Haile Gebrselassie News

Austrian Guenther Weidlinger upstaged Olympic champions Sammy Wanjiru and Stefano Baldini to take out the Great Australian Run over 15 kilometres here on Sunday.

AFTER a nightmare two years in which she lost her marriage, her form and her fitness, Benita Willis finds herself in an unlikely position ahead of today's Great Australian Run: race favourite.

Hicham El Guerrouj has never been one for glancing over his shoulder. On the tracks of the European athletics circuit and beyond, to the global arenas of the sport's big championships, the Moroccan master of middle-distance running has been too busy looking ahead to the finish line, and towards the clock, to cast backward glances.

Haile Gebrselassie and Sammy Wanjiru are among the world class international runners heading for the Emirates this winter, but there is far more to the sport in this country than attracting the elite.

Runner's World magazine, the worldwide authority on running information, announced the recipients of its sixth annual "Heroes of Running" - an editorial and online package highlighting six inspirational individuals who use running to improve the lives of others, redefine the limits of human potential and literally make the world a better place.

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The rust didn't show at all last weekend as 2003 U.S. gymnastics champion Courtney Kupets of Gaithersburg won the event that made her a world champion in 2002.

Samuel Wanjiru, of Kenya, and Irina Mikitenko, of Germany, are the winners of the 2008-'09 World Marathon Majors series, and both were presented with $500,000 USD for their respective accomplishment at an award ceremony today in New York.

Martin Lel Is Out of the ING New York City Marathon Well, this surely DOES change things considerably.

Crowds of runners cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the beginning of the New York City Marathon, Oct.

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Could Sammy Wanjiru Run a 2:02:55 Marathon in Chicago? According to our pal and "Race Results Weekly" colleague David Monti, who is on loan to Universal Sports for a handicapping article, Wanjiru's half-marathon best of 58:33 is, by some formulas, indeed equivalent to 2:02:55. There are other variables, naturally - the competition, the weather, and ...

Samuel Kamau Wanjiru is once again the item most in vogue Kenyan following his course record victory at the 32nd Chicago Marathon.

A Kenyan Olympic runner who competed internationally for many years was among victims of the country's post-poll violence when a mob stoned him to death this week, a friend said yesterday.

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

Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya won the Chicago Marathon with the fastest time on American soil, finishing in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 41 seconds on a bone-chilling Sunday morning.

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.

The past two Olympic men's marathon champions - Kenya's Samuel Wanjiru and Italian Stefano Baldini - will compete in the second 15km Great Australian Run in Melbourne.

Paula Radcliffe Seeks Her Fourth ING New York City Marathon Crown The world record-holder from Great Britain has won the five-borough marathon three times and will try for #4 on November 1. It's her first marathon since winning in New York a year ago, though she did score a dominant NYC Half Marathon victory in August - after which she elected not ...

Ryan Hall Gets a Confidence-Building Half Marathon Win in Philadelphia On what truly was a perfect day for road racing, Hall, who'd originally been intent on trying for a new American half-marathon record , instead settled into a slower tactical contest at the Philadelphia Distance Run on Sunday.