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Champions Sammy Wanjiru, Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot and Tsegaye Kebede Added to 2010 Bank of America Chicago Marathon   Most Competitive Field in Race History Creates Opportunity to Decide the World Marathon Major Series Title in Chicago   Chicago, IL – The Bank of America Chicago Marathon today announced that three of …

More than 1,000 runners experience scenic Cape Ann By Jason Wolfe GLOUCESTER, Mass. – (August 22, 2010) – A pair of Kenyans, Alan Kiprono and Lineth Chepkurui, won theinaugural Run Gloucester! 7 Mile Road Race on Sunday morning along scenic Cape Ann in Gloucester. Kiprono, 20, who finished second at the TD …

NDIANAPOLIS – World renowned track and field statistician, meet director and public address announcer Scott Davis died Wednesday at his home in Cerritos, Calif.  He was 67.  Known to many as the voice of track and field in the United States, Davis beat back cancer twice in recent years before …

When news of my old friend Ted Corbitt’s passing reached my den at the beginning of January, I was in the midst of digesting the feast of journalistic reminiscence that followed Sir Edmund Hillary’s death. Headlines continued to distort Sir Edmund’s history-making achievement, I was thinking. No mountain‰ÛÓeven, or especially, …

Field includes 10K talent Kenyan Lineth Chepkurui for inaugural event GLOUCESTER, Mass. – (August 12, 2010) – The inaugural Run Gloucester! 7 Mile Road Race has attracted three top elite athletes – including record-breaker Lineth Chepkurui of Kenya – to the Sunday, August 22 race on scenic Cape Ann, race …

FIRST B.A.A. HALF MARATHON TRAINING CLINIC DRAWS RECORD CROWD, NEXT CLINIC SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 13 The first of three B.A.A. Half Marathon Training Clinics took place at Marathon Sports in Boston on Monday, August 9, with an overflow crowd hosted in the Lenox Hotel on Boylston Street. The clinics are …

Road Running reaches new heights with more than 10 million finishers, 17,000 events in U.S. for 2009; Half-Marathon, Marathon and 5K lead the charge   COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – (August 4, 2010) – Road Running continued its “boom” in 2009 with another record year of participation. Despite the lingering recession, the …

John Hancock‰Ûªs 2010 Boston Marathon Fundraising Program Raises a Record $4.2 Million For Local Organizations Runners raise money for non-profits in 114th Boston Marathon BOSTON, July 30, 2010 — John Hancock‰Ûªs Boston Marathon Fundraising Program raised a record $4.2 million for Boston-area non-profit and community service organizations during the 114th …

 In an effort to attain a 51 percent female participation rate in the 2010 Bridge of Flowers 10k Classic, the race’s organizing committee will introduce several changes to the Shelburne Falls event. The effort arose when race director Mike McCusker discovered that only 47.7 percent of racers in the 2009 event …

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (July 27, 2010) ‰ÛÓ A pair of running legends ‰ÛÓ Catherine Ndereba and Khalid Khannouchi ‰ÛÓ and an Ethiopian couple who are among the hottest road racers in the world, have joined an already talented field for the upcoming TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race …