Sentence examples for break the marathon from inspiring English sources

His job was to set the pace for Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia to break the marathon world record.

I had been trying to break the marathon's three-hour barrier; 2 59 is a holy grail for people like me, the devoted amateurs who show up to these races over and over again for a chance to beat no one but themselves.

If anybody ever breaks the marathon barrier, he is likely to be Kenyan.

A month later Patrick Makau broke the marathon world record in Berlin.

It arises every time a man breaks the marathon world record.

She ended her stellar year by breaking the marathon world record in Chicago, and six months later lowered it again at the London marathon.

The Bedford club runner broke the marathon world record in the 2003 London marathon in a time of two hours, 15 minutes and 25 seconds.

But for an athlete whose average pace per mile when she broke the marathon world record in 2003 was five minutes and 13 seconds, some days - perhaps inevitably - feel like "crap".

David Bedford, the race director for the London Marathon, said, "He was in my opinion the best marathon runner ever and was likely to break the world marathon record".

Gebrselassie will be hoping to break the world marathon record on Sept. 30 in Berlin, where he is the defending champion, so he will not be making his debut in the New York City Marathon on Nov. 4.

During her golden period, which lasted until 2008, Radcliffe broke the world marathon record twice and won seven big city marathons and World Championship gold.