The Los Angeles Marathon, first held in 1986, was inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games hosted in Los Angeles. Since its inception, the marathon has grown into one of the largest ...

An Olympic marathon runner, who competed for Uganda and was living in Kenya, was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend during a disagreement on Sunday, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, ran the ...

ESPN will have wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday, including analysis from Olympian Clayton Young. The top American in the 2025 World Championships marathon will ...

The London Marathon on April 27 will feature the first head-to-head matchup between Olympic women's marathon gold medalists in decades. The women's elite field includes Paris Olympic champion Sifan ...

SYDNEY, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Olympic champion Sifan Hassan and Ethiopian Hailemaryam Kiros both ran course record times to win the titles at the Sydney Marathon on Sunday as the race entered a new era ...

Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir won the world championships marathon by two seconds over Ethiopian Tigst Assefa in what turned into a duel between the two most decorated women in the field. Jepchirchir, the ...

The Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei of Uganda has died, days after being set on fire in an alleged attack by her former boyfriend at her home in Kenya. Hospital authorities there say she had ...

Sifan Hassan will return to the London Marathon in 2025 as all four reigning Olympic and Paralympic marathon champions take ...