By David Monti, @d9monti
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CHICAGO (06-Oct) -- Diego Estrada came here last year to the Bank of America Chicago Marathon with high hopes. The 2012 Olympian for Mexico, who now represents the United States, had dropped out of the 2016 USA Olympic Trials...
By David Monti, @d9monti
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Rupp, Dibaba Dominate At Bank of America Chicago Marathon
CHICAGO (08-Oct) -- With powerful second half performances, Galen Rupp and Tirunesh Dibaba won the Bank of America Chicago Marathon here handily, overwhelming strong fields on a warm and sunny day...
By Rich Sands, @sands
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NEW YORK (10-Oct) -- The darlings of American marathon running are heading back to New York, hoping to write momentous chapters in their already impressive biographies. For Meb Keflezighi, the TCS New York City Marathon will be the final...
Sifan Hassan's world mile record of 4:12.33 and Samuel Tefera's 3:31.04 world indoor 1500m record have been ratified.
Hassan, the European record holder in the 3000m, 5000m and half marathon, signalled her intentions to claim the standard over the mile distance on the eve of the Herculis EBS IAAF Diamond...
Getu Feleke is the man with the fastest credentials going into the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 29. The 30-year-old Ethiopian has a highly impressive best of 2:04:50 and also ran a superb course record of 2:05:41 in the 2014 Vienna City Marathon. His compatriot Feyse Tadese is the fastest starter in the...
Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei kept her stellar 2017 momentum alive at the Valencia Trinidad Alfonso Half Marathon, taking one second off her own world record* to win the IAAF Gold Label road race in 1:04:51 on Sunday (22).
After Saturday’s technical meeting, it became clear that a serious attack on her current world record was on the...
Vivian Cheruiyot is ready to run fast in Sunday’s Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. "I am grateful to have been invited to run my second marathon in Frankfurt,“ said the reigning 5,000 m Olympic Champion during a press conference in Frankfurt on Thursday. "I have prepared for this race for three...
The Mainova Frankfurt Marathon has been a springboard for a number of promising marathon runners in the past. The most prominent example is Wilson Kipsang, who won in Frankfurt with 2:04:57 in 2010 and then returned a year later, missing the world record by only four seconds and his time 2:03:42 remains the...
Shura Kitata Tola of Ethiopia and Kenya’s Vivian Cheryuiot won the top prizes at the 36th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. Kitata chopped almost two minutes off his personal best in difficult conditions while Cheruiyot, the reigning Olympic 5,000m champion but now concentrating on road racing, improved her...
Ethiopian Shura Kitata Tola and Kenya’s Vivian Cheryuiot took the 36th edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. There were strong results by European men, headed by Britain’s Dewi Griffiths who produced a 2:09:49 finish for fifth place in his debut. In difficult conditions with some strong wind Shura Kitata...
