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News From: Sunday, January 14, 2024 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon: Winners announced after thousands compete in first local marathon of 2024
(Fox 5) Lucas Binder won the 2024 Carlsbad Marathon in 2:38:18 while Stefanie Cullingford won the women's race in 2:49:36. | ||
News From: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon (Virtual)
(NBC 7 San Diego) The 2021 Carlsbad Marathon, set on January 17, has gone virtual with over 10,000 participants. | ||
News From: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | ||
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Spotted: 1.20.19 Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Full and Half Marathon
(Pacific) A gallery of photos taken during the 2019 Carlsbad Marathon on Sunday, January 20. | ||
News From: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | ||
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Runners prepare for Jan. 20 Carlsbad Marathon
(The Coast News Group) Here are some vital information for the 2019 Carlsbad Marathon - weather, route, schedule. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 15, 2017 | ||
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Dartmouth grad wins Carlsbad Marathon
(The San Diego Union-Tribune) Christopher Zablocki won the Carlsbad Marathon in 2:20:12 while Jill Deering won the women's race in 2:54:08.. | ||
News From: Monday, January 18, 2016 | ||
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Carlsbad champ surprises himself
(San Diego Union-Tribune) The Clovis resident entered Sundays event in preparation for the U.S. Olympic Trials next month with a plan to take 2 hours, 22 minutes covering the mostly coastal 26.2-mile course beginning and ending at The Shoppes at Carlsbad. Instead, he prevailed by nearly four minutes in 2:18:14. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 17, 2016 | ||
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Thousands race through streets of Carlsbad
(CBS8.com) It was all part of the Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon and Half-Marathon. More than 10,000 people ran along the coast in the 25th year of the race. The event is considered one of the biggest marathons in the country, featuring runners from all of the United States and 16 countries worldwide. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 18, 2015 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon and Half-Marathon Draws Thousands
(10 News.com) The Carlsbad races drew more than 10,000 runners to the streets for the annual marathon and half-marathon. | ||
News From: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | ||
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2015 Carlsbad Marathon and Half-Marathon
(KUSI.com) The Carlsbad Marathon will kick off this weekend at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real and along the Pacific Coast Highway. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 23, 2014 | ||
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Endale, Abate Win 23rd Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon
(Ethiosports) Abiyot Endale won the Carlsbad Marathon with a time of 2 hours 18 minutes and 35 seconds. | ||
News From: Monday, January 28, 2013 | ||
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Repeat Winner at Carlsbad Marathon
(UT San Diego) Mario Macias successfully defended his Carlsbad Marathon title from 2012 with a 2013 winning time of 2 hours 19 minutes and 43 seconds. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 26, 2013 | ||
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Runners Take Over Carlsbad This Weekend
(UT San Diego) More than ten-thousand runners are expected for the Carlsbad Marathon and surrounding events. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 22, 2012 | ||
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Macias, Kenney Win 21st Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon
(RunningUSA Wire) Colorado's Mario Macias dominated the men's marathon with a 2:22:24 win, leading the event throughout; while New York City's Christine Kenney also lead from beginning to end, easily beating out the field with a time of 2:53:07. | ||
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100th Marathon for Father/Daughter Duo
(Carlsbad Patch) With this weekend's Carlsbad Marathon, Harold Jackson and his daughter, Sally Boles have now completed a combined 100 marathons, 57 of them together. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 29, 2011 | ||
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Man Borrows Shoes To Finish Carlsbad Marathon
(Examiner.com) Steve Minick borrowed a pair of shoes that were a tad too small. At mile 18 he procured another borrowed pair of shoes to finish the marathon. | ||
News From: Monday, January 24, 2011 | ||
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Demesse Tefera Of Ethiopia Wins Carlsbad Marathon
(EthioSports.com) Demesse Tefera won the Carlsbad Marathon with a time of 2 hours 27 minutes and 28 seconds. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 23, 2011 | ||
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Korir, Kabii Three-peat In Carlsbad Half Marathon.
(North County Times) Demesse Tefera, Ethiopia, won the Carlsbad Marathon with a time of 2 hours 27 minutes and 28 seconds. | ||
Tefera, Akor Win Third Straight Carlsbad Marathon
(San Diego Union-Tribune) Demese Tefera won the Carlsbad Marathon with a time of 2 hours 27 minutes and 28 seconds. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 22, 2011 | ||
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Carlsbad Runner No Slave To Stopwatch Anymore
(Union Tribune) Joey Bonfiglio is hoping to race the Carlsbad Marathon and set a time that will put her at the starting line of the U.S. Olympic Trials. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 20, 2011 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon Set To Run Sunday
(Union-Tribune) More than ten-thousand runners will kick off their running events on Sunday and represent more nineteen charities along the way. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 15, 2011 | ||
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2011 Carlsbad Marathon And Half Details
(San Diego Entertainer) January 23 will be the kick off of the 2011 Carlsbad Marathon. The event sold out months ago but transfers are allowed. | ||
News From: Monday, January 25, 2010 | ||
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First Time's A Charm For Marathoner
(Sign On San Diego) Brian Baker was hoping to earn prize money at the Carlsbad marathon so he could afford travel overseas. He won the marathon with a time of 2 hours 18 minutes and 39 seconds and claimed twenty-five hundred dollars for his place and time bonus. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 24, 2010 | ||
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Man, Woman Make Easy Wins At Carlsbad Marathon
(San Diego News Network.) Brian Baker took home the top honors at the Carlsbad Marathon with a five minute margin of victory over second place and a time of 2 hours 18 minutes and 39 seconds. It was the third fastest time in the races eighteen year history. | ||
News From: Friday, January 22, 2010 | ||
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Running Center Is Proud Sponsor Of The Carlsbad Marathon
(Trans World News) The Carlsbad Marathon will take place this Sunday and The Running Center was one of the first sponsors to jump on board when the race changed it's name from the San Diego Marathon to the Carlsbad Marathon. | ||
Carlsbad: Marathon Set For Sunday
(North County Times) The Carlsbad Marathon will kick off this Sunday with marathon and half-marathon events which start at 6 am and 7:30 am respectively. Several road closures are planned in the area surrounding the course. | ||
News From: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon And Half
(Sign On San Diego) January 24th marks the start of one of the oldest West Coast Marathon traditions. The Carlsbad Marathon will start forty minutes north of San Diego at the Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad. | ||
News From: Monday, January 26, 2009 | ||
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Ventura's Spiker wins Carlsbad Marathon
(Ventura County Star) Josh Spiker of Ventura, former University of Wisconsin distance ruuner, won the Carlsbad Marathon by nearly 2 minutes on Sunday. Runner-up Andrew Musuva has won 8 marathons, but this was Spiker's first attempt at the 26.2-mile distance. | ||
CARLSBAD MARATHON: Marathon career off to sterling start for Spiker
(North County Times) Josh Spiker was crowned the Carlsbad Marathon Overall champion with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 56 seconds. It was the running store managers first marathon. Nearly 10,000 runners participated in the marathon and half-marathon. | ||
News From: Monday, February 25, 2008 | ||
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Kyle Gallagher: The Next Marathon Man?
(Hesperia Star) January 20th may have seen the birth of the next marathon man. Kyle Gallagher, at the age of 18, set out on a quest to run a relatively fast marathon before he graduated high school. His time of 2:44 was good enough to earn him sixth place at the Carlsbad Marathon. Gallagher who was usually over shadowed by another lead runner from his high school recorded the fastest time in the marathon for his school by over one minute from the previous record of two hours and forty-five minutes set by 2004 grad Stuart Patterson. | ||
News From: Monday, January 21, 2008 | ||
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Kenyan Nytipei transforms late entry into winning drive at Carlsbad.
(The Union Tribune) Kenya's Jacqueline Nytipei showed up late for the half marathon and sped from her ride right to the races finish line winning the 1/2 marathon by 20 seconds narrowly missing the course record. In the marathon Tesfaye Dirba of Ethiopia, took the men's race by four minutes in 2:19:26, and Diona Fulton of Somerville, Mass., raced to the women's title by well over six minutes in 3:07:56 despite difficulties over the final seven miles. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 20, 2008 | ||
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Runner scores another one for New England
(North Country Times) New Englander Diona Fulton won the women's race at the 17th annual Carlsbad Marathon in a time of 3:07:56. Ethiopian Tesfaye Dirba won the men's race in 2:19.26, his sub-2:20 finish since 2002. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 19, 2008 | ||
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Music lovers run into opposition
(Sign on San Diego) The trend seems to be growing to ban the use of wearing headphones and portable music players during races. Mostly affecting recreation runners, the concept has also been adopted by the Carlsbad Marathon. The ban, passed in December 2006 by USA Track & Field, the sport's governing body, has sparked a national debate among runners. | ||
10,000 runners to compete in Sunday's sold-out Carlsbad Marathon
(Coastal) With 10,000 runners scheduled to race in one of the three scenic races this coming Sunday, it is easy to understand why registration for both races closed three weeks ago and organizers are not accepting more entries. Race director Flanagan said local charities still have a few entries they are auctioning as fundraisers. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 21, 2007 | ||
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Carlsbad Races Draw Thousands Of Runners, Spectators
(NC Times) Comments on the race by some participants. | ||
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Runaway Stride - Marathon Newbie Dusts Women's Field At Carlsbad
(NC Times) Dolores Bergmann won in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 8 seconds; besting the second place finisher, Marlene Mueller, by nearly 14 minutes. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 18, 2007 | ||
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Musicians Will Kick In At Carlsbad Marathon
(Sign on San Diego) Participants can run to the beat of different drummers and spectators can sway in place to more than 15 bands performing along the course. | ||
Carlsbad Marathon Organizers Expect Huge Turnout
(North County Times) Flanagan said about 1,500 people have registered for the marathon, but a couple hundred more could register on Saturday, the day before the race. Schedule of events is given. | ||
News From: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 | ||
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Carlsbad Marathon Tapering
(Sign on San Diego) Suggestions from Paul Greer's Running Weblog | ||
News From: Monday, July 24, 2006 | ||
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Stroke Survivor Used San Diego Marathon as Motivation
(St. Paul Pioneer Press) Stroke survivor Jeanne Wiestling completed the San Diego Marathon after surviving a post-surgery stroke. | ||
News From: Thursday, June 15, 2006 | ||
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Resident Runs San Diego Marathon
(Town Online) Christy Masotta of Woburn ran the 2006 San Diego marathon Sunday, June 4, to raise money for the American Stroke Association's Train to End Stroke program. | ||
News From: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 | ||
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Hit the Streets
(San Diego Union-Tribune) San Diego is quickly becoming one of the largest running centers in the nation. Some tips on training for the variety of races they offer each year. | ||
News From: Sunday, January 18, 2004 | ||
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A day of agony, triumph in Carlsbad
(The North County Times) The race, which was 26.2 miles, was joined by other events during the two-day event. A half marathon that also took place has been recognized as one of the fastest races of that distance in the United States. The event typically draws a strong field of runners each year. | ||
News From: Friday, January 16, 2004 | ||
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San Diego Marathon weekend lures road racers to Carlsbad
(North County Times) This marks the 15th year since the San Diego Marathon moved north to Carlsbad after more than a decade of events in Mission Bay, Coronado and San Diego. | ||
News From: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 | ||
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San Diego Marathon runs through Carlsbad this weekend
(North County Times) When Becky Hall runs through the streets of Carlsbad in Sunday's annual San Diego Marathon, she will have a bevy of friends and family standing on the sidelines cheering her on for during her first full marathon. | ||
News From: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | ||
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San Diego Marathon honors its fluid asset
(North County Times) Since 1997, Osgood has coordinated the distribution of liquid for the San Diego half and full marathons, which wind through Carlsbad. He packs eight 24-foot stake bed trucks on the eve of each race, then stocks the 26 aid stations starting at 4 the morning of the runs. | ||
News From: Monday, January 20, 2003 | ||
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In With Fast Company at the San Diego Marathon
(Union-Tribune Publishing Co.) Ivory Coast native Bassirima Soro, who now resides in Arizon, took San Diego Marathon victory in 2:25:3 last weekend, and won $1,500 in prizes. He will use it to continue his business importing marathon runners from his home country. The women's race was won by Alena Vinitskaya of Belarus for the fourth time in five years in a time of 2:39:41. She went home with $3,000 from the event. She did not break course record which was set at 2:37:5 in 1999. | ||
Carlsbad Shines for San Diego Marathon
(North Country Times) Orange County, California experienced yet another beautiful day on Sunday, just in time for the annual San Diego Marathon. 10,000 runners were said to have participated in the race, and thousands more came to spectate the event. The race started and ended in the Plaza Camino Real Shopping Center in Carlsbad. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 18, 2003 | ||
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9,000 Participants set for S.D. Marathon
(Union-Tribune Publishing Co.) The San Diego Marathon is ready and set to go this weekend. Along with the 26.2 mile Marathon, which was actually moved to Carlsbad, Ca. in 1990, there are Kids races, a three-day health expo, and bands playing music. Over 9,000 participants are expected to show up to the event. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 16, 2003 | ||
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10,000 runners expected for San Diego Marathon
(North County Times) Runners from all over the world are expected to attend the San Diego marathon, including those from Russia, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, Kenya and South Africa. The race is also expected to draw up to 20,000 spectators. The weekend is packed with running related events, like carbo dinners and kid's runs. So, say race directors, forget the super bowl for a day, this event is big. | ||
News From: Sunday, July 7, 2002 | ||
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San Deigo Marathon: Helping others to run
(Union-Tribune) Dan Guillory, a certified marathon training coach, has been helping runners reach their San Diego Marathon goals for four years. |
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