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The latest running and marathon news from around the world. FatMarathoner covers race results, gear launches, shoe and watch updates, race announcements and running industry news, reported by a veteran marathoner and running journalist with over a decade on the roads.
Photo: nakashi / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) The drug test was the beginning of Ruti Aga’s problems, not the end of them. When the 2019 Tokyo Marathon champion tested positive for a banned corticosteroid after winning a half marathon in China in March, the case could have closed relatively quickly. Athletes have beaten similar … Read more
The 11th edition of the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata — India’s only World Athletics Gold Label 25K race — is building its elite field. Procam International opened Indian Elite registrations on October 21, 2026, giving aspiring elite runners a two-week window to submit their applications before the deadline on November 4. The race goes … Read more
The world’s biggest ultramarathon is heading for its 100th birthday with no governing body willing to sanction it. That situation, remarkable for any race of this scale, connects directly to a year of governance breakdown at Athletics South Africa and a credit card that a disciplinary panel concluded was treated like a personal expense account. … Read more
The Wanda Diamond League published its full 2027 discipline allocation this month and for anyone who tracks the 800m through the 5,000m, the calendar now has a second story running underneath every race. The season ends in Zurich on August 25 and 26. The World Athletics Championships in Beijing open September 10. That is 15 … Read more
Two shoes. Same family. Same stack height. A name so similar that even experienced runners double-check the product page twice. The confusion between the Puma Deviate Nitro 4 and the Puma Deviate Pure Nitro isn’t a branding problem. It’s structural. Puma built these two shoes to look nearly identical and priced them just ₹2,000 apart … Read more
Hero image: Leonard Kipkoech Langat at the 2016 Frankfurt Marathon. Photo: JeLuF, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Leonard Langat made history in Toronto on Sunday. The Kenyan crossed the line in 2:06:51 to become the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon’s first back-to-back champion since Philemon Rono did it in 2017, and his winning time was … Read more
Race at a Glance Race: 2026 Columbus Marathon Date: October 18, 2026 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA Distance: 26.2 miles (full marathon) Men’s Winner: Nick Doud — 2:15:08 Women’s Winner: Ashton Swinford — 2:38:04 Total Finishers: 959 (753 men, 206 women) Results: Official results via MTEC Results Neither winner led at the halfway mark. That’s the … Read more
Greg Meyer’s name has sat at the top of the Detroit Free Press Marathon record books since 1980. Forty-six years. Nobody in the modern era of marathon running — carbon plates, altitude camps, sub-threshold training science, all of it — had touched his 2:13:07 on this course. On Sunday morning, a 32-year-old from Ferndale, Michigan … Read more
View this post on Instagram A post shared by World Athletics (@worldathletics) At kilometre 25 of the women’s race in Amsterdam this morning, the lead group was 48 seconds behind course record pace. It was cold. It was raining. There was a headwind on the Amstel that had already cut the men’s pack down to … Read more
Results confirmed: Sunday 18 October 2026, 11:45 CET (09:45 UTC). Both the men’s and women’s marathon course records have been broken at the NLB 30th Ljubljana Marathon. Full results below. Half marathon and 10km results are final. The 30th NLB Ljubljana Marathon did not need to manufacture a moment for its anniversary. It got one … Read more