by maraadmin | Apr 6, 2014 | Ethiopia, Featured, Kenya, News, Paris, Report
Kenenisa Bekele made his debut over the distance in style, when winning the Paris Marathon 2014 in a new course record of 2:05:04. The Ethiopian, who is still the 5000m and 10000m World Record holder, is considered the greatest distance athlete in history and had set...
by maraadmin | Apr 4, 2014 | Featured, News, Paris, Pre event
Kenenisa Bekele, the only athlete ever who has achieved to be an Olympic Champion, World Cross Country Champion, World Indoor- and Outdoor Champion, will now make his marathon debut. He will be on the starting line of the Schneider Electric Paris Marathon coming...
by maraadmin | Apr 9, 2003 | Paris
Nearly 30 000 runners braced the bitter early April unseasonal morning cold weather to line up for 2003 Paris marathon. The cold also made that there were fewer habitual supporters lining the route for a major city marathon, preferring to watch the race in bed on...
by maraadmin | Apr 8, 2003 | Paris
Paris, France – 2003.. What a race.. down to the line .. The Paris Marathon provided a simply superb race with Mike Rotich of Kenya [with a previous best – 2:08.’59] thrusting himself into the league of the World’s Best with a winning time of...
by maraadmin | Apr 7, 2002 | Paris
Sunday, 7 April, was one of the first dates on the European Spring marathon calendar. For some reason this race fails to attract the big marathon names, even though this race is a fast flat course, the marathon greats prefer London and Rotterdam. This could be...