October 2010
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3 OCTOBER 2010: COLOGNE MARATHON & HALF PRESENTED BY SPARKASSE KOLNBONN, GERMANY
MEN: 1 Francis B KIPKOECH KEN 2:14:15 2 Ulrich STEIDL GER 2:27:33 3 Rene HAUSER SUI 2:28:14 4 Raymon VAN DEN BERG NED 2:31:24 5 Sam LANDMAN NED 2:31:53 6 Colm O'CALLAGHAN IRL 2:37:28 7 Casper KOELMA NED 2:39:06 8 Dominik MAGES GER 2:39:40 9 Theo AYMANNS GER 2:39:47 10 Fabian LAFRENZ GER 2:41:50 WOMEN: 1 Katharina HEINIG GER 2:46:05 2 Kerstin STEG GER 2:59:49 3 Tanja HOOB GER 3:02:35 4 Marlen GUNTHER GER 3:05:13 5 Sabine APEL GER 3:14:20 6 Nadja GAUS GER 3:14:21 7 Daniela PIVETTA ITA 3:15:40 8 Baerbel PORTEN-STURM GER 3:15:49 9 Celine VEYRAT FRA 3:16:33 10 Claudia ROTHER GER 3:16:50 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Leonard LANGAT KEN 1:03:00 2 Collins KIBET KEN 1:05:08 3 Jan FITSCHEN GER 1:05:19 WOMEN: 1 Simret RESTLE GER 1:12:56 2 Xwaymay M NAALI KEN 1:14:28 3 Veronica CHEBOI KEN 1:14:29
3 OCTOBER 2010: KOSICE PEACE MARATHON, SLOVAKIA
Gilbert Chepkwony running his second marathon, won the 87th edition of Europe's oldest Marathon. His winning time was a course record and a personal best, while second and third placed Solomon Bushendich and Peter Chebet also dipped under 2:09. The previous record was 2:09:53 by William Biama in 2007. The race was held in near perfect conditions, with temperatures of 9-12°C, sun and only slight wind as 30,000 spectators lined the streets along the two-lap course. Bushendich won a close battle for second ahead of Chebet, as both set personal bests by a dew seconds.
The pace started conservatively with 1:04:58 through the first half led by pacemakers Elisha Meli with Paul Kimugul, who ended their duties at 30km. The pace picked up in the second half (1:03:33). Chepkwony earned 15,000 Euros for the victory, including his course record bonus. Debutant Kipkoech Ruto was fourth while the Slovak national title went to Imrich Pastor, in seventh, for the fifth consecutive time.
In the women's race, the splits were the reverse. Twenty-eight year-old Ethiopian Almaz Alemu Balcha, running in her fifth Marathon, opened with a fast 1:13:56 first half. She faded considerably over the waning stages but still won comfortably in 2:36:35 (second half 1:22:37). "I did not have training for such a fast pace," said Balcha, who earned 6000 Euros for the victory. "After the 24km I started cramping and was slower and slower. I was not worried about first place, but wanted a better time." A record number of 5500 runners participated in all the races.
MEN: 1 Kipt G CHEPKWONY KEN 2:08:33 2 Solo N BUSHENDICH KEN 2:08:41 3 Kiplagat P CHEBET KEN 2:08:42 4 Kipkoech RUTO KEN 2:18:18 5 Girma B DEGEFA ETH 2:18:20 6 Kavutu A MBUSYA KEN 2:23:45 7 Imrich PASTOR SVK 2:23:55 8 Daniel ORALEK CZE 2:34:02 9 Marcel MATANIN SVK 2:34:39 10 Peter TICHY SVK 2:35:00 WOMEN: 1 Almaz Alemu BALCHA ETH 2:36:35 2 Kamila KHANIPOVA RUS 2:43:49 3 Ingrid PETNUCHOVA SVK 2:53:42 4 Ivana MARTINCOVA CZE 2:59:28 5 Sylvia SEBESTIAN SVK 3:14:32 6 Anna BALOSAKOVA SVK 3:18:08 7 Zuzana HOLECKOVA SVK 3:21:10 8 Alena KRCHAKOVA CZE 3:22:09 9 Lucia FENCIKOVA SVK 3:22:38 10 Jana VLADAROVA SVK 3:26:26 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Petr PECHEK CZE 1:09:10 2 Tibor SAHAJDA SVK 1:10:32 3 Anatolij MALIJ SVK 1:13:25 WOMEN: 1 Katarina BERESOVA SVK 1:16:32 2 Natalia KOWALSKA POL 1:27:21 3 Zuzana STANOV?AKOVA SVK 1:27:35
3 OCTOBER 2010: BAXTER'S LOCH NESS MARATHON, GREAT BRITAIN
Tomas Abyu won with a new course record. Faster times were expected due to the changed course and he improved the mark he set in 2003 by nine seconds, finishing a clear five minutes ahead. Dinknesh Mekash Tefera also set a new record for the women's race. Abyu said: “I had a very good run. It was raining for the first half of the race which made the run harder. In the last ten miles I ran faster. I want to come back next year!” Tefera, on her first visit to Britain, said: “I enjoyed running through the beautiful countryside and am very happy to have achieved a new course record.”
In the Baxters River Ness 10K Artur Kern of Poland beat last year's winner Likas Wambua. First woman home was course record holder Cathy Mutwa of Kenya.
The HSPC Gerald Cooper Memorial Cup and a donation of £1000 to the charity of their choice, awarded to the first person resident in the Highland area to cross the finish line in the Marathon, was won by Hugh Campbell of Isle of Skye.
Over 8,600 runners from 41 countries entered the Festival of Running, including Britain's most scenic marathon. The mild, damp start to the day didn't dampen the runners' enthusiasm for an event which welcomes participants of all ages and abilities to the Baxters Loch Ness Marathon, River Ness 10K, 10k Corporate Challenge, River Ness 5k, and, new for this year, the Wee Nessie.
Malcolm Sutherland of Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running said: “We offer one of the most friendly and most scenic marathons which has helped us to attract a growing number of runners from all corners of the globe”. Runners participating in last year's event generated over £660,000 for charity, and brought benefit of over £2,178,066 to the local area.
MEN: 1 Tomas ABYU GBR 2:20:50 2 Joseph MBITHI KEN 2:25:50 3 David SIMPSON GBR 2:26:16 4 Chris WILSON GBR 2:28:12 5 Stuart KERR GBR 2:30:01 6 Hugh CAMPBELL GBR 2:30:13 7 John HERBERT GBR 2:31:09 8 Russell MADDAMS GBR 2:31:55 9 Benjamin MELBY GBR 2:33:04 10 Patryk GIERJATOWICZ GBR 2:34:11 WOMEN: 1 Dinknesh Mekash TEFERA ETH 2:46:39 2 Clare PROSSER GBR 3:05:39 3 Lin LASCELLES GBR 3:05:56 4 Sarah RIDGWAY GBR 3:05:57 5 Diane MUNROE GBR 3:06:18 6 Roxanne BANNERMAN GBR 3:10:10 7 Jane PURCHASE GBR 3:11:48 8 Jill SMYLIE GBR 3:11:49 9 Lynne MURRAY GBR 3:13:58 10 Erica CHRISTIE GBR 3:14:53 Baxters River Ness 10K MEN: 1 Artur KERN GBR 29:42 2 Andrew DOUGLAS GBR 30:28 3 Lukas WAMBUA KEN 31:04 WOMEN: 1 Cathy MUTWA KEN 34:46 2 Melissa WHYTE GBR 36:06 3 Malene MUNKHOLM GBR 37:03
3 OCTOBER 2010: SPARKASSE-3 COUNTRY MARATHON, AUSTRIA
MEN: 1 Evans KAMROMBOI KEN 2:17:36 2 Titus K KIPCHUMBA KEN 2:22:57 3 Kipruto N CHEPNGABIT KEN 2:38:04 4 Harald STEGER AUT 2:38:09 5 Jakob HORNER GER 2:38:51 6 Adrian GROBLI SUI 2:43:22 7 Robert DREBLER GER 2:44:40 8 Ralph STAUDACH AUT 2:46:12 9 Markus SPAGELE GER 2:50:18 10 Arno RITTER AUT 2:50:19 WOMEN: 1 Helen KIMUTAI KEN 2:43:35 2 Deborah BALZ 3:05:51 3 Jelagat G CHERUIYOUT KEN 3:15:59 4 Irmgard SCHMIDT GER 3:17:37 5 Pia ALLGAUER AUT 3:21:16 6 Monika TURRA GER 3:22:16 7 Elke TAEGE-SCHRODER GER 3:23:52 8 Sabine SIGEL GER 3:24:33 9 Angelika MILLINGER AUT 3:24:53 10 Anja KARAU GER 3:29:09 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Jonathan KOILEGEI KEN 1:05:10 2 Ben MASAI KEN 1:05:38 3 Timo WECKMANN GER 1:11:29 WOMEN: 1 Dorcas KANGOGO KEN 1:15:46 2 Roswitha WEBER GER 1:25:02 3 Kathrin LUXENHOFAR GER 1:25:39
3 OCTOBER 2010: COLOMBO MARATHON, SRI LANKA
MEN: 1 Kennedy CHERYUIYOT KEN 2:22:12 2 Titus ROTICH KEN 2:22:14 3 Geoffrey Tum KIPTOO KEN 2:22:42 WOMEN: 1 Manjula KUMARASINGHE SRL 3:10:01 2 Sharmali LAMAHEWAGE SRL 3:17:06 3 Disna MALKANTIE SRL 3:30:22 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 W NISHAN SRL 1:11:20 2 T B P SOMARATHNE SRL 1:11:39 3 H R C P BANDARA SRL 1:14:16 WOMEN: 1 Nirmala JAYAWARDENA SRL 1:39:21 2 M E M HEYLEN BEL 2:14:35 3 Emily LERMAN USA 2:24:03
9 OCTOBER 2010: KINMEN ROUND-THE-ISLAND MARATHON, CHINESE TAIPEI
MEN: 1 Timothy Kibet CHELIMO KEN 2:24:53 2 Ji Wen JIANG TPE 2:25:26 3 Zhi Hong HE TPE 2:40:31 4 Jian Xing QIU TPE 2:41:27 5 Jin Wen HE TPE 2:43:38 WOMEN: 1 Everlyne Nyamu ANTANCHA KEN 2:49:48 2 Pei Yu JIAN TPE 3:15:22 3 Chun Yu CAO TPE 3:24:21 4 Xiu Yu DAI TPE 3:27:19 5 Yan Ling HUANG TPE 3:33:16
10 OCTOBER 2010: EINDHOVEN MARATHON, NETHERLANDS
Photos: Nico Delmeire
MEN: 1 Charles KAMATHI KEN 2:07:38 2 Nicolas Chelimo KIPKORIR KEN 2:07:38 3 Paul BIWOTT KEN 2:07:40 WOMEN: 1 Atsede HABTAMU ETH 2:25:35 2 Tsega GELAW ETH 2:30:10 3 Anne KOSGEI KEN 2:31:05
10 OCTOBER 2010: POZNAN MARATHON, POLAND
MEN: 1 Isaac MACHARIA KEN 2:16:27 2 Haile TESFAYE ETH 2:16:32 3 Philemon KIMAIYO KEN 2:16:46 4 Michal SMALEC POL 2:19:21 5 Viktor STARODUBSTEV POL 2:19:56 6 Fekadu Tsegaye SEYOUM ETH 2:20:02 7 Andrei GORDEEV BLR 2:20:26 8 Aurinas SKINULIS LTU 2:20:46 9 Birhanu BEKELE ETH 2:21:00 10 Adugna GURMESA ETH 2:21:54 WOMEN: 1 Marina DAMANTSEVICH BLR 2:36:30 2 Arleta MELOCH POL 2:42:24 3 Renata KALINSKA POL 2:54:09 4 Magdalna STANNY POL 3:02:54 5 Magda BARTOSZEWICZ POL 3:07:58 6 Maria UKLEJA POL 3:08:43 7 Svetlana NIKITINA RUS 3:14:04 8 Grazyna POPIEL POL 3:16:57 9 Katartzyna ORZECHOWSKA POL 3:19:13 10 Iwona ZAKOWSKA POL 3:21:43
10 OCTOBER 2010: BRUSSELS MARATHON AND HALF, BELGIUM
MEN: 1 Levy MATEBO KEN 2:13:30 2 Kenneth K KIPRONO KEN 2:16:51 3 William SUPARIMUK KEN 2:22:16 4 Gino VAN GEYTE BEL 2:23:24 5 Koen NEVEN BEL 2:23:26 6 Gregory FAILLE BEL 2:25:13 7 Vlademir TONCHINSKI BEL 2:28:42 8 Philip KANGOGO KEN 2:29:03 9 Michel VERHAEGHE FRA 2:29:51 10 Vincent TERNET BEL 2:31:35 WOMEN: 1 Mariska DUTE NED 2:59:16 2 Carline DESEYN BEL 3:03:32 3 Marijke GUILLEMYN BEL 3:06:54 4 Linda VANLOMMEL BEL 3:09:50 5 Liesbeth VAN LEEUWEN NED 3:10:06 6 Ines VAN RINSUM NED 3:12:44 7 Nathalie MOUTON FRA 3:15:11 8 Francine LEGRAND BEL 3:15:49 9 Line PANUM BEL 3:18:45 10 Birgit CALS-BERK NED 3:23:09 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Abdeljebbar SIHAMMANE BEL 1:09:24 2 Giovanni PARIS ITA 1:10:05 3 Abdessamad ASRI BEL 1:10:47 WOMEN: 1 Ysabelle VUILLARD BEL 1:22:36 2 Samantha WOODWARD FRA 1:26:53 3 Virginie SOENEN BEL 1:28:09
10 OCTOBER 2010: TIMISOARA MARATHON, ROMANIA
MEN: 1 Catalin MIKLAUS ROM 2:35:10 2 Ion Dragan MARIN ROM 2:51:02 3 Razvan FARKAS ROM 2:51:07 4 Tadeusz DZIEKONSKI POL 2:51:25 5 Remus FILIP ROM 3:07:07 6 Mihai COMSULEA ROM 3:16:52 7 Catalin PETRU ROM 3:29:20 8 Mihai LISETCHI ROM 3:33:32 9 Adrian COPIE ROM 4:54:40 WOMEN: 1 Silvia BANDA ROM 3:17:02 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Nebojsa MILENKOVIC SRB 1:07:29 2 Valentin MAIER ROM 1:16:14 3 Mircea COVACIU ROM 1:17:11 WOMEN: 1 Mirela BRATU ROM 1:33:48 2 Daniela TOROK ROM 1:38:32 3 Sabine BAUMGARTEN GER 1:46:45 10KM MEN: 1 Mihai OBREJAN 38:18 2 Claudiu STURZA 36:16 3 Robert ZAHARIE 36:40 WOMEN: 1 Andra ILIE 37:09 2 Krisztina PANYOR 41:30 3 Maria D VASIAC 43:17
10 OCTOBER 2010: GOODLIFE FITNESS VITORIA MARATHON, CANADA
Cloudy, damp conditions greeted 14,078 participants in today's 31st edition. There were 3221 marathon participants, 6800 in the Half and 3184 in the 8km race. The kids' run, of 1200m, had 875 entries. A new world age-group record was set in the Women's Marathon.
Philip Samoei beat pre-race favourite James Lander. Lander, who recently moved to Victoria from the US, said: "I was pleased overall, but it was the windiest race I have ever run." Those conditions affected the women's race as well, which Cheryl Murphy led at halfway but then dropped out to leave Catrin Jones as winner, 90 seconds ahead of three-time Marathon winner, Suzanne Evans.
The Marathon saw a world record shattered with Gwen McFarlan winning the F75-79 category in 4:02:27, 47 minutes faster than the previous record for a 76-year old. There were more finishers than ever in the Half Marathon and the 8km Road Race — 5,696 and 2,678 respectively. The Marathon saw 2,558 finishers, with the overall total standing at a record 11,807 — 13% up on 2009. The 32nd GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon will be on 9 October 2011.
MEN: 1 Philip SAMOEI KEN 2:23:24 2 James LANDER USA 2:23:57 3 Bernard ONSARE KEN 2:26:50 4 Kevin O'CONNOR CAN 2:31:09 5 Oliver UTTING CAN 2:32:08 6 Spencer WALSH USA 2:32:45 7 Graeme WILSON CAN 2:34:00 8 David PALERMO CAN 2:35:00 9 Edwin MONTERO CRC 2:35:31 10 Brendan LUNTY CAN 2:35:44 WOMEN: 1 Catrin JONES CAN 2:52:21 2 Suzanne EVANS CAN 2:53:53 3 Lucy SMITH CAN 2:55:30 4 Kristina RODY CAN 2:58:21 5 Anne-Marie MADDEN CAN 2:58:50 6 Sharleen JACKSON CAN 3:05:10 7 Katrina BENCSICS CAN 3:07:15 8 Mariko YOKOTE USA 3:09:26 9 Gillian CLAYTON CAN 3:09:38 10 Megan CANOVA USA 3:10:26 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Jim FINLAYSON CAN 1:07:56 2 Matt CLOUT CAN 1:08:02 3 Steven CRANE USA 1:08:14 WOMEN: 1 Lisa HARVEY CAN 1:18:34 2 Mary AKOR CAN 1:18:48 3 Gillian GOOK CAN 1:19:11
10 OCTOBER 2010: FERRARI ITALIAN MARATHON, ITALY
An extraordinary race and a perfect day for running allowed 32-year-old Kenyan Paul Kosgei to break the course record. His 2:09:00 surpassed Haron Toroitich's 2004 mark by nine seconds and improved his personal best by 15 seconds. World Champion at Half Marathon in 2002, Kosgei launched an attack at 39km to drop Dickson Chumba and Abdullah Dawit Shami, both of whom recorded big improvements to their personal bests.
The women also ran fast, with 25-year-old Kenyan Hellen Mugo Wanjiku on 1:10:14 at halfway. She eventually slowed but still finished with an excellent 2:27:16, a personal best by 12 seconds and ranking her third among best-ever times at Carpi. Maria Guida kept her 2:25:57 course record from 1999. In a surprise second place 30-year-old Lithuanian Diana Lobacevske closed up in the later stages and shaved seven seconds from her personal best.
MEN: 1 Paul Kosgei MALAKWEN KEN 2:09:00 2 Dickson CHUMBA KEN 2:09:20 3 Abdullah Dawit SHAMI ETH 2:09:50 4 Azziz Naji EL-IDRISSI MAR 2:11:09 5 Abraham POTONGOLE KEN 2:11:39 6 Joshua CHELANGA KEN 2:12:27 7 Albert KANGOR KEN 2:13:29 8 Mahasho KIMAIYO KEN 2:14:23 9 Abdelkim KABBOURI MAR 2:18:16 10 Felix Kipchirchir KANDE KEN 2:19:06 WOMEN: 1 Hellen Mugo WAJIKU KEN 2:27:16 2 Diana LOBACEVSKE LIT 2:28:03 3 Giorgina RONO KEN 2:30:55 4 Hellen Gebremedhin GEBREHIWOT ETH 2:32:31 5 Amelework Fikadu BOSHO ETH 2:33:52 6 Gladys JEBET KEN 2:34:13 7 Daniela TARNUTZER SUI 2:51:44 8 Guiseppina CHIOLO ITA 2:57:01 9 Sonia CERETTO ITA 2:57:03 10 Alice MUNAFO KEN 2:57:11
10 OCTOBER 2010: LAKE GARDA MARATHON, ITALY
MEN: 1 Pietro COLNAGHI ITA 2:28:28 2 Lukas OLDANI SUI 2:32:02 3 Dirk SCHWARZBACH GER 2:32:28 4 Marco BOFFO ITA 2:34:11 5 Niklas KREUHN AUT 2:37:31 6 Rainer HAUCH SUI 2:45:43 7 Marcello FERRARI ITA 2:47:02 8 Martin KNELL AUT 2:47:32 9 Pio MALFATTI ITA 2:47:54 10 Maurizio VACCA ITA 2:49:54 WOMEN: 1 Monica CARLIN ITA 2:54:25 2 Nunez ENCARNA ESP 2:58:41 3 Tina PURINEN FIN 2:59:43 4 Jessica PURBRICK AUS 3:00:57 5 Carmen Sala FERRERA ESP 3:05:18 6 Roberta GARBIN ITA 3:11:39 7 Emmanuela GALESI ITA 3:14:18 8 Christina PRACHER AUT 3:15:36 9 Simona CASSISSA ITA 3:18:41 10 Adel RACZ HUN 3:22:32
10 OCTOBER 2010: PORTLAND MARATHON, USA
MEN: 1 Eric GRIFFITHS 2:28:42 2 Phil OLSEN 2:29:02 3 Stan PYLE 2:30:54 4 Glen TUCKER 2:31:29 5 Justin HENRY 2:38:06 6 Edward STRICKLER 2:39:03 7 Andrew SCHUPP 2:39:45 8 Chris STELZER 2:41:19 9 Leo ALAPONT 2:41:47 10 Jordan WOLF 2:42:20 WOMEN: 1 Kami SEMICK 2:52:02 2 Chelsea VANDERBRAKE 2:52:22 3 Heather LIEBERG 2:54:22 4 Maria CERDA 2:57:41 5 Brittany BRENNY 2:58:49 6 Eri SASAKI 2:59:07 7 Amber MORRISON 2:59:32 8 Jessica DOBEK 3:00:07 9 Megha DOSHI 3:01:57 10 Kelly RAMIREZ 3:03:22
10 OCTOBER 2010: ST GEORGE MELBOURNE MARATHON, AUSTRALIA
MEN: 1 Japhet KIPKORIR KEN 2:11:04 2 Asnake FEKADU ETH 2:15:31 3 Rowan WALKER AUS 2:18:01 4 Geleta WONDWOSEN AUS 2:18:43 5 Scott MCTAGGART AUS 2:18:49 6 Cleophas ROP KEN 2:19:34 7 Scott RANTALL AUS 2:20:37 8 Colin THORNTON AUS 2:25:04 9 Ryan COX AUS 2:27:23 10 Mick CHAPMAN AUS 2:27:28 WOMEN: 1 Mulu SEBOKA ETH 2:32:20 2 Roxie FRASE AUS 2:43:52 3 Sarah BISS AUS 2:44:51 4 Lisa ROSE AUS 2:49:37 5 Kirsten WYATT AUS 2:51:00 6 Kirsten MOLLOY AUS 2:51:06 7 Sally IVENS AUS 2:51:40 8 Sam BOAG AUS 2:52:00 9 Lucy BLABER AUS 2:52:15 10 Melissa NORRIS AUS 2:53:20 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Isaac SEREM KEN 1:06:43 2 Gemechu WOYECHA ETH 1:06:58 3 Erwin MCRAE AUS 1:07:45 WOMEN: 1 Clare GERAUGHTY AUS 1:16:07 2 Ady NGAWATI NZL 1:18:36 3 Lauren SHELLEY AUS 1:19:01
10 OCTOBER 2010: ZAGREB MARATHON, CROATIA
MEN: 1 Erkoló ASHENAFI ETH 2:23:51 2 Denis STARIKOV RUS 2:25:16 3 Evgeniy FAKHURTDINOV RUS 2:26:44 4 Sreten NINKOVIC SRB 2:28:49 5 Marin KOCEIC CRO 2:41:35 6 Ante JOVICIC CRO 2:41:41 7 Paul VEITCH GBR 2:43:51 8 Tomislav BRECIC CRO 2:46:04 9 Blaž BARAC CRO 2:46:53 10 Renato PONAHAC CRO 2:51:42 WOMEN: 1 Maroje ŠOSIC CRO 2:56:17 2 Ivica RADELJIC CRO 2:58:44 3 Ivica ŠOSIC CRO 3:25:27 4 Ivica PEDISIC SLO 3:31:24
10 OCTOBER 2010: MUNICH MARATHON, GERMANY
MEN: 1 Andrej NAUMOV GER 2:18:23 2 Hermann ACHMULLER ITA 2:23:46 3 Andreas STERZINGER GER 2:26:11 4 Boris GIESEN GER 2:27:34 5 Raivis DR ZAKIS LAT 2:27:49 6 Gerhard SCHNEBLE GER 2:28:50 7 Martin BUTZLAFF GER 2:30:57 8 Guhnter MAIR GER 2:33:12 9 Wayne BLAS GUA 2:33:53 10 Lothar LOTH GER 2:34:31 WOMEN: 1 Bernadette PICHLMAIER GER 2:35:28 2 Birgit LENNARTZ GER 2:58:42 3 Mary OLEARY IRL 2:59:56 4 Cornelia FIRSCHING GER 3:02:28 5 Andrea FALTERMEIER GER 3:04:39 6 Doris WEISSTEINER ITA 3:06:25 7 Gabriele RYBAK GER 3:09:22 8 Bernadette KLAGER SUI 3:09:39 9 Sabine SCHMITT GER 3:13:11 10 Catriona REID GBR 3:13:05
10 OCTOBER 2010: OKANAGAN MARATHON, CANADA
MEN: 1 Jack COOK CAN 2:39:16 2 Jason PAGE USA 2:44:12 3 Matt BRASSARD CAN 2:46:01 4 Trevor HAAHEIM CAN 2:46:09 5 Dale KIRK CAN 2:47:28 6 Dusty SPILLER CAN 2:54:13 7 Darin BENTLEY CAN 2:57:07 8 Colin MILLER CAN 2:57:58 9 Erik SORENG USA 2:58:01 10 Keith WAKELIN CAN 2:58:09 WOMEN: 1 Keddi-Anne SITERBINO CAN 3:00:05 2 Janet LUN CAN 3:14:58 3 Sandra JENSEN CAN 3:15:03 4 Mary MCEWAN CAN 3:17:51 5 Paige HOWATT CAN 3:19:39 6 Holly GIBSON CAN 3:22:29 7 Erin FLEMING CAN 3:22:48 8 Jan LOWERY CAN 3:22:51 9 Ngaere GILBERT CAN 3:25:09 10 Justine MCMILLAN CAN 3:26:05 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Jeff SYMONDS CAN 1:12:51 2 David MATHESON CAN 1:16:27 3 Tom WALLACE CAN 1:19:25 WOMEN: 1 Emmy SIM CAN 1:27:45 2 Stacey CLEVELAND CAN 1:29:49 3 Lori YOUDELL CAN 1:30:47
10 OCTOBER 2010: GUAYAQUIL MARATHON, ECUADOR
MEN: 1 Fabian CAJAMARCA ECU 2:25:52 2 Juan Carlos HERNANDEZ 2:26:45 3 Dimas QUINGALUISA 2:27:44 4 Jhonny CANDO 2:34:39 5 Manuel JUCA 2:34:49 6 Cesar DEFAZ 2:40:30 7 Mario CHICAIZA 2:40:48 8 Edgar ARGUELLO 2:41:21 9 Julio LUNA 2:41:53 10 Tito DIAZ 2:43:07 WOMEN: 1 Rose JEBET KEN 2:43:35 2 Leidi MORALES ECU 2:50:38 3 Sandra RUALES ECU 2:58:40 4 Paola PEREZ ECU 3:01:56 5 Nancy OSORIO ECU 3:05:11 6 Narciza TRUJILLO 3:11:09 7 Maria Carmen AGUAIZA 3:13:42 8 Grecia TOAPANTA 3:17:50 9 Guadalupe RIVERA 3:26:03 10 Maria QUEZADA 3:28:43
10 OCTOBER 2010: NOVI SAD MARATHON, SERBIA
MEN: 1 Tianpeng LAN CHN 2:31:35 2 Zdravko MISOVIC SRB 2:42:01 3 Atila HILEP SRB 2:50:09 4 Nikola JEVTIC SRB 2:50:20 5 Ivan OGNANOVIC SRB 2:53:07 6 Valeriy CHUMAKOV RUS 2:55:07 7 Veljeko POPOVIC SRB 2:57:02 8 Ugljesa NIKOLOC SRB 3:02:18 9 Zoran JANKOVIC SRB 3:04:19 10 Goran STOJANOV MKD 3:05:21 WOMEN: 1 Junliang XU CHN 2:55:14 2 Erika POLJAKOVIC SRB 4:29:34
16 OCTOBER 2010: IAAF/SINOPEC WORLD HALF MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIPS, CHINA
Photos: Getty Images
With its sprawling parks and tree-lined streets and boulevards, Nanning is known as China's Green City. Fittingly and from the outset, the battle at the front featured the various shades of green found on the Kenyan and Ethiopian team vests. The city provided hothouse conditions, with the women facing 69% humidity at the start and temperatures that climbed rapidly from under 20°C to well over it. The men, starting later, had slightly reduced humidity but a slightly higher temperature.
WOMEN:
Florence Kiplagat kicked away from Dire Tune over the final 800m to capture an impressive victory. Running in just her second Half Marathon, the 23-year-old Kenyan clocked 1:08:24 in hot and humid conditions to collect her second global title, adding to her triumph at the 2009 World Cross Country Championships. She had made her Half Marathon debut only a month ago, running 1:07:40 in Lille, France. “I wasn't worried about the time,” she said, noting the humid conditions. Kiplagat's victory propelled Kenya to their fourth team title in five years. After a fierce contest the 2008 winners Ethiopia had to settle for a fourth silver medal finish in the past five editions.
After a kilometre four Kenyans – Kiplagat, Peninah Arusei, Sarah Chepchirchir, and Joyce Chepkirui – were just a stride ahead of all five of Ethiopia's entrants: Dire Tune, Feyse Tadese, Fate Tola, Abebech Afework, and Meseret Mengistu. A kilometre later the only runner in the lead pack not hailing from east Africa was Nikki Chapple of Australia.
The leading ten charged though the first 5km in 15:53, only the fourth time in these championships that the opening split has been under 16 minutes. The only change over the next 3km, as the leaders passed the 12 Pillars of the impressive Guangxi People's Hall, came at the back, with Chapple dropping off the pace and forced into a no man's land, some 20 seconds ahead of the chase pack.
The pace slowed as the temperature rose with 10km passed in 32:32, as Chepchirchir dropped back. By 15km (48:42) the field was down to just four - Kiplagat, Tadese, Tune and Arusei, with Tola drifting a few seconds behind and fading with every stride. About five minutes later the race became a showdown between Kiplagat and Tune.
Tune, a profilic road racer who has run more than a dozen marathons, shadowed Kiplagat. Despite having run at or near the front throughout, the Kenyan clearly looked the stronger of the two. Shortly after the pair passed 20km in 1:05:06, Kiplagat began to pull away, to break the tape unchallenged.
Tune was pleased with her first medal in international competition: “the conditions were not good, so I was happy with second” said the 2008 Boston Marathon winner. Arusei finished third to take her first international medal: “I tried three times for a medal and this was my day,” she said. A three-time winner of the Berlin 25K, at 31 Arusei was the veteran on the team. Her 23-second margin over Tadese was the key difference in the team battle.
Teenager Chepkirui, who lagged behind in sixth for a large portion of the race, moved up a notch over the final kilometre to reach the line in just a second ahead of Ethiopian Mengistu. Both clocked career bests, as did Tola behind them.
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After an epic battle over the final two kilometres, Wilson Kiprop of Kenya upset Zersenay Tadese to take the men's title. Kiprop's victory was the first for Kenya at these championships since 2004, and ended Tadese's four-year reign at this event. “It's great to win, to beat a four-time world champion,” said 23-year-old Kiprop, whose breakout 2010 season also included the African 10,000m title at home in Nairobi.
The knockout blow didn't come until the final 100m when Kiprop, running upright and looking forward, forged past Tadese, who appeared sluggish in the waning stages after running at or near the front since the outset. When he was passed a few strides from the finish Tadese came to a near-complete halt and hobbled across the finish in 1:00:11 reportedly injured. Just behind, Sammy Kitwara and Silas Kipruto secured Kenya's fifth straight men's team title.
Kiprop, like Kiplagat, had run just one Half Marathon prior to Nanning, an impressive 59:39 debut also in Lille just one month ago. In Nanning he was the picture of experience as, along with teammates Kitwara and Kipruto, he kept the pressure on Tadese from behind. The men's contest was a bit more packed for the first half, with 15 men reaching 5km in 14:30. With Tadese at the front about a dozen were still in contention at 10km (28:49). The pace was considerably slower than in each of Tadese's previous victories but still well within reach of sub-one-hour territory.
After another 2km the field was reduced to seven, then six. By 15km (42:49) only four were left – Tadese, Kipruto, Kitwara and Kiprop. Running side-by-side, they had built a seven-second cushion on Eritrean Samuel Tsegay and 12 on Kenyan Titus Masai. Moses Mosop, the fastest in the field this year, was 37 seconds behind the leaders at this point and well out of contention.
With 48 minutes on the clock and the conditions taking their toll, Kipruto was the next to go, leaving the podium positions all but decided as the remaining trio passed the Nanning International Convention and Expo Centre. Two minutes later, it was just Tadese, still pushing at the front, and Kiprop, who was eyeing his adversary's every move.
In their final approach towards the finish in the city's large central Wuxiang Square, Kiprop began to challenge the Eritrean, briefly moving to the front 53 minutes into the race. Tadese responded with his own surge, matched by Kiprop. Continuing to trade the lead over the final kilometre, Kiprop made his final effort with just over 100m to go.
The team victory was never in doubt, with Kitwara and Kiprop closing in Kenya's scoring trio by fourth place. Eritrea, led by Tadese and Tsegay, took team silver for the sixth straight year. Lelisa Desisa and Birhanu Bekele crossed the line together in seventh and eighth, securing the second straight team bronze for Ethiopia.
MEN: 1 Vincent KIPROP KEN 1:00:07 2 Zersenay TADESE ERI 1:00:11 3 Sammy KITWARA KEN 1:00:22 4 Silas KIPRUTO KEN 1:01:03 5 Samuel TSEGAYE ETH 1:01:03 6 Titus MASAI KEN 1:01:24 7 Lelisa DESISA ETH 1:01:28 8 Birhanu BEKELE ETH 1:01:28 9 Tomoyo ONISHI JPN 1:01:31 10 Moses MOSOP KEN 1:01:31 TEAMS: 1 KEN 3:01:32 2 ERI 3:03:04 3 ETH 3:05:26 4 JPN 3:06:48 5 RSA 3:09:53 WOMEN: 1 Florence KIPLAGAT KEN 1:08:24 2 Dire TUNE ETH 1:08:34 3 Peninah ARUSEI KEN 1:09:05 4 Fayse TADESE ETH 1:09:23 5 Joyce CHEPKIRUI KEN 1:09:30 6 Meseret MENGISTU ETH 1:09:31 7 Fate TOLA ETH 1:09:38 8 Zhu XIAOLIN CHN 1:11:01 9 Yoshimi OZAKI JPN 1:11:02 10 Riyoko KIZAKI JPN 1:11:03 TEAMS: 1 KEN 3:26:59 2 ETH 3:27:33 3 JPN 3:33:40 4 AUS 3:40:14 5 BRA 3:44:05
17 OCTOBER 2010: BUCHAREST CITY MARATHON, ROMANIA
MEN: 1 Duncan KOECH KEN 2:13:54 2 James CHERUIYOT KEN 2:15:28 3 John KATIO KEN 2:18:37 4 John KIOKO KEN 2:19:17 5 Tuwei KIPROP KEN 2:20:21 6 Alexey VESELOV RUS 2:22:55 7 Erik NZOKI KEN 2:23:46 8 Marian SACARA ROM 2:25:39 9 Beniamin RASADEA ROM 2:29:01 10 Petrea HRISTIA ROM 2:30:43 WOMEN: 1 Sviatlana KOUNAN BLR 2:35:13 2 Belaynesh BEKELE ETH 2:39:49 3 Oxsana KUZMICHEVA RUS 2:46:56 4 Daniela CIRLAN ROM 2:50:01 5 Alina NITULEASA ROM 2:55:37 6 Alina PETRESCA ROM 2:57:52 7 Anna HECICO ROM 3:02:41 8 Hiroko OGAWA JPN 3:17:25 9 Irina COSTANTINESCU ROM 3:37:47 10 Viorica GABRIAN ROM 3:43:12
17 OCTOBER 2010: GYEONGJU INT'L MARATHON, KOREA
Surprisingly, given the favourable conditions (18°C) several of the top names in the men's race dropped out before halfway writes Mirko Javala. In the end there were only three runners fighting for the win with the rest of the field more than six minutes back.
Leaders reached 5km in 15:14 and then went for the fastest 5km of the marathon (14:57) passing 10km mark in 30:11. Notably already at this stage several of the favourites had been dropped. 15km was passed in 45:26 and the leaders reached 20km in 60:46. The pace was still well under 2:10, but then slowed considerably, the next 10km taking 30:51. At 25km (1:16:17) there were seven athletes left and they kept together through 30km. Ethiopian Dejene Yirdaw made a move at 32km and opened up a nine second by 35km.
Moroccan Abdellah Falil and Kenyan Kipchirchir Kimaly followed. Yirdaw held on to his small lead to win by 11 seconds.
The women's race was won by 27-year-old Korean Chung Yun-Hee, who finished 16 minutes clear of her nearest rival.
MEN: 1 Dejene YIRDAW ETH 2:09:13 2 Abdellah FALIL MAR 2:09:24 3 Kipchirchir KIMALY KEN 2:09:44 4 Myong-Seun LEE KOR 2:16:19 5 Jacob CHESIRE KEN 2:19:00 6 Sammy KIBET KEN 2:19:30 WOMEN: 1 Yun-Hee CHUNG KOR 2:32:09
17 OCTOBER 2010: AMSTERDAM MARATHON, NETHERLANDS
Photos: Orange Pictures/Karel Delvoye
Getu Feleke set a sensational new course record with debutant Wilson Chebet 28 seconds behind him. Alice Timbilil won the women's race in 2.25.03. A record 31,463 entries were received for the race.
Favourable weather and changes to the course made for a fast race. At 09.45 the Mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, started 10,241 registered runners in the marathon. The leading group remained together for a long time, until Getu Feleke sped away at 35km. Chebet chased in vain, but broke the old course record by six seconds. Feleke's time was a 2 min 20 seconds inprovement on his personal best and moves him to eighth on the all-time list.
The women's race was also decided late on, when Alice Timbilil also ran away from the group after 33km, finishing with the third fastest time ever run in Amsterdam and defeating last year's winner, Eyerusalem Kuma. The fast times mean Amsterdam has moved up one place in the top 10 fastest marathon races in the world and now occupies fifth place.
MEN: 1 Getu FELEKE ETH 2:05:44 2 Wilson CHEBET KEN 2:06:12 3 Chala DECHASE ETH 2:07:23 4 Cherkos FELEKE ETH 2:07:29 5 Hailu MEKONNEN ETH 2:07:37 6 Shadrack KIPLAGAT KEN 2:07:56 7 Faniel KOSGEI KEN 2:08:45 8 Jackson KOTUT KEN 2:08:59 9 Kentaru NAKAMOTO JPN 2:12:38 10 Thomas CHEMITEI KEN 2:13:12 WOMEN: 1 Alice TIMBILILI KEN 2:25:03 2 Eyerusalem KUMA ETH 2:27:04 3 Robe GUTA ETH 2:27:44 4 Woinshet GIRMA ETH 2:27:51 5 Shitaye BEDASO ETH 2:29:48 6 Miranda BOONSTRA NED 2:34:24 7 Julia MUMBI KEN 2:34:37 8 Ayelech WORKU ETH 2:35:09 9 Inge DE JONG NED 2:38:00 10 Christiana DAS CHANGAS BRA 2:39:41 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Huw LOBB GBR 1:09:43 2 Julien SALAMUN SUI 1:10:34 3 John EVES IRL 1:10:36 WOMEN: 1 Helen SHARPE GBR 1:20:16 2 Noemie CLAEYSSENS FRA 1:20:22 3 Elizabeth STAVRESKI GBR 1:23:13
17 OCTOBER 2010: GOODLIFE FITNESS TORONTO MARATHON, CANADA
MEN: 1 Brandan LAAN CAN 2:23:39 2 Brendan KENNY CAN 2:26:19 3 Janis ARSENIKOVS LAT 2:33:50 4 Michel LAVOIE CAN 2:34:59 5 Terry GEHL CAN 2:36:06 6 Nikolas RYABKOV CAN 2:37:35 7 Troy COX CAN 2:39:05 8 Brian TORRANCE CAN 2:40:47 9 David RUGGLES CAN 2:40:57 10 Louis PHILIPPE CAN 2:42:02 WOMEN: 1 Nathalie GOYER CAN 2:52:51 2 Joanne BINK CAN 2:58:16 3 Reesa SIMMONS CAN 3:04:10 4 Seanna RISHOR CAN 3:08:32 5 Rachel CROWE CAN 3:12:27 6 Sarah TOOLE CAN 3:13:05 7 Stephanie GRIFFITHS CAN 3:13:37 8 Kinue TAGA CAN 3:14:05 9 Meagan DOUGLAS CAN 3:14:23 10 Kimberly LARAMEE CAN 3:14:26 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Dessie BELACHEW ETH 1:10:57 2 Peter VIGNERON CAN 1:13:14 3 Jeff FREELAND CAN 1:13:47 WOMEN: 1 Jane CULLIS CAN 1:19:04 2 Gina TESSMAN CAN 1:22:30 3 Isabel LEDROIT CAN 1:23:08
17 OCTOBER 2010: ISTANBUL EURASIA MARATHON, TURKEY
Vincent Kiplagat and Ashu Kasim set new course records in mild, overcast conditions.
Kiplagat led from the start from a group of Kenyan and Ethiopian runners, passing through 10km in 30:56 and halfway on 1:04:22. Approaching 35km Kiplagat surged ahead and passed 40km (2:03:04) with an unassailable lead.
Alemitu Abera steered the women's race for the first hour, but Ashu Kasim led through halfway in 1:12:16 gradually stretching away from Alemitu Abera and Amane Gobena to finish nearly a minute inside the old course record.
MEN: 1 Vincent KIPLAGAT KEN 2:10:39 2 Dereje Yadete WOLDEGIYORGIS ETH 2:11:53 3 Assefa GIRMA ETH 2:13:37 4 Kasime Adilo ROBA ETH 2:16:08 5 Bekir KARAYEL TUR 2:16:40 6 Shume HAILU ETH 2:18:51 WOMEN: 1 Ashu KASIM ETH 2:27:25 2 Alemitu ABERA ETH 2:27:54 3 Amane GOBENA ETH 2:32:28 4 Bizynesh URGESA ETH 2:34:14 5 Galina YEGOROVA-SAYKINA RUS 2:35:57 6 Bahar DOGAN TUR 2:37:51 15km Race MEN: 1 Abayneh Ayele WOLDEGIORGIS ETH 45:43 2 SANG BENARD CHERUIYOT KEN 45:54 3 Workhine TESFA ETH 45:58 WOMEN: 1 Emily CHEBET KEN 48:44 2 Belaynesh OLJIRA ETH 49:44 3 Meryem ERDOGAN TUR 50:12
17 OCTOBER 2010: SEMI MARATHON INT'L DE SAINT DENIS, FRANCE
MEN: 1 Paul Kiugul KIMAIYO KEN 1:02:29 2 Geoffrey TERER KEN 1:02:35 3 Samson KIFLEMARIAN ERI 1:02:48 4 Meli Elisha TARUS KEN 1:02:59 5 Patrick CHEROTWO UGA 1:03:48 6 Gervais HAKIZIMANA RWA 1:04:16 7 Dennis MUSAU KEN 1:04:50 8 Emmanuel NDUWAYO KEN 1:05:05 9 Piotr PALKA POL 1:05:08 10 Evans KOSGEI KEN 1:05:11 WOMEN: 1 Josephine KIMUYU KEN 1:11:07 2 Rose CHELIMO KEN 1:12:48 3 Katharine WEBONBESA UGA 1:13:42 4 Natalya STARKOVA RUS 1:13:45 5 Marina KOVALEVA RUS 1:14:57 6 Purity Wanhui MACHARIA KEN 1:15:12 7 Cynthia JEROTICH KEN 1:15:18 8 Emmanuel JAEGER FRA 1:23:28 9 Marie GRAS FRA 1:29:57 10 Martine MERIEL FRA 1:35:49
22 OCTOBER 2010: AMMAN INTERNATIONAL MARATHON, JORDAN
MEN: 1 Benjamin SEREM KEN 2:17:05 2 Abraham BELETE ETH 2:17:16 3 Wondwosen KEBEDE ETH 2:18:31 4 Methjal ABU THOREES JOR 2:33:47 5 Salamh AL AKRA'A JOR 2:39:42 6 Hayl RAWAHLEH JOR 2:39:58 7 Mohammad MOHAMMAD JOR 2:57:34 8 Mohammad SALAMEH JOR 2:57:53 9 Abdalazeez ALSHOEEBEE JOR 2:59:46 10 Mohammad AL NAWASREH JOR 3:08:34 WOMEN: 1 Alemnesh ESHETU ETH 2:43:52 2 Sisay ARSEDI ETH 2:43:54 3 Zenawork JUFAR ETH 3:15:49 4 Anna PSIAKI USA 4:00:04 5 Sue PETRIE NZL 4:11:19 6 Sarah CASE CAN 4:13:07 7 Elizabeth GILL GBR 4:34:34 8 Nour BGOOR JOR 4:39:21 9 Taghreed ESAWI JOR 4:49:56 10 Lama AL-OBAISI JOR 5:36:31
24 OCTOBER 2010: BEIJING MARATHON, CHINA
Gena Siraj of Ethiopia won a rain-lashed race by easing clear of 38-year old Gert Thys of South Africa in the final kilometre writes Pat Butcher. The dreadful conditions yielded one of the slowest winning times in the event's 30-year history. A light drizzle had already slicked the streets prior to the 08.00 start in a Tiananmen Square but minutes after the start, the heavy rain began followed 30 minutes later by a sharp drop in temperature.
Thys was running "probably" his 40th marathon in a career that began at the age of 13. Pacemaker Matthew Sigei of Kenya stayed in the reckoning after his stint at the front, and came back from sixth place with 10km to run, to take third.
The Chinese presumed to control the potential showers which might have ruined the Olympic opening ceremony two years ago, but truly bad weather is beyond any human aegis. The tail-end of a typhoon from the south east colliding with a cold front from the north-west left many of the competitors shivering and cramping even before they had finished.
Last year's winner and race favourite, Sammy Mugo dropped off the pace at 35km. He said, “It wasn't too bad for the first 10km, but the temperature dropped, and with water splashing up I started to cramp”.
Siraj won his breakthrough race in Rome earlier this year when, in tribute to fellow Ethiopian Abebe Bikila's barefoot Olympic win there 50 years before, took off his shoes with 50m to run and still won in 2:08:39.
Former winner Chen Rong was a long-time leader in the women's race, with training partner Wang Jiali nowhere to be seen. But Wang closed her down at 35km and swept past to win by 15 seconds.
MEN: 1 Gena SIRAJ ETH 2:15:45 2 Gert THYS RSA 2:15:56 3 Matthew SIGEI KEN 2:16:01 4 Ping HE CHN 2:16:52 5 Menxu TIAN CHN 2:17:31 6 Sammy MUGO KEN 2:17:49 7 Longfei YAN CHN 2:17:52 8 Nicholas KANAKYA KEN 2:18:13 9 Kurao UMEKI JPN 2:18:41 10 Shunjin YIN CHN 2:18:57 WOMEN: 1 Jiali WANG CHN 2:29:31 2 Rong CHEN CHN 2:29:46 3 Xiao Shu WANG CHN 2:30:21 4 Yanan WEI CHN 2:30:46 5 Winfrida NYANSIKERA KEN 2:32:50 6 Weiwei SUN CHN 2:33:46 7 Xiaoli JIANG CHN 2:33:56 8 Jinxue CHANG CHN 2:34:15 9 Olesya NURGALIEVA RUS 2:34:37 10 Hui Rong CHEN CHN 2:35:41
24 OCTOBER 2010: VENICE MARATHON, ITALY
Kenyan Simon Mukun won the first major marathon of his career at the 25th edition writes Diego Sampaolo. He broke his personal best to beat Sahle Betona Warga after a dramatic battle in the final kilometre run over the famous bridges. In the women's race Ethiopian Makda Harun Haji, fourth in 2009 in 2:29:56, also broke her PB clocking 2:28:08 to beat Elizabeth Chemweno.
Pacemakers Mubarak Hassan Shami, Venice winner in 2005 and Paul Kimugul set a fast early pace to pass through halfway in 1:03:37 — a minute inside the course record. Migidio Bourifa and Danilo Goffi engaged their fight for the Italian Marathon title behind the lead group in the early stages of the race going through the 10 km mark in 30:04 and 15 km in 45:33. The leading pack featured these two leaders and Kenya's Paul Samoei Kimeli, Philemon Kemboi Kiprono, Peter Nderitu, Peter Some Kimeli, Simon Mukun and Ethiopians Tuyuba Beju, Sahle Betona Warga and Haile Diriba Demisse.
Seven men remained in contention in the second half of the race. They still kept a 2:07 pace but the race became tactical in the more challenging second half of the race. Shami finished pacing at 30km (1:30:54). Goffi dropped out at 33km, leaving Italian title to Migidio Bourifa.
On Freedom Bridge linking Mestre to Venice the battle hotted up. A trio comprising by Betona, Mukun and Peter Nderitu broke away. By 40km Makun and Betona were locked in battle over the 13 bridges. Betona seemed to have the edge over the final bridge but he fell with 400m to go, allowing Makun to take the win.
The women's race set off at fast, with Kenyans Lydia Cheromei, Elizabeth Chemweno and Ethiopians Shuru Dulume Diriba and Makda Harun Haji leading through halfway in 1:12:56 at course record pace. Cheromei led narrowly through 30km (1:43:47) inside St. Giuliano's Park.
At Freedom Bridge Haji and Chemweno broke away and at 40km Haji launched her attack and eventually won by 1:13. In their wake Elena Ruhliada came through the field for third place.
Of 7000 registered runners 6253 of the 6519 starters finished the race, 997 of them women.
MEN: 1 Simon Kamama MUKUN KEN 2:09:35 2 Sahle Warga BETONA ETH 2:09:48 3 Peter Muriuki NDERITU KEN 2:10:52 4 Diriba Demisse HAILE ETH 2:12:21 5 Philemon Kiprono KEMBOI KEN 2:12:45 6 Paul Kimeli SAMOEI KEN 2:14:19 7 Ahmed NASEF MAR 2:14:52 8 Peter Kimeli SOME KEN 2:15:17 9 Migidio BOURIFA ITA 2:15:18 10 William Chebon CHEBOR KEN 2:15:40 WOMEN: 1 Makda Harun HAJI ETH 2:28:08 2 Elizabeth CHEMWENO KEN 2:29:21 3 Elena RUHLIADA RUS 2:30:41 4 Anne Cheptanui BERERWE KEN 2:31:36 5 Rebby KOECH KEN 2:33:48 6 Marcella MANCINI ITA 2:37:23 7 Melissa PERETTI ITA 2:39:23 8 Laura GIORDANO ITA 2:40:36 9 Martina CELI ITA 2:41:43 10 Sonia LORENZI ITA 2:50:03
24 OCTOBER 2010: NIAGARA FALLS MARATHON, CANADA
MEN: 1 Steve BOHAN USA 2:27:49 2 James DERICK USA 2:29:46 3 David SAVARD-GAGNON CAN 2:36:13 4 Richard CARTIER CAN 2:37:02 5 Janusz SARNICKI POL 2:41:28 6 Guillaume CHAREST CAN 2:46:39 7 Scott STERNTHAL CAN 2:47:56 8 Jeffrey PAUL CAN 2:49:10 9 Darren COLLINS CAN 2:49:17 10 Kuniaki TAKIZAKI JPN 2:49:29 WOMEN: 1 Jill GAMBLE CAN 2:56:10 2 Nathalie GOYER CAN 2:58:30 3 Annette PUFALL USA 3:05:16 4 Colleen BERRY CAN 3:06:17 5 Elizabeth MAGUIRE CAN 3:07:46 6 Jennie HANSEN USA 3:10:42 7 Louise VOGHEL CAN 3:13:18 8 Linda DESMEULES CAN 3:15:56 9 Amanda WATTERS USA 3:29:18 10 Carmel CERULLO-BEITER USA 3:25:20 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Dagim YESHITELA ETH 1:04:29 2 Bernard LANGAT USA 1:05:05 3 Sa'id ALI-HADJI CAN 1:05:22 WOMEN: 1 Lucy NJERI KEN 1:16:19 2 Paula WILTSE CAN 1:18:01 3 Winny TONUI USA 1:20:26
24 OCTOBER 2010: LJUBLJANA MARATHON, SLOVENIA
MEN: 1 Evans RUTTO KEN 2:10:17 2 Philemon TARBEI KEN 2:10:44 3 Joseph LOMALA KEN 2:10:55 4 James MBUGUA KEN 2:11:30 5 Mykola ANTONENKO UKR 2:11:51 6 William BIAMA KEN 2:12:12 7 Bellor YATOR KEN 2:12:45 8 Philip MANYIM KEN 2:14:44 9 Joseph KEINO KEN 2:15:47 10 Joseph NGOLEPUS KEN 2:17:03 WOMEN: 1 Tiruwork MEKONNEN ETH 2:37:16 2 Konjit BIRUK ETH 2:38:44 3 Salome KIMUTAI KEN 2:46:05 4 Natalya KRUSHINSKA UKR 2:47:15 5 Neza MRAVLJE SLO 2:52:25 6 Marijana COTA CRO 3:12:33 7 Zana JEREB SLO 3:12:40 8 Elena SIMSIG ITA 3:16:41 9 Anita KOS SLO 3:20:15 10 Jadranka LESKOVSEK SLO 3:21:33 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Primoz KOBE SLO 1:04:55 2 Tone KOSMAC SLO 1:04:57 3 Peter KASTELIC SLO 1:10:36 WOMEN: 1 Kaja OBIDIC SLO 1:19:49 2 Daneja GRANDOVEC SLO 1:20:49 3 Aleksandra FORTIN SLO 1:26:55
24 OCTOBER 2010: CASABLANCA INT'L MARATHON, MOROCCO
MEN: 1 Shumi GERBABA ETH 2:09:03 2 Rachid KISRI MAR 2:09:10 3 Girma Beyene GEZAHU ETH 2:09:52 4 Hilary KIPCHUMBA KEN 2:10:02 5 Lucky Mihale MODIKO RSA 2:13:35 WOMEN: 1 Yeshimebet TADESSE ETH 2:31:10 2 Zahara KEDIR ETH 2:36:49 3 Larisa ZYOZKO RUS 2:37:13
24 OCTOBER 2010: MARATON DEL MEDITERRANEO, SPAIN
MEN: 1 Jordi Escoriza VALENCIA ESP 2:28:14 2 Vicenc Sellares OLIVERAS ESP 2:37:44 3 Antonio Sevillano LLERGO ESP 2:39:46 4 Esteve Campmol AMETLLER ESP 2:39:50 5 Oscar Del Rio MAESTRE ESP 2:40:29 6 Jorge Juan Mendoza PONS ESP 2:42:38 7 Ruben Bona CARNEROS ESP 2:45:19 8 Hugo Bona CARNEROS ESP 2:45:36 9 Tonu Pallares GRIMA ESP 2:46:20 10 Miguel Comella PERA ESP 2:50:24 WOMEN: 1 Rosa Moreno PANADERO ESP 3:27:36 2 Emi Vaquero SANCHEZ ESP 3:31:41 3 Assumpta Vila MAINAR ESP 3:38:18 4 Ma De Montan Casanova BERTRAN ESP 3:41:01 5 Jennifer ROBERTS 3:44:53 6 Miriam FILZ 3:48:23 7 Susanne MICHELSEN 3:50:04 8 Helga ERIKSEN 3:54:13 9 Katrine Dines PETERSEN 3:54:52 10 Raquel Sanchez CEPEDA ESP 3:55:39
24 OCTOBER 2010: 65TH CHOSUNILBO CHUNCHON INT'L MARATHON, KOREA
Benjamin Kiptoo set a new course record.
MEN: 1 Benjamin Kiptoo KOLUM KEN 2:07:54 2 Benson Kipchumba BARUS KEN 2:08:53 3 David Kipserem KISANG KEN 2:08:54 4 Boniface Mbuvi MUEMA KEN 2:09:27 5 Luka Kipkemoi CHELIMO KEN 2:10:11 6 Anderson Chirchir KIPRONO KEN 2:12:01 7 Mulugeta WAMI ETH 2:13:07 8 Raul PACHECO PER 2:13:37 WOMEN: 1 Sun Jung KIM KOR 2:43:39 2 Myoung Ae PARK KOR 2:52:14 3 Sun A KIM KOR 3:01:56
25 OCTOBER 2010: DUBLIN MARATHON, IRELAND
MEN: 1 Moses Kangogo KIBET KEN 2:08:58 2 Fikadu KEDIR ETH 2:09:44 3 Mourice Mutinda MUSYOKI KEN 2:10:25 4 Chesso Jonath KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 2:10:27 5 Aleksey SOKOLOV RUS 2:10:31 6 Andriy TOPTUN UKR 2:13:33 7 Tomas ABYU GBR 2:14:32 8 Simon K NJORGE KEN 2:14:46 9 Armon K KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 2:15:20 10 Mike FOKORONI ZIM 2:15:43 WOMEN: 1 Tatyana ARYSOVA RUS 2:26:12 2 Kateryna STETSENKO UKR 2:27:51 3 Elsa KIREEVA RUS 2:28:02 4 Tiki GELANA ETH 2:29:53 5 Tabitha TSATSA ZIM 2:30:39 6 Yulia GROMOVA RUS 2:32:46 7 Barbara SANCHEZ IRL 2:39:39 8 Rachael J YANO KEN 2:41:22 9 Pauline CURLEY IRL 2:44:00 10 Lorraine MANNING IRL 2:46:16
31 OCTOBER 2010: COMMERZBANK FRANKFURT MARATHON, GERMANY
Wilson Kipsang became the eighth fastest runner ever, and the ninth Kenyan champion in succession by running 2:04:57 writes Pat Butcher. His time is the third fastest this year. Caroline Kilel improved her personal best by almost two minutes and led the first four women under the old course record.
Frankfurt delivered its usual Sunday morning in late October, of ideal marathon conditions with the temperature hovering around 10°C and barely a breath of wind. By 15km, reached in 44:57, the pace was set for a sub-2:06 time. Kenyan and Ethiopian distance talent ensured it stayed that way right through to the red carpet-finish in the city's Festival Hall.
The halfway split was 1:02:38, well inside the pre-race target. "I saw that we were going faster than the planned time for the half" said Kipsang, "I was happy.I knew I had prepared well and I felt good."
Kipsang was confident enough to seize the initiative. Shortly after 30km (1:29:12), a group of six moved clear, with Kipsang keeping a close watch on Tadese Tola who had beaten him into third in Paris. "I couldn't let him build too much of a lead, so I stayed right behind." Kipsang had Tola's measure this time. A group of four reached 35km in 1:43:59, and 2km later Kipsang attacked and only Tola went with him. But the Ethiopian dropped further behind as Kipsang continued to run to victory in superb, relaxed style.
The 28-year-old became the third fastest marathoner in the world this year with his win in 2:04:57, breaking the course record from last year by 1:17. Kipsang reaped a rich reward, his total payday amounting to 95,000 Euros. The defeated Tadese Tola still improved his personal best by 10 seconds and Elias Chelimo also ran a fine lifetime best in third. The winning performance was the tenth fastest of all-time.
Caroline Kilel surprised herself confessing that only at 40km did she become confident of winning. "I thought that the Ethiopians would be stronger but I started to push, looked round and saw they did not respond."
The pace in the women's race was always on target to break the five-year-old record of 2:25:12. Kilel was the one Kenyan to match the Ethiopian duo, reaching halfway with them in 1:10:59. Until 30km Caroline Kilel had a significant ally: husband Vincent, who paced her to that point. At 40km she turned the screw, leaving Dire Tune 10 seconds behind with the gap growing. The defending champion, Agnes Kiprop of Kenya, was almost a minute behind.
MEN: 1 Wilson KIPSANG KEN 2:04:57 2 Tadese TOLA ETH 2:06:31 3 Elias CHELIMO KEN 2:07:04 4 Philip SANGA KEN 2:07:11 5 Daniel CHEPYEGON UGA 2:08:24 6 Dereje MAREGU ETH 2:09:03 7 Ronald RUTTO KEN 2:09:17 8 Elijah KEITANY KEN 2:09:19 9 Evans KIPLAGAT KEN 2:10:07 10 Henry SUGUT KEN 2:10:43 WOMEN: 1 Caroline KILEL KEN 2:23:25 2 Dire TUNE KEN 2:23:44 3 Agnes KIPROP KEN 2:24:07 4 Isabellah ANDERSSON SWE 2:25:10 5 Mare DIBABA ETH 2:25:27 6 Hilda KIBET NED 2:26:23 7 Yuliya RUBAN UKR 2:27:44 8 Yelena SOKOLOVA RUS 2:28:01 9 Hellen KIMUTAI KEN 2:28:38 10 Aniko KALOVICS HUN 2:30:56
31 OCTOBER 2010: ATHENS CLASSIC MARATHON, GREECE
The 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon has been a long time coming, but it took little over two hours for Paul Bett and Rasa Drazdauskaite to spring a surprise in the race, writes Pat Butcher. Both set new records in an event which was born out of legends surrounding that ancient battle.
Drazdauskaite of Lithuania is a world class runner, but since she was competing in the concurrent World Military Championships, she was not listed in the elite entry. Master Sergeant Drazdauskaite blew her cover from the opening steps by shooting into an immediate lead.
The 29 year old went further and further ahead on a bright sunny morning, to break the race record by over two minutes, finishing in the Panethenaiko, the atmospheric marble stadium built for the 1896 Olympics.
It was Drazdausakaite's fourth marathon. Her fastest time is 2:30:29, set on a flat course in Frankfurt last year, but Marathon to Athens has a relentless uphill section from 10-31km and is rated as one of the toughest marathons around.
"I wanted to run Frankfurt again (on the same day)", she said, "but the Army said I had to run here, and I'm glad now. I thought I had a chance, but I'm so happy to win this special race, with all the history".
Bett, 26, had not been one of the pre-men's race favourites, but he was always in the leading group, which were paced through halfway in 65:49 in an attempt to break Stefano Baldini's record set in the 2004 Olympics. But when the pacemakers dropped out the group slowed in the glaring sunshine.
Bett dropped the last of his opponents at 37km, to shave two seconds from Paul Lekuraa's 2008 record. His time was just half a minute slower than his fastest, 2:11:32, which came in Eindhoven, Netherlands last year. The course proved the undoing of several runners who were still in the lead group and well clear at 30km. Henryk Szost and Radoslav Gardzielewski of Poland were over two minutes down at halfway, but began to make inroads after 30km, catching them from 35km.
Famous guests, including Stefano Baldini and fellow Olympic Gold medallists Joan Benoit-Samuelson, Rosa Mota and Constantina Dita, attended the celebrations surrounding the anniversary event.
MEN: 1 Raymond BETT KEN 2:12:40 2 Jonathon KIPKORIR KEN 2:14:05 3 Edwin KIMUTAI KEN 2:15:21 4 Henryk SZOST KEN 2:15:28 5 Radoslav GARDZIELEWSKI POL 2:15:45 6 Francesco BONA ITA 2:16:49 7 Robert MWANGI KEN 2:17:04 8 Michal KAZMAREK POL 2:17:19 9 Paulo Joao DE SOUZA BRA 2:18:33 10 Moulai SLINAME 2:18:36 WOMEN: 1 Rasa DRAZDAUSKAITE LIT 2:31:06 2 Olga GLOK RUS 2:33:51 3 Svitlana STANKO UKR 2:38:59 4 Eri HAYAKAWA JPN 2:40:25 5 Kefala KONSTANTINA GRE 2:40:36 6 Irina MASHKANTSEVA RUS 2:41:04 7 Irina PERMITTINA RUS 2:42:03 8 Oksana TEPLYKH RUS 2:44:12 9 Magda KARIMALI GRE 2:44:58 10 Magdalini GAZEA GRE 2:47:19
31 OCTOBER 2010: LAUSANNE MARATHON, SWITZERLAND
MEN: 1 Begashow HAILU ETH 2:20:03 2 Patrick JEANNERET 2:29:21 3 Pavel BRYDL 2:33:50 4 Brice DONISCHAL 2:34:51 5 Alexandrino AGUIAR 2:38:10 6 Jacques RERAT 2:38:58 7 Steve BOVAY 2:39:24 8 Florian VIEUX 2:41:40 9 Martin PLONER 2:42:56 10 Hans REICHENBACH 2:44:06 WOMEN: 1 Magali M DI MARCO 2:54:11 2 Catrin JONES 2:54:51 3 Laurence YERLY-CATTIN 2:56:29 4 Lucilia DELPEDRO 2:59:05 5 Joanna CHMIEL-GRONT 2:59:34 6 Sabine GENTIEU 3:01:25 7 Christina BUCHER 3:06:01 8 Corrine WARIDEL 3:15:02 9 Regula BAUMBERGER 3:18:18 10 Katja BEERLI 3:19:19
31 OCTOBER 2010: MARINE CORPS MARATHON, USA
MEN: 1 Jacob BRADOSKY USA 2:23:30 2 Ronald KURUI 2:23:41 3 Sean BARRETT 2:24:08 4 John MENTZER 2:24:16 5 Brian DUMM 2:27:04 6 Jason SCHLARB 2:27:18 7 Levi SEVERSON 2:27:36 8 Adam CONDIT 2:31:00 9 Jason BROSSEAU 2:32:29 10 Jose MIRANDA-DIAZ 2:33:38 WOMEN: 1 Janet CHEROBON 2:39:19 2 Gina SLABY 2:46:58 3 Tezata DESALGN 2:48:35 4 Erin MOFFETT 2:50:40 5 Alice ROGERS 2:51:14 6 Abbey KAKNES 2:56:04 7 Astrid KALTENBOECK 2:56:43 8 Elissa BALLAS 2:57:44 9 Sarah DARVILL 2:58:04 10 Kara WATERS 2:58:36
31 OCTOBER 2010: LUCERNE MARATHON, SWITZERLAND
MEN: 1 Stefan MULLER 2:35:48 2 Steve GISLER 2:37:00 3 Daugaard H NILSSON 2:38:29 4 Josef VOGT 2:38:52 5 Woody SCHOCH 2:39:39 6 Adrian GROBLI 2:40:25 7 Bernhard EGGENSCHWILER 2:41:54 8 Dennis KUIPERS 2:42:02 9 Philipp ARNOLD 2:42:30 10 Martin HERMANEK 2:43:07 WOMEN: 1 Julia WAGNER 2:47:36 2 Tanja AMIET 2:56:36 3 Sandra WYSS 2:56:40 4 Lucia MAYER-HOFMANN 2:59:46 5 Natasha HALLER 3:01:09 6 Julie FREUDIGER 3:02:22 7 Carmen BAHLER 3:03:38 8 Nina VABIC 3:04:19 9 Monika WIDMER 3:07:37 10 Claudio FREY 3:08:19
31 OCTOBER 2010: PODGORICA MARATHON, MONTENEGRO
MEN: 1 Buliche MENDAYA ETH 2:16:05 2 Nicodemus BIWOT KEN 2:16:33 3 Urge KASSAYE ETH 2:18:26 4 Andrei MINYAKOV RUS 2:18:27 5 Artem EKIMOV RUS 2:21:51 6 Sergey SHEVCENKO RUS 2:23:18 7 Segiy BRUMAREV UKR 2:29:27 8 Ayele ABERHAM ETH 2:31:51 9 Nikolay MERZLYAKOV RUS 2:34:21 10 Timofey KYUN SRB 2:38:19 WOMEN: 1 Ana SUBOTIC SRB 2:43:22 2 Edeto GEDESE ETH 2:43:29 3 Gidey TINIBT ETH 2:43:38 4 Nadežda SEMILETOVA RUS 2:47:47 5 Tatjana PEREPELKINA RUS 2:51:32 6 Loonen KRYSTYNA NED 2:52:08 7 Milka MIHAILOVA BUL 2:56:06 8 Sla?ana PERUNOVIC MNE 2:57:37 9 Dagne KALKIDAN ETH 3:13:51 10 Zelmira KOPECKI CRO 3:33:28 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Tamaš KOVACS HUN 1:05:49 2 Živkovi? Darko ZIVKOVIC SRB 1:08:30 3 Saša STOLIC SRB 1:10:32 WOMEN: 1 Monica NAGY HUN 1:20:06 2 Biljana CVIJANOVIC BIH 1:24:49 3 Rumiana PANOVSKA BUL 1:24:55
31 OCTOBER 2010: UWI-SPEC HALF MARATHON, TRINIDAD
MEN: 1 Simon SAWE KEN 1:07:08 2 Alfonso YATICH KEN 1:08:31 3 Richard JONES TRI 1:08:33 4 Denzel RAMIREZ TRI 1:09:13 5 Zepherinus JOSEPH LCA 1:10:01 6 Curtis COX TRI 1:10:25 7 Ronnie HOLASSIE TRI 1:10:35 8 Larryn SANCHEZ VEN 1:14:02 9 Kelvin JOHNSON GUY 1:14:38 10 Jules LA RODE TRI 1:14:38 WOMEN: 1 Firaya ZHADANOVA RUS 1:23:51 2 Yeisy ALVAREZ VEN 1:25:13 3 Shermin LASALDO TRI 1:30:47 4 Paulette LUCESS TRI 1:31:48 5 Celine LESTRADE TRI 1:31:55 6 Leisl PUCKERIN TRI 1:36:39 7 Christine REGIS TRI 1:36:59 8 Melissa COLLINS GUY 1:39:44 9 Abiane COLLYMORE TRI 1:41:23 10 Nicole BUDD TRI 1:41:55
31 OCTOBER 2010: STANDARD CHARTERED NAIROBI MARATHON, KENYA
MEN: 1 David Tumo BARMASAI KEN 2:10:31 2 Philemon GITIA KEN 2:11:11 3 Vincent Kiplagat SITTUK KEN 2:12:09 4 Simon KIPROP KEN 2:12:15 5 Julius Saolei KIPROTICH KEN 2:13:08 6 Richard Soibei KIPROTICH KEN 2:13:14 7 Mathew BUNGEI KEN 2:13:28 8 Edward Omwoyo MBUNI KEN 2:13:28 9 Daniel Kipchumba KOMEN KEN 2:13:38 10 Benedict Muli KIMONDIU KEN 2:13:59 WOMEN: 1 Helena KIROP KEN 2:31:11 2 Leah MALOT KEN 2:33:41 3 Frashiah NUAMBURA KEN 2:35:09 4 Magdaline CHEMJOR KEN 2:38:19 5 Grace KITONGA KEN 2:38:42 6 Eunice JEPTOO KEN 2:39:01 7 Losiakat CHEPKORO KEN 2:42:46 8 Leah KUSAR KEN 2:44:10 9 Susan Muthoni NYAKERIGA KEN 2:46:01 10 Rosaline DAVID KEN 2:48:22
October 2010
