In one of the closest finishes in the history of the run, Ben St Lawrence has taken out the 40th Sun-Herald City2Surf presented by Westpac, beating Michael Shelley by one second. With a one-second margin, first across the finish line was last year’s runner-up, Ben St Lawrence, who became the first NSW male to win [...]
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IAAF – What was billed as a showdown between World Half Marathon record holder Zersenay Tadese and defending champion Isaac Macharia turned into the Deriba Merga show as the Ethiopian ran away with the win and a new 1:02:31 course record at the Bogota International Half Marathon on Sunday. And in the women’s race, Ethiopian [...]
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IAAF – Competing for the first time in Sicily, Zersenay Tadese, winner of the last four IAAF World Half Marathon titles and the World record holder over the distance at 58:23, took the honours at the 85th Giro di Castelbuono, one of the oldest road races in Europe. It’s a very challenging race, given the hilly [...]
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June 13, Bangalore – Bharath won the premier 5K-20K-5K event at the 2nd edition of the BSA Hercules Duathlon, a running-cycling event from Runners for Life, Bangalore with a time of 1 hour 17 mins 51 secs. Filippo Colucci was second in 1:18:19 and Matt Barrett third with 1:18:54. It was a repeat win for Bharath, who [...]
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Linet Masai of Kenya won the NYRR New York Mini 10K on Saturday, June 12. Emily Chebet of Kenya finished second, and Werknesh Kidane of Ethiopia finished third. More than 7,000 runners register for the race. The NRRR New York Mini 10K is an exclusive Women’s only race. This year saw 5,189 finishers, the second [...]
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Richard Limo of Kenya won the Rock and Roll Marathon at San Diego, with a time of 2:09:56. This was Limo’s first marathon and it was a moment to savor for him at the finish line. William Chebor of Kenya finished second in 2:10:13. Nicholas Arciniaga from Fountain Valley finished third in 2:11:47. The women’s race was won [...]
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Source: Stockholm Marathon – A record number of 15,468 runners started the 32nd edition of the Stockholm Marathon. For the first time in four years the participants were welcomed by favourable conditions, 19 degrees and almost no wind. The Kenyan duo of Hillary Chepchumba and Joseph Lagat pushed the pace after five kilometres and completed [...]
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Zimbabwe’s Stephen Muzhingi won the 85th edition of the Comrades Marathon, an 89KM down run, also called the Ultimate Human Race, between the cities of Peitermaritzburg and Durban in South Africa. It was a fantastic double for Muzhingi, who won the last years race too, as a novice runner. The rest of the 9 places in top-10 [...]
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Bangalore – Leaving behind much fancied opponents in the form of defending champion Deriba Merga, Paris Marathon winner Tadese Tola, and 3rd place finisher from 2009 Wilson Kipsang, 19 year old Titus Mbieshei of Kenya won the 3rd edition of the Sunfeast World 10K run in Bangalore. Mbieshei finished in 27:54. In the womens race, a [...]
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