Sport24 Cape Town – Kenyan Willy Kibor tore clear of a quality field in the latter stages on Sunday to win the first edition of the relaunched Sanlam Cape Town Marathon. After Kenyan-born Qatari athlete Nicholas Kemboi had done most of the hard work, pushing the pace up front in the first half, Kibor broke
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RUNNER’S WORLD Two veterans will work together to target 2:03:45 course record. By: Peter Gambaccini; Image by: PhotoRun Eliud Kipchoge (#807) upset Kenenisa Bekele (#423) in the 2003 World Championships 5000-meter final. The two will battle again at October’s Chicago Marathon. If Kenenisa Bekele, arguably the best distance runner in track and cross country history, achieves
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By Josephine Woolington The Register-Guard One of four Ethiopian athletes who went missing after an international track meet last month in Eugene told a University of Oregon police officer that all the athletes plan to seek asylum in the United States, according to a newly released UO police report. Amanuel Abebe, 17, told the officer that
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By Josephine Woolington The Register-Guard One of four Ethiopian athletes who went missing after an international track meet last month in Eugene told a University of Oregon police officer that all the athletes plan to seek asylum in the United States, according to a newly released UO police report. Amanuel Abebe, 17, told the officer that
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Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele wins his 11th – and last – senior world cross-country title in 2008. (Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images) By Philip Hersh Chicago Tribune The Chicago Marathon never has had a runner with a track record as distinguished as Kenenisa Bekele’s. Kenenisa Bekele holds the world records at 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
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Oregon live By Ian K. Kullgren | ikullgren@oregonian.com The four Ethiopian runners who disappeared from the IAAF Junior World Championships in Eugene this past weekend defected from their home country to avoid returning to widespread civil unrest there, police confirmed in a report released late Friday. The report, provided by police in Federal Way, Washington,
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By Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — University of Oregon police have found three of the four members of the Ethiopian track team who were reported missing from the World Junior Championships in Eugene over the weekend. The Oregonian (http://is.gd/ZJ8s6r ) reports that police on Monday said officers found three of the four athletes staying with
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Oregonlive Runners from around the world compete at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene (Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian) By Wendy Owen | wowen@oregonian.com Four members of an Ethiopian track team were reported missing Saturday morning in Eugene where they competed in the IAAF World Junior Championships. “The individuals left campus ahead of the rest of the team,” said
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IAFF Ethiopia’s world youth 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha led for most of the last kilometre to win the men’s 5000m in 13:25.19, his best-ever clocking. Kejelcha’s team-mate Yasin Haji, with whom he shared pacing duties in the last third of the race, finished in 13:26.21 for silver, giving Ethiopia a gold-silver sweep. Moses Letoyie of
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Letsrun By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2014 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved EUGENE, OREGON — If your name is Alemitu and you hail from Ethiopia, tonight was your night to shine at historic Hayward Field. Working together throughout the women’s 5000m, Alemitu Heroye and Alemitu Hawi won gold and silver here on the second
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