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Gebrselassie wins Berlin marathon, misses world record
Berlin :: Germany | 2 months ago
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Ethiopian Atsede Besuye won the women's race with an unofficial time of 2:24:47, her best marathon result so far. The 36-year-old Gebrselassie smashed his own record here at last year's race when he ran 2hrs 03min 59sec but admitted struggling during...
Tags: Haile Gebrselassie, Berlin Marathon, Ethiopian Gebrselassie, world records, gebrselassie wins, warm weather, fourth straight, Ethiopian Atsede Habtamu Besuye, gebrselassie won, Francis Kiprop, Germany, Berlin
Gebrselassie eyes London 2012 Olympic marathon gold
Berlin :: Germany | 2 months ago
Credibility World record holder Haile Gebrselassie has targeted the marathon title at the 2012 London Olympics, some 12 years after his last Olympic gold medal. The former Olympic and four-times world champion over 10,000 metres told reporters ahead of the Berlin...
Tags: Haile Gebrselassie, world records, Berlin, Duncan Kibet, berlin marathon, Germany
Bolt has fun with kids
Thessaloníki :: Greece | 2 months ago
Credibility The short run through a cheering crowd yesterday, however, certainly won't diminish Bolt's status as the top sprinter in the world or dampen expectations for another victory at this weekend's World Athletics Final. "It was really fun with the kids," said...
Tags: Usain Bolt, Carmelita Jeter, athletics final, Dave Zabriskie, Greece, Asafa Powell, world records, fastest woman, American, Berlin, Thessaloníki
Yelena Isinbayeva gets the Prince of Asturias Award for Sport
Madrid :: Spain | 2 months ago
Credibility It comes after she broke the World Record just last Friday The 27 year old Russian pole-vaulter, Yelena Isinbayeva, who broke the world record in Zurich last Friday with a vault of 5.06 metres, has been named the winner of this year’s Prince of Asturias...
Tags: Yelena Isinbayeva, world records, pole vaulter, asturias awarded, vaulter yelena, Spain, prestigious prince, Zurich
Russian sets pole vault record
Zurich :: Switzerland | 2 months ago
Credibility Maybe failing to clear height at the world championships was the best training for Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva. She bounced back from losing her world title by setting a world record of 16 feet, 7¼ inches in the Weltklasse meet in Zurich, Switzerland,...
Tags: Houston Lucy Keith, Texas, Kylie Doniak, world records, Yelena Isinbayeva
Zurich crowd rewarded with a world record
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 months ago
Credibility A deadly hush descended on the Weltklasse athletics meet crowd in Zurich as Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva prepared to attempt a new pole vault world record. The crowd was supporting her every step of the way on Friday evening with claps and by beating the...
Tags: Yelena Isinbayeva, world records, world championship, Berlin, Jamaican Usain Bolt, pole vault, Zurich Golden League, long jump, vault world, league meeting
Bolt wins, Isibayeva breaks world record
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 months ago
Credibility Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt won the 100 metres with a late surge at the Weltklasse Golden League meeting on Friday while Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the women's pole vault. Bolt, who was paraded around the Letzigrund...
Tags: world records, Jamaican Asafa Powell, Yelena Isinbayeva, league meeting, Weltklasse Golden League, Sanya Richards, Usain Bolt, Zurich, Berlin, olympic champion
Guinness effort lands doctors in a soup
Madurai :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility Doctors in the oncology department of Rajaji Hospital in Madurai felt the feat would earn them a place in the Guinness Book. Instead, it has landed them in controversy. The medical fraternity has been near unanimous in condemning them for putting the...
Tags: world records, cancer surgeries
Bolt roadshow continues at Zurich Golden League
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 months ago
Credibility The presence of Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has guaranteed that the fifth of the six-leg Golden League on Friday (today) will be a sell-out after his treble world gold medal haul...Bolt, who set new world records in the 100 and 200m (9.58 and...
Tags: Jamaican Asafa Powell, Zurich, world records, golden league
New Scientist: Gender bending the rules for Caster Semenya
Berlin :: Germany | 3 months ago
Credibility For similar stories, visit the Editorials Topic Guide IN 1957 female high jumper Dora Ratjen made an amazing confession: she was a man. Ratjen (real name Hermann), who had competed for Germany in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin and broke the women's...
Tags: Stella Walsh, world records
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