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(PhatzRadio / Reuters) — KINGSTON, Feb 11 – Jamaican world 100 meters champion Yohan Blake opened his 2012 Olympic season with a lifetime best of 46.49 seconds to finish second in the 400 meters at the Camperdown Classic Saturday. The man seen as the major challenger to world record holder Usain Bolt’s sprint titles at [...]
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) – Kenyan Peter Omae Ayieni pulled away over the last mile to win the Rock `n’ Roll Arizona Marathon on Sunday. Trisha Miller of Missoula, Mont., was the women’s winner. The field was diluted by the absence of the top U.S. runners, who competed in Saturday’s Olympic Trials in Houston. Ayieni, who [...]
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(Reuters) – Jamaican Usain Bolt and Australian Sally Pearson were named Athletes of the Year by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Saturday. Bolt, winning the award for the third time, bounced back from disqualification for false starting in the world 100 meters final to retain his 200m title, before anchoring Jamaica to [...]
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica sprints to victory and a new world record in the men’s 4×100 metres relay final during day nine of 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships at Daegu Stadium on September 4, 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. (September 3, 2011 – Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images AsiaPac) (Reuters) – Usain Bolt gave a [...]
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(Reuters) – Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya led the top three home in record-breaking time at the New York City Marathon Sunday while Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia came from behind to claim the women’s title. Mutai burst from the leading pack at the 20-mile mark to win in two hours, five minutes, six seconds, more than [...]
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(Reuters) – In the absence of Jamaica’s giant world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, compatriot Lerone Clarke won the Pan-American Games 100 meters in a time of 10.01 seconds on Tuesday. Clarke pipped favorite and former world champion Kim Collins, who clocked 10.04, to the gold medal after the sprinter from St Kitts [...]
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TORONTO (AP) — A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday. Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guiness World Book of Records for his accomplishment. It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line — more than six [...]
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(Reuters) – Marathon bodies opposed on Tuesday a move by the governing IAAF to reclassify Paula Radcliffe’s 2003 women’s world record and replace it with a slower time. The International Association of Athletics Federations agreed in Daegu, South Korea, last month to acknowledge as women’s world records only those times set in all-women competitions. Performances [...]
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica sprints to victory and a new world record in the men’s 4×100 metres relay final during day nine of 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships at Daegu Stadium on September 4, 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. (September 3, 2011 – Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images AsiaPac) BRUSSELS (AP) — Usain Bolt ran [...]
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica sprints to victory and a new world record in the men’s 4×100 metres relay final during day nine of 13th IAAF World Athletics Championships at Daegu Stadium on September 4, 2011 in Daegu, South Korea. (September 3, 2011 – Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images AsiaPac) (Reuters) – The world’s fastest man [...]
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