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President
Hiroaki Chosa,
Japanese Amateur Athletic Federation
(International Section),
1-1-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 150-8050, Japan
Tel: 81 3 5452 1500
Fax: 81 3 5452 1795
Honorary Vice President
Leonard F. Luchner
Vice-Presidents
Domingo Amaison,
Representative South and Central
America, Buenos Aires Half Marathon
Allan Steinfeld, (Race Management),
New York Marathon
Secretary
Hugh Jones
115 Southwark Street,
London SE1 0JF, U.K.
Tel: 44 20 7902 0192
Fax: 44 20 7620 4208
Email: Aimssec@aol.com
Treasurer
Al Boka,
Las Vegas Marathon
Board of Directors
Wim Verhoorn (Marketing),
Representative W. Europe
Enschede Marathon Twente
Carlos Moya (Marketing),
Lisbon Half Marathon
Horst Milde,
Berlin Marathon
Gordon Rogers (Technical)
Representative N. America and English
speaking Caribbean, PO Box 2931,
Vancouver BC V6H 1E1, Canada
Tel: 1 604 733 6224
Fax: 1 604 733 6221
Email: gordonrogers@telus.net
Nick Bitel, (Legal)
London Marathon
Guy Morse,
Boston Marathon
Jim Moberly,
Honolulu Marathon
Peter McLean,
(Press & Public Relations)
15 Kirklee Terrace,
Glasgow G12 0JA, Scotland
T/F: 44 141 357 2516
Email: petermclean@
pmpr2000.fsnet.co.uk
Dr David Martin, (Statistics)
College of Health Sciences,
Georgia State University, Atlanta,
Georgia 30303, USA
Fax: 1 404 651 1531
Email: drdave@gsu.edu.
Ahmed A. Shariff, Representative Africa,
Mount Meru Marathon, Tanzania
Francisco Borao, (Membership
Development) Representative
Mediterannean, Valencia Marathon
Dave Cundy, Representative S. Pacific,
Gold Coast Marathon
AIMS AFFILIATE
International Marathon Medical
Directors Association (IMMDA)
President
Martha Miltenyi,
Budapest Marathon
Secretary / Treasurer
Lewis Maraham MD
24 West 57th Street,
6th floor, New York, NY 10019
Tel: 1 212 765 5763
Email: nysportsmd@aol.com
MEASURERS
International Measurement
Administrators
Asia & Oceania
Dave Cundy,
P.O. Box 206, Ettalong Beach,
NSW 2257, Australia
Tel: 61 2 4342 7611
Fax: 61 2 4342 7648
Email: cundysm@ozemail.com.au
French & Spanish speaking
Europe & Africa
Jean François Delasalle,
Domaine de Chantraigne BP 25,
80800 Corbie, France
Tel: 33 3 2248 5190
Fax: 33 3 2248 5191
Email: jf.delasalle@tiscali.fr
English speaking Europe & Africa
John Disley,
Hampton House, Upper Sunbury Road,
Hampton, Middlesex, TW12 2DW, England
Tel: 44 208 979 1707
Fax: 44 208 941 1867
Email: johnapdisley@aol.com
Americas
Bernie Conway,
67 Southwood Crescent,
London, Ontario N6J 1S8, Canada
Tel: 1 519 633 0090
1 519 641 6889 (Home)
Fax: 1 519 633 4887
Email: measurer@rogers.com
President’s Message - HIROAKI CHOSA
I wish the year 2005 will be good for AIMS, for AIMS members,
and above all for the hundreds of thousands of runners who
take part in AIMS events all year long and throughout the
world.
Last year, in very hot temperatures, the Olympic Marathons were
conducted sucessfully, showing that marathon running can take place
even under very difficult conditions.
AIMS now has close to 200 member races, with about threequarters
of these member events being marathons. They are spread
throughout every corner of the globe, including some - like the North
Pole Marathon, or the Sahara Marathon - where extremely difficult
conditions prevail. It would seem that the popularity of running
knows no bounds.
Over the last year AIMS has gained members from many places
where mass running events had previously not existed. The physical
conditions may have been less hostile than in Athens, but the
economic or cultural conditions had not previously favoured the
emergence of mass running events. Now, both in Africa and Asia
there are growing numbers of increasingly high-profile events which
help to spread the word around the world. The word is that running is
for everyone.
Also over the past year, IAAF has accepted and promoted the idea
of world records for road running events, subject to some restrictive
criteria. This also helps in the promotion of road running as a global
sport.
Strengthened by these trends, road running is entering a new era.
Together, let's run into it.
New AIMS Members
■ THE FIVE TOWERS MARATHON
(DEN) takes place on 3 April 2005
■ THE TORAY CUP SHANGHAI
INTERNATIONAL MARATHON (CHN)
has just held its ninth edition last
November (see Results section). The race
has grown to nearly 1000 runners with
191 of them coming from 36 countries
■ THE ATLANTA MARATHON & HALF
(USA) has been run over the last 42
years in the city which hosted the 1996
Olympics. Only 10 foreign runners were
among the 640-strong entry for the
marathon (representing 5 countries), but
several thousand runners contested the
associated half marathon. The 43rd
running is scheduled for 24 November
2005.
■ THE MARATONA SANT ANTONIO
(ITA) is run in the North Italian city of
Padua at the end of April. Over the last
five years it has built up to 3000
runners, with 241 foreign runners coming
from 25 countries.
■ THE WALT DISNEY WORLD
MARATHON (USA) celebrates its 10th
anniversary (11th edition) on 9 January.
The race runs between and through the
major amusement parks of the Walt
Disney World site.
■ THE MYRTLE BEACH MARATHON
(USA) has, over the last seven years,
been conducted largely as a local event,
with only 50 of the race’s 1700 entrants
coming from three countries outside the
USA. There is great potential for this
Atlantic seabord settlement in South
Carolina to attract an international
following. Held in mid-February, it is
accessible through international airports
in Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte (NC).
New Associate Members
■ THE LAHORE MARATHON (PAK) will
be held for the first time on 30 January,
with a 10km race and 5km fun run, all
starting and finishing in the National
Sports complex on the south side of the
city. The Marathon route passes through
the centre of this historic Punjabi city.
■ THE ING BRUSSELS MARATHON
(BEL) brings international marathon
running back on to the streets of the
Belgian capital on 9 October, after an
absence of several years.
■ THE CARLOS LOPES GOLD
MARATHON MEMORIAL (POR)
celebrates the achievements of
Portugal’s foremost distance runner.
This new race takes place for the first
time on 17 April.
■ THE CYPRUS APHRODITE HALF
MARATHON (CYP) has built up a strong
international following over its 10-year
life, with two-thirds of the 600-strong
field coming from 16 overseas countries.
The next race takes place on 27
November.
■ THE RWANDA PEACE MARATHON
(RWA) takes place on 15 May. The race
aims to publicly demonstrate that the
Rwandan genocide has now been
consigned to history, as the nation
rebuilds.
Paul Tergat with his Citizen World
Fastest Time Award presented by
AIMS Director Carlos Moya
From left, Allan Steinfeld Race Director
ING New York City Marathon, Paula
Radcliffe AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of
the year, Rich Bourne President ASICS
America Corporation, Masao Hijikata
General Manager ASICS Corporation
AIMS/ASICS Awards
Paul Tergat and Paula Radcliffe
collected the AIMS/ASICS Golden
Shoe Awards as athletes of the year
for their performances during 2003.
One of these performances was Paul
Tergat’s World Record marathon of
2:04:55 in Berlin, for which he also
received the AIMS/CITIZEN World’s
Fastest Time award.
DISTANCE RUNNING
From this edition Distance Running
will be printed quarterly, with four
editions published annually in
January, April, July and October.
This edition of Distance
Running is dated January-
March 2005. It covers races
that took place in the last
third of 2004, from the end of
August 2004 until mid-
December 2004. The next
edition will be dated April-June
2005, and will cover races that
take place between December
2004 and March 2005
Subsequent editions of
Distance Running will be
published July and October,
covering the periods April-June
and July-September. The period
October-December 2005 will be
covered in the edition published a
year from now, in January 2006.
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