by maraadmin | Nov 13, 2011 | Athens, Featured, News
In a rare victory for a non-Kenyan in a major marathon, Abdelkerim Boubker of Morocco won the Athens Classic Marathon on Sunday morning, taking exactly one minute off the event record, with 2.11.40. Boubker, 30, had to overcome more than the all-conquering Kenyans,...
by maraadmin | Nov 12, 2011 | Athens, Featured, Kenya, New York
When When Raymond Bett won the Athens Classic Marathon last year in 2.12.40, knocking two seconds off the event record on one of the toughest courses in the world, he was presented with the fact that Stefano Baldini won the 2004 Olympic title on the same course in...
by maraadmin | Sep 9, 2011 | Articles
The marathon has a proud history and is steeped in tradition. History records that in 490 B.C., the soldier Pheidippides, covered the distance from a battlefield near Marathon, Greece, to Athens in order to bring the news of a Greek victory over the Persians. At the...
