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True, McClintock Make World XC a Maine Event

March 27, 2013 at 01:15pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

What are the chances that the first U.S. finisher in both the men’s and the boys’ IAAF World Cross Country Championships last Sunday would be from Maine?

Ben True, a native of North Yarmouth, ME (pop. 3,565) finished sixth overall in the senior men’s race, leading the U.S. to an unexpected team silver medal less than two hours after Matt McClintock of Athens, ME (pop. 1,019) fought his way to 20th in the junior boys’ event Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes, Human Interest

Deena Kastor Set for More Magazine/Fitness Magazine Women’s Half-Marathon

March 26, 2013 at 01:45pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

It’s a big year for Deena Kastor and 10th anniversaries: The U.S. record-holder in the half-marathon, who just last weekend competed in her 10th World Cross Country Championships, will headline the 10th-anniversary running of the More Magazine/Fitness Magazine Women’s Half Marathon on April 14, it was announced today by New York Road Runners president and CEO Mary Wittenberg.
Kastor, 40, was captain of the U.S. cross-country team that finished fourth, just out of the medals, Read More

Categories: Pro Athletes

5 Things You Should Know About Me: Diane Nukuri-Johnson

March 25, 2013 at 01:30pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

Until she was nine years old, Diane Nukuri-Johnson lived a quiet and peaceful village life in her native Burundi, tending to the family garden and cow. Then civil war broke out, life was upended, and her father, a Tutsi soldier, lost his life. A few years later, after Nukuri-Johnson had become one of the top runners in the country, she was returning home from a track meet when a soldier sitting near a window of Read More

Categories: NYC Half, Pro Athletes

Five National Records Set in NYC Half

March 20, 2013 at 02:15pm EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

There were some impressive personal bests—including five national records—recorded by the deep field of professional athletes in Sunday’s NYC Half 2013.

All of the national records were set on the women’s side, led by runner-up Diane Nukuri-Johnson’s time of 1:09:12, which bettered her own Burundi mark of 1:10:55 set at last year’s NYC Half, by a whopping 1:43.

Following her, in third place, was Lisa Stublic, whose 1:09:18 improved on her previous mark for Croatia of 1:10:31. Read More

Categories: NYC Half, Pro Athletes

Kipsang, Rotich Triumph in NYC Half 2013

March 17, 2013 at 11:15am EST | by Barbara Huebner, NYRR News Service

On a warmer morning, Wilson Kipsang might have pushed the pace from the start.

It was not a warmer morning. The temperature at the start of the NYC Half was 30 degrees. Arm warmers, hats, and gloves were the dominant accessories among the field of 14,512 starters, with the pro athletes setting the trend. Snow had dusted the grass of Central Park overnight.

“It was very difficult to take off, because it was very cold,” said Kipsang, Read More

Categories: NYC Half, Pro Athletes

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