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Marathon

July 2024

  • The Italian Dorando Pietri staggers towards the finishing line at the end of the 1908 Olympic marathon, only to be disqualified later

    Mystery solved after 116 years: how the King helped prove marathon really is 26m 385yds

    Joe Neanor set out to prove length of 1908 Olympic race – and the official distance since then – was correct

April 2024

  • The ‘marathon monks’ of Mount Hiei in Japan.

    A short history of running very long distances

  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’: Harry Hunter, 76, becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • Marathon runners passing under a bridge

    ‘Glorious day’: London Marathon organisers hail 2024 event as records fall

  • Winners Peres ­Jepchirchir and Alexander Mutiso Munyao were joined by Britain’s Emile Cairess in securing Olympic places

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    London Marathon: Peres Jepchirchir breaks record as elite runners secure Olympic places – video

  • ‘No limits’: how the marathon was overtaken in sprint to stretch horizons

  • Tigist Assefa hails super shoes as she targets new marathon world record

  • London Marathon director urges protesters not to disrupt ‘force for good’

  • Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma surge to victory at Boston Marathon

  • Inside San Quentin’s marathon club: ‘For that day they are runners, not criminals’

  • ‘Why wouldn’t you, if you can run faster?’: the unstoppable rise of the carbon-fibre super shoe

March 2024

  • An exhausted Jasmin Paris slumps after finishing the Barkley Marathons.

    Hallucinations and no sleep: Jasmin Paris on her historic ultramarathon

    In an exclusive interview, the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons explains how she beat the 100-mile course
  • Marco Seitelmann running an event in 2014

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I survived the Boston marathon bombing – but broke down when I ran again

    After witnessing the deadly attack, I struggled with daily life and lost my passion for running. At the Frankfurt marathon, six months later, the emotional toll caught up with me
  • Benson Kipruto (second right) and his compatriot Timothy Kiplagat (centre) start the Tokyo Marathon. Eliud Kipchoge is third from the left.

    ‘Not every day is Christmas’: Kipchoge finishes 10th at Tokyo Marathon

    Eliud Kipchoge finished 10th in the Tokyo Marathon – his worst finish over 26.2 miles – in a blow to his Olympic preparations

February 2024

  • Kelvin Kiptum crosses the finish line in a course-record time to win the London Marathon last year.

    Kelvin Kiptum, Kenya’s history-maker whose bright star shone all too briefly

    The Kenyan world record holder’s tragic death at the age of 24 leaves us with unanswered questions over his vast potential
  • Kelvin Kiptum wins the elite men's race at the 2023 London Marathon

    World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum, 24, dies after car crash in Kenya

    The marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car crash in Kenya at the age of 24
  • Fiona O’Keeffe finished in a time 2hr 22min 10sec on Saturday to break the American marathon trials mark of 2hr 25min 38sec by Shalane Flanagan in 2012 in Houston.

    Fiona O’Keeffe smashes US Olympic marathon trials record on debut

    Fiona O’Keeffe smashed the women’s US Olympic marathon trials record in her debut at the distance on a warm Saturday to secure her spot in the Paris Games

December 2023

  • Wally Hesseltine has run 180 ultramarathons, broken his pelvis in a skiing accident, his nose in a fall, and tore a rotator cuff … and keeps on ticking.

    ‘Ten-minute miles are the new eight’: the senior ultrarunners pushing the envelope

    Not only are more runners doing ultramarathons in their seventies and eighties, they’re also going faster

November 2023

  • Ted Corbitt at the New York City Marathon

    ‘It’s a civil rights story’: how the New York City Marathon became a bastion of diversity

  • Tamirat Tola was the men’s marathon world champion in 2022

    New York City Marathon: Tola sets men’s course record as Obiri takes women’s crown

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