For the seventh time in its 57 year history, Konica Minolta won the traditional New Year Ekiden, the Japan Corporate Men’s Ekiden. The race was contested over a seven stage 100km course around Maebashi.

Two-time Olympic champion Meseret Defar will make a rare foray into cross-country running in the new year when she lines up for the 3km race at the Bupa Edinburgh Cross Country, an IAAF Cross Country Permit Meeting.

Ethiopia’s Atsedu Tesfaye closed his racing year on a high note by winning the 57th Sao Silvestre de Luanda in front of over a million spectators who lined the streets of the Angolan capital on Monday (31).

Madrid, Spain – Ethiopia’s 2012 Olympic Games 10,000m bronze medallist Tariku Bekele and his compatriot Gelete Burka proved to the strongest at the 48th San Silvestre Vallecana 10km race – an IAAF Silver label Road Race – on Mon...

Ethiopia’s Imane Merga, the 2011 World Cross Country Championships, and Kenya’s two-time IAAF World Championships 5000m silver medallist Sylvia Kibet, clinched, their second win each at the 38th edition of the famous Boclassic Sylverlauf in...

Peuerbach, Austria – Kenya’s Leonard Komon and Serbian teenager Amela Terzic celebrated victories at the 32nd edition of the Peuerbach New Year’s Eve Run in Austria, with the former setting a race record of 18.32 on Monday (31).