Tanzania's Alphonce Felix Simbu has won a thrilling gold medal in the men's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Simbu edged out Germany's Amanal Petros by less than a second after ...

Photo finishes are normally reserved for incredibly fast events where it's impossible to tell who won with the naked eye. They usually don't happen at the end of marathons. But a photo finish was ...

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They ran for more than two hours and needed a photo finish to determine the winner. Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania edged out Amanal Petros in a wild men’s marathon at the World Championships Monday. It ...

Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania edged Amanal Petros of Germany in a photo finish to the men's marathon at the World Track and Field Championships. Simbu and Petros both ran 2:09:48 in Tokyo, with Simbu ...

The 14th edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (SCMM) took place earlier today, with Alphonce Simbu and Bornes Kitur emerging as winners in the Elite categories. One of India’s largest ...

One of the most dramatic finales in marathon history ended with one athlete diving for the line, another unsure of the result, and Seiko’s photo-finish machine being called into emergency action.

Tanzania's Alphonce Simbu won the men's elite full marathon event while Kenya's Bornes Kitur bagged the women's title at the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday. Alphonce Simbu clocked two ...

TOKYO -- Alphonce Simbu of Tanzania beat Amanal Petros of Germany by three hundredths of a second in an extraordinary, nail-biting men's marathon at the World Athletics Championships on Monday morning ...