Tag: Kurt Fearnley

He crawled the Kokoda Track to raise awareness of men’s health. Now Kurt Fearnley is preparing for his next great adventure. The wheelchair athlete will compete in the Sydney to Hobart, raising money for children’s hospitals.

He’s already won the event four times, but Kurt Fearnley is desperate to claim New York Marathon number five this Sunday. And in an ominous warning to his rivals, the Newcastle-based athlete says he’s fitter than he’s been in the last three years.

Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley is on a plane to Chicago, determined to take back his wheelchair marathon course record. In fact he said he’s never felt better in his entire career.

Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley has won most of the world’s toughest races, but he’s about to enter unchartered territory. He’ll fly to Canada this week for a 10k warm up race, before tackling the famed Boston Marathon for the first time.

Newcastle’s Kurt Fearnley has further confirmed his status as our country’s greatest wheelchair athlete, winning his 7th straight Australia Day 10k in Sydney. Fearnley was joined at the start by a host of rivals from around the world, but the defending champion soon left them in his wake. Having set the race record back in…

Commonwealth and Olympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley is on his way to the US, looking to defend his New York marathon crown. He’s won the event four years in a row, and has no plans to slow down.

Kurt Fearnley’s defence of his London Marathon is up in the air tonight, simply because he’s not. Australia’s top wheelchair athlete was supposed to fly to England yesterday, but is now on a long list of people waiting for a seat.

For the first time in years, Newcastle-based paralympian Kurt Fearnley is admitting to nerves as he prepares to defend his New York Marathon crown. Now back home after claiming a third straight Chicago Marathon, he’s got less than two weeks to recover before heading to the Big Apple.