Shibui breaks Berlin marathon record
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BERLIN: Japanâs Yoko Shibui ran the fourth fastest womenâs race in history on a chilly, drizzling Sunday and broke the Berlin Marathon record with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 41 seconds.
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Mizuki Noguchi kept the Olympic Games women's marathon title in Japan when she clinched gold here in a time of 2hrs 26min 20sec.
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Italian Stefano Baldini has won the men&#39;s marathon in a time of 2:10:54. Naturalized American Meb Keflezighi was a surprise runnerup with Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei Lima finishing third.
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Description: In Athens, Japan&#39;s Mizuki Nogushi wins the women&#39;s Olympic Marathon, the first raced from the historic site in 108 years.
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Tyson Gay won the 100 meters in 9.88 seconds and Sanya Richards broke the 22-year-old American 400-meter record at the World Cup on Saturday.
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SEPANG: Japan&#39;s rising son of MotoGP racing Makoto Tamada stole the thunder from the championship contenders when he blazed to a new track record on the first day of qualifying of the Marlboro
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It ain&#39;t over until the crazy drunk former priest attacks the frightened Brazilian marathon runner. Although the 35-year-old Athens marathon record was broken tonight by Italy&#39;s
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New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer stormed to gold in the women&#39;s individual pursuit in a new world record time. Ulmer, fourth in Sydney four years ago, beat Australia&#39;s Katie Mactier in a time of three minutes 24.
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Berlin was celebrating on Sunday after winning its bid to host the 2009 world athletics championships, a decision that capped a week of triumph for Germany&#39;s capital city.
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Japan&#39;s Mizuki Noguchi captured the gold medal in the women&#39;s marathon at the Olympic Games in Athens on August 22. Noguchi, silver medalist in last year&#39;s world championships in Paris, took over the lead
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The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world&#39;s longest-living country, the government said Tuesday.
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Liu Xiang became the first man from China to win an Olympic athletics gold medal here Friday after scorching to victory in the menâs 110 metres hurdles with a world record-equalling time.
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The durable San Diego High graduate turned in a personal best time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 53 seconds to finish second in the New York City Marathon yesterday, just 70 days after capturing
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Japan's diminutive Mizuki Noguchi put on  an extraordinary display of front-running to win the Olympic  women's marathon title on Sunday as Paula Radcliffe's challenge  ended in bitter tears.
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America's Aaron Peirsol breaks his own  200m backstroke world record at the Short Course World Championships.
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ATHENS -- Did Japan's Kosuke Kitajima break the rules when he beat world record-holder Brendan Hansen by 17-100ths of a second in yesterday's Olympic 100-meter breaststroke? Absolutely, insisted Hansen's US teammates, who claimed Kitajima routinely uses the illegal dolphin kick.
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Germany beat San Marino to set a European Championship qualifying record.