April 2015
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3 APRIL 2015: DEAD SEA ULTRAMARATHON 50km, ORDAN
Deputising for the race's patron, the Crown Prince of Jordan, HRH Princess Dana Feras said: "We are proud of the success the marathon has achieved over the years with respect to organisation, participation and media coverage. It will continue to spread the message of healthy living among Jordanian society and will additionally foster the culture of volunteering."
MEN: 1 Mithqal AL-ABBADI JOR 2:58:19 2 Yousef HASAN JOR 3:03:27 3 Motasem AKKAWI JOR 3:04:35 WOMEN: 1 Hanouya HASBALLAH SUD 3:38:36 2 Chris PEETERS USA 4:01:59 3 Debbie TAI HKG 4:26:51 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Raafat ZBOIUN JOR 1:05:38 2 Ayman AL-SARADI JOR 1:05:51 3 Bashar IRHEIL JOR 1:07:39 WOMEN: 1 Safaa NEMER JOR 1:26:12 2 Amanda MARIE 1:26:12 3 Naheda ALI JOR 1:32:04
4 APRIL 2015: OLD MUTUAL TWO OCEANS MARATHON 56km, SOUTH AFRICA
The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho took two podium places which winner Motlokoa Nkhabutlane put down to their strong focus on group training. The day's biggest surprise was Caroline Wöstmann's win the women's race — the first by a South African since 2001. She improved 70 minutes on her 2014 time. Wöstmann inched her way to the front of the pack until she finally passed Podnebesnova, who had maintained a strong lead until that point, in the final 5km.
Stephen Mokoka successfully defended his Half Marathon title in a sprint finish. The Phalula twins dominated the women's race, with Lebogang winning and her sister Diana (defending her 2014 title) finishing third.
Title Sponsor Old Mutual had originally offered a million-grand prize to anyone breaking the 56km records, but the times set in 1988–89 remain in place for another year.
MEN: 1 Motlokoa NKHABUTLANE LES 3:10:27 2 Collen MAKAZA ZIM 3:12:41 3 Moeketsi MOSHULI LES 3:13:44 WOMEN: 1 Caroline WOSTMANN RSA 3:41:23 2 Nina PODNEBEDNOVA RUS 3:44:04 3 Tanith MAXWELL RSA 3:45:18 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Stephen Lesego MOKOKA RSA 1:04:00 2 Elroy GELANT RSA 1:04:04 3 Joel MMONE RSA 1:04:05 WOMEN: 1 Lebogang PHALULA RSA 1:14:48 2 Mapaseka MAKHANYA RSA 1:15:08 3 Diana Lebo PHALULA RSA 1:15:31
5 APRIL 2015: ALEXANDER THE GREAT MARATHON, GREECE
MEN: 1 Bonsa Atomsa GONFA ETH 2:18:06 2 Silas TOO KEN 2:21:31 3 James EMURIA KEN 2:22:38 4 Tamas NAGY HUN 2:22:49 5 Teklu Getu METAFERIA ETH 2:27:15 6 Kyriakos SYMIRIOTIS GRE 2:27:59 7 Oliver SEBRANTKE GER 2:38:05 8 Markus GRONROS SWE 2:41:23 9 Giannis ZAHARATOS GRE 2:42:49 10 Georgios SIKALOS GRE 2:44:44 WOMEN: 1 Zeritu Wakjira BEGASHAW ETH 2:40:49 2 Stellah BARSOSIO KEN 2:40:54 3 Marija VRAJIC CRO 2:47:51 4 Oksana TEPLYKH RUS 2:48:04 5 Wendy MARKS GBR 3:18:45 6 Elipida SIMEONIDOU GRE 3:24:54 7 Maria TSILIMIDOU GRE 3:29:24 8 Eleni KALLIA GRE 3:39:54 9 Amalia MATTHAIOY GRE 3:30:58 10 Caterina SEIFFERT GER 3:37:42 10km MEN: 1 Henry KEMBOI KEN 30:21 2 Abel Rop KIBET KEN 30:23 3 Evgeniy BYKOV RUS 30:40 WOMEN: 1 Agnes CHEBET KEN 35:34 2 Sonia CEKINI ALB 35:46 3 Panagiota VLACHAKI GRE 35:47
5 APRIL 2015: DAEGU INT'L MARATHON, KOREA
Both recording their second career victories Girmay Birhanu and Meselech Melkamu made it three times in six years that Ethiopian had won both titles in Daegu writes Jon Mulkeen. Birhanu's winning time was the second-fastest recorded while Melkamu finished over two minutes ahead of her nearest rival.
Six men led through the first half, but Birhanu forged ahead in the final miles for an emphatic win. Making his marathon debut, 20-year-old Son Myeong-Jon was the top Korean finisher in fifth.
The women's race played out in much the same way as Melkamu built up an unassailable in the second half of the race. It was her sloweest trime yet but her first victory since her debut in Frankfurt three years ago. Yeum Ko-Eun, the top Korean finisher, improved on her debut time by almost nine minutes. 14,452 runners finished the race.
MEN: 1 Girmay BIRHANU ETH 2:07:26 2 Stephen CHEMLANY KEN 2:08:21 3 Benjamin MUTAI KEN 2:08:54 4 Getachew AVBAYU ETH 2:12:50 5 Myeong-Jon SON KOR 2:14:46 WOMEN: 1 Meselech MELKAMU ETH 2:27:24 2 Dinknwesh MEKASH ETH 2:29:44 3 Ayumi SAKAIDA JPN 2:30:39 4 Tommomi HIGUCHI JPN 2:34:33 5 Ko-Eun YEUM KOR 2:34:41
9 APRIL 2015: NORTH POLE MARATHON, NEUTRAL POLAR OCEAN
MEN: 1 Petr VABROUSEK CZE 4:22:24 2 Douglas WILSON AUS 5:01:38 3 Daniel PALKO SVK 5:08:56 4 Martin MOLSATER NOR 5:30:42 5 Mark COLLINS USA 6:23:04 6 Arthur KADAR HUN 6:48:03 7 Alan DAVISON GBR 6:55:24 8 Michael BAER SUI 7:07:25 9 Jon BRAND AUS 7:23:38 10 Samir PATEL USA 7:25:54 WOMEN: 1 Heather HAWKINS AUS 6:57:39 2 Alice BURCH GBR 7:04:42 3 Jennifer CHEUNG HKG 7:06:06 4 Audrey MCINTOSH GBR 7:13:08 5 Marianna ZAIKOVA FIN 7:39:55 6 Tuedon MORGAN NGR 10:30:49
11 APRIL 2015: KHARKHIV INT'L MARATHON, UKRAINE
MEN: 1 Dmitry PIOZHEVILOV UKR 2:35:01 2 Artem PODDUBNI UKR 2:43:24 3 Vadim SAPA UKR 2:48:53 4 Anatoli BONDARENKO UKR 2:50:11 5 Sergei TARABAN UKR 2:53:14 6 Igor DIDENKO UKR 2:57:11 7 Taras CHORNYI UKR 3:02:39 8 Oleg PICHUGIN UKR 3:03:56 9 Dmitri SOKOLOV UKR 3:06:57 10 Yaroslav GORBUSHKO UKR 3:07:40 WOMEN: 1 Elena SIMONOK UKR 2:35:01 2 Lyubov SUCH UKR 3:24:49 3 Natalya KARAVAN UKR 4:14:23 4 Alla SHULYAK UKR 4:19:10 5 Odariya KROL UKR 4:32:06 6 Darina KORNEYEVA UKR 4:34:10
12 APRIL 2015: AUSTRALIAN RUNNING FESTIVAL
MARATHON MEN: 1 Rowan WALKER AUS 2:26:27 2 Michael CHAPMAN AUS 2:31:25 3 Andrew MCGOWAN AUS 2:37:57 4 Lennon James WICKS AUS 2:38:14 5 Michael DALY AUS 2:41:42 6 Satoshi ASHIDA JPN 2:47:13 7 Peter RUN AUS 2:47:24 8 Timothy MOLESWORTH AUS 2:47:28 9 Rob FOLLETT AUS 2:48:14 10 Sean DUNLEAVY AUS 2:48:47 WOMEN: 1 Fleur FLANNERY AUS 2:53:54 2 Hannah OLDROYD AUS 2:54:26 3 Rebecca ROSEL AUS 2:56:17 4 Kellie EPIS AUS 3:00:52 5 Kim WILMSHURST AUS 3:01:23 6 Serena WOOLDRIDGE AUS 3:01:49 7 Susie LANGKLEY AUS 3:06:03 8 Bronwyn HAGER AUS 3:07:32 9 Sarah CARPENTER AUS 3:18:41 10 Alex RALPH AUS 3:21:51 50km MEN: 1 John DUTTON AUS 2:59:19 2 Craig MCCREDIE AUS 3:07:43 3 Brendan DAVIES AUS 3:08:38 WOMEN: 1 Kelly-Ann VARY AUS 3:31:35 2 Tina MAJOR AUS 3:40:28 3 Lynette DELANEY AUS 4:02:24 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Niel PEARSON AUS 1:11:32 2 Kevin ROBERTSON AUS 1:11:47 3 Brad HETHARIA AUS 1:15:24 WOMEN: 1 Cath CHATTERTON AUS 1:26:15 2 Suzi HEATON AUS 1:26:22 3 Gemma JENKINS AUS 1:26:43
12 APRIL 2015: GUAM INT'L MARATHON
MEN: 1 Yusuke INOSE JPN 2:41:23 2 Yasukazu MIYAZATU JPN 2:44:46 3 Derek MANDELL GUM 2:50:55 4 Ryan MATIENZO GUM 2:54:41 5 Shou TOMITA JPN 3:02:32 WOMEN: 1 Hwa Ryu SUNG KOR 3:08:42 2 Rhea MACALUSO GUM 3:32:29 3 Kaori AKAGAWA JPN 3:41:55 4 Dana BALUK GUM 3:42:19 5 Stacey BEEM GUM 3:54:52 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Shou MATSUMOTO JPN 1:11:43 2 Satoshi KATO JPN 1:14:00 3 Benny VOLKMAN 1:37:12 WOMEN: 1 Manami IIJIMA JPN 1:35:47 2 Minami AIZAWA JPN 1:37:15 3 Yumiko HANSEN 1:39:23
12 APRIL 2015: SUISSEGAS MILANO MARATHON, ITALY
Evergreen Kenneth Mungara, now 41, ran the fastest marathon ever by a runner over 40 — shaving two seconds from the time Mexico's Andres Espinosa ran in the 2003 Berlin Marathon writes Diego Sampaolo. His compatriot Lucy Karimi took the women's title.
Nine men, including pacemakers Emmanuel Kichwen and Asbel Kipsang, went through halfway in 1:04:11. Kipsang and Kichwen passed 30km in 1:31:22, 10 seconds ahead of the group, but after they dropped out it was down to five runners: Mungara, Philemon Baaru, Samson Bungei, Cyprian Kotut and William Koitile This group battled it out until 40km before Mungara broke away with one kilometre to go to beat Kotut, the younger brother of three-time London Marathon winner Martin Lel, by 11 seconds. It was Kotut's debut marathon. Mungara has won 10 of his 21 marathons in a late-blooming career. He only started running seriously in his early 30s, famously deciding to take up the sport when runners featured among his clients at his barber's shop.
The women's lead group comprised three Ethiopians and three Kenyans, including London and New York winner Priscah Jeptoo, who was only aiming to go to 30km. Jeptoo, Lucy Karimi and Geda Ayelu Lemma reached halfway together in 1:11:23. At 30km Jeptoo led through in 1:41:53 10 seconds ahead of Karimi but then dropped out, leaving Karimi alone at the front with an advantage of 54 seconds over Lemma. Karimi steadily increased her margin of supremacy over her Ethiopian rival to more than two minutes at the finish line.
More than 15,000 runners took part in the two main events (5000 in the Marathon and over 10,000 in the mass Relay Marathon representing 2570 teams running for charity organizations. Former marathon world record holder and two-time 10,000m Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie ran on the first leg of the Relay.
MEN: 1 Kenneth MUNGARA KEN 2:08:44 2 Cyprian KOTUT KEN 2:08:55 3 Philemon BAARU KEN 2:09:08 4 William KOITILE KEN 2:09:58 WOMEN: 1 Lucy KARIMI KEN 2:27:35 2 Geda Ayelu LEMMA ETH 2:29:49 3 Fatna MARAOUI ITA 2:33:16
12 APRIL 2015: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC PARIS MARATHON, FRANCE
Mark Korir surprised by running more than a minute faster than his personal best to win the 39th edition writes Miriam Walker-Khan. He overhauled his compatriot Mike Kigen at 37km, after Kigen had tried to run away from the rest of the field at 32km.
The leaders passed halfway in 1:03:23 but the pace steadily increased in the second half and Kigen passed 35km in 1:44:18. Korir later said: "I didn't go off with Kigen… because I wanted to run at my own pace."
Ethiopia's Meseret Mengistu made a huge breakthrough to win the women's race and take almost six minutes off her best time after a thrilling finish with compatriot Amane Gobena. Gobena went ahead with 2km to go only for Mengistu to fight back and go past her in the final 500m. Behind them Visiline Jepkesho also improved her personal best, by over two minutes.
A record 41,342 runners participated with 40% coming from outside France, representing 150 countries. It was the largest field ever outside of the New York City Marathon, which tops 50,000 runners. Chicago is the only other marathon ever to exceed 40000 finishers (40801 in 2014). Starting on the Champs Elysée close by the Arc de Triomphe, runners pass many of the French capital's most historic landmarks, including the Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuilleries, Place Vendome, Louvre, Hotel de Ville, Place de la Bastille, Bois de Vincennes, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Eiffel Tower and the Bois de Boulogne before finishing on the Avenue Foch.
MEN: 1 Mark KORIR KEN 2:05:49 2 Luka KANDA KEN 2:07:20 3 Seboka TOLA ETH 2:07:33 WOMEN: 1 Meseret MENGISTU ETH 2:23:24 2 Amane GOBENA ETH 2:23:29 3 Visiline JEPKESHO KEN 2:24:42 4 Meskere ASSEFA ETH 2:25:58 5 Marta MEGRA ETH 2:26:20 6 Bruktayit ESHETU ETH 2:26:48
12 APRIL 2015: POZNAN HALF MARATHON, POLAND
Over 8000 runners from 27 countries finished the 8th edition, a record attendance. Pawel Ochal took the men's title and his wife Olga won the women's race. It was the first time that spectators in Poznan could acclaim a compatriot as the men's winner, and the second time they could do so in the women's race. "It's a remarkable feeling to win together in the same competition" said Pawel.
The 16th Poznan Marathon takes place on 11 October 2015. See: www.marathon.poznan.pl/en/
MEN: 1 Pawel OCHAL POL 1:08:06 2 Pawel MATNER POL 1:09:32 3 Lukasz KALASZCZYNSKI POL 1:10:44 4 Marcin KESY POL 1:10:47 5 Marcin FEHLAU POL 1:11:33 6 Adam KONIECZNY POL 1:13:17 7 Piotr KSIAZKIEWICZ POL 1:13:45 8 Krzystof GORNY POL 1:13:55 9 Jakub OSUCH POL 1:13:57 10 Maciej LUCYK POL 1:14:00 WOMEN: 1 Olga OCHAL POL 1:14:34 2 Alexsandra PEISERT POL 1:23:40 3 Dorota PAWLOWSKA POL 1:25:25 4 Agnieszka PELC-WANIELISTA POL 1:29:22 5 Justyna PAPIEZ POL 1:29:29 6 Kirsti SONSTABO NOR 1:30:48 7 Iliana JOPEK-LUBIK POL 1:31:09 8 Magda LIPIEN POL 1:31:15 9 Anna WIESE POL 1:31:53 10 Agata TEKIELI POL 1:31:59
12 APRIL 2015: NN MARATHON ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Abera Kuma pulled away from his rivals in the last 7km of the 35th edition writes Cors van den Brink. He nevertheless expressed disappointment, complaining about the wind having prevented him posting a new personal best (2:05:56, 3rd in Berlin last year).
After passing 10km in 29:03 and continuing to rocket around the Dutch port city the pacemakers passed halfway in 1:02:04 with 10 runners on their tail. Just before crossing the Erasmus Bridge again at 25km two pacemakers finished. The final pacer dropped out at 30km leaving two Kenyans and three Ethiopians: Bernard Koech, Kuma, Mark Kiptoo, Tebalu Zuwade and Abayleh Ayele. Koech led forcing the pace to the extent that Zuwade and Ayele dropped back, even though the tempo was slowing. After going around the Kralingse Plas, the lake and park where the Rotterdam Marathon has its roots, Kuma picked up enough to drop Koech and Kiptoo.
In the women's race, a leading group of four quickly fronted the race: Japan's Asami Kato, Ethiopia's Marta Tigabea, Peru's Gladys Tejeda and Kenya's Bornes Kitur. Kato and Tigabea led through halfway in 1:12:03 while Tejeda and Kitur were starting to slip back. Kato forged ahead at around 27km, dropping Tigabea, and eventually finishing almost two minutes clear of her nearest challenger. Tejeda ran a tactically astute race to come through well for second place in a personal best. "It was a good race but I'm a bit disappointed with this time," said Kato, despite improving by more than two minutes.
15,000 runners started the race at a runner-friendly temperature of 12°C but a strong south-westerly breeze reached 4m/s.
MEN: 1 Abera KUMA ETH 2:06:46 2 Mark KIPTOO KEN 2:07:20 3 Bernard KOECH KEN 2:08:02 WOMEN: 1 Asami KATO JPN 2:26:30 2 Gladys TEJEDA PER 2:28:12 3 Krista DUCHENE CAN 2:29:38
12 APRIL 2015: MARATON DE SANTIAGO, CHILE
Luka Rotich Lobuwan broke away before halfway to notch up the first marathon win of his career at ninth edition of the race writes Eduardo Biscayart. He missed the course record by 9 seconds. The 26-year-old Kenyan was in the initial break at 16km, along South Africa's Desmond Mokgobu and Ethiopian Haile Haja, but he went clear.
South American record-holder Ines Melchor made a successful return to the Chilean capital, after finishing second in 2013, by winning the women's race in a new course record. She had only ever run faster in Berlin 2014, when she set the South American record of 2:26:48.
An estimated 28,000 runners took place in all the day's races.
MEN: 1 Luka Rotich LOBUWAN KEN 2:11:53 2 Haile HAJA ETH 2:15:04 3 Desmond MOKGOBU RSA 2:15:16 4 Diego Alberto COLORADO COL 2:17:09 5 Ubiratan JoseDOS SANTOS BRA 2:19:02 6 Yezid Alexander ORJUELA COL 2:19:06 7 Tomas Luna DOMINGUEZ MEX 2:19:13 8 Andres Ruiz MALAVER COL 2:19:52 9 Antonio Sousa LIMA BRA 2:20:18 10 Eugenio Galaz SANHUEZA CHI 2:21:58 WOMEN: 1 Ines MELCHOR PER 2:28:18 2 Goitetom HAFTU ETH 2:30:19 3 Shewarge ALENE ETH 2:34:32 4 Angie Rocio ORJUELA COL 2:34:58 5 Erika ABRIL COL 2:37:34 6 Sueli SILVA BRA 2:39:36 7 Roselaine De Sousa RAMOS BRA 2:42:25 8 Erika OLIVERA CHI 2:44:04 9 Antonia Bernadete LINS BRA 2:46:34 10 Salome Mendoza GUTIERREZ BOL 2:52:05
12 APRIL 2015: SAO PAULO HALF MARATHON CORPORE, BRAZIL
MEN: 1 Vagner da Silva NORONHA BRA 1:07:48 2 Sebastião Rodrigues VIANA BRA 1:08:00 3 Cezidio Alves Rodrigues NETO BRA 1:10:39 4 Joao Carlos Ribeiro CARDOSO BRA 1:10:52 5 Manoel Alves DA SILVA BRA 1:11:11 WOMEN: 1 Ariane MONTICELLI BRA 1:21:47 2 Daniela Barcelos DE SOUZA BRA 1:26:54 3 Suzana Gottlob GUERRELHAS BRA 1:32:09 4 Bárbara Machado MAGALHAES BRA 1:32:27 5 Maria CLAUDIA BRA 1:32:30
12 APRIL 2015: VIENNA CITY MARATHON, AUSTRIA
Sisay Lemma won the 32nd edition in windy and relatively warm weather after breaking away at 27km writes Jorg Wenig. He achieved the biggest winning margin in the history of the race, coming home more than four minutes clear. Pre-race favourite and defending champion Getu Feleke, who clocked a course record of 2:05:41 a year ago, dropped out with a muscle injury just before 17km. At halfway (1:03:07) only Lemma, Kenyan debutant Suleiman Simotwo and pacemaker David Kogei remained. When Kogei stepped aside shortly before 27km Lermma surged ahead and dropped Simotwo.
The women's race was much more competitive. Maja Neuenschwander and Ethiopia's Fate Tola broke away from a group of seven just before 15km. They went through halfway together in 1:13:35, 34 seconds ahead of a group consisting of Anna Hahner, Agnes Mutune, Esther Chemtai and Caroline Chepkwony. Tola, back after childbirth, started to falter at 29km after the last pacemaker dropped out leaving Neuenschwander on her own for the last 10km. But she was being chased and at 35km her lead was down to 17 seconds with Chemtai leading the charge. The 35 year-old Neuenschwander, who has a personal best of 2:29:42, had enough left to hold on for the win. "The wind was the problem, otherwise I would have run faster," she said, admitting that she had hoped to improve on the Swiss record of 2:27:44.
A record number of 42,742 runners from 129 nations entered the various events of the Vienna City Marathon.
MEN: 1 Sisay LEMMNA ETH 2:07:31 2 Duncan KOECH KEN 2:12:14 3 Siraj GENA ETH 2:12:48 WOMEN: 1 Maja Neuenschwander SUI 2:30:09 2 Agnes MUTUNE KEN 2:30:19 3 Esther CHEMTAI KEN 2:30:32 4 Caroline CHEPKWONY KEN 2:30:36 5 Anna HAHNER GER 2:30:50
18 APRIL 2015: PARDUBICE WINE HALF MARATHON, CZECH REPUBLIC
MEN: 1 Maiyo KIMAIYO KEN 1:03:22 2 Mosei KOMON KEN 1:03:23 3 Paul KIPROP KEN 1:05:53 4 Vit PAVLISTA CZE 1:05:58 5 Ondrej FEJFAR CZE 1:07:13 6 Boris CSIBA SVK 1:09:40 7 Lukas KOUREK CZE 1:10:50 8 Jiri BIDMON CZE 1:12:00 9 Mika TOMAS CZE 1:12:31 10 Petrr LOSMAN CZE 1:14:07 WOMEN: 1 G Jepkurui BIWOT KEN 1:17:24 2 Ivana SEKYROVA CZE 1:18:37 3 Marta FENCLOVA CZE 1:20:04 4 Denisa KOZAKOVA CZE 1:22:47 5 Jana KUNCICKA CZE 1:27:03 6 Ivona REJSKOVA CZE 1:31:29 7 Tereza BAYEROVA CZE 1:31:38 8 Julie ROZNOSOVA CZE 1:32:14 9 Kristýna VIDROVA CZE 1:33:03 10 Radka FICOVA CZE 1:33:09
19 APRIL 2015: CRACOVIA MARATHON, POLAND
MEN: 1 Taras SALO UKR 2:17:03 2 Justus Kipchirchir KIPRONO KEN 2:18:56 3 Anatolii ORZECHOWSKIY UKR 2:21:37 4 Julius Kipkorir KILIMO KEN 2:23:16 5 Joel Kosgei KOMEN KEN 2:23:26 6 Silas Kiprono TOO KEN 2:23:55 7 Andrzej LACHOWSKI POL 2:25:24 8 Aliaksandr KRUHLENIA BLR 2:25:51 9 Zbigniew KALINOWSKI POL 2:30:53 10 Jakub WOZNIAK POL 2:35:22 WOMEN: 1 Hellen KIMUTAI KEN 2:43:04 2 Stellah BARSOSIO KEN 2:43:08 3 Elena Daniela CIRLAN ROU 2:43:38 4 VARJIC Marija CRO 2:49:23 5 Olena FEDOROVA UKR 2:52:52 6 Dalia DELEWSKA POL 2:53:59 7 Halnya SHCHENSNA-RADZIKOVSKA POL 2:55:34 8 Anastasia ZAKHAROVA RUS 3:00:20 9 Kamila PERUCKA POL 3:05:24 10 Iwona SULOWSKA POL 3:08:20
19 APRIL 2015: ENSCHEDE MARATHON, NETHERLANDS
MEN: 1 Evans CHERUIYOT KEN 2:09:40 2 Kaleb KESHEBO ETH 2:09:44 3 Edwin KIMAIYO KEN 2:09:47 4 Million FEYESSE ETH 2:12:14 5 Jackson KIPROP UGA 2:13:06 6 Joash MUTAI KEN 2:15:26 7 Fikadu GIRMA ETH 2:27:50 8 Iwan KAMMINGA NED 2:29:40 9 Timothy KARANU NED 2:30:36 10 Arne MULDER NED 2:31:46 WOMEN: 1 Mireille BAART NED 2:51:48 2 Esmé MORICKE NED 2:53:14 3 Ingrid PRIGGE NED 2:55:23 4 Selina Van der VLIET NED 2:59:15 5 Kristel GEEROMS NED 3:15:18 6 Evelien BOSMAN NED 3:19:46 7 Gea SIEKMANS NED 3:20:07 8 Elke SCHEMANN NED 3:31:45 9 Katalin MESZAROS HUN 3:35:36 10 Henriet SCHLOTS NED 3:41:32
19 APRIL 2015: HAJ HANNOVER MARATHON, GERMANY
Photos: Christopher Busch / HAJ Hannover Marathon
31 year-old Kenyan Chesari Jacob prevailed over Chala Bekele in the final kilometre. Algeria's national marathon record holder Souad Ait Salem built a big lead during the second half to win easily. The 36 year-old missed the course record by just 14 seconds. Including all events on race day the HAJ Hannover Marathon had a record entry of over 20,000 runners.
A lead group of 15 runners including three pacemakers reached halfway in 64:08, just inside course record pace. However once the pacemakers dropped out at 25km the pace slackened for around six kilometres with nine runners still in contention. "There was no one pushing and it turned tactical," said Jacob. He then surged ahead around 32km, splitting the group to lead by five seconds at 35km. Bekele caught him at 40km and briefly took the lead but Jacob responded: "I knew I had something left and was confident that I would win" he said.
Ethiopians Kidist Tedla, Ayantu Hailemaryam and Aynalem Woldemichael, defending champion Souad Ait-Salem and Kenyan debutante Maryanne Wanjiru passed 10km in a brisk 34:26. Before reaching halfway Wanjiru dropped out and Tedla and Hailemaryam did later on. With a 1:12:55 half way split only Salem and Woldemichael were left at the front and the Ethiopian dropped back between 25–30km. "During the final 2km I had a cramp in my calf," said Ait Salem, who slowed but still clocked her second best marathon time. "I was not aware that I was that close to the course record so late on."
MEN: 1 Cheshari JACOB KEN 2:09:32 2 Chala BEKELE ETH 2:09:42 3 Martin KOSGEY KEN 2:09:50 4 Munyo MUTAI KEN 2:10:42 5 Augustine RONOH KEN 2:10:45 6 Benjamin KOLUM KEN 2:11:09 7 Weldon KIRUI KEN 2:12:47 8 Patrick KIMELI KEN 2:18:15 9 Dominico RICATTI ITA 2:18:23 10 Habetamu BEYENE ETH 2:19:31 WOMEN: 1 Souad AIT SALEM ALG 2:27:21 2 Olha KOTOVSKA UKR 2:29:13 3 Mapaseka MAKHANYA RSA 2:31:02 4 Vaida ZUSINAITE LTU 2:37:59 5 Aynalem WOLDEMICHAEL ETH 2:38:11
19 APRIL 2015: 8th LAGO MAGGIORE HALF MARATHON
MEN: 1 Solomon YEGO KEN 1:00:47 2 Festus TALAM KEN 1:00:56 3 Cosmas Jairus BIRECH KEN 1:01:05 4 Nicholas BOR KEN 1:01:37 5 Temesegn ERJESSA ETH 1:01:38 6 Atalay TEGEGNE ETH 1:02:30 7 Muhammad GASHU ETH 1:02:34 8 Hoasea MACHARINYANG KEN 1:06:01 9 Kaddour SLIMANI ITA 1:08:35 10 Benazzouz SLIMANI MAR 1:08:59 WOMEN: 1 Sutume KEBEDE ETH 1:09:07 2 Leonida MOSOP KEN 1:10:18 3 Geneta KABELA ETH 1:11:17 4 Yewdar GELAN ETH 1:11:20 5 Hana ABO ETH 1:11:50 6 Lucy LIAVOGO KEN 1:12:13 7 Addisalem MEKONNEN ETH 1:12:53 8 Ayantu DEMISSIE ETH 1:14:04 9 Antonella GRAVINO ITA 1:23:36 10 Giovanna CAVIGLIA ITA 1:24:36
19 APRIL 2015: LODZ MARATON DBAM Y ZDROWIE, POLAND
MEN: 1 Albert MATEBOR KEN 2:11:49 2 Dereje Tadesse RAYA ETH 2:11:57 3 Gelgelo Tona OUTOYA ETH 2:12:08 4 Yared SHEGUMO POL 2:12:14 5 Hassan Omanga MOKAYA KEN 2:12:43 6 Ivan BABARYKO UKR 2:12:45 7 Stephen KIPLIMO KEN 2:12:51 8 Stephen Kipkoech KIBIWOTT KEN 2:15:16 9 Amare ENAYEHU ETH 2:16:47 10 Ihor RUSS UKR 2:29:19 WOMEN: 1 Monika STEFANOWICZ POL 2:29:28 2 Agnieszka MIERZEJEWSKA POL 2:30:55 3 Tatyana VERNYHOR UKR 2:31:34 4 Peninah ARUSEI KEN 2:33:23 5 Makda HARUN ETH 2:33:39 6 Ayelu Abebe HORDOFA ETH 2:35:11 7 Ewa KUCHARSA POL 2:47:24 8 Lilia FISZKOVICZ MDA 2:48:23 9 Svitlana STANKO UKR 2:50:14 10 Izabela TRZASKALSA POL 2:51:38
19 APRIL 2015: NAGANO MARATHON, JAPAN
MEN: 1 Henry CHIRCHIR KEN 2:11:39 2 Tomohiro TANIGAWA JPN 2:11:39 3 Kauhei OGINO JPN 2:11:42 4 Takayu FUKATSU JPN 2:11:48 5 Taiga ITO JPN 2:12:04 6 Shota YAMAGUCHI JPN 2:13:13 7 Tomonori SAKAMOTO JPN 2:13:49 8 Sho KATSUMOTO JPN 2:16:18 9 Topmohito TAKENAKA JPN 2:16:52 10 Akiyuki IWANAGA JPN 2:17:22 WOMEN: 1 Beatrice JEPKEMBOI KEN 2:34:02 2 Eri OOKUBI JPN 2:37:30 3 Yumiko KINOSHITA JPN 2:40:56 4 Syoko MORI JPN 2:41:47 5 Chihiro TANAKA JPN 2:44:11 6 Melika MEJDOUB MAR 2:50:05 7 Catherine NDEREBA KEN 2:50:52 8 Akane MUTOZAKI JPN 2:51:30 9 Kiyoko SHIMIHARA JPN 2:56:33 10 Eri ITO JPN 3:01:29
19 APRIL 2015: MARATONA SANT ANTONIO, ITALY
MEN: 1 Robert Kiplimo KIPKEMBOI KEN 2:09:32 2 Pierre Celestine NIHORIMBERE BDI 2:15:35 3 Giovanni GUALDI ITA 2:16:15 4 Giuseppe MURA ITA 2:24:39 5 Antonio SANTI ITA 2:27:26 6 Claudio TANZI ITA 2:32:35 7 Michele Bedin SALCUS ITA 2:32:57 8 Giuliano VIRGIS ITA 2:33:12 9 Yayha BOUDOUMA ITA 2:34:54 10 Luigi LAI ITA 2:36:33 WOMEN: 1 Nancy Githanga WAIGUMO KEN 2:41:28 2 Simona SANTINI ITA 2:43:41 3 Claudia GELSOMINO ITA 2:46:16 4 Paola DAL MAS ITA 2:49:46 5 Elisa MEZZELANI ITA 2:57:29 6 Monica BACCANELLI ITA 2:58:55 7 Francesca CAPOBELLI ITA 3:06:30 8 Elena BORTOLATO ITA 3:09:23 9 Cristina PITONZO ITA 3:09:36 10 Chiara MORAS ITA 3:10:41
19 APRIL 2015: VANCOUVER SUN RUN 10km, CANADA
MEN: 1 Luke PUSKEDRA 28:53 2 Daniel KIPKOECH 28:58 3 Leonard KIPKOECH 29:05 4 Kip KANGOGO 29:44 5 Declan WHITE 29:58 6 Kelly WIEBE 30:01 7 Benard NGENO 30:05 8 Willy KIMOSOP 30:20 9 Trevor HOFBAUER 30:42 10 Theo HUNT 30:44 WOMEN: 1 Risper GESABWA KEN 32:28 2 Natasha WODAK CAN 32:34 3 Jane MURAGE KEN 33:17 4 Lindsey SCHERF 33:30 5 Lindsay CARSON 33:51 6 Catherine WATKINS 33:52 7 Laura BATTERINK 34:23 8 Dayna PIDHORESKY 34:43 9 Lauren JOHNSON 35:13 10 Maria ZAMBRANO 35:33
19 APRIL 2015: 30th TELEKOM VIVICITTA HALF MARATHON, HUNGARY
MEN: 1 Istvan VARGA HUN 1:11:31 2 Daniel SOOS HUN 1:12:04 3 Martin CHOUTEAU FRA 1:12:16 4 David BARTOS HUN 1:13:04 5 Daniel VARGA HUN 1:13:28 6 Csaba CSIKOS HUN 1:13:58 7 Balazs KOMOCSIN HUN 1:14:29 8 Stefano ZENNARO ITA 1:14:30 9 Bence JOSZA HUN 1:14:34 10 Szabolcs BEDA HUN 1:14:52 WOMEN: 1 Krisztina Merenyi TIMEA HUN 1:20:32 2 Reka BRASSAY HUN 1:23:23 3 Lilla ROZSNYAI HUN 1:24:37 4 Petra Prokoppne TEVELI HUN 1:24:53 5 Kirsti SKATOJ NOR 1:26:35 6 Valeria Birone MOLNAR HUN 1:27:41 7 Rita HORVATH HUN 1:28:08 8 Kata MAUKS HUN 1:28:21 9 Eniko CSAKI HUN 1:29:13 10 Krisztina KARASZ HUN 1:29:28 10km MEN: 1 Zsolt KOSZAR HUN 30:08 2 Darius FARKAS HUN 30:27 3 Akos MOLNAR HUN 31:20 WOMEN: 1 Simona STAICU HUN 35:58 2 Aniko KALOVICS HUN 36:40 3 Zita BAUIGE-MEZEI HUN 36:55
19 APRIL 2015: 13th ZURICH MARATHON, SWITZERLAND
Yoshiko Sakamoto had no rival in the women's race. She took the lead soon after the start and increased it to almost eight and a half minutes by the finish. Behind her Nicola Spirig carefully paced herself to the best Swiss performance of the day. After dropping to fifth place at times the Olympic triathlon champion posted the fastest time for the final kilometre and moved up into second place.
The men's race was tactical. A lead group of 10 (in which Yuki Kawauchi was the only non-African) held together all the way to 35km. Edwin Kemboi Kyeng then made the decisive move: "no one showed any interest in taking charge (so) I decided to go... and I managed to drop the others." Behind him Kawauchi had descended to a lowly 7th place before he upped his pace and managed to move up to second in the final 2km with Gebre Mekuant Ayenew only three seconds behind.
MEN: 1 Edwin KEMBOI KEN 2:11:35 2 Yuki KAWAUCHI JPN 2:12:13 3 Gebre Mekuant AYENEW ETH 2:12:17 4 Richard Kiprono BETT KEN 2:12:38 5 Boaz KIPYEGO KEN 2:12:59 6 Emanuel SIKUKU KEN 2:13:10 7 Edwin Kiprop KORIR KEN 2:13:34 8 Robert NDIWA KEN 2:13:41 9 Alexey SOKOLOV RUS 2:14:45 10 Andrey SAFRONOV RUS 2:15:48 WOMEN: 1 Yoshiko SAKAMOTO JPN 2:37:47 2 Nicola SPIRIG SUI 2:46:09 3 Mary FARDELL AUS 2:46:39 4 Daniela AESCHBACHER SUI 2:47:38 5 Jeannine KASKEL GER 2:51:45 6 Astrid MULLER SUI 2:53:18 7 Jutta BROD GER 2:53:43 8 Nicole FROHLICH SUI 2:54:13 9 Michele GANTNER SUI 2:54:22 10 Corinne VELTHUIJS SUI 2:54:59 CITYRUN 10km: MEN: 1 Christian MATHYS SUI 30:02 2 Mohamednur HAMD SUI 30:03 3 Pekka ROPPO GER 31:45 WOMEN: 1 Franziska MEIER SUI 36:29 2 Rebi WINZELER SUI 36:41 3 Regula ROHRBACH SUI 37:06
20 APRIL 2015: 119th BAA BOSTON MARATHON, USA
Leslisa Desisa regained the Boston crown he won in 2013 while Caroline Rotich scored the biggest win of her career writes Parker Morse.
Desisa hadn't won a marathon since his victory two years ago in Boston. After his runner-up finish in Moscow, Desisa did not finish Boston in 2014, and then lost a close duel with Wilson Kipsang in New York City last autumn and filled yet another second place in Dubai this January.
With overcast skies, occasional rain and an occasional headwind nobody wa nted to lead. Desisa just stayed in contact, amid a lead pack of more than a dozen, until late in the race. Ten men crested "Heartbreak Hill" together, and but then the pack thinned to three: 2012 champion Wesley Korir, Desisa and Ethiopia's Yemane Tsegay. Korir soon fell back to eventually finish fifth while Tsegay hung on longer, closing the gap on Desisa more than once but unable to get away. Desisa became the third Ethiopian man to won the Boston Marathon in this century and the first to win a second time.
Rotich left her victory much later as yet again the women's race came down to the final strides on Boyleston Street. Buzunesh Deba dropped back with a kilometre to go but Rotich had to burn off Mare Dibaba in the final metres. As Dibaba faltered Rotich stole a somewhat flattering victory margin of four seconds. Dibaba, the current world leader with her 2:19:52 run in Xiamen, admitted: "I was confident that I could win, but at the end I saw I would have to settle for second."
MEN: 1 Lelisa DESISA ETH 2:09:17 2 Yemane TSEGAY ETH 2:09.48 3 Wilson CHEBET KEN 2:10:22 4 Bernard KIPYEGO KEN 2:10:47 5 Wesley KORIR KEN 2:10:49 6 Frankline CHEPKWONY KEN 2:10:52 7 Dathan RITZENHEIM USA 2:11:20 8 Meb KEFLEZIGHI USA 2:12:42 9 Tadese TOLA ETH 2:13:35 10 Vitaliy SHAFAR RUS 2:13:52 WOMEN: 1 Caroline ROTICH KEN 2:24:55 2 Mare DIBABA ETH 2:24:59 3 Buzunesh DEBA ETH 2:25:09 4 Desiree LINDEN USA 2:25:39 5 Sharon CHEROP KEN 2:26:05 6 Caroline KILEL KEN 2:26:40 7 Aberu KEBEDE ETH 2:26:52 8 Shure DEMISE ETH 2:27:14 9 Shalane FLANAGAN USA 2:27:47 10 Joyce CHEPKIRUI KEN 2:29:07
25 APRIL 2015: FJORDKRAFT BERGEN CITY MARATHON, NORWAY
MEN: 1 Kenneth SMEBY NOR 2:43:37 2 Erlend AANO NOR 2:48:37 3 Oscar AUBI ESP 2:50:19 4 Christopher BENNETT NOR 2:50:49 5 Thomas RONN-AAR NOR 2:51:46 6 Svein GLOMNES NOR 2:52:39 7 Stian HORDVIK NOR 2:54:11 8 Roar Bakken STOVNER NOR 2:54:44 9 Helland Sondre OVRE NOR 2:55:27 10 Jostein HERNES NOR 2:55:28 WOMEN: 1 Åslaug Golf KAARDAL NOR 3:05:16 2 Cecilie KLUNGTVEIT NOR 3:08:46 3 Hanna Sæverås BREIVOLD NOR 3:13:23 4 Kristin HUSBY NOR 3:21:05 5 Christina LINDE USA 3:24:55 6 Kathrine WOIE NOR 3:27:52 7 Tone RAAEN NOR 3:33:51 8 Brenne DREIER NOR 3:37:16 9 Mari BARDVIK NOR 3:38:06 10 Marit UTHEIM NOR 3:38:46
26 APRIL 2015: ALMATY MARATHON, KAZAKHSTAN
MEN: 1 Andrei LEIMENOV KZK 2:35:51 2 Georgii SHEIKO KZK 2:37:50 3 Almat IMASHEV KZK 2:54:20 4 Maksim LESHCHINA KZK 3:01:15 5 Ershan DZHANARSTANOV KZK 3:11:06 6 Isa NAZARBAEV KZK 3:13:38 7 Amir BAITUKANOV KZK 3:15:03 8 Ruslan ZHMAKIN KZK 3:17:19 9 Darkhan ZHARKIMBAEV KZK 3:17:48 10 Sardorbek BEKTAEV KZK 3:18:26 WOMEN: 1 Gulzhanat ZHANATBEK KZK 2:52:18 2 Polina REPINA KZK 3:29:43 3 Ekaterina SHATNAYA KZK 3:35:48 4 Akmaral MEIRMAN KZK 3:37:05 5 Elizabet TEISH KZK 3:56:13 6 Asel ASANOVA KZK 4:19:56 7 Gan LI KZK 4:24:51 8 Diana MERGENBAEVA KZK 4:27:34 9 Alissa ROGOZHINA KZK 4:27:34 10 Anelj SIDIKOVA KZK 4:35:50
26 APRIL 2015: DVV ANTWERP MARATHON, BELGIUM
41300 runners took part in the 30th edition with Nick Van Peborgh winning the 10 Miles in a new record. The very first edition in 1986 drew 800 runners. The marathon runners started first at 9:00. Florent Caelen headed the 2450-strong field in a new course record which met the Rio de Janiero Olympic qualifying standard.
After a brief rain shower Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever started the 10 mile event at 15.00, setting 29,000 runners off in three waves. Around 100,000 spectators lined the streets of Antwerp to cheer them on. Nick Van Peborgh took control of the race for his fourth victory. Only Kim Ruell and Jeroen Hendrikx managed to follow but they had to let Van Peborgh go before entering the Waaslandtunnel.
MEN: 1 Florent CAELEN BEL 2:16:08 10 MILES MEN: 1 Nick VAN PEBORGH BEL 48:04 2 Kim RUELL BEL 48:43 3 Jeroen HENDRIKX BEL 48:57 WOMEN: 1 Veerle VAN LINDEN BEL 56:04 2 Ingrid RHODE BEL 58:52 3 Gwendolyn DE DEYNE BEL 1:00:38
26 APRIL 2015: BIG SUR INT'L MARATHON, USA
MEN: 1 Adam ROACH USA 2:30:48 2 Michael WARDIAN USA 2:33:04 3 Neil PEARSON AUS 2:42:24 4 Chris CALZETTA USA 2:42:40 5 Rich HANNA USA 2:43:15 6 John LITZENBERG USA 2:45:31 7 Ian BLACKWELL USA 2:46:33 8 Kyle AITKEN CAN 2:47:31 9 Jason JOHNS USA 2:48:22 10 Mark LOUDON-BROWN USA 2:50:33 WOMEN: 1 Malia CROUSE USA 2:57:02 2 Christine TARANTO USA 2:59:34 3 Veronica TYSSELAND USA 3:02:49
26 APRIL 2015: CAF CARACAS MARATHON
MEN: 1 Jose CARDONA COL 2:22:09 2 Juan Carlos CARDONA COL 2:22:51 3 Didimo SANCHEZ VEN 2:24:09 4 Pedro ESPINOSA 2:26:06 5 Manuel BELLORIN VEN 2:27:14 WOMEN: 1 Leidy TOBON COL 2:50:32 2 Sonia CALIZAYA BOL 2:51:18 3 Rosa ROMERO PER 2:55:54 4 Belgica DUQUE VEN 2:58:33 5 Adriana MARTINEZ 3:10:01 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Neido GUILLEN VEN 1:10:17 2 William DIAZ VEN 1:11:25 3 Eudi PIAMO VEN 1:12:15 WOMEN: 1 Zuleima AMAYA VEN 1:21:21 2 Egris ARIAS VEN 1:29:45 3 Eulimarys CAMACARO VEN 1:32:59
26 APRIL 2015: HASPA MARATHON HAMBURG, GERMANY
MEN: 1 Lucas ROTICH KEN 2:07:17 2 Ghirmay GHEBRESLASSIE ERI 2:07:47 3 Stephen CHEBOGUT KEN 2:08:01 4 Philemon RONO KEN 2:08:18 5 Gideon KIPKETER KEN 2:09:34 6 Ser-Od BAT-OCHIR MGL 2:10:15 7 Micah KOGO KEN 2:10:37 8 Tesfaye ABERA ETH 2:10:49 9 Marilson DOS SANTOS BRA 2:11:00 10 Stephen KIBET KEN 2:11:08 WOMEN: 1 Meseret HAILU ETH 2:25:41 2 Sylvia KIBET KEN 2:26:16 3 Beata NAIGAMBO NAM 2:27:28 4 Diana LOBACEVSKE LTU 2:28:57 5 Alina PROKOPEVA RUS 2:29:18 6 Sabrina MOCKENHAUPT GER 2:32:41 7 Maegan KRIFCHIN USA 2:33:30 8 Monica SILVA POR 2:34:02 9 Anja SCHNEIDER GER 2:36:31 10 Nilay ESEN TUR 2:37:09
26 APRIL 2015: VODAFONE ISTANBUL HALF MARATHON, TURKEY
MEN: 1 Evans KIPLAGAT KEN 1:00:13 2 Leonard LANGAT KEN 1:00:16 3 Joseph Kiprono KIPTUM KEN 1:00:17 4 Titus MBISHI KEN 1:00:18 5 Richard Kiprop MENGICH KEN 1:00:23 6 Abraham KOSONGWOR KEN 1:00:25 7 Terefa Deleba DELESA ETH 1:02:46 8 Bersisa DERARA ETH 1:03:04 9 Yohannis BEKELE ETH 1:03:58 10 Lucky MOHALE RSA 1:04:55 WOMEN: 1 Gladys CHERONO KEN 1:06:38 2 Helah KIPROP KEN 1:08:23 3 Muluhabt TSEGA ETH 1:09:22 4 Purity JEBICHI KEN 1:10:34 5 Jane ONYANGI KEN 1:12:05 6 Meseret GONFA ETH 1:12:19 7 Meseret ABEBAYAHAU ETH 1:12:39 8 Maurine KIPCHUMBA KEN 1:15:21 9 Nastassia IVANOVA BLR 1:16:27 10 Albina MAYOROVA RUS 1:16:32
26 APRIL 2015: ROCK 'N' ROLL MADRID MARATHON, SPAIN
Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii successfully defended his title, but rain and chilly conditions kept times slow. Last year Chebii had lowered the course record on the undulating circuit to 2:09:15. He became only the second man to win back-to-back titles since the race was inaugurated in 1978.
Uganda's Thomas Ayeko paced a 12 runners through the opening 10km in 31:16 and seven through halfway in 1:05:26. He dropped out after 25km Kiptoo pushed the pace for much of the next 10km. Five were still together at 35km but Kiptoo always looked the strongest and soon afterwards broke away. Wosen Feleke Demise hung on until 39km and Kipchirchir Koech didn't let go until 2km from home.
Monica Jepkoech sprinted away from Spain-based Ethiopian Marta Tigabea in the last 500m the latter coming home three seconds in arrears. Six women went through halfway in 1:16:57 with Jepkoech, Rose Jepchumba and Selly Korir for Kenya against the Ethiopian trio of Tigabea, Meseret Legese and Abebech Bekele but the group reduced to three by 32km.
The Kenyan pair of Silas Muturi and Emmanuel Bett looked on course for a fast time in the associated half marathon until the official car guiding the leaders took the wrong route and the pair ran an additional 600m.
MEN: 1 Ezekiel Kiptoo CHEBII KEN 2:12:00 2 Kipchirchir KOECH KEN 2:12:30 3 Pharis KIMANI KEN 2:12:57 4 Wosen Feleke DEMISE ETH 2:13:07 5 Nixon KIPKEOECH KEN 2:13:43 6 Chebon CHEBOR KEN 2:14:52 7 Paul MAINA KEN 2:17:12 8 Jackson KIPKOECH KEN 2:24:07 9 Pablo RODRIGUEZ ESP 2:28:02 10 Christian BENITEZ ESP 2:29:04 WOMEN: 1 Monica JEPKOECH KEN 2:33:42 2 Marta TIGABEA ETH 2:33:45 3 Meseret LEGESE ETH 2:34:32 4 Rose JEPCHUMBA KEN 2:37:36 5 Abebech BEKELE ETH 2:41:26 6 Selly KORIR KEN 2:47:40 7 Cristina GUIRCANU ESP 2:49:25 8 Abbey MCGHEE USA 2:56:45 9 Veronika JURISIC CRO 2:58:10 10 Kamila SHAMSUTDINOVA RUS 2:58:26 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Silas MUTURI KEN 1:03:32 2 Emanuel BETT KEN 1:03:44 3 Edwin KIPSANG KEN 1:04:10 WOMEN: 1 Vanesa COMESANA ESP 1:19:32 2 Lucia PEREGRINA ESP 1:27:28 3 Karin ARTHURSSON 1:28:14
26 APRIL 2015: METRO GROUP MARATHON DUSSELDORF, GERMANY
MEN: 1 Marius IONESCU ROU 2:13:19 2 Abdelhadi EL HACHIMI BEL 2:13:46 3 Marcin BLAZINSKI GER 2:16:08 4 Sibusiso NZIMA RSA 2:16:35 5 Asbjorn Ellefsen PERSEN NOR 2:20:08 6 Wynston ALBERTS USA 2:33:53 7 Adriaan FRANSEN NED 2:35:06 8 Neil SLETTEHAUGH USA 2:38:00 9 Martin HOPS GER 2:38:31 10 Walter MEERT GER 2:38:59 WOMEN: 1 Annie BERSAGEL USA 2:28:29 2 Fabienne GEHLEN LUX 2:55:26 3 Sophia SALZWEDEL GER 3:00:53 4 Lorenza BANCHETTI ITA 3:01:06 5 Elina JUNNILA FIN 3:06:18 6 Katrin WAND GER 3:07:58 7 Gina DREVERS GER 3:10:05 8 Maria WINKLER GER 3:12:03 9 Eva OFFERMANN GER 3:13:14 10 Alanah SONNTAG GER 3:14:17
26 APRIL 2015: MARATON DE MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
MEN: 1 Aguelmis ROJAS URU 2:20:59 2 Dario RIOS URU 2:24:57 3 Eduardo DUTRA URU 2:37:09 4 Diego RODRIGUEZ MORALES URU 2:45:23 5 Juan PENA URU 2:48:20 6 Richard CLAVIJO URU 2:54:47 7 Diego VILARDO NASSO URU 2:56:01 8 Guillermo WINKLER URU 2:56:02 9 Mariano Alberto FERNÁNDEZ URU 2:57:13 10 John TIDD GBR 2:59:00 WOMEN: 1 Maria Laura BAZALLO URU 2:58:28 2 Soledad MORLIO URU 3:06:18 3 Claudia Mercedes ROBLES URU 3:06:28 4 Nelly PORTILLO URU 3:07:26 5 Redon MARISOL URU 3:19:04 6 Laura MORATORIO URU 3:24:56 7 Rosana Elizabeth MOTTA URU 3:31:06 8 Ana DO CARMO BRA 3:41:00 9 Maria GONZALEZ URU 3:45:04 10 Sylvia BELLINI URU 3:48:13 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Ghilmer SILVESTRE LOPES BRA 1:05:43 2 Miguel MALLMABN URU 1:07:05 3 David RODRIGUEZ URU 1:07:11 WOMEN: 1 Marisol CANTARÁ BRA 1:16:26 2 Adriana APARECIDA BRA 1:16:36 3 Necolesa CONDORI URU 1:16:58
26 APRIL 2015: SEMI MARATHON INT'L DE NICE
MEN: 1 James RUNGARU KEN 1:00:12 2 Elijah TIROP KEN 1:00:55 3 Norbert KIGEN KEN 1:01:20 4 Tubuja MEGERSA ETH 1:01:39 5 John THUO KEN 1:02:35 6 Teshome MERGA ETH 1:03:01 7 Geoffrey KOECH KEN 1:03:29 8 Merkebu AYELE ETH 1:04:02 9 Kennedy KIPYEKO KEN 1:04:09 10 Isaac BIRIR KEN 1:06:52 WOMEN: 1 Ednah KIMAIKO KEN 1:10:45 2 Hirut ALEMAYEHU ETH 1:14:01 3 Nelly BAUDA FRA 1:21:16 4 Elise ORTEN FRA 1:22:49 5 Fatima KORICHI FRA 1:23:53 6 Aude KIENZLER 1:24:25 7 Siham HOSNI 1:26:32 8 Regina GUTIERREZ 1:28:21 9 Amandine GUERDOUX FRA 1:28:29 10 Pauline PHULPIN FRA 1:28:56
26 APRIL 2015: ROADS TO RHODES MARATHON, GREECE
MEN: 1 Nikolaos SKOYTARIS GRE 2:44:31 2 Manolis SIFAKIS GRE 2:47:08 3 Ioannis POLYMENIS GRE 2:54:30 4 Blasis KARABASILIS GRE 2:57:45 5 Isidoris PALAMARIS GRE 3:10:20 6 Sotirios MPOYLOYTSOS GRE 3:18:13 7 Guido VAN NYEN BEL 3:20:43 8 Basileios PATSIS GRE 3:23:06 9 Emmanoyil TSIKNIS GRE 3:25:05 10 Philippe BARRET FRA 3:25:08 WOMEN: 1 Rania REMBOULI GRE 2:43:54 2 Xristina DEMESTIXA GRE 3:33:50 3 Jane MARTIN GBR 4:32:56 4 STERGIOYLA PAPADOPOYLOY GRE 4:35:38 5 Maria LEYKADITI GRE 4:40:32 6 Claire-Louise HUMPHREYS GBR 4:47:30 7 Andromaxi ELEYTHERIOY GRE 5:05:26 8 Nektaria PAPATHANASAKI GRE 5:19:20 9 Rachel BYRNE GBR 5:35:00
26 APRIL 2015: ORLEN WARSAW MARATHON, POLAND
Hayle Lemi Berhanu claimed his third win in three marathons in a race in which the top six men finished within 32 seconds writes Pawel Jackowski.
More than a dozen runners passed 10km in exactly 30:00 and halfway in 1:03:31. The only European among them was the Polish record holder Henryk Szost. After 30km (1:30:47) the group began to break up, with seven left to contest the race. Of these six were still together at 40km point. With a kilometre to go Berhanu broke away, apparently little troubled by the competition.
In the women's race Fatuma Sado broke the course record by nearly two minutes. It was down to five by 10km and the same quintette passed halfway in 1:14:00. From there the pace steadily increased until by 30km it was Sado against Mercy Kibarus. They were still together at 35km but with 5km to go Sado started to build a lead which by 40km had grown to 17 seconds. She pressed on to the finish to set a new course record and Polish all-comers record, but fell 46 seconds short of her personal best.
MEN: 1 Hayle Berhanu LEMI ETH 2:07:57 2 Robert KWEMOI KEN 2:08:05 3 Markos GENETI ETH 2:08:11 4 Amanuel MESEL ERI 2:08:18 5 Richard SIGEI KEN 2:08:28 6 Elijah KEMBOI KEN 2:08:29 7 Debebe TOLOSSA ETH 2:09:52 8 Abdisa BEDADA ETH 2:10:04 9 Henryk SZOST POL 2:10:11 10 Samuel THEURI KEN 2:10:53 WOMEN: 1 Fatuma SADO ETH 2:26:25 2 Mwercy KIBARUS KEN 2:27:06 3 Chaltu TAFA ETH 2:29:30 4 Maryna DAMANTSEVICH BLR 2:30:07 5 Bizuayehu EHITU ETH 2:32:19 6 Seada KEDIR ETH 2:35:19 7 Gladys KWAMBAI KEN 2:36:14 8 Sitora KHAMIDOVA UZB 2:41:49 9 Tunde SZABO HUN 2:48:52 10 Izabela PARSZCZYNSKA POL 2:49:46 10km MEN: 1 Hillary Kimaiyo MAIYO KEN 28:45 WOMEN: 1 Dominika NAPIERAJ POL 32:46
27–30 APRIL 2015: 100km DEL SAHARA, SENEGAL
STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 OVERALL MEN: 1 Jurgen BAUMANN GER 1:09:23 3:46:47 2:27:08 1:48:08 9:11:26 2 Mari ROBERTO ITA 1:19:31 4:27:09 2:32:55 1:51:08 10:10:43 3 Thomas DORR GER 1:24:56 4:24:35 2:35:12 1:55:41 10:20:24 4 Christian SILVI ITA 1:16:54 4:40:34 2:51:43 1:49:24 10:38:35 5 Abutbul Asaf ISR 1:20:09 4:47:28 2:51:00 2:03:03 11:01:40 6 Fabio SEGONI ITA 1:25:43 4:48:54 3:11:37 1:55:13 11:21:27 7 Luigi PAGANI ITA 1:23:20 5:09:58 2:50:14 2:00:00 11:23:32 8 Giuseppe ALLOCCA ITA 1:23:20 5:15:02 2:49:28 2:01:21 11:29:11 9 Giancarlo CONTI ITA 1:21:31 4:44:52 3:15:52 2:08:37 11:30:52 10 Mattias ERHARDT GER 1:29:05 5:05:31 3:17:15 2:11:39 12:03:30 WOMEN: 1 Alice MODIGNANI ITA 1:20:32 4:12:56 2:33:21 1:57:21 10:04:10 2 Claudia GERLING GER 1:24:21 4:31:59 2:34:51 1:57:21 10:28:32 3 Cinzia TENCHINI ITA 1:27:17 4:58:04 2:50:14 2:03:27 11:19:02 4 Merello BARRIOS ESP 1:29:50 4:50:41 3:01:43 2:02:13 11:24:27 5 Melany LOTTEERING NED 1:36:20 4:42:34 3:03:30 2:09:25 11:31:49 6 Cristina OGNIBEN GER 1:24:36 5:09:38 3:05:33 2:21:35 12:01:22 7 Jerry JESCHKA GER 1:35:13 5:18:04 3:19:40 2:29:25 12:42:22 8 Petra REITER GER 1:36:47 5:44:42 3:36:46 2:18:58 13:17:13 9 Karin AUTENRIED SUI 1:33:55 5:09:58 4:26:38 2:09:16 13:19:47 10 Cristine KRANZ GER 1:48:02 5:56:19 3:39:37 2:35:09 13:59:07
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