Tag: marathon

Deirdre Larkin breezes through Johannesburg's suburbs most mornings, her white hair buffeted by the wind as she runs her well-trodden ...

Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge came tantalizingly close to breaking one of the most coveted frontiers left in athletics, running a full ...

Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya narrowly failed in his attempt to complete the distance under the two-hour ...

Three elite runners backed by a small army of scientists will on Saturday attempt an audacious assault on the boundaries ...

Kenya's Mary Keitany set the fastest time in a women-only marathon as she won a third London Marathon on Sunday ...

Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele believes he is in the sort of form to break Eliud Kipchoge's fastest ever time ...

German sportswear giant Adidas sparked a social media outcry Tuesday after sending an email congratulating runners in the Boston Marathon ...

Hundreds of runners took part in Tehran's first-ever marathon on Friday, but many women were outraged to find they could ...

Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong has failed an out-of-competition drugs test. The 32-year-old tested positive for the banned substance EPO ...

Jemima Sumgong, the first Kenyan woman to win Olympic marathon gold when she triumphed at Rio in 2016, has failed ...

China will ban marathon cheats for life to clamp down on scandals that have dogged the fast-growing sport, which saw ...

Ethiopia's Bizuneh Melaku Belachew danced on the finish line as he smashed his personal best to win the Hong Kong ...

The 2016 Olympic Games were formally opened in a colourful and pulsating ceremony at Rio's Maracana stadium. Broadcast to an ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested and is facing fraud charges for cheating his way into second place at Kenya's Nairobi ...

Mary Keitany has won her second straight New York City Marathon to become the first woman to repeat since Paula ...