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The World Athletics Road Running Championships is a biennial international road running competition organised by World Athletics. The competition was launched as the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1992 and held annually until 2010. It was renamed the IAAF World Road Running Championships in 2006 and reduced in distance to a 20K run, but reverted to the half marathon distance the following year and to the original competition name the year after that. The competition was renamed to its current title in 2020 after the governing body rebranded itself moving away from the long-standing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) moniker and expanded to include additional races.
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Benjamin Malaty is a French long-distance runner. In 2018, he competed in the men's half marathon at the 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships held in Valencia, Spain. He finished in 66th place. He also competed in the men's half marathon at the 2018 Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Spain. He finished in 9th place.
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References
- ↑ "Amir Baitukanov". World Athletics. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
- 1 2 "Men's Results" (PDF). 2018 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
