A British woman donned a polar bear costume to run a frigid Norwegian marathon and break a world record with her time of 4 hours, 58 minutes and 29 seconds.

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More than 50 years after becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer continues to make history – and for the first time, in New Zealand.

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The 28-year-old battled stomach problems and high winds to take 16 seconds off her own record, which she set in Houston a ...

India’s marathon national record of 2 hours 12 minutes, set by Shivnath Singh in 1978, still stands unbeaten. Lounge asks ...

Recently, a new Guinness World Record was set by a woman who completed an ice marathon in record time while wearing a polar bear costume. While the thought of this may be comical, her reasoning ...

That was what (sort of) happened on Jan 4 at the PolarNight Marathon in Tromso, Norway, when a woman donning ... cause at the same time”, she told the Guinness World Records.

Ethiopia’s Workenesh Edesa successfully defended her title at the Osaka Women’s Marathon, a World Athletics Platinum Label ...

Workenesh Edesa returns to the Osaka Women’s Marathon as the course record-holder, aiming to retain her title at the World Athletics Platinum Label road race ...