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World Marathon Majors (320 words) |
 | Jaouad Gharib shocked the field at the 2003 IAAF World Championships Marathon not only by winning, but by smashing the 20-year-old World Championships record that Rob de Castella had set at the first edition in 1983. |
| Gharib's fastest marathon time came at London in 2004 although there is some question as to whether it should be 2:07:02 (results time) or 2:07:12 (clearly showing on finish clock of race video coverage). |
| Jaouad Gharib is a Berber from Khenifra, a town in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco. |
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Gharib wins men's marathon (306 words) |
| Jaouad Gharib of Morocco set a new championship record of 2:08:31 as he won the men's marathon event at the ninth World Athletics Championships in Paris, France, on the penultimate day of competition today. |
| Gharib, who kept moving between eighth and twelfth place until the 15km mark, began moving up thereafter, and got into the second position as the runners neared the 20km mark, behind Frederick Cherono of Kenya. |
| Gharib then started making his way up again, but this time he was more measured about it, getting to the fourth place by the 25km mark and the third place by 30km. |
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