Lagat wins gold in 1,500m
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OSAKA, Japan  - Bernard Lagat became the first American man to win a global 1,500 meters title for 99 years when he swept to victory down the home straight at the world championships on Wednesday.
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Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer, Alta., won his third 500-metre gold medal of the season Saturday during the fourth stop on the long track speed skating circuit.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Canadian Mathieu Turcotte edged American Apolo Anton Ohno to win a gold medal in the 500-metre race in a World Cup short-track tournament in Madison, Wis.
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Allyson Felix got her triple gold. U.S. teammate Bernard Lagat got a double for doing something no one had ever done at the track and field world championships.
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world
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Alan Webb runs the fastest 1,500 meters of 2007 at the Gaz de France meet and Sanya Richards sets a season's best time of 49.52 seconds in the women's 400 meters.
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Alan Webb breaks free in the homestretch to claim his third U.S. title in the 1,500 meters in 3 minutes 34.82 seconds on Sunday.
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Hicham El Guerrouj became the first man in 80 years to win the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at one Olympics, holding up two fingers in triumph Saturday after outsprinting the world record holder down the final straightaway of the 5,000.
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Italy&#39;s Ivano Brugnetti has won the Olympic gold medal in the men&#39;s 20-kilometer race walk. In the first gold medal to be decided in the seventh day of the Athens games, Brugnetti covered the distance in a winning time of 1:19:40 hours.
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Bernard Lagat gave Kenya a silver medal in the men&#39;s 1,500m race, marginally losing out to race favourite Hicham El Guerrouj in a dramatic final on Tuesday night.
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British team won the gold medal for the men&#39;s 4x100m relay final with a time of 38.07 seconds at the Athens Olympics in Greece, Aug. 28, 2004.
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Mikhail Ignatyev of Russia produced an awesome display to win the gold medal in the men&#39;s points race on Tuesday. Ignatyev coasted to victory on 93 points after making the vital breakthrough with two of the 16 sprints remaining in the 40km race.
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Argentina beat nine-man Paraguay 1-0 in the final of the men&#39;s soccer tournament on Saturday to win their first Olympic gold medal in 52 years.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Yuriy Bilonog won the gold medal in the men&#39;s shot put at Olympia, the home of the ancient Games, by virtue of his second-best effort after his last throw matched the leading mark set by US athlete Adam Nelson.
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Bernard Lagat ha vinto l'oro nei 5.000 maschili ai Mondiali di atletica di Osaka. Lo statunitense, v...
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Hamish Carter of New Zealand clinched the gold medal for men&#39;s triathlon at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games here Thursday. Carter won the three-discipline event at 1 hour 51 minutes and 7.73 seconds.
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AFP Athens Aug 25: Hicham El Guerrouj confirmed his place in the pantheon of athletics legends at last here yesterday after winning the one title eluding him, the Olympic 1,500 metres title.