The youngest Champion in history of Marathon is returning to defend his NYC Marathon title. BY SABRINA YOHANNES | RUNBLOGRUN After his first marathon victory at the Beijing world championships in 2015, Eritrea’s Ghirmay Ghebreslassie mused on the fact that his family had objected to his taking up running. “My parents wanted me to be […]
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A record number of 33,618 runners from 104 nations participated at the 36th GP of Berne. Once again, Ghirmay Ghebreslassie was the fastest. BY TESFANEWS Ghirmay Ghebreslassie has repeated his previous year’s win at the Grand Prix of Berne. The 21-year-old Eritrean won ahead of the Kenyan Sylvester Kipchirchir and his countryman Simon Tesfay, who had […]
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BY VIRGIN MONEY LONDON MARATHON He may be the world and New York champion, but Ghirmay Ghebreslassie’s goals for the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon are all about times not triumph as he aims to run the quickest race of his life on Sunday. Ghebrselassie became the youngest world marathon gold medallist in history when […]
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By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion Eritrea’s Ghirmay Ghebreslassie won the New York City Marathon, among the world’s pre-eminent long-distance annual running events, with a time of 2 hours, 7 minutes, 51 seconds, finishing over a minute ahead of Kenya’s Lucas Rotich, who took second place, and Somali-born American Abdi Abdirahman, who finished third. Although it was […]
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By TesfaNews, Ghirmay Ghebresiassie of Eritrea has won the New York City Marathon in the men’s field with a time of 2:07:51 to become the youngest NYC marathon winner in history at the age of 20. Kenyan runner Lucas Rotich finished in second place with a time of 2:08:53 and American Abdi Abdirahman finished in […]
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By Virgin Money London Marathon, Marathon world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie will be going for gold again this weekend when he attempts to crack Kenya’s dominance at the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon. Ahead of his London Marathon debut on Sunday 24 April, the young Eritrean runner looked relaxed as he took his place among the […]
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By Spikes | for IAAF, Ghirmay Ghebreslassie caused one of the bigger upsets in Beijing last month for two reasons: 1) His marathon win at the World Championships delivered gold to Eritrea for the first time in the championships’ history; 2) At 19-years-old, he became the first ever teen to win the event. We find […]
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By Steve Landells | for the IAAF, Ghirmay Ghebreslassie was a surprise winner of the men’s marathon title at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015. We chat to the Eritrean teenager to find out more about the gifted 19-year-old gold medallist. Best achievement in athletics Even though I have won other races and I performed […]
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