Tiki Gelana will run Bupa Great North Run, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

Tiki Gelana, the Ethiopian women who won the Olympic marathon this past August, will be running the Bupa Great North Run on September 16.

GELANA FOR GNR

NEWCASTLE (GBR): Tiki Gelana, the Olympic Marathon gold medallist, will be aiming to join several other world class Ethiopian runners who have triumphed in past Bupa Great North Run’s at this year’s race on September 16. Gelana, who stunned her rivals with her surprise win at the recent London Games, headlines a superb women’s line up for Britain’s biggest running event which will see the 55,000 competitors trek 13.1 miles from Newcastle to South Shields. The 24-year-old Ethiopian record holder will feature in a line up which includes last year’s World Marathon champion Edna Kiplagat and her fellow Kenyan Irene Jerotich, winner of the Commonwealth title in 2010 and Great Britain’s Jo Pavey making a swift transition from her Olympic track appearances back to road running.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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