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. <strong>Running</strong> 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 <strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> January – March 2008
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