Many African runners experience an anonymous brilliance in the West.

There have been two great North African runners in the last decade.

Quickly, she became just another African runner looking for a ride home from Barnow's practices.

Mutola is merely the beginning of an explosion of female African runners on the international scene.

From this period onwards, African runners began to emerge, breaking the largely white, Western dominance of the distance.

While African runners have excelled on the collegiate level since the early 1970's, their impact on the high school scene is new.

Shebto was recruited along with other African runners.

They both outran a group of African runners for surprising victories.

As a result of this tactical error, an African runner failed to win New York for the first time in a decade.

In the 1988 Olympic marathon, he survived a 76-degree temperature, 74 percent humidity and a strong field of African runners.