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Berlin Marathon 2009 Results: Haile’s 4th win!

September 20, 2009

Haile Gebrselassie won the Berlin Marathon for a fourth consecutive time, in reportedly warmer conditions, with a time of 2:06:08, and the world record attempt also did not take off. Francis Kiprop from Kenya was second in 2:07:04, recording his personal best in the process. Negari Terfa from Ethiopia was third in 2:07:40, also his personal [...]

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real,-Berlin Marathon 2009 Preview: Haile, Haile!

September 8, 2009

On September 20th, it will be the 36th edition of one of the greatest marathons in the world, the real,-Berlin Marathon 2009. Voted recently as the Marathon of the Decade by IAAF, Berlin is known for its super fast flat course, and a witness to as many as 6 world records over the last 20 [...]

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Womens Marathon at Berlin World Championships 2009: Xue Bai wins

August 23, 2009

As results come in from the Womens marathon at the World Athletics Championships at Berlin, it looks like China has come out on tops overall with some great finishes to take up the team world cup, while Japan and Russia came second and third respectively.
It was Xue Bai who won the event, with a time [...]

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Berlin World Championships 2009: Kirui wins Mens Marathon

August 22, 2009

Results/updates from the live blog at berlin.iaaf.org

Abel Kirui wins the World Championship marathon in 2:06:55, a Championship record.
Here comes Mutai, silver in 2:07:48.
Here comes Kebede for the bronze. Kebede 2:08:35.
Tsegay just seven seconds back for fourth.
Yes, it looks like Cheruiyot for fifth. Here he comes: 2:10:46.
Sixth will be a Japanese runner: Atushi Sato. Well done [...]

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Usain Bolts to 200m World Record of 19.19

August 21, 2009

Two magical nights, two World Records. And just like Beijing, it could be one more magical performance left with the 4*100M relay. Running into the 0.3m/s headwind, Bolt once again took out 0.11s out of the existing world record to record a 19.19s finish in the 200M, just like the 0.11s he took off from [...]

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Berlin World Championships 2009: Marathon Preview

August 20, 2009

There has already been a lot of excitement at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, some due to what happened (like Usain Bolt’s 9.58 WR in 100m), or some due to what did not happen (like Yelena Isinbayeva’s miss at the pole vault). Since this blog mostly covers long distance events, I [...]

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Usain Bolts to 100m World Record of 9.58

August 17, 2009

Now that Usain Bolt has done what only he was capable of doing, setting the 100 meter world record of 9:58 in Berlin Athletics World Championships, I had to put the video of the world record on my blog, not just for blog readers, but for me, as a key historical event in athletics, and [...]

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