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 new [...]
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The 31th edition of the GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon was won by Kenyan Sammy Kiprono in a time of 1:01:10. Fellow countrymen Wilson Chebet and Joseph Kiptum secured the 2nd and 3rd places respectively. The women’s top place went to Ethiopian runner Amann Gobena who won in 1:11:40. Isabellah Andersson was 2nd while Kenyan Leah Malot [...]
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Finally, good news for Comrades lovers around the world. The event will be telecast live on the SABC 2 channel (South Africa only), finish line video will be available live on the Comrades website, and there is would be live Twitter action too. There will also be a “Track Your Runner” section on the website [...]
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This is how the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has threatened elite Indian athletes who want to take part in the 2010 Sunfeast World 10K run in Bangalore on May 23rd.
AFI Secretary-General Lalit Bhanot has written to the Karnataka Athletics Association (KAA) and the State Government stating: “the Sunfeast World 10K is not an AFI [...]
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Tyson Gay broke a less attempted world record, the 200 meters straight track one instead of the regular curved track which is the standard, running a 19.41 into a slight headwind at the Manchester, England at the specially laid out track. He broke the existing record of 19.5 set by Tommie Smith in 1966.
For the [...]
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It was a familiar story at the 2010 Great Manchester Run, with a lot promised, and little delivered. The last couple of years have seen a number of runs from legend Haile Gebrselassie where all the talk before the race is of breaking the world record, and after the run, well, things do not go [...]
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A new 12K world record was made at the 99th ING Bay to Breakers 12K, which is one of the world’s largest runs. Lineth Chepkurui of Kenya won the race in a time of 38:07 to break her own world record which she had set just two weeks ago at the Lilac Bloomsday run.
In the [...]
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Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia set a new Central Park record of 27:42 to win the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K on Saturday, May 15. Among the women, Buzunesh Deba, representing the West Side Runners, won the race in 33:09. More than 7,800 people finished the race.
Total Finishers: Men – 4111 Women – [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (May 12, 2010) — ING Bay to Breakers today announced 41 elite runners for its annual San Francisco footrace, including winner of last year’s ING Battle to the Breakers bonus Kenyan Sammy Kitwara who broke course and world-records by finishing in 33:31. He made race history in 2009 amid more than 62,000 participants, [...]
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New York — Rising American stars Bobby Curtis, Patrick Smyth, and Mo Trafeh will join three-time Olympian Abdi Abdirahman and four-time Chicago Marathon winner Khalid Khannouchi, who is looking to make his running comeback, at the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K on Saturday, May 15, in Central Park.
Race start: May 15, 2010 [...]
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