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Carl Lewis joins Houston track coaching staff

HOUSTON -- Olympic great and former University of Houston star Carl Lewis is joining the track and field coaching staff at his alma mater.

The school said Thursday that the nine-time Olympic gold medalist is joining Cougars head coach Leroy Burrell as a volunteer coach.

In all, Lewis won 10 Olympic medals and 10 world championship medals in his career. The six-time All-American won six national titles and nine individual conference titles in two seasons at Houston.

He held the world record in the men's 100-meter dash from 1991 until Burrell broke it in 1994. The two were part of the U.S. relay team that set the 100-meter world record at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

 

Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press

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Injured Makau pulls out of Berlin Marathon

BERLIN -- World-record holder Patrick Makau of Kenya has withdrawn from the Berlin Marathon because of inflammation in his left knee.

Makau set the world record of 2 hours, 3 minutes, 38 seconds in Berlin in 2011 and wanted to try to lower it this year. But he says "now the first thing on my mind is to fully recover from this injury so I can return to training."

Makau also won the Berlin Marathon in 2010.

About 40,000 runners are entered in the Sept. 29 race.

Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press

 

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Bekele edges Farah to win Great North Run

SOUTH SHIELDS, England -- Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia held off a late challenge from local favorite Mo Farah to win the Great North Run on Sunday in a thrilling finish.

Bekele, competing in his first competitive half marathon, made his move with less than two kilometers to go but had to fend off a charge from Farah in the last 400 meters as the British runner failed to pip his rival on the line.

Bekele won the race by a second. Fellow Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie was third.

 

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Biwott of Kenya wins Philadelphia half marathon

PHILADELPHIA -- Defending champion Stanley Biwott of Kenya won the Rock `n Roll Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sunday, running the second-fastest time in the 36-year history of the race.

He finished in 59 minutes and 36 seconds. The 27-year-old Biwott took the lead at the halfway mark of the 13.1 mile race through the city to record the fastest half marathon in the United States this year.

Lyudmyla Kovalenko of Ukraine won the women's race in 1:08:59, edging Ethiopian Konjit Biruk by 1 second.

 

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