For the first time in the history of the Maurie Plant Meet – Melbourne, there will be a new night of action with Friday Night Lights making its debut tomorrow night, including community relays and the Men’s High Jump featuring World Championships finalist Yual Reath (VIC, Mike Barber).
He ran in New York City in 1992/1993 and 1994, in Hong Kong in 1996, Soweto/Johannesburg in South Africa, as well as in each of these years in Berlin or Hamburg (1994). In total, he has completed 105 marathons and 5 ultra-marathons (100 km four times) since 1975.
Lindsay Flanagan is the fastest non-African woman on the current start list. The American ran a fine personal best of 2:23:31 in Chicago two years ago.
NR holder Nozomi Tanaka was in the 3000 m final, where she was 13th of 14 finishers in 9:07.77 in a race where it took 8:58.18 to get into the medals.
In the women’s race, Kenyan Pascaline Kibiwot broke away on her own to win, setting a new race record with a time of 2:22:44.
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