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Two shoes. Same family. Same stack height. A name so similar that even experienced runners double-check the product page twice. The confusion between the Puma Deviate Nitro 4 and the Puma Deviate Pure Nitro isn’t a branding problem. It’s structural. Puma built these two shoes to look nearly identical and priced them just ₹2,000 apart … Read more
📅 Race Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026 ⏰ Start Time: 6:00 AM (West Africa Time, UTC+1) 📍 Start: Millennium Park, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 🏁 Finish: Marina Leisure Resort, Calabar 📏 Distances: 21.1 km Half Marathon | 10 km Fun Run | 5 km Fitness Walk 🏅 Edition: 4th (inaugural 2021) 💰 Prize Pool: … Read more
Hero image: Leonard Kipkoech Langat at the 2016 Frankfurt Marathon. Photo: JeLuF, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Leonard Langat made history in Toronto on Sunday. The Kenyan crossed the line in 2:06:51 to become the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon’s first back-to-back champion since Philemon Rono did it in 2017, and his winning time was … Read more
Illustrative image of runners in Dubai’s financial district, representing the team spirit of the DIFC Corporate Relay. 🗓️ Race Date: Thursday, 26 November 2026 📍 Location: Under The Gate, DIFC, Dubai, UAE 👥 Format: Team relay — 10 runners per team, 1.5 km per leg 🏃 Total Distance: 15 km per team (10 × 1.5 … Read more
Race at a Glance Race: 2026 Columbus Marathon Date: October 18, 2026 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA Distance: 26.2 miles (full marathon) Men’s Winner: Nick Doud — 2:15:08 Women’s Winner: Ashton Swinford — 2:38:04 Total Finishers: 959 (753 men, 206 women) Results: Official results via MTEC Results Neither winner led at the halfway mark. That’s the … Read more
Greg Meyer’s name has sat at the top of the Detroit Free Press Marathon record books since 1980. Forty-six years. Nobody in the modern era of marathon running — carbon plates, altitude camps, sub-threshold training science, all of it — had touched his 2:13:07 on this course. On Sunday morning, a 32-year-old from Ferndale, Michigan … Read more
View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Athletics (@worldathletics) At kilometre 25 of the women’s race in Amsterdam this morning, the lead group was 48 seconds behind course record pace. It was cold. It was raining. There was a headwind on the Amstel that had already cut the men’s pack down to … Read more
Results confirmed: Sunday 18 October 2026, 11:45 CET (09:45 UTC). Both the men’s and women’s marathon course records have been broken at the NLB 30th Ljubljana Marathon. Full results below. Half marathon and 10km results are final. The 30th NLB Ljubljana Marathon did not need to manufacture a moment for its anniversary. It got one … Read more
The fastest marathon ever run on Chinese soil did not happen at a winter speed race in Shanghai or Xiamen. It happened on a cool October morning at the 2026 Bank of China Beijing Marathon, where Tamirat Tola showed up as the reigning Olympic champion, ran 2:03:10 and left having rewritten the record books. Race … Read more
Alex Matata won the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon in 2025. On Sunday morning, his twin brother Charles came to Delhi, ran wire to wire and broke a six-year-old course record. The Matata family now owns the fastest time in this race’s history. Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2026 — Winners at a Glance Elite Men: Charles … Read more