Two Oceans Marathon is a 56KM long ultra in the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and proclaimed as the world’s most beautiful marathon by its organizers. This year will be the 41st anniversary of this event. It is really huge in popularity, not just amongst South African runners, but internationally as well. This [...]
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60 days to go for the 85th edition of the Comrades Marathon in Pietermaritzburg-Durban, South Africa. CMA has just released the March newsletter. The key points: 23,565 entries reached, the second largest field ever after 24,500 runners in 2000 Most international participants ever – 1084 runners from 76 countries. I am proud to mention that [...]
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Pre-race favorite Eshetu Wondimu of Ethiopia won the 30th edition of the Berlin Half Marathon in a time of 60:16. The 2007 course record of sub 59 of Patrick Makau was however under no threat. In the womens race, Pasalia Kipkoech of Kenya emerged the winner with a 69:43 win. Berlin Half Marathon – Results [...]
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Joel Kemboi Kimurer of Kenya won the Prague Half Marathon 2010, in a time of 60:09, spectacular, but these days all organizers aspire for is a sub 60 half marathon finish. The womens race was won by Rose Kosgei of Kenya in 1:09:57. Prague Half Marathon is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. Results Summary [...]
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John Kemboi of Kenya won the 31st edition of the the Bank of America Shamrock Suffle 8K, breaking the tape in 23:39. The women’s race was won by Tera Moody of Colorado Springs, USA, in 27:21. A record field of more than 25,000 runners was on the road for the event. The flat and fast Bank [...]
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Los Angeles: Wesley Korir of Kenya won the 25th edition of the Honda LA Marathon 2010 in a time of 2:09:19, the third fastest time ever at this event. The womens race was won by Edna Kiplagat of Kenya in 2:25:38 in what was just her second marathon ever! For the first time after 5 [...]
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It was a case of two debutants winning at New York City winning the 2010 NYC Half Marathon. In the mens race, Peter Kamais grabbed the lead at the halfway point, and then just kept going strongly to finish in 59:53, a new course record. It was a case of not to be for Haile [...]
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Siraj Gena won the Rome Marathon 2010 in 2:08:39, and paid tribute to the legendary marathon runner and countryman Abebe Bikila by taking off his shoes and sprinting the last 500 meters of the course barefoot. Bikila had won the Rome Olympic Marathon 50 years back in 1960 running barefoot all the way. Both these achievements are [...]
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Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea has just won the 20th edition of the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon 2010, smashing the world record half marathon time of Sammy Wanjiru of 58:33 by 10 seconds to finish in 58:23. Kenyan pair of Sammy Kitwara and Emmanuel Mutai finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. Here’s what a Wikipedia article had to [...]
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Tanvir Kazmi is a passionate runner and has been blogging about marathon running, sharing news and updates since 2005 ... read more »
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