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Reigning Olympic gold medalist Stefano Baldini of Italy will add a touch of gold to an already sparkling men’s professional field at the ING New York City Marathon 2007 on Sunday, November 4, it was announced today by New York Road Runners president and CEO and race director Mary Wittenberg.
The announcement was made at a […]

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The IAAF has posted preliminary entry lists for this weekend’s IAAF World Road Running Championships in Udine, Italy. The start lists will become available after the technical meeting on Saturday.
http://www.iaaf.org/newsfiles/42006.pdf

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Producing a notable upset in her debut over the distance, American Kara Goucher defeated Paula Radcliffe at the Great North Run Half-Marathon today.
Goucher, the bronze medallist in the 10,000m at last month’s world championships, pulled away from the Briton over the second half of the race, clocking 1:06:57 unofficially. It was the fastest performance ever […]

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The USA Track & Field women’s Long Distance Running Committee has announced the 2007 U.S. team for the IAAF World Road Running Championships. This year’s event will be take place in Udine, Italy on October 14.
The World Road Running Championships is a half-marathon distance contested on a 7,000 meter criterium-loop through the streets of Udine. […]

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Kenenisa Bekele’s assault on his own 10,000m world record is set to take center stage when the Golden League series resumes at the 31st edition of the Memorial Van Damme in the Belgian capital on Friday night.
At this competition two years ago, Bekele lowered his own record in the event to 26:17.53. Then, he was […]

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Phil Raschker has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after winning the women’s 60-64 100 meters, 200m, 300m hurdles, high jump, triple jump, pole vault and heptathlon at the 2007 World Masters Athletics Championships in Riccione, Italy.
A 13-time Masters Female Athlete of the Year, Raschker has won every event that she […]

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Asafa Powell broke the world record for 100 meters today, clocking 9.74 seconds in Rieti, Italy.
Powell, 24, eclipsed the 9.77 mark he produced on three occasions, and a record he shared with Olympic champion Justin Gatlin.
Powell set the record in his first solo race since his disappointing third place finish at the World Championships in […]

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2004 Olympian Dan Browne (Portland, Ore.) returned to New Haven for the first time since 2003 to lead the men’s field at the 2007 USA 20 km Championships, winning his third title (2001, 2002) at that distance today in 59:15. Two-time NCAA 10,000 meter champion Alicia Shay, formerly Craig (Flagstaff, Ariz.), claimed her first USA […]

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The IAAF announced today that they had ratified Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru’s most recent world record for the half-marathon, but had rejected his previous mark for lack of a proper doping control. Also, Wanjiru’s record was ratified at a value two seconds faster than was previously reported.
At the Fortis City-Pier-City Half-Marathon in Den Haag on […]

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Episode 29 of The Final Sprint Podcast features an interview with two-time Olympian Jen Rhines.
Jen is coming off of an impressive performance at the USA 15k Championships at the Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida. She finished second to fellow Team Running USA member Deena Kastor.
The former standout from Villanova also had […]

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