Only a few women have even run a half-marathon at Radcliffe's record marathon pace, said Dan Lilot, the agent for the American marathoner Kara Goucher.
Five years after Kobayashi sent the eighteen-year-old Douglas Wakiihuri to Japan, Wakiihuri won silver in the marathon at the 1988 Olympics, in Seoul — the first time that a Kenyan marathoner had won an Olympic medal.
To portray the lot of the modern elite marathoner, he places himself in the running shoes of the 33-year-old Kenyan, Geoffrey Mutai.
The Internet bears no trace of the run, and Ryan doesn't have the extremely lean frame of your typical fast marathoner.
(I remember, parenthetically, interviewing the great Eritrean-born marathoner Meb Keflezighi about what it felt like to race against the great Ethiopian marathoners, and all of a sudden his normally sunny disposition turned deadly serious. Do not underestimate the bad blood in some of these national rivalries).
He may be the greatest American marathoner ever.
A National Collegiate Champion in cross country, Ritzenhein arrived in New York amid predictions that he would be the next great American marathoner.
One section featured the Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi; another was devoted to John Akhwari, a Tanzanian marathoner who, in 1968, showed great sportsmanship in finishing last.
Nearly four hundred Olympians who this year represented other countries went to school in the U.S., and many other foreign athletes live and train here — like the British runner Mo Farah, who won gold medals in the five and ten thousand metres after moving to Portland last year to work with the legendary marathoner Alberto Salazar.
At the four-mile mark, Salazar suggested to Bill Rodgers — at the time the best marathoner in the world — that he, Salazar, "take over for a while," meaning do the work of fighting the wind coming off the Atlantic.
William Lindesay, a British geologist and marathoner, came to China in 1986 and spent nine months running and hiking along the wall.
