John Korir has the resume that proves he is fast enough to win the Boston Marathon and the family connections that might just help him do it.

Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola won the men’s marathon at the Paris Olympics to end Kenya’s dominance of the race.

Tigst Assefa has broken the women’s world record by more than two minutes at the Berlin Marathon.

Kenyan marathon specialist Eliud Kipchoge has won the Princess of Asturias Award for sports for 2023.

Kelvin Kiptum collapsed to the ground after winning the London Marathon and recording the second fastest time in history over the distance.

World record holder Eliud Kipchoge says he had a leg injury that slowed him during the Boston Marathon.

Defending champion Evans Chebet has won the Boston Marathon again.

Eliud Kipchoge will make his Boston Marathon debut on Monday in the 127th edition of the world’s longest-running long run.

The Paris Olympics is going underground to find a way to keep athletes cool at the 2024 Games without air conditioners.

Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has bettered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon.

Guye Adola of Ethiopia has won the Berlin Marathon.

The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games drew Sunday to an end, an Olympics that began as a bet countering controversy and considerable fear — could they come off — and closed with the bet won. The Games happened. And for 16 days, just as it should be, the athletes of the world commanded center stage.

Eliud Kipchoge pulled away late and no one could come close to catching him as the 36-year-old Kenyan defended his Olympic marathon title.

The Tokyo Olympics are officially over.

Appearing impossibly stronger as the race wore on, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya on Sunday added to his constantly growing legend by dominating in the heat and humidity at Sapporo Odori Park to add the men's marathon gold at the Tokyo Olympics to the gold he won at Rio 2016.

Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya becomes just the third man in history to win two Olympic marathon titles, joining Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila, 1960-1964, and East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski, 1976-1980.

Track and field Day 10 includes the men's marathon.

The Olympics this year have no spectators, at least officially.

In this image issued by London Marathon Events, Kenya's Edith Chelimo, right, trains in the grounds of the official hotel and biosecure bubble in London, Monday Sept. 28, 2020, ahead of the elite-only 2020 London Marathon on Sunday Oct. 4. (Bob Martin/London Marathon Events via AP)Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei isn't expecting to lower her world record in Sunday's London Marathon, not with her training limited by the coronavirus pandemic. Kosgei topped her London victory last year by winning the Chicago Marathon in a world record time of 2 hours, 14 minutes, 4 seconds. The London Marathon has been reduced to elite runners only and will have no spectators because of the pandemic. Tokyo was the only other World Marathon Major to be held in 2020 after Boston, Berlin, Chicago and New York all canceled.

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:___This year's Berlin Marathon has been canceled following months of uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The marathon was scheduled for Sept. 27. The Berlin Marathon is one of the fastest in the world. It will be the first year with no Berlin Marathon since the race was founded in 1974. The announcement came on the same day that the New York City Marathon was canceled.