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    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:44:15</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Boston Marathon announces elite fields ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 9 February 2012 - Boston, USA - Reigning champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel will defend their titles at this year's Boston Marathon, but will be challenged by the fastest men’s and women’s fields ever assembled for this IAAF Gold Label Road Race.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Ennis-Chernova re-match set for Istanbul - One month to go to - IAAF World Indoor Championships ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 9 February 2012 - Monaco - One of the highlights of the upcoming IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul which are set to begin in exactly one month will be the confirmed re-match between Heptathlon World champion Tatyana Chernova and defending World Indoor Pentathlon champion Jessica Ennis. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:32:33</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Isinbayeva edges Bleasdale on countback in Bydgoszcz ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 9 February 2012 - The eighth edition of the indoor Pedro’s Cup meet in the Luczniczka arena in Bydgoszcz once again featured multiple international stars and world-class action. This time, it also proved successful for Polish athletes, who won two out of the programme’s three events.  ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:30:12</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Ukhov and Chicherova prevail in Banska Bystrica ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 9 February 2012 – Banska Bystrica, Slovakia - Russians captured both competitions at the Europa Shopping Centre High Jump meeting on Wednesday (8) evening in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:03:32</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Dayron Robles and Liu Xiang set for Birmingham battle ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 8 February 2012 - Birmingham, UK - Reigning Olympic 110m Hurdles champion and World Record holder Dayron Robles will go head-to-head with former World and Olympic 110m Hurdles champion and reigning World Indoor 60m Hurdles titleholder Liu Xiang in a blockbuster 60m Hurdles battle at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on 18 February. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:36</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Keitany returns to her World record territory ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 8 February 2012 - Ras Al Khaimah, UAE - The sixth RAK Half Marathon on 17 February 2012, now a well-established IAAF Gold Label Road Race, promises even more than the usual fare in this tiny corner of the United Arab Emirates, which is saying a great deal for a race that can boast a number of world records and dozens of personal bests from the elite in the previous five editions, including Mary Keitany’s astonishing World records of 1:02:36 for 20km and 1:05:50 for Half Marathon just twelve months ago. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Felix-Campbell Brown rivalry to reignite in Fayetteville ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 7 February 2012 - Indianapolis, USA - On of the most celebrated rivalry in women’s track and field kicks off in the 2012 Olympic year when American Allyson Felix and Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown clash over 60m at the USA Track & Field Classic in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Campbell-Brown busy, on the track and off - IAAF Online Diaries ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 7 February 2012 - Busy on the track and off, two-time Olympic and reigning World 200m champion Veronica Campbell Brown brings us up to date on her busy month that has just passed - and a packed calendar it was! ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:28:58</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Cheruiyot and Pistorius win prestigious world sport awards ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 7 February 2012 – Vivian Cheruiyot was named the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year Award winner for 2011 at a gala event in London on Monday (6) evening. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ IAAF Race Walking Challenge 2012 - Who to watch? ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 7 February 2012 - And so who is going to win a share of $200,000 in the 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge – the ninth edition of the popular series, which gets underway in less than one month's time? ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:28:46</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Rozsavolgyi, former 1500m World record holder, dead at 82 ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 6 February 2012 - Monaco - The IAAF is deeply saddened to receive the news that István Rózsavölgyi, a middle distance legend and former World record holder, died on 27 January. He was 82. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:40:13</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Bolt, Cheruiyot and Jeter among prestigious international award finalists ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 6 February 2012 - Usain Bolt, Vivian Cheruiyot and Carmelita Jeter are among the nominees at this evening's 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in London. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Busy month for Ennis as World Indoor title defence approaches ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 6 February 2012 - Birmingham, UK - World Indoor Pentathlon champion Jessica Ennis has added her name to the star cast of athletes bound for the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham later this month as she steps up preparations to secure a historic major championships double in 2012. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:03:06</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Seven world leads in Moscow's mid-winter chill ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 6 February 2012 – Moscow, Russia - More than 200 athletes from 26 countries on four continents gathered for the 21st edition of the ‘Russian Winter’ in the chill of Moscow on Sunday (5) where seven world leading performances were produced on the 13-event programme. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:37:21</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Castillejo upsets Makau at Granollers Half Marathon - Spanish weekend round-up ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 6 February 2012 - On a packed Spanish athletics weekend Spain’s Carlos Castillejo managed a shock win from Kenya’s reigning World Marathon record holder (2:03:38) Patrick Makau at the ‘Mitja Maraton de Granollers’, a Half Marathon held on Saturday (4), 1:02:37 and 1:02:40 their respective times. Over 19,000 runners took part in the event. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Chicherova flying high - 2.06m in Arnstadt ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 5 February 2012 - Riding the momentum that propelled her to the World title last summer in Daegu, Anna Chicherova cleared a Russian indoor record of 2.06m at the Hochsprung mit Musik competition in Arnstadt, Germany, on Saturday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Njoroge takes comfortable win at Beppu-Oita Marathon  ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 5 February 2012 – Kenyan Harun Njoroge won the 61st Beppu-Oita Marathon on Sunday in 2:09:38, the first sub-2:10 performance of his career.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Course records tumble in Hong Kong ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 5 February 2012 - Hong Kong - Losing a Marathon by one second last year taught Dejere Abera of Ethiopia a lesson that he put to good use this morning (5), when he won the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon by less than a second.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Suhr scales 4.88m national record in Boston ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 5 February 2012 - Boston, USA - Jennifer Suhr cleared 4.88m on her first attempt to set a national record and regain her No. 2 spot on the all-time women's pole vault list to highlight the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood on Saturday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Convincing wins for Kisorio and Gelana in Marugame ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 5 February 2012 - Breaking away from the field just four kilometres into the race, pre-race favourite Matthew Kisorio collected a convincing win at the 66th annual Kagawa-Marugame Half Marathon on Sunday (5).   ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Birmingham feels the love for Hobart and again registers London qualifying time ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 4 February 2012 – Hobart, Australia - To say that Collis Birmingham likes running in Hobart might be a bit of an understatement. Five times in the past six years he has won the 5000 metres at the Briggs Athletics Classic (the sixth time, he did not run it). ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Rotich and Maisei ready for Hong Kong rematch - PREVIEW ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 - Hong Kong - With so many good African, particularly Kenyan marathoners around nowadays, it takes a bit of initiative to get into foreign races if you’re not one of the sub-2:10 brigade. So when Julius Maisei heard that the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon – an IAAF Bronze Label Event - was paying good prize money without an overly talented field, he chanced a thousand dollars on an air fare and a hotel room last year. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Hot afternoon in store in Moscow's mid-winter chill - PREVIEW ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 - Moscow, Russia - It’s very cold in Moscow: the temperature in some regions of this huge city is minus 20 degrees C. But no doubt on Sunday (5) the Vladimir Kutz Arena will be crammed with fans of athletics. since the 'Russian Winter', the second IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting of 2012, is always adored by the Moscow public. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Darya Klishina answers facebook fans’ questions  ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 - Long Jumper Darya Klishina, a regular correspondent of the IAAF via the IAAF Online Diaries, has taken time off her busy schedule to answer her fans’ questions received via the IAAF World Athletics Club Facebook page. Darya received almost 200 questions – here are the ones she selected… ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Jones edges Lewis in Linz face-off ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 – Linz, Austria - Tipped all week long as the marquee event, a riveting hurdle race between Americans Yvette Lewis and Lolo Jones unfolded as the highlight of the Gugl Meeting on Thursday (2) evening in Linz.   ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Bleasdale to bring her momentum to Birmingham ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 - Birmingham, UK - World leader Holly Bleasdale will step up her Olympic Pole Vault preparations at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham,  the penultimate IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, on Saturday 18 February. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Focus on Falil and debutant Jarso at Beppu-Oita Marathon – PREVIEW ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 3 February 2012 - Abdellah Falil and Samson Ramadhani will be among the favourites at the 61st Beppu-Oita Marathon on Sunday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Kisorio versus Mogusu - Preview of Marugame Half Marathon  ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 2 February 2012 - The 66th annual Marugame Half Marathon, the venue of Asian half marathon record for women, is scheduled to be held on Sunday 5 February. The race, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, is a mass race with both elite men and women.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ After a breakthrough 2011, Borges dreams higher in 2012 ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 2 February 2012 - Havana, Cuba - After improving his personal best by 20cm and clearing 5.90m to win a surprise World silver in Daegu, Lázaro Borges wants to keep dreaming for higher goals in this Olympic year. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Silnov soars 2.35m in Moscow ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 1 February 2012 - Moscow, Russia - Ten men competed in the 16th traditional Moscow Cup Jumps with Music High Jump competition with Andrei Silnov, the reigning Olympic champion prevailing at 2.35m to equal the season's world lead. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Vojta's 1500m run the standout performance in Vienna ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 30 January 2012 - Four-time World Long Jump champion Dwight Phillips shares with us his first online diary of the year. The American who won the Olympic Games in 2004 but was unable to defend his title in 2008 is getting ready for the 2012 London Olympic Games. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Commonwealth Marathon champion Kelai among the headliners in Brighton ]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Two world leads in Krasnodar ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 30 January 2012 - Many Russian stars participated in the traditional Governor’s Cup in Krasnodar on Sunday, where two world-leading performances emerged. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Kipyego produces surprise win at Eldoret Half ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 29 January 2012 - Eldoret, Kenya - Little-known Edwin Kipyego blew away a classy field to win the 21st edition of the Discovery Half Marathon in Eldoret, Kenya, on Sunday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Shigetomo takes Osaka as favourite Fukushi falters  ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 29 January 2012 – With a 2:23:23 run, Risa Shigetomo of the Tenmaya track team won the 31st Osaka Women’s Marathon on Sunday to take a step closer to her dream of making the Japanese Olympic Marathon team.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Fast season starts for Powell, Campbell-Brown and Jones in New York ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 29 January 2012 - New York, USA - The inaugural U.S. Open, held in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, was the scene of sparkling season openers for sprinters and hurdlers with something to prove.  ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Dmitrik tops 2.35m in Hustopece, near-miss at 2.41m ]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Chicherova scales 2.00m in Antwerp, Hellebaut returns with 1.95m ]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Tum and Labani take Marrakech Marathon titles ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 30 January 2012 - Marrakech, MAR - Kenyan Stephen Tum and Soumya Labani of Morocco won their respective titles at the 23rd edition of the Marrakech International Marathon on Sunday, which was attended by more than 7000 foreign and domestic runners. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Hoffa reacts with a 21.87m world lead in Chemnitz ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 28 January 2012 - Reese Hoffa established himself as the world leader with a huge 21.87 m throw in Chemnitz, Germany on Friday evening (27). The 34-year-old US Shot Putter had been beaten by Germany’s World champion David Storl the past weekend in another German meeting in Nordhausen by ten centimetres. Storl had achieved 21.24m last week. But on Friday Reese Hoffa, the World Champion from 2007, bounced back with his best indoor effort since 2006. It was in Moscow when he had thrown 22.11 m to win the World Indoor gold. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 28 January 2012 - Brianne Theisen broke her own collegiate record and also bettered the Canadian national record for the indoor Pentathlon with 4555 points on the first day of the Texas A&M Challenge in College Station, Texas, USA on Friday (27). ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ All eyes on Fukushi as Japanese Olympic squad selection continues in Osaka – PREVIEW   ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 27 January 2012 - The 31st edition of the Osaka Women’s Marathon, the race which doubles as the second of the three domestic Olympic Qualifying race for Japanese runners, will be held on Sunday. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ Abshero stuns with 2:04:23 debut, Mergia clocks 2:19:31 in Dubai ]]></title>
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