The Dec. 4 Fukuoka International Marathon released the elite field for this year's 70th running today. 2014-15 winner Patrick Makau (Kenya) returns, looking to follow Frank Shorter and Toshihiko Seko as just the third man to win Fukuoka three years in a row. Makau's main com...
The Great Run Series drew to a conclusion this year in cool, cloudless and relatively still conditions as 25,000 runners took part in this year’s edition of the Great South Run in Portsmouth which was staged over two days. The Great South Run is Europe’s
After Fate Tola had closed the gap on the eventual women’s winner, Ethiopia’s Mamitu Daska, to just 15 seconds at the finish in Frankfurt’s Festhalle, she was asked if she might have made up the difference on another day.“Oh yes,” came the swift reply, accompanied by a...
With just seven days to go before voting for the 2016 World Athletes of the Year concludes, here’s another look at this year's men’s and women’s longlist candidates, focusing today on those who excelled in the sprints and hurdles. Usain Bolt (JAM) successfully defended his...
The Osaka women's race was a one-woman show the whole way. Amateur runner Yoshiko Sakamoto (Y.W.C.) a 37-year-old mother of three and former high school star who took up marathons at age 32 after not running for more than 10 years, went it alone from the gun. 35
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