As per Wikipedia, the Honolulu Marathon is world’s sixth largest marathon. A unique feature of this marathon is the craze amongst the Japanese runners to take part in this race, with Japan contributing to a majority of runners, pretty unique for a marathon in a country having a majority of runners from another country. In [...]
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The 24th Pune International Marathon reportedly went without glitches which had seen last years race end in total chaos. The run was flagged off by Union Minister of State for External Affairs minister Shashi Tharoor and Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia was also present for the glam quotient. Next year will see the 25th Silver Jubilee [...]
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Luke Kibet broke the course record at the Singapore Marathon, with a winning time which was about an amazing 2 minutes faster than last years time. In fact it was a Kenyan 1-2-3 as they sweeped all the podium places at the event. Kibet clocked 2:11:24 which was almost two minutes faster than his winner timefrom [...]
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Silas Sang of Kenya battled compatriot 2009 World Marathon silver medalist Emmanuel Mutai for the title in the 11th edition of the Portugal Half Marathon. Sang won the race in 1:00:20. Both Sang and Mutai got personal bests. In the women’s event, Helena Kirop, also of Kenya, won in 1:10:26. Runners from Portugal were also [...]
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The Cologne (Koeln) Marathon is an annual marathon held in Cologne, Germany. Since October 1997 the marathon was held annual in early October. (Only in the years 2004 and 2005 it was held in late September). The event also sees a contest for inline skaters. They start ahead of the runners and try to finish [...]
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It was the first time that a sub 2:09 was run on the Canadian soil at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, and it was surely long time coming with all the Kenyans around who can do this on a day in day out basis. So, it was not suprise that Kenneth Mungara from Kenya, the defending [...]
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It was a familiar story at the Idea Chennai Half Marathon 2009, with Kenyans dominating both the mens and womens divisions. John Wembusa, ranked 42nd in the world, won the mens event while Nelly Jepkurui (ranked 15th) won the womens event.As per the organizers, about 60,000-70,000 runners took part in the various races on the day, [...]
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It was a great return to good times when Martin Lel of Kenya won his second BUPA Great North Run, officially the world’s largest half marathon and an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. Lel, who is this year’s Lisbon Half Marathon winner, finished in a creditable time of 59:32, and in the process wiping 22 [...]
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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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