Boston Marathon lowers qualifying times for most prospective runners for 2026 race

BOSTON (AP) — Runners hoping to qualify for the 2026 Boston Marathon are going to have to pick up the pace. The Boston Athletic Association has updated its qualifying times for the world's oldest annual marathon, asking most prospective competitors to run a 26.2-mile race five...

Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly

Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion...

Takeaways from AP report on perils of heatstroke for runners in a warming world

As climate change reshapes the way humans live outdoors, it's affecting the way they play, too. That includes runners, who may find themselves in harm's way on a warming planet. They pursue a sport that esteems grit and suffering in pursuit of improvement. Experts told The Associated...

Marathon Match: Longest US Open match since at least 1970 goes a grueling 5 hours, 35 minutes

NEW YORK (AP) — A few hours into a match that eventually set a U.S. Open record for length, Dan Evans glanced over at the scoreboard. Not to see how he was doing, but to clarify exactly how long he had been playing. “In the fourth set, I had to check the set to see...

Tamirat Tola and Hellen Obiri look to defend titles in New York City Marathon

NEW YORK (AP) — Tamirat Tola and Hellen Obiri will look to defend their New York City Marathon titles this November. The pair headline strong fields in the annual race around New York's five boroughs. Tola is coming off a win at the Paris Games where he set an...

Women's Olympic marathon in Paris records a 1st by running last instead of the men's race

PARIS (AP) — There was a time, not that long ago, when those in charge of the Olympics thought it was too dangerous for women to run a marathon. On Sunday, in a break with tradition that stamps an exclamation point on how much has changed over the last 40 years, the women, not the...

Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia wins the men's Olympic marathon.

Kelvin Kiptum was a gold-medal favorite. After his death, his memory lingers over Olympic marathon

PARIS (AP) — The memory of Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum hovers over the men’s Olympic marathon. His competitors will wind through the streets of Paris on Saturday chasing a gold medal he would have been favored to win. They will stare down a world-record time that he once set. ...

Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary wins Olympic men's marathon to complete swimming events in the Seine

PARIS (AP) — There were plenty of concerns about swimming in the long-polluted Seine River. When the final gold medal was handed out Friday, everyone seemed thrilled to have taken a nearly two-hour dip in the the iconic waterway. Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary...

Sharon van Rouwendaal has won the women's Olympic marathon swim on the Seine, shaking off concerns about water quality.