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In a surprise result, three-time Olympian and multiple Austrian record holder Guenther Weidlinger (AUT) has taken out the 2009 Great Australian Run ahead of an impressive field which included the past two Olympic marathon champions Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) and Stefano Baldini (ITA).
The 2009 Great Australian Run will boast the world’s best male and female marathon runners of 2009, now that German star Irina Mikitenko has been added to the stellar line up to contest the 15km event around the streets of Melbourne on November 29.
Special kids edition of the Great News.
There’s just three weeks to go until the 2009 Great Australian Run and the excitement is building as we countdown towards Australia’s premier 15km event.
Australia’s fastest athletes on three wheels will be racing around Albert Park’s Formula one track in Melbourne on Saturday, 28 November.
The Great Australian Run is delighted to welcome onboard the McGrath Foundation as one of our official partner charities.
One lap around the athletics track gave her glory, but a 15km run is a whole new ball game.
Next month, Olympic champion and Australian sporting icon Cathy Freeman will embark on an exciting new challenge when she takes to the start line for the Great Australian Run on Sunday, 29 November.
For those of you who ran in the Melbourne Marathon on the weekend – great job!
Now don’t let all of that hard training go to waste – there’s another personal best in you!
Australian sports fans are in for a special treat when the past two Olympic marathon champions – Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru and Italian Stefano Baldini - take to the streets of Melbourne for the 2009 Great Australian Run on Sunday, 29 November.
Today marks just two months to go until the 2009 Great Australian Run – and whether you plan to walk it, jog it or race it, we’d love to see you on the start line.
2004 world cross country champion Benita Willis (formerly Johnson), who placed fifth in last year’s inaugural Great Australian Run, has confirmed that she will return to compete in the 15km event on Sunday 29th November in Melbourne.
Willis will take a major step forward from a frustrating run of foot injuries to compete in the Bupa Great North Run – the world’s biggest half marathon - this Sunday.
Welcome to the special Bupa Great North Run edition of Great News – the official e-newsletter of the 2009 Great Australian Run, which will deliver all the information you require about this unique event.
Footy fans will go into battle for their Club in the Great Australian Run on 29th November 2009, with a unique challenge set to decide the Club with the Fittest Footy Fans in the league.
Welcome to Great News – the official e-newsletter of the 2009 Great Australian Run, which will deliver all the information you require about this unique event.
Tomorrow marks just 100 days to go until the Great Australian Run returns bigger and better in 2009.
The Great Australian Run returns bigger and better in 2009, with a world-class field in addition to a number of new initiatives set to engage and inspire thousands of weekend warriors – and kids - across the nation.
Peerless Ethiopian runner Haile
Gebrselassie defied a serious case
of jetlag to claim a commanding
victory in the inaugural Great
Australian Run yesterday.
He smashed the field but
could not beat the clock. Haile
Gebreselassie comfortably
crossed the line in first place,
but he was most unhappywith
his commanding win in the
Great Australian Run yesterday.
HAILE Gebrselassie is
always a man in a hurry -
but next time he comes
to Melbourne to run, he
promises to take his time.
The great Ethiopian
distance runner - the most
accomplished road and track
endurance athlete the world
has seen - admitted that he
had not allowed enough time
to adjust to jet lag before
contesting yesterday's inaugural
Great Australian Run.