Hagos Declares Love for Town After Smashing Darlington 10k Record

The Northern Echo › August 15, 2011

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ETHIOPIAN Yared Hagos stormed to a record-breaking runaway victory in yesterday's big Darlington 10K and announced: "I want to make my home in the North-East."

The 30-year-old East African, who has a five-year visa to remain in Britain, has put together a string of road race victories since leaving his training headquarters in Addis Ababa, and he dominated the 24th running of the popular Darlington event to win in 30 minutes 6 seconds, slicing 15 seconds off the course record, which had stood since 2002.

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Hagos Declares Love for Town After Smashing Darlington 10k Record

Now Hagos, who has moved from his initial base in Bradford to live in the Walker district of Newcastle, is ...

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