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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Kenyan Sylvester Teimet won the 81st Dong-A Seoul International Marathon 2010 in what turned out to be a closely fought affair with fellow countryman Gilbert Kirwa. In the process, Teimet also broke the existing course record of 2:07:06, winning in 2:06:49. Kirwa was just 10 seconds off to finish in 2:06:59. The presence of a strong [...]
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