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More than 1,600 Expected to Run Part of $1.6 Million Fundraising Campaign Former Sudan Lost Boy & U.S. Olympian Lopez Lomong On Hand to Support Team World Vision Runners All Part of Effort to Help African Children Living in Poverty CHICAGO, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Team World Vision, a fundraising arm for international Christian charity World Vision, is bringing their largest number ever to the Bank of America Chicago Marathon this weekend in Chicago. Team World...
Former Sudan Lost Boy to Join Team World Vision on Trip to Africa In Effort to Help Children Living in Poverty SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After qualifying Wednesday for this weekend's final in the men's 5,000 meters, former Sudan Lost Boy Lopez Lomong is ready to use his Olympic fame to help kids back home in Africa. After Saturday's final, Lopez will focus on a partnership with international Christian charity World Vision, including a trip, tentatively planned...
Former Sudan Lost Boy to join Team World Vision In Effort to Help Children Living in Poverty in Kenya and South Sudan INTERNATIONAL CHARITY WORLD VISION ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ONE OF THE FASTEST MEN ON EARTH EUGENE, Ore., June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After qualifying Thursday night for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team in the men's 5,000 meters, former Sudan Lost Boy Lopez Lomong now has his sights set on a gold medal in London at The Olympic Summer Games....
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently returned U.S. military veterans, medical professionals and top runners from the newly established African nation of South Sudan all share at least one thing in common: They'll be at the starting line of the 2012 Honda LA Marathon, running on behalf of non-profit Team Rubicon, an organization that repurposes the skills of young military veterans for humanitarian disasters. As part of the race's brand-new "I Run 4 Something" campaign, tens...
Team World Vision To Compete in South Africa's Comrades Marathon Their Goal - Find Sponsors for 1,500 Children Grueling 56-Mile Foot Race May 30th Then They'll Meet Children Whose Lives They Changed SEATTLE, May 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Comrades Marathon in South Africa is known as one of the most grueling endurance foot races on earth. On Sunday, May 30 (the 85th anniversary of the race) 20,000 athletes from all over the world will start the 56-mile foot race from Pietermaritzburg...
CHICAGO, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of America Chicago Marathon today announced U.S. Olympic marathoner Ryan Hall, 27, will compete in the October 10, 2010 race in an attempt to lower the 2:05:38 American record set by Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. The Mammoth Lakes, Calif., resident and recognized philanthropist will lead a team of 100 runners representing his non-profit organization, The Hall Steps Foundation. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090122/CLTH018LOGO ) "I have...
