In the world-class time of 2:05:30 hours Eliud Kipchoge won the Haspa Marathon Hamburg, replacing Shami Dawit as course record holder after only one year. From 40 kilometers the marathon debutant Kipchoge could break away from his last pursuer, the secret favorite Limenih Getachew and improved
Coming in fit off a 1:08:59 win at March's National Corporate Half Marathon Championships, 2011 Daegu World Championships marathon 5th-placer Yukiko Akaba (Team Hokuren) ran a smart, steady and strong race at the Apr. 21 London Marathon, staying near 2:24 pace as the lead group of
London, April 21st: After perfect weather conditions in Boston, the Virgin London Marathon had super weather conditions. Starting out in a fast pace, clocking 28:56 for 10k, the men’s race was thrilling to the end. A group of five runners, including Emmanuel Mutai, Stanley Biwott (both Kenya),...
The focus for most of the British elite runners at today’s Virgin London Marathon was to secure a place at this summer’s IAAF World Championships in Moscow this August. A host of British athletes were vying for selection led by the likes of Scott Overall (Robbie Chapman),
At 10am in London on Sunday, silence fell as 36,000 runners stood as one.Six days after the horror of Boston, where three people died and almost 200 were injured by the two explosions at the end of their marathon, the organisers in Britain made a fitting tribute.Thirty
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