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World Class Fields Announced for B.A.A. 5K and B.A.A. Invitational Mile   Defending champions Buze Diriba and Hagos Gebrhiwet join American record holder Ben True to lead full slate of B.A.A. races on Saturday Photo: from 2018, top-25 15:00 runners Nick Roche of Oregon, The BAA’s Brian Harvey, Heartbreaker’s Conor …

John Hancock Announces 2019 Boston Marathon Elite Ambassador Team BOSTON, MA, March 27, 2019—John Hancock today announced its Elite Athlete Ambassador Team for the 2019 Boston Marathon to be held on April 15. Boston Marathon champions Meb Keflezighi, Tatyana McFadden, Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Greg Meyer and Uta Pippig …

B.A.A. Announces Meb Keflezighi as 2019 Boston Marathon Grand Marshal Boston Marathon Schedule of Events Released BOSTON (1-April) – Today, the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced the Grand Marshal for the 123rd Boston Marathon, to be run on Monday, April 15, 2019. Meb Keflezighi, winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon, will …

CHEPTEGEI REBOUNDS FROM KAMPALA MELTDOWN TO TAKE WORLD CROSS COUNTRY GOLD By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2019 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved AARHUS, DENMARK (30-Mar) — In Kampala two years ago Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei tried to run away with the men’s senior title at the IAAF World Cross Country …

USA CHAMPION KIPCHIRCHIR FOCUSED ON TEAM MEDAL AT WORLD CROSS By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2019 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved AARHUS, DENMARK (28-Mar) — One of the oldest expressions in sports is that there is no “I” in “Team,” and reigning USA cross country champion Shadrack Kipchirchir has …

From: Race Results Weekly <rrweekly@gmail.com> All Rights Reserved (c) Date: March 17, 2019 at 1:01:50 PM EDT To: nerfitz@hotmail.com Subject: RRW: Surprise Win For Tilahun, Domination for Jepkosgei At United Airlines NYC Half NEW YORK (17-Mar) — Belay Tilahun pulled off a surprise win in the United Airlines NYC Half …

Joan Benoit Samuelson To Run 2019 Boston Marathon Celebrating the 40th anniversary of her 1979 victory, Samuelson returns to race from Hopkinton to Boston BOSTON – The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) announced today that two-time Boston Marathon champion and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson will run this year’s Boston …

IAAF ANNOUNCES OLYMPIC GAMES QUALIFICATION SYSTEM At the ongoing IAAF Council Meeting in Doha, the Council approved the athlete qualification system for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The new system will allow athletes to become eligible for Olympic selection using two different criteria: . Achieve the qualification marks by discipline within …

(c) Copyright, All right reserved by Race Results Weekly. Bruce Lehane Invitational Mile Boston University Track and Tennis Center; Boston, MA, USA; Sunday, March 3 200m Banked Synthetic track Photo: A pacer leads eventual word record holder Yomif Kejelcha at BU. Photo by Kevin Morris NOTE: At these specially-arranged races …

AUSTIN, CRAGG WIN ROAD TO GOLD ROAD RACE By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2019 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PHOTO: Jared Ward and Parker Stinson chase eventual champion Brogan Austin at the 2019 Road to Gold road race in Atlanta (photo by Jane Monti for Race Results Weekly) ATLANTA …