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Masai and Cheruiyot take crowns in San Juan
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San Juan, Puerto Rico - Moses Masai upset Sammy Kitwara and Vivian Cheruiyot used all of her leg speed defend her title at the World's Best 10K on Sunday.
Gebrselassie hones in on third 10km title in Manchester
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Haile Gebrselassie will chase a third victory when returning to compete over one of his favourite courses at the Bupa Great Manchester Run - IAAF Gold Label Road Race - on 16 May 2010.
On his first appearance in 2005, the Ethiopian legend set what was then a new UK All-Comers's record of 27:25, while last year he was slowed by weather conditions.
Cold and Rain Again - Tsegay Takes Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon
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Yemane Tsegay of Ethiopia wins the 2010 Biwako Mainichi Marathon in 2:09:34. by Brett Larner via Japan Running News
Course record for Utura in Addis Ababa
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World Junior 5000m champion Sule Utura destroyed the course record to take victory in the 2010 Choice Women First 5km in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Saturday (6).
Bolt sizzles with sub-44 relay leg in Kingston
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Kingston, Jamaican - Double sprint World record holder Usain Bolt produced two stunning anchor leg runs, but came up short on one occasion at Saturday's Gibson Relays in Kingston.
Japan's Fujiwara wins Tokyo marathon (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Masakazu Fujiwara of Japan pulled away from the pack two kilometres before the finishing line to capture his first victory at the Tokyo marathon on Sunday.
A Tale of Two Fujiwaras - Tokyo Marathon
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by Brett Larner
What a day. With 6 degree temperatures at the start, strong winds, rain turning to snow as temperatures fell, and a tsunami warning for the waterfront finish area, this year's Tokyo Marathon had the worst conditions in the event's four-year history.
Ramaala eyes top ASA job
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Former New York marathon champion Hendrick Ramaala wants to take over as the head of Athletics South Africa (ASA) when a new board is elected in a few months' time.
Ramaala sits on the interim board that was voted in last November after ASA president Leonard Chuene and his executive were suspended with senior members of ASA staff - all of whom face disciplinary hearings for financial mismanagement and their bungling of the Caster Semenya gender controversy.
Tanui upsets formbook to clinch national title
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It is strange how fortunes change. Two years ago, he was dropped when selectors realised he did not know how to run with shoes. Now he is touted as Kenya's saviour in cross country running.
Last year Paul Tanui, 20, returned to claim a spot in the Kenya junior men's eight-kilometre team to the World Cross Country Championships, for the first time running with shoes, albeit borrowed.
He finished fourth.
World leads set, national records tumble on action-packed programme in Birmingham
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Birmingham, UK - The injured Kenenisa Bekele may not have made it to Birmingham for the Aviva Grand Prix this afternoon, but the National Indoor Arena still witnessed distance running of the highest order from some world class Ethiopians alongside two top notch field events and a pair of scintillating sprint hurdles races.
Burka targeting indoor Mile record in Birmingham
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Birmingham, UK - World indoor 1500m champion Gelete Burka heads to the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham with the one mile World indoor record in her sights.
Burka to attack world indoor mile record in Birmingham
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World indoor champion Gelete Burka from Ethiopia will be attempting to lower the 20-year-old world record at the Aviva Grand Prix on February 20
WORLD indoor champion Gelete Burka from Ethiopia will be planning an attack on the one-mile world record at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on February 20.
The former world junior cross-country champion holds an outdoor PB of 4:18.23 from Rieti and Burka won in the NIA in 2008, where Burka produced a solo run to win the 3000m in 8:31.94.
Tune returns to lead deep field in Ras Al Khaimah
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Ras Al Khaimah, UAE - Defending champion Dire Tune of Ethiopia will lead a field of 13 sub-1:10 half marathoners at Friday's RAK Half Marathon.
Kiplagat will not defend her world title
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Florence Kiplagat, the world cross-country senior women's champion, will not run at next weekend's Athletics Kenya national cross-county trials.
The trials will also be the national championships and an IAAF permit meeting and are sponsored by the Kenya Commercial Bank.
Kiplagat, who ended Kenya's long gold drought in the senior women's race by winning in Amman, Jordan, last year, has not been training since the end of last year as she is still recovering from a hamstring injury she picked up at the Berlin World Championships while running in the 10,000 metres last year.
Bolt opens 2010 with 45.86 win in Kingston
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Track and field sensation Usain Bolt, opened his 2010 season on a winning note when he captured the men's 400m at the Camperdown Classic here on Saturday (13) at the National Stadium.
Mo Farah set to face Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele
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European 3,000 metres indoor champion Mo Farah will race Ethiopia's three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele in Birmingham on 20 February.
He set the British record last year in a time of seven minutes 34.47 seconds.
Another blazing 5000m run by Defar - Stockholm report
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The 'World Record attempt' label is often used somewhat frivolously in promoting athletics meets but that was certainly not the case for Meseret Defar and the 5000m at the 2010 GE Galan in Stockholm on Wednesday. Because if there was a prize for really trying hard but in the end coming up frustratingly close no one could deserve it more than Defar for her effort in the Globe Arena.
Spain's Sanchez ready for another record
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Sergio Sanchez has already reduced the European indoor 2000m record this winter and the Spanish runner has now announced that he will be going after the continental 3000m mark at the Reunión Internacional Ciudad de Valencia, an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, in Valencia on Saturday.
Defar's debut tops another stellar line-up in Stuttgart - Preview
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Stuttgart, Germany - It wouldn't be a normal Sparkassen-Cup Meeting without some kind of world record attempt, and although the two protagonists from last year’s riveting women's 3000m will again be on the track Saturday night in Stuttgart, they will be running in separate events.
13:02.95 by Koech tops eight world leads in Düsseldorf
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Dusseldorf, Germany - Even Miruts Yifter did it almost forty years ago in a US race against Steve Prefontaine, so perhaps Daniel Kipchirchir Komen is not in such bad company.
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