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News From: Sunday, February 25, 2024 | ||
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Watch: Athletes Power Through Tough Weather Conditions In LifeStar Malta Marathon
(Lovin Malta) Alaa Hrioued won the 2024 Malta Marathon while defending champion Jemima Farley won the women's race in a record time of 2:35:41. | ||
News From: Monday, February 21, 2022 | ||
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How the State took over the Malta marathon
(Malta Today) The 2022 Malta Marathon was cancelled, after the Malta Marathon Organizing Committee didn't adopt the proposed route by Transport Malta. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 10, 2022 | ||
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Malta Marathon Could Be Cancelled Due To Permit Stalemate: 'We Refuse To Put People's Lives At Risk!'
(Lovin Malta) The 2022 Malta Marathon set on March 6 may be cancelled due to coronavirus concerns. | ||
News From: Saturday, February 23, 2019 | ||
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Updated: Runners won't be refunded Malta marathon fee
(Newsbook) The 2019 Malta Marathon was cancelled due to a cyclone and will not be re-scheduled for 2019. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 25, 2018 | ||
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El-Baazouzi pips Hajjy to claim 2018 Malta Marathon
(Times Malta) Said El-Baazouzi won the 2018 Malta Marathon in 2.18.31 while Anna Wasik won the women's race in 2.53.47. | ||
News From: Friday, February 16, 2018 | ||
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Here's Everything You Need To Know About The 2018 Malta Marathon
(Lovin Malta) Here are vital information about the 2018 Malta Marathon set on Sunday, February 25. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 15, 2018 | ||
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33rd Malta marathon attracts around 5,000 participants
(Independent) There are more foreign participants in this year's Malta Marathon set on February 25. | ||
News From: Sunday, March 5, 2017 | ||
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Watch: Mohammed Hajjy wins biggest ever Malta Marathon
(TimesOfMalta.com) Mohammed Hajjy won the Malta Marathon in 2:21:06 while Josann Attard Pulis won the women's race in 2.58.13. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 | ||
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El Fethi wins Malta Marathon
(Times of India) Abdel Harim El Fethi is the winner of the 2016 Malta Marathon as the Moroccan runner produced a strong finish to top the 42km race at Sliema Ferries. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 28, 2016 | ||
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British runner dies just 50 yards from finish line of Malta marathon
(Daily Star.co.uk) The unidentified man felt unwell at about 11.30am and he died shortly after arriving at Mater Dei Hospital, according to local reports. | ||
News From: Monday, February 24, 2014 | ||
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Hajjy Makes it Four in a Row
(Times of Malta) Mohammed Hajjy won his fourth Malta Marathon with a time of 2 hours 18 minutes and 27 seconds. | ||
News From: Monday, February 25, 2013 | ||
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Moroccos' Mohammed Hajjy Establishes New Malta Marathon Course Record
(Malta Independent.) Mahammed Hajjy won the Malta Marathon with a time of 2 hours 16 minutes and 7 seconds which is the new course record. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 26, 2012 | ||
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No Change On The Malta Marathon Podium
(Times Of Malta) The top winners of the Malta Marathon were the same as last year. Mohammed Hadjj won the marathon with a time of 2 hours 19 minutes and 4 seconds. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 16, 2012 | ||
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Malta Marathon Has Record 2,500 Athletes Taking Part In This Year's Event
(Malta Independent Online) The Malta Marathon kicks off on February 26 and will host a record of more than two-thousand, five-hundred runners. | ||
News From: Monday, February 28, 2011 | ||
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Morrocco's Mohammed Hajii Dominates And Wins Malta Marathon
(Malta Independent Online) Mohammed Hajii lead the Malta Marathon from wire to wire and won with a final time of 2 hours 19 minutes and 35 seconds. | ||
Hajii, Taranowski Claim Honors At Malta Marathon
(Times of Malta) Mohammed Hajii won the Malta Marthon with a time of 2 hours 19 minutes and 35 seoconds. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 27, 2011 | ||
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Today's Malta Marathon-26th Edition Of Marathon This Morning
(Malta Independent Online) The overall paricipation in each of the events surrounding the Malta Marathon has increased to record levels. The race kicks off on Sunday morning. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 15, 2011 | ||
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Record Entries Expected For Malta Marathon
(Times Of Malta) The Malta Marathon will close online registration on January 16 and race orgranizers are certain the it will be another record year for participation numbers in the marathon. | ||
News From: Thursday, November 18, 2010 | ||
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Former Winners Return For 2010 Malta Challenge Marathon
(Times of Malta) Four-time Malta Marathon winner David Mansbridge will return for the 20th edition of the marathon next week. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | ||
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Result To Stand Says Malta Marathon Organizing Committee
(Times Of Malta) The results of the Malta Marathon have been confirmed despite the fact that the four lead runners were led off course by the lead pace vehicle. The athletes led off course will be compensated for prize money they may have won. | ||
News From: Monday, March 1, 2010 | ||
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Moroccan Runners Dominate As Lead Car Blunder Overshadows Race
(Times Of Malta) The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Malta Marathon declared Hichamn El Barouki the winner with a time of 2 hours 32 minutes and 56 seconds after a lead car led top runners astray. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 28, 2010 | ||
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Malta Marathon Runners Protest As Lead Car Goes Astray
(Times of Malta) The final results of the twenty-fifth annual Malta Marathon are in disarray as the vehicle leading the top runners made a wrong turn forcing the runners to drop out of the race. The first across the finish line was Abdel Hhakimi el Fehi with a time of 2 hours and 32 minutes. | ||
Malta Marathon In Disarray As Lead Car Goes Wrong Way
(Earth Times) The pace car leading athletes through the course of the Malta Marathon took a wrong turn and the two top runners were forced to drop out of the race around the 25 kilometer mark when the could no longer find their way on the course. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | ||
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25th Malta Marathon
(The Malta Independent) The Malta Marathon will celebrate it's twenty-fifth anniversary this year. Registration numbers have exceeded fourteen-hundred participants with more than seven-hundred foreign participants. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 18, 2010 | ||
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Malta Marathon Celebrating 25th Anniversary This Year.
(The Malta Independent Online) The Malta Marathon is in it's twenty-fifth year and more than one-thousand, four-hundred runners will participate in the race being held on February 28. Three runners who have done all twenty-five races will be at the starting line to celebrate 25 years. | ||
News From: Monday, November 30, 2009 | ||
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Party Time As Muscat Claims Maiden Women's Title at Malta Marathon Challenge
(Times of Malta) Jonathan Balzan claimed his third Malta Marathon title with a time of 2 hours 26 minutes and 08 seconds. Mairsa Muscat took home the top honors for the women with a time of 3 hours 5 minutes and 27 seconds. | ||
News From: Monday, March 2, 2009 | ||
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Land Rover Malta Marathon: Belgiums Rick Cuelemans wins ahead of Maltese runners Jason Martin and Richard Chetcuti
(Malta Independent) Rik Cuelemans of Belgium won the Malta Marathon on Sunday with a time of 2:25:59, beating out two Maltese runners, Jason Martin and Richard Chetcuti. Martin and Chetcuti, who finished in 2:33:30 and 2:35, respectively, are both members of Mellieha AC, a Maltese Athletic Club. | ||
Cuelemans braves rocky conditions to claim victory at Malta Marathon
(Times of Malta) Rik Cuelemans took first palce at the Malta Marathon with a time of 2:25:59, wlel ahead of second-place finisher Jason Martin, who came in with a PR time of 2:33:30. In the women's race, Carmen Hili held her title, with a time of 3:00:12, barely missing her target of breaking under 3 hours. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | ||
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Marathon of Records: Jonathan Balzan is Malta's fastest ever
(Di-ve Sports) The 2008 BMW Malta Marathon and Half-Marathon saw a number of records from a record number of registrants to Joshua Kipchumba's new course record win in 2:19:08. It was also a record for local Jonathan Balzan who garnered the fastest time of any Maltese athlete with his finish of 2:26:29. Women's race winner Carmen Hili won in a personal record of 3:01:48. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 24, 2008 | ||
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Records Tumble In Malta Marathon
(DI-VE Sports) Kenyan Joshua Kipchumba won the 200 Malta Marathon in 2:18:37. Julius Kirwa Choge was second in 2:20:35 and Joachim Nshimirmana was third in 2:20:59. the highlight to locals was the finish by Jonathan Balzan who set the fastest ever time for a Maltese athlete in the marathon with a time of 2:26:29. Balzan has only trained as a serious runner once he turned thirty years old. In the women's race Carmen Hili won in 3:01.48, followed by Marisa Muscat and Petra Schiesewitz. | ||
News From: Saturday, February 23, 2008 | ||
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BMW Malta Marathon: Record entry and good weather expected
(The Malta Independent) The 2008 Malta Marathon is expecting a record number of one thousand participants to its marathon and half marathon events. Runners should expect favorable weather and the addition of chip timing to record their times on the course. This international race will see runners from Germany, Great Britain, Italy and the USA. | ||
News From: Friday, February 15, 2008 | ||
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Record Number of Participants for Next Weeks BMW Malta Marathon
(The Malta Independent Online) The 2008 BMW Malta Marathon will see a record number of one thousand participants in the full marathon and half marathon events, many from all over the world. Germany leads the list of foreign runners. Registration for the marathon has been filled at three hundred participants. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | ||
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Oriental Promise For BMW Malta Marathon
(Times of Malta) The Malta marathon is making its way to attract foreign participants. this year, several runners from Japan and South Korea participated. | ||
News From: Monday, February 26, 2007 | ||
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Kenyan Kippering Wins 22nd Edition Of Malta Marathon
(The Malta Independent) Main race results and comments are given. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 25, 2007 | ||
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Kenyan Wins BMW Malta Marathon
(Di-ve) Kipering clocked an impressive time of 2hours, 20 minutes and 43 seconds although he was just one and a half minutes off the pace of the Malta Marathon record set last year. | ||
News From: Saturday, February 24, 2007 | ||
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Record Participation For Malta Marathon
(The Malta Independent) The leading runners in this years Malta Marathon are expected to be all from Morocco, a country with a very rich tradition in distance running. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 15, 2007 | ||
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BMW Malta Marathon On 25 February
(The Malta Independent) 2006 marathon womens winner Carmen Hili and Lisa Marie Bezzina, first in the half-marathon, are both expected to defend their titles. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | ||
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Local Entry At Malta Marathon A Record High
(Times of Malta) Comments on the race by the race director | ||
News From: Monday, March 6, 2006 | ||
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Kenyan Wins 21st edition of Malta Marathon
(The Malta Independent) On a hot windswept morning, Kenyan runner Joshua Kipchumba won the BMW Malta Marathon clocking a time of 2hrs 21 minutes, almost a couple of minutes shy of the marathon record set last year. | ||
News From: Sunday, March 5, 2006 | ||
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Malta Marathon Goes to Kenyan
(Dive) Kenyan runner Joshua Kipchumba won the 21st edition of the BMW Malta Marathon clocking a time of 2hrs 21 minutes. He was almost a couple of minutes shy of the marathon record set last year by Tunisian Abdelkebir Marchane who was also the winner of the last three editions of the race. | ||
News From: Thursday, March 2, 2006 | ||
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2005 Malta Marathon Could Have Been the Last
(The Times) The Malta Marathon will be held again this year, despite the difficulties in organizing it. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 23, 2006 | ||
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Moroccan Abdel Kebir Marchane to Defend Malta Marathon Title Again
(The Malta Independent) Defending champion, Abdel Kebir Marchane will return to defend his Full Marathon titles, which he won in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, in the latter year he also established the Malta Marathon record, finishing in 2.19.08. The MMOC is currently negotiating to bring over another Moroccan and a Kenyan to challenge him. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 27, 2005 | ||
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Jimmy Sacco finishes Third in Malta Marathon
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News From: Monday, March 1, 2004 | ||
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Marchane wins again at Malta Marathon and promises to be back
(The Times of Malta) Right from the start of the 19th edition of the BMW Malta Marathon, all the attention was focused on Abdel Kebir Marchane. Not only was the Sicily-based Moroccan runner the holder of the title, but on the eve of the event he had stated his ambition to break the course record of 2.19.30 set by Hugh Jones back in 1993. | ||
19th BMW Malta Marathon Overview
(The Times of Malta) The 19th BMW Malta Marathon, held yesterday, was another success story for Moroccan runner Abdel Kebir Marchane. The Sicily-based athlete defended his crown by clocking a winning time of 2:22.21 in the 42.1km marathon, starting from Mdina and finishing at The Ferries in Sliema. | ||
News From: Sunday, March 9, 2003 | ||
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The Ladies' Running Club in the Malta Marathon
(Allied Newspapers Ltd) There was no more than 20 women who ran in last months Malta marathon, but that has not stopped the Ladie's Running club. It is now their new goal to get beginning runners to attend future races. | ||
News From: Friday, February 28, 2003 | ||
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Mellieha Athletic Club in Malta Marathon
(Di-ve.com) Malta's Mellieha Athletic Club had a good showing in last weekend's BMW Malta Marathon, with two runners placing in the top five. The Club is also seeing some new faces this year such as David Payne who won the over 60 year-old half marathon category in 1:29:42. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 23, 2003 | ||
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BMW to Sponsor Next Months Malta Marathon
(Standard Publications; Malta Independent) Last monday marked the day of decision for Malta Marathon organizers to make BMW the official sponsor of their race. The 18 year old event has managed to attract 700 runners, 300 of whom are Malta locals. |