NYRR News Service

Davila, Kiplagat, Dado Headline NYRR New York Mini 10K

May 30, 2012 at 11:30am EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

Desiree Davila, Edna Kiplagat, and Firehiwot Dado lead a deep international field for the 40^th anniversary of the NYRR New York Mini 10K, New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg announced today.

The all-women race, which features eight 2012 Olympians, will take place on Saturday, June 9, in Central Park beginning at 8:00 a.m. Three of the event’s legends—race co-founders Kathrine Switzer and Nina Kuscsik and the Mini’s first champion, Jacqueline Dixon—will be honored Read More

Categories: Human Interest

NYRR Men Take Sixth In Championship Race

May 25, 2012 at 10:45am EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

On a windy and unseasonably warm evening in Chicago last night, the New York Road Runners team of Ro Crispin, John Honerkamp, Skip Stiles, and Stuart Calderwood toed the Grant Park starting line knowing that that the competition would be tough. This was, after all, a race for an international title.

“When they said this was a world championship, they weren’t kidding,” said Crispin (in photo). “Everyone there was really fast.”

NYRR fought hard, finishing sixth in Read More

Categories: Human Interest

A Pillar of the Marathon, Steve Mendelsohn, Dies at 67

May 24, 2012 at 12:00pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

When the New York City Marathon broke from the cocoon of its Central Park loop course into the wider world of a five-borough race in 1976, it needed a city-wide communications system. Fred Lebow, the race director, went looking for volunteers to help. He found Steve Mendelsohn.

A ham radio operator, Mr. Mendelsohn put together a corps of volunteers to line the course and assembled a communications system—critical in the days before mobile phones and still Read More

Categories: Human Interest

Flanagan Weighs In on Rivals' Predictions

May 23, 2012 at 12:45pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

American marathoner Shalane Flanagan is relishing the 2012 Olympic spotlight—the one that’s on everyone else, sometimes by virtue of their own statements.

“I just read something, I believe Edna Kiplagat, saying she can run 2:17 on the course,” Flanagan told Runner’s World today in a Brief Chat. “I kind of laughed; does she actually see the course? I expect [Kenyans Kiplagat and Mary Keitany] to almost feel like it's their race to lose and that they Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

Tirunesh Dibaba Will Turn to Marathon in 2013

May 31, 2012 at 10:30am EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

After Tirunesh Dibaba hits the 5000-meter finish line at the adidas Grand Prix on June 9, will New Yorkers next see her on the roads?

Dibaba’s manager, Mark Wetmore, confirms that the 26-year-old Dibaba, who won double gold at the 2008 Olympics at 5000 and 10,000 meters, will focus on the marathon distance after the 2012 London Games.

“You will still see her on the track,” he said, “but she is definitely planning to concentrate on the Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

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