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| Felix Kipchirchir Kandie ( Reuters) |
Kenyan runner Felix Kipchirchir Kandie won the 32nd Athens Classic Marathon the "Authentic" on Sunday in a new record time for the original course amidst the warm applause of thousands of Greeks and foreign visitors in a fully packed Panathinaic stadium in the centre of Athens.
The 27-year-old athlete crossed first the finish line at the site of the first modern 1896 Olympic Games covering in 2:10:36 the 42.195 kilometers historic route from Marathon city to Athens first run by legendary Greek soldier Pheidippides in 490 B.C.
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