April 2013
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5 APRIL 2013: DEAD SEA ULTRAMARATHON, JORDAN
Jordan's Olympic marathoner Muthqal Abbadi won at his first attempt beyond the standard 42km writes Norrie Williamson. His time over the course from the Jordanian capital of Amman to the Dead Sea would have placed him tenth on the world best rankings were it not for the 1300m drop from start to finish. The Dead Sea lies at the lowest point on earth, 396 metres below sea level. (The late Thompson Magawana's world record of 2:43:38 was set on the hilly Two Oceans course in 1988.)
The twentieth edition started in unseasonal cold, windy and wet conditions, but the sun and heat returned as runners plummeted through "Zero Sea Level" with stunning views down into the Jordan Valley. Afterwards runners relaxed and recovered in the world's largest and most famous mineral salt bath, the Dead Sea itself. Apart from the ultra there are marathon and 10km events, with a combined field of over 5000 runners. Among them was Jordan's Prince Talal bin Muhammad who ran his first marathon in 4:36 and raised US$728,000 sponsorship for the King Hussein Cancer Foundation, caring for 10 children stricken by leukemia.
50km MEN: 1 Muthqal ABBADI JOR 2:50:57 2 Fathu ALDAYAT JOR 2:57:09 3 Mossab AHMAD JOR 2:58:55 4 Hayel al RAWAHNEH JOR 3:07:53 5 Mohamed FOUSTOK JOR 3:09:23 WOMEN: 1 Ghoroud ALDGHEMAT JOR 4:12:22 2 Nahida ALBAWAT JOR 4:14:52 3 Natalia MARTIN ESP 4:15:03 4 Anja Hav THOMSEN 4:52:44 5 Heike ROESCH GER 5:22:38 42km MEN: 1 Ayman HUSSEIN JOR 2:28:26 2 Omar al ZBOON JOR 2:29:55 3 Ali ISSA JOR 2:30:32 4 Hussein ABDELAZIZ JOR 2:32:24 5 Youself KHALAF JOR 2:33:07 WOMEN: 1 Sajood ALKHOTABA JOR 3:11:45 2 Rania BAYOUNI JOR 3:22:17 3 Chris PEETERS BEL 3:24:33 4 Sarah KYLE USA 3:46:12 5 Lesley STRONG CAN 3:48:06
6 APRIL 2013: HERVIS PRAGUE HALF MARATHON, CZECH REPUBLIC
Photos: Hervis Prague Half Marathon
Despite near-freezing temperatures the men's race featured hot competition and the women's winner some hot pace. In the last kilometre Zersenay Tadese outran a quartet that had kept him company up to that point while Gladys Cherono ran away from the rest of the field after 15km to break the course record and post the fourth fastest time of the year.
Tadese's world record of 58:23 was never in sight as the leaders passed through 5km in 14:06 and 10km in 28:12. By 15km (42:37) they had slipped to barely inside one-hour schedule. Tadese eschewed his normally aggressive front-running style and was content to sit back in the five-man pack, passing through 20km all together in 57:14. He and his Eritrean compatriot and training partner Amanuel Mesel started to get away from a Kenyan trio with 300m remaining, but Tadese only prevailed in the short home straight next to the Rudolfinum. Mesel improved his personal best by over a minute.
Gladys Cherono had finished third last year in a personal best 1:08:18, but improved by 90 seconds despite the difficult conditions. Four leaders went through 10km in 32:02, but by 15km only Worknesh Degefa was vainly trying to keep pace with Cherono, who went on to win by over 400m. Isabella Ochichi, returning to competition after a six-year absence, did well to run 1:09:12 for third place.
A record of 12,500 runners entered.
MEN: 1 Zersenay TADESE ERI 1:00:11 2 Amanuel MESEL ERI 1:00:11 3 John KIPSANG KEN 1:00:15 4 Pius Maiyo KIROP KEN 1:00:19 5 Henry KIPLAGAT KEN 1:00:22 6 Abere KASSW ETH 1:01:17 7 Tigabu GEBREMARYAM ETH 1:01:28 8 Daniel Kipchumba CHEBII KEN 1:01:52 9 Medhin TEKLEMARIAM ERI 1:01:55 10 Philemon Kimeli LIMO KEN 1:01:57 WOMEN: 1 Gladys CHERONO KEN 1:06:48 2 Worknesh DEGEFA ETH 1:08:12 3 Isabella OCHICHI KEN 1:09:21 4 Waganesh MEKASHA ETH 1:09:31 5 Ehitu KIROS ETH 1:09:38 6 Agnes Katunge MUTUNE KEN 1:10:06 7 Pamela LISORENG KEN 1:10:09 8 Edinah KWAMBAI KEN 1:12:40 9 Mary WANGARI KEN 1:13:13 10 Azusa NOJIRI JPN 1:15:15
7 APRIL 2013: VATTENFALL BERLIN HALF MARATHON, GERMANY
Jacob Kendagor pulled out a surprise win, beating runners who had personal bests two minutes faster than his own 1:01:15 writes Jorg Wenig. Helah Kiprop pushed ahead from 10km to win the women's race with relative ease.
In sunny but cool conditions (around 4°C), a group of four Kenyans went through 10km in 28:23 on sub-hour schedule. Kendagor increased the pace at 11km and only Silas Kipruto could hold on. Kendagor shifted into another gear after 17km and Kipruto was beaten.
In the women's race Helah Kiprop made a decisive move just before passing through 10km in 32:17 four seconds ahead of Philes Ongori. She surged away but lost some ground in the final stages as Ongori closed to within 40m. "I was not aware that it was that close," said Kiprop, who had only run faster in the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon in February. It was the third-fastest time in the history of the race, and the first time since 2006 that 68 minutes has been broken. Last year Ongori beat Kiprop into third place by a single second.
MEN: 1 Jacob KENDAGOR KEN 59:36 2 Silas KIPRUTO KEN 1:00:12 3 Victor KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 1:00:27 4 Kenneth KIPKEMOI KEN 1:00:45 5 Frederick NGENY KEN 1:01:37 6 Joseph KIPTUM KEN 1:01:38 7 Kiflom SLUM ERI 1:01:55 8 Richard MENGICH KEN 1:02:28 9 Robert LANGAT KEN 1:03:13 10 Elisha KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 1:03:15 WOMEN: 1 Helah KIPROP KEN 1:07:54 2 Philes ONGORI KEN 1:08:01 3 Mai ITO JPN 1:10:00 4 Valentine KIPKETER KEN 1:10:48 5 Lilian JELEGAT KEN 1:11:59 6 Sonia SAMUELS GBR 1:12:36 7 Coline RICARD FRA 1:18:05 8 Sari JUUTI FIN 1:20:12 9 Sandra BOLTZ GER 1:20:25 10 KLouise BAEKBY HANSEN DEN 1:20:38
7 APRIL 2013: MEDIO MARATON ASICS VILLA DE MADRID, SPAIN
With the start and finish within Retiro Park nearly 16,000 runners participated, and a further 1400 took part in the associated 5km event. In the men's race a group of seven led through 10km in 29:52 and kept a strong pace going until the end, when Haile Tegegn launched his winning attack. In the women's race it was a group of three who became detached and passed 10km in 33:50. Victory was only won in the final metres as Meseret Kitata edged ahead of her compatriot Marta Tigabea to set a new course record.
MEN: 1 Haile Tegegn MEGESHA ETH 1:02:57 2 Albert MATEBOR KEN 1:03:02 3 Andrew LESUUDA KEN 1:03:09 4 Wilson Kebenei KIPROTICH KEN 1:03:29 5 Workneh FIKIRE ETH 1:03:39 6 Eliud KIPSEREM KEN 1:04:19 7 Ouais ZITANE 1:04:28 8 Oswaldo Segundo JAMI ECU 1:04:33 9 Abdelghafour LASRI MAR 1:05:07 10 Wissem HOSNI 1:05:09 WOMEN: 1 Meseret Kitata TOLWAK ETH 1:11:31 2 Marta TIGABEA ETH 1:11:37 3 Jane MWIKALI KEN 1:12:45 4 Emily BIWOTT KEN 1:13:21 5 Hirut Tibebu DAMTE ETH 1:13:50 6 Rehima Jewar SERRO 1:15:09 7 Estela NAVASCUES ESP 1:16:13 8 Analia ROSA 1:17:45 9 Maria Jose PUEYO ESP 1:17:52 10 Alba GARCIA ESP 1:18:23 5km MEN: 1 Santiago DE LA FUENTE ESP 15:33 2 Fernando DIEZ ESP 15:45 3 Borja PEREZ ESP 15:52 WOMEN: 1 Esther DESVIAT ESP 16:58 2 Penelope Raquel BANOS ESP 18:13 3 Charlotte COTTON 19:34
7 APRIL 2013: MILANO CITY MARATHON, ITALY
MEN: 1 Worku Biru GEMENCHU ETH 2:09:25 2 Girma Tefera GOSA ETH 2:09:36 3 Marius KIPSEREM KEN 2:09:50 4 Stephen Kosgei KIBET KEN 2:12:31 5 Richard Kipkemei LIMO KEN 2:15:42 6 William Kipsang ROP KEN 2:16:24 7 Anton KOSMAC SLO 2:18:40 8 Tommaso VACCINA ITA 2:22:11 9 Solomon Kipsang SOY KEN 2:22:23 10 Ed BARNETT GBR 2:28:51 WOMEN: 1 Monica JEPKOECH KEN 2:32:54 2 Adana Desalegn TSEHAY ETH 2:32:55 3 Birhane ABABEL ETH 2:33:10 4 Julia MUMBI KEN 2:33:37 5 Irene Jerotich KOSGEI KEN 2:35:25 6 Fatima AYACHI ETH 2:35:32 7 Bayush Shiferaw ABEBE ETH 2:36:16 8 Claudia PINNA ITA 2:42:09 9 Deniz DIMAKI GRE 2:47:19 10 Alina NITULEASA ROM 2:53:27
7 APRIL 2013: 37th SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC PARIS MARATHON, FRANCE
Women's winner Feyse Tadese set a world-leading time and women's course record while Peter Some was the surprise winner in the second fastest time ever run in Paris writes Pierre Jean Vazel. With cool but sunny weather conditions were ideal and the women started very fast, passing 5km in 16:44. World Half-marathon silver medallist Feyse Tadese moved into the lead and went through halfway in 1:10:08 — fastest ever in Paris. The 25-year-old ran steadily built up her winning margin leaving both race favourite Eunice Jepkirui and compatriot Merima Mohammed before the final kilometres through the Bois de Boulogne to break her personal best by over two minutes.
A compact men's lead group passed the 5km point at the Hotel de Ville in 14:44, also ahead of course record pace. Three pacemakers led about 15 runners through 10km in 29:31 and 15km, in the Bois de Vincennes, in 44:28. No changes occurred until halfway, where the leading dozen were still led by two pacemakers and the split time (1:02:25) was now well outside course record pace. The Kenyan trio of Some, Philip Sanga and Eric Ndiema led the group, passing 25km in 1:14:19 and 30km in 1:29:35. Race favourite Tola was still biding his time when Some accelerated. Glancing occasionally over his shoulder he steadily opened a large gap as he headed towards the Bois de Boulogne. By 35km (1:43:56), he had a lead of about 25 seconds and went on for an untroubled win, improving his personal best by more than three minutes.
MEN: 1 Peter SOME KEN 2:05:38 2 Tadese TOLA ETH 2:06:33 3 Eric NDIEMA KEN 2:06:34 4 Megersa BACHA ETH 2:06:56 5 Philip SANGA KEN 2:06:57 6 Sylvester TEIMET KEN 2:08:14 7 Sahle WARGA ETH 2:08:19 8 Abraham GIRMA ETH 2:08:19 9 Gezahegne ALEMAYEHU ETH 2:09:57 10 Gilbert MASAI KEN 2:10:27 WOMEN: 1 Feysa TADESSE ETH 2:21:05 2 Merima MOHAMED ETH 2:23:14 3 Eunice Kirwa JEPKIRUI KEN 2:23:34 4 Dinknesh TEFERA ETH 2:25:09 5 Agnes KIPROP KEN 2:25:22 6 Fantu JIMMA ETH 2:28:03 7 Amane GOBENA ETH 2:29:36 8 Shitaye BEDASO ETH 2:34:40 9 Carmen OLIVERAS FRA 2:35:57 10 Aline CAMBOULIVES FRA 2:36:44
7 APRIL 2013: POZNAN HALF MARATHON, POLAND
MEN: 1 Martin MUKULE KEN 1:03:29 2 David Kipketer KOGEI KEN 1:03:30 3 Edwin Kibet KIPTOO KEN 1:03:32 4 Evans KIPKORIT KEN 1:03:39 5 Piotr HUMERSKI POL 1:13:23 6 Adam KONIECNY POL 1:13:41 7 Adam KOWALEWSKI POL 1:14:30 8 Krzysztof GORNY POL 1:14:31 9 Adam CHUDZICKI POL 1:14:32 10 Adam SEROCKI POL 1:15:10 WOMEN: 1 Lucy NJERI KEN 1:11:10 2 Nadezda TRILINSKAYA RUS 1:13:18 3 Alice KIBOR KEN 1:13:42 4 Zvile BALCIUNAITE LTE 1:18:45 5 Joanna SUSMANEK POL 1:27:22 6 Francesca CAPOBELLI ITA 1:29:12 7 Adrianna STARBOWSKA POL 1:29:14 8 Agnieszka STANIEWSKA POL 1:30:25 9 Martina WISNIEWSKA POL 1:31:29 10 Karolina CHABROS POL 1:33:55
7 APRIL 2013: SEMI MARATHON INT'L DE RABAT, MOROCCO
MEN: 1 Nicholas KEMBOI KEN 1:00:27 2 Evans KIPLAGAT KEN 1:00:28 3 Tebalu ZAWUDE ETH 1:00:33 4 Abera TESFAYE ETH 1:01:06 5 Abraham CHEROBEN KEN 1:01:12 6 Leonard LANGAT KEN 1:01:38 7 Debela FEYSE ETH 1:02:37 8 Desta ALEMU ETH 1:02:38 9 Muhajr SRAJ ETH 1:03:11 10 Kennedy KIPYEGO KEN 1:03:14 WOMEN: 1 Cynthia JEROTICH KEN 1:09:59 2 Gladys KIPSOI KEN 1:10:23 3 Shure Damise WARE ETH 1:11:03 4 Rachael MUTGAA KEN 1:13:20 5 Olga SKRYPAK UKR 1:13:24 6 Faiza AZZOUZI MAR 1:13:26 7 Kanbouchia SOUD MAR 1:13:28 8 Sosena GEZAW ETH 1:14:19 9 Fantaye BATISO ETH 1:15:27 10 Salima CHARKI MAR 1:15:32
7 APRIL 2013: MARATON DE SANTIAGO, CHILE
25,000 runners entered the three events and engulfed the city in a festival atmosphere. Both men's and women's course records were broken in the Marathon and the President of the Republic came to present the prizes.
MEN: 1 Julius KETER KEN 2:11:44 2 Bado WORKU ETH 2:14:33 3 Ahmed NASSET MAR 2:14:38 4 Cyprian MWOBI KEN 2:15:10 5 Debesay TSIGE ERI 2:16:00 6 Abel VILLANUEVA PER 2:17:03 7 Roberto ECHEVERRIA CHI 2:17:41 8 Eric NZIOKI KEN 2:17:54 9 Edson AMARO BRA 2:18:25 10 Constantino LEON PER 2:18:59 WOMEN: 1 Jacqueline KIPLIMO KEN 2:30:50 2 Gladys TEJEDA PER 2:31:48 3 Ines MELCHOR PER 2:32:11 4 Shewarge AMARE ETH 2:35:43 5 Erika ABRIL COL 2:36:15 6 Erika OLIVERA CHI 2:37:17 7 Judith TORIBIO PER 2:38:39 8 Yolanda FERNANDEZ COL 2:44:28 9 Thrupena TARUS KEN 2:48:36 10 Alicia CEVALLOS ECU 2:53:10 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Victor ARAVENA CHI 1:06:07 2 Christopher GUAJARDO CHI 1:07:28 3 Patricio URIBE CHI 1:08:12 WOMEN: 1 Clara MORALES CHI 1:19:21 2 Lenka LICHNOVSKY CHI 1:21:10 3 Jimena LABRANA CHI 1:22:14 10km MEN: 1 Daniel ESTRADA CHI 28:44 2 Lucas JARAMILLO CHI 29:23 3 Ariel MENDEZ CHI 29:38 WOMEN: 1 Jennifer GONZALEZ CHI 35:22 2 Micaela VALLEJOS CHI 35:35 3 Valeska AYMANI CHI 35:37
7 APRIL 2013: ZURICH MARATHON, SWITZERLAND
Photos: Marc Weiler
Despite low temperatures and grey skies, a total of 7802 participants completed the Marathon, 10km and relay, and both Marathon course records were broken. Tadesse Abraham from Eritrea took an early lead, with support from Kenya's Edwin Kiprop Korir serving as a pacemaker. When Abraham set off on his own he posted an incredibly fast last quarter of the race to break Viktor Röthlin's 2007 course record by 35 seconds and his own personal best by two minutes. Next year Abraham will be competing for Switzerland as he is about to become a Swiss citizen.
Croatia's Lisa Stublic took the women's race into new territory. Born and raised in the US, Stublic competes for Croatia. The others could only follow the diminutive runner for the first 8km before she broke away to eventually eclipse Anne Mette Jensen's 2004 course record by four minutes, and her personal best by five minutes. "Breaking the course record was my clear objective. But I honestly did not expect to post such a fast time," she said.
The early date and the tough, long-lasting winter cost the Zurich Marathon some participants but performances were all the more impressive with five Swiss runners meeting the selection criteria for the World and the European championships.
MEN: 1 Tadesse ABRAHAM ERI 2:07:44 2 Edwin Kiprop KORIR KEN 2:10:26 3 Samson Mungai KAGIA KEN 2:10:42 4 Oleg KULKOV RUS 2:11:33 5 Michael OTT SUI 2:16:53 6 Peter SITIENEI KEN 2:17:13 7 Christian KREIENBUHL SUI 2:17:47 8 Mohamednur HAMID SUI 2:22:49 9 Patrick NISPEL SUI 2:22:57 10 Oswald REVELIAN TAN 2:24:23 WOMEN: 1 Lisa STUBLIC CRO 2:25:44 2 Tetyana HOLOVCHENKO UKR 2:31:11 3 Tigist Sheni ABDI ETH 2:32:34 4 Esther Macharia WANJIRU KEN 2:38:24 5 Renate WYSS SUI 2:40:54 6 Purity KIMETTO KEN 2:42:40 7 Lucia MAYER-HOFFMAN SUI 2:42:47 8 Daniela AESCHENBACHER SUI 2:48:32 9 Franzi INAUEN SUI 2:52:08 10 Astrid MEULLER SUI 2:53:55 10km MEN: 1 Fabian ZEHNDER SUI 32:37 2 Martin BADER SUI 33:04 3 Andreas KALIN SUI 33:43 WOMEN: 1 Selina UMMEL SUI 38:29 2 Evelyn MEIER SUI 39:05 3 Seraina GLAUS SUI 40:09
9 APRIL 2013: UVU NORTH POLE MARATHON, NEUTRAL POLAR OCEAN
MEN: 1 Gary THORNTON 3:49:29 2 Michel RENAUD 4:34:25 3 Willy STEINSKOG 5:04:02 4 Alvin MATTHEWS 5:14:28 5 Janos KIS 5:24:43 6 Alexander RUDIGER 5:24:48 7 Marcelo ALVES 5:38:28 8 Jonathan BELLARBY 5:38:52 9 Chris BAIRD 5:39:43 WOMEN: 1 Fiona OAKES 4:53:09 2 Stephanie GICQUEL 5:48:56 3 Anna CHERNOVA 7:27:09
14 APRIL 2013: DAEGU INT'L MARATHON, KOREA
Abraham Kiprotich, who serves in the French Foreign Legion and became a French national two years ago, improved his personal best by two seconds to win his first marathon in four attempts. The runners finished just ahead of a thunderstorm, but the wind had hindered the lead runners from 30km onward. It was at that point that Kiprotich took the lead and soldiered on alone to the finish line.
Ten runners got away after 8km and at 15km were on 2:06 pace, but the group then began to break up. Pacemakers finished duty at 30km at which point Kiprotich immediately drew clear of his two remaining rivals, going on to win by a 400-metre margin.
Margaret Akai, who had already improved her best time by more than eight minutes when finishing third in the Shanghai Marathon last December in 2:24:17, won in another personal best. Second-placed Mulu Seboka also improved her best by two minutes.
More than 16000 started the race in the host city of the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
MEN: 1 Abraham KIPROTICH FRA 2:08:33 2 Boniface MVUBI KEN 2:09:43 3 Debebe TOLOSSA ETH 2:10:23 WOMEN: 1 Margaret AKAI KEN 2:23:28 2 Mulu SEBOKA ETH 2:23:43 3 Agnes BARSOSIO KEN 2:24:03
14 APRIL 2013: LODZ MARATHON, POLAND
Karolina Jarzynski broke the Polish national record by 37 seconds.
MEN: 1 Belachew AMETA ETH 2:10:02 2 Stephen KIBIWOT KEN 2:10:04 3 Teferi WODAJO ETH 2:11:23 4 Yared SHEGUMO POL 2:12:12 5 Abate WONDIMEW ETH 2:12:13 6 Ivan BANBARYKA UKR 2:14:27 7 Joseph BIWOTT KEN 2:15:24 8 Tamrat BEKELE ETH 2:16:20 9 Michal KACZMAREK POL 2:16:27 10 Lemma GEMECHU ETH 2:22:15 WOMEN: 1 Karolina JARZYNSKA POL 2:26:44 2 Volha MAZURENOK BLR 2:33:31 3 Hayimanot SHEWE ETH 2:35:49 4 Letay NEGASH ETH 2:36:48 5 Abebech BEKELE ETH 2:41:02
14 APRIL 2013: ABN-AMRO MARATHON ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
The elite men's field included six sub-2:06 runners, but with warm weather and a head wind in the closing stages only Tilahun Regassa dipped under that barrier writes Wim Van Hemert.
The lead group cooperated with each other, and passed through 10km (29:23) on 2:04 pace. By halfway (1:02:05) there were 13 runners together, of which five were pacemakers. The last two pace makers took a seven-strong group to 30km in 1:28:20. As the group began to break up Regassa pushed the pace and opened up a gap as pre-race favourite Getu Feleke, John Mwangangi and Sammy Kitwara tried to follow. The pace then decreased but Regassa kept his leading position. He passed 40km nearly half a minute ahead of Feleke and finished just 11 seconds shy of the best he set when finishing third in Chicago last year, his only other Marathon to date. It was the slowest winning time in Rotterdam since 2009. Feleke, who finished as runner-up for the second year in a row, dropped more than a minute behind in the final kilometres.
Hilda Kibet was level with Kenya's Jemima Jelagat at halfway (1:12:12) and both were on personal best pace. But Jelagat, second in Boston last year, then opened a gap of a few seconds on the home favourite. Behind them Ethiopia's Abebech Afework was running alone in third place, around 80m ahead of team-mate Mekuria Aberume. Kibet remained a few seconds behind Jelagat until 30km (1:42:07), after which the Kenyan was able to maintain her pace while Kibet struggled and was caught by Afework at 32km but held on for third place. Jelagat, meanwhile, went on to smash the 2:29:41 personal best she set six years ago in Frankfurt. Competing in just her second Marathon to date, Afework finished second in 2:23:59, significantly improving upon the 2:27:08 she recorded on her debut in Dubai earlier this year.
MEN: 1 Tilahun REGASSA ETH 2:05:38 2 Getu FELEKE ETH 2:06:45 3 Sammy KITWARA KEN 2:07:22 4 Geoffrey KIPSANG KEN 2:09:12 5 John MWANGANGI KEN 2:09:32 6 Assefa BENTAYEHU ETH 2:09:35 7 Augustine RONO KEN 2:11:41 8 Koen RAYMAKERS NED 2:12:09 9 Edwin Kipchirchir KEMBOI KEN 2:12:58 10 Michel BUTTER NED 2:13:25 WOMEN: 1 Jemima JELEGAT KEN 2:23:27 2 Abebech AFEWORK ETH 2:23:59 3 Hilda KIBET NED 2:26:42 4 Alessandra AGUILAR ESP 2:29:04 5 Merkuria ABERUME ETH 2:29:04 6 Makda HARUN ETH 2:31:59 7 Tone HJALMARSEN NOR 2:35:21 8 Simona MAXIM BEL 2:37:07 9 Barbara SANCHEZ IRL 2:38:41 10 Stefanie BOUMA NED 2:42:08
14 APRIL 2013: SAO PAULO INT'L HALF MARATHON NETSHOES CORPORE, BRAZIL
MEN: 1 Fredison Carneiro COSTA BRA 1:07:07 2 Celio FALCAO BRA 1:07:36 3 Sivaldo Santos VIANA BRA 1:07:42 4 Adriano BASTOS BRA 1:07:59 5 Sebastiao Rodrigues VIANA BRA 1:09:11 6 Gilson Rodrigues DE MIRANDA BRA 1:09:57 7 Vagner Da Silva NORONHA BRA 1:09:58 8 Claudinei Sousa CIRQUEIRA BRA 1:10:03 9 Waldecir Del Monte DOS SANTOS BRA 1:10:08 10 Marcilio Fereirra DA SILVA BRA 1:10:14 WOMEN: 1 Sirlene Sousa DE PINHO BRA 1:20:51 2 Maria Bernadete CABRAL BRA 1:24:56 3 Rozirene Ferreira DE MORAES BRA 1:25:50 4 Daniela Barcelos DE SOUSA BRA 1:27:46 5 Vivian DE OLIVEIRA BRA 1:28:59 6 Flaviana Fereirra CHUNG BRA 1:29:37 7 Suzana Cristina Gottlob GUER BRA 1:32:12 8 Andrea Cavallini FERNANDES BRA 1:32:19 9 Anarley De Conceicao BRITO BRA 1:32:54 10 Ilza Maria MACHADO BRA 1:33:26
14 APRIL 2013: VIENNA CITY MARATHON, AUSTRIA
Defending champion Henry Sugut became only the second athlete to win the Marathon three times, while Halie Gebrselassie did likewise in the Half-marathon writes Jorg Wenig. Flomena Cheyech improved by almost 10 minutes. The 30-year-old Kenyan won by one of the biggest winning margins ever, finishing almost seven minutes ahead. Haile Gebrselassie, in his first race of the year and competing four days short of his 40th birthday, took the OMV Champions Half-marathon staged parallel to the Marathon.
After a very fast start the pace steadied and 11 runners passed through halfway in 1:04:05. By 30km passed, in 1:31:15, the group was down to eight and Sugut's course record of 2:06:58 from 2012 was well out of reach. Sugut then increased the pace and only Solomon Kiptoo and Geoffrey Ndungu managed to stay with him. Sugut made his winning move with 2km to go.
Eyerusalem Kuma and Mesekerem Assefa started fast and at 10km were well within the 13-year-old course record of Italy's Maura Viceconte (2:23:47). But Kuma soon slowed, leaving Assefa as the only one following the pacemaker. She led by 200m at 15km, with Cheych another 200m down, but by halfway Cheych had caught Kuma and was only eleven seconds behind the leader (1:12:28). Soon afterwards she reached Assefa and went ahead at 27km. Cheych went on to record the the third-fastest time in Vienna, almost seven minutes ahead of Assefa Meskerem and a personal best by nearly 10 minutes. Her 67:39 win at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon last month had indicated that she would be in contention for victory.
Ethiopian superstar Haile Gebrselassie was cheered on by masses of spectators along the course, which may have encouraged the fast early pace (14:06 at 5km). Gebrselassie went away at the 10km mark (28:43) but was visibly working hard through 15km and could not break 61 minutes.
A record number of 41,326 runners entered the various events of the Vienna City Marathon, 10,588 of whom were Marathon runners.
MEN: 1 Henry SUGUT KEN 2:08:19 2 Solomon KIPTOO KEN 2:08:34 3 Geoffrey NDUGU KEN 2:08:42 4 Gilbert YEGON KEN 2:10:40 5 Josphat KAMZEE KEN 2:10:49 6 Edeo MAMO ETH 2:11:54 7 Ishmael BUSHENDICH KEN 2:12:30 8 Luke KIBET KEN 2:15:16 WOMEN: 1 Flomena CHEYCH KEN 2:24:34 2 Meskerem ASSEFA ETH 2:31:18 3 Eyerusalem KUMA ETH 2:32:24 4 Emily SAMOEI KEN 2:32:48 5 Nonata Da Silva CRUZ BRA 2:35:48 6 Michele CHAGAS BRA 2:38:59 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Haile GEBRSELASSIE ETH 1:01:13 2 Hosea KIPKEMBOI KEN 1:02:01 3 Mekuant AYENEW ETH 1:02:21
15 APRIL 2013: BAA BOSTON MARATHON, USA
Lelisa Desisa won his first Boston Marathon and Rita Jeptoo her second writes Parker Morse. Both were highly tactical races which preceded the atrocity committed on the finish line by about two and a half hours. That was when two bombs, packed with shrapnel, were detonated only yards away from the finish line and killed three people, wounding at least 100 more, many of them seriously. Swift action by the Police in locking down the crime scene meant that no one much over a 4.5 hour schedule was able to finish the race or reclaim their baggage.
But what had happened a couple of hours earlier was the race story: Jeptoo, whose previous Boston win came back in 2006, took command of a late-race bid to reel in early leaders Yolanda Caballero and Ana Dulce Felix, and then smashed all remaining challengers over the final mile.
The women started 28 minutes before the men, departing from the rural western suburb of Hopkinton at 09:32 on the point-to-point course. Conditions were cool and sunny with little wind. Caballero was part of a small early lead pack, and hung on alone when the others fell back. Running alone past the half-way mark, Caballero was eventually caught by Felix a little before the infamous Newton hills, a series of three climbs culminating in "Heartbreak Hill" before the course descends into Boston proper. Running aggressively, Felix built up a lead of as much as 1:16 over the chase pack, mostly out of sight of her pursuers.
Jeptoo led half of the chase pack in a charge which closed Felix's margin in the three miles following Heartbreak Hill. Felix could only watch helplessly as Jeptoo, World Half-marathon champion Meseret Hailu, defending champion Sharon Cherop, and Shalane Flanagan tore past her. Jeptoo finally gained clear ground at 40km and earned her second Boston Marathon victory six years after her first. Nobody has won two Boston Marathons so far apart since John A Kelley in 1935 and 1945.
This race was the second Boston Marathon for Lelisa Desisa who got away from Marathon debutante Micah Kogo slightly earlier than Jeptoo had managed. The men hit halfway in a relatively pedestrian 1:04:44, but then the pack of 11 began to thin out. By 20 miles it was down to five, and although defending champion Wesley Korir appeared in front around 36km, Desisa made another surge in the next mile to trim the field down to the three who would ultimately make up the podium.
With his victory here in Boston, Desisa maintains his perfect record in his burgeoning Marathon career, having won in Dubai in January on his debut with a world-leading clocking of 2:04:45. American hopes had to be satisfied with fourth-place finishes in both races. Jason Hartmann took fourth for the men in 2:12:12, and Flanagan, the 2008 Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist, was fourth for the women in her first run at Boston. Kara Goucher, third here in 2009 and the 2007 World Championships bronze medallist at 10,000m, was sixth. 1984 Olympic gold medallist Joan Benoit Samuelson, a former two-time Boston winner now aged 55, ran 2:50:29 to set a new world age-group best, taking almost two minutes off the previous mark.
MEN: 1 Lelisa DESISA ETH 2:10:22 2 Micah KOGO KEN 2:10:27 3 Gebreziabher GEBREMARIAM ETH 2:10:28 4 Jason HARTMAN USA 2:12:12 5 Wesley KORIR KEN 2:12:30 6 Markos GENETI ETH 2:12:44 7 Dickson CHUMBA KEN 2:14:08 8 Geoffrey HUNT AUS 2:14:28 9 Daniel TAPIA USA 2:14:30 10 Craig LEON USA 2:14:38 WOMEN: 1 Rita JEPTOO KEN 2:26:25 2 Meseret HAILU ETH 2:26:58 3 Sharon CHEROP KEN 2:27:01 4 Shalane FLANAGAN USA 2:27:08 5 Tirfi TSEGAYE ETH 2:28:01 6 Kara GOUCHER USA 2:27:08 7 Madai PEREZ MEX 2:28:59 8 Diane Nkuri-JOHNSON BDI 2:29:54 9 Ana Dulce FELIX POR 2:30:05 10 Sabrina MOCKENHAUPT GER 2:30:09
20 APRIL 2013: PARDUBICE WINE HALF MARATHON, CZECH REPUBLIC
MEN: 1 John TANUI KEN 1:04:23 2 Joel KOSGEI KEN 1:04:23 3 Vit PAVLISTA SVK 1:05:35 4 Jakub BAJZA CZE 1:07:18 5 Petr PECEK CZE 1:07:49 6 Dziuba BOGDAN POL 1:09:40 7 Martin KUCERA CZE 1:10:42 8 Pavel BRYDL CZE 1:10:48 9 Radek HUBL CZE 1:10:50 10 Roman ARBET SVK 1:12:44 WOMEN: 1 Ivana SEKYROVA CZE 1:14:06 2 Petra PASTOROVA CZE 1:14:10 3 Petra KAMINKOVA CZE 1:18:07 4 Marta FENDOVA CZE 1:20:28 5 Tatiana METELKOVA CZE 1:21:38 6 Katerina KRIEGELOVA CZE 1:22:14 7 Sarka MACHATCKOVA CZE 1:23:26 8 Lenka KRALOVA CZE 1:25:20 9 Hana VEJROSOVA CZE 1:26:22 10 Iva MILESOVA CZE 1:26:28
21 APRIL 2013: ALEXANDER THE GREAT MARATHON, GREECE
MEN: 1 Teklu Geto METAFERIA ETH 2:19:29 2 Debas Abate TEFERA ETH 2:20:20 3 Antonis PAPADIMITRIOU GRE 2:27:10 4 Houssein HMAIDOUCH GRE 2:36:40 5 Manolis SIFAKIS GRE 2:42:32 6 Janis ACTINS LAT 2:44:01 7 Georgios SIKALOS GRE 2:45:02 8 Alexios VASILIOU GRE 2:45:44 9 Evaggelos GKIKAS GRE 2:47:41 10 Nikolaos KOSTAKIS GRE 2:48:40 WOMEN: 1 Magdalini GAZEA GRE 2:41:46 2 Maria Magdalena LUCA ROU 2:48:46 3 Elena KONSTANTOS GRE 2:56:33 4 Amalia MATTHAIOY GRE 3:18:18 5 Mirsini KOLIFA GRE 3:18:47 6 Oksana OVECHKINA RUS 3:21:21 7 Anna VESYROPOULOU GRE 3:22:30 8 Elina MAKRIDI GRE 3:23:36 9 Marya NIKOLOVA BUL 3:26:14 10 Wendy MARKS GBR 3:29:20 10km MEN: 1 Michail PARMAKIS GRE 31:27 2 Georgios KARAVIDAS GRE 31:45 3 Vasilos POULIOPOULOS GRE 31:47 WOMEN: 1 Sofia RIGA GRE 37:22 2 Eyfrosyni PATOURA GRE 44:03 3 Lamprini LIOUTA GRE 44:21
21 APRIL 2013: DVV ANTWERP MARATHON, BELGIUM
MEN: 1 Abdelhadi EL HACHIMI BEL 2:12:53 2 Kenneth KORIR KEN 2:13:50 3 Florent CAELEN BEL 2:18:20 4 Vincent NARDOZZA BEL 2:27:12 5 Tom VANSLAMBROUCK BEL 2:31:06 6 Andy LELIAERT BEL 2:36:27 7 Gerrit SCHELLENNS BEL 2:38:55 8 Ali VAN HOEBROECK BEL 2:39:06 9 Bart CATTEAU BEL 2:39:22 10 Glen VEKEMANS BEL 2:39:51 WOMEN: 1 Louise DELDIQUE BEL 2:52:36 2 Veronique COENE BEL 3:00:30 3 Ange DAMMEN BEL 3:02:56 4 Trui DEPONDT BEL 3:06:43 5 Heidi VAN MAELE BEL 3:07:25 6 Sylvia LENAERTS BEL 3:14:19 7 Veronique FARRUGIA BEL 2:17:19 8 Gillian ALLEN BEL 3:19:31 9 Sara WUYTACK BEL 3:20:07 10 Ellen SUETENS BEL 3:20:41 10 MILES MEN: 1 Jost TALLOEN BEL 59:10 2 Bart WILLEMS BEL 59:17 3 Ivan VAN EETVELT BEL 1:01:20 WOMEN: 1 Marie-Josee VAN EYNDHOVEN BEL 1:14:10 2 Greet ROEYMANS BEL 1:22:55 3 Janiek VAN DER DONCKT BEL 1:24:22
21 APRIL 2013: BELGRADE MARATHON, SERBIA
Edwin Kiplagat Kitum triumphed over 395 others by more than five minutes. Times were slowed by hot conditions and the tough course. Olivera Jevtic's performance was all the more outstanding, as she finished fifth overall, not far from her own course record. Her potential rival Kenyan Celina Chemunge Chelimo failed to keep pace and dropped out of the race at 30km.
Carl Lewis and Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic started the race. The Belgrade Marathon Ltd president and famous basketball player Aleksandar Sasa Dordevic and Ambassador of the European Union in Belgrade, Vincent Degert then joined the marathoners.
There were 2373 participants in the half-marathon and the 5km "Kurir Run for Life" had over 10,000 participants.
MEN: 1 Edwin Kiplagat KITUM KEN 2:19:34 2 Eluid Kibet KIRUI KEN 2:24:40 3 Boash Mayaka ONGAGA KEN 2:30:43 4 Stanley KIPRUTO KEN 2:36:11 5 Kristijan STOSIC SRB 2:37:55 WOMEN: 1 Olivera JEVTIC SRB 2:36:12 2 Lidija MIKLOS SRB 3:05:59 3 Diana GOLEK POL 3:16:48 4 Jelena BREZAC CRO 3:35:57 5 Maja URBAN CRO 3:38:56 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Darko ZIVANOVIC SRB 1:08:37 2 Mirko PETROVIC SRB 1:11:08 3 Srdan SAMARDZIC SRB 1:12:53 WOMEN: 1 Ana SUBOTIC SRB 1:19:35 2 Anna CELINSKA POL 1:19:49 3 Ksenija BUBNJEVIC SRB 1:23:07
21 APRIL 2013: ENSCHEDE MARATHON, NETHERLANDS
MEN: 1 Isaac KOSGEI KEN 2:09:17 2 Josphat KIPRONO KEN 2:09:34 3 Patrick CHERUIYOT KEN 2:09:48 4 Julius KORIR KEN 2:10:36 5 Kiplimo KIMUTAI KEN 2:14:55 6 Dese ENDRIS ETH 2:16:30 7 Gelgelo Tona OUTOYA ETH 2:17:08 8 Teshome GIRMA ETH 2:21:51 9 Peter BRUINSMA NED 2:39:46 10 Michiel van NISPEN NED 2:41:27 WOMEN: 1 Arenda ABBINK NED 2:59:52 1 Ines Van RINSUM NED 3:00:13 2 Linda MCFARLAND GBR 3:00:57 3 Selina van der VLIET NED 3:03:51 4 Melanie SPRUIJT NED 3:06:30 5 Ylona KRUIS NED 3:10:33 6 Esther Van VROONHOVEN NED 3:15:32 7 Gerry VISSER NED 3:22:50 8 Willy THIO NED 3:27:57 9 Melanie TEUPEN NED 3:41:07 10 Nicolette IBINK NED 3:41:48 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Oprhan van FAASSEN NED 1:10:02 2 Koen VOSSERS NED 1:11:15 3 Jay SAUER NED 1:11:52 WOMEN: 1 Mariska DUTE NED 1:20:24 2 Jacqueline RUSTIDGE GBR 1:21:11 3 Lesley SMIT NED 1:21:11
21 APRIL 2013: HASPA MARATHON HAMBURG, GERMANY
MEN: 1 Eliud KIPCHOGE KEN 2:05:30 2 Limenih GETACHEW ETH 2:07:35 3 Lawrence KIMAIYO KEN 2:10:27 4 Belay ASEFA ETH 2:11:53 5 Marius IONESCU ROU 2:13:33 6 Sibisiso NZIMA RSA 2:13:42 7 Vincent YATOR KEN 2:13:57 8 Henry CHIRCHIR KEN 2:15:11 9 Ricardo RIBAS POR 2:15:43 10 Daniel WOLDU SWE 2:16:32 WOMEN: 1 Diana LOBACEVSKE LTU 2:29:17 2 Maia NEUENSCHWANDER SUI 2:30:50 3 Priscilla LORCHIMA KEN 2:31:23 4 Lisa HAHNER GER 2:31:49 5 Iulia ANREEVA KGZ 2:33:04 6 Kateryna STETSENKO UKR 2:33:35 7 Katharina HEINIG GER 2:34:20 8 Mona STOCKHECKE GER 2:36:50 9 Almaz ALEMU ETH 2:37:22 10 Celine HAUERT SUI 2:39:54
21 APRIL 2013: NAGANO OLYMPIC COMMEMORATIVE MARATHON, JAPAN
MEN: 1 Yuki KAWAUCHI JPN 2:14:27 2 Alexey SOKOLOV RUS 2:15:31 3 Hirokatsu KUROSAKI JPN 2:17:28 4 Kensuke UJIHARA JPN 2:18:13 5 Jun MATSUMOTO JPN 2:19:47 6 Yuta KOYAMA JPN 2:20:43 7 Takahiro INOUE JPN 2:21:06 8 Shota YAMADA JPN 2:23:16 9 Isaias BEYN ERI 2:23:17 WOMEN: 1 Natalia PUCHKOVA RUS 2:30:40 2 Beatrice JEPKEMBOI KEN 2:36:51 3 Seika IWAMURA JPN 2:41:19 4 Mika OKJUNAGA JPN 2:44:21 5 Chihiro TANAKA JPN 2:49:51 6 Yoshimi HOSHINO JPN 2:52:03
21 APRIL 2013: NICE INT'L HALF MARATHON, FRANCE
MEN: 1 Dino SEFIR ETH 1:00:30 2 Yusuf BIWOTT KEN 1:00:33 3 Mule WASIHUM ETH 1:00:35 4 Adugna BIKILA ETH 1:00:35 5 Ezekiel CHEBII KEN 1:01:00 6 Jackson LIMO KEN 1:01:29 7 Robert KAJUGA KEN 1:01:37 8 Anthony MARITIM KEN 1:01:40 9 Simon CHEPROT KEN 1:01:54 10 Andualem SHIFERAW ETH 1:03:01 WOMEN: 1 Elvan ABEYLEGESSE TUR 1:10:29 2 Gladys CHEMWENO KEN 1:11:32 3 Mary WACHERA KEN 1:13:18 4 Hanna JANTUNEN FRA 1:17:24 5 Emilie BARBERO FRA 1:20:04 6 Angelina GOURS FRA 1:24:17 7 Elga CACCIALANZA ITA 1:25:25 8 Loubna IRIZI FRA 1:25:46 9 Manon TESTOU FRA 1:29:09 10 Stefania CANALE ITA 1:29:17 10km MEN: 1 Antoine DE WILDE FRA 30:40 2 William STRUYVEN FRA 31:39 3 Geoffroy SARRAN FRA 31:47 WOMEN: 1 Leila CHAIEB FRA 39:49 2 Christina VINUESA FRA 40:25 3 Eugenie CLERC FRA 40:46
21 APRIL 2013: MARATONA SANT ANTONIO, ITALY
MEN: 1 Roberto Paulo PAULA BRA 2:13:00 2 Paul Kibet KOSGEI KEN 2:14:36 3 Domenico RICATTI ITA 2:15:16 4 Giovanni GUALDI ITA 2:15:32 5 Tayeb FILALI ALG 2:16:49 6 Girma Getachew ABAYU ETH 2:18:17 7 Said DOURIMI MAR 2:20:36 8 Simone WEGHER ITA 2:25:40 9 Francesco CALIANDRO ITA 2:32:46 10 Giuliano VIRGIS ITA 2:35:18 WOMEN: 1 Hanane JANAT MAR 2:36:18 2 Tetyana VERNYGIOR UKR 2:36:36 3 Aynalem WOLDEMICHAEL ETH 2:39:27 4 Silvia SERAFINI ITA 2:48:15 5 Federica LIBERATI ITA 2:53:09 6 Ilaria AICARDI ITA 2:55:56 7 Claudia ANDRIGHETTONI ITA 2:56:59 8 Stefania SATINI ITA 2:58:55 9 Federica POESINI ITA 3:03:21 10 Sabrina RONCAGLIA ITA 3:06:05 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Ruggero PERTILE ITA 1:05:40 2 Giorgio ZANTA ITA 1:11:41 3 Edgardo CONFESSA ITA 1:14:06 WOMEN: 1 Annalisa MINESSO ITA 1:25:59 2 Elisa FONTANA ITA 1:26:03 3 Annamaria LA CARRUBBA ITA 1:27:38
21 APRIL 2013: VANCOUVER SUN RUN 10km, CANADA
MEN: 1 Paul KIMUGUL KEN 29:04 2 Ian BURRELL USA 29:17 3 Edwin KAITANY KEN 29:36 4 Donn CABRAL USA 29:49 5 Willy KIMOSOP KEN 29:51 6 Clifford CHILDS CAN 30:09 7 Rejean CHIASSON CAN 30:31 8 Kevin FRIESEN CAN 30:32 9 David JACKSON CAN 30:36 10 Christian MERCIER CAN 30:41 WOMEN: 1 Natasha FRASER CAN 32:42 2 Lindsey SCHERF USA 33:01 3 Lioudmila KORTCHAGUINA CAN 33:25 4 Lucy NJERI KEN 33:43 5 Dayna PIDHORESKY CAN 34:04 6 Leslie SEXTON CAN 34:18 7 Lisa AVERY CAN 34:37 8 Erin BURRETT CAN 34:42 9 Sabrina WILKIE CAN 34:47 10 Catrin JONES CAN 34:50
21 APRIL 2013: TURIN HALF MARATHON, ITALY
MEN: 1 Nicolas TOGOM KEN 1:02:24 2 Wilson KEBENEI KEN 1:02:42 3 Ahmed NASEF MAR 1:06:29 4 Carmine BUCCILLI ITA 1:06:53 5 Abdelhadi LAAQUINA MAR 1:07:24 6 Francesco BIANCO ITA 1:10:23 7 Davide CESTARIOLLI ITA 1:10:38 8 Luca CERVA PEROLIN ITA 1:12:58 9 Bruno SANTACHIARA ITA 1:12:59 10 Bruno PASQUALINI ITA 1:13:48 WOMEN: 1 Goretti JEPKOECH KEN 1:12:19 2 Fatna MARAOUI ITA 1:12:58 3 Laila SOUFYANE ITA 1:14:19 4 Giorgia ROMANO ITA 1:17:17 5 Ana CAPUSTIN ITA 1:20:01 6 Virginia Maria ABATE ITA 1:20:06 7 Ilaria ZACCAGNI ITA 1:20:58 8 Ilaria CASTIGLIONI ITA 1:21:36 9 Ilaria BERGAGLIO ITA 1:25:16 10 Ignazia CAMMALLERI ITA 1:26:12
27 APRIL 2013: GUNSAN SAEMANGEUM MARATHON, KOREA
MEN: 1 Francis Kipkoech BOWEN KEN 2:12:31 2 William Chebor CHEBON KEN 2:12:34 3 Daniel KEITANY KEN 2:12:36 4 James Kimaiyo CHEBOI KEN 2:14:34 5 Nahash Abebe DUKI ETH 2:15:50 6 Michael Chege KAMUGU KEN 2:16:29 7 Michael Kimani NIUROGE KEN 2:16:45 8 Charles MATWOI KEN 2:17:01 9 David Kiprotich BOWEN KEN 2:17:37 10 Henry Kipkurul KIPSANG KEN 2:17:45
28 APRIL 2013: BIG SUR INT'L MARATHON, USA
Adam Roach and Nuta Olaru successfuly defended their titles in the 28th edition. Olaru had finished the Boston Marathon less than two weeks before.
MEN: 1 Adam ROACH USA 2:27:46 2 Matthew LAYE USA 2:28:42 3 Josh WHITEHEAD USA 2:28:54 4 Michael WARDIAN USA 2:31:54 5 Brian DUMM USA 2:33:25 6 Hermann ACHMUELLER ITA 2:34:52 7 Neil PEARSON USA 2:40:07 8 Ian SHARMAN USA 2:40:25 9 Daniel RENAHAN USA 2:41:55 10 Wayne BLAS USA 2:44:05 WOMEN: 1 Nuta OLARU ROU 2:50:02 2 Heather UTRATA USA 2:54:42 3 Sarah HALLAS USA 2:59:16 4 Michelle CLARKE CAN 3:05:31 5 Melissa RICKMAN USA 3:07:31 6 Alexis SMITH USA 3:07:53 7 Verity BREEN USA 3:09:01 8 Dara STEELE-BELKIN USA 3:09:09 9 Rachel HOPKINS USA 3:10:18 10 Karen SOBRINO USA 3:12:26
28 APRIL 2013: CRACOVIA MARATHON, POLAND
MEN: 1 Patrick NYANGERO TAN 2:19:08 2 David Kiprono METTO KEN 2:24:56 3 Elisha Tarus MELI KEN 2:24:59 4 Andrzej LACHOWSKI POL 2:26:46 5 Grzegorz CZYZ POL 2:36:23 6 Maciej DAWIDZIUK POL 2:36:31 7 Aliaksandr KRUHLENIA BLR 2:36:57 8 Dariusz TRENER POL 2:39:46 9 Siergiej BRUNAREL UKR 2:40:25 10 Tomasz BRACHMAN POL 2:43:20 WOMEN: 1 Emilia ZIELINSKA POL 3:03:15 2 Sandra MIKOLAJCZYK POL 3:03:42 3 Jitka HUDAKOVA POL 3:09:48 4 Adriana SKARBOWSKA POL 3:17:01 5 Anna POZMYSZ POL 3:17:51 6 Joanna OLCHAWA POL 3:19:59 7 Viktorija BONDARENKO RUS 3:20:01 8 Katarzyna WERNER POL 3:20:16 9 Katarzyna KANCLERZ-JANUSZEWSKA POL 3:20:50 10 Magdalena OSTROWSKA-DOLEGOWSKA POL 3:22:34
28 APRIL 2013: ROCK N ROLL MADRID MARATHON, SPAIN
MEN: 1 Francis KIPROP KEN 2:10:37 2 Nickson KURGAT KEN 2:10:34 3 Negata Kitesa HERPASA ETH 2:12:47 4 Elijah SANG KEN 2:14:21 5 Julius CHEPKWONY KEN 2:14:28 6 Abraham CHELANGA KEN 2:14:38 7 Mark TANUI KEN 2:14:53 8 Rafael IGLESIAS DOMINGUEZ ESP 2:16:11 9 Robert NDIWA KEN 2:16:35 10 Moses MWARUR KEN 2:18:57 WOMEN: 1 Vanessa VIEGA COMESANA ESP 2:36:38 2 Desta Girma TADESSE ETH 2:36:44 3 Nina PODNEVESNOVA RUS 2:38:29 4 Gezashing HUnduma GEMEDA ETH 2:43:35 5 Cristina Maria GIURCANU ESP 2:57:22
28 APRIL 2013: METRO GROUP MARATHON DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
Photos: Victah Sailer / photorun.net
Ethiopians Dereje Debele Tulu and Melkam Gizaw took the 11th edition in ideal weather conditions, with 26 year-old Tulu breaking the course record. Pre-race favourite Gizaw ran the second fastest time in Dusseldorf, 35 seconds outside the course record, but she was pushed to 36km by marathon debutante Rebecca Cheshire. There were 14,000 runners entered over all events, with around 4,250 in the marathon.
After split times of 64:18 at half way and 1:16:24 for 25km a course record (2:08:27) did not look likely, especially as the fastest runner entered, Paul Biwott (Kenya/2:06:54), had already dropped back, and later dropped out.
But Dereje Debele Tulu stepped up the pace after 30km (1:31:35). The leading group was stretched and before long he was on his own. But Pius Ondoro gradually closed the gap of around 30m and he caught Tulu at 37km, passing him. Tulu did not wait long before making a second surge. This time, when he went ahead again at 38km, it was game over.
The women's winner, 22 year-old Melkam Gizaw who was third last time, also comes from Addis Ababa. She passed halfway in 1:13:11 but only got ahead of Rose Cheshire at 36km. But the Ethiopian was always confident: "I hoped to run 2:24 today, but I got a hamstring problem in the final 5km."
MEN: 1 Dereje Debele TULU ETH 2:07:48 2 Pius ONDORO KEN 2:08:17 3 Duncan KOECH KEN 2:09:10 4 Shengo KEBEDE ETH 2:09:53 5 Asmare WORKNEH ETH 2:09:56 WOMEN: 1 Melkam GIZAW ETH 2:26:24 2 Rebecca CHESHIRE KEN 2:27:52 3 Agnieszka CIOLEK-MIERZEJEWSKA POL 2:33:36
29 APRIL 2013: OPC 10km DE KHOURIGBA, MOROCCO
MEN: 1 Daniel SALEL KEN 28:07 2 Edwin Mokua NYANDUSEI KEN 28:20 3 Ahmed BADAY MAR 28:26 4 Jaouad LAARISS MAR 28:28 5 Khalid SADDEN MAR 28:30 6 Mourad EL BANNOURI MAR 28:31 7 Ezekiel CHEBII KEN 28:45 8 Hicham ABBOUELABBAS MAR 28:51 9 Taoufique ALLAM MAR 29:01 10 Noureddine ELMOUSSAT MAR 29:08 WOMEN: 1 Joan CHELIMO KEN 31:41 2 Winnie JEPKEMBOI KEB 31:43 3 Birhane Ababel YESHANEH ETH 31:52 4 Selam ABERE ETH 33:00 5 Rakiya EL MOUKIM MAR 33:15 6 Lalla Aziza Alaoui SELSOULI MAR 33:25 7 Samira RAIF MAR 33:43 8 Fatiha BENCHATKI MAR 34:18 9 Zahra EL GOURCH MAR 34:28 10 Hajar EL HADDIQUI MAR 34:33
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