by maraadmin | Jan 24, 2013 | Dubai, Featured, News, Pre event
Yemane Tsegay is looking to extend Ethiopia’s recent domination of the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday morning, but with a prize pot of close to a million dollars, and a super-fast course to entice the speed merchants, there is no shortage of both...
by maraadmin | Dec 22, 2012 | Dubai, Featured, News, Pre event
With another record breaking distance running year drawing to a close, it won’t be long until the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon races into 2013 in a similar direction, in just over a month’s time. Debutant Ayele Abshero of Ethiopia led a quartet under 2.05 last...
by maraadmin | Jan 27, 2012 | Dubai, Featured, News
Ayele Abshero and his Ethiopan colleagues turned the marathon tide substantially this morning, Friday, in a Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon which rewrote the record books. Abshero, just past 21, ran the fastest winning debut in history, taking the title in an...
by maraadmin | Jan 26, 2012 | Dubai, Featured, News, Pre event
The Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, which celebrates its 13th edition on Friday morning, has been a happy hunting ground for Ethiopian runners in the past, foremost among them former world record holder Haile Gebrselassie, who won here three times. But when Geb...
