you can bet on

The fact that some bookmarks only offer the biggest athletic competitions probably does not come as a surprise. Since this sport is still growing in popularity among casual punters, most bookmakers do not feel the need to add more options. Consequently, gamblers often only have access to the most popular events, such as the Olympic Games and other tournaments.

Even though wagering on those things has its advantages because there are slightly more markets to choose from and the odds are good, some people prefer to punt on lesser-known events, especially if they have experience. Doing this will allow them to find even better options. However, the only way to do that is by finding an online bookmaker that provides those kinds of things.

Check if the bookie sponsors any of the big athletics events

Experienced gamblers who know a thing or two about athletics know that some tournaments offer many more options than others. However, the only way to make the most of them is by choosing a bookmaker that sponsors any of the big events.

The fact that a given site is the official sponsor of a specific competition means that it will usually offer at least a couple of extras. Bonuses, for example, are the most common thing that sets apart some brands from others. With that said, certain features also help a lot because they will let users have more chances of winning.

If you dont have access to a brand that sponsors the specific race you want, try looking for a known operator in the business. Usually, those sites will have better things to provide to their clients than the rest.

The features are key

The last thing that you should definitely pay attention to before choosing an iGaming operator for betting on athletics is the different features. Nowadays, most sites have at least a couple of options, like live betting, but they do not offer it for all sports. Sadly, athletics is often not on the list, even though it has many fans.

Yet, those who conduct their own research and find an iGaming operator that has good options for betting on athletics will always have access to at least a few options for this sport. Live betting is just one because the site may also offer live streaming.

Cash Out is also among the leading features in sports betting, but it is less popular in athletics. In fact, some bookies will remove it on purpose because it will make predicting athletic bets even easier.

American sprinter showboats in the home straight on way to 22.07 victory over 200m at Kip Keino Classic

ShaCarri Richardsons great start to the 2023 season continued in Nairobi on Saturday (May 13) when she coasted to an emphatic win in the womens 200m in 22.07 (1.7).

Building a big lead over her rivals around the bend, the 23-year-old began aquaplaning in the final 30 metres with both arms held aloft as she finished well clear of fellow Americans Kyra Jefferson and Shannon Ray.

Richardsons victory at this Continental Tour Gold meeting in Nairobi follows her impressive 100m win over Shericka Jackson and Dina Asher-Smith at the opening Diamond League meeting of 2023 in Doha last week.

Amid speculation that Richardson had been kept out of the 100m due to the presence in that event of world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the American said: After being kicked out of the 100m in Botswana (two weeks earlier) and also here in Kenya, I knew I had to do my best. No one asked me to run the 100m so therefore I did what I knew I had to do in the 200m.

Ultimately Fraser-Pryce pulled out of the 100m in Nairobi on the eve of her race with a slight injury, with Twanisha Terry taking victory in that event in 10.86 (2.5).

Also making use of the high altitude at the venue, Ferdinand Omanyala stormed to a world-leading 9.84 in the mens 100m on home soil despite a 0.5m/sec headwind. Americans Kenny Bednarek (9.98) and Marvin Bracy (10.03) were second and third.

Further victories by athletes from the host nation included Mary Moraa, who won the womens 800m impressively in 1:58.85, while world under-20 champion Reynold Cheruiyot ran a world-leading 3:32.01 to beat Abel Kipsang in the mens 1500m.

A fast mens 800m, meanwhile, saw Emmanuel Wanyonyi beat Wycliffe Kinyamal and Timothy Cheruiyot with a meeting record and world-leading 1:43.32. Beatrice Chebet of Kenya was also in form as she won the womens 5000m in 15:15.85.

In the mens 400m, Muzala Samukonga from Zambia set a meeting record of 44.25, while Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine cleared a world-leading height of 2.00m in the womens high jump.

In the latter event, Laura Zialor of Britain finished runner-up with a good early-season mark of 1.90m, missing her PB by just one centimetre.

In the hammer, Polands Wojciech Nowicki won the mens event with a world lead of 79.78m while Janee Kassanavoid of the United States threw 74.25m to win the womens event as world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk finished third with 70.27m in her first competition since last June due to an injury sustained while tackling a thief who tried to break into her car.

Racing on home soil, the ultra-runner shaves six seconds off his best time for 100 kilometres

Lithuanian Aleksandr Sorokin broke the 100km world record in the Worlds Fastest Run, powered by Nord Security, in Vilnius on Sunday (May 14).

The 41-year-old clocked 6hr 5min 35sec to take six seconds off his previous world record set last year.

I am extremely happy that I managed to break a world record and that I did so in my native city, he said. Vilnius is the city where I started running and its my great pleasure to thank it by making history right here.

Sorokins world records include 100 miles (10:51:39) and the longest distances in set certain times 6 hours (98,496km), 12 hours (177,410km) and 24 hours (319,614km).

Together with Sorokin, almost 30 of the worlds top ultra-runners took part in the record-breaking race, which took place near Cyber City, which is located in the up-and-coming Naujamiestis district of Vilnius. The track was certified by World Athletics and approved by the International Association of Ultrarunners and the Athletics Federation of Lithuania.

This event and Aleksandrs fantastic result creates additional interest for Cyber City and the whole neighbourhood, says Laura Tyrell, head of PR at Nord Security, the title sponsor of The Worlds Fastest Run event. This record will always be a symbol of how a strong will, devotion and a goal-driven attitude is the way to success, whatever career you choose. That always was and will continue to be the spirit of this place where we build the most innovative cybersecurity tools for global markets.

For some winners at Highgate, victory has been their crowning moment. Yet at other times it acts as a springboard to even greater things

Since Eddie McGinley won the low-key first staging of the Night of the 10,000m PBs at Parliament Hill in north London in 2013, the event has gone from strength to strength and featured a whos who of champions.

Weather conditions have varied over the years but Steph Twell (31:08.13) and Yeman Crippa (27:16.18) own the fastest times in the annual event, which is organised by Highgate Harriers and part of the new On Track Nights series.

Many of the winners and those hot on their heels went on to make their mark in major championship 10,000m races, marathons and even triathlons. For others, victory at the Night of the 10,000m PBs proved their finest moment.

Here is our Highgate hall of fame

Jo Pavey 2014

The popular West Country athlete was already an established international and aged 40 when she clocked 32:11.04 ahead of European cross-country champion Sophie Duarte of France to win the womens race at the 2014 Night of the 10,000m PBs. But this was Paveys first race since giving birth to her second child eight months earlier and her first track race since the 2012 Olympics.

Pavey later joked that her Exeter Harriers singlet was older than most of her rivals. And victory set her up for a superb summer, too, where the veteran runner won the European 10,000m title in Zurich and Commonwealth 5000m bronze in Glasgow.

Andy Vernon 2014

Like Jo Pavey, victory for Andy Vernon at Highgate in 2014 set him up for some of the best major championship running of his life a few months later. The Aldershot runner clocked 28:26.59 at the Night of the 10,000m PBs to beat Chris Thompson but later that summer he won European 10,000m silver behind Mo Farah and 5000m bronze as well in Zurich.

Jonny Mellor 2015

After finishing behind Andy Vernon and Chris Thompson in 2014, the Liverpool Harrier returned 12 months later to win in 28:46.80 ahead of Dewi Griffiths. Mellor would later run a marathon best of 2:10:03 in Seville in 2020 and, after a number of championship selection disappointments, he finished sixth in the Commonwealth Games marathon last year after earlier winning the English trial in style in Manchester in 2:10:46.

Jess Andrews 2016

With Olympic selection at stake, Jess Andrews enjoyed the run of her life to clock 31:58.00 ahead of Linet Masai of Kenya and Beth Potter. The 23-year-old had been overshadowed in her own club Aldershot, Farnham & District during her teenage years by talents such as Steph Twell, Emelia Gorecka and Charlotte Purdue, but she rose to the occasion at Highgate in 2016 to claim a memorable victory.

Later that summer she finished seventh in the European 10,000m in Amsterdam and 16^th in the Olympics in Rio in 31:35.92. But after marrying Tour de France cyclist Dan Martin she retired at the age of just 24 in August 2017 to enjoy life as a mum.

Beth Potter 2017

Tri-tastic boomed the AW headline after Beth Potter proved that swim-bike-run training was good enough to defeat the full-time runners. The Scottish athlete clocked 32:04.63 and went on to finish 21st at the World Championships in London that summer before committing completely to triathlon where she went on to become European champion in 2019 and Commonwealth bronze medallist in 2022.

In 2021 Potter gave further proof that triathlon training can produce brilliant running results, too, when she set a world 5km record of 14:41 in Lancashire, although it was unfortunately never ratified.

As is often the case, there were a few gems buried further down the fields too in 2017. The winner of the womens B race that same night, for example, was Georgina Schwiening, who clocked a modest 35:17.29 but the former world junior duathlon champion has improved her marathon best from 2:58 in 2017 to 2:26:18 this year.

Kojo Kyereme 2015

The Shaftesbury Barnet veteran won the B race in 2017 at the age of 40 in 30:08.94 ahead of a field that included a young Jack Rowe. But thats not all, as Kyereme is something of a Highgate legend as hes the only runner to race in all of the events since the meeting started 10 years ago.

Kyereme, who works as a cardio physiologist, told AW: The format from the beginning was very good. The moment I stepped off the track (in 2013) I was keen to come back the next year and every year its grown.

Richard Ringer 2018

Held on the same day as the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and the FA Cup final where Chelsea beat Man Utd 1-0, the Night of the 10,000m PBs reached new heights in 2018 on a sun-drenched evening where fire jugglers, live bands and an RAF flypast added to the atmosphere as BBC covered the event live for the first time.

The event incorporated the European 10,000m Cup, too, with Richard Ringer of Germany out-kicking Morhad Amdouni of France in a pulsating mens race as Alex Yee pipped Andy Vernon and Chris Thompson in a dramatic three-way sprint to finish top Brit. This is the best track race Ive ever done! Ringer told AW. The energy is crazy!

He later went on to win the European marathon crown on home soil in Munich in 2020 and clocked 2:08:08 in Hamburg last month, whereas runner-up Amdouni won the 2018 European 10,000m title in Berlin and last year ran a French marathon record of 2:05:22 in Paris.

Lonah Salpeter 2018

The Kenyan-born Israeli athlete was little known at the time but AW discovered at Highgate in 2018 that she had been a nanny to the Kenyan ambassador in Israel before becoming a full-time athlete. Winning in 31:33.03 despite erratic pacemaking, Salpeter would go on to greater things.

A few months after her Night of the 10,000m PBs win she won the European 10,000m title in Berlin. Moving to the marathon, she won the 2020 Tokyo Marathon in a swift 2:17:45, finished runner-up at the 2022 New York City Marathon and was third in last months Boston Marathon.

Steph Twell 2019

Making a powerful move on the penultimate lap, Steph Twell surged clear of her rivals to win by seven seconds in 31:08.13. Behind, European champion Lonah Salpeter was runner-up with 10,000m rookie Eilish McColgan in third.

A few months later Twell ran 2:26:40 at the Frankfurt Marathon and earned selection for her third Olympics, where she finished 68th in Japan.

Yeman Crippa 2019 and 2022

The Italian was third in his Highgate debut in 2018 but returned in 2019 to clock 27:49.79 in wet conditions and came back three years later to win again in an even faster time of 27:16.18 ahead of Sam Atkin and Emile Cairess.

Now he is one of the worlds finest distance runners as holder of Italian records at 5000m (13:02.26) and 10,000m (27:10.76), whereas in 2022 he won the European 10,000m title in Munich and clocked 2:08:57 on his marathon debut in Milan last month.

Roll of honour
Year Men / Women
2013 Eddie McGinley 29:53.37 / Louise Perrio 36:11.55
2014 Andy Vernon 28:26.59 / Jo Pavey 32:11.04
2015 Jonny Mellor 28:46.80 / Rhona Auckland 32:28.32
2016 Ross Millington 28:28.20 / Jess Martin (née Andrews) 31:58.00
2017 Andy Vernon 28:21.15 / Beth Potter 32:04.63
2018 Richard Ringer 27:36.52 / Lonah Salpeter 31:33.03
2019 Yeman Crippa 27:49.79 / Steph Twell 31:08.13
2020-21 no races due to the pandemic
2022 Yeman Crippa 27:16.18 / Jess Warner-Judd 31:22.24

Who will be crowned as the winners in 2023?