The IAAF has decided to award a world record bonus of $50,000 to Lornah Kiplagat, who broke the women’s 20km mark yesterday at the 1st IAAF World Road Running Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.
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IAAF to award WR bonus to Kiplagat

The IAAF has decided to award a world record bonus of $50,000 to Lornah Kiplagat, who broke the women’s 20km mark yesterday at the 1st IAAF World Road Running Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.... Read more

After winning the men’s title at the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championship, Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadesse was inundated with questions about when he will run his first marathon.
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Tadesse not yet a marathon man - Debrecen 2006

After winning the men’s title at the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championship, Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadesse was inundated with questions about when he will run his first marathon.... Read more

Many years ago, back in her native Kenya, Lornah Kiplagat acquired the nickname Simba – meaning lion in Swahili – for her fearless racing tactics and relentless running during training.
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Lornah the Lion – fearless and now first - Debrecen 2006

Many years ago, back in her native Kenya, Lornah Kiplagat acquired the nickname Simba – meaning lion in Swahili – for her fearless racing tactics and relentless running during training.... Read more

The Netherlands’ Lornah Kiplagat pushed hard by Romania’s Constantina Tomescu, the 2005 World Half Marathon champion, broke Briton Paula Radcliffe’s World record for 20km (1:03:26) by five seconds in the process winning the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championship title on the sun drenched but coolish (16c) streets of Hungary’s second city this morning.
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World record reward for Kiplagat’s duel with Tomescu – Women’s 20km, Debrecen 2006

The Netherlands’ Lornah Kiplagat pushed hard by Romania’s Constantina Tomescu, the 2005 World Half Marathon champion, broke Briton Paula Radcliffe’s World record for 20km (1:03:26) by five seconds in the process winning the inaugural IAAF World Road Running Championship title on the sun drenched but coolish (16c) streets of Hungary’s second city this morning.... Read more

Zersenay Tadesse, 2004 Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist, secured his and Eritrea's first global title, just 13 seconds adrift of the World record for 20km. In doing so he convincingly won the inaugural men’s title at the IAAF World Road Running Championships this afternoon, on a 5km loop course whose start and finish was in front of the imposing edifice of the neo-classical main building of Debrecen University.
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Tadesse's 'solo' last 10k secures emphatic victory – Men’s 20km, Debrecen 2006

Zersenay Tadesse, 2004 Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist, secured his and Eritrea's first global title, just 13 seconds adrift of the World record for 20km. In doing so he convincingly won the inaugural men’s title at the IAAF World Road Running Championships this afternoon, on a 5km loop course whose start and finish was in front of the imposing edifice of the neo-classical main building of Debrecen University.... Read more