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Team World Vision is a fundraising program of humanitarian organization World Vision that equips individuals to raise money for World Vision projects. Currently, Team World Vision's has the most participants at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon , but athletes are able to participate in any athletic event in the United States in order to ...
In 2016, Gash became a World Vision Ambassador and collaborated with the not-for-profit on a concept to run from the West to East of India and use it as a means to explore the barriers to quality education. [17] The campaign was called Run India and raised over $150,000 to support six World Vision education focused programs across the country.
Breaking2 was a project run by sports equipment manufacturer Nike announced in December 2016 with the goal of breaking the 2-hour mark over the marathon. Three runners, Zersenay Tadese, Lelisa Desisa, and Eliud Kipchoge were to attempt the feat, assisted by a team of pacemakers, scientists, engineers, physicians and trainers.
Best marathon: 2:07:56 (Amsterdam, 2019) Paris is Korir's second Olympics; in Rio 2016, he placed 14th in the 10,000m. He missed qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in the marathon by just three ...
Salazar ended the year ranked #1 in the world in the marathon by Track & Field News magazine for his wins in Boston and New York, #1 in their North American Road Rankings for his American 10K road record win of 28:04 at the Orange Bowl 10K and his course record of 31:53 at the highly competitive Falmouth 7.1-mile (11.4 km) road race (his second ...
Chicago Marathon Logo for the Chicago Marathon Date Second Sunday in October (before Columbus Day) Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Event type Road Distance 26.219 miles (42.195 km) Established 1977 ; 48 years ago (1977) Last held 2024 Course records M: 2:00:35 * WR (2023 – Kelvin Kiptum) F: 2:09:56 * WR (2024 – Ruth Chepngetich) Official site chicagomarathon.com 2025 Chicago ...
Susanna Sullivan (born May 13, 1990) is an American-born distance runner. Sullivan took 3rd place at the 2022 Grandma's Marathon from Two Harbors to Duluth, Minnesota.She then won the 2022 Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run elite women's race [4] and placed 6th at 2022 Chicago Marathon.
The trials were on a challenging course in 2020 and it still required a sub-2:30 marathon to make the women's team," she said. "To be honest, just having the opportunity to go and run the event is ...