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News From: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | ||
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Antarctica Marathon® Race Directors Join Oceanites Board of Directors
(Endurance Sportswire) Founder/CEO Thom Gilligan and President Jeff Adams of Antarctica Marathon were elected to the Board of Directors of Oceanites, a nonprofit research organization focused on the effects of climate change and tourism on Antarctica. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | ||
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Coloradan runs - and wins - Antarctica Marathon to fulfill a promise to a little girl
(9News.com) Todd Lubas won the 2018 Antarctica Marathon in 3:07:17. | ||
News From: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | ||
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Training in -23C all part of Antarctica Marathon
(Bay of Plenty Times) Training for the Antarctica Marathon involves running in freezing conditions. | ||
News From: Sunday, March 22, 2015 | ||
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Andrew Morris of West Deptford won the 16th Antarctica Marathon.
(Philly.com) Morris took the top honor at the 16th Antarctica Marathon this month at King George Island finishing in three hours, 27 minutes, and two seconds. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 15, 2015 | ||
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Tim Durbin to Tackle World Marathon Challenge Starting in Antarctica
(The State) Despite freezing temperatures and harsh winds, Tim Durbin will set off on his journey to run 26.2 miles on seven continents in 7 days. | ||
News From: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | ||
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The Antarctica Marathon
(Sun Star.com) There is a four year waiting list for the Antarctica Marathon. Running 26.2 miles on the "Last Continent" may seem a little extreme for most. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 | ||
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Blind Man Completes Antarctic Marathon
(IOL.co.za) Hein Wagner became the first blind runner to complete the Antarctic Maarthon. | ||
News From: Thursday, March 28, 2013 | ||
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Ready to Run the Antarctic Marathon
(Chicago Sun-Times) Brendan Courname was in seventy degree weather earlier this week when she boarded a boat headed for a real chill as she attempts to run the Antarctic Marathon on Saturday. | ||
News From: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | ||
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Alexandria's Brooke Curran On Winning The Antarctica Marathon
(Washington Post) Brooke Curran won the Anartica Marathon last month despite "good weather." Her time was 4 hours 36 minutes and 53 seconds. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | ||
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Midlands Man Finishes Antarctica Marathon
(The State) Dean Schuster ran the Antarctica Marathon in 4 hours and 17 minutes which was good enough for seventh place. Schuster raised more than twenty-five thousand dollars for penguin research. | ||
News From: Saturday, January 8, 2011 | ||
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New Yorkers' Cold Feat At Antarctica Marathon
(New York Post) Ninety-nine marathon runners will brave whiteout conditions, forty mile per hour winds and temperatures at or near zero all to run 26.2 miles in Antarctica. | ||
News From: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | ||
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Mission Accomplished
(The Reporter) Eleven marathon runners went to Antarctica to run a marathon and raised over two-hundred thousand dollars to fight neurofibromatosis. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 28, 2010 | ||
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Local Doctor, Friends To Participate In Antarctica Marathon To Fund Research For His Son's Disorder
(News-Leader) Several doctors are raising money for research for neurofibromatosis by running the Antarctica Marathon. Dr. Dominguez's son, Eric, has NF and hopes to raise one-million dollars toward research. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 14, 2010 | ||
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Trenton Native Becomes First American To Win Marathon At The Bottom Of The World
(News-Democrat) Jason Wolfe won the Antarctic Marathon on December 17 with a time of 4 hours, 46 minutes and 50 seconds. He was joined by seventeen other runners from eleven different countries. | ||
News From: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | ||
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Runner Braves Antarctica For Unique Race
(News-Journal Online) Tony Lombardo lives in a picturesque beach setting in Florida. He abandoned his warm surroundings to venture to one of the most desolate places on earth to do nothing less than run 26.2 miles. | ||
News From: Saturday, December 19, 2009 | ||
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Gregory McCarthy finishes Antarctic race, has run marathons on seven continents
(Washington Post) Gregory McCarthy finished the Antarctic Ice Marathon on Tuesday and has officially completed a marathon on all seven continents. Jason Wolfe won the marathon with a time of 4 hours 46 minutes and 50 seconds. | ||
News From: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 | ||
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Peter Jensen, first Dane in Antarctica Marathon
(The Copenhagen Post) Peter Jensen is normally sitting in his office chair at the bank. But Jensen swapped his cozy chair for a marathon race in the cold of Antarctica. He completed the race in 8 hours and 50 minutes. | ||
News From: Thursday, March 26, 2009 | ||
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Goshen Man Completes Marathon in Antarctica
(The Goshen News) 61-year-old Floyd Miller successfully completed a marathon in Antarctica, part of his quest to run a marathon on every continent, and set a new record there there for runners over 60. | ||
News From: Friday, February 27, 2009 | ||
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McLoughlin set for Antarctic Marathon
(Courier-Islander) Susan McLoughlin plans to run the Antarctic Marathon in memory of her father, who was killed in a place crash when she was a child. She will be raising money for the Campbell River Search and Rescue. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | ||
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Palm Beach Woman to Run Half-Marathon in Antarctica in Support of Caron Treatment Centers
(Palm Beach Daily News) Palm Beach local Candy Sykes, the development and almuni director of Caron Renaissance, will run a Half Marathon in Antarctica to raise funds for the nonprofit addiction treatment center, as part of a larger "run 7 on 7" fundraising effort. | ||
News From: Monday, February 23, 2009 | ||
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10th Antarctica Marathon on tap
(Universal Sports) Despite sub freezing temperatures and a cost of nearly two-hundred dollars per mile, the tenth Antarctica Marathon has been sold out for years. There are only 200 spots available for the twenty-six point two mile race and the 2010 and 2011 events are already sold out with the 2012 even filling quickly. | ||
News From: Monday, February 9, 2009 | ||
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5 questions about Antarctica marathon
(Concord Monitor) David Bryan of Concord, age 45, will participate in The Last Marathon next month in Antarctica, along with 150 other runners. He said that the windy weather of late in New Hampshire has helped him prepare, at least somewhat, for the weather that awaits him in Antarctica. | ||
News From: Friday, January 9, 2009 | ||
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Records set in Antarctic Ice Marathon
(IAAF) Miles Cudmore was joined by eighteen other runners from thirteen countries to run the Antarctic Ice Marathon. Despite bone chilling temperatures Cudmore over took the lead near the half marathon mark and went on to win with a record time of 4 hours and 36 minutes. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | ||
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Aptos man wins Antarctica Half Marathon
(Santa Cruz Sentinel) Greg Hales from Aptos, CA won the 2008 Antarctica Half Marathon in 1:42:15 and Tony Casselberry of Santa Cruz, CA won the Antarctica Marathon in 6:43. Both men faced temperatures way below freezing and avoided frostbite. The races included 221 participants from eighteen countries. With no manned aid stations, all participants either carried their water and food or stored them at designated rest stops. | ||
News From: Saturday, March 8, 2008 | ||
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Hamlin finishes quest at Antartica Marathon
(Daytona Beach Newsjournal-online) Dawn Hamlin raced her way into the Guinness Book of World Records by completing seven marathons on seven continents in only forty nine days. Hamlin, a 28-year-old Ormond Beach resident, completed the gruelling final race, Antartica Marathon, in about five and a half hours. Hamlin now joins less than 200 marathoners wordwide who have completed marathons on all seven continents. However, no female has come close to doing it as fast as Hamlin. | ||
News From: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | ||
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Antarctic Marathon: A teacher's lesson.
(Billings Gazette) Brent Weigner, who has summited more than 160 marathons in his life looks at his favorite marathon: the next one! He was joined by twenty other people from around the country. Including a wheelchair athlete from Singapore who would be the first of his kind to race a marathon in all 7 continents. Crazy or not, Weigner has stories that will last the rest of his life and experiences that few, if any, will ever enjoy. | ||
News From: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | ||
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Cheyenne teacher runs marathon in Antarctic
(Billings Gazette) With well over 160 marathons Cheyenne Junior High School teacher,Brent Weigner has not ranked the races on levels of difficulty. But the Antarctic Marathon was not much different from his 15 degree snow packed training runs in Cheyenne. | ||
News From: Thursday, January 3, 2008 | ||
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Antarctic marathon tests runners patience
(The Chiefain) Mark Andresen of Shawnee and Mike Ketchmark of Leawood, battled snow, wind and Antarctic temperatures to run a marathon and raise money for the Leukemia | ||
News From: Sunday, December 9, 2007 | ||
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Britons prepare to run Antarctica Marathon
(Telegraph) Some local runners from Brittian prepare for the running of the Antarctica Marathon. | ||
News From: Monday, November 26, 2007 | ||
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Antarctic marathon a race like no other
(Lawrence Journal World & News) Temperatures will drop well below zero and wind chills will further cause the thermometer to plunge. This along with the snow and ice will not stop Mark Andresen of Shawnee and Mike Ketchmark of Leawood. The two will run in the Antarctic Ice Marathon and dedicate their run to the memory of Andresens father Mark's father died this year after an eight-year battle with cancer. | ||
News From: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | ||
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Antarctica Marathon | No place for cold feet
(The Seattle Times) The wind whipped underneath Bellingshausen, the Russian scientific research station, as the runners crouching below gamely tried to secure their lifejackets and backpacks to the stilts that support the base. | ||
News From: Thursday, March 1, 2007 | ||
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Marathoner competes in Antarctica
(Star-Telegram) Gillian Brewer of Arlington TX participated in the Antarctica Marathon. | ||
News From: Monday, February 26, 2007 | ||
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A race at the bottom of the world: The Antarctica Marathon
(Houston Chronicle) Houstonian Carol Young is set to run the Antarctica Marathon. Bad weather - the worst in the race's history - derailed the runner's plans and she ran just the Half-Marathon. | ||
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Weather Curtails Antarctica Marathon Bid
(Chron) Carol Young runs in the Antarctica Marathon, an event she was unable to finish because of weather conditions. | ||
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Runners Overcome Seals In Antarctic Race
(Reuters) This year's winners were Christina Harding, 31, of Weston, Massachusetts, who won the women's division with a time of four hours, 54 minutes and 33 seconds and Matthew Tyler of Victoria, British Columbia, won the men's division in 3:51:33. | ||
News From: Friday, February 16, 2007 | ||
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Chicago Area Runners To Compete In Marathon... In Antarctica
(WBBM) A handful of people from the Chicago area leave this weekend for the bottom of the world, all to run in a marathon. | ||
News From: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 | ||
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Capella University Sponsor of the Antarctica Marathon
(Stellar Mag) Information on the Antarctica Marathon, and on several students from Capella University who will be participating. | ||
News From: Friday, September 8, 2006 | ||
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Capella University to Sponsor Antarctica Marathon
(PR Newswire) Capella University, an accredited online university and leader in online education, is the presenting sponsor of the next Antarctica Marathon, which will be held on King George Island on Feb. 26, 2007. Three students of online university will join almost 200 fellow runners for the marathon on King George Island on Feb. 26, 2007 | ||
News From: Monday, January 23, 2006 | ||
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Nurse Runs Antarctic Marathon
(Staff Nurse) Wendy MacKinnon, from Dingwall, braved freezing winds raging at speeds of 45 mph to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon in a time of six hours and 33 minutes. | ||
News From: Monday, March 28, 2005 | ||
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Marathoner comes in from the cold
(Metro West Daily News) Rich Hallworth talks about running the 2005 Antarctica Marathon. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 27, 2005 | ||
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End of the World, Start: Antartica Marathon
(Twin Cities) Article on Smedsrud racing to raise awareness about colon cancer and encourage others to get screening tests. | ||
News From: Saturday, February 26, 2005 | ||
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Antartica Marathon: Running around the world
(Sport Telegraph) Kate Charles intends to become the first British woman to complete a marathon on all seven continents | ||
News From: Friday, February 25, 2005 | ||
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Boxford Trio to Run Marathons in Antarctica and Patagonia
(Town Online) Article on Len Gibely, Pat Canonica and Rich Hallworth who will be participating on the Antartica marathon and others. Some details on race | ||
News From: Monday, February 21, 2005 | ||
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Crossing the continents on foot: Antartica Marathon
(JS Online) Jeff Turner of Oak Creek intends to join the elite of the elite: marathon runners who have raced on all seven continents twice. Article on Turner, and comments about the Antartica Marathon. | ||
News From: Sunday, February 20, 2005 | ||
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Antarctica: the Cold, Hard Facts
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A Run at the Bottom of the World, For Children
(Daily News) Larry Meyer will race Antartica Marathon for the Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles. Comments on his effort and the race. | ||
News From: Thursday, February 17, 2005 | ||
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EP Cancer Survivor Plans to Join Antarctic Marathon
(Sun Newspapers) Comments on Smedsrud running the marathon. Similar to many who participate as part of the goal of running a marathon in each continent. | ||
News From: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 | ||
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New Yorker to Run Marathon in Antarctica for CRY
(Hindustan Times) London-based Michael Davidson, who has run Marathons covering Six Continents, is now scheduled to run the Seventh Continent, Antarctica, to raise funds for Mahita, a CRY supported project. | ||
News From: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 | ||
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KC Men Finish Marathon in Antarctica
(The Kansas City Star) Bob Bundschuh and Eric Gorman are the two athletes determined to run a marathon on all seven continents. 'The Star' has been tracking them ever since they left for the Antarctica Marathon in Febrary. Now the two Kansas City men are back in town with some good stories, and some March 2nd Marathon finisher rewards. | ||
News From: Saturday, February 22, 2003 | ||
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Runners to Embark on Trip to Run Marathon in Antarctica
(The Star) Bob Bundschuh and Eric Gorman are residents of Kansas City who have gotten used to running marathons in various continents. There next race will take place in Antarctica in this year's 6th annual Marathon. Here however, they will have to get used to a little bit more than just a typical run, where temperatures below freezing are a normal occurance. |
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