Kirui, Sun win world half-marathon titles
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Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui won the world half-marathon title Sunday, capping a year in which he also captured 13.1-mile races in Rome and Berlin.
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Christine Ohuruogu leads a British one-two in the World Championships with a stunning victory in the women's 400m.
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Mizuki Noguchi of Japan held on for the gold and American Deena Kastor used a late burst for a stunning bronze medal finish Sunday night in the Olympic marathon.
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Kosuke Kitajima won the men&#39;s 200 metres breaststroke final at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday to collect his second gold medal in four days.
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Britain's Christine Ohuruogu and Nicola Sanders both reach the women's 400m final at the World Championships in Osaka.
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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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NEW DELHI: Paul Kirui pulled away from the field in the final stages to claim the men&#39;s title and lead Kenya to the team honours in the world half-marathon championships yesterday.
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BARDOLINO, Italy -- Swiss racer Karin Thurig won the women&#39;s world time trial title at the championships in Bardolino, to claim her first major international crown.
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OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 29 -- Reston middle distance runner Alan Webb made an attempt to congratulate Bernard Lagat for his gold medal in the 1,500 meters at the 11th IAAF world track and field championships Wednesday, but the Kenyan-born American was so engrossed in celebrating his night's work that ...
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Japan&#39;s diminutive Mizuki Noguchi put on an extraordinary display of front-running to win the Olympic women&#39;s marathon title as Paula Radcliffe&#39;s challenge ended in bitter tears.
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ATHENS, Greece - Japanâs Mizuki Noguchi held off Kenyaâs Catherine Ndereba to win the womenâs marathon gold medal Sunday on the legendary ancient course that gave the race its name.
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The New Zealanders crossed the finish line with a 25-second advantage over their nearest rivals.
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Evans Rutto of Kenya won his second straight Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 16 seconds, and making him 3-for-3 at the 26.2-mile distance.
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He'd lost the leader in the upstream sun. Malcolm Howard knew that Mahe Drysdale, the three-time world champion, was somewhere between him and the finish line. The only question was how fast the New Zealander was moving and whether Howard could beat the clock before Drysdale did.
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Mizuki Noguchi of Japan Sunday claimed the women&#39;s marathon gold medal in a dramatic battle at the Olympic Games, reports Xinhua.
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Americans Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham win their first Olympic titles after outmaneuvering their British rivals during the final 470 class race.
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ATHENS -- Hardened by grueling hill work in the Swiss mountains and undeterred by the punishing Athens heat, Mizuki Noguchi seized a second straight gold medal for Japan in the women's Olympic marathon yesterday.