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| Marathon de la Liberte France Caen Marathon June infos@lescourantsdelaliberte.com http://www.marathons.fr/spip.php?article98 "Two Greek athletes will try to repeat the feat of the messenger Pheidippides , who according to legend , ran from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce victory of Greeks over the Persians in 490 BC . Breathless , he was dead when his mission accomplished . That was six years in a row that Brazil needed to marathon runners Rio . There will be no seventh time. This series has been arrested on Sunday with the victory of a Kenyan , Kiprono Anderson , who finished the 42.195 km in 2:19 minutes 54 second. It was a sprint Brazilian Adriano Bastos . Among women, it is the Brazilian Sirlene Sousa Pinto, who was fastest, ahead of two other Rio." |
