Got a great opportunity to interact with the top contenders for the 5th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon at the press conference to introduce the Mens Elite athletes. Alonwith the winners from 2008 event and 2009 Boston winner Deriba Merga, other athletes present included Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang and Wilson Chebet. (L to R): [...]
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This years ING New York City Marathon is going to set a new benchmark in the word of marathon racing. For the record, this years race will have more that 40,000 runners to establish a new world record for the largest number of participants starting the race. More than 50% of the New York field [...]
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This years ING New York City Marathon is going to be an exciting one. The largest marathon in the world will see a return of Paula Radcliffe to marathon running after one year, and giving her a tough fight would be top class runners in the form of Salina Kosgei from Kenya, Dire Tune and [...]
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John Komen won the 24th edition of the Venice Marathon on Oct 25th breaking the course record with 2:08:13, thanks to an outstanding second half in which he ran a negative split on a very difficult section of the course. Anne Kosgei won the women’s race in her new PB of 2:27:46. The Venice Marathon [...]
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Rwandan Dieudonné Disi produced an astonishing finish to win the 31th edition of Marseille-Cassis “Classique Internationale” half marathon run, on Oct 25th in 1:00:21. Meseret Mengustu (Ethiopia) took the women’s race in 1:10:35. The Marseille-Cassis “Classique Internationale” is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race. Some 12,000 runners lined-up at 9:30 am at Marseille’s Velodrome in [...]
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The 24 year old Kenyan Gilbert Kirwa won the Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon in a course record of 2:06:14. He beat his much fancied countryman and last year’s winner Robert Cheruiyot Kiprono to second place in 2:06:23. William Kiplagat crossed the line in third place in 2:07:05. Kiprono and Cheruiyot were locked up together running side by [...]
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The BUPA Great South Run is a 10 mile run, and 26 year old Mo Farah has become the first Briton since 1996 to win this race outsprinting South Africa’s Scott Mokoka to the finish in a time of 46:25. Kenya’s Luke Kibet, a former marathon world champion was third. Farah became the first British man to [...]
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Bupa Great South Run 2007 World marathon champion Luke Kibet, after a lean spell, is aiming to regain his BUPA Great South Run title in Portsmouth, UK, on Oct 25th. Kibet who was third last year returns to the English south coast venue next Sunday (25) for the 20th edition of the 10 Miles which [...]
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The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, for long touted as among the top ten marathons in the world, has been honoured by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) with the prestigious Gold Label for the year 2010. In 2009, the event was a Silver Label race. With this honour, the event joins the elite group [...]
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