Tag Archives: World Record

Boston Marathon champion Deriba Merga ran the fastest ever 10K on Canadian soil at the 23rd MDS Nordion 10K in Ottawa, Ontario on Saturday, May 23. Running a scintillating 27:24, Merga erased one of Canada’s oldest course records ‰ÛÓ the 28:12 run by race director John Halvorsen in 1988. Merga’s …

2009 Boston Marathon winner aims for 10K World Record in Ottawa $100,000 incentive to break the 10K world record is attracting some of the world’s fastest runners this year. The world record is 27:01 by Kenya’s Micah Kogo set in March of this year in Holland. Deriba Merga, this year’s …

(2,018 pre-entrants). Held on Sunday, May 10, the 9th annual Portland Sea Dogs Mother’s Day 5K set attendance records in its previous eight engagements. Finishing on the third base side of Hadlock Stadium (home of the Sea Dogs), the immensely popular race now has a double header with the launch …

Derrick sets U.S. Junior Record at Payton Jordan Invitational Stanford’s Chris Derrick posted a record performance in the men’s 5,000 meters Saturday at the 2009 Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford University’s Cobb Track & Angell Field in Palo Alto, Calif.   Derrick set the new U.S. Junior men’s 5,000m record …

Felix, Stuczynski, Powell & Fraser added to 2009 Reebok Grand Prix Lineup   Two-time Olympic Games women’s 200m silver medalist Allyson Felix, 2008 Olympic women’s pole vault silver medalist Jenn Stuczynski, along with Jamaican sprint stars Asafa Powell and Shelly-Ann Fraser, will compete May 30 at the 2009 Reebok Grand …

43 Olympians, record holders aplenty featured  at 100th Drake Relays INDIANAPOLIS – U.S. stars Stephanie Brown Trafton, Jeremy Wariner, Lolo Jones, Adam Nelson, Alan Webb, Christian Cantwell and Michelle Carter will headline the 100th running of the Drake Relays on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.   The …

Merga, Kosgei Win 113th Boston Marathon By Ryan Lamppa and Jim Gerweck, Running USA wire BOSTON – (April 20, 2009) – At the 113th Boston Marathon, Deriba Merga of Ethiopia and Salina Kosgei of Kenya were the class of their respective fields, but each won in a different way at …

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – (April 16, 2009) – Although the recession has hit hard financially and psychologically, marathons in the U.S. and the world, on average, have weathered the economic storm well, particularly in participation growth as 2008 was another record year in numerous categories as the following Running USA …

4-time Boston Marathon Champion Bill Rodgers to run again on Patriots’ Day Boston, Mass. – Bill Rodgers, whose four Boston Marathon victories between 1975 and 1980 helped popularize the sport of marathon running in the United States, plans to be on the starting line in Hopkinton once again on April …

HE WIND AT THEIR BACKS AND HISTORY ON THE HORIZON THE LEGACY OF THE SUB-FOUR-MINUTE MILE   Crown Features Syndicate‰ã¢   Nearly 55 years have passed since a great barrier in modern athletics was surmounted: the first sub-four-minute mile run by an Oxford University medical student named Roger Bannister (now …