By Alex Oltmanns
Achieving perfection is a difficult task to attain in anything, let alone sports. But Cliff Baker recently bowled a perfect score of 300 in the South Hills Country Club Couples Bowling League at Princess Lanes in Whitehall. For Baker, the score was significant. It was his third time rolling a …
Riverhounds reach out to young players in Connellsville By Rachel Basinger
Members of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer team made their way to Bullskin Township Saturday morning for a soggy meet-and-greet at the Connellsville Soccer Club’s Shallenberger …
Abnormality of arteries led to half-marathon runner’s death By Matthew Santoni
An abnormality in the arteries around a runner’s heart caused him to collapse and die in Sunday’s Pittsburgh half marathon, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s …
Bethel Park’s Woodring finishes fourth in women’s race By Scott Brown
Lauren Woodring had trouble standing after completing the Pittsburgh Marathon. The Bethel Park resident was, in fact, so drained following the 26.2-mile run that race workers took her to the nearby medical tent where she replenished herself with a mixture of Gatorade, orange juice and bananas. The exhaustion didn’t just …
Pittsburgh Marathon notebook: Ethopian stays hot, wins half marathon By Scott Brown and Bob Cohn
A good year for Risper Gesabwa got even better at the Pittsburgh Marathon. Meanwhile, Julius Kogo joined Gesabwa in winning the half marathon a year after also finishing second in the 13.1-mile race. Kogo and Gesabwa were among the earliest finishers Sunday as the former completed the half marathon in …
Marathon coverage: Last runner crosses finish line By Tribune-Review
Today’s Pittsburgh Marathon and Half Marathon are the headline events in a series of races that were expected to draw about 30,000 participants and up …
Western Pa. runners among Pittsburgh Marathon’s elite By Scott Brown
She started training, like most first-time marathon runners, with modest goals. She raised expectations when it became clear that her background as a collegiate athlete would make her more than an average runner. But Lauren Woodring never envisioned this. A year after coming within seconds of finishing in the top …
Marathon prize money lures deep field of runners By Karen Price
The elite runners slowly filed into a meeting room at the Wyndham Hotel downtown late Saturday afternoon for the technical meeting with organizers in advance of Sunday’s Pittsburgh Marathon and Half-Marathon. There were plenty of details to go over, including meeting time, the weather report, what type of security was …
Marathon notebook: Man sets world record on treadmill By Chris Adamski
Less than six months ago, world-class distance runner Michael Wardian was dealing with acute pain in his pelvis and legs. Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh, he set a world record. Wardian completed the equivalent of a half-marathon on a treadmill in one hour, 8 minutes, 50.47 seconds in front of a …
They started in Boston but will finish here By Karen Price
Stephanie Greenstein had a mile and a half left. Laurie Dannison had just passed 25 miles. Alyssa O’Toole was approaching 26 miles. They were that …
