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28 OCTOBER 2007:
MARATON INTERNACIONAL DE
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
MEN:
1 Cornelius LEL KEN 2:15:32
2 George OKWORO KEN 2:16:43
3 Jonathan LOPEZ MEX 2:17:09
4 Samuel CHEPNO KEN 2:18:10
5 Meshak KIRWA KEN 2:19:02
WOMEN:
1 Viola BOR KEN 2:38:20
2 Judith HERNANDEZ MEX 2:38:35
3 Patricia GUTIERREZ MEX 2:41:56
4 Adriana SANCEZ RUIZ MEX 2:44:59
5 Alice NDIRANGU KEN 2:46:15
28 OCTOBER 2007:
CHOSUNILBO CHUNCHON
MARATHON, KOREA
Victor Mangusho beat Charles Yabei by 24 seconds
after a thrilling duel. Elijah Mutai, who won for four
consecutive years, finished fifth this year. In total more
than 20,000 runners participated.
MEN
1 Victor MANGUSHO KEN 2:14:01
2 Charles YABEI KEN 2:14:25
3 Elijah BITOK KEN 2:14:46
4 Patrick NYANGELO TAN 2:16:50
5 Elijah MUTAI KEN 2:17:01
WOMEN:
1 Kyoung Hee CHOI KOR 2:35:25
2 Sun Young LEE KOR 2:37:28
3 Hee Yeon KIM KOR 2:39:21
29 OCTOBER 2007:
ADIDAS DUBLIN MARATHON,
IRELAND
MEN:
1 Aleksey SOKOLOV RUS 2:09:07
2 Thomas ABYU GBR 2:10:37
3 Dejene YIRDAWE ETH 2:11:08
4 Tessema ABSHIRO ETH 2:14:22
5 Sergey ZACHEPA UKR 2:15:12
WOMEN:
1 Alina IVANOVA RUS 2:29:20
2 Larisa ZYUSKO RUS 2:31:42
3 Nguiatukei KIYARA KEN 2:33:27
4 Helalia JOHANNES NAM 2:35:30
5 Alena SAMOKHVALOVA RUS 2:35:46
3 NOVEMBER 2007:
TAROKO INTERNATIONAL
MARATHON, CHINESE TAIPEI
MEN:
1 Nicodemus MALAKWEN KEN 2:18:00
2 Marko MAMBO 2:26:02
3 Yi Cai ZENG 2:36:40
4 Ting Yin ZHOU 2:36:41
5 Zhi Hong HE 2:39:13
WOMEN:
1 Sally JEBICHII 2:50:00
2 Shu Hua CHEN 2:54:47
3 Min WU 3:00:11
4 Xiao Yu LI 3:02:18
5 Maria PAVLOVA 3:13:12
4 NOVEMBER 2007:
ATHENS CLASSIC MARATHON,
GREECE
With temperatures around 20°C and occasional light
rain winning times were much faster in this jubilee
edition of the race than in previous years over the
classic route from Marathon to Athens writes Jorg
Wenig. Participation was up from 5,000 last year to
7,950 this year for all events. Among them were 4,750
marathon runners. Abel Anton, Spain's marathon World
Champion from Athens 1997 and Seville 1999 ran in the
10km race.
Kenyans had won the Athens Classic Marathon
three times in a row, and they again dominated. Eight
of them formed the leading group at half way (68:07).
At about 35km Benjamin Korir Kiprotich broke away
and opened a decisive gap. "I had tried to get away
earlier, but then I decided to relax a bit more and let
the others catch me again. I was sure that I would win
the race," said the 29 year-old who ran a personal best
of 2:10:43 earlier this year when he finished third in
Brescia. Defending champion Henry Tarus came in third
while Georgios Karavidas, in tenth, won the Greek
championship.
In the women's race the big favourite took the
honours: Svetlana Ponomarenko passed halfway in
1:15:56. The 37 year-old, who had won the Frankfurt
Marathon in 2006 and has a personal best of 2:29:55,
ran a very consistent pace. "The weather was fine for
me. I would now like to qualify for Beijing next year,"
she said.
MEN:
1 Benjamin Korir KIPROTICH KEN 2:14:40
2 Husea Kiptanui KIMUTAI KEN 2:15:03
3 Henry TARUS KEN 2:15:57
4 Michael CHEMPCHIR KEN 2:16:52
5 David Kimutai KOSGAI KEN 2:17:12
WOMEN:
1 Svetlana PONOMARENKO RUS 2:33:19
2 Chihiro TANAKA JPN 2:41:01
3 Magdalene GAZEA GRE 2:41:31
4 Magdalene KARIMALI GRE 2:46:14
5 Sisai Arsenti MEASO ETH 2:46:43
4 NOVEMBER 2007:
JOONGANG SEOUL INT'L
MARATHON, KOREA
Cool conditions allowed for fast running, and winner
Joshua Chelanga just failed, by one second, to beat the
course record set by Jason Mbote a year previously.
From a group of 12 runners at halfway there
remained six with 10km still to run, after all
pacemakers had completed their task. Only four
kilometres later it became a head to head contest
between Joshua Chelanga and Abderrahime
Bouramdane in which Chelanga made all the running
and never quite allowed Bouramdane to get on level
terms.
The women's race featured an entirely domestic
field, and Eung Jung Lee had no serious rival as she
passed 10km with an already impressive lead. She
pressed on to a solo victory and beat the old course
record, set four years ago, by 58 seconds.
MEN:
1 Joshua CHELANGA KEN 2:08:14
2 Abderrahime BOURAMDANE MAR 2:08:20
3 Yirefu BIRHANU ETH 2:09:01
4 Benson BARUS KEN 2:09:04
5 Nicholas CHELIMO KEN 2:09:42
WOMEN:
1 Eun-Jung LEE KOR 2:29:32
2 Hae-Jin BAE KOR 2:37:43
3 Ho-Sun PARK KOR 2:41:01
4 Jin-Sook KIM KOR 2:49:10
10km
MEN:
1 Soon-Taek YIM 32:36
WOMEN:
1 Jong-Sun YEO 38:21
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