BRIEFLY : KENYAN TANUI WINS BOSTON MARATHON.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Kenyan Moses Tanui Moses Tanui (born 20 August 1965 in Nandi District, Kenya) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the gold medal over 10000 m at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. won the 102nd Boston Marathon Boston marathon famous 26-mile race held annually for long-distance runners. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Endurance , pulling away from countryman Joseph Chebet Joseph Chebet (born August 23, 1970) was the winner of the 1999 Boston Marathon and the 1999 New York Marathon. He won in Boston in 1999 after losing to fellow Kenyan Moses Tanui the year before by only three seconds. on the last city block for the victory. Tanui covered the 26-mile, 385-yard course in two hours, seven minutes and 33 seconds, the third-fastest time in race history. It was Tanui's second Boston Marathon win in the past three years and the eighth straight for a Kenyan man. Chebet finished four seconds behind Tanui. Gert Thys Gert Thys (born November 12, 1971 in Prieska) is a long-distance runner from South Africa, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in 2004 (Athens, Greece). of South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. was third with a time of 2:07:52, followed by Andre Ramos of Brazil at 2:08:26. Ethiopian Fatuba Roba was the women's winner for the second straight year, covering the course in 2:32:20. The men's wheelchair title was captured by Switzerland's Franz Nietlispach for the third time; he finished in 1:21:52. Defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del tÃtulo defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Louise Sauvage Alix Louise Sauvage OAM (born 18 September 1973 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian paralympic athlete. Often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in the Southern Hemisphere, she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic won the women's wheelchair race in 1:41:19. Rosie Ruiz claims she still has the medal from her ``victory'' in the 1980 Boston Marathon and that she'll be back to run again in 2000. Ruiz was stripped of her victory eight days after being credited with a 2:31:56 finish - the third-fastest time in women's history. Officials accused her of jumping into the race a couple of miles before the finish. BASKETBALL: Former Northwestern player Kenneth Dion Lee pleaded guilty to a sports-bribery charge and agreed to testify against others charged in a point-shaving scheme at the university. He is the second person to admit involvement in a betting scandal that has embarrassed the Big Ten's most academically prestigious school. Three people have pleaded innocent in the case. FOOTBALL: The Carolina Panthers signed Sean Gilbert to an offer sheet, moving them one step closer to completing their four-week quest to acquire him from the Washington Redskins. The Redskins Redskins can refer to:
Former Notre Dame quarterback Ron Powlus, who went undrafted, agreed to terms with the Tennessee Oilers as a free agent. ALSO: Eddie Sweat, the groom for Secretariat throughout the 1973 Triple Crown winner's career, died Friday of leukemia. He was 58. . . . Iran, which plays the United States in the first round of this summer's World Cup, lost to Hungary 2-0 in an exhibition game Monday and was booed by some of the 60,000 fans in Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran. . . . Boris Becker, looking rusty in his semi-retirement, rallied from a set down to beat Jan Siemerink 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to advance to the second round of the Monte Carlo Open. |
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