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When the gun sounds the start of Sunday morning’s men’s race at the 2nd IAAF World Road Running Championships, it will also set off one of the finest road battles of the fall. But the chief protagonists, defending champion Zersenay Tadesse and world half marathon record holder Samuel Wanjiru (Pictured), don’t necessarily view it as […]

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Marathon world record holder, Paul Tergat, and the third-fastest half-marathoner of all time, Patrick Makau, will face each other in the thin air of the Media Maratón Internacional Bogotá in Colombia on Sunday, July 29, organizers announced today.
The 38 year-old Tergat, twice an Olympic silver medalist, will compete in Bogotá for the first time. […]

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Defending champions Patrick Makau and Peninah Arusei, both of Kenya, will be competing at Sunday’s 25 km von Berlin. It will be the 27th edition of what has become the world’s fastest 25 km road race.
Makau, 22, obviously likes running in Berlin. In winning the recent Vattenfall Berlin Half-Marathon, he lowered his personal […]

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As they mounted the top step of the podium near the finish line of the 26th Flora London Marathon, Zhou Chunxiu and Martin Lel basked in the warm sunshine which conspired with them to defeat two of the best marathon fields ever assembled.
With the mercury hitting 20°C (68°F) by the time the Zhou finished in […]

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Patrick Makau of Kenya and Benita Johnson of Australia won today’s 27th Vattenfall Berliner Halbmarathon (Berlin Half-Marathon) in fast times.
Makau, who ran 59:13 at Ras al Khaimah last February, became the third man to break the 59 minute barrier on a record-standard course, breaking the tape at Berlin in 58:56, a course record. It […]

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The Vattenfall Berliner Halbmarathon (Berlin Half-Marathon), scheduled for Sunday, April 1, will feature a clash between defending champion and course record holder, Edith Masai of Kenya, and multiple national record holder, Benita Johnson of Australia.
Masai clocked 1:07:16 at last year’s race, the fastest half-marathon run in the world last year by a woman. Johnson’s […]

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