December 2015
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1–4 DECEMBER 2015: 100km OF THE NAMIB DESERT (4 daily stages), NAMIBIA
MEN:
1 Francesco VALENTINI 9:07:17
2 Paolo CORINALDESI 9:53:03
3 Michael HAUM 10:16:42
4 Tobias VERWEY 10:44:58
5 Andre CARPENTIER 12:12:05
6 Danie1 THORIG 12:53:20
7 Andrej ALECHIN 12:56:56
8 Petr LUKES 13:19:22
9 Fausto GALLI 13:28:25
10 Benedikt SCHMID 13:29:29
WOMEN:
1 Daniela CARPANI 11:44:20
2 Alexa GIACONE 11:55:00
3 Vera ZITZMAN 11:58:39
4 Claudia MEIER 12:00:46
5 Ursula MEYER 13:12:25
6 Claudia PIETSCH 13:19.29
7 Suzanne SENALDI MOISAN 15:03:49
8 Giorgia BERETTA 15:07:46
9 Chiara ZOPPELLI 16:26:34
10 Shir REGEV 18:39:54
4 DECEMBER 2015: AYLA RED SEA HALF MARATHON, JORDAN
MEN:
1 Defalla HAMAD 1:11:08
2 Stephen SCHELANDER 1:12:19
3 Bashar RHEAL 1:13:52
4 Mohammad KHAWALDEH 1:14:32
5 Ziad NWERAT 1:16:38
6 Abdullah ALBASHA 1:19:09
7 Refa`at FAHED 1:20:37
8 Atia ATIA 1:21:22
9 Motasem AKAWI 1:21:32
10 Mohammad BTOOSH 1:21:59
WOMEN:
1 Hanoia HASBALLA 1:24:50
2 Heidi SCHELANDER 1:33:14
3 Samah AL NAJAR 1:34:51
4 Hannah SZABO 1:35:23
5 Camille THOMAS 1:39:19
6 Melissa VALKEN 1:42:48
7 Morgan BRANNI 1:53:54
8 Zakiyyah BLOUNT 1:54:39
9 Wencke MUELLER 1:54:39
10 Natasha SKRESLET 1:55:31
5 DECEMBER 2015: BENGALURU MIDNIGHT MARATHON, INDIA
MEN: 1 Mesfen Melse BALCHA ETH 2:23:52 2 Samuel Waithaka MAINA KEN 2:31:26 3 Santhosh IND 2:33:27 WOMEN: 1 Hailemariyam Rahel WORKU ETH 2:58:58 2 Hirawati Patel IND 3:53:50 3 Mallika K N IND 4:28:39 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Dega Bulo BEYSSA ETH 1:05:06 2 Samuel Kamau MUHUTHU KEN 1:05:08 3 Lemlemu Ermiyas YEMATA ETH 1:08:14 WOMEN 1 Gubachew Etagegn ESHETE ETH 1:26:37 2 Tefera Hiwot ADENEW ETH 1:26:43 3 Hana TRHONOVA UKR 1:45:41
5 DECEMBER 2015: 69th FUKUOKA OPEN INT'L MARATHON CHAMPIONSHIP, JAPAN
Kenya's former world record holder Patrick Makau successfully defended his in 2:08:18 the first to win back-to-back since Ethiopia's Tsegaye Kebede in 2008 and 2009 writes Ken Nakamura. "After the pacemakers dropped out at 25km, everyone was waiting to see who is going to take over the lead," said Makau.
Until then runners were very close to 3 mins/km pace for a time around 2:07:00. But it abruptly slackened to 3:07 for the next kilometre and the never recovered. 30km was passed in 1:30:49, with 10km to go at 32km, the lead pack was down to Makau, his compatriot Bernard Koech, Ethiopia's Feleke and local Japanese hope Satoru Sasaki. Just before 35km Koech surged but Makau quickly moved up to join Koech. Makau made his own move with 5km to go ahead but did then did just enough to keep ahead.
2:08:18 was the world record time that Australia's Rob De Castella ran in the 1981 Fukuoka Marathon 34 years ago. Feleke and Sasaki both passed Koech in the closing stages. Kenya's world record holder Dennis Kimetto fell off the pace after only 3km and dropped out at 5km.
MEN (ONLY): 1 Patrick MAKAU KEN 2:08:18 2 Getu FELEKE ETH 2:08:31 3 Satoru SASAKI JPN 2:08:56 4 Bernard KOECH KEN 2:09:43 5 Chiharu TAKADA JPN 2:10:55 6 Paulo PAULA POR 2:11:02 7 Yoshiki OTSUKA JPN 2:12:46 8 Yuki Kawauchi JPN 2:12:48 9 Ser-od BAT-OCHIR MGL 2:14:19 10 Jose Amado GARCIA ESP 2:15:25
5 DECEMBER 2015: GALAXY ENTERTAINMENT MACAU INTL MARATHON
MEN: 1 Vitaliy SHAFAR UKR 2:14:44 2 Dominic KANGOR KEN 2:15:45 3 Abraraw Misganaw TEGEGNE ETH 2:15:46 WOMEN: 1 Olena SHURKHNO UKR 2:33:24 2 Ruth WANJIRU KEN 2:36:13 3 Ayelu ABEBE HORDOFA ETH 2:36:49 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Joseph NGARE KEN 1:05:19 2 Nelson Neves DA CRUZ CVI 1:07:56 3 David Kipkirui MUTAI KEN 1:08:06 WOMEN: 1 Carla DE JESUS POR 1:18:56 2 Crisolita RODRIGUES CVI 1:29:50 3 Djamila CORREIA STP 1:32:34
5 DECEMBER 2015: STANDARD CHARTERED SINGAPORE MARATHON
Eight men (excluding pacemakers) went through halfway in 1:08:56. Despite Julius Maisei pushing the pace much of the time, the lead pack had only dropped by two at 30km. Maisei continued to dictate the tempo for most of the next 5km still to little effect but when he surged at 35km he was never headed. 2013 Singapore Marathon winner Luka Chelimo came through strongly in the final 5km after trailing the leaders by 14 seconds at 35km but picked off all except Maisei over the next 6km.
Nine women passed halfway in 1:25:16 and 25km in 1:41:00 but over the next 3km marathon debutante Doris Changeywo and fellow Kenyans Peninah Arusei and Sharon Cherop upped the pace to drop all others. After 35km Arusei started to fall back. Then Changeywo started to drop Cherop as they approached 40km. In the final 2km Cherop struggled and Arusei went past her to take second place.
MEN: 1 Julius MAISEI KEN 2:17:24 2 Luka CHELIMO KEN 2:17:30 3 Barnaba KIBII KEN 2:17:38 4 Allan Kiprono KEN 2:18:05 5 Paul MATHEKA KEN 2:19:13 6 Kennedy Kipoo LILAN KEN 2:20:47 7 Geoffrey BIRGEN KEN 2:21:12 8 Charles Kimutai KIGEN KEN 2:22:08 9 Charles KANYAO KEN 2:22:09 10 Collins KIBET KEN 2:22:44
6 DECEMBER 2015: ANGKOR WAT INT'L MARATHON, CAMBODIA
MEN: 1 Ma VIRO CAM 1:16:11 2 Phan SOPEAK CAM 1:21:43 3 Thomas BOOTH 1:22:16 4 Timothy COSULICH 1:24:10 5 Tony SEAKINS 1:24:21 6 Tomotaka FUKAMI JPN 1:25:20 7 Junpei HOSHI JPN 1:25:44 8 Rene VAN DIJKE NED 1:26:55 9 Manuel PASTOR 1:27:44 10 Jose Luis MARTIN 1:28:12 WOMEN: 1 Vivian TANG SIN 1:28:06 2 Tracy WHITING-TORY AUS 1:33:13 3 Laura KIGHTLINGER 1:34:12 4 Charlotte CUTLER 1:35:17 5 Kate ALLEN 1:35:55 6 Cintia Franco TOBAR 1:38:01 7 Veronique MESSINA FRA 1:38:11 8 Adeline Vayson DE PRADENNE 1:38:36 9 Stephane COWLES 1:38:55 10 Michelle OWEN 1:40:43
6 DECEMBER 2015: RUN BARBADOS MARATHON
MEN: 1 Curtis COX TRI 2:45:45 2 Stewart NEIL 3:11:47 3 Josiah ORIN 3:33:54 4 Naim COMBO 3:37:41 5 Matyazic Mark MATYAZIC 3:39:15 6 Marshall Paul MARSHALL 3:47:55 7 Clarke Joseph CLARKE BAR 4:01:34 8 Cripwell Adam CRIP 4:08:03 9 Taylor Patrick TAYLOR 4:13:57 10 Gavriani Paul GAVRIANI 4:21:45 WOMEN: 1 Amy CHALK GBR 3:12:47 2 Sarah WILLIAMS GBR 3:44:44 3 Kim GOFF USA 3:45:50 4 Marlo HUNTE 3:50:17 5 Melissa SCHURGER 3:55:57 6 Allie SMITH 4:10:48 7 Wendy SHALLOW TRI 4:41:29 8 Lisa LEA 4:57:41 9 Karen SAMUEL 5:20:46 10 Carol GRIFFITH 5:46:06 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Nicolas FERNANDEZ 1:15:28 2 Michael BISCETTE 1:18:26 3 Roussas Francois ROUSSAS 1:21:10 WOMEN: 1 Jesscia DRASKAU USA 1:29:35 2 Christine REGIS BAR 1:41:37 3 Rachel ATKINSON 1:46:44
6 DECEMBER 2015: CAYMAN ISLANDS INTERTRUST MARATHON
MEN: 1 Pawel KASYZYCA 2:51:14 2 Steve SPIERS 2:58:21 3 Kent BURGESS 3:20:52 4 Wesley BANKS 3:25:01 5 Matt PERKINS 3:34:03 6 Gertjan LAHUIS 3:39:50 7 Kevin HUYS 3:43:54 8 Chadwick WEBSTER 3:46:53 9 Barnabas BAKO 3:47:39 10 Jerry HUGHES 3:50:10 WOMEN: 1 Natalee GOODEN-BURKARD 3:30:43 2 Michelle WATSON 3:47:05 3 Nancy DRUKE 4:08:04 4 Betsy MORTEL 4:20:14 5 Johana Lies CRUZ 4:24:26 6 Natalie DEAR 4:29:03 7 Jalene CRUZ 4:32:08 8 Oddy GRULLON 4:32:40 9 Claudia PEREIRA 4:35:09 10 Ems MELLAND 4:38:27
6 DECEMBER 2015: COSTA RICA INT'L MARATHON
MEN: 1 Simo KARIUKI KEN 2:23:10 2 Pedro MORA CRC 2:27:55 3 Erick Brenes MONTOYA CRC 2:37:50 4 Jeffrey Fallas ZAMORA CRC 2:41:58 5 Escley Rojas URENA CRC 2:43:01 6 Misael Maleano JARQUIN CRC 2:43:12 7 Jose Martin CHINCHILLA CRC 2:45:42 8 Dennis Caballero PEREZ CRC 2:49:20 9 Herald Arquedas CHACON CRC 2:52:39 10 Oseb Arana OROZCO CRC 2:54:32 WOMEN: 1 Caroline Jebiwott KIPTOO KEN 2:43:48 2 Cristina Marin GONZALEZ CRC 3:04:00 3 Natalia Jimenez MILLER CRC 3:21:35 4 Marisol Matarrita ARTAVIA CRC 3:25:24 5 Priscila MINOT 3:30:17 6 Sonia Rojas ROMERO CRC 3:41:27 7 Karol Tatiana MATAMOROS CRC 3:42:03 8 Margareth Fores LOPEZ CRC 3:44:09 9 Fancy Ramirez COTO CRC 3:51:02 10 Patricia Villalobos DELGADO CRC 3:51:23 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Roy Vargas CORDERO CRC 1:10:58 2 Bernal Duran MONTOYA CRC 1:11:03 3 Javier Fernandez ROJAS CRC 1:11:53 WOMEN: 1 Jenny Mendez SUANCA CRC 1:20:59 2 Norma RODRIGUEZ CRC 1:31:56 3 Ana VEGA 1:33:00
6 DECEMBER 2015: DISCOVERIES HALF MARATHON, PORTUGAL
MEN: 1 Helder GROSSO POR 1:09:41 2 Pedro CONCEIÇAO POR 1:10:51 3 Paulo GUIMARAES POR 1:11:55 4 Antonio SOUSA POR 1:12:40 5 Vitor Hugo FERNANDES OLIVEIRA POR 1:13:15 6 Andre Filipe ALVES DE CASTRO POR 1:13:43 7 Joao GINJA POR 1:13:56 8 Francisco RIVERO ESP 1:14:29 9 Nikko Bryan HUELGAS ESP 1:14:44 10 Ricardo FERNANDES POR 1:15:05 WOMEN: 1 Mari Kim MANGOBANG 1:22:40 2 Ceu NUNES POR 1:26:55 3 Sofia MONTEIRO POR 1:27:35 4 Karima MAKROF 1:27:47 5 Sandra Santos TEIXEIRA POR 1:28:49 6 Lucia OLIVEIRA POR 1:29:40 7 Isabel SILVA POR 1:30:18 8 Fila V S SILVA POR 1:30:19 9 Luiza DIAS POR 1:31:25 10 Rute Isabel Mendes MARTINS POR 1:31:52
6 DECEMBER 2015: MARATON CABBERTY MALAGA, SPAIN
MEN: 1 John Kipkorir MUTAI KEN 2:13:17 2 Benson WAWERU KEN 2:18:34 3 Abdelhadi EL MOUAZIZ MAR 2:19:10 4 Tomasz SZYMANSKI POL 2:27:55 5 Luis Enrique LERIDA ESP 2:29:05 6 Duncan COOMBS GBR 2:29:20 7 Cristobal ORTIGOSA ESP 2:32:08 9 Murray STRAIN GBR 2:33:38 10 Jose Javier OLEA ESP 2:34:21 WOMEN: 1 Pennina WANJIRU KEN 2:37:46 2 Anna SPAGNOLI ESP 2:42:32 3 Maite Maiora ELIZONDO ESP 2:49:39 4 Petra KINDLUND 2:56:18 5 Elena KALASHNIKOVA RUS 2:57:53 6 Maria Jesus SIERRA ESP 3:01:21 7 Delphine PARIS FRA 3:11:11 8 Anna SHPINEVA RUS 3:11:42 9 Helen MURRAY GBR 3:11:57 10 Maria BRAVO ESP 3:13:28
6 DECEMBER 2015: 39th NATIONAL MILO MARATHON MANILA, PHILIPPINES
MEN: 1 James TALLAM KEN 2:20:10 2 Josphat KIPTANUI KEN 2:20:49 3 Juluis Keprotich SEUREI KEN 2:21:54 WOMEN: 1 Elizabeth RUMOKOL KEN 2:43:45 2 Mary Joy TABAL PHI 2:48:24 3 Margaret Wangui NJUGUNA KEN 2:49:32 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Immuel CAMINO PHI 1:13:09 2 John Leerams CHICANO PHI 1:13:34 3 Anthony NERZA PHI 1:15:44 WOMEN 1 Nhea Ann BARCENA PHI 1:33:52 2 Joan BANAYAG PHI 1:36:09 3 Jolelyn ELIJERAN PHI 1:41:25
6 DECEMBER 2015: PUNE INT'L MARATHON, INDIA
MEN (only) 1 Belay ABADOYO ETH 2:17:35 2 Maiyo MAIDI KEN 2:17:35 3 Mekasha ALEMU ETH 2:17:37 4 Damte Wondesen TILAHUN ETH 2:17:37 5 Chekol WORKU ETH 2:17:44 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Daniel MUTETI KEN 1:02:14 2 Tafese ABEBE ETH 1:02:22 3 Nicholas MAKAU KEN 1:02:28 4 Sedeku ALELEGN ETH 1:02:55 5 Gudeta SHIFERA ETH 1:03:12 WOMEN: 1 Dorcas KITHOME KEN 1:11:48 2 Hellen MUSYOKA KEN 1:11:49 3 Bentu WODAJO ETH 1:12:00 4 Merine GEZHAGNE ETH 1:12:52 5 Shelmith MURIUKI KEN 1:14:05
13 DECEMBER 2013: ST CROIX INT'L MARATHON, US VIRGIN ISLANDS
Photos: Rodger Hatfield
MEN: 1 Jorge JIMENEZ CUB 2:41:15 2 Billy BOHLKE VGI 3:29:13 3 Jason SNOW VGI 3:57:28 4 Kim SMIT DEN 4:19:31 5 Paul EVORA VGI 4:21:46 6 Wayne NICHOLS VGI 4:24:03 7 Benjamin PESCHEK USA 4:24:05 8 Troy HOLLOWAY VGI 4:24:29 9 Mike KLEIN VGI 4:36:22 10 Gertjans LAHUIS NED 4:50:52 WOMEN: 1 Misledys HERNANDEZ CUB 3:19:28 2 Briget KLEIN VGI 3:36:53 3 Theresa HARPER VGI 3:55:30 4 Keziah SULLIVAN VGI 4:27:26 5 Heidi SNOW VGI 4:55:36 6 Marlene ELZALDE USA 5:30:31 7 Lichu SLOAN USA 6:36:38 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Juan ROBLES VGI 1:17:11 2 Shane DEGANNES VGI 1:26:51 3 Logan SCHULTZ USA 1:37:53 WOMEN: 1 Caiah SCHLABACH USA 1:27:10 2 Ruth Anne DAVID VGI 1:30:56 3 Julie SOMMER VGI 1:48:34
20 DECEMBER 2015: TATA STEEL KOLKATA 25km, INDIA
MEN: 1 Elam SINGH IND 1:20:14 2 Srinu BUGATHA IND 1:20:16 3 Sanaton SINGH IND 1:20:23 4 Berendra KUMAR IND 1:20:27 5 Vikas KUMAR IND 1:20:34 6 SULEMAN IND 1:22:42 7 Dhanwant PRAHLAD IND 1:23:46 8 Ajay Kumar PATEL IND 1:24:28 9 Girish Chandra TIWARI IND 1:25:45 10 Doobh YADAV IND 1:27:41 WOMEN: 1 Sudha SINGH IND 1:27:31 2 Lalita BABAR IND 1:27:47 3 O P JAISHA IND 1:28:05 4 SEEMA IND 1:38:31 5 Sindhu YADAV IND 1:40:32 6 Amandeep KAUR IND 1:48:39 7 Anisha DEVI IND 1:50:13
20 DECEMBER 2015: TAIPEI MARATHON, CHINESE TAIPEI
MEN: 1 William Chebon CHEBOR KEN 2:16:15 2 Elias Chelimo KEMBOI KEN 2:16:33 3 Josphat Kamzee JEPKOPOL KEN 2:17:58 4 Eliud Kapchanga CHEPTAI KEN 2:22:23 5 Nelson Kirwa ROTICH KEN 2:22:27 6 Joel Kiplimo KEMBOI KEN 2:27:34 7 unknown TPE 2:31:15 8 Yosuke MAEDA JPN 2:31:45 9 Tetsuo KOIZUMI JPN 2:34:08 10 Mashahiro OTAKI JPN 2:35:56 WOMEN: 1 Nancy Joan ROTICH KEN 2:36:42 2 Rose Chekurui KOSGEI KEN 2:38:54 3 Leah Jebet KIPRONO KEN 2:40:43 4 Mercy Jelimo TOO KEN 2:43:42 5 Viola Chepleteng BOR KEN 2:45:48 6 unknown TPE 2:51:56 7 Elizabeth Jeruiyot CHEMWE KEN 2:52:41 8 Eriko HOSOKAWA JPN 2:59:35 9 Calorine MIGADDE 3:03:05 10 Yoshiko TSUTSUMI JPN 3:17:55 HALF MARATHON MEN: 1 Josphat Kiprono MENJO KEN 1:05:44 2 Richard Mutua MUTISYA KEN 1:09:57 WOMEN: 1 Cecilia Wanjua MICHAEL KEN 1:18:05
26 DECEMBER 2015: EL CORTE INGLES SAO SILVESTRE DE LISBOA 10km, PORTUGAL
MEN: 1 Hermano FERREIRA POR 30:00 2 Rui SILVA POR 30:04 3 João PEREIRA POR 30:40 4 Ricardo MATEUS POR 31:09 5 Emanuel ROLIM POR 31:19 6 Ricardo RIBAS POR 31:26 7 Miguel ARRAIOLOS POR 31:34 8 Bruno PAIS POR 32:22 9 Pedro CONCEICAO POR 32:23 10 António SOUSA POR 32:24 WOMEN: 1 Dulce FELIX POR 33:00 2 Jessica AUGUSTO POR 33:35 3 Salomé ROCHAS POR 34:15 4 Catarina RIBEIRO POR 34:29 5 Ana FERREIRA POR 34:57 6 Vera FERNANDES POR 35:24 7 Leonor CARNEIRO POR 35:26 8 Melanie SANTOS POR 36:06 9 Filomena COSTA POR 36:13 10 Pamella OLIVEIRA POR 37:18
31 DECEMBER 2015: SAO SILVESTRE DE LUANDA 10km, ANGOLA
MEN: 1 Alex OLOTIPTIP KEN 28:45 2 Daniel CHEBIE KEN 28:46 3 Edwin KIPYEGO KEN 28:51 4 Edwin KIPTOO KEN 28:52 5 Evans KURUI KEN 28:57 6 Cosmas BIRECH KEN 28:58 7 Robert KAPTINGEI KEN 29:04 8 Kinde AYALEW ETH 29:25 9 Getaneh TAMIRE ETH 29:34 10 John WANJIKU KEN 29:49 WOMEN: 1 Peres JEPCHIRCHIR KEN 33:07 2 Polline Wanjiku NJERU KEN 33:16 3 Angela TANUI KEN 33:55 4 Genet ROBI ETH 33:57 5 Gotytom TEKLEZGI ETH 34:07 6 Buzunesh GUDETA ETH 34:10 7 Yenenesh DINKESA ETH 34:25 8 Haftamnesh HAYLU ETH 35:01 9 Lenah JEROTICH KEN 35:06 10 Ernestina PAULINO ANG 36:33
December 2015
