Kenya’s Samwel Mailu smashed the nine year-old course record of the Vienna City Marathon. When he stormed over the finish line at the Vienna Burgtheater in 2:05:08 Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen held the finishing tape.
Friday through Sunday in Kanagawa is the National University Individual Track and Field Championships, usually a 2nd-tier meet held in June but bumped up in the schedule and importance again this year with the World University Games just around the corner
Sondre Moen will most likely be joined by Germany’s Sebastian Hendel and Andreas Vojta of Austria. The aim for this group of runners is to finish inside the 2:09:40 qualifying time for the World Championships in Budapest this summer.
The logo for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 was revealed on 1 March, marking one year to go to the global indoor showpiece. Two-time world indoor medallist Eilidh Doyle was also announced as event ambassador.
The course record and the Austrian record could be under threat at Sunday’s Vienna City Marathon and with them two major barriers that are ten minutes apart. While the current course best stands at 2:20:59 and an attack on that might lead to a first sub 2:20 winning time in the history of the Vienna...
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