Road Race

BOSTON, MA, December 21, 2017—John Hancock said today that Japanese runner Yuki Kawauchi has been invited to participate in the company’s 2018 Boston Marathon Elite Team. During a visit to Boston the last week of December, Kawauchi will train on the Boston Marathon course. And on New Year’s Day, he …

John Hancock’s  today announced its strongest US Elite Team since it began its principal sponsorship of the Boston Marathon began in 1986. The US team, recruited to compete against an accomplished international field, will challenge for the coveted olive wreath on Patriots’ Day, April 16, 2018. Four-time Olympian and 2017 …

KIRUI, KIPLAGAT SET TO DEFEND BOSTON MARATHON TITLES By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (06-Dec) — Reigning Boston Marathon champions, Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat of Kenya, have committed to defending their titles at the 2018 edition of the world’s oldest, continuously run marathon …

HALL, RITCHIE TAKE USA MARATHON TITLES AT CAL INT’L MARATHON By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved   SACRAMENTO (03-Dec) — In sunny, windless and cool conditions, Sara Hall of Redding, Calif., and Timothy Ritchie of New Haven, Conn., clinched the 2017 USATF Marathon titles …

MARATHON DEBUT WAS “LONG TIME COMING” FOR KATIE MATTHEWS By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved SACRAMENTO (02-Dec) — The official elite athlete introductions had ended at the expo for the 35th California International Marathon and USA Marathon Championships and Katie Matthews was attempting a …

POWERFUL SPRINTS GIVE CHELIMO, DIRIBA MANCHESTER WINS By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved MANCHESTER, CONN. (23-Nov) — Under brilliant blue skies here this morning, Paul Chelimo and Buze Diriba shook off the near-freezing temperatures and rallied to win the 81st Manchester Road Race, America’s …

LAGAT TO MAKE MANCHESTER ROAD RACE DEBUT By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved (14-Nov) — Instead of relaxing and enjoying the warm sunshine of Tuscon, Ariz., on Thanksgiving Day with his family, five-time Olympian Bernard Lagat will instead face the bracing air of Manchester, …

BREAKING 40-YEAR DROUGHT, FLANAGAN WINS TCS NYC MARATHON By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (05-Nov) — In what she hinted might be the final marathon of her career, Shalane Flanagan became the first American to win the TCS New York City Marathon …

USA 5-K TITLES FOR KIPCHIRCHIR & HUDDLE AT ABBOTT DASH TO THE FINISH By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved NEW YORK (04-Nov) — The men’s and women’s USATF 5-K road championships could not have played out more differently here this morning in Central Park. …

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, THE TCS NEW YORK CITY MARATHON PUT WOMEN FIRST By Rich Sands, @sands (c) 2017 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved PHOTO: The elite women starting the 2002 New York City Marathon (from left to right): F6, Joyce Chepchumba (KEN); F9, Kerryn McCann (AUS); F60, Silvia Skvortsova …