Sport of athletics

Usain Bolt is no stranger to Greece. He has come several times before, competing in Athens, Rethymno and Thessaloniki.

Greek sprinter Lykourgos Tsefanos Tsakonas of Greece celebrated winning the 200m men’s event during the Golden Gala IAAF Diamond League at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy, on Thursday. He ran the distance in 20.09 seconds becoming the second-fastest after Kostas Kenderis who set the national record at 19.85 seconds.

A 92-year-old US grandmother has become the oldest woman to finish a marathon, when she crossed the finish line of a San Diego 26-miler on May 31, race organizers said.

Mohammed Aman and Asbel Kiprop, the men's current 800m and 1500m world champions, race each other in Doha May 15 as a stellar field gathers for the 2015 Diamond League opener.
 

The exhibition Half Marathon Expo – a unique sports and shopping festival where participants and guests have to opportunity to learn and learn about products and services around sports – kicks off at the Zappeion Hall in downtown Athens on April 30 and runs through to May 3.

Visitors have the opportunity to become informed about:

BELGRAD- Kenya's Silas Sang and Ethiopia's Abebu Gelean Adugna are the winners of the 28th Belgrade Marathon which gathered around 25,000 runners for a race along the streets of the Serbian capital.

BELGRADE - The Marathon Flame, a symbol of peace, fair play and tolerance arrived in Belgrade from Athens Wednesday, and will burn at the 28th Belgrade Marathon's start and finish lines on Saturday, April 18.

BELGRADE - Preparations for the 28th Belgrade Marathon have been completed and the race, due to take place on April 18, should gather a record number of participants in elite races, the organisers of the Belgrade traditional event announced in the City Assembly on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Long jump world record holder Galina Chistyakova is the promoter of the 28th Belgrade Marathon, to be held on Saturday, April 18.

Chistyakova is coming to Belgrade for the second time since 2008, when she was the promoter of the women's race, Belgrade Marathon Director Dejan Nikolic told a press conference on Monday.

Mark Korir of Kenya won the Paris Marathon on April 12, his first career victory in a prestigious international race.
      
Korir, 30, who was second in last month's Paris Half-Marathon, came home in a time of 2hr 05min 46sec, ahead of another Kenyan, Luka Kanda.
      
Seboka Tola of Ethiopia was third, with yet another Kenyan, Mike Kigen, fourth.