A unique anniversary will be taking place in the year 2010: “2500 Years of the Marathon”. In 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon took place, and the legend goes that a Greek soldier-runner carried news of the Greek victory over the Persians to Athens – and then collapsed and died. Greece will be celebrating the 2500-year anniversary of this legendary run with official festivities in 2010; the 28th Athens Classic Marathon (ACM) will, of course, be celebrating too at their event on October 31, 2010.

This is the message that concluded the today’s Press Conference given by the President of SEGAS (Hellenic Athletics Federation), Mr Vassilis Sevastis, and Mr Kostas Panagopoulos, Chairman of the Athens Classic Marathon Organizing Committee regarding the 2010 Athens Classic Marathon to be held on October 31st, 2010 and the celebration of the 2,500 years anniversary from the Marathon Battle in 490BC.

(DOSB PRESS) “Presenting and Communicating Sport History” is the topic of the 4th DAGS Symposium in Berlin, which is being organised by the Work Group for Sports Museums, Sports Archives, and Sports Collections (DAGS) and is open to anyone from the sports clubs and associations, as well as anyone from other sport and research organisations interested in sport.

In the ninth in a series of profiles of the national winners of the inaugural Women's Leadership Awards, European Athletics speaks to the Czech Republic's Dana Zatopkova.

It gives me great pleasure to reveal (and for once this isn’t a joke) that BBC Films has finally announced, today, the production of a screenplay based on my book The Perfect Distance, an account of the rivalry between Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe.

Roe was one of the leading marathon and road runners in the world in the early 1980s. She won both the Boston and New York marathons in 1981. Roe won numerous events on the road and was a member of the celebrated New Zealand trio with Lorraine Moller and Anne Audain that changed the face of women’s road running in the United States.

The year 2010 is of special significance for the term “MARATHON”. It is the anniversary year “2500 Years of the Marathon”. When you hear the word “marathon”, you may not first think about the city of Marathon or the Battle of Marathon, which took place in 490 BC.

This evening, four of the greatest indoor milers and many other track and field greats and media gathered on the eve on the 2010 Millrose Games at the most famous Athletic Club in the World, the NYAC.

For the first time since their glory days in the 80's, two of Japan's greatest marathoners, Toshihiko Seko (53) and Takeyuki Nakayama (50) appeared together in public Jan. 26 at Tokyo Midtown. The two former rivals gave a two-way discussion of Japanese men's marathoning as part of the Tokyo Marathon Tune-Up Week series of events promoting the Feb. 28 2010 Tokyo Marathon.

Turkish distance runner Elvan Abeylegesse is to be awarded the Baron Pierre de Coubertin Trophy for 2009, the International Fair Play Committee has announced.