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Lead Stories: Friday, December 5, 2008

2008 Previews & Predictions: Women’s Marathon

Posted January 24th, 2008 at 12:30 PM by Jared Markowitz

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Olympics

The marathon promises to be one of the marquee events in women’s track and field in 2008. Among the highlights will be an epic showdown in London, a thrilling U.S. Olympic Trials, and Paula Radcliffe’s last chance at Olympic glory in Beijing. These and a few other huge races should provide many memorable moments and will define many careers. I will again try to make predictions based on as much hearsay, personal bias, and circumstantial data as I can gather.

The first big event on the 2008 women’s marathon calendar is the Flora London Marathon, which will be held on April 13. This race feature’s several of the world’s top female marathoners including World Record holder Radcliffe, World Marathon Majors Champ Gete Wami, Dubai Marathon champ Berhane Adere, Svetlana Zakharova, Constantina Tomescu-Dita, and Benita Johnson.
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Hussein, Runyan Win USA Marathon Championship at Twin Cities Marathon

Posted October 2nd, 2006 at 4:12 PM by Martha Jones

Section: News & Results, Marathons

Last year’s men’s champion, Mbarak Hussein, and two-time Olympian, Marla Runyan won, won the men’s and women’s field, respectively, this past weekend at the The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twin cities marathon was also the host of this year’s USA Marathon Championships, the sixth time that it has done so.

Hussein, with a time of 2:13:52, successful defended his overall and master’s titles. On the women’s side, Marla Runya won in a time of 2:32.15 - almost two minutes faster than the next best finisher. Both winners were awarded $39,000 in prize money.

Believe it or not, Runyan gave birth to a baby girl just 13 months ago! Read the rest of this entry »

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