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By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CHICAGO (11-Oct) -- The Windy City lived up to its name here today, further challenging the elite athletes competing in the 38th Bank of America Chicago Marathon who had to run this Abbott World Marathon Majors event for the...
By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (10-Oct) -- In running, careers have a funny way of coming full circle. Sometimes when an athlete least expects it, she finds herself back where she began. Such is the case for Caroline Rotich this weekend, back at the...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CHICAGO (09-Oct) -- With a back to basics approach this year, race director Carey Pinkowski announced on August 26, that pacemakers would be eliminated from this year's Bank of America Chicago Marathon, hoping to refocus fan and media interest...
(c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (08-Oct) -- On a recent afternoon at the Boston Athletic Association's offices here downtown, Emma Bates sat alongside her boyfriend and spoke of the future. Steps to her left stood the Boston Marathon's iconic silver trophy, complete with the famed silver...
By David Monti (c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved CHICAGO (08-Oct) -- Wearing her red and white Athletics West kit, 28 year-old Joan Benoit stepped to the starting line of the Chicago Marathon 30 years ago here this month as the first-ever women's Olympic Marathon champion. She was simply...
Paul Koech turns to the road while Arne Gabius hopes for another PB in the ASICS Grand 10 Berlin Kenya’s world-class steeplechaser Paul Koech turns to the road, when he will run the ASICS Grand 10 Berlin this Sunday. There is a group of strong African runners among his rivals...
Ondoro, Bise Win Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon Huddle, Chelanga Win USATF 10 Mile Titles St. Paul, Minn. – October 4, 2015 – Dominic Ondoro of Kenya and Abraha Serkelam Bise of Ethiopia won today's Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon held in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ondoro won the men's race in 2:11:16....
Eliud Kipchoge runs world leading time of 2:04:00 while Gladys Cherono breaks the 2:20 barrier with 2:19:25 A Kenyan double in a major marathon is hardly unusual but there was a majestic quality about the manner of victory for both Eliud Kipchoge and Gladys Cherono on the streets of Berlin in...
Seventy-two of our most talented athletes have today been extended the offer of National Athlete Support Structure (NASS) membership by Athletics Australia. Capturing Beijing 2015 medallists Fabrice Lapierre (NSW, long jump) and Jared Tallent (Vic, race walk), as well as the Olympic champion Sally Pearson (Qld, 100m hurdles), the NASS...
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Matthew Denny has broken through with a huge throw in Townsville, QLD. Denny threw 80.48m to unofficially break the Australian Junior Record for the hammer throw. It was the first time Denny had thrown over 80m for the hammer throw (6kg), after previously throwing 79.11m in Germany back in...