by maraadmin | Sep 30, 2012 | Berlin, Ethiopia, Featured, Kenya, News
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya re-established his claim to be the world’s best marathoner this morning, but only just. Mutai won the 39th BMW Berlin Marathon in 2.04.15, narrowly beating his training partner, Dennis Kimetto, who clocked the fastest marathon debut in...
by maraadmin | Sep 7, 2012 | Europe, Kenya, News
Patrick Makau, the Kenyan world record holder in the marathon and the main star of Saturday’s Mattoni Prague Grand Prix, has a full day of social events behind him. In the morning, he visited Ústí nad Labem, the location of the last of this year’s races in the...
by maraadmin | Jul 10, 2012 | Berlin, Europe, Featured, Kenya, News
In April 2011, Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the Boston Marathon in a time of 2:03:02, covering the 42.195 km distance faster than anyone in history. This time is not recognized as the standing world record because Boston’s 139 m* net drop does not conform to...
by maraadmin | May 2, 2012 | Chicago, Featured, Kenya, News, USA
CHICAGO – The Bank of America Chicago Marathon today announced that Wesley Korir, the newly crowned Boston Marathon champion, will return to run Chicago’s fall classic for the fifth consecutive year. Korir is the first elite athlete announced for the 35th...
by maraadmin | Apr 29, 2012 | Duesseldorf, Ethiopia, Featured, Kenya, News
Both course records were broken and a number of Olympic qualifying standards achieved at the 10th METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf. Ethiopia’s Seboka Diriba Tola ran 2:08:27 and improved the two year-old mark by five seconds. He finished ahead of Duncan Koech...
by maraadmin | Apr 29, 2012 | Featured, Hamburg, Kenya, News
Marathons can be won and lost in many different ways. Shami Dawit of Ethiopia and Rael Kiyara of Kenya employed a similar tactic to win the men’s and women’s races at the 27th Haspa Marathon Hamburg this morning, attacking between 30 and 40 kilometres, and breaking...
