St. Paul, Minn. – October 9, 2016 – After 31 years, Phil Coppess, the humble factory worker from Iowa, is no longer the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon record holder. Kenya’s Dominic Ondoro broke the 1985 record by more than a minute, stopping the clock at 2:08:51. Ondoro outpaced the reigning...
By Chris Lotsbom, @chrislotsbom (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (09-Oct) -- Experience proved to make the difference here at the rain-soaked 16th edition of the B.A.A. Half-Marathon, presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Kenyans Daniel Salel and Mary Wacera pushed through relentless rainfall and...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved Kirui, Kiplagat Prevail At Chicago Marathon CHICAGO (09-Oct) -- On a picture-perfect fall day here, Kenya's Abel Kirui and Florence Kiplagat won the 39th Bank of America Chicago Marathon using completely different tactics. Kirui, twice the world marathon champion,...
Confident But Cautious, Sambu Ready For Marathon Debut By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CHICAGO (08-Oct) -- The conference room at the Chicago Hilton was noisy as reporters scrambled yesterday to chat up the elite athletes running Sunday's Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Most of the...
Here is a selection of YouTube videos we found that relate to the top 9 Fastest Marathoners on Record-Eligible. A few of the races weren't available in any language or quality. Hence we've selected a variety you can watch and or scroll through that tell the story of the race. Number...
Episode 12 RUN SCHOOL: Stability Training for running RT’s Run School featuring Mark Blomeley. Mark is a strength and conditioning coach with over 10 years experience in the sports and fitness industry. Currently, in Brisbane, he is a specialist strength and conditioning coach for runners from international standard elites to...
The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) is delighted to announce that Ethiopian Marathon Legend Haile Gebrselassie will be honoured with the AIMS Lifetime Achievement Award at the fourth annual AIMS Best Marathon Runner’ (BMR) Awards Dinner Reception to be held in the birth place of the...
Sixty-two able-bodied and forty para-athletes have today been extended the offer of National Athlete Support Structure (NASS) membership by Athletics Australia. Capturing Rio 2016 Olympic Games medallists Jared Tallent (Vic) and Dane Bird-Smith (Qld) and Paralympic champions Scott Reardon (ACT), Brayden Davidson (SA) and James Turner (NSW), the NASS is...
The following world records have recently been ratified… World U20 record Men's javelin: 86.48m Neeraj Chopra (IND) Bydgoszcz 23 Jul 2016 Previous: 84.69m Zigismunds Sirmais (LAT) Bauska 22 Jun 2011 World records Women’s 100m hurdles: 12.20 (0.3m/s) Kendra Harrison (USA) London 22 Jul 2016 Previous: 12.21 (0.7m/s) Yordanka Donkova (BUL) Stara Zagora 20 Aug 1988 Women’s...
Kenenisa Bekele after winning Berlin: “I proved what I can do“ It was one of the best duels in marathon history and with his victory Kenenisa Bekele proved himself once and for all that he is a world-class performer at the distance. The 34-year-old Ethiopian’s win in 2:03:03 in the BMW...
