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Natalie Cook and Ethan Ashley Capture First Place Titles in the 42nd Annual Eastbay Cross Country Championships South Regional
Natalie Cook of Flower Mound, Texas and Ethan Ashley of Cumming, Ga. won the Eastbay Cross Country (formerly Foot Locker CC) Championships (ECCC) South Regional today.
Angelina Perez and Gavin Sherry Capture First Place Titles in the 42nd Annual Eastbay Cross Country Championships Northeast Regional
Angelina Perez of Ringwood, N.J. and Gavin Sherry of West Hartford, Conn. won the Eastbay Cross Country (formerly Foot Locker CC) Championships (ECCC) Northeast Regional today.
Riley Stewart and Riley Hough Capture First Place Titles in the 42nd Annual Eastbay Cross Country Championships Midwest Regional
Riley Stewart of Englewood, Colo. and Riley Hough of Fenton, Mich. won the Eastbay Cross Country (formerly Foot Locker CC) Championships (ECCC) Midwest Regional today.
Registration Now Open for 42nd Annual Eastbay Cross Country Championship Regionals (Formally Foot Locker Cross Country
NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2021 -- Top high school cross country runners from across the US will compete in the four Eastbay Cross Country Championship (ECCC) Regionals (formally Foot Locker Cross Country) in hopes of becoming a finalist in the nation’s preeminent Cross Country Championship. After a one year hiatus due to the covid pandemic, high school cross country’s most esteemed and historic race will be back this fall stronger than ever under the Eastbay moniker, and looking to crown the nation’s true girls and boys champions.
N KOLAY ISTANBUL MARATHON ON 7 NOVEMBER: Istanbul returns with strong elite fields and a total of over 35,000 runners
With deep elite fields and an overall total of more than 35,000 runners the 43rd edition of the N Kolay Istanbul Marathon will go ahead on 7 November. Ethiopians Herpasa Negasa and Mamitu Daska head the start lists with personal bests of 2:03:40 and 2:21:59 respectively.
GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON: Another major German race goes ahead as Hirschhäuser and Harrer triumph in Munich’s Olympic Stadium
(photo: winner Corinna Harrer,/ Norbert Wilhelmi / GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON ) Alexander Hirschhäuser and Corinna Harrer won the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON and took the national championships which were included in the race. The event was the third race in Germany to go ahead with more than 10,000 runners during the Corona pandemic. In the past two months Berlin’s half marathon and marathon races were staged successfully in the capital.
Jepkosgei and Lemma reign supreme in London
(iAAF) You lose some and you win some. Just hours after Joyciline Jepkosgei lost her 10km world record, the highly talented Kenyan blew away a stellar women’s field to win the Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday (30) on her debut in the World Athletics Elite Platinum Label race.
Mizuno Introduces New Apparel Options Made From Recycled Materials
Partnership with the National Forest Foundation part of brand’s commitment to more sustainable future. - NORCROSS, GA – (October 1, 2021) – Mizuno, a global leader in running footwear and apparel, has launched Alpha ECO, the brand’s first apparel line made from recycled materials. As part of its commitment to a more sustainable future, Mizuno USA has also signed an agreement with the National Forest Foundation as a tree-planting partner. In the inaugural year of the partnership, Mizuno has committed to planting 10,000 trees for our forests. More information about the National Forest Foundation can be found at nationalforests.org
No Covid cases at all related to Vienna City Marathon
(photo: VCM / Jenia Symonds) - The Vienna City Marathon staged on 12 September was the first major marathon worldwide with a strong international elite field and a mass race since the start of the Corona pandemic. In total 18,118 runners from 126 nations competed during the two day event. 6,000 of them were marathon runners. Organisers were now able to confirm that no Covid cases at all are related to the Vienna City Marathon.
BMW BERLIN-MARATHON: The Flame of Ambition still burns brightly for Kenenisa Bekele
(PHOTO: photorun.net) 24 hours after he had stood on the startline of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, Kenenisa Bekele reflected on the dramatic events of Sunday’s race where he trailed in third with a time of 2:06:47, albeit set in hot and humid conditions. After pre-race talk of high hopes for an attack on Eliud Kipchoge’s world record of 2:01:39, set on this same Berlin course in 2018, the Ethiopian’s career appeared to be in the balance and not for the first time given his age and injury record. But at 39 he is adamant that his potential for future success is realistic. Right after the race Kenenisa Bekele admitted that „for me the big problem was a lack of training because of the pandemic“. The Ethiopian also said that he caught Covid earlier this year. But he had no strong symptoms and recovered well.
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VIDEO RELEASE: Highlights of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON
Ethiopians Guye Adola and debutant Gotytom Gebreslase won the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON in unusually warm weather conditions. 30 year-old Adola, who was second in Berlin four years ago, clocked 2:05:45. While Bethwel Yegon of Kenya took second place at Brandenburg Gate in 2:06:14 it was not the day of Kenenisa Bekele.
BMW BERLIN-MARATHON: Guye Adola scores unexpected triumph in Berlin, debutant Gotytom Gebreslase surprises to win women’s title
(photo: photorun.net) No doubt about who carried off the top honours in the BMW Berlin-Marathon on Sunday since Ethiopians won the men’s and women’s title. It was, however, a day of disappointment for Kenenisa Bekele by his own superlative standards. Guye Adola won the men’s crown, running 2:05:45 to finish ahead of Kenyan Bethwel Yegon, the latter clocking 2:06:14 at the finish line near the Brandenburg Gate. As for Kenenisa Bekele, his hopes of challenging the world record, set on this same course by his Kenyan rival Eliud Kipchoge in 2018 with 2:01:39, faded in increasingly warm and humid conditions. Ethiopia’s triple Olympic champion finished third in 2:06:47. The best German finisher was Philipp Pflieger who ran 2:15:01 for 16th place.
BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday: Hiwot Gebrekidan sets sights on Berlin Course Record
(photo photorun.net) The women’s race at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday is looking increasingly like an attack on the course record. The best time to date was set three years ago when the Kenyan Gladys Cherono ran 2:18:11. Half-a-dozen women will be on the start line who have run under 2:25 and among them is the Ethiopian Hiwot Gebrekidan, the fastest women in the world this year thanks to her personal best of 2:19:35 in winning the Milan title in April. She will be making her debut in the Abbott World Marathon Majors Series of which the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON is a part.
World record holder and seven-time World Marathon Majors winner Mary Keitany retires
Kenyan running great Mary Keitany announced her retirement on Wednesday (22) after a stellar career which saw her win the London Marathon on three occasions and the New York Marathon four times, as well as triumph at the 2009 World Half Marathon Championships.