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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge celebrates winning back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the men’s marathon.

There are runners and then there is Eliud Kipchoge

This is how an Olympics should be: kids on shoulders, headbands made of flags, selfie sticks and phones capturing every kilometre of this 42-kilometre epic.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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Peres Jepchirchir, left, of Kenya, leads the pack on her way to winning the women’s marathon in Sapporo.

After five years, Tokyo’s Olympic marathon heads for the finish line

Caught between rising coronavirus infections and a heatwave. The indomitable spirit of the Japanese people has seen these Games through.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Thousands of runners make the trip to Tokyo for the marathon every year, but the non-professional event has been cancelled.

Tokyo Marathon cancelled for 38,000 non-pro runners

Organisers of the Tokyo Marathon have cancelled Japan's biggest running event for non-professional runners.

  • Shiho Takezawa
Eliud Kipchoge wore an iteration of the shoes when he ran the first sub-two hour marathon in Vienna.

Nike's controversial running shoes get clearance for Olympics

World Athletics has announced limits on the technology, however, likely ruling out the exact pair that helped deliver the first sub-two-hour marathon.

  • Eben Novy-Williams
The Australian women's sevens team, with Emilee Cherry's daughter Alice sitting on the coach's knee.

The mother load: why athletes are still playing blind after giving birth

More and more top athletes are returning to sport after childbirth. But why are they still doing it with so little information?

  • Georgina Robinson
Eliud Kipchoge wore an iteration of the shoes when he ran the first sub-two hour marathon in Vienna.

'It's just ludicrous': Rob de Castella backs call for Nike shoe ban

The Australian marathon great says Nike's Vaporfly shoes are not in the "spirit" of athletics.

  • Sarah Keoghan
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Brett Robinson, Pat Tiernan, Stewart McSweyn, Eliud Kipchoge and Jack Rayner celebrate after the race.

'It was to be part of history': The Australians who helped Kipchoge run into record books

When world history was made in Austria last month, four Australian distance runners played a small but consequential part.

  • Michael Gleeson
Geoffrey Kamworor and Joyciline Jepkosgei of Kenya pose with the trophy after winning the Mens' and Womens' Division of the 2019 TCS New York City

Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei wins New York City Marathon title on debut

Joyciline Jepkosgei had never pushed her powerful legs over 21km's.

Brigid Kosgei of Kenya poses with her time after winning the Chicago Marathon while setting a world record.

Fresh off world record marathon, Kosgei says women can go even faster

Kenya's Brigid Kosgei does not plan to coast on her latest accomplishment – even if that happens to be running the fastest-ever women's marathon.

  • Amy Tennery
Kenya's Brigid Kosgei winning the Chicago Marathon on 2018.

Brigid Kosgei shatters Paula Radcliffe's world marathon record

Kenyan Brigid Kosgei breaks Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old marathon world record.

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