marathon

The Comrades Marathon Association have received 23,565 entrants for this year's Comrade Marathon race.

This is the second largest "potential" field of runners in history of the Comrades Marathon. In 2000, 24,500 started the race.

A record field of close to 21 000 runners, including the men and women's defending champions, and over 1 000 international runners, will line up in Newlands on Easter Saturday April 3 for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon.

Peter Kamais of Kenya unexpectedly won the 2010 NYC Half-Marathon this morning on a day made for fast, competitive distance running.

Eritrean Zersenay Tadese struck 10 seconds from Sammy Wanjiru's three-year-old world record to win the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon today in 58:22.

The SA Marathon Trials will hold in East London, South Africa on Saturday April 24, 2010.

Reigning champion Edwin Sol of Kenya has confirmed he would participate in the 35th edition of the BOclassic - the international New Year's Eve Run on Bozen's Walther Square in Brixen/Bressanone, South Tyrol, Italy.

World Cross Country champion Gebre Gebremariam will attempt to add the Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country (IAAF Permit) to his list of top honours in the New Year, according to the organisers.

The 3rd edition of the Globacom Lagos International Half Marathon comes up on December 12, 2009 in Lagos.

Gilbert Kirwa of Kenya broke both the defending champion and the course record to win the 2009 Commerzbank Frankfurt Marathon today, in 2.06.14, a time that puts him in the top 20 all-time at the distance.

The Ethiopian Half Marathon Road Race Championships hold in Sululta, Ethiopia on 15th August , 2010.