BRUSSELS (AP) — The IAAF has decided to let Paula Radcliffe keep her marathon world record from 2003, after previously saying it would reduce one of athletics' outstanding performances to a world best because the English runner set the mark in a race with men.
IAAF Council member Helmut Digel told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the governing body will keep the mark in the books despite an August decision to only recognize records achieved in all-women races from now on.
"The record will stay. Nobody will cancel the record of Paula. That is sure," Digel said in a telephone interview after an IAAF meeting in Monaco. "Her record will never be diminished."
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