Sentence examples for marathoner of from inspiring English sources

Another man to watch out for – if he makes the team – is the Boston marathon winner and new fastest marathoner of all time, Geoffrey Mutai.

Shorter said, "Great job, Bill," and the torch was symbolically passed from the best American marathoner of one era to the best American marathoner of the next.

Instead, at 33, Radcliffe was here to resume her marathon career after an absence of two years and to bolster her reputation as the greatest female marathoner of all time.

I thought of those lines when I heard about the sudden retirement of Ryan Hall, who is by far the fastest American-born marathoner of all time, and who earlier this month quit the sport at the age of thirty-three, after a period of steep physical decline.

The gold belonged to Kipchoge, a five-feet-six, hundred-and-fifteen-pound man with a habit of scolding his rivals in the middle of races and smiling warmly at the end of them, who now has a claim to being the greatest marathoner of all time.

Hall and Keflezighi established themselves as the best American marathoners of their generation.

For Cheruiyot and Lel, the London and Boston Marathons in April will serve as Olympic trials, and their selection is not guaranteed because Kenya has so many marathoners of Olympic caliber.

The marathoners, of which there were over 150 representing a number of NATO forces from Canada, Spain, France and elsewhere, raised $12,000 for the St . Judes Children's Hospital.

In 1954 in Boston, on a day uncomfortably warm for marathoners, Jim Peters of England led until the foot of Heartbreak Hill in the second half of the race.

You will recall that ultra-marathoner Frank Fumich of Arlington and fellow endurance runner Matt Nelson of Lake Worth, Fla., set out on Tuesday morning to run 450 miles, from the Pentagon to the Boston Marathon finish line, to raise even more money for bombing victim Jeffrey Bauman and the family of eight-year-old victim Martin Richard.

Proponents of the new breed of marathoner contend that any endeavor that addresses America's obesity problem by getting people to walk is worthwhile.