Haile Gebrselassie shattered the world record when winning this morning’s Real Berlin Marathon. Gebrselassie clocked the unofficial time of two hours four minutes 26 seconds, a massive improvement on the mark of 2hrs 4mins 55secs which Kenya’s Paul Tergat...
Berlin, Germany – Paul Tergat of Kenya, came to the Berlin marathon with one goal in mind. The World Record [WR] for the 42.2K distance. This record stood behind the name of Khallid Khannouchi of the US, by way of Morocco. The time was 2:05:38 and this had been...
With 100 days to go until the Paralympic Games, UKA today announced IPC World Championships silver medallist and European record holder Sophia Warner has been appointed as UKA’s new Commercial Director with effect from October 2012. Warner, a T35 Cerebral Palsy...
The Berlin Marathon 2003 brought Kenyan Paul Tergat to the city on one mission alone. His aim was to break the World Record of 2:05:38 held by Khallid Khannouchi, which had been established at London 2002. Tergat had yet to win a marathon, however he had run 2:05:48...
European Athletics is pleased to announce that Belarus hammer thrower Oksana Menkova and Slovakian walker Matej Tóth have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for April. Menkova, the 2008 Olympic champion, threw an outstanding national record of 78.19m at...
