22 September 2008 - Anthony Famiglietti (Knoxville, Tenn.) unleashed a powerful kick to win his second men's 5km title in 13:42, while Shalane Flanagan (Pittsboro, N.C.) cruised to her second consecutive women's title in 15:28 on Sunday (21) at the USA 5km Championships in Providence, Rhode Island.
21 September 2008 - Lisbon, Portugal - Samuel Wanjiru, the Olympic Marathon gold medallist, won this morning Porto Sport Zone Half Marathon. His countrywoman Pamela Chepchumba took the women’s title.
26 September 2008 – Berlin, Germany - Haile Gebrselassie and Irina Mikitenko will be very much in the focus on Sunday’s real,-Berlin Marathon. While the Ethiopian chases his own world record the German could become the first national winner of the race for 13 years.
22 September 2008 - Philadelphia, PA, USA - Yirefu Birhanu of Ethiopia and Lilya Shobukhova of Russia led home a record field of more than 13,300 runners and walkers at the 31st annual ING Philadelphia Distance Run (21).
24 September 2008 - The Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships meeting, the fourth annual international meeting in Daegu, Korea, takes place tomorrow Thursday 25 September.
22 September 2008 - German sprint hurdler Kirsten Bolm has announced the end of her career. The 33-year-old found it too difficult to motivate herself again for a comeback after a couple of illness and injury setbacks, which started back in spring 2007. Bolm is a student of psychology at Heidelberg University.
25 September 2008 – Multiple World record breaking long distance runner Grete Waitz of Norway, the inaugural women’s World marathon champion in 1983 and Olympic silver medallist in 1984 was honoured yesterday in the Norwegian capital by the New York marathon the race she won on nine occasions between 1978 and 1988.
26 September 2008 - Toronto, Canada - Race Directors must deal with indescribable pressures in the days leading up to the big day and for Alan Brookes of the ScotiaBank Waterfront Toronto Marathon it’s no different.
25 September 2008 – Usain Bolt’s athleticism tore up the record books in the Bird’s Nest stadium. The young Jamaican’s showmanship ignited the enthusiasm of the tens of thousands of stadium spectators and the billions of TV viewers who witnessed the spectacle of his three World record performances, the individual 100m and 200m, and the 4x100m relay as part of the Jamaican quartet.
23 September 2008 - Two reigning Olympic champions, Tomasz Majewski of Poland (Shot Put) and Slovenia’s Primoz Kozmus (Hammer Throw), and two reigning World champions, Tatyana Lebedeva (women’s Long Jump) and Donald Thomas (men’s High Jump), competed in today’s edition of the annual ‘Super-Meet’ which was held in front of a capacity crowd of 25,000 spectators in Kawasaki, Japan (23).
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