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WOMEN:
1 Jill HORST USA 1:20:06
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
TOYOTA GREAT ETHIOPIAN RUN,
ADDIS ABABA
Tsegaye Kebede, winner of the 23rd Abebe Bikila
Marathon in June, took a deserved win. Just
20, Kebede set a marathon best of 2:08.15 only six
weeks earlier, in the Amsterdam Marathon.
The scorching initial pace claimed pre-race
favourite Eshetu Wondimu (who dropped out at 4km).
The race then turned into a two-way battle between
Kebede and Ayele Abshiro, who escaped as early as the
half way point. Abshiro unsuccessfully tried to get
away 7.5km and when Kebede responded with his own
thrust a klometre later Abshiro had little left. It was a
cruel endgame for Abshiro who was powerless to
respond as others came past to beat him to
the podium positions. “I ran last year but I did not
finish in the top twenty. It is a surprise for me to win.”
said Kebede after the race.
Wude Ayalew dictated the pace for much of the
women’s race before powering forward just after 9km
to take a commanding victory.
In a characteristically frantic start there was much
jostling for strategic positions among the initial pack of
30 runners. The first clear move came from 20-year
old Ayalew at 4km, and reduced the pack to 20. The
second came from pre-race favourite Derebe Alemu
who whittled the pack down to 12. Ayalew’s
penultimate launch at 7km reduced the race into a
three-way battle and dropped the likes of Alemu and
former two-time winner Genet Getaneh. Ayalew finally
saw off Mergia’s challenge with another impressive
spurt of energy that clinched her victory.
MEN:
1 Tsegaye KEBEDE ETH 29:07
2 Tola BANE ETH 29:14
3 Feysa LELISA ETH 29:21
4 Ayele ABSHIRO ETH 29:22
5 Dereje TADESSE ETH 29:25
GREAT ETHIOPIAN RUN
WOMEN:
1 Wude AYALEW ETH 33:51
2 Asselefech MERGIA ETH 34:11
3 Koreni JELILA ETH 34:15
4 Genet GETANEH ETH 34:25
5 Derebe ALEMU ETH 34:25
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
XXX MARATHON OF SAN
SEBASTIAN, SPAIN
MEN:
1 Abdelhadi EL MOUAZIZ MAR 2:12:45
2 Youssef EL KALAI MAR 2:18:32
3 Rachid NADIJ MAR 2:18:32
4 Jose BLANCO MINAYA ESP 2:25:47
5 David Martin BLAZQUEZ ESP 2:27:00
WOMEN:
1 Kristijna LOONEN NED 2:47:12
2 Ma Luna MIGUEL-MUNOZ ESP 2:53:00
3 Amaia ARANA ALDANONDO ESP 2:55:05
4 Naroa ARRIETA BELTRAN ESP 3:08:49
5 Carmen SALA FERRER ESP 3:10:27
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
TORAY CUP SHANGHAI
MARATHON, CHINA
Both course records were broken in this 12th edition of
the race writes Brendan Reilly.
On the men’s side, the trio of Rachid Kisri of
Morocco and Kenyans Sammy Kipkoech Tum and
Joseph Riri gradually pulled away with two pacemakers
to go through halfway in 65:04. Kisri went ahead
shortly after 25km, getting clear of both pacemakers
and his two rivals. Running solo against light but
increasing headwinds, Kisri led by 250m at 36km, but
weakened over the next uphill kilometre. Kipkoech and
Riri, working together, finally caught Kisri at 41km.
Kipkoech then put in a great kick to break the 2:13:22
course record of China’s Han Gang (2005). Riri held off
Kisri in the final 400m, with the pair finishing just
outside the old course record.
Lidia Simon’s resurgence continued. With fifth
place at the Osaka World Championships, Simon is
showing signs of her old self. Her major challenger in
Shanghai was expected to be Japan-based Kenyan Ruth
Wanjiru Kuria, who had requested a pace of 73:00 for
the first half in her marathon debut. The Shanghai
course put this beyond reach, as the pair came through
halfway in 74:09, accompanied by a pair of pacemakers
and a handful of male marathoners. As had Kisri, Simon
began to pull away after the course turned north into
head winds after 25km, opening an ever-widening gap
on the rest of the women’s field. Continuing her solo
effort through the finish, Simon became the first sub-
2:30:00 woman in Shanghai’s history, breaking Yanan
Wei’s 2004 course record by 69 seconds. Japan’s Kiyoko
Shimahara, just resuming her own training after 6th
place in Osaka, was some six minutes back in second
place. Wanjiru took two falls in the second half of the
race, hit once by a bicyclist and once by a pothole.
MEN:
1 Sammy Kipkoech TUM KEN 2:13:01
2 Joseph RIRI KEN 2:13:23
3 Rachid KISRI MAR 2:13:28
4 Feng XIE CHN 2:15:02
5 Koichiro NAGATA JPN 2:16:22
WOMEN:
1 Lidia SIMON ROM 2:29:28
2 Kiyoko SHIMAHARA JPN 2:35:41
3 Wenrong ZHENG CHN 2:38:10
4 Ruth Wanjiru KURIA KEN 2:43:16
5 Yinli TANG CHN 2:46:46
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
MEDIA MARATON MITAD DEL
MUNDO, ECUADOR
MEN:
1 Franklin TENORIO ECU 1:04:59
2 Vladimir BURBANO GUERRA ECU 1:05:09
3 Efren PIEDRA VINUEZA ECU 1:05:38
WOMEN:
1 Judith LANDI ECU 1:16:41
2 Silvia PAREDES ECU 1:23:37
3 Beatriz CHAMORRO ECU 1:24:51
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
13TH SAMSUNG CORPORE SAO
PAULO CLASSIC 10KM, BRAZIL
For each of the 13 years since it was founded this race
has improved in all aspects, and now draws 12,000
participants.
In the women’s elite race, set off 15 minutes before
the mass race, Maria Zeferina Baldaia ran side by side
with Nancy Jepkosgei Kipron up to 6km, at which point
the Kenyan started to draw ahead, to win by 36
seconds. Among the men the competition lasted for
the entire duration of the race. At 5km the Kenyans
Titus Kosgli Kibii, Kiprono Mutai Chemwolo and Kosgei
Kenneth Kiplino went ahead and alternated the lead. In
the final metres Kibii had the speed to win. Luis Paulo
da Silva Antunes made a late surge to overtake Kosgei
for third place.
MEN:
1 Titus Kosgei KIBII KEN 29:37
2 Kiprono Mutai CHEMWOLO KEN 29:44
3 Luis Paolo DA SILVA ANTUNES BRA 30:04
4 Kosgei Kenneth KIPRONO KEN 30:09
5 Jose Telles DE SOUZA BRA 30:12
WOMEN:
1 Nancy Jepkosgei KIPRONO KEN 34:04
2 Maria Zeferina BALDAIA BRA 34:40
3 Chemtai RIONOTUKI KEN 34:57
4 Eunice JEPKIRUI KIWA KEN 35:38
5 Ma Lucia ALVES MORAES BRA 36:06
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
14TH CYPRUS APHRODITE HALF
MARATHON
MEN:
1 Zsolt BENEDEK HUN 1:06:52
2 Lambros ZARAGAS GRE 1:08:37
3 Bela HORVATH HUN 1:08:51
4 Dimos MANGINAS GRE 1:10:03
5 Theodoros ZACHOS GRE 1:10:10
WOMEN:
1 Magda GAZEA GRE 1:17:12
2 Kathryn BAILEY GBR 1:18:39
3 Barbara MOLNAR HUN 1:22:01
4 Emilia HRISTOVA BUL 1:36:54
5 Judy BROWN GBR 1:37:33
25 NOVEMBER 2007:
LAKE KAWAGUCHI MARATHON,
JAPAN
MEN:
1 Kazunobu FUSE JPN 2:24:19
2 Katsumi ASADA JPN 2:26:22
3 Kazunari SUZUKI JPN 2:26:25
4 Hiroyuki SAITO JPN 2:29:05
5 Andrew WALTERS AUS 2:29:54
WOMEN:
1 Naoko TSUCHIYA JPN 2:38:18
2 Mai TAGAI JPN 2:53:37
3 Chiemi TAKAHASHI JPN 2:56:11
62 Distance Running January – March 2008