by maraadmin | Feb 15, 2023 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Featured, News
Tamirat Tola should be a proud man today, not for his own athletic achievements, but for those of his wife Dera and brother Abdisa who won the Dubai Marathon crowns this morning, and the US$80,000 prize that went with victory. Tola, Dida win Dubai Marathon 2023 titles...
by maraadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Featured, News
Dubai – Olika Adugna and Worknesh Degefa make it an Ethiopian double at Dubai Marathon 2020. For tenacity, Worknesh Degefa was the star of the show in the 21st anniversary race of the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon this morning, the Ethiopian enduring...
by maraadmin | Jan 25, 2019 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Featured, Kenya, News
Dubai, 25 January 2019 – In another record-shattering day at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya became the third fastest woman in marathon history when she clocked 2.17.08, taking over two minutes off the 12 month old course record,...
by maraadmin | Jan 20, 2017 | Dubai, Ethiopia, Events, Featured, News
Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia broke the course record in the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday morning, with two hours, four minutes and eleven seconds. But the much heralded world record attempt by his star colleague, Kenenisa Bekele was strangled at birth when...
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...
