Kenya&#39;s Kirui wins World half-marathon
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NEW DELHI -- Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui won the World half-marathon Sunday and China&#39;s Sun Ying Jie took the women&#39;s race. The 24-year-old Kirui finished in 1 hour, 2 minutes, 15 seconds, beating Tanzania&#39;s Fabiano Joseph by 16 seconds.
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Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes of Britain overpowered Tatyana Tomashova in the stretch and won the 1,500 meters at the World Atheltics Final on Saturday, confirming her status as the premier women&#39;s middle distance runner.
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Kenenisa Bekele wins a classic 10,000m encounter with the great Haile Gebrselassie back in fifth in his track farewell.
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South Africa's Hendrik Ramaala, who had never finished higher than fifth in a major marathon, won the New York City Marathon in 2 hours 9 minutes 28 seconds.
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Emmanuel Mutai won the Amsterdam Marathon in 2 hours 6 minutes 29 seconds to lead a Kenyan sweep. Richard Limo was second in 2:06:45, and James Rotich was third in 2:07:12. Magdaline Chemjor, also of Kenya, won the womenâs race in 2:28:16.
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Yoko Shibui continued Japan&#39;s supremacy in the Berlin women&#39;s marathon and Felix Limo extended Kenya&#39;s dominance of the men&#39;s race Sunday.
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Sonia O&#39;Sullivan was not despondent after missing out on an IAAF World Half-Marathon Championships medal in New Delhi today. &quot;It was tough, very hard from the very beginning of the race,&quot; admitted O&#39;Sullivan who finished in one hour 10minutes 33seconds.
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Martin Irungu of Kenya won the Peachtree Road Race on Wednesday, leading from start to finish in his first time running the 10-kilometer course.
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Ethiopia&#39;s Meseret Defar pulled away from Kenya&#39;s Isabella Ochichi in the final half-lap to win the Olympic 5,000 meters in 14 minutes, 45.
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[Sports India] New Delhi, Oct 3 : Kenyan Paul Kirui and China&#39;s Yingjie Sun won the 13th IAAF World Half Marathon held here Sunday in weather made balmy by overnight rains.
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Kenyan distance runners, so dominant around the world, are viewed by fans as among the most modest and gracious of athletic heroes. In events ranging from the Olympics to the Boston Marathon to even local road races, Kenyans are more likely than not to win, typically employing signature...
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Former European champion Stefano Baldini of Italy overtook Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima 1.2 miles from the finish to win the Olympic men&#39;s marathon on Sunday.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out in 1901...
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Names Haile Gebrselassie enjoyed an easy victory in the Almeria Half Marathon yesterday in Madrid, a race the Ethiopian star said he would use to see if he's ready for the London Marathon in April. He covered the 13.1 miles in 1 hour 1 minute 46 seconds -- more than a minute faster than runner-up Alex Kirui of Kenya. Gebrselassie ...
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Paula Radcliffe holds the world record for both the marathon and the 10K. She won the world championships half-marathon three times in the last five years.
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Kenyan Alex Kipchircher ended his season   on a high note by winning the 1500 meters at the IAAF World Cup   team event on Saturday.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Calgary&#39;s Maria Zambrano posted the best Canadian result at the 2004 world half-marathon championships Sunday in New Dehli with a 40th-place showing.