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News From: Tuesday, July 29, 2014
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Steve Way Sets New British Veterans' Record in Marathon at Commonwealth Games (Daily Star) Ten years ago Steve Way smoked 20 cigarettes a day and was overweight. At the Commonwealth Games he finished 10th with a new British veterans marathon record of 2 hours 15 minutes and 16 seconds.
News From: Sunday, July 27, 2014
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Commonwealth Games 2014: Shelley and Cheyech Win Marathon Golds (The Guardian.com) Michael Shelly won the gold medal in the men's marathon at the Commonwealth Games with a time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 15 seconds.
News From: Thursday, August 1, 2013
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Kenyan Runners Will Defend Titles at Gauteng Marathon (Sowetan.co.za) Timothy Chelimo and Eunice Muchiri will attempt to defend their marathon titles at the Gauteng Marathon slated for September 8
News From: Saturday, September 3, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Kirui Wins World Track & Field Marathon Championship Again (Standard) Abel Kirui won the World Track and Field Marathon Championship with a time of 2 hours 7 minutes and 38 seconds for his second title.
News From: Thursday, September 1, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Flagstaff Locals Set For World Marathon (AZ Daily Sun) Nick Arciniaga, Jeffrey Eggleston, Mike Sayenko, Sergio Reyes, and Mike Morgan will represent the United States in the men's marathon on September 4 in Daegu Korea.
News From: Friday, August 26, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Teamwork Will Win Us Medals, Says Kosgei (Daily Nation) With the World Championship women's marathon launching Friday, Kenyan athletes look to work together to bring home medals.
News From: Monday, August 22, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Going For Gold - Kenyan Nation Ready To Take On World's Best (All Africa.com) The Kenyan World Championship team leaves for Daegu on Monday with one of the most solid and experienced distance teams ready to take on all challengers.
News From: Tuesday, July 12, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Kenya Big Names To Miss Marathon Race In World Championships (Xinhuanet.com) In pursuit of big contracts, many of the top Kenyan marathon runners will skip the world championships to run in Chicago or Berlin
News From: Thursday, May 19, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		World Marathon Champion Kirui To Defend Title (Daily Times) Abel Kirui was given the opportunity to defend his World Marathon Championship title when only six out of ten originally selected committed leaving the door open for Kirui.
News From: Thursday, May 12, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Keitany, Mutai Opt Out Of Kenya Squad To World Championships (Daily Nation) Kenya's top two fastest marathon runners will not be running the World Championship's Marathon. Keitany has opted to find a faster race in hopes of breaking the world record.
News From: Thursday, February 17, 2011
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Zhuwawo, Nyasango Off To Korea (Zimbabwean) Wirimai Zhuwawo and Cuthbert Nyasagno will compete in the World Championships Marathon slated for South Korea in August.
News From: Thursday, August 20, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		A Step Ahead of the Pack (The Boston Globe) Nate Jenkins is probably most widely-known for his orange beard. The beard gone now as Jenkins embarks on his journey to the World Championships Marathon to be held in Berlin on Saturday.
News From: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Eugene Runner Sixth in 10,000; Rupp Eighth (The Statesman Journal) Galen Rupp ran a season best of 27 minutes and 37 seconds in the IAAF World Championship 10,000 meter on Monday night. Dathan Ritzenhein placed sixth with a personal best of 27 minutes and 22 seconds. Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia, finished first and remained unbeaten in the ten-thousand meters for his fourth world title with a time of 26 minutes and 46 seconds.
News From: Saturday, August 15, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Lagat Headlines Team USA Men's Runners at World Outdoor Championships (USATF.org) Bernard Lagat, the reigning world outdoor 1500 m and 5000m champion will headline the distance runnners for Team USA at the World Championships in Berlin. Dan Browne joins Nate Jenkins and Justin Young in the men's marathon field
News From: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Flagstaff's Higgins to Run World Championships Marathon (AZcentral.com) Paige Higgins left her full time job to become a professional runner with McMillan Elite in Flagstaff. It was a gamble that has paid off as Higgins will make her international running debut on August 23 with Desiree Davila, Arizona State, who will run the World Championship Marathon in Berlin.
News From: Tuesday, August 11, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		IAAF Worlds Preview: Men's Marathon (IAAF.com) While marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie and Olympic Gold medalist Sammy Wanjiru will skip the World championships it leaves the marathon field wide open. Kenya will certainly throw it's athletes in the gauntlet.
		Kirwa to Lead Kenya's Athletics Gold Hunt in Berlin (Afriica News) Afred Yego Kirwa is expected to win the 800 meter gold medal at the Berlin World Championships. The marathon is the only event where the defending champions will not be racing. Catherine Ndereba had pulled out and Luke Kibet has been demoted to the reserve team.
News From: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Olympic Champions Felled As Kenya Picks Team To World Championships For Berlin (IAAF.org) Kenya's World Track and Field Championship Team will include some former Olympic medalist who have their work cut out for them if the hope to keep their medal status at the World Championships to be held in Berlin in August.
		Ethiopia Selects Strong Track And Marathon Delegation For World Championships in Berlin (IAAF.org) The Ethiopian Federation has listed their contigent of distance runners for the 12th IAAF World Championships. Tsegaye Kebede, Deriba Merga, and Yemane Tsegaye head up the marathon force headed to Berlin in August
News From: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Gebrselassie to race Kibet in Berlin World Championships marathon (Reuters Indian) Haile Gebrselassie will run against his Duncan Kibet in a showdown of marathon giants at the 2009 World Marathon Championships to be held in Berlin on September 20. Less than thirty seconds separates the two world leading marathon times.
News From: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		$7.3 million in prize money at World Championships in Berlin (Radio Jamaica) Winners of each individual even at the World Track and Field Championships will earn sixty-thousand dollars and each relay will earn eight-thousand per team. The top six marathon runners will split an additional one-hundred, forty-two thousand dollars.
News From: Friday, May 29, 2009
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Wanjiru withdraws from Worlds to run Berlin marathon (Daily Times) Sammy Wanjiru has pulled his name from the entrants list for this summer's World Athletics Championship. Wajiru has opted to race in Berlin where he intends to break the current marathon world record.
News From: Friday, September 21, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		IAAF Reports No Positive Drug Tests During Osaka (Race Results Weekly) The testing programme in Osaka was the largest ever conducted by the IAAF with even more tests collected than initially planned.
News From: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Neighbours Admire World Championship Marathon King Kibet (The Standard) Kibet has abruptly become a household name at his working place, the Nairobi Short Sentence Prison in Industrial Area, where everyone is now talking about the warder who has now been promoted to a corporal.
News From: Sunday, August 26, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Runners Beat Heat To Finish World Championship Marathon (Daily Yomiuri) The marathon turned into a survival test, with temperatures exceeding 30 C, causing 30 percent of the runners to drop out midway.
News From: Saturday, August 25, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		South Africa Marathon Hopes Melt On Osaka Roads (IOL) Although half way was passed in 68 minutes 29 seconds only Hendrick Ramaala and Norman Dlomo from the SA squad remained in contact, but neither looked particularly comfortable.
		Kenyan Wins Marathon at World Athletics Championships (Voice Of America) Kibet finished the 42.195 kilometer race in 2:15:59. The Kenyan is the first men's marathon world champion from his country in 20 years.
		Switzerland's Röthlin Takes Marathon Bronze (European Athletics) Highlights of european athletes' performance.
		Malinga Fades Out Of IAAF Marathon (Sunday Vision) Alex Malinga led for 20 kilometres before giving in to searing heat to finish 12th in the World Championships marathon where Ugandas other entrant Amos Masai burnt out.
		Kibet Ends Kenyan Wait For Marathon Title At World Championship (Guardian Unlimited) The 24-year-old prison guard overcame searing heat and high humidity to clinch gold in two hours, 15 minutes and 59 seconds.
News From: Friday, August 24, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Athletes To Get Spray-downs To Beat Searing Osaka Heat At World Championships (Guardian Unlimited) The competition begins with the men's marathon race on Saturday and temperatures are forecast to continue hovering above the 35 degrees celsius mark for the following week.
News From: Thursday, August 23, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Men's Marathon Kicks of 11th IAAF World Championships on Saturday (Race Results Weekly) Race preview and top field participating.
News From: Wednesday, August 22, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Moment Of Truth For South African Marathon Men at The World Championships (IOL) Hendrick Ramaala, Norman Dlomo, George Mofokeng, Bethuel Netshifhefhe and Zongamele Dyubeni are participating. could be the ideal time for South Africa to boost team moral with a medal. There are two races within one happening, as there is also the World Marathon Cup at stake over and above individual glory.
News From: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Marathon Champion Gharib Pulls Out Of Osaka Defence (Guardian Unlimited) Two-times marathon champion Jaouad Gharib of Morocco has pulled out of the world championships due to a slight injury.
News From: Friday, August 3, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		IAAFs Largest Ever Anti-Doping Programme To Take Place In Osaka (IAAF) The 2007 edition of these World Championships, which take place in Osaka, Japan between 25 August and 2 September 2007, will see more than 1000 samples collected, both before and during the competition, eclipsing the 885 tests conducted at the last World Championships in 2005.
News From: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Britain Makes First World Champs Team Selections (Race Results Weekly) The following were selected for the marathon: Peter Riley, 2:14:31; Dan Robinson, 2:13:53; Tracey Morris, 2:33:13; Mara Yamauchi, 2:25:13.
News From: Thursday, May 24, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Kenya's Top Marathon Runners Snub World Championships (Reuters) World record holder Paul Tergat, London champion Martin Lel and Boston winner Robert Cheruiyot have all said they will not be available for August's world championships in Osaka.
News From: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Team USA for IAAF World Championships Marathon Announced (USA Track & Field) Leading the men's team will be 2005 and 2006 USA Marathon Champion Mbarak Hussein, who has a lifetime best of 2 hours 8 minutes 10 seconds.
News From: Thursday, March 30, 2006
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		Marathon Man Eyes Next Years World Champs (Times Online) Scott Winton, who finished 18th in the 2005 London Marathon as well as 28th at the World Athletics Championships last year, is focused on the next goal qualifying for next years World Athletics Championships in Japan.
News From: Sunday, August 14, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Gharib retains his marathon crown (The Financial Express) Morocco's Jaouad Gharib became only the second man to retain the men's marathon title at the World Championships in Helsinki Saturday.
News From: Saturday, August 13, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Post-Race Review/ Results
		Gharib successfully defends world marathon championship (USA Today) Jaouad Gharib of Maracco won Gold at the World Championships for the second year in a row.
News From: Thursday, August 11, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Ramaala will give his best (News 24) Hendrick Ramaala has promised that he will do his utmost in the marathon at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
News From: Friday, August 5, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Human Interest Story
		In for the Long Run (World Championships) (Inside Bay Area) Cal graduate Peter Gilmore has 7 marathons under his belt, and wll now be running in the World Championships in Helsinki.
News From: Friday, July 29, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Huw and Paula Set for World Champs Marathon Test (Times & Citizen (Bedford)) Article about Paula Radcliffe and Huw Lobb's preparations for the World Championships Marathons.
News From: Monday, July 11, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Jason Lehmkuhle Added to U.S. Marathon Team for Helsinki World Championships (USATF Long Distance Running Notes) Athlete Jason Lehmkuhle has been added to the marathon team roster for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Athletics to replace withdrawn runner Scott Larson.
News From: Friday, July 1, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Kenya's Marathon Team Will Excel, Says injured Lel (The Standard) Martin Lel says Kenyas marathon team to the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, is still strong even after a knee injury forced him out. Paul Biwot, second in Paris last April, has replaced Lel.
News From: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Injury floors Marathon Runner Lel (The Star) London marathon champion Martin Lel has pulled out of the Kenyan team for August's world championships in Helsinki because of injury.
News From: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Lel out of World Championships (Independant Online) London marathon winner Martin Lel withdrew from Kenya's World Championships marathon due to an injury. Lel was the second star runner to withdraw from the team due to injury, officials said.
News From: Monday, June 27, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		British Pair Out of Marathons (IAAF World Championships) (Sporting Life) Jon Brown and Liz Yelling have withdrawn from the IAAF World Championships, as they both feel they have not trained sufficiently for the event.
News From: Wednesday, June 15, 2005
	World Track & Field Championships Men's Marathon
		Pre-Race Review/ Lineup
		Olympics: Runners Meet Before Worlds (Detroit Free Press) The Rochester Athletic Center will house a two-day marathon summit for the men and women's U.S. marathon teams who will compete in Helsinki.