Tag: Marathon

Chicago Marathon director Carey Pinkowski confirmed Friday that the ban meted out to Lance Armstrong by the US Anti-Doping Agency means the cyclist can't...

Mo Farah, who came to the Olympics as one of Great Britain's top medal hopes, leaves as the finest distance runner in the world...

US hopes at the French Open were extinguished on Thursday as marathon man John Isner was once again involved in an epic duel, the...

Pakistan Davis Cupper Samir Iftikhar beat 7th seed ATP heavyweight Nicholas Jones from Great Britain in a three-set marathon with scores of 3-6, 6-3,...

Maria Sharapova needed more than three hours to complete a marathon three-set comeback against US Open winner Sam Stosur to reach Saturday's semi-finals at...

Ethiopian Yemane Adnane won the men's Rotterdam marathon here on Sunday in a time of 2hr 4min 47 sec. Adnane beat home compatriot Getu...

Asad-Ul-Khan from Mardan won the 1st Lahore Wheel Chair Marathon that was held here at the Lberty Main Boulevard on Sunday morning. Organised by...

Kenya's Michael Kipkorir Kipyego got the better of former world record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia in the last four kilometres to win the...

After 17 rounds of voting, Azerbaijan won a hotly contested vote for a UN Security Council seat on Monday when Slovenia withdrew complaining about...

Pakistan’s future hope and Davis Cupper proved his fitness in a five-set marathon match against one of the country’s top seeded players Jalil Khan...

A local Palestinian athlete on Thursday won the Gaza Strip’s first-ever marathon, which ran the entire length of the tiny coastal enclave. More than 1,400...

BOSTON - Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai ran the fastest marathon in history to win the 115th Boston Marathon men's title on Monday while compatriot Caroline Kilel took the women's crown. Mutai won in an official time of two hours, three minutes and two seconds to defeat countryman Moses Mosop by four seconds and beat the marathon world-record time of 2:03:59 run in 2008 at Berlin by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia. "I knew I could run well but the record was not on my mind," Mutai said. "I was

KARACHI - Around 2,500 health conscious people, including professors, doctors, sportsmen and the disabled, participated on Sunday in the annual marathon that was organised by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA). The slogan of this year's marathon was 'Cancer Kills, Early Diagnosis Saves Life' and it commenced from the PMA House that is located at the Garden Road.
According to a press release issued by the PMA, Sindh Health Secretary Dr Hashim Raza attended the event as the

KARACHI - The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) announced on Tuesday that it would hold its 22nd Karachi City Marathon and Health Walk on February 27. The walk with the theme 'Cancer Kills - Early Diagnosis Saves Life' will start from PMA House, Sir Aga Khan- III Road at 8am.
Interested participants have been advised to join at PMA with their friends and family.
For registration, they can contact the PMA office between 11am to 6pm on any working day. They can also call the

LONDON - Dathan Ritzenhein, a three-time US cross-country champion, has been added to the list of runners at this year's London Marathon, organisers said Monday.
Ritzenhein will be up against Ethiopia's defending champion Tsegaye Kebede and the Kenyan duo of Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru and world champion Abel Kirui in a strong field for the men's race on April 17. The 28-year-old Ritzenhein, set his personal best of two hours 10 minutes for the marathon in London in 2009 and

GUANGZHOU: China's Peng Shuai shattered 40-year-old Kimiko Date Krumm's dream of a second Asian Games title on Sunday to keep her triple gold bid on course.
Peng clinched a 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-2 win over the veteran Japanese, who won her first singles gold at the Hiroshima Asiad in 1994, and now faces Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova, who put out Indian golden girl Sania Mirza.
Peng, 16 years Date Krumm's junior, made the most of her opponent's inconsistency where an impressive