SUNDERLAND: Thousands of runners were disqualified from a marathon after inadvertently taking a wrong turn. Runners at theMarathonof the North inSunderlandlast month were told they had missed out on completing the full marathon by 264 metres because of the error. Event organisers admitted that the ...

KARACHI (PR) : Thirteen student teams from Pakistan’s top universities are preparing ultra energy-efficient vehicles for Shell’s annual super-mileage competition, the Eco-marathon. The competition will be held from July 4-7, 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where over 1,000 students from ...

NEW YORK : Slain Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has finally been buried, ending a growing row over what to do with his body, police in the Massachusetts town of Worcester said Thursday.“As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came ...

PARISChelsea will be looking to keep their hopes alive of their marathon season ending with a trophy as Rafael Benitez's men host FC Basel in their Europa League semi-final second leg clash at Stamford Bridge on Thursday. The English Premier League outfit lead 2-1 from last week's semi-final, first ...

HAMBURG - Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya won Sunday's Hamburg Marathon as the 15,000 runners in the northern German city paid tribute to the victims of the Boston Marathon bomb blasts. The 28-year-old Kipchoge set a new course record of 2hrs 05.30mins with Ethiopia's Limenih Getachew second 2min 5sec ...

LONDON Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede and Priscah Jeptoo of Kenya triumphed at a sombre London Marathon on Sunday, as runners paid tribute to the victims of the deadly bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon.Kebede hunted down 2011 champion Emmanuel Mutai to win the men's race, while Jeptoo surged to ...

LONDON - Britain is increasing police numbers by 40 percent for Sunday's London marathon as part of an effort to reassure competitors and spectators after bombs devastated the Boston race on Two explosions near the finish line of the Boston race killed three people and injured 176, triggering ...

Two blasts targeting a marathon’s finish line in Boston killing four people and leaving 100 injured while a third one rocking the John F. Kennedy Presidential library are without any shadow of a doubt totally condemnable and utterly reprehensible attacks.As things stand, it would be premature ...

LONDON Race organisers said the London Marathon would go ahead on Sunday despite the death of at least two people in explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but police said they would review security plans.While it has yet to be confirmed that the Boston explosions on Monday ...

The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday denied anything to do with explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 144 in Boston.“We believe in attacking US and its allies but we are not involved in this attack,” Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told the ...

LAHORE (PR) - The Rotary Global Swim marathon event was held at Shapes separate swimming pools for male and females. The event was participated by a team of nine Rotarian and interact swimmers of Rotary Club of Lahore and 26 non-Rotarian swimmers including two girls ably led by Rotarian Col (r) ...

LAHORE - Athletes while expressing their pleasant surprise by seeing Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif among them in a green track-suit at the start of the family fun race (marathon) paid rich tributes to him on holding the Punjab Sports Festival. They were overjoyed and raised slogans Shahbaz ...

BAHAWALPUR - The first-ever Marathon Race here in the City was held on Sunday which was largely attended by people of all age groups. The race started from Baghdadul Jadid Railway Station and concluded at the Dring Stadium. The participants were divided into three major categories depending on age ...

FUKUOKA (AFP) - Josphat Ndambiri led Kenya's one-two finish in the Fukuoka men's marathon in Japan on Sunday in his first full marathon, underlining his country's wealth of long-distance runners. The 26-year-old, who has been based in Japan since his teenage years, broke away from the front-running ...

YOKOHAMA (AFP) - Ryoko Kizaki won a toe-to-heel battle against fellow Japanese runner Yoshimi Ozaki in the last two kilometres (one and a quarter miles) to win the Yokohama women's marathon on Sunday. Kizaki, 26, from Kyoto, was a few seconds behind Ozaki after passing the 40km point, but she ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Kenyan Patrick Makau shattered the world mens marathon record by 21 seconds on Sunday when he clocked two hours three minutes 38 seconds over the fast, flat Berlin course on a warm, sunny morning. Makau ran alone for the final 12 kms to break the previous mark of 2:03:59 set by ...

A man has completed the London Marathon in 26 days by crawling. Instead of running the 26.2-mile course, Lloyd Scott, 49, moved on his hands and knees dressed as Brian the Snail in the old childrens television series The Magic Roundabout. He was supporting Action for Kids, a charity which helps ...

BOSTON (Agencies) - Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds - the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance. The previous best of 2:03:59 was by Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008. But because Monday's race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, ...

TORONTO (AFP) Top seed Rafael Nadal battled out a marathon tiebreaker on Wednesday to reach the Toronto Masters third round, downing Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 (14/12), 6-3. The first-set decider tied the record of the longest ever played by the Spaniard, who went the same distance in 2009 but lost ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) Lithuanian Zivile Balciunaite shrugged off the cloying Mediterranean heat to claim gold in the womens marathon at the European championships in Barcelona on Saturday. The unfancied 31-year-old improved on her fourth-place finish at the 2006 edition, completing the course ...

ATLANTA (Georgia) (AFP) John Isner needed 33 aces and two and a half hours, outlasting Gilles Muller at the Atlanta Tennis Championships as the American registered his first win since making history at Wimbledon. Marathon man Isner beat an inspired Muller 4-6, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (9/7) Wednesday, ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi kept Pakistan level with New Zealand in their Asia/Oceania Group II Davis Cup semi-final on Friday when he won a dramatic second singles that went to 15-13 in the fifth set. It took the veteran Qureshi four hours and 36 minutes to beat New Zealand novice ...

NEWPORT (Rhode Island) (AFP) For Nicolas Mahut, an 11-hour, five-minute Wimbledon epic still isnt over. Even when I sleep, Im dreaming about the match, he said of the record-setting battle in which he fell 70-68 to John Isner in the fifth set. Its a crazy story. In his dreams, does he ...

NEW YORK (AFP) Meb Keflezighi became the first US man in more than two decades to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday, while Derartu Tulu ended Paula Radcliffes two-year grip on the womens title. Keflezighi, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist, earned his first major marathon with a time of 2hr ...

BERLIN (AFP) - World marathon record-holder Haile Gebrselassie won the Berlin marathon for the fourth time on Sunday in an official time of 2 hours 6min 08sec, but missed out on a new world record. The 36-year-old smashed his own record here at last year's race when he ran 2hr 03min 59sec but ...

SAPPORO (Japan) (AFP) - Asian Games silver medallist Kiyoko Shimahara of Japan won the Hokkaido marathon on Sunday with Kenya's Daniel Njenga taking the men's title. Shimahara, whose previous best finishes were second in the 2004 Tokyo and 2005 Hokkaido marathons, pulled away from teammate Akemi ...

BERLIN (AFP) - China's Xue Bai won the women's marathon world title in a time of 2hours 25minutes and 15 seconds here on Sunday. The 20-year-old - whose name means 'white snow' - beat home Yoshimi Ozaki of Japan (2hr 25:25) while Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia took the bronze (2hr 25:32). Xue, who ...

NAPIER (New Zealand) (AFP) - A heroic stand of 137 in nearly 11 hours at the crease by Gautam Gambhir ensured the second Test between India and New Zealand ended in a draw on Monday. When Gambhir's match-saving, marathon performance came to an end he had batted through three days' play and rescued ...

President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday Islamabad suicide blast was challenge for democracy in Pakistan and reiterated his government's resolve to fight against terrorism. In an interview with the American news channel, President Zardari said terrorists are challenging Pakistan's democracy and its ...

LAHORE - Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan had a marathon day in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ATP Challenger Championship as he was fully stretched to a three setter in the singles second round by British player Jonathan Marray before coming home with a 6-7(8), 6-4, 6-4 victory in more than 150 minutes. ...