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(Photo: SCC EVENTS / Petko Beier) A contingent of some of the world’s top runners and around 25,000 mass participants will be on the start line next Sunday, September 26, for the 47th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON. The Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele heads the men’s entry while his compatriot Hiwot Gebrekidan is an equally strong contender for the women’s title.
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Up & Coming Runners Baker, Finch and Henderson Will Train in Running City USA - ATLANTA – September 17, 2021 -- Atlanta Track Club Elite added a trio of up and coming middle distance runners to its roster this week. The Club announced that former Stanford All-American Olivia Baker (South Orange, NJ), recent Troy University standout Gemma Finch (Newbury, U.K.) and former Boise State All-American Sadi Henderson (Hamilton, MT) will compete for the team beginning with the 2021-2022 Indoor Track & Field Season.
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(photo: Bettina Westermann) - Gelete Burka and Fabienne Schlumpf will head the women’s field of the Vienna City Marathon, which will take place on 12 September. With a personal best of 2:20:45 Ethiopia’s Burka will be the fastest woman ever on a start list for Austria’s most prestigious and biggest road running event. The Vienna City Marathon will see its 38th edition next week and organizers currently have registered a total of around 25,000 athletes. While this includes races at shorter distances there will be 6,000 marathon runners. Some of the events will take place on the Saturday. The Vienna City Marathon is a World Athletics Marathon Label Road Race and will be the first major international marathon featuring a strong elite field and a mass race since the start of the Corona pandemic. After providing a hygiene concept organizers received the final go ahead from the city a couple of days ago.
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(Photo: SCC EVENTS) - The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON will get underway on Sunday, September 26 with high quality elite fields headed by the Ethiopian superstar Kenenisa Bekele on his fourth appearance in Germany’s biggest and most spectacular marathon, while his compatriot Hiwot Gebrekidan will run in Berlin’s women’s field for the first time. Gebrekidan is currently the fastest female marathon runner in the world this year. The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON is part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors and a Platinum Label Road Race, awarded by World Athletics, the international governing body of athletics.
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Olympic Stars prepare to shine at Centenary ISTAF meeting in Berlin with Tokyo contests renewed in high jump, long jump and discus - BERLIN. Those athletes who struck Olympic gold in Tokyo will have to be at their best at the centenary edition of the ISTAF meeting in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday, September 12. Three women who stood at the top of their respective podiums in Japan will be renewing rivalry with those who challenged them all the way in pursuit of Olympic glory. Malaika Mihambo of Germany competes in the long jump, the Russian Mariya Lasitskene goes in the high jump and Valarie Allman of the USA heads the discus line-up.