Running

The 30th Belgrade Marathon will be held on April 22, featuring ten of the world's greatest athletics legends as promoters, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

Kenya's Luka Rotich Lobuwan won the 34th Athens Marathon on Sunday in two hours, 12 minutes and 49 seconds for the grueling 42-kilometer course.

The 28-year-old Lobuwan was followed across the line by eight of his countrymen with second place going to Benson Kipruto, who clocked 2:13.24 and Bernard Kitur in third at 2:13.32.

In an all-time record of participants from 105 countries, the 34th Athens Marathon began this morning, with 50,000 registered athletes who will race in different course lengths throughout the day.

Thousands of people will meet in Turkey's biggest city on Nov. 13 to run the Istanbul Marathon, the world's only road race where people can cross from Asia to Europe.

Inspired by the true story of veteran Marathon champion Maria Polyzou, the fairy tale "A Giant Called M.P." by Magda Costopoulou-Beriou is out in both Greek and English editions, coinciding with the Athens Marathon-The Authentic that takes place this Sunday.

Polish runner Andrzej Radzikowski won the 245.3km historic Spartathlon race on Saturday for the first time, clocking 23 hours, 1 minute and 13 seconds.

Radzikowski, 35, was 18th last year and two years ago finished third.

Finishing second was Italy's 39-year-old Marco Bonfiglio in 23:35.14 while 42-year-old Radek Brunner of the Czech Republic was third in 24:06.39.

Spartathlon 2016, this unique annual ultra-marathon race of 246 kilometers from Athens to Sparta draped in history, is starting on Friday morning with the winner set to cross the finish line early on Saturday.

He couldn't believe his eyes. He looked at the list again to make sure he wasn't mistaken. But there it was, his name among the runners who qualified for the marathon at the Rio Olympics this summer.

Leila, Liina, and Lily Luik are not expected to medal when they compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But the three Estonian marathon runners will make history as the first set of triplets to compete together.

Some 8,000 people gathered in Gündo?du Square in the Aegean province of ?zmir on May 8 to "run for those who cannot run" as part of the "Wings for Life World Run 2016."