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| News From: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | ||
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| 2021 Marathon des Sables: Death, Record DNFs Plague 'Toughest Footrace on Earth'
(Gear Junkie) An inside look into the 2021 Marathon des Sables that recorded a death and a record DNF's. | ||
| News From: Monday, October 4, 2021 | ||
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| Runner Dies During the 2021 Marathon des Sables; Third Death in Race's 35-Year History
(I Run Far) A runner at the 2021 Marathon des Sables experienced a medical emergency and died while they were deep in the Merzouga Dunes. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 | ||
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| Grandad, 73, who's run 23 ultra-marathons says the secret to his success is hot chocolate and wine gums
(Yahoo Sports) Grandad Bill Mitchell, 73, who has run 157 marathons, including 23 ultra-marathons, credit his feat to a daily cup of hot chocolate and wine gums. | ||
| News From: Thursday, January 8, 2015 | ||
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| Sir Randolph Fiennes in Marathon des Sables Record Bid
(BBC.com) Sir Ranulph Fiennes hopes to become the oldest Briton to compete the Marathon des Sables in Morocco | ||
| News From: Monday, May 5, 2014 | ||
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| 18 athletes rescued during the 2015 MARATHON DES SABLES thanks to Globalstars SPOT Gen3
(m2mNow.com) With sand in their eyes and no other competitors in line of sight, athletes did occasionally miss the markers and stray off course. Using SPOT devices and MDS, the support crew was able to immediately act on geo-fencing alerts and dispatch a rescue team. | ||
| News From: Sunday, April 14, 2013 | ||
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| Winners Survive 'Toughest Race on Earth'
(CNN.editon) Mohamad Ahansal won the Marathon des Sables for an amazing fifth time while Meghan Hicks won the women's division for the first time. | ||
| News From: Thursday, April 11, 2013 | ||
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| Ahansal and Klein Lead in Marathon des Sables
(7msport.com) Mohammed Ahansal and Laurence Klein retained their lead during the fourth stage of the Marathon des Sables. | ||
| News From: Friday, April 6, 2012 | ||
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| Running's Ultimate Test: 153 Miles In The Sahara
(New York Times) Mohamed Ahansal was born in the Sahara and started running out of necessity rather than sport. He had to collect farm animals that would dart off out of the herd. That led him to the Marathon of the Sands. | ||
| News From: Monday, April 4, 2011 | ||
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| La Jollan Takes On 156 Mile Desert In Marathon Des Sables
(San Diego News Room) Raymond Stevens is one of twenty-four Americans attempting to run the Marathon des Sables race across the Sahara Desert | ||
| News From: Monday, April 19, 2010 | ||
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| Desert Marathon Takes Toll On Australian
(The Sydney Morning Herald) Stuart Gibson lost fourteen kilograms while completing the six-day stage race of the Marathon des Sables. He dropped nearly eighteen percent of his bod weight while finishing in eleventh place with a time of 25 hours and 31 minutes. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | ||
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| Mohamad Ahansal Dominates Third Phase Of 25th Marathon des Sables
(Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse) Mohamad Ahansal, Morocco, continues to lead the twenty-fifth running of the Marathon des Sables. The eighty-two point two kilometer fourth phase kicks off today and is considered the hardest part of this ultra-marathon stage race. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 | ||
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| 'I Wanted To Suffer In The Heat And Sand'
(National Post) The Marathon des Sables is considered by many to be the most grueling race on Earth. The race covers nearly two-hundred and fifty kilometers. Seven-hundred and eleven competitors completed the race in 2009 | ||
| James Cracknell Runs For The Wire In The Marathon des Sables
(Guardian.co.uk) James Craknell rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005. This week the former Olympic rower and gold medalist set off to race the Marathon des Sables one of the toughest running races on Earth. | ||
| News From: Monday, April 5, 2010 | ||
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| The Marathon des Sables Begins Today
(Gadling.com) The twenty-fourth annual Marathon des Sables kicks off in Morocco. The ultra-marathon will cover just over one-hundred and fifty-one miles as running hit the sand with temperatures soaring to over one-hundred twenty degrees. | ||
| Maltese Runners Find Sahara As Tough As Expected
(Times Of Malta) Nathan Farrugia and Douglas Barbaro Sant joined over one-thousand men and women at the start of the Marathon des Sables. The 250 kilometer race has a short day of 21 kilometers and a long day of 83 kilometers | ||
| News From: Monday, March 29, 2010 | ||
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| Race In Sands Is Long Beach Man's Ultimate Challenge
(Press-Telegram) John Callos has a wonderful wife, child and, what many would consider, a successful life. However he's will attempt to run nearly one-hundred and fifty miles across one of the most foreboding areas of the planet: The Sahara Desert. | ||
| News From: Friday, March 26, 2010 | ||
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| Bewdley Man Facing Ultimate Marathon Challenge
(The Shuttle) Phil Newton will be among runners hoping to complete the 'toughest footrace on earth' by running the equivalent of one marathon a day for six days while crossing the Sahara. | ||
| Stuart's Dream...To Run Across The Sahara
(Sydney Morning Herald) Stuart Gibson will head to Morocco in North Africa to fulfill a dream by running in the 25th Marathon Des Sable which equates to running one marathon a day for six days. | ||
| News From: Monday, February 15, 2010 | ||
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| Saharan Race A Grueling Mission
(New Zealand Herald) Rob Orchard will run the equivalent of six back-to-back marathons when he completes the Marathon des Sables in North Africa. Orchard is using the race to raise funds for the Starship Foundation. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | ||
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| Soldiers In World's "Toughest" Marathon
(Express And Star) Three members of the 22 Signal Regiment will run one-hundred and fifty-one miles through the Moroccan desert in April to help the charity known as Help For Heroes. | ||
| News From: Thursday, April 2, 2009 | ||
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| Marathon des Sables 2009
(Event Rate) With the first and final stages of the Marathon des Sables, 2009 edition, being cancelled it looks as though Mohammed Ahancel will take the victory over nearly 800 other competitors. | ||
| News From: Monday, February 9, 2009 | ||
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| Sahara Ordeal Is Worth The Agony
(Derby Telegraph) The Marathon des Sables forces competitors to deal with snakes, scorpions and temperatures that soar into the one-hundred degree range. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | ||
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| Five-and-a-half marathons - in six days!
(Suffolk and Essex) Richard Merry, from Colchester, hopes to raise £15,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity by running five and a half marathons inside of 6 days while traversing the Sahara Desert next March. | ||
| News From: Sunday, June 29, 2008 | ||
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| Saharan target for marathon man
(Bucks Free Press) Neil Thubron is preparing for the Marathon des Sables, a six-day race across the Sahara desert over a one hundred fifty-two mile course while carrying a 10kg pack of food and sleeping equipment. Although Thubron's current weekly mileage is at sixty miles; he will eventually be running 100 weekly miles, as well as taking part in an 85-mile race from Hertfordshire to Wiltshire. | ||
| News From: Sunday, April 27, 2008 | ||
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| Marathon runner tests endurance, aids nonprofits
(Baltimore Sun) T. Rowe Price fund manager Jeff Arricale tackled the 2008 Marathon des Sables, a 156-mile ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert. Arnicale ran on behalf of Arricale chose Special Olympics Maryland for its local connection and Opportunity International because of his finance background and the potential for microfinance loans to lift poor people out of poverty. He raised about $49,000, almost half way to his goal of $100,000. | ||
| News From: Monday, April 7, 2008 | ||
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| Morocco's Ahensal wins Marathon des Sables
(Magharebia) Mohamed Ahensal won the 23rd Marathon des Sables on Saturday making this his second win dating back from 1998. He finished second in the previous seven editions, behind his brother Lahcen, who did not participate in 2008 event. The women's race, Moroccan Touda Didi won the gold with 28 hours, 38 minutes and 11 seconds.The marathon is a six-day 243-km long endurance race across the Moroccan Sahara. | ||
| News From: Thursday, April 3, 2008 | ||
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| Ahansal leads Marathon des Sables
(Press TV) Moroccan runner, Mohamad Ahansal, is still leading after completing the first half of stage four in the 2008 Marathon des Sables. This stage of the marathon, known as the "the main course" by the competitors, includes plains, dune fields and El Oftal Jebel to tackle, a summit with a twenty-five percent incline. The vast majority of runners will have to continue through the night to reach Oued Ahssia. The runners are being guided by lasers marking out the course and all the competitors have luminous nightsticks and carry emergency flares in their kits. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | ||
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| Marathon des Sables might be won on attrition.
(National Post) Robert Kent is on day three of the 243 kilometer race through the Sahara. With temperatures reaching easily into the 100's and people dropping out daily, Kent, hopes to test his strenght on the 75 kilometer day on Thursday. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | ||
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| Sun. sand and suffering
(Melton Times) Edmondthorpe man Toby Baker is just inside the top 250 and among the fastest British runners after the first and second stages of a gruelling desert marathon. At nineteen years of age, Baker, s the youngest British competitor and the second youngest in the entire event. | ||
| News From: Friday, March 28, 2008 | ||
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| Marathon des Sables: Because 26.2 miles wasn't tough enough!
(Typically Spanish) More than 800 participants will line up for this year's Marathon of the Sands. A grueling race of 245 kilometers across the Sahara. Temperatures will soar well into the 100 degree range for the six stage marathon. Each participant will have to carry their own gear of approximately 25 pounds over the grueling terrain. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 | ||
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| Robert Kent runs the Marathon des Sables: Warmup
(National Post) Canadian endurance-runner Robert Kent is preparing for the 2008 Marathon des Sables. With the help of some pros, Kent has reduced the pack he will be carrying to twenty five pounds not including the water he will need to carry for the grueling 243-kilometer foot race across the desert. Cautious about the foods he is eating, he and eight hundred other racers will be transported to the desert on Friday morning for two days in the desert prior to race day on sunday. | ||
| News From: Thursday, March 20, 2008 | ||
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| McGrath preps for marathon; Mountaineer ready to take on Sahara Desert
(The Sudbury Star) Meagan McGrath, who has climbed to the top of Mount Everest and has conquered the Seven Summits, will challenge herself against the heat of the Sahara Desert in the 2008 Marathon des Sables. The seven-day, 245.3-kilometre footrace is a feat forcing competitors to deal with extreme heat, different types of terrain, sandstorms and insects and animals in the desert. Runners must carry all of their food and supplies for the duration of the race in a bag on their backs and are required to bring certain items with them, such as anti-venom kits. Water is provided by the organizers, as well as tents for shelter at night. | ||
| News From: Thursday, March 13, 2008 | ||
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| Desert marathon test for footballer
(Royston Crow) Martin Westcott, former Royston Town footballer, will be taking part in the 2008 Marathon des Sables, a 151-mile endurance race through the Sahara Desert. Westcott will be raising money for pupils at Castle School in Cambridge, a specialist school for children and young people with complex learning difficulties. Westcott's training is limited, having never experienced the terrain or the heat that he will encounter in the Sahara. | ||
| News From: Sunday, March 2, 2008 | ||
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| Woman, 71, to tackle Sahara ultramarathon
(Daily Yomiuri Online) Noriko Iida, a seventy-one year old housewife from Japan, will run the grueling 2008 Marathon Des Sables ultramarathon across the Sahara Desert. Iida who began running at age forty-nine will be this year's oldest runner and the oldest Japanese ever to participate in such a race. Since retiring as a teacher, Iida has been competing in tough events in Japan such as a 71.5-kilometer mountain race and a 100-kilometer ultramarathon, as well as normal marathons and runs as many as 40 such races in one year. | ||
| News From: Thursday, February 28, 2008 | ||
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| Sudbury climber to 'shuffle' across Sahara
(The Sault Star) Armed with her anti-venin kit, a 17 kilogram back-pack and a pair of custom made shoes, McGrath will start the Marathon des Sables - a 243-kilometre trek across the scorching desert sands of Morocco. While some competitors run the entire course, McGrath says she's planning to employ what is known as the "airborne shuffle,'' which the Canadian Air Force captain describes as a technique akin to speed walking. McGrath has just climbed Everest last year. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | ||
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| Australians Take On the Sahara Challenge
(The Epoch Times) Paul Gladwell and Martin Edwards, two IT workers from Melbourne, Australia who have both lost close family members to cancer, have been logging 180km a week for a one of the most grueling races in the world. The 23rd Marathon des Sables scheduled for March involves a seven-day 240km run across the Sahara Desert in 104 degree temperatures during the day to 41 degrees at night, sandstorms and grueling physical pain. The participants are required to carry their essentials in their back pack sleeping bag, food and clothing while the race organizers provide a tent and water. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 | ||
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| Running toward desert dream
(Ottawa Sun) 43-year old Canadian Karen Meades will be one of seven hundred competing in the 2008 Marathon des Sables, a notoriously grueling six-day, 243-km marathon across the Moroccan desert. Meades is looking to accomplish something new and challenging while setting an example. Voted one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, Meades, founder of an Inuit health care program in Nunavut, is an avid marathoner, ironman triathlete and adventurer. | ||
| News From: Sunday, April 1, 2007 | ||
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| Lahcen Ahansal Wins Marathon des Sables
(Magharebia) Moroccan Lahcen Ahansal won the 11.7 km sixth stage between Erg Chebbi and Merzouga to win the 22nd Marathon des Sables. | ||
| News From: Friday, March 30, 2007 | ||
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| Frenchman Dies In Morocco`s Sand Marathon
(Angola Press) A Frenchman participating in the 22nd edition of the Sand Marathon died of heart attack in his tent Thursday at a campsite west of Jebl Kfiroune. | ||
| News From: Monday, March 26, 2007 | ||
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| Runners Set For Ultimate Marathon Des Sables
(BBC) History and information on the race, a six-day, 240km kilometres (150 miles) endurance race, across a section of the Sahara desert in southern Morocco. | ||
| News From: Thursday, March 15, 2007 | ||
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| Malaysian Duo To Run Desert Marathon For Charity
(New Straits Times) Lawyer Ngae Koh Hieng, 53, and 52-year-old Dr Tan Tah Ming, who owns a clinic in Selayang Baru, have signed up for the Marathon Des Sables in the Moroccan Sahara to raise funds for Hospis Malaysia. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | ||
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| Countdown Time For Tenerifes Marathon des Sables Men
(Tenerife News) Article on the difficulties of the Marathon des Sables, that covers 243kms in 6 days. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | ||
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| Gers Boss Prepares for Marathon Des Sables
(The Daily Record) New Rangers boss Paul Le Guen takes the Sahara in his stride as he tackles a terrifying 150-mile desert race. | ||
| Illness Knocks Hermosa Man from Sahara Run at Marathon Des Sables
(Daily Breeze) One of the two South Bay men who ventured to the Sahara Desert to participate in a 151-mile marathon across hostile terrain has dropped out of the race. | ||
| News From: Thursday, May 5, 2005 | ||
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| Running the Sahara
(The Comet) Article on Keith Flood who fulfilled a dream when he ran 156 miles across the Sahara in six days. | ||
| News From: Saturday, February 26, 2005 | ||
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| Going to the limit: Marathon Des Sables
(The Comet) Article on Mr Hewitson training for Marathon Des Sables | ||
| News From: Friday, January 28, 2005 | ||
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| 26.2 miles? It's Just a Little Training Run fpr Marathon des Sables
(Sun Sentinel) Some are using the 26.2-mile race in Miami as a training run for April's Marathon des Sables, considered the toughest foot race in the world. | ||
| News From: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 | ||
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| Marathon des Sables 2004 - Review
(EventRate) In just over three weeks, 650+ competitors will line up for the start of the 19th edition of the Marathon des Sables, Patrick Bauers legendary race in the Sahara Desert. | ||
| News From: Sunday, February 29, 2004 | ||
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| Marathon man set for Marathon des Sables in the Sahara
(GrampianTV) An Aberdeen man is preparing to tackle a marathon known as the toughest footrace on earth. In seven weeks time Gavin Booth is set to run a hundred and fifty miles in extreme conditions across the Sahara in the Marathon des Sables. | ||
| News From: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 | ||
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| Marathon Man Facing Ultimate Challenge at Marathon des Sables
(Evening Express) Gavin Booth a 28-year-old has signed up for the gruelling Marathon des Sables - billed as the toughest race on earth. | ||
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