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Deep Chand of Rajputana Rifles won the Men’s marathon at the Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon in a time of 2:22:33. The Women’s marathon was won by Shukanya Mall in 2:59:58. About 5,000 runners took part in the various runs. The route for the marathon was the same as that for the upcoming Commonwealth Games [...]
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This marathon, which started off in Delhi as the Rath Marathon in 1982, and recently had a rebirth in the form of Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon, will be held on Feb 7th, 2010. The last couple of years, the route they have used has been advertised as the proposed route for the Commonwealth Games 2010 Marathon [...]
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Merga retains men’s crown; world champ Keitany breaks course record
As expected, it was the Ethiopians and Kenyans who battled for the top positions in both the men’s and women’s action of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday. If Derbia Merga from Ethiopia dominated the men’s 21km race to emerge victorious, the winner in the [...]
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Got a great opportunity to interact with the top contenders for the 5th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon at the press conference to introduce the Mens Elite athletes. Alonwith the winners from 2008 event and 2009 Boston winner Deriba Merga, other athletes present included Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang and Wilson Chebet.
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The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, for long touted as among the top ten marathons in the world, has been honoured by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) with the prestigious Gold Label for the year 2010. In 2009, the event was a Silver Label race. With this honour, the event joins the elite group [...]
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Organizers of ADHM have lined up some big stars for the 2009 event. This includes the complete podium from the last years event which saw an amazing performance with all the top 3 runners finishing under 1 hour mark, and Deriba Merga of Ethiopia running the fastest time of the year in 59:15.
Last years podium [...]
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Yesterday, I received the acceptance letter from the event organizers of the Delhi Half Marathon (both email as well as the paper), and also the event booklet with details like the route map, start time, and other arrangements for the race day. Since I was a “really” quick registrant, I got a running number of [...]
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Now this is some breaking news about the king of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, coming to Sadi Dilli for running at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Nov 1st!
The actor, who is a Delhite himself, is euphoric over the idea of running with Delhi for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in November. Shah Rukh was [...]
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The second edition of the group run for the Delhi Runners group will take place on September 20th at Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri. The first edition saw about 35 runners run various distances upto the half marathon on Aug 29th, and while that event was inside the park, this one will be on the road outside, [...]
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I did a poll recently on our running group Delhi Runners about the favorite running routes of the members. This was done with the intent of deciding the prospective locations to hold the monthly Delhi Runners Half Marathon runs, the first of which happened recently in Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri. In this post, let me share the results of [...]
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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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