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9th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.  Tergat takes second World
Half Marathon Title and gives team victory to Kenya
Sean Wallace-Jones
12 November 2000 – Veracruz, Mexico – In a masterful display of strength
and tactics, defending World Half Marathon Champion, Paul Tergat of Kenya became the first
man ever to successfully defend his title. More>>>
 Radcliffe takes her first major
gold in Veracruz
David Martin
12 November 2000 - Veracruz, Mexico - Paula Radcliffe needs no
reminding that in the last three years she has won two World cross country silver medals
and one for 10,000 metres on the track in Seville last summer when Gete Wami spoilt her
gold medal ambitions. More>>>
Travel troubles
threaten Ethiopian ambitions in Veracruz
Sabrina Yohannes
11 November 2000 - Veracruz - Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia broke the
Ethiopian national marathon record in Amsterdam last year, but illness kept him off
the Sydney Olympic team. Jifar’s only major championship race this year will be in
Veracruz tomorrow, but a grueling trip may affect his chances. More>>>
Butler's
Choice
11 November 2000 - IAAF Consultant Mark Butler gives his views on the hot favourites in
Veracruz. More>>>
Radcliffe’s
greatest adversary the weather – No redemption for Tergat
Sean Wallace-Jones
11 November 2000 – Veracruz,
Mexico – Speaking on the eve of the 9th IAAF World Half Marathon
Championships, Britain’s Paula Radcliffe says that her greatest adversary is likely
to be the weather. More>>>
 Veracruz
embraces World Half Marathon
Sean Wallace-Jones in Veracruz
11 November - Veracruz, Mexico – The rarefied atmosphere of the World
Half Marathon Championships is generally vastly different from the mass participation that
has become symbolic of the big city marathons. Here in Veracruz, the organisers of the 9th
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships have been altering all that. More>>>
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