by maraadmin | Jan 26, 2015 | Ethiopia, Events, Featured, Hong Kong, News
In a major marathon upset, Kim Hye Gyong of the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea won the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon early Sunday morning. In doing so, Kim beat the otherwise all-conquering East Africans, won the Asian championship, which was...
by maraadmin | Jan 23, 2015 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Featured, News
Lemi Berhanu upsets fellow-Ethiopian stars in Dubai, thrilling comeback victory for Aselefech Mergia Lemi Berhanu is the unexpected champion of the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon. It was not a debutant’s triumph as in the past three years but it was definitely a...
by maraadmin | Jan 23, 2015 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Featured, News
It was yet another day of dominance for Ethiopian athletes at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon as little known Lemi Berhanu Hayle and the sublime Aselefech Mergia swept the board in the world’s richest marathon. Just 20 years old, Berhanu left some of the biggest...
by maraadmin | Dec 12, 2014 | Articles, Ethiopia, Featured, News
If Haile Gebrselassie was peeved at being upstaged by a couple of in-form Kenyans in the Marathon Singapore 10k last Sunday, he soon retrieved his equanimity, and was mulling over at least, “one more marathon,” before retiring to the celebrity circuit, and a leap into...
by maraadmin | Oct 26, 2014 | Ethiopia, Events, Featured, Frankfurt, Kenya, News
Mark Kiptoo and Aberu Kebede win Frankfurt Marathon, German Arne Gabius runs sensational sub 2:10 debut Kiptoo fights to win Frankfurt Marathon “This is Your Day”. That was the motto of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon. When Mark Kiptoo was twelve kilometres away from the...
by maraadmin | Oct 12, 2014 | Eindhoven, Ethiopia, Events, Featured, News
Tilahun Regassa is starting to amass a formidable marathon record and after winning the 2014 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven in 2:06:21 on Sunday he has now won two out of his four outings over the classic distance, both his victories coming on Dutch roads. The...
