Catherine Ndereba News

The closely cropped hair and girlish smile are the same, but at 30 years-old marathoner Margaret Okayo has grown up.

Kiyoko Shimahara has a smile that isn't easily forgotten. She shows it generously with friends and strangers alike, always leaving the impression that life is good, even easy.

The world stopped when Usain Bolt, the double sprint world record holder, came to town.

In the absence of the defending champion Ethiopia, JPN won the 2009 International Chiba Ekiden on Monday November 23, a national holiday.

Over a nine-day span, Japanese athletics fans were treated to a double dose of arguably the greatest women's marathoner in history, Kenya's Catherine Ndereba.

Other nations might have been peppered with stars, but Yuriko Kobayashi outshined them all in taking advantage of her lone chance to run an ekiden.

Catherine Ndereba Will Chase an Olympic Gold Medal at Age 40 "Catherine the Great" has won two World Championships marathons and two Olympic silver medals.

Dodgers manager Joe Torre says he was pleased when successor Joe Girardi and the New York Yankees won the World Series this month.

Russia's Inga Abitova has won the inaugural Yokohama Women's Marathon, a race that featured the top two finishers from the Beijing Olympics.

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Sprints world record holder Usain Bolt of Jamaica completes his busy tour of Kenya on Monday with a courtesy call on President Mwai Kibaki before adopting a cheetah at the Nairobi National Park in the company of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

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Last November's Tokyo International Women's Marathon was the 30th and final edition of one of the most storied all-women's road races in history.

Japan's newest marathon has lined up two of the oldest--but still among the biggest--stars in the sport today.

Beijing Olympic gold medalist Constantina Dita of Romania and silver medalist Catherine Ndereba of Kenya will run in the Yokohama International Women's Marathon on Nov.

Shannon Rowbury Recalls Her ' Rocky Road' to a World Championships Medal The San Franciscan has won the last two USA 1500-meter titles and was a 2008 Olympic finalist.

International medallists Mo Farah of Great Britain and Catherine Ndereba of Kenya lead the fields for the Bupa Great South Run, Britain's most prestigious ten mile road race.

With a wave of his hand, Sammy Wanjiru nearly showboated away history and $100,000 Sunday.

Kenyan Sammy Wanjiru set both American and course records but missed the world mark in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

Chilly weather and a flat course could encourage Kenya's Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru to make a world record attempt in Sunday's Chicago marathon.