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Lead Stories: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Athletes give stocks a lift?

Posted August 7th, 2007 at 9:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

U.S. stock market indexes shot up [yesterday] by as much as 2.4%, a much-needed boost after last week’s steep declines. Predictably, investors cheered.

“With the Fed speaking tomorrow, I thought we would have had a much more modest market - I did not expect this kind of strength,” Doreen Mogavero, president and CEO at Mogavero, Lee & Co., told CNN.com.

While many analysts thought that the fall in oil prices may have been the reason (Brent crude was down $3.58 or nearly 5%), could it be that a group of top athletes, accompanied by officials of the New York Road Runners, who opened the NASDAQ market today, America’s largest electronic stock market, had given the market a lift?

Viktor Roethlin of Switzerland; Hendrick Ramaala of South Africa; Abdi Abdirahman, Peter Gilmore and Alan Culpepper of the USA, and Nina Rillstone of New Zealand officially opened NASDAQ this morning in Times Square with New York Road Runners president and CEO, Mary Wittenberg. Abdirahman “signed in” for the group on the special glass podium.

By the end of today’s trading, the NASDAQ index had risen by 1.44% to 2547.33.
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Video: Post NYC Half- Marathon press conference w/ women’s champ HILDA KIBET

Posted August 6th, 2007 at 9:30 AM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Special Features, Interviews, Live Race Coverage

Below is TheFinalSprint.com’s video coverage of Kenya’s Hilda Kibet at the press conference following her victory at the 2007 NYC Half-Marathon on Sunday, Aug 5.

Hilda was able to out-sprint defending champion and fellow Kenyan Catherine Ndereba and Nina Rillstone of New Zealand in the last hundred meters to take the women’s crown. The three elite female runners untimely finished less than one second apart.

As NYRR CEO and President Mary Wittenberg predicted, the NYC Half-Marathon was in many ways Hilda’s “coming out party”.

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Hilda Kibet earns women’s title at 2007 NYC Half- Marathon in 1:10:32

Posted August 5th, 2007 at 8:46 AM by Nathan Schiller

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Special Features, Live Race Coverage

Hilda Kibet out-sprinted defending champion Catherine Ndereba of Kenya and Nina Rillstone of New Zealand in the last hundred meters to take the women’s crown. The three of them were separated by less than one second in the end.

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Hilda Kibet wins three-person women’s race in final sprint

Posted August 5th, 2007 at 8:10 AM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Special Features, Live Race Coverage

At the 20K mark the women’s race was a three-way tie with Nina Rillstone running a step ahead of Catherine Ndereba and Hilda Kibet a step or less behind. They crossed that mark in 1:07:07.

Sprinting down the West Side Highway with less than a mile to go, Kibet began to make a move and pull away from Ndereba and Rillstone. Kibet’s official finishing time was 1:10:32. Ndereba was a step behind her in 1:10:33, and Rillstone faded to 1:10:35. The closest competitor following the top three was Yuri Kano, who was 33 seconds behind the leaders.

Results/Top 10
1) Hilda Kibet Kenya 1:10:32
2) Catherine Ndereba Kenya 1:10:33
3) Nina Rillstone New Zealand 1:10:35
4) Yuri Kano Japan 1:11:05
5) Madai Perez Mexico 1:11:21
6) Megumi Oshima Japan 1:11:35
7) Akemi Ozaki Japan 1:13:37
8) Zoila Gomez USA 1:13:49
9) Azziza Aliyu Ethiopia 1:13:58
10) Alemtsheay Misganaw Ethiopia 1:14:04

Splits
5k 6 runners 17:04
10k 6 runners 34:05
15k: Ndereba 50:39, Kibet 50:39, Perez 50:40, Kano 50:42, Rillstone 50:43, Oshima 50:48
20k: Rillstone 1:07:07, Ndereba 1:07:08, Kibet 1:07:08

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NYC Half-Marathon releases elite fields; NYRR once again draws world’s best

Posted August 1st, 2007 at 4:33 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

The New York Road Runners released the elite fields for Sunday’s second annual NYC Half-Marathon presented by NIKE. NOTE: TheFinalSprint.com will feature videos of every pre- and post-race press conference, one-on-one video & audio interviews with top elites, and of course, LIVE coverage of the race itself!)

Led by two-time Olympic gold medalist, Haile Gebrselassie, the men’s field has three athletes who have broken one hour for the half-marathon distance, and a total of 11 men who have run 62:23 or better.

Catherine Ndereba, the 2003 world marathon champion who won the inaugural NYC Half-Marathon last year, headlines the women’s field. She’s just one of seven women who have broken the 71 minute barrier (three have run sub-70 minutes).

Former world marathon record holder, Khalid Khannouchi, was forced to withdraw from the race citing a mechanical problem in his stride which had been causing a burning sensation in the ball of his right foot, race officials reported. He and wife Sandra have flown to Barcelona to see an orthodics specialist.
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