By Steven Mills, @trackside2016
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Jemima Sumgong has been the perennial bridesmaid in Abbott World Marathon Majors races with runner-up finishes in the Boston, New York and Chicago Marathons to her name, and that banner win seemed an improbability with about eight kilometers remaining...
By Steven Mills, @trackside2016
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LONDON (24-Apr) -- Even without a world record or an Olympic title to his name, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has put together a record befitting the title of the greatest male marathon-runner of all-time. With his second victory in the...
Japhet Kosgei and Zsofia Erdelyi win in Duesseldorf, Hendrik Pfeiffer qualifies for Rio
Japhet Kosgei won the 14th edition of the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf. Taking into account the weather conditions with cold temperatures, wind and a couple of hail showers he clocked a fine time of 2:10:46. Defending champion...
Record numbers are expected to start the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon tomorrow morning, Sunday 24 April, after nearly 40,000 registered for the race over the last four days.
When registration desks at the London Marathon Expo at ExCeL London closed at 17:00 today, a total of 39,698 accepted applicants...
Sanga hopes to break Duesseldorf’s course record,
Ionescu and Ramos target national records
Patrick Sanga hopes to bounce back in style when he runs the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf on Sunday. The Kenyan missed out on the Hannover Marathon two weeks ago because of a visa problem and now intends to...
The 2016 IAAF Diamond League starts in two weeks’ time and the excitement is already starting to mount.
The traditional opening meeting in Doha has assembled some of the sport’s top stars to get proceedings underway for the seventh year of the series. World champions Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Dafne...
World champion Nicholas Bett heads a 400m hurdles line-up at the 2016 Shanghai Diamond League that could even put the meeting’s favourite event, the sprint hurdles, in the shade.
Bett produced one of the shocks of the World Championships in Beijing last summer when he won gold in the one-lap...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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LONDON (21-Apr) -- Of the 21 athletes on the elite women's start list for Sunday's Virgin Money London Marathon, there is only one American: Sara Hall of Redding, Calif. The 33 year-old will be running in her fourth marathon...
Boston Marathon Belongs to Ethiopia This Year
By David Monti, @d9monti
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BOSTON (18-Apr) -- Athletes from Ethiopia dominated the 120th Boston Marathon here today, sweeping both the men's and women's divisions for the first time in the same year, and capturing five of the...
