A record 106,000 professional and amateur runners competed at The MA RA TH ON Worldwide Team Relay contest spread across the world at the weekend. World marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge topped the billing as 100,000 plus people in 100 plus countries ran 1,000,00 plus kilometres as part of the 'Run as One' virtual team marathon. Kipchoge, Geoffrey Kamworor Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele and Joshua Uganda's world 10,000m champion Cheptegei – athletes of the NN Running team formation – were among a host of world beating stars that competed. Kipchoge, whose historic sub-two hour run in Vienna last October broke athletics barriers, teamed up with amateur runners from Brazil. The event was organised by NN Running Team, an international team of elite long-distance runners managed by a company in the Netherlands.

Source: Standard Digital June 09, 2020 21:22 UTC