AP 11 May 2014 Firehiwot Dado(Photo: Reuters) Patrick Kipyegon Terer of Kenya won the Prague International Marathon on Sunday while Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia dominated the women’s race. Terer, who was third last year in Prague, completed the 20th edition of the race in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 7 seconds in rainy and windy
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21 April 2014 By Reuters Some 36,000 athletes, including Kenyan and Ethiopian runners who are consistently ranked among the world’s fastest, will run in the 118th Boston Marathon on Monday, putting the world-renown race back in the spotlight after it…
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By John Powers Boston GLOBE APRIL 18, 2014 In the beginning there was Abebe Bikila, the imperial guard who ran barefoot atop Roman cobblestones by torchlight in 1960 and became the first black African to win the Olympic marathon. The…
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13 April 2014 AFP Ethiopia’s Getu Feleke won the Vienna marathon on Sunday in a race record time that ended a seven year Kenyan domination of the event. The 27-year-old Feleke finished in two hours five minutes and 41 seconds…
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