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2011 Edition 4<br />
aimsworldrunning.org<br />
iaaf.org<br />
Results<br />
Victoria Falls<br />
Stockholm<br />
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARATHONS AND DISTANCE RACES AND THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETIC FEDERATIONS
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<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> is an official publication of AIMS and IAAF. It is<br />
produced four times a year, in January, April, July and October, and<br />
distributed at races worldwide.<br />
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Frank J Baillie bailliefrank@aol.com<br />
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Hugh Jones aimssec@aol.com<br />
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On the cover…<br />
Page 13<br />
The Australian Outback Marathon is a<br />
fully “packaged” marathon experience. This<br />
means that participants don’t just enter the<br />
race but get to choose from a selection of<br />
fully hosted Outback holidays which range<br />
from a basic trip of three days and two<br />
nights up to 7 days and 6 nights writes<br />
Jenny Buchanan.<br />
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2011 Edition 4<br />
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AIMS News 5<br />
IAAF News 9<br />
IAU News 37<br />
WMRA News 79<br />
Regulars<br />
Calendar of events<br />
Official listings for AIMS events 50<br />
Results<br />
Worldwide race reports and pictures 53<br />
World leading times<br />
The latest top times for men and women<br />
at Marathon, Half Marathon and 10km 83<br />
Race contact details<br />
AIMS member races with full contact details 86<br />
Features<br />
Marathon-Photos.com<br />
P.O.Box 60, Hamilton<br />
New Zealand<br />
Tel: 64 7 838 2968<br />
Fax: 64 7 839 6580<br />
1000km Promotions<br />
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A package to remember<br />
Australian Outback Marathon 13<br />
Through the thundering mist<br />
Victoria Falls Marathon, Zimbabwe 19<br />
Spellbound in Stockholm<br />
DN Stockholm Half Marathon, Sweden 23<br />
Opinion<br />
From blood diamonds to gold medals 27<br />
Obituaries<br />
Johnny Kelley, Mel Batty and John Walsh 33<br />
<strong>Running</strong> into history<br />
BMW Frankfurt Marathon - storming through 43<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 3
AIMS News<br />
New AIMS Members<br />
■ Hyderabad Heritage Marathon (IND)<br />
has been held for the last two years and<br />
attracts around 1000 runners with 25<br />
foreign participants coming from five<br />
countries.<br />
■ The Meia Maratona Sport Zone<br />
(POR) has been held in Portugal’s second<br />
city of Porto for the last 5 years. Over 1600<br />
runners take part with 60 of them coming<br />
from 13 other countries. Course records<br />
are held by Haile Gebrselassie (1:00:04)<br />
and Pamela Chepchumba (1:10:24)<br />
■ Rovaniemi Marathon (FIN) in Finnish<br />
Lapland and located right on the Arctic<br />
Circle has been held for the last 16 years,<br />
attracting 500 men and 300 women with<br />
60 of them coming from nine other<br />
countries. Course records are held by Petri<br />
Saavaiaienen (2:35:05) and Jaana Liias<br />
(3:21:29)<br />
New Associate Members<br />
■ Navi Mumbai Barefoot Half<br />
Marathon (IND), held for the first time on<br />
12 December last year and attracting 300<br />
entrants, recognizes unusual categories<br />
within its field: those running barefoot;<br />
those wearing “minimal” footwear, and<br />
those in running shoes. There is also a<br />
6km Dream Run held alongside.<br />
■ The Las Terrenas 10km (DOM) takes<br />
place in the Dominican Republic. It has so<br />
far been held twice and receives entries<br />
from 100 men and 100 women, among<br />
which 40 foreign participants come from<br />
five countries. Juan Almonte (32:55) and<br />
Jordiana Diaz (40:37) hold the course<br />
records.<br />
For a full list of race<br />
contacts, see page 86<br />
The next edition of <strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> will<br />
be published in January 2012, covering<br />
races held from October to December<br />
2011. The advertising and editorial<br />
deadlines will be on 9 December.<br />
World record<br />
Patrick Makau set a new<br />
world record of 2:03:38 in the<br />
38th BMW Berlin Marathon<br />
on 25 September.<br />
It was Berlin Marathon’s seventh<br />
world record in 13 years. The man<br />
who set the previous two records, in<br />
2007 and 2008, Haile Gebreselassie,<br />
dropped back with breathing<br />
problems at 27km as Makau<br />
recorded a particularly fast 28th<br />
kilometre, and then dropped out at<br />
Two marathons will be held to mark<br />
the 20th anniversary of the Jungfrau<br />
Marathon in 2012, and twice the<br />
usual number of entries will be<br />
available. The World Long <strong>Distance</strong><br />
Mountain <strong>Running</strong> Challenge will<br />
also take place in conjunction.<br />
Jungfrau is the biggest Swiss<br />
marathon and the world’s biggest<br />
mountain marathon. Entries have<br />
been snapped up very quickly in<br />
recent years and many runners lose<br />
out. But thanks to next year's<br />
anniversary, and the "double" event,<br />
8,000 starting places will be on offer.<br />
The marathons will be held on<br />
Saturday 8 September and Sunday 9<br />
around 35km. One of the<br />
pacemakers, Stephen Chemlany,<br />
came through to finish second, over<br />
four minutes behind Makau.<br />
Florence Kiplagat won the women's<br />
race in 2:19:44, the second sub-2:20<br />
time this year after Mary Keitany’s<br />
2:19:19 in London. World record<br />
holder Paula Radcliffe came third in<br />
2:23:46, behind local heroine Irina<br />
Mikitenko (2:22:18) one year after<br />
giving birth to her second child.<br />
Women’s world road records<br />
At the 2011 IAAF World<br />
Championships in Athletics held<br />
in Daegu, South Korea, IAAF<br />
Congress changed the rule for<br />
recognizing women’s world records<br />
in road races. From 1 January<br />
IAAF will only recognize times<br />
achieved in women-only<br />
competitions; performances<br />
achieved in mixed races will be<br />
referred to only as a “world best”.<br />
This decision means that Paula<br />
Radcliffe’s 2003 marathon mark of<br />
2:15:25 will no longer be the world<br />
record but a world best, and that<br />
her 2005 time of 2:17:42 will the<br />
world record.<br />
The boards of both AIMS and World<br />
Marathon Majors (WMM) believe<br />
that the Congress decision does not<br />
meet the requirements of road<br />
running as a sport. Both AIMS and<br />
WMM will acknowledge two world<br />
records for women’s road running<br />
events: those achieved in mixed<br />
competition and those recorded in<br />
women-only races.<br />
[Note: Performances considered for<br />
records, rankings and qualifying<br />
purposes must be achieved in<br />
accordance with IAAF Competition<br />
Rules. These include rules on course<br />
measurement, decrease in elevation<br />
between the start and finish,<br />
maximum distance between the start<br />
and finish lines. An application for a<br />
world record will only be considered<br />
if the athlete concerned undertook<br />
doping control at the event.]<br />
Jungfrau scales new peaks<br />
Introduction<br />
News story.<br />
September. Entries for the 20th<br />
Jungfrau Marathon opened on 9<br />
September 2011.<br />
Jungfrau hosts the Long <strong>Distance</strong><br />
Mountain <strong>Running</strong> Challenge for the<br />
second time (previously in 2007). The<br />
anniversary will be rounded off by a<br />
special fringe programme, for which<br />
the Jungfrau Marathon is teaming up<br />
with the Swiss Touring Theatre “Das<br />
Zelt”. Highlights will include the<br />
World Championship opening<br />
ceremony, award ceremonies, and<br />
shows by DJ Ötzi on Saturday and<br />
Sunday, as well as two special<br />
performances of the William Tell<br />
Open-Air Theatre.<br />
EXECUTIVES<br />
President:<br />
Paco Borao<br />
Tel: 34 6 346 0707<br />
Fax: 34 6 346 3635<br />
Email: borao@correcaminos.org<br />
Honorary Vice Presidents:<br />
Leonard F. Luchner, Allan Steinfeld<br />
Vice-Presidents:<br />
Carlos Moya (Lisbon Half Marathon, Financial Control)<br />
Tel: 351 21 441 3182<br />
Fax: 351 21 441 3073<br />
Email: geral@maratonaportugal.com<br />
Martha Morales (Tangamanga, Legal)<br />
Tel: 52 4448 15444<br />
Fax: 52 4448 158921<br />
Email: maratontangamanga@gmail.com<br />
Secretary:<br />
Hugh Jones<br />
19 Kelly Street, London NW1 8PG, UK<br />
Tel: 44 20 3538 4975<br />
Email: aimssec@aol.com<br />
Treasurer:<br />
Al Boka (Las Vegas)<br />
Tel: 1 702 809 2620<br />
Email: aimstreasurer@aol.com<br />
Members of the Board:<br />
Carlo Capalbo (Prague, Marketing)<br />
Tel: 420 224 919 209<br />
Fax: 420 224 923 355<br />
Email: aims@pim.cz<br />
Dave Cundy (Great Wall, Website)<br />
P.O. Box 206, Ettalong Beach, NSW 2257, Australia<br />
Tel: 61 2 43427611<br />
Fax: 61 2 43427648<br />
Email: cundysm@ozemail.com.au<br />
Francisco Jamarne (Santiago)<br />
Tel: 562 787 6012<br />
Fax: 562 787 6076<br />
Email: fjamarne@alessandri.cl<br />
Guy Morse (Boston)<br />
Tel: 1 617 236 1652<br />
Fax: 1 617 236 4505<br />
Email: morse@baa.org<br />
Gordon Rogers (Vancouver, Technical)<br />
Tel: 1 604 733 6224<br />
Fax: 1 604 733 6221<br />
Email: gordonrogers@telus.net<br />
Keisuke Sawaki (Tokyo)<br />
Tel: 81 3 5452 1500<br />
Fax: 81 3 5452 1795<br />
Email: sawaki@rikuren.or.jp<br />
Consultants:<br />
Peter McLean (Press & Public Relations)<br />
15 Kirklee Terrace, Glasgow G12 0JA, Scotland<br />
Tel/Fax: 44 141 357 2516<br />
Email: petermclean@pmpr2000.fsnet.co.uk<br />
Dr. David Martin (Statistics)<br />
College of Health Sciences, Georgia State<br />
University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA<br />
Fax: 1 404 413 1230<br />
Email: drdavexyz@gmail.com<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong>:<br />
Frank Baillie (Publisher)<br />
43 Langlands Avenue, Glasgow G51 4LF, Scotland<br />
Tel: 44 141 956 2051<br />
Email: bailliefrank@aol.com<br />
AIMS AFFILIATES:<br />
International Marathon Medical<br />
Directors Association (IMMDA):<br />
Lewis Maraham M.D. (Chairman)<br />
24 West 57th Street,<br />
6th floor, New York, NY 10019 USA<br />
Tel: 1 212 765 5763<br />
Email: nysportsmd@aol.com<br />
International Measurement Administrators:<br />
Americas:<br />
Bernie Conway<br />
67 Southwood Crescent, London,<br />
Ontario N6J 1S8, Canada<br />
Tel: 1 519 641 6889<br />
Fax: 1 519 633 4887<br />
Email: measurer@rogers.com<br />
English-speaking Europe & Africa:<br />
Hugh Jones<br />
19 Kelly Street, London NW1 8PG, UK<br />
Tel: 44 20 7209 3193<br />
Email: aimssec@aol.com<br />
French & Spanish-speaking Europe & Africa:<br />
Jean Francois Delasalle<br />
Domaine de Chantraigne BP 25,<br />
80800 Corbie, France<br />
Tel: 33 3 22 48 51 90<br />
Fax: 33 3 22 48 51 91<br />
Email: jf.delasalle@aliceadsl.fr<br />
Asia & Oceania:<br />
Dave Cundy<br />
P.O. Box 206, Ettalong Beach, SW 2257, Australia<br />
Tel: 61 2 43427611 Fax: 61 2 43427648<br />
Email: cundysm@ozemail.com.au<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 5
AIMS News<br />
AIMS Marathon Museum of <strong>Running</strong><br />
A significant new addition to the<br />
collection of the AIMS Marathon<br />
Museum of <strong>Running</strong> - filling 34<br />
running metres of shelving and<br />
weighing almost a ton - arrived in<br />
Berlin from Atlanta, Georgia.<br />
The Honorary AIMS Statistician Dr<br />
David Martin has been donating items<br />
to the Museum with every visit since<br />
2008. Now he has given the major part<br />
of his athletics/marathon library which<br />
forms the “David E. Martin Collection”.<br />
This recent donation amounted to<br />
approximately 800 books, 60% bound<br />
<strong>magazine</strong>s and 40% yearbooks on<br />
running, international athletics, and<br />
numerous publications about running.<br />
Since the beginning of June it has been<br />
exhibited in the “Gerhard Schlegel<br />
Room”<br />
Gerd Steins, responsible for receiving<br />
and curating the consignment in Berlin<br />
commented: “It is not only historians<br />
and museum people who know how<br />
hard it is to separate yourself from the<br />
things you have collected in your life.<br />
AIMS Marathon Museum of <strong>Running</strong><br />
expresses a heartfelt thank you to<br />
David Martin for his generous<br />
donation.”<br />
From 15 August to 23 December this<br />
year the AIMS Marathon-Museum of<br />
<strong>Running</strong>, Sportmuseum Berlin is<br />
running a photographic exhibition in<br />
the “Haus das Deutschen Sports” In<br />
Berlin’s Olympiapark, open 10.00-14.00<br />
Monday to Friday with free admission.<br />
At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin<br />
thousands of photos were taken at<br />
hundreds of athletic competitions.<br />
Sports photographers were at a<br />
transformative stage, increasingly<br />
moving away from large-format<br />
cameras to the small-format cameras<br />
(Leica and Contax). But at a political<br />
level foreign photojournalists were<br />
excluded by the decision to accredit<br />
only those belonging to the Imperial<br />
Commission of Photojournalists within<br />
the Imperial Association of the German<br />
Photojournalists at the rowing<br />
regatta in Berlin-Grünau<br />
Media. Accredited photojournalists<br />
were also divided into an athletic<br />
group, for the sporting events, and a<br />
current events group, for events outside<br />
the actual athletic competitions. Special<br />
identifying armbands and the clothing<br />
they wore were also prescribed (and<br />
provided).<br />
114 photojournalists are listed by<br />
name and accreditation number but the<br />
official report names 125<br />
photographers, of whom 69 were<br />
responsible for the athletic events and<br />
56 for current events. To complicate<br />
things even more, all of the<br />
photojournalists received entrance<br />
tickets from the photo press office with<br />
a specific time and location where they<br />
were permitted to work. This rigid<br />
system led to major disappointments.<br />
Paul Wolff in his book “What I saw at<br />
the 1936 Olympic Games” wrote:<br />
“To want something and not be allowed<br />
to do it! We stood there like horses with<br />
their heads pulled back with curb bits.<br />
When the starting shots were fired<br />
down on the track, I was standing up in<br />
the stands at my lonely post in the<br />
middle of the crowd, who let me know<br />
that I was not “transparent”. They did<br />
not like seeing me much there at all. I<br />
crouched down into the smallest space.<br />
My colleague watched with clenched<br />
teeth 100m away as the finish line tape<br />
was torn. We were faced with inner<br />
A cameraman for the Olympiafilm<br />
production uses an umbrella to<br />
protect himself from the sun<br />
Marathon<br />
champion Kee<br />
Chung Sohn<br />
of Korea<br />
battles between duty and self-interest<br />
and antagonism between reason and<br />
angry negation.”<br />
These working conditions were a strict<br />
consequence of the exploitive<br />
utilization of these Olympic Games,<br />
which Angermeyer described in his<br />
1935 Hymn to Berlin: “these Games<br />
provided us with an invaluable means<br />
of propaganda.”<br />
This culminated in a photo<br />
adulteration, in which Adolf Hitler’s<br />
building enthusiasm was exaggerated.<br />
With the photo caption We’re ready to<br />
build! The classic photograph of a<br />
powerful head of state was staged: a<br />
Führer photo that was sent around the<br />
world and which even today is often<br />
reprinted in publications without<br />
comment or critique. Photos are often<br />
selected according to look or cost and<br />
come from the pool of photos that are<br />
available from the photo trading card<br />
albums, commemorative books, and<br />
special <strong>magazine</strong> editions from 1936.<br />
Rarely is much effort or money invested<br />
in searching the archives and museums<br />
for other unpublished materials, with<br />
the result that the current presentation<br />
of the 1936 Games is still filled with<br />
the photo aesthetics and selection that<br />
stemmed from Nazi times.<br />
In order to break through these barriers,<br />
the Berlin Sports Museum and the<br />
Forum for Sport History is presenting<br />
this selection of 100 photos from the<br />
thousands they hold of the 1936 Berlin<br />
Games.<br />
■ A German/English brochure has been created to accompany the<br />
exhibition, which includes all of the photographs on exhibit. The brochure is<br />
available for 5 Euros onsite, or can be ordered from:<br />
Sportmuseum Berlin- Olympiapark Berlin, Hanns-Braun-Straße, 14053 Berlin.<br />
Email: Sportmuseum.Berlin@t-online.de Telephone: 030-305 83 00<br />
www.Sportmuseum-Berlin.de<br />
Information and photos are available at:<br />
http://www.germanroadraces.de/24-1-24615-75year-anniversary-of-theolympic-games-in.html<br />
Big demand<br />
for Big Sur<br />
Big Sur International Marathon<br />
sold out in 29 days, the fastest ever<br />
for the 26-year old race, with only a<br />
limited number of premium race<br />
registrations for specific programs<br />
being made available at a later<br />
date. Other events held during the<br />
marathon weekend, including the<br />
marathon relay, 21, 10.6 and 9-<br />
Milers, and the 5K, remain open for<br />
registration. The previous record of<br />
seven weeks for a Big Sur Marathon<br />
sellout was in 2002 following a<br />
designation of the Big Sur race as<br />
"The Best Marathon in North<br />
America" in the annual Ultimate<br />
Guide to Marathons.<br />
Comrades -<br />
since 1975<br />
Comrades Marathon Association<br />
used the occasion of Women’s Day<br />
to pay tribute to the many women<br />
who have run the event and<br />
contributed to its spirit of<br />
camaraderie and grace. Nearly a<br />
quarter of Comrades' entrants are<br />
women: this year 4,381 out of<br />
19,591.<br />
Until 1975, the world’s biggest<br />
ultra-marathon did not feature a<br />
single official woman runner. Only<br />
men were permitted to participate<br />
until the Golden Jubilee 50th<br />
running of the race when the<br />
Comrades Marathon was opened up<br />
to people of all races and both<br />
sexes. Since then, year on year, the<br />
ultra-marathon has attracted a<br />
growing number of women athletes.<br />
CMA Chairman Peter Proctor said<br />
‘Women add a very special facet to<br />
the Ultimate Human Race. We are<br />
extremely proud of the<br />
achievements of women in this<br />
international sporting fixture as well<br />
as the glitz and glamour they<br />
bestow upon the race.”<br />
The race defines<br />
the place<br />
On 7 August one of the youngest<br />
members of AIMS held their second<br />
edition - the Asuncion<br />
International Marathon, held in<br />
the capital city of Paraguay.<br />
This year Paraguay celebrated its<br />
bicentennial; 200 years since it<br />
became an independent state. It is<br />
a quixotic and exotic place, and the<br />
home to innumerable heroes who<br />
have battled to defend their<br />
national identity. Marathon runners<br />
now fight the same fight, as the<br />
Marathon is doing so much to<br />
define the place.<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 7
IAAF News<br />
World Championships in Athletics, Daegu, Korea<br />
Daegu, Korea’s fourth largest city with<br />
a population of 2.5 million, hosted the<br />
championships in its impressive<br />
67,000 capacity stadium but the<br />
events that bracketed the week - the<br />
women’s and men’s Marathons - were<br />
held on a 15km road circuit in the city<br />
Women’s<br />
Marathon<br />
27 August 2011<br />
Edna Kiplagat, the fastest<br />
woman in the field, bided her<br />
time through the first of two<br />
15km laps around the centre of<br />
Daegu writes Len Johnson. She<br />
lurked at the back of a pack<br />
which still numbered 19 at<br />
30km, keeping a watchful eye<br />
out for any moves. There were<br />
none. Only entering the third lap,<br />
shortened to 12.195km<br />
did Kiplagat and her Kenyan<br />
teammates Priscah Jeptoo and<br />
Sharon Cherop move to the<br />
front. And stayed there, bringing<br />
Kenya the first Marathon medal<br />
sweep in World Championships,<br />
or Olympic history.<br />
Coming into a water station near<br />
37km, Kiplagat and Cherop<br />
exchanged positions as they took<br />
their drinks. Cherop clipped Kiplagat’s<br />
heels as they came away from the<br />
table and the favourite hit the<br />
road. A horrified Cherop quickly<br />
helped Kiplagat to her feet and she<br />
resumed running as powerfully as<br />
before. There may be grazes and<br />
abrasions, but a gold medal salves<br />
all. Even with that drama Kiplagat<br />
ran the fastest 5km of the race<br />
(16:11) between 35-40km. She kept<br />
going at the same pace to the finish,<br />
recording the most emphatic negative<br />
split (1:11:57 second half to 1:16:46<br />
first half).<br />
and never entered the stadium.<br />
Climatic conditions were good for<br />
stadium athletics but testing for<br />
endurance runners with temperatures<br />
higher than conducive to fast running.<br />
The women marathon runners, starting<br />
off the programme, ran cautiously in a<br />
For Kenya it was a complete turn<br />
around compared to the previous<br />
women’s World Championships<br />
Marathon in Berlin two years ago,<br />
when no-one finished in the top<br />
10. Kiplagat came into the race with<br />
the fastest time, and third fastest in<br />
the world for the year, her 2:20:46 in<br />
London. And she won like the fastest<br />
runner in the race should, her tumble<br />
notwithstanding. For Ethiopia it was<br />
the opposite story, failing to add to a<br />
World Championships women’s<br />
Marathon tally of Aselefech Mergia's<br />
bronze in Berlin. Mergia was never a<br />
factor in the race, but her teammate<br />
Aberu Kebede stuck bravely to the<br />
Kenyan trio when the break was<br />
made. She paid for her courage,<br />
finishing 12th. Bezunesh Bekele was<br />
best finisher for Ethiopia in fourth<br />
place.<br />
China took the silver medal in the<br />
World Cup team event, behind Kenya,<br />
with Ethiopia edging Japan out of<br />
third by 38 seconds. It is the first<br />
time Japan has not been in the top<br />
three since the World Cup was<br />
incorporated with the World<br />
Championships marathons in Athens<br />
in 1997.<br />
Kiplagat became only the second<br />
Kenyan woman after Catherine<br />
Ndereba to win the World Marathon<br />
title adds David Monti. She joined the<br />
pack until well into the race when<br />
Edna Kiplagat stepped into a higher<br />
gear. In the men’s race Abel Kirui<br />
threw caution to the wind (of which<br />
there was precious little) with a<br />
bravado run which carried him to a<br />
commanding victory.<br />
training group of her husband-to-be<br />
Gilbert Koech in 2002. When she ran<br />
2:25:38 in the 2010 Los Angeles<br />
Marathon and won $145,000 he<br />
gave up his own ambitions to focus<br />
solely on coaching his wife. “My<br />
husband has been helping me a lot,”<br />
said Kiplagat. “And also my children.<br />
The most important thing is to get<br />
support from the family.”<br />
Kiplagat won the 2010 New York<br />
Marathon by using patience and<br />
running a very fast final 3km. “I try to<br />
run all of my races the second half<br />
faster.” Koech says his wife is very<br />
coachable. “She listens advice and<br />
she implements,” he explained. “She<br />
improves.”<br />
EXECUTIVES<br />
Headquarters:<br />
17 rue Princesse Florestine, MC 98000, Monaco<br />
Tel: 377 93 10 88 88<br />
Fax: 377 93 15 95 15<br />
Email: headquarters@iaaf.org<br />
IAAF Council Members<br />
IAAF President:<br />
Lamine Diack (SEN)<br />
Senior Vice President:<br />
Robert Hersh (USA)<br />
Vice Presidents:<br />
Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad (QAT)<br />
Sergey Bubka (UKR)<br />
Sebastian Coe (GBR)<br />
Honorary Treasurer:<br />
Valentin V. Balakhnichev (RUS)<br />
Area Representatives:<br />
Geoff Gardner (NFI)<br />
Roberto Gesta de Melo (BRA)<br />
Hamad Kalkaba Malboum (CMR)<br />
Suresh Kalmadi, M.P. (IND)<br />
Neville McCook (JAM)<br />
Hansjörg Wirz (SUI)<br />
Council Members:<br />
Ahmed Al Kamali (UAE)<br />
Bernard Amsalem (FRA)<br />
Sylvia Barlag (NED)<br />
Pauline Davis-Thompson (BAH)<br />
Helmut Digel (GER)<br />
Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)<br />
Frank Fredericks (NAM)<br />
Abby Hoffman (CAN)<br />
Alberto Juantorena Danger (CUB)<br />
Isaiah Kiplagat (KEN)<br />
José Maria Odriozola (ESP)<br />
Jung-Ki Park (KOR)<br />
Anna Riccardi (ITA)<br />
Irena Szewinska (POL)<br />
Katsuyuki Tanaka (JPN)<br />
General Secretary<br />
Essar Gabriel (FRA)<br />
IAAF Road <strong>Running</strong> Commission<br />
Chairman:<br />
Roberto Gesta de Melo (BRA)<br />
Members:<br />
David Bedford<br />
London Marathon, 115 Southwark Street,<br />
London SE1 0JF, UK<br />
Tel: 44 20 7902 0200<br />
Fax: 44 20 7620 4208<br />
Paco Borao (ESP)<br />
AIMS President<br />
Carlos Cardoso (POR)<br />
Avenida Gama Pinto, No. 2, 1699 Lisbon, Portugal<br />
Fax: 351 1 795 4288<br />
Email: ccardoso@fc.ul.pt<br />
Hiroaki Chosa (JPN)<br />
C/o Japan Association of Athletics Federations<br />
1-1-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku,<br />
Tokyo 150-8050, Japan<br />
Fax: 81 3 3481 2449<br />
Hugh Jones (GBR)<br />
AIMS Secretary<br />
Otto Klappert<br />
Platanenallee 7, 59425 Unna, Germany<br />
Fax: 49 2303 21233<br />
Email: o.klappert@gmx.de<br />
Katsuyuki Tanaka (JPN)<br />
Pierre Weiss (FRA)<br />
Mary Wittenberg (USA)<br />
DIARY DATES<br />
3-12 August 2012<br />
Games of the XXX Olympiad, London (GBR)<br />
6 October 2012<br />
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships,<br />
Kavarna, (BUL)<br />
24 March 2013<br />
IAAF World Cross Country Championships,<br />
Bydgoszcz (POL)<br />
10-18 August 2013<br />
IAAF World Championships in Athletics,<br />
Moscow (RUS)<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 9
IAAF News<br />
Men’s<br />
Marathon<br />
4 September 2011<br />
Results<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Edna KIPLAGAT KEN 2:28:43<br />
2 Priscah JEPTOO KEN 2:29:00<br />
3 Sharon CHEROP KEN 2:29:14<br />
4 Bezunesh BEKELE ETH 2:29:21<br />
5 Yukiko AKABA JPN 2:29:35<br />
6 Xiaolin ZHU CHN 2:29:58<br />
7 Isabellah ANDERSSON SWE 2:30:13<br />
8 Jiali WANG CHN 2:30:25<br />
9 Marisa BARROS JPN 2:30:29<br />
10 Remi NAKAZATO JPN 2:30:52<br />
With a runaway victory Abel Kirui became<br />
the third athlete to retain a World<br />
Championship Marathon title writes David<br />
Martin. Kirui made his presence first felt by<br />
leading through halfway in 1:05:07, before<br />
surging on to win by the biggest ever margin<br />
(2:28).<br />
Kirui had only been selected for the Kenyan team<br />
after others withdrew, but stamped his authority on<br />
the race by making a decisive break around 27km,<br />
He ran the 5km from 25-30km in a record 14:17<br />
split to lead Eliud Kiptanui and Feyisa Lilesa by 11<br />
seconds. He then went on to run the next 5km in<br />
14:40, increasing his lead by over a minute to<br />
1:14, now over fellow Kenyan Vincent Kipruto.<br />
Kipruto never threatened and was continuously<br />
looking behind although not appearing distressed.<br />
With victory assured Kirui slowed slightly for a final<br />
5km split of 15:15, passing 40km in 2:00:38 as<br />
behind him Kipruto edged clear of Lilese.<br />
Morocco's Abderrahime Bouramdane had been<br />
dropped when the pace increased at 25km but<br />
came back through to take fourth place. The<br />
highest non-African placing was Hiroyuki Horibati's<br />
seventh, although his team mate Yuki Kawauchi<br />
had led the huge lead pack through 5km in<br />
15:58. Nicholas Kiprono then took up the lead as<br />
30 runners passed through 10km in 31:21 and he<br />
was still in the front rank when Kirui made his<br />
decisive move.<br />
Lilesa became the youngest ever medallist but<br />
Ethiopia failed to finish a team. Pre-race favourite<br />
Gebre Gebremariam dropped out after 12km as did<br />
the highly rated Chala Dechase and Bazu Worku.<br />
Kenya took the team race ahead of Japan and<br />
Morocco.<br />
Since his record-setting IAAF World Championships<br />
Marathon victory in Berlin two years earlier Abel<br />
Kirui had run fast in commercial marathons but<br />
further victories eluded him adds David Monti.<br />
His agent Valentin Trouw suspected that Kirui, an<br />
exceedingly outgoing and friendly man, had lost his<br />
training focus and suggested that he moved to the<br />
Iten/Eldoret area to train under the renowned<br />
Italian Marathon coach, Renato Canova. Kirui<br />
rented a house in Iten and settled into a routine.<br />
Canova changed Kirui’s training to such effect that<br />
Kirui felt it brought him his victory in Daegu and a<br />
possible place at the 2012 London Olympics. He<br />
acknowledges that his selection is not assured<br />
because “there is a load of competitors… [In<br />
Daegu] I was the defending (world) champion and<br />
I was fighting to be in the Olympics next year."<br />
WOMEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Kenya<br />
2 China<br />
3 Ethiopia<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Abel KIRUI KEN 2:07:38<br />
2 Vincent KIPRUTO KEN 2:10:06<br />
3 Feyisa LILESA ETH 2:10:32<br />
4 Abderrahime BOURAMDANE MAR 2:10:55<br />
5 David Barmasai TUMO KEN 2:11:39<br />
6 Eliud KIPTANUI KEN 2:11:50<br />
7 Hiroyuki HORIBATI JPN 2:11:52<br />
8 Ruggero PERTILE ITA 2:11:57<br />
9 Stephen KIPROTICH UGA 2:12:57<br />
10 Kentaro NAKAMOTO JPN 2:13:10<br />
Pierre Weiss to retire<br />
Two pillars of IAAF<br />
administration are relinquishing<br />
their posts this year: IAAF<br />
Honorary Treasurer Jean<br />
Poczobut stood down from the<br />
elections to Council in Daegu<br />
and IAAF General Secretary<br />
Pierre Weiss, an appointee, is<br />
retiring at the end of this year.<br />
As assistant to the General<br />
Secretary from 1985-87,<br />
General Director from 1991-<br />
2006, and the General Secretary<br />
since 2006 Pierre Weiss has<br />
been the dynamo of the<br />
organisation. IAAF President<br />
Lamine Diack said: “I would also<br />
like to acknowledge [his] many<br />
years of service, [over which he]<br />
has made an extraordinary<br />
contribution to our organisation,<br />
sacrificing his time, his leisure,<br />
home life and health to do so.<br />
In devoting the majority of his<br />
life to athletics he showed such<br />
exemplary dedication,<br />
commitment, energy and allaround<br />
capability that it will be<br />
impossible to [fill] his shoes.”<br />
The new IAAF General Secretary<br />
will be Essar Gabriel, former<br />
Director General of the<br />
Organising Committee for the<br />
Paris World Championships, and<br />
an outside appointment.<br />
MEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Kenya<br />
2 Japan<br />
3 Morocco<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 11
Australian Outback Marathon<br />
A package<br />
to remember<br />
JULY<br />
30<br />
2011<br />
by Jenny Buchanan<br />
The Australian Outback Marathon is a fully “packaged” marathon experience. This means that<br />
participants don’t just enter the race but get to choose from a selection of fully hosted Outback<br />
holidays which range from a basic trip of three days and two nights up to 7 days and 6 nights.<br />
I chose the longest package so as to allow me to<br />
fully appreciate all that the Australian Outback<br />
Marathon has to offer. The trip is centred around<br />
Uluru (Ayers Rock) and was packed with<br />
memorable events and visits. The marathon was my<br />
first visit to Central Australia and I couldn’t have<br />
asked for a better initiation.<br />
Every day we were treated to a new experience as<br />
the tours that were included were spectacular. We<br />
watched the sun come up over Uluru - something<br />
everyone should experience at least once; we did<br />
Kings Canyon<br />
the 11km walk at the base of Uluru; we visited the<br />
cultural centre to meet the local indigenous people;<br />
and we trekked through Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) and<br />
Kings Canyon. All were experiences not to be<br />
missed. Kings Canyon is similar (although much<br />
smaller) to the Grand Canyon; it is a small oasis<br />
teaming with life in the middle of the desert, with<br />
walks, waterholes and abundant plant life.<br />
All of which contributed to a huge appetite, which<br />
was more than satisfied by the gourmet buffet<br />
meals that were included. These ranged from an<br />
outdoor “welcome” dinner on our first night –<br />
giving the opportunity to meet with some of our<br />
fellow runners as well as the event management<br />
team, to a smorgasbord-style dinner that allowed us<br />
the chance to sample some of the foods that<br />
Australia is famous for – barramundi, crocodile,<br />
kangaroo and emu amongst others. There were also<br />
plenty of “regular” foods on offer, such as salads,<br />
roast meats and a great variety of desserts. A pasta<br />
party offered all the runners the chance to mingle<br />
and carbo-load the evening before the Marathon.<br />
We arrived early, the Tuesday before the race.<br />
Guided training runs, or even just relaxing by the<br />
pool, gave us a chance to familiarize ourselves with<br />
the resort, the other people and the management<br />
team, who were now no longer just names on the<br />
end of an email.<br />
It was my second marathon in July and my third of<br />
the year, but the only thing it had in common with<br />
the other two was the distance of 42.195km. In<br />
contrast to pounding the pavement with 5000<br />
other runners through the hustle and bustle of city<br />
streets and suburbs the quiet, serene remoteness of<br />
the Australian Outback was another world. There is<br />
a certain intimacy you get in the smaller<br />
marathons, which is missing in the larger ones. The<br />
Australian Outback Marathon definitely had it.<br />
We were up early for the race start on Saturday<br />
morning and runners were transported to the start<br />
line via a fleet of specially chartered coaches. We<br />
were treated to the delicate sounds of a didgeridoo<br />
as our welcoming music. Nowhere else in the world<br />
would you hear the words “three, two, one” and<br />
then, rather than a starting pistol, have the<br />
didgeridoo blast out the “Go”.<br />
The Marathon itself is run on private red earth bush<br />
tracks that are a feature throughout Central<br />
Australia. The tracks are made of packed earth and<br />
were specially “graded” for the race meaning that<br />
they were slightly soft. A few small sand-dunes<br />
were strategically included which, whilst<br />
challenging to climb, offered some spectacular<br />
views of Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (the<br />
Olgas).<br />
Continued on page 15<br />
Kata Tjuta<br />
(The Olgas)<br />
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Continued from page 13<br />
There was plenty of support out on<br />
the well-marked course, with drink<br />
and aid stations every 3km. It was an<br />
unusually warm day for the time of<br />
year (it is normally around 20C but<br />
climbed to 26C) so the water and<br />
sports drinks were very welcome, as<br />
were the cheers and support of the<br />
volunteers and medical personnel at<br />
each of the stations.<br />
The area has been inhabited by the<br />
traditional owners, Anangu people,<br />
for 40,000 years. The surroundings<br />
brought everyone together, enjoying<br />
the serenity of one of Australia’s most<br />
sacred places.<br />
Continued on page 17<br />
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Australian Outback Marathon<br />
Feature writer Jenny<br />
Buchanan crossing<br />
the finish line<br />
Continued from page 15<br />
After finishing in a respectable 3:30 (only two<br />
minutes slower than my city marathon three weeks<br />
earlier) the applause and congratulations of fellow<br />
runners contributed to a friendly, supportive<br />
atmosphere. Although we had only met days earlier<br />
many of them I now claimed as friends. And did I<br />
mention the magnificent backdrop of Uluru at the<br />
finishing line?<br />
The Celebration Dinner held on the Sunday evening<br />
was a final highlight. It was held outdoors in the<br />
desert, with Uluru to the east and Kata Tjuta to the<br />
west. As the sun set behind Kata Tjuta, the palette<br />
of changing colours and the silhouette of the<br />
desert oaks was then replaced by a multitude of<br />
stars in a clear bright sky. We were treated to a<br />
delicious meal, fine wines, a slideshow of the<br />
previous day’s exertions and the comradeship of<br />
the other runners. Many had come from countries<br />
around the world to share in the natural beauty<br />
that surrounded us.<br />
Just before the<br />
Celebration Dinner<br />
The Australian Outback Marathon allowed us to<br />
share part of our great country along with others<br />
from the global running community. It is a truly<br />
unique experience that will be long remembered.<br />
Result<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Brian WATSON AUS 3:15:29<br />
2 Timothy LEWIS USA 3:19:13<br />
3 David BRYAN USA 3:21:52<br />
4 Paul CORKIN AUS 3:27:21<br />
5 Thomas WHALEN USA 3:28:31<br />
6 Alan BUCHANAN AUS 3:34:23<br />
7 Steve MORARTY AUS 3:35:57<br />
8 Robert KELLETT AUS 3:40:05<br />
9 Brad CROFTS AUS 3:42:05<br />
10 Peter SCHMIDT AUS 3:47:45<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Suzanne MCKEEN AUS 3:20:50<br />
2 Carmel KAHLEFELDT AUS 3:29:48<br />
3 Jenny BUCHANAN AUS 3:30:16<br />
4 Rochelle YOUNGSON AUS 3:36:10<br />
5 Shaye HUNTER RUS 3:37:21<br />
6 Anne STEVENSON AUS 3:42:28<br />
7 Tiza GARLAND USA 3:57:17<br />
8 Rachel KEENIESIDE AUS 3:59:18<br />
9 Stephanie TEOH AUS 4:00:28<br />
10 Wendy STIBBE AUS 4:06:06<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Tim ROWE AUS 1:11:03<br />
2 Andrew BURDON AUS 1:33:45<br />
3 Greg MACKENZIE AUS 1:35:56<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Asher REYNOLDS AUS 1:35:21<br />
2 Andina FARAGHER AUS 1:36:58<br />
3 Katy THOMAS AUS 1:39:37<br />
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Victoria Falls Marathon, Zimbabwe<br />
AUGUST<br />
28<br />
2011<br />
Through the<br />
thundering<br />
by Debhie Addison,<br />
photographs by Linda Willemse<br />
and Debbie Addison<br />
mist<br />
The Victoria Falls Marathon has one of the most spectacular backdrops to<br />
any race – the majestic Falls on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia which<br />
so impressed Victorian explorer David Livingstone that he described<br />
“scenes so lovely that they must have been gazed at by angels in their<br />
flight”, and then promptly re-named the Falls after his Queen.<br />
As the Zambezi River discharges over the Falls a<br />
plume of moisture rises high into the air,<br />
descending over a broad area to form a lush<br />
microclimate, and a huge refreshing “mist” station<br />
for runners. The original name of the Falls, Mosi-oa-<br />
Tunya, means “the smoke that thunders”.<br />
The town of Victoria Falls grew up to service tourist<br />
interest in the Falls, but over the last 10 years<br />
much of that has shifted over the border to<br />
Livingstone in Zambia. The race itself, launched six<br />
years ago when Zimbabwe was in financial turmoil<br />
(the tumbling currency did not help at all), has run<br />
counter to the trend. At first international and<br />
tourist runners were wary of coming but today, with<br />
over 700 runners participating in one or other of<br />
the three distances, it is poised to become one of<br />
the premier races of Africa. The scenery and the<br />
opportunity to see wildlife are big draws.<br />
The town offers a good selection of hotels for<br />
visitors on any budget, and there are varied<br />
activities and places to see including whitewater<br />
rafting, canoeing, bungi jumping and ‘gorge<br />
swings’ from Victoria Falls Bridge, 100m above<br />
river level. Those wanting less strenuous options<br />
can enjoy high tea at the Victoria Falls Hotel, an<br />
helicopter ride or flight over the Falls, and perhaps<br />
an elephant-back safari or an encounter with lions.<br />
The many national parks in the region (Hwange,<br />
Chobe, Zambezi National Park) all offer multi-day<br />
safaris with fantastic game viewing available.<br />
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Continued from page 19<br />
The race benefits from many local sponsors and<br />
involves the community as much as possible. The<br />
race supports the disabled people of Zimbabwe<br />
(over a 100 wheelchairs were donated this year),<br />
and the Victoria Falls Anti-poaching – wildlife<br />
conservation initiative.<br />
Race weekend coincided with a sudden spike in the<br />
temperature. All that time spent training on the<br />
road, but did we have what it took to deal with the<br />
heat? We wandered down to registration at The<br />
Kingdom Hotel and were immediately enveloped in<br />
a positively buzzing pre-race atmosphere. We met<br />
serious, lean athletes, honed to performance, club<br />
runners with carefree banter yet very clear<br />
intentions, nervous first timers, and tourists who’d<br />
just decided they’d give it a bash while they were<br />
in town. Race numbers in hand, we left to carbo<br />
load.<br />
Next morning we were up early, performing our<br />
individual pre race rituals, trying to quell flip<br />
flopping tummies and shaky lace tying hands. As<br />
soon as we arrived at the start, outside the row of<br />
banks and post office of Victoria Falls, the music<br />
and jostling bodies swept us into the fever of the<br />
race.<br />
The full marathon start was at 06.30, and the<br />
atmosphere was electric. The gun sounded, and<br />
runners surged forward. The wheelchair athletes<br />
lined up next, to wait for the gun to go off a few<br />
minutes later. It was a humbling experience to see<br />
these amazing people, despite their disabilities,<br />
push their bodies to the limits. All our moans and<br />
groans are silenced, it would be frivolous to whine<br />
about a blister when watching someone heave a<br />
rickety wheelchair up a hill. The half marathon<br />
runners started next, at 07.00, and it was a relief<br />
just to get running after waiting for so long, trying<br />
to stay warm and focussed, between regular dashes<br />
to the toilet.<br />
The run across the Victoria Falls Bridge is utterly<br />
stunning. The soft early morning light dances<br />
across the spray, making the Falls ethereally<br />
beautiful. Quite a few runners simply stopped to<br />
absorb such a sight, and take pictures. Fortunately<br />
we get to run over the bridge twice. The scenery<br />
just gets better, as the run loops around Zambezi<br />
Drive, which is very close to the river edge, above<br />
the Falls. Rushing rapids, lush riverine forest and if<br />
you take the time to observe, fantastically varied<br />
bird life; for three kilometres, it’s hard to beat.<br />
There are times when you could feel vulnerable,<br />
running in the bush but regular National Park<br />
scouts, armed and patrolling, set your mind at rest.<br />
A few gentle rolling hills take you towards the<br />
Zambezi National Park, where a short loop through<br />
the park is an added treat. It was at this point that<br />
the marathon elite overtook us at breathtaking<br />
speed. Looking graceful, effortless and barely<br />
sweating, they slipped past us before we knew<br />
what was happening. Humbled and a little<br />
depressed, we soldiered on up the not insignificant<br />
hills to the entrance of the Victoria Falls Safari<br />
Lodge.<br />
An utter delight awaited us: dancers, drums,<br />
cheering and festive supporters, right at the<br />
moment when morale is low. It could not have<br />
happened at a better time. It gave us strength to<br />
continue and picked up everyone’s flagging spirits.<br />
By this time, the temperature was steadily climbing,<br />
and the regular water points were a godsend.<br />
Every point had its own character, sponsored by<br />
various companies, and it was a great experience to<br />
have enthusiastic folk every few kilometres,<br />
encouraging us all onward. Almost too soon we<br />
reached Victoria Falls Primary School, and after a<br />
lap around the field, the finish was suddenly upon<br />
us. The marathon sponsors have their hospitality<br />
tents dotted around the field, making for a very<br />
social ending for a thoroughly enjoyable race.<br />
We’ll be back next year (although we may do some<br />
training in a sauna first) for a unique, well<br />
organised race with so many extra experiences –<br />
the wildlife, the scenery and the welcoming people.<br />
Result<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Michael NGASEKE ZIM 2:24:31<br />
2 Kudakwashe KANDUNA ZIM 2:25:06<br />
3 Chasara MASIYATSUA ZIM 2:27:44<br />
4 Oliver KANDIERO ZIM 2:29:56<br />
5 Jephias MUNONI ZIM 2:30:58<br />
6 John DAYARIRA ZIM 2:31:38<br />
7 Paul MHIZHA ZIM 2:32:07<br />
8 Geturi BAYO TAN 2:32:19<br />
9 Sampson TENAI KEN 2:32:23<br />
10 Tawanda TOKISI ZIM 2:42:04<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lizih CHOKORE ZIM 2:51:16<br />
2 Olivia CHITANE ZIM 2:53:30<br />
3 Banuelia KATESIGWA TAN 2:58:44<br />
4 Chiyedza CHOKORE ZIM 3:10:01<br />
5 Jill OLIPHANT RSA 3:21:00<br />
6 Cathrine NYAKWISHIRA ZIM 3:21:56<br />
7 Susanna VERMAAK RSA 3:28:27<br />
8 Sandra DU BRUYN RSA 3:41:29<br />
9 Janet ADAM RSA 3:52:59<br />
10 Maggie HENTON USA 3:57:00<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Kelvin PANGISO ZIM 1:07:11<br />
2 Nkosiyazi SIBANDA ZIM 1:07:38<br />
3 Gilbert MUTANDIRO ZIM 1:08:04<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Constance NYASANGO ZIM 1:24:20<br />
2 Alicen MANAKE ZIM 1:30:28<br />
3 Patience MUROWE ZIM 1:31:58<br />
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SEPTEMBER<br />
17<br />
2011<br />
Spellbound<br />
in Stockholm<br />
by Lorenzo Nesi, photographs by Martin Ekequist<br />
The start of the race, in the<br />
background is the Royal Palace, with<br />
the Parliament Building on the right<br />
A glorious Saturday in mid-September, and<br />
the sun welcomes you to the heart of<br />
Stockholm. It’s just a few minutes before the<br />
start of the race and I am spellbound by the<br />
beauty of the Swedish capital.<br />
I turn around and have a last glimpse of the<br />
baroque Royal Palace just behind me. Could it be<br />
King Carl XVI Gustaf hiding behind the curtains of<br />
one of the hundreds of windows? His daughter the<br />
Princess married the owner of a gym last summer;<br />
shouldn’t he be here handing out free tickets to his<br />
establishment?<br />
Runners on Regeringsgatan bridge after<br />
12 kilometers with the Rosenbad – the<br />
administrative office for the Swedish<br />
government – in the background<br />
After 12 kilometers the<br />
course runs through the<br />
Parliament Building<br />
My fantasies dissolve in the mild late summer<br />
afternoon. We are almost 11,000 runners and one<br />
cavalier, King Gustavus Adolphus riding a marble<br />
horse in the square that is named after him. Almost<br />
40 years after the submission of the original plans<br />
to erect the first statue of a Swedish monarch, the<br />
King finally mounted the horse. And 215 years<br />
later he hasn’t jumped off yet.<br />
I plan to move a little faster, a couple of hours and<br />
21km through the islands, around the<br />
Riddarfjärden Bay. The sound of Blondie’s “Heart of<br />
Glass” fills the square, not exactly what is played at<br />
the Opera, on our right side, and I hope that my<br />
own cardiac power will prove stronger than that.<br />
Bang! Here we go; slowly up Brunkebergsåsen, an<br />
esker that once reached over much of Stockholm’s<br />
central parts. After less than 2km the scene<br />
becomes surreal as we turn into the Klaratunnel<br />
underpass, normally the scene of rush-hour snarlups,<br />
all the cars have vanished. Soon the sky is<br />
back and we head into Vasagatan, once a narrow<br />
and filthy alley with derelict houses and<br />
boathouses, but now a busy street full of<br />
commuters and tourists converging on the Central<br />
Station. I wonder who gives the more frantic<br />
impression, the 11,000 of us running by or the<br />
travellers rushing to catch their trains?<br />
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Continued from page 23<br />
Quite a few of the capital’s million-plus inhabitants<br />
enjoy the unexpected late summer day. It seems<br />
like every block has at least one café where<br />
Stockholmers sip a caffe latte and bask in the sun,<br />
forgetting all about the long, dark winter ahead of<br />
them.<br />
The finish line on Norrbro bridge – the Royal Opera<br />
House can be seen in the background, centre<br />
After half an hour the first of many bridges awaits<br />
us: the Orphanage Bridge to the King’s Island. It<br />
seems like every place in Stockholm is connected to<br />
the Royal Family but who were the abandoned<br />
children that gave the crossing its name? I have<br />
already forgotten these unanswered questions by<br />
the time we are running along the waterfront. This<br />
incredible city always bounces back to its rivers,<br />
lakes, canals, bays – all part of the immense<br />
archipelago that embraces the Swedish capital.<br />
There are fishermen next to the City Hall, kayaks,<br />
sailing boats and even a swimmer who refuses to<br />
admit which month it is. The water is so pure that a<br />
local politician once drunk a glass of it in front of<br />
bewildered foreign guests.<br />
Ice cream eaters alternate between admiring the<br />
runners and feeding the swans with their leftover<br />
cones. We leave the King’s Island (“Kungsholmen”)<br />
down the little slope and up the Brick Hill<br />
(“Tegelbacken”) right into the heart of Swedish<br />
political power. We run right through the courtyard<br />
of the House of Parliament before taking our first<br />
steps in the Old Town.<br />
Now we are back at the Royal Palace, one of<br />
Europe's largest, and still functioning as an official<br />
residence. However it could be difficult to know in<br />
which of the 609 rooms the monarch is working. I<br />
try to remember the window I looked at before the<br />
start.<br />
After a quick refreshment - there is no time to<br />
divert into the narrow medieval streets of the Old<br />
Town - we reach Slussen, the lock that controls the<br />
flow between the Lake of Mälaren and the Baltic<br />
Sea.<br />
We have covered two thirds of the distance as we<br />
turn towards the bohemian island, of Södermalm.<br />
Maybe the cool guys are still sleepy after a late<br />
Friday night, I can’t spot too many of them along<br />
Crowd favourite Isabellah Andersson<br />
who won in 1:11.07 – a new Swedish<br />
record – just three weeks after finishing<br />
7th in the marathon race at the world<br />
championships in South Korea<br />
the quays. But as we approach Bergsund, or<br />
Knivsöder as the locals love to call this edgy end of<br />
the town, it’s obvious that the beat is going down.<br />
It could be just a hazy notion, but I’m sure that we<br />
are slowing down as the course goes slightly but<br />
unmercifully uphill. Bite the bullet!<br />
What goes up has to come down, and a sharp<br />
descent brings us back towards Slussen. The fastest<br />
runners can observe the slower moving fellows who<br />
have almost half of the race still to enjoy, as they<br />
cross in opposite directions here on Skeppsbron,<br />
Stockholm’s oldest quay. It was developed during<br />
the first half of the 17th Century by King Gustavus<br />
Adolphus (our cavalier from the beginning of the<br />
story) when he ordered the defensive wall that<br />
surrounded Stockholm to be torn down.<br />
The last turn around the Royal Palace brings us<br />
back to where we started. The sun still shines, the<br />
king hasn’t dismounted his horse, and Blondie no<br />
longer blasts out of the speakers.<br />
My heart is not of glass, but it has softened during<br />
its journey through the lovely city of Stockholm. A<br />
half marathon it may be - but a whole experience.<br />
Result<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Adil BONAFIF SWE 1:04:41<br />
2 Haben IDRIS SWE 1:06:34<br />
3 Daniel WOLDU SWE 1:07:27<br />
4 Matthew BARNES GBR 1:07:32<br />
5 Janne HOLMEN FIN 1:07:34<br />
6 Emil LERDAHL SWE 1:07:39<br />
7 Johan LARSSON SWE 1:07:44<br />
8 Erik PETERSSON SWE 1:08:12<br />
9 Andreas AHWALL SWE 1:08:16<br />
10 Kristian ALGERS SWE 1:08:27<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Isabellah ANDERSSON SWE 1:11:07<br />
2 Jenny JANSSON SWE 1:17:04<br />
3 Annah RAHM SWE 1:17:30<br />
4 Inga KAZLAUSKAITE SWE 1:17:40<br />
5 Gabriella SAMUELSSON SWE 1:18:24<br />
6 Josephine AMBJORNSSON SWE 1:18:26<br />
7 Charlotte KARLSSON SWE 1:18:44<br />
8 Kajsa BERG SWE 1:18:56<br />
9 Anna Von SCHENK SWE 1:19:22<br />
10 Johanna ERIKSSON SWE 1:22:11<br />
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Opinion<br />
Fromblood<br />
diamonds<br />
Staging a marathon in Liberia is something<br />
that Peter Harrington was told would never<br />
work. He tells us what happened next…<br />
“It’s too disorganised here” said my fiend. “How<br />
can you have a marathon when there aren’t even<br />
any traffic lights?” Others had equally rational<br />
views about why it was a bad idea: ‘Liberia is too<br />
chaotic for the level of<br />
organisation needed’; ‘West Africa<br />
only produces sprinters’; ‘Liberians<br />
hate running and love football’; ‘It<br />
is too rainy, too humid’; ‘There are<br />
not enough sponsors, too many<br />
cars’, and so on. There was only<br />
one problem with these<br />
arguments; they were all wrong.<br />
If people have heard of Liberia,<br />
most likely it’s for the child<br />
soldiers, conflict diamonds and<br />
one of Africa’s most shocking and<br />
brutal civil wars. For much of that<br />
war, this small, tropical nation<br />
draped along Africa’s western<br />
corner was ruled by the<br />
continent’s most notorious warlord<br />
president, Charles Taylor -<br />
currently on trial at The Hague for<br />
war crimes committed in neighbouring Sierra<br />
Leone.<br />
When the war ended in 2003 almost all physical<br />
and human infrastructure was in ruin. There were<br />
traffic lights once, but they had all been broken,<br />
shot, blown up or looted. All the country’s<br />
institutions – including the sporting ones – were<br />
destroyed and hundreds of thousands had fled the<br />
country along with most of Liberia’s talent. On top<br />
of that, Monrovia is Africa’s wettest capital.<br />
Not promising for a marathon, but in spite of the<br />
devastation wrought by 14 years of war a different<br />
story has been developing in Liberia. In eight years<br />
of peace Liberia has elected Africa’s first female<br />
head of state (President Ellen<br />
Johnson Sirleaf, of whom more<br />
later); rid itself of national debt;<br />
risen off the bottom of the poverty<br />
and human development<br />
rankings; and grown steadily every<br />
year. This is a country now on the<br />
move.<br />
I had been in Liberia – working for<br />
a charity called the Africa<br />
Governance Initiative – for only a<br />
month before the idea for a<br />
marathon took hold of me. It<br />
came from a sense of what it<br />
could do for Liberia, and because<br />
Liberia is ready for it. The public<br />
benefits that a marathon<br />
generates anywhere stood to<br />
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Opinion<br />
If the stories coming out of Liberia could change from child soldiers to child athletes,<br />
from blood diamonds to gold medals, then this was worth every inch of effort.<br />
Nothing says ambition, perseverance, resilience and achievement like a marathon<br />
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count for so much more in Liberia. Aside from<br />
health and exercise, athletics in Liberia barely<br />
registers a pulse. Liberia sent 11 athletes to the<br />
Beijing Olympics, but has never qualified a distance<br />
runner. A successful race could promote running,<br />
inspire youngsters and bring in resources.<br />
Marathons also stoke business, and over a longer<br />
time can drive tourism – much needed visitors for<br />
Liberia’s pristine rainforest and immaculate<br />
beaches.<br />
Above all I know that over time, hosting a credible<br />
international event would change the way people<br />
think about Liberia, both abroad and at home. If<br />
the stories coming out of Liberia could change from<br />
child soldiers to child athletes, from blood<br />
diamonds to gold medals, then this was worth<br />
every inch of effort. Nothing says ambition,<br />
perseverance, resilience and achievement like a<br />
marathon. These are qualities Liberia has in spades,<br />
and it’s time the world knew.<br />
The idea had force. And so to the challenge of<br />
taking the idea to fruition, and to the practical<br />
challenges everyone had been so quick to point<br />
Race winner Gebre Beraki<br />
receiving his trophy from<br />
President Sirleaf<br />
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out. I had run in a few marathons and<br />
shorter races, but had never organised<br />
one before. I needed advice from<br />
people who had. I started my<br />
homework, and the best resource was<br />
AIMS: full of helpful advice.<br />
Early on I worked out that there are<br />
three things you have to get right:<br />
first, find a group of capable and<br />
willing co-conspirators (neither they<br />
nor I would be paid); second, get the<br />
right authorisation and permissions<br />
from the powers-that-be (and there are<br />
a lot of them in Liberia); third, raise<br />
the money. Looking back, if you can do these three<br />
things then no matter how hard the environment<br />
the rest comes down to disciplined organisation. I<br />
made that last bit sound easy – it isn’t, but it is<br />
more or less within your control as a race director.<br />
By early 2011 a team had coalesced around the<br />
project, and I approached the most important<br />
stakeholders, who could make or break us: the<br />
Athletics Federation, the Ministry of Sports and City<br />
Hall. In Liberia you have to go in at the top - unless<br />
the person in charge agrees, nothing will happen. I<br />
Women's marathon<br />
winner - 18 year old<br />
Liberian Lucy Massaquoi<br />
The Mayor of Monrovia after running the entire 10K<br />
had good contacts in the government, but we were<br />
blessed from the start (and to the finish) by the<br />
enthusiastic support of the Sports Minister and the<br />
Mayor. Along with this great official support, the<br />
biggest stroke of luck was finding a title sponsor<br />
who believed the marathon was possible. Unless<br />
BHP Billiton had bought in, and stayed with the<br />
project, it would never have got off the ground.<br />
A marathon in Liberia posed steep challenges.<br />
There was a decrepit and widely corrupt official<br />
system where everyone along the chain demands<br />
what the Liberians call ‘cool water’ for doing their<br />
job. We faced a private sector that was still young<br />
and not accustomed to the ‘sponsorship paradigm’<br />
– ie you give us money and we give you value. We<br />
faced a culture inimical to planning – people can’t<br />
compute an event until it is a couple of weeks<br />
away - impossible for realising a marathon. We<br />
faced disorganised partners who also had no<br />
resources. The Liberian National Police have about<br />
10 cars and 15 traffic cones… for the whole<br />
country.<br />
For any aspiring race directors in a similar<br />
environment I have three words for you:<br />
relationships, relationships, relationships. If you<br />
think about things in terms of relationships you will<br />
nurture your Federation; you will cultivate<br />
relationships with the authorities, Mayor, Minister,<br />
police; you will remember to make your sponsors<br />
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Continued from page 28<br />
get value from the event; and you will remember to<br />
make sure your runners have a good experience.<br />
All these challenges needed careful management<br />
(and sometimes money). But hardest of all was that<br />
almost no one knew what a marathon is. Only<br />
those who had lived abroad or happened to see it<br />
on TV grasped the potential. Many of the officials<br />
whose support we needed harboured the sort of<br />
doubts I’ve already mentioned. More than anything<br />
else, this project was a battle to lodge a new<br />
concept in people’s minds, then deliver something<br />
that would convince them. As founder, my biggest<br />
criterion for success was that this event will<br />
continue from year to year. Anything less is a<br />
failure.<br />
In Liberia 97% of people listen to the radio, so we<br />
took to the airwaves to sow seeds and mobilise<br />
people. We set registration at a little over $1, and<br />
recruited local celebrities, footballers and musicians<br />
to spread the word. A DJ made radio spots,<br />
including one in Liberian Creole where an old man<br />
is scolded by his wife for training too hard. We<br />
poured resources and energy into publicity, and<br />
one of my only regrets about the project is that we<br />
didn’t do more.<br />
Our target was 1000 runners. By the eve of the<br />
race we had 1500 registered, and a combined<br />
1000 showed for the marathon and 10km race.<br />
Seeing the runners set off a little after 06.00 on 28<br />
August 2011 was a very special moment. Another<br />
special moment was when, without warning,<br />
President Sirleaf arrived with her entourage to run<br />
in the 10km race. She stopped after 3km (returning<br />
to the stadium later to hand out prizes) but it was<br />
an incredible boost for our event.<br />
You can look around a country like Liberia and see<br />
problems or look around and see potential. The<br />
Liberia Marathon is about the potential. We have<br />
serious ambitions for the race (which is why<br />
we got the course IAAF/AIMS certified<br />
from year one), and believe there is<br />
potential in West Africa. This can be<br />
a leading regional event, but at its<br />
heart it is also a symbol for Liberia's recovery. The<br />
message of a marathon is that patient, determined,<br />
steady effort leads to triumph. In a place where<br />
many people’s lives were about day-to-day survival,<br />
that's an idea worth running for.<br />
The opinions expressed in this article are<br />
those of the author and do not neccessarily<br />
represent the views of AIMS or IAAF<br />
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Obituaries<br />
Johnny<br />
Kelley<br />
Pat Butcher writes: Another great<br />
marathoner came to the end of the<br />
longest road on 21 August 2011.<br />
Boston Marathon winner, and eighttime<br />
US champion, John ‘Kelley the<br />
Younger’ (to distinguish him from<br />
John A Kelley, who had previously<br />
twice won the Boston Marathon)<br />
died at the age of 80 from<br />
complications linked to a melanoma.<br />
I never met either Kelley, but the<br />
documentary on Alain Mimoun whose<br />
premiere I attended in Paris 18 months<br />
ago, includes a tribute from Kelley the<br />
Younger, who had featured early in the<br />
race which earned Mimoun his Olympic<br />
gold, the 1956 Melbourne Olympic<br />
Marathon.<br />
The director of the documentary,<br />
Benjamin Rassat showed me a letter that<br />
John J had written to Mimoun. It is a<br />
beautiful tribute, as befits a man who<br />
claimed that he discovered great<br />
literature at the same time as running,<br />
and dedicated himself to both.<br />
Remembering Alain Mimoun<br />
in Melbourne<br />
When I think of Alain Mimoun, I<br />
invariably think of Emil Zatopek. The two<br />
men’s lives were already intertwined in<br />
world athletic legend [before] the<br />
Melbourne Olympic Marathon [on]<br />
December 1, [1956].<br />
For three young Americans also entered in<br />
that event, the opportunity of sharing<br />
their company was like having won<br />
engraved passes to spend two hours<br />
among the gods. The oldest of our trio,<br />
Nick Costes, was twenty-nine, already an<br />
army veteran who had spent most of his<br />
tour in Europe, where he had actually<br />
seen the great ones compete. Dean<br />
Thackwray and I were five years or so<br />
younger than Nick. Together, we formed<br />
the strongest United States marathon<br />
contingent in several Olympiads. And for<br />
the first time in living memory, we had<br />
been rated an outsider’s chance to break<br />
into the medals.<br />
Yet, as we began our month’s approach to<br />
the big race, plugging through ten or<br />
more miles a day around the Melbourne<br />
Olympic Village track, the task cut out for<br />
us loomed as formidable as would that of<br />
tackling Mount Olympus itself.<br />
Our friend Nick had insisted on our<br />
sticking to the track, monotonous as such<br />
workouts tended to be. “Where else could<br />
we mingle with the gods?” Nick asked. To<br />
know Nick was to realize that his question<br />
was both rhetorical and literal. For there,<br />
circling that 400-meter oval each day,<br />
were the very immortals he had worshiped<br />
during his military tour. Nick had even<br />
made up a hymn of praise to Emil and<br />
Alain. (As I now try to bring it up, there<br />
was reference to a great Soviet runner,<br />
Anoufriev, in it, too.)<br />
Dean and I were as impressed as Nick,<br />
but reserved our commitment to such<br />
earthly miracles. How would the likes of<br />
those deities deign to associate with us?<br />
we asked. “I’ll show you,” Nick said. The<br />
next day he called us over to shake hands<br />
with a pair of affable gods. Emil Zatopek<br />
and his supreme challenger Alain Mimoun<br />
thereafter joined us for those daily<br />
circlings of that oval populated with the<br />
“creme de la creme” of the world’s<br />
amateur athletes. Prancing in their<br />
company, Nick, Dean and I gained<br />
immediate entry to our sport’s executive<br />
suite.<br />
Czechoslovakian Emil was said to speak<br />
five languages. On those wonder-filled<br />
days, he confined himself to English and<br />
French. Algerian Alain spoke French.<br />
Communication among us never posed a<br />
problem. Our heroes laughed and smiled<br />
constantly. Titanic though their<br />
competitions may have been, they<br />
cavorted like the thirty-five-year-old kids<br />
they were on that practice track.<br />
At Helsinki, Finland in 1952, Emil had<br />
done the impossible by winning the 5,000<br />
meter and 10,000 meter track events and<br />
then adding the marathon to his<br />
collection of gold. But now, at Melbourne,<br />
nobody would expect anything<br />
approaching that of a man only six weeks<br />
past a surgical operation. And Alain at<br />
his ripe athletic age, could hardly be<br />
counted on to prevail over a rising<br />
generation.<br />
The old heroes had clearly seen their best<br />
days. Their great-hearted Aussie hosts<br />
would gladly have cast gold medals in<br />
their honor. Cornered, the pair just smiled<br />
in answer to reporters’ queries. Perhaps<br />
they knew a secret or two.<br />
Marathon day dawned cloudless and still.<br />
Summer had suddenly come to Melbourne.<br />
A playful Emil Zatopek raised his eyes<br />
skyward from the stadium track’s starting<br />
line and said, “Today we die.” Poised<br />
beside him, a set-jawed Alain Mimoun<br />
had at last shed his frolicker’s role.<br />
Two hours and twenty-five minutes later,<br />
the man who had put in so many miles<br />
chasing his historically famous rival, over<br />
so many years, finally clutched his<br />
Olympic Marathon laurel wreath. Once<br />
again, the mustachioed smile returned as<br />
Alain Mimoun trotted through his victory<br />
lap to rapturous applause.<br />
It was an ovation only equaled by that<br />
accorded to fifth(in fact, sixth)-place<br />
finisher Emil Zatopek several minutes<br />
later.<br />
Our American trio didn’t fare so well. But<br />
that’s another story. The big story for me,<br />
then and thereafter, was our unforgettable<br />
welcome into the lives of giants in the<br />
month of November 1956.<br />
John Walsh<br />
Barry Whitmore reports the sad<br />
news of John Walsh’s sudden<br />
death while out running on the<br />
morning of Saturday 17<br />
September, at the age of 56.<br />
John, originally from Scotland,<br />
was a well-known coach and<br />
married to Malta's queen of<br />
distance running and current<br />
record holder, Carol, nee Galea.<br />
Malta Challenge Marathon and<br />
the AIMS family offer their<br />
condolences to Carol Walsh.<br />
Mel Batty<br />
Mel Batty, English national crosscountry<br />
champion in 1964 and<br />
1965, died at Southend Hospital<br />
(GBR) on 24 August 2011, where<br />
he never recovered from a coma<br />
suffered after having fallen. He<br />
was narrowly beaten for the<br />
1964 International Cross Country<br />
title (precursor to the World<br />
Cross Country Championships) in<br />
a desperate finish with Jean<br />
Fayolle (FRA) in Ostend.<br />
On 11 April 1964 Batty circled the<br />
440 yards track at Hurlingham Park,<br />
London, 40 times to set a world<br />
record of 47:26.8 for 10 miles and<br />
win the AAA Championship for the<br />
distance. Ron Hill lowered this record<br />
to 47:02.2 in 1968 and the 10 miles<br />
track championship was dropped<br />
from the AAA programme after 1969.<br />
Batty’s best time for 6 miles on the<br />
track was 27:56.6 – worth around<br />
28:52 for 10,000m. He was also a<br />
prodigious road racer, who set course<br />
records in many races in the south of<br />
England, always representing his club,<br />
Thurrock Harriers.<br />
As a coach, Batty’s greatest success<br />
was with Eamonn Martin, the last<br />
British man to win the London<br />
Marathon (in 1993). Martin set a UK<br />
record of 27:23.06 for 10,000m in<br />
1988 at Oslo and won the<br />
Commonwealth 10,000m title in<br />
1990 at Auckland, New Zealand,<br />
outsprinting some good Kenyan<br />
athletes to do so.<br />
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IAU News<br />
25th IAU 100km<br />
World Championships<br />
Winschoten, Netherlands, 10 September 2011<br />
Winschoten is a small town<br />
about three hours from<br />
Amsterdam that hosts many<br />
races in conjunction with the<br />
IAU World and European<br />
Championships. The<br />
Championships had a record<br />
entry of 285 athletes from 34<br />
countries and were run on a<br />
10km loop course in warm<br />
conditions (mid 20s C)<br />
2008 World champion Giorgio<br />
Calcaterra took the title after running<br />
stride for stride with Fanie Matshipa<br />
(RSA) until 40km. He then made a<br />
decisive move and went on alone. His<br />
winning time is one of several sub-<br />
6:30 performances during his career.<br />
Michael Wardian ran a more<br />
conservative race compared to his<br />
bronze medal finish last year. He<br />
came from behind in the second half,<br />
Garmins allowed<br />
IAU has permitted the use of<br />
Garmins/GPS monitors as long as<br />
these are not used to<br />
communicate (in accordance with<br />
the IAAF policy review).<br />
finishing fast and strong to take<br />
silver. The race also doubled as the<br />
European Championship and behind<br />
Calcaterra Pieter Vermeesch (BEL)<br />
took silver and two-time World and<br />
European Champion, Jonas Buud<br />
(SWE) took the bronze, finishing<br />
seventh overall 6:52:19<br />
In the women’s race, Marina<br />
Bychkova (RUS) won the women’s<br />
World Championship with a time of<br />
7:27:19. She was followed by the<br />
bronze medallist from the 50km<br />
World Trophy Final Joanna Zakrzewski<br />
(GBR) in 7:41:06. Lindsay Anne van<br />
Aswegen (RSA) took the bronze<br />
medal in her first international IAU<br />
event in 7:42:05. Bychkova ran a<br />
steady pace for the first 50km and<br />
seemed to get stronger as the race<br />
went on. She passed last year’s World<br />
champion Ellie Greenwood (GBR) at<br />
halfway and went on to win in<br />
impressive style. Joanna Zakrzewski<br />
ran conservatively and worked her<br />
way through the field as the race<br />
progressed to finish second overall,<br />
while Lindsay Anne Van Aswegen did<br />
not feature in the top five until<br />
reaching 80km, but then worked her<br />
way through on the last loop to third<br />
place. Bychkova and Zakrzewski won<br />
European gold and silver respectively.<br />
Irina Vishnevskaya, fourth overall,<br />
won the bronze.<br />
Result<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Giorgio CALCATERRA ITA 6:27:32<br />
2 Michael WARDIAN USA 6:42:49<br />
3 Andrew HENSHAW USA 6:44:35<br />
4 Pieter VERMEESCH BEL 6:47:01<br />
5 Shinji NAKADAI JPN 6:48:32<br />
MEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 USA 20:17:47<br />
2 Japan 21:05:00<br />
3 France 21:36:19<br />
4 Russia 21:57:55<br />
5 Germany 22:31:59<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Marina BYCHKOVA USA 7:27:19<br />
2 Joanna ZAKRZEWSKI GBR 7:41:06<br />
3 Lindsay Anne<br />
VAN ASWEGEN RSA 7:42:05<br />
4 Irina VISHNEVSKAYA RUS 7:45:27<br />
5 Meghan ARBOGAST USA 7:51:10<br />
WOMEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Russia 23:19:40<br />
2 USA 23:56:20<br />
3 Japan 24:35:13<br />
4 South Africa 24:40:15<br />
5 Great Britain 24:42:56<br />
EXECUTIVES<br />
President: Dirk Strumane (BEL)<br />
Vice President: Norman Wilson (GBR)<br />
Secretary: Hilary Walker (GBR)<br />
Director of Communications:<br />
Nadeem Khan (CAN)<br />
Director of Competition:<br />
Liesbeth Jansen (NED)<br />
Director of Marketing & Protocol:<br />
Roger Bonnifait (FRA)<br />
Director of Organizations:<br />
Jan Vandendriessche (BEL)<br />
Africa & Oceania Representative:<br />
James Evans (RSA)<br />
Americas Representative:<br />
Roy Pirrung (USA)<br />
Asia Representative:<br />
Souhei Kobayashi (JPN)<br />
Europe Representative:<br />
Stefano Scevaroli (ITA)<br />
For more information contact:<br />
Nadeem Khan<br />
IAU Director of Communications<br />
nadeem.khan@iau-ultramarathon.org<br />
www.iau-ultramartathon.org<br />
DIARY DATES<br />
22 April 2012<br />
100 km World Championship, 100km European<br />
Championship, & 100km WMA World<br />
Championship, Seregno/Brianza (ITA)<br />
8-9 September 2012<br />
24H World Championship, & 24H European<br />
Championship, Katowice (POL)<br />
20 October 2012<br />
50km World Trophy Final,<br />
Vallecrosia-Bordighera (ITA)<br />
2013<br />
24H World Championship, & 24H<br />
European Championship, Steenbergen (NED)<br />
IAU medical<br />
conference<br />
on nutrition<br />
On 9 September, In association<br />
with the 25th World and<br />
European Championships held in<br />
Winschoten (NED), IAU hosted a<br />
conference on “Nutrition and its<br />
role in Ultrarunning”. Speakers<br />
with medical backgrounds and an<br />
interest in ultrarunning addressed<br />
the following topics:.<br />
i) Effects of nutrition and<br />
exercise on protein metabolism<br />
extending into the realm of<br />
ultrarunning.<br />
(Peter Res)<br />
ii) The Female Athlete Triad:<br />
Amenorrhea, Disordered<br />
Eating and Stress<br />
Fractures/Osteoporosis.<br />
(Dr Anne Heaslett)<br />
iii) Food contamination and the<br />
effects on humans.<br />
(Dr Arthur Brule)<br />
iv) The science of supplement,<br />
from amino acids to zinc:<br />
performance enhancers or<br />
wishful thinking?<br />
(Dr Lion Caldwell).<br />
Results<br />
3 JULY 2011:<br />
DAUGAVPILS 50km, LATVIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Grazis VITAUTAS LTU 3:12:59<br />
2 Salienieks AIGARS LAT 3:18:34<br />
3 Totilas VIDAS LTU 3:21:37<br />
4 Selivanovs MIHAILS LAT 3:34:57<br />
5 Veiss ANDRIS LAT 3:36:18<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Kaminskiene MODESTA LTU 3:52:32<br />
2 Rene Mitchell MISHELLE LAT 3:54:25<br />
3 Buksniene SADA LTU 4:06:18<br />
4 Kavaliauskiene AUSRA LTU 4:39:00<br />
5 Bistrova INITA LAT 4:47:24<br />
9 JULY 2011:<br />
IAU WORLD TRAIL<br />
CHAMPIONSHIPS,<br />
CONNEMARA, IRELAND<br />
France took team and individual titles<br />
in both men’s and women’s races. Race<br />
day conditions were near ideal, with<br />
sunny breaks and cooler temperatures<br />
in the morning followed by warmer<br />
temperatures in the afternoon.<br />
Continued on page 41<br />
“It was a good race for me because I won. My ankles swelled up for the<br />
last 14km but I carried on for the team.<br />
I will take a break, [to rest] my ankles. I also have three daughters and<br />
I want to be with them. The French Championships are coming up but<br />
if it is not possible for my ankle then I will not do the race.<br />
I thought I could win from the start, apart from the ankle problem.. I<br />
know Cecilia, and we were running back and fore throughout the race. I<br />
really wanted to win. I think I need to get more speed.”<br />
Maud Gobert (FRA), IAU World Trail Championships<br />
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Continued from page 37<br />
The world championships event had<br />
121 runners registered from 20<br />
countries, a record turnout. For the first<br />
time IAU and the LOC, also offered a<br />
team event that mirrors IAU’s team<br />
competitions in the 24 Hour and<br />
100km events.<br />
In the absence of defending<br />
champion, Thomas Lorblanchet, Erik<br />
Clavery ensured that the individual<br />
men’s title remained with France. He<br />
won the 70km race, followed in by<br />
Jason Loutitt (CAN). Loutitt had a fiveminute<br />
lead going into the 8km<br />
switchback at 40km but Clavery made<br />
up the distance and did not relinquish<br />
the lead. Loutitt dropped down as far<br />
as fourth place but rallied in the last<br />
5km to finish in the silver medal spot.<br />
Patrick Bringer ran a very strong race,<br />
working through the competition for<br />
the first two-thirds of the race to claim<br />
the bronze medal.<br />
Among the women returning<br />
champion Cecilia Mora was quite<br />
relaxed and held strong form until<br />
25km, after which Maud Gobert used<br />
her technical trail skills to pass Mora<br />
20 AUGUST 2011:<br />
IAU 50km WORLD<br />
TROPHY FINAL, ASSEN,<br />
THE NETHERLANDS<br />
Both winners set new course records in<br />
Assen, a small town about 2.5 hours to<br />
the north-east of Amsterdam. The race<br />
was held over 10 laps of a flat and fast<br />
5km loop. There was also an open race<br />
that was run concurrently with the<br />
World Trophy Final.<br />
“There was stiff competition<br />
in the IAU 50km Trophy<br />
race. You can go hard at the<br />
start and see if you can hold<br />
on or you can take it steady<br />
and see what the<br />
competition is like. I decided<br />
to stay with Sue [Harrison],<br />
who is my main rival. I knew<br />
she was holding back but I<br />
held on to the pace and<br />
stuck with it.<br />
It was nice [to be] in the<br />
lead and everything feeling<br />
okay. I was waiting to feel<br />
tired but It didn’t hit me<br />
until the last two laps. By<br />
that time I was in such a<br />
high to finish that I rode it<br />
to the end. I am really<br />
pleased to be back racing at<br />
such a competitive level. I<br />
knocked 17 minutes off my<br />
best time… I hope to run the<br />
Commonwealth<br />
Championships in North<br />
Wales in September.”<br />
Emma Gooderham (GBR),<br />
IAU 50km World<br />
Trophy Final<br />
and drive on to the finish. Lucy<br />
Colquhoun came back from a two year<br />
international racing hiatus to take third<br />
place with a very strong second half.<br />
This race also included a team<br />
competition in which France, taking<br />
three of the top seven places, easily<br />
won gold with a combined time of<br />
20:24:50. Italy took silver with<br />
20:56:36 and Norway bronze with<br />
21:39:02.<br />
In the women’s race France took three<br />
of the top six places, and easily won<br />
team gold in a combined time of<br />
24:00:02. Italy took silver in 24:21:35<br />
and Canada bronze with 27:01:08.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Erik CLAVERTY FRA 6:39:07<br />
2 Jason LOUTITT CAN 6:40:32<br />
3 Patrick BRINGER FRA 6:47:50<br />
4 Thorbjorn Thorsen LUDVIGSEN NOR 6:49:55<br />
5 Silvano FEDEL ITA 6:51:18<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Maud GOBERT FRA 7:41:31<br />
2 Cecilia MORA ITA 7:50:02<br />
3 Lucy COLQUHOUN GBR 7:57:20<br />
4 Aurelia TRUEL FRA 8:04:22<br />
5 Cinzia BERTASA ITA 8:14:0<br />
Temperatures were in the mid--teens<br />
at the start and warmed up as the day<br />
went on. Rookie IAU runner Eliot<br />
Kiplagat Biwott (KEN) took the top<br />
honours in a new course record. Early<br />
race leaders John Wachira (KEN), Seun<br />
Moleshioa (RSA) and Eliza Mogoboya<br />
(RSA) started with a blistering pace and<br />
lasting up to 35km. Then Biwott,<br />
having run a conservative pace, started<br />
to move up the field. The early leaders<br />
began to fade away and Vermeesch<br />
followed by Iwayama moved into<br />
strategic spots to make the podium.<br />
In the women’s race, Emma<br />
Gooderham (GBR) added another<br />
medal to her silver from the 100km<br />
Commonwealth Championship,<br />
followed by last year’s winner Susan<br />
Harrison. Gooderham chased Harrison<br />
for the first quarter of the race but on<br />
the fourth lap passed the defending<br />
champion and then held on to her lead<br />
to set an outstanding course record.<br />
“At 40km it was difficult for me. We were three Frenchmen more than<br />
six minutes behind behind Jason (Loutitt, early race leader). I wanted<br />
to go faster, and at 48km I caught him and went past.<br />
I live in flat countryside in Brittany. I do strength training for climbing<br />
and long runs but it is difficult because we are not professional. Trail<br />
running in France is big. I am happy because I compare [this<br />
Connemara race] with last year in Serre Chevalier and this time there<br />
were many more more nations represented. There are many nations<br />
around the world, at a good level: Canada, Norway, Italy… I always<br />
start with the idea to win., but it was really a surprise for me.”<br />
Erik Clavery (FRA), IAU World Trail Championships<br />
Zakrzewski ran a very steady race in<br />
only her second ultra run and finished<br />
strong behind Harrison.<br />
There were 17 selection races held for<br />
athletes to qualify for the World Trophy<br />
Final. The criteria for selection was sub-<br />
3:20 (men) and sub-3:50 (women). The<br />
winners of the series races were<br />
automatically selected and following<br />
the preliminary selections the next<br />
fastest finishers were invited until all<br />
available places were filled. Some<br />
runners were invited on the basis of<br />
their marathon times.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Eliot Kiplagat BIWOTT KEN 2:54:53<br />
2 Pieter VERMEESCH BEL 2:57:23<br />
3 Kaito IWAYAMA JPN 2:59:12<br />
4 John WACHIRA KEN 3:02:33<br />
5 Eliza MOGOBOYA RSA 3:03:55<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Emma GOODERHAM GBR 3:17:30<br />
2 Susan HARRISON GBR 3:25:05<br />
3 Joanna ZAKRZEWSKI GBR 3:26:37<br />
4 Yuka EZAKI JPN 3:28:06<br />
5 Shanna Ailes ISTNI USA 3:33:58<br />
“I planned to win. I had a few problems but I was hoping for something<br />
good here. I train for long distance and I thought I would be well<br />
prepared for this race. It’s my first time in the Netherlands and it is very<br />
good here; the weather is also good. I ran here with the guys from<br />
South Africa and we compete together in races there. Loskop Marathon<br />
is something we ran together. I hope to do my next Marathon in<br />
Europe. I am hoping for 2:10. My personal best is 2:16.”<br />
Eliot Kiplagat Biwott (KEN), IAU 50km World Trophy Final<br />
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<strong>Running</strong> into history - Frankfurt Marathon<br />
The BMW Frankfurt Marathon, celebrating<br />
its 30th edition on 30 October, has made an<br />
amazing comeback over the last few years.<br />
storming<br />
through<br />
by Jorg Wenig<br />
Just a short while ago Germany’s oldest city<br />
marathon had slipped down the national pecking<br />
order behind Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. But<br />
today it is breathing down Berlin’s neck in terms of<br />
international importance. Few other races anywhere<br />
have turned themselves around so effectively as<br />
Frankfurt has done in the past eight years.<br />
This year’s race in Germany’s financial capital will<br />
likely become another record breaking event. In<br />
terms of elite performances Frankfurt is now among<br />
the fastest marathons in the world. It has<br />
comfortably attained the requirements for IAAF<br />
Gold Label status since 2009. The world class times<br />
are one thing, but it is equally important that the<br />
mass event continues to grow. This year a record<br />
14,000 entries are expected.<br />
The story of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon began<br />
back in 1981, when Germany’s first three major<br />
city races took place. Two of them were in May: The<br />
25km in Berlin and the Frankfurt Marathon. In<br />
September the Berlin Marathon staged its first city<br />
edition after having held the first seven races<br />
effectively hidden away from public gaze on the<br />
traffic-free roads of the Grunewald forest.<br />
The start of the first Frankfurt Marathon in 1981<br />
In Frankfurt there was no predecessor that had<br />
been staged in a park or a wood: the very first<br />
marathon blazed its trail through the city. It was a<br />
great challenge for the organisers, but they had the<br />
support of a major German chemical company:<br />
Hoechst is based in Frankfurt and a district of the<br />
city is even named after the company. Hoechst also<br />
has its own sports club (OSC Hoechst) and in the<br />
years leading up to the first Frankfurt Marathon<br />
there were around 130 runners competing for the<br />
club nationally and internationally. At some point<br />
they decided that they should stage a race<br />
themselves, and agreed that it had to be one for<br />
both elite runners and fun runners.<br />
An organisation was<br />
founded with the help<br />
of Hoechst. The<br />
company became the<br />
title sponsor, providing<br />
not only a large cash<br />
budget but also staff<br />
and materials.<br />
Wolfram Bleul became<br />
the first race director.<br />
On 17 May 1981 the<br />
legendary Czech<br />
Olympic hero Emil<br />
Zatopek started the<br />
first marathon next to<br />
Charlotte Teske in 1983<br />
the Hoechst factory.<br />
The race had 3,169<br />
entries and 2,588 finishers. It also<br />
generated a political scandal because<br />
two South African elite runners had<br />
been invited to the race although at<br />
that time Apartheid South Africa was<br />
banned from international sport. The<br />
German athletics federation<br />
intervened but the organisers still<br />
allowed them to run<br />
“unofficially”, without<br />
race numbers. Despite<br />
the controversy the<br />
story after the race was<br />
the successful launch of<br />
the Hoechst Frankfurt<br />
Marathon as Germany’s<br />
first mass city<br />
marathon. Around<br />
150,000 spectators had<br />
turned up to cheer on<br />
the runners. Sweden’s<br />
Kjell-Erik Stahl won in a<br />
time of 2:13:20.<br />
In 1982 entries were up to<br />
5,529 and the winning times<br />
also improved in the following<br />
years. Germany’s Charlotte Teske produced the<br />
first sub 2:30 performance of 2:28:32 in<br />
1983, setting a national record. In the men’s<br />
race in 1984 Ethiopia’s world-class runner<br />
Dereje Nedi clocked 2:11:18. It was a German<br />
all-comers’ record improving Frank Shorter’s<br />
winning time of 2:12:19 in the 1972 Munich<br />
Olympics.<br />
In 1986 Hoechst withdrew support, and the<br />
Marathon that year was cancelled - that is why<br />
the 30th edition is this year. The undoubted<br />
success of the young Frankfurt Marathon led<br />
to a new organisation being formed, with the<br />
Dereje Nedi in 1984<br />
Herbert<br />
Steffny<br />
in 1985<br />
city government being much more involved<br />
for many years to come. The sixth edition<br />
of the Frankfurt Marathon was held in<br />
1987 on a new course. The race had a<br />
succession of national winners in the<br />
1990s – among them Katrin Dörre-Heinig,<br />
Luminita Zaituc and Herbert Steffny – but<br />
compared to the marathons in Berlin or<br />
Hamburg it could no longer keep pace.<br />
While Berlin produced sensational results<br />
and even world records during these years<br />
in Frankfurt they were still waiting for the<br />
first sub 2:10 time. After a great start in<br />
the early 1980s by the turn of the<br />
millennium Frankfurt had fallen behind.<br />
With the City of Frankfurt in<br />
charge the political decision to<br />
appoint a new organiser<br />
became the basis on which to<br />
things to turn around. Jo<br />
Schindler had successfully<br />
developed a marathon in his<br />
home town of Regensburg<br />
(Bavaria) and was eager for<br />
the challenge of transforming<br />
the Frankfurt Marathon into a<br />
world-class event. This was<br />
something that looked highly<br />
unlikely back in 2002, at the<br />
time of his appointment, but<br />
the new race director used<br />
local knowledge and also<br />
brought in expertise from<br />
elsewhere. Petra Wassiluk, for<br />
example, the former German<br />
elite distance runner, is one of<br />
Jo Schindler’s closest partners<br />
in the organising team.<br />
Continued on page 45<br />
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Continued from page 43<br />
“After the 2002 race we<br />
analysed everything before<br />
starting to change things. It<br />
was our goal to position the<br />
Frankfurt Marathon as a firstclass<br />
elite race and at the same<br />
time as a marathon that offers<br />
outstanding service for fun<br />
runners,” explains Schindler.<br />
One of the first major changes<br />
was the repositioning of the<br />
finish. Since 2003 Frankfurt’s<br />
finish line has been indoors, in<br />
the “Festhalle’. “We had to<br />
offer something really<br />
emotional, because the marathon is an emotional<br />
event,” says Schindler, who also significantly<br />
improved the contents of the goody bags. For this<br />
30th anniversary edition every runner will receive<br />
an Asics backpack. Aspects like the pasta party and<br />
hot water showers in the finish area were all<br />
comprehensively revamped. In a rigorous redesign<br />
Schindler also jettisoned the inline skating event:<br />
“we wanted to give centre stage to the marathon<br />
runners” he said. The changes and investments<br />
paid off. “We have reached entry figures of<br />
which we could only have dreamt when we took<br />
over in 2002,” says Schindler.<br />
For the 2003 race Schindler brought in a new<br />
elite athlete coordinator, Christoph Kopp, who<br />
had originally developed the Berlin Marathon<br />
into a world-class race and had already helped<br />
Schindler in Regensburg. He had<br />
immediate success as the 2:10 barrier<br />
was finally broken in Frankfurt with<br />
Kenya’s Boaz Kimaiyo clocking<br />
2:09:28. Since that race there has not<br />
been any male winner who has run<br />
slower than 2:10. Year by year Frankfurt’s course<br />
record became faster and faster. Times improved so<br />
strongly that today a 2:08 finishing time would be<br />
regarded as a great disappointment. The course has<br />
been improved and made faster times more<br />
attainable, but the main change is that the race is<br />
now attractive for the best runners in the world.<br />
In the past four years the men’s course record has<br />
been broken in each race. It has improved from<br />
2:08:29 (2005) to 2:04:57. In 2007 Wilfred Kigen<br />
ran 2:07:58; a year later Robert K. Cheruiyot<br />
clocked 2:07:21; then Gilbert Kirwa finished in<br />
2:06:14 and in 2010 Wilson Kipsang returned an<br />
amazing 2:04:57. It was then the tenth fastest<br />
marathon time ever run. The average of the ten<br />
fastest men’s times now is 2:06:53.5 and this<br />
currently puts Frankfurt in ninth place in the list of<br />
the fastest marathons in the world. In 2010 the<br />
women’s course record was also smashed as<br />
Caroline Kilel (Kenya) took the race with 2:23:25. A<br />
record number of 12,475 runners from 76 nations<br />
had entered the event.<br />
With the BMW Frankfurt Marathon storming<br />
through so fast into the top rank of world<br />
marathons, one might ask: what is next? Can it<br />
get any better at this year’s jubilee race? The<br />
organisers obviously think so, because they will<br />
offer a world record bonus for the first time in<br />
the history of their event.<br />
More information and online entry is available<br />
at: www.bmw-frankfurt-marathon.com<br />
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Calendar of events<br />
2011<br />
October<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
2 RAHAL 10k Int’l Marrakech R MAR<br />
2 Baxters Loch Ness Marathon<br />
& Festival of <strong>Running</strong> M GBR<br />
2 Brussels Marathon & Half M,H BEL<br />
2 Cologne Marathon & Half<br />
presented by Sparkasse KölnBonn M,H GER<br />
2 Colombo Marathon M SRI<br />
2 Guayaquil Marathon M ECU<br />
2 Kosice Peace Marathon M SVK<br />
2 Spar Budapest Int’l Marathon M HUN<br />
2 Sparkasse 3 Country Marathon & Half M,H AUT<br />
9 Bank of Melbourne Marathon Festival M AUS<br />
9 BMO Okanagan Marathon M CAN<br />
9 Bucharest Int’l Marathon & Half M,H ROU<br />
9 Eindhoven Marathon M NED<br />
9 GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon M CAN<br />
9 Hyderabad Heritage Marathon M,H IND<br />
9 Maratona do Algarve M POR<br />
9 Maratona d’Italia<br />
memorial Enzo Ferrari M,H,R ITA<br />
9 Maratón Int’l de la<br />
Ciudad de Buenos Aires M ARG<br />
9 Munich Marathon M,H,R GER<br />
9 Novi Sad Marathon M SRB<br />
9 Portland Marathon M USA<br />
9 Timisoara Marathon M,H,R ROU<br />
9 Zagreb Marathon & Half M,H CRO<br />
16 Amsterdam Marathon M NED<br />
16 Beijing Int’l Marathon M,H CHN<br />
16 Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
16 Intercontinental Istanbul<br />
Eurasia Marathon M TUR<br />
16 Lago Maggiore Marathon M ITA<br />
16 Poznan Marathon M POL<br />
16 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon<br />
& Half Marathon & 5k<br />
M,H,R CAN<br />
16 St Denis Half Marathon H FRA<br />
23 Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
23 Grand Marathon Int’l de Casablanca M MAR<br />
23 Ljubljana Marathon M SLO<br />
23 Medio Maraton de Valencia H ESP<br />
23 Mediterranean Marathon M ESP<br />
23 Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon M CAN<br />
23 Venice Marathon M ITA<br />
28 Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon M JOR<br />
30 adidas Auckland Marathon M NZL<br />
30 BMW Frankfurt Marathon M GER<br />
30 Lausanne Marathon M SUI<br />
30 Lucerne Marathon M SUI<br />
30 Marine Corps Marathon M USA<br />
30 Osaka Marathon M JPN<br />
30 Podgorica Marathon M MNE<br />
30 UWI-SPEC Half Marathon H TRI<br />
31 National Lottery Dublin Marathon M IRL<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Nairobi Marathon and Half M,H KEN<br />
November<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
4 Sharm El Sheikh Half Marathon H EGY<br />
5 Taroko Gorge Marathon M,H TPE<br />
6 Bass Pro Shops Conservation Marathon M USA<br />
6 EDP Porto Marathon M POR<br />
6 Hangzhou Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
6 JoongAng Seoul Marathon M KOR<br />
6 Maraton De Zaragoza M ESP<br />
6 Navi Mumbai Barefoot Half Marathon H IND<br />
13 10k Rio Pan-American Race R BRA<br />
13 Athens Classic Marathon M GRE<br />
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Please use these as an<br />
index for race details.<br />
IAAF races are highlighted in red<br />
IMPORTANT: At the time of publication, the above dates were<br />
believed correct, however, runners should confirm directly with race<br />
organisers prior to booking arrangements.<br />
RACE DIRECTORS: To correct current contact information and race<br />
dates please send details to: update@aimsworldrunning.org<br />
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13 Garda Trentino Half Marathon H ITA<br />
13 Turin Marathon M ITA<br />
19 Medio Maraton Turistico Riviera Nayarit M MEX<br />
20 Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay H USA<br />
20 Marabana Marathon & Half M,H CUB<br />
20 Marathon des Alpes<br />
Maritimes Nice-Cannes M FRA<br />
20 Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon M MAS<br />
20 Philadelphia Marathon M USA<br />
20 Quito 21k Mitad del Mundo H ECU<br />
20 Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon M,H,R THA<br />
20 Yokohama Women’s Marathon M JPN<br />
25 Pharaonic 100km U EGY<br />
25-27 Malta Int’l Challenge Marathon M MLT<br />
27 21km Nuevo Leon H MEX<br />
27 Amica Insurance Seattle Marathon M,H USA<br />
27 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon H IND<br />
27 Blom Beirut Marathon M LIB<br />
27 Cyprus Aphrodite Half Marathon H CYP<br />
27 Firenze Marathon M ITA<br />
27 Commercial Bank of Ethiopia<br />
Great Ethiopian Run R ETH<br />
27 Hyderabad 10k Run R IND<br />
27 Lake Kawaguchi Marathon M JPN<br />
27 Maratón Divina Pastora Valencia M ESP<br />
27 Maratón Donostia - San Sebastián M ESP<br />
27 Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon M,H FRA<br />
27 UNICEF Charity Run<br />
Half Marathon & 10km H,R HKG<br />
30 Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k M,U ATA<br />
Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune H MAR<br />
December<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
2 Aqaba Marathon (Red Sea) M JOR<br />
3 Reggae Marathon M JAM<br />
3-4 Gran Maraton Pacifico M MEX<br />
4 65th Fukuoka Int’l Open<br />
Marathon Championship M JPN<br />
4 Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon H CAM<br />
4 Cayman Islands Marathon M CAY<br />
4 Costa Rica Marathon & Half M,H CRC<br />
4 Lisbon Int’l Marathon M POR<br />
4 Macau Galaxy Entertainment<br />
Int’l Marathon M,H MAC<br />
4 Nara Marathon M JPN<br />
4 Pampulha Lagoon Int’l Race R BRA<br />
4 Panama City Int’l Marathon M PAN<br />
4 Poona Int’l Marathon M IND<br />
4 Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half M,H USA<br />
4 Run Barbados Marathon M,H BAR<br />
4 St Croix Int’l Marathon M ISV<br />
4 Standard Chartered<br />
Marathon Singapore M,H,R SIN<br />
4 Toray Cup Shanghai Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
11 Maraton Powerade Monterrey M MEX<br />
18 Fubon Taipei Marathon M TPE<br />
18 Pisa Marathon M,H ITA<br />
31 São Silvestre de Luanda 10k R ANG<br />
31 São Silvestre Int’l Road Race R BRA<br />
31 St Catherine Int’l Marathon & Half M,H EGY<br />
El Gouna Int’l Marathon M,H EGY<br />
2012<br />
January<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
1 Neujahrsmarathon Zurich M SUI<br />
2 Mizuno Hong Kong<br />
Half-Marathon Championships H HKG<br />
7 Xiamen Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
12 Tiberias Marathon M ISR<br />
15 Marathon Bahamas, Half & Relay M,H BAH<br />
15 Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon M IND<br />
16 China Coast Marathon & Half M,H HKG<br />
16 Kinmen Marathon M,H TPE<br />
20 Corrida de Sao Sebastiao 10km R BRA<br />
22 Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half M,H USA<br />
22 Mitja Marato Int’l Santa Pola M ESP<br />
22 Tainan Ancient Capital Marathon M TPE<br />
27 Egyptian Marathon M,H EGY<br />
27 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon M UAE<br />
29 Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon M THA<br />
29 Marathon Int’l de Marrakech M,H MAR<br />
29 Osaka Int’l Ladies’ Marathon M JPN<br />
Maraton Int’l de Culiacan M MEX<br />
February<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
5 Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon M JPN<br />
5 CAF Caracas Marathon M VEN<br />
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5 Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon H JPN<br />
5 Standard Chartered<br />
Hong Kong Marathon M HKG<br />
5 Vadodara Half Marathon H IND<br />
17 RAK Half Marathon H UAE<br />
19 Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race (& 10km) R JPN<br />
19 Seville City Marathon M ESP<br />
26 Giuseppe Verdi Country<br />
Marathon & Half M,H ITA<br />
26 Kilimanjaro Marathon M TAN<br />
26 Marizburg Marathon & Half M,H RSA<br />
26 Seychelles Eco-Healing Marathon M SEY<br />
26 Tokyo Marathon M JPN<br />
26 World’s Best 10k Road Race R PUR<br />
27 Sahara Marathon M ALG<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon M TPE<br />
March<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
4 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon M JPN<br />
4 Las Terrenas 10k R DOM<br />
4 São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon H BRA<br />
4 Semi Marathon de Paris H FRA<br />
4-10 Sahara 100k Challenge Race U TUN<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
4 Treviso Marathon M ITA<br />
9 Antarctica Marathon & Half M,H ATA<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
11 Lago Maggiore Half Marathon H ITA<br />
11 Nagoya Women’s Marathon M JPN<br />
11 Sihanoukville International<br />
Half Marathon H CAM<br />
16 Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k M,H,R ISR<br />
18 Limassol Marathon GSO M CYP<br />
18 Maratona di Roma M ITA<br />
18 Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon M FLK<br />
25 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon H POR<br />
25 Novi Sad Half Marathon H SRB<br />
25 Marato de Barcelona M ESP<br />
30 Tel Aviv Marathon M ISR<br />
31 Hervis Prague Half Marathon H CZE<br />
Maraton LaLa Int’l M MEX<br />
Seoul Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
Incheon Int’l Half Marathon H KOR<br />
Egyptian Red Sea Marathon & Half M,H EGY<br />
Goyang Int’l Women’s Half Marathon H KOR<br />
April<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
1 Bratislava City Marathon M,H SVK<br />
1 Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great M GRE<br />
1 Medio Maraton de Madrid H ESP<br />
1 mds – Maratón de Santiago M CHI<br />
1 Poznan Half Marathon H POL<br />
1 Punta Cana Half Marathon & 10k H,R DOM<br />
1 Semi-Marathon Int’l de Rabat H MAR<br />
1 Vattenfall Berliner Halbmarathon H GER<br />
6 Dead Sea Ultramarathon U JOR<br />
7 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon U RSA<br />
7 North Pole Marathon M NPO<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
8 Daegu Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
8 São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon Corpore H BRA<br />
14 Pardubice Wine Half Marathon H CZE<br />
15 ABN AMRO Marathon Rotterdam M NED<br />
15 Golden Horn Half Marathon H TUR<br />
15 Milano City Marathon M ITA<br />
15 Olympic Commemorative<br />
Nagano Marathon M JPN<br />
15 Paris Marathon M FRA<br />
15 Vancouver Sun Run 10km R CAN<br />
15 Vienna City Marathon M AUT<br />
16 BAA Boston Marathon M USA<br />
21 Belgrade Marathon M,H SRB<br />
22 Cracovia Marathon M POL<br />
22 DVV Antwerp Marathon M BEL<br />
22 Enschede Marathon M NED<br />
22 Gaborone City Marathon M BOT<br />
22 Maratona S. Antonio M ITA<br />
22 Semi Marathon Int’l de Nice H FRA<br />
22 Zurich Marathon M SUI<br />
22 Rock ‘n’ Roll Madrid Marathon M ESP<br />
29 Big Sur Int’l Marathon M,H USA<br />
29 Haspa Marathon Hamburg M GER<br />
29 METRO GROUP Marathon Düsseldorf M GER<br />
Dalian Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
May<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
3 Silesia Marathon M POL<br />
6 BIG 25 Berlin R GER
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6 BMO Vancouver Marathon M CAN<br />
6 Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon M CAN<br />
6 Maratona d’Europa M,H ITA<br />
6 Maraton Int’l Martin Fiz M ESP<br />
6 Skopje Marathon M MKD<br />
12 GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon H SWE<br />
12 Bozcaada Half Marathon & 10k M TUR<br />
13 Panama Int’l Half Marathon H PAN<br />
13 Volkswagen Prague Marathon M CZE<br />
19 The Great Wall Marathon M CHN<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
19 Three Hearts Marathon M SLO<br />
20 Douro Valley Half Marathon H POR<br />
20 iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg M GER<br />
20 Lima 42k M PER<br />
20 Moscow Marathon Luzhniki M RUS<br />
20 Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon M DEN<br />
20 Nordea Riga Marathon & Half M,H LAT<br />
26 Terwamarathon M FIN<br />
27 Edinburgh Marathon Festival M GBR<br />
27 Int’l Cayirova Run 10km R TUR<br />
27 Kigali Peace Marathon M RWA<br />
27 Ottawa Marathon M CAN<br />
27 Scotiabank Calgary Marathon M CAN<br />
27 World 10k Bangalore R IND<br />
June<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
2 ASICS Stockholm Marathon M SWE<br />
2 Freihofer’s Run for Women 5k R USA<br />
3 Carrera Quito Ultimas Noticias 15K R ECU<br />
3 Comrades Marathon U RSA<br />
3 Zelenograd Half Marathon H RUS<br />
6 Cork City Marathon M IRL<br />
10 Laguna Phuket Int’l Marathon M THA<br />
16 Portumna Marathon, Ultra & 100km M,U IRL<br />
16 Santa Claus Marathon M FIN<br />
17 São Paulo Marathon M BRA<br />
23 Vidovdan 10km Road Race R BIH<br />
23 Volkswagen Olomouc Half Marathon M CZE<br />
24 Scotiabank Vancouver<br />
Half-Marathon & 5k H CAN<br />
24 Standard Chartered KL Marathon M MAS<br />
24 Tangamanga Int’l Marathon M MEX<br />
30 Midnight Sun Marathon & Half M,H NOR<br />
30 Paavo Nurmi Marathon M FIN<br />
30 Rovaniemi Marathon R,H,M FIN<br />
Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon U JPN<br />
July<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
1 Gold Coast Airport Marathon M AUS<br />
1 Int’l “White Nights” Marathon M RUS<br />
1 Northwest Passage Marathon & 55km M,U CAN<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
8 City of Rio de Janeiro Marathon M BRA<br />
8 Correcaminos Half Marathon & 10km H CRC<br />
9 Zermatt Marathon M SUI<br />
15 Marathon de l’Ile Maurice M MRI<br />
28 Australian Outback Marathon M AUS<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
28 Swiss Alpine Marathon Davos U SUI<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
29 San Francisco Marathon M,H USA<br />
29 Westlink M7 Cities Marathon M AUS<br />
31 Sotokoto Safari Half Marathon M KEN<br />
Maraton de Quito M ECU<br />
Yangmingshan Cross-country Race R TPE<br />
Media Maratón Int’l de Bogotá H COL<br />
August<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
3-12 Games of the XXX Olympiad, London GBR<br />
12 Siberian Int’l Marathon M RUS<br />
18 Helsinki City Marathon M FIN<br />
18 Reykjavík Marathon Íslandsbanka M,H ISL<br />
19 Rio de Janeiro Half Marathon H BRA<br />
25 La Ruta de las Iglesias M ECU<br />
26 Hokkaido Marathon M JPN<br />
26 Longford Marathon M IRL<br />
26 Maraton Int’l de Asuncion M PAR<br />
26 SSQ Quebec City Marathon M CAN<br />
26 Victoria Falls Marathon M ZIM<br />
Intact Insurance Canadian Derby<br />
Edmonton Marathon M CAN<br />
Galway City Marathon M IRL<br />
Maraton Int’l de la Ciudad de Mexico M MEX<br />
September<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
2 Kaua’i Marathon and Half M,H USA<br />
2 Medio Maraton Atlas de Guadalajara H MEX<br />
2 Torshavn Marathon M FRO<br />
7-9 Jungfrau Marathon M SUI<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
8 Mattoni Prague Grand Prix - Metro 10k Race<br />
& adidas Women’s 5k R CZE<br />
9 Media Maratón Int’l Ciudad de Medellin H COL<br />
9 Moscow Int’l Peace Marathon M RUS<br />
9 Nike Budapest Int’l Half Marathon H HUN<br />
9 Powerade Copenhagen Half Marathon M DEN<br />
9 SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half & 10k M,H,R EST<br />
9 Wroclaw Marathon M POL<br />
15 DN Stockholm Half Marathon H SWE<br />
16 Meia Maratona Sport Zone H POR<br />
16 Volkswagen Usti Half Marathon H,R CZE<br />
23 CamSur Marathon M,H,R PHI<br />
23 Cape Town Marathon M RSA<br />
23 Dam tot Damloop R NED<br />
23 Turin Half Marathon H ITA<br />
23 Varazdinski Polumarathon H CRO<br />
23 H.C. Andersen Marathon M DEN<br />
30 10k Costa Rica R CRC<br />
30 Baxters Loch Ness Marathon<br />
& Festival of <strong>Running</strong> M GBR<br />
30 BMW Berlin Marathon M GER<br />
30 Bristol Half Marathon H GBR<br />
30 Dexia Route du Vin Half Marathon H LUX<br />
30 Lake Tahoe Marathon & Half M,H USA<br />
30 Maratonina Citta di Udine H ITA<br />
30 RTP Rock ‘n’ Roll<br />
Half Marathon Vodafone H POR<br />
Marathon of the <strong>Running</strong> Festival<br />
of the Economic Forum M POL<br />
Fjord Norway Half Marathon H NOR<br />
Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run H GBR<br />
Pila Int’l Half Marathon H POL<br />
Ruska Marathon M FIN<br />
Vilniaus Marathon 2012 M,H LTU<br />
Int’l WACHAUmarathon M AUT<br />
Blackmores Sydney <strong>Running</strong> Festival (incl.)<br />
Sydney Marathon M AUS<br />
ABN AMRO Singelloop Utrecht 10km R NED<br />
Novosibirsk Half Marathon H RUS<br />
October<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
6 IAAF World Half Marathon<br />
Championships - Kavarna H BUL<br />
7 Brussels Marathon & Half M,H BEL<br />
7 GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon M CAN<br />
7 Intercontinental Istanbul<br />
Eurasia Marathon M TUR<br />
7 Kosice Peace Marathon M SVK<br />
7 Portland Marathon M USA<br />
7 Spar Budapest Int’l Marathon M HUN<br />
7 Sparkasse 3 Country Marathon & Half M,H AUT<br />
7 Zagreb Marathon & Half M,H CRO<br />
14 Bucharest Int’l Marathon & Half M,H ROU<br />
14 Eindhoven Marathon M NED<br />
14 Hyderabad Heritage Marathon M,H IND<br />
14 Maratona d’Italia<br />
memorial Enzo Ferrari M,H,R ITA<br />
14 Munich Marathon M,H,R GER<br />
14 Novi Sad Marathon M SRB<br />
14 Poznan Marathon M POL<br />
14 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon<br />
& Half Marathon & 5k<br />
M,H,R CAN<br />
21 Amsterdam Marathon M NED<br />
21 Lago Maggiore Marathon M ITA<br />
21 Medio Maraton de Valencia H ESP<br />
21 Mediterranean Marathon M ESP<br />
21 Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon M CAN<br />
28 adidas Auckland Marathon M,H,R NZL<br />
28 BMW Frankfurt Marathon M GER<br />
28 Grand Marathon Int’l de Casablanca M MAR<br />
28 Lausanne Marathon M SUI<br />
28 Lucerne Marathon M SUI<br />
28 Venice Marathon M ITA<br />
28 Marine Corps Marathon M USA<br />
28 EDP Porto Marathon M POR<br />
28 Standard Chartered<br />
Nairobi Marathon and Half M,H KEN<br />
29 National Lottery Dublin Marathon M IRL<br />
Cologne Marathon & Half<br />
presented by Sparkasse KölnBonn M,H GER<br />
Colombo Marathon M SRI<br />
Guayaquil Marathon M ECU<br />
RAHAL 10k Int’l Marrakech R MAR<br />
Bank of Melbourne Marathon Festival M AUS<br />
BMO Okanagan Marathon M CAN<br />
Maratona do Algarve M POR<br />
Calendar of events<br />
Maratón Int’l de la<br />
Ciudad de Buenos Aires M ARG<br />
Timisoara Marathon<br />
M,H,R ROU<br />
Beijing Int’l Marathon M,H CHN<br />
Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
St Denis Half Marathon H FRA<br />
Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon Int’l Marathon M KOR<br />
Ljubljana Marathon M SLO<br />
Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon M JOR<br />
Osaka Marathon M JPN<br />
Podgorica Marathon M MNE<br />
UWI-SPEC Half Marathon H TRI<br />
November<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
4 Bass Pro Shops Conservation Marathon M USA<br />
11 Athens Classic Marathon M GRE<br />
11 Blom Beirut Marathon M LIB<br />
11 Hangzhou Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
18 Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay H USA<br />
18 Marabana Marathon & Half M,H CUB<br />
18 Philadelphia Marathon M USA<br />
18 Quito 21k Mitad del Mundo H ECU<br />
18 Turin Marathon M ITA<br />
23-25 Malta Int’l Challenge Marathon M MLT<br />
25 Cyprus Aphrodite Half Marathon H CYP<br />
25 Commercial Bank of Ethiopia<br />
Great Ethiopian Run R ETH<br />
25 Hyderabad 10k Run R IND<br />
25 Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon M,H FRA<br />
Sharm El Sheikh Half Marathon H EGY<br />
Taroko Gorge Marathon M,H TPE<br />
JoongAng Seoul Marathon M KOR<br />
Maraton De Zaragoza M ESP<br />
10k Rio Pan-American Race R BRA<br />
Garda Trentino Half Marathon H ITA<br />
Medio Maraton Turistico Riviera Nayarit M MEX<br />
Maratón Divina Pastora Valencia M ESP<br />
Marathon des Alpes<br />
Maritimes Nice-Cannes M FRA<br />
Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon M MAS<br />
Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon M,H,R THA<br />
Yokohama Women’s Marathon M JPN<br />
Pharaonic 100km U EGY<br />
Amica Insurance Seattle Marathon M,H USA<br />
Airtel Delhi Half Marathon H IND<br />
Firenze Marathon M ITA<br />
Lake Kawaguchi Marathon M JPN<br />
Maratón Donostia - San Sebastián M ESP<br />
Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k M,U ATA<br />
Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune H MAR<br />
21km Nuevo Leon H MEX<br />
UNICEF Charity Run<br />
Half Marathon & 10km H,R HKG<br />
December<br />
DATE RACE PAGE<br />
1 Reggae Marathon M JAM<br />
2 Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon H CAM<br />
2 Costa Rica Marathon & Half M,H CRC<br />
2 Gran Maraton Pacifico M MEX<br />
2 Navi Mumbai Barefoot Half Marathon H IND<br />
2 Pampulha Lagoon Int’l Race R BRA<br />
2 Poona Int’l Marathon M IND<br />
2 Quantum Nicosia Marathon M CYP<br />
2 Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half M,H USA<br />
2 Run Barbados Marathon M,H BAR<br />
2 St Croix Int’l Marathon M ISV<br />
31 São Silvestre de Luanda 10k R ANG<br />
31 São Silvestre Int’l Road Race R BRA<br />
Aqaba Marathon (Red Sea) M JOR<br />
Fukuoka Int’l Open<br />
Marathon Championship M JPN<br />
Cayman Islands Marathon M CAY<br />
Lisbon Int’l Marathon M POR<br />
Macau Galaxy Entertainment<br />
Int’l Marathon M,H MAC<br />
Nara Marathon M JPN<br />
Panama City Int’l Marathon M PAN<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Marathon Singapore M,H,R SIN<br />
Toray Cup Shanghai Int’l Marathon M CHN<br />
Maraton Powerade Monterrey M MEX<br />
Fubon Taipei Marathon M TPE<br />
Pisa Marathon M,H ITA<br />
St Catherine Int’l Marathon & Half M,H EGY<br />
El Gouna Int’l Marathon M,H EGY<br />
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Results<br />
Results<br />
JULY – SEPTEMBER 2011<br />
26 JUNE 2011:<br />
LAKE SAROMA 100km, JAPAN<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Kiyokatsu HASEGAWA JPN 6:31:06<br />
2 Hideo NOJO JPN 6:36:29<br />
3 Eric WAINAINA KEN 6:38:40<br />
4 Yoshikazu HARA JPN 6:41:17<br />
5 Masakazu TAKAHASHI JPN 6:56:49<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Naomi OCHIAI JPN 7:54:08<br />
2 Shiho KATAYAMA JPN 7:54:20<br />
3 Yuko ITO JPN 7:59:15<br />
4 Wakako OYAGI JPN 8:02:15<br />
5 Mai FUJISAWA JPN 8:02:25<br />
3 JULY 2011:<br />
AIRPORT GOLD COAST MARATHON, AUSTRALIA<br />
50km<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Kaito IWAYAMA JPN 2:57:29<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Yuko EZAKI JPN 3:38:47<br />
02 JULY 2011:<br />
PAAVO NURMI MARATHON, FINLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Janne KLASILA FIN 2:49:54<br />
2 Kari SALOMAA FIN 2:58:00<br />
3 Patric MASAR SUI 2:59:42<br />
4 Miika ALHONEN FIN 3:11:19<br />
5 Markus KARLSSON FIN 3:13:31<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Elina JUNNILA FIN 3:31:35<br />
2 Hanna MALSTROM SWE 3:46:42<br />
3 Elisa JAATINEN FIN 3:57:36<br />
4 Kaisa OJANSIVU FIN 3:59:19<br />
5 Tiina ALHONEN FIN 4:04:22<br />
HALF MARATHON:<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Tomi HALME FIN 1:19:32<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Isabel Duran GALLETERO ESP 1:29:43<br />
3 JULY 2011:<br />
AIRPORT GOLD COAST MARATHON,<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
The men’s course record was broken after 22 years in<br />
a race which drew a record 24,726 runners (over<br />
5000 in the Marathon and 9000 in the Half).<br />
Nicholas Manza lowered Brad Camp’s 1989 mark by<br />
10 seconds. Winners took $10,000 each but Manza<br />
missed the $25,000 sub-2:10 bonus, although he was<br />
presented with a consolation course record bonus of<br />
another $10,000.<br />
From halfway Matebor and Manza audaciously<br />
broke away from the pacemakers to lead a group of<br />
eight runners. At 36km Manza made his winning<br />
move, to forge a 50m lead in the next kilometre. Lee<br />
Troop, hampered by hamstring trouble, failed to post<br />
a London 2012 Olympic qualifying time and came<br />
sixth in 2:15:45. Tesema, who was determined to<br />
break 2:30, had to run solo for most of the race. Far<br />
behind her Roxie Fraser improved her personal best by<br />
3 JULY 2011:<br />
AIRPORT GOLD COAST MARATHON, AUSTRALIA<br />
over a minute after climbing from fifth place at<br />
halfway.<br />
The race action was played out in front of an Africa<br />
Region delegation on the Gold Coast to inspect the<br />
city’s suitability to host the 2018 Commonwealth<br />
Games. The delegation comprised 14 National<br />
Olympic Council presidents, two secretaries general<br />
and two Olympic Committee board members.<br />
Race director Cameron Hart commented: “With the<br />
Commonwealth Games delegation from Africa here to<br />
assess the event, we feel we’ve done all we possibly<br />
can to give the 2018 Commonwealth Games bid a<br />
boost.”<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Nicholas MANZA KEN 2:10:01<br />
2 Albert MATEBOR KEN 2:10:13<br />
3 Japhet KIPKORIR KEN 2:10:50<br />
4 Taiga ITO JPN 2:13:16<br />
5 Noriaki TAKAHASHI JPN 2:14:13<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Goitetom TESEMA ETH 2:30:08<br />
2 Roxie FRASER AUS 2:41:17<br />
3 Chihiro TANAKA JPN 2:43:02<br />
4 Michelle MACADAM AUS 2:44:44<br />
5 Kirsten MALLOY AUS 2:46:32<br />
ASICS HALF MARATHON:<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jeffrey HUNT AUS 1:04:04<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lara TAMSETT AUS 1:12:19<br />
09 JULY 2011:<br />
ZERMATT MARATHON, SWITZERLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Patrick WEISER SUI 3:09:41<br />
2 Jen-Christophe DUPONT FRA 3:10:04<br />
3 Tim SHORT GBR 3:15:53<br />
4 Martin COX SUI 3:17:48<br />
5 Saul PADUA COL 3:18:34<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Daniela Gassman BAHR SUI 3:32:13<br />
2 Jasmin NUNIGE SUI 3:36:25<br />
3 Lizzy HAWKER GBR 3:57:08<br />
4 Tanja AMIET SUI 4:02:02<br />
5 Luzia SCHMID SUI 4:06:31<br />
10 JULY 2011:<br />
MARATON DE QUITO, ECUADOR<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Florencio Machacuay ARREDON ECU 2:28:33<br />
2 Hugo Jimenez CHITAN ECU 3:29:30<br />
3 Franklin Aduviri MANZANE ECU 2:30:52<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Olga Tabla GOMEZ ECU 3:01:25<br />
2 Nancy OSORIO ECU 3:05:32<br />
3 Maritza RODRIGUEZ ECU 3:32:08<br />
10 JULY 2011:<br />
MEDIA MARATON INT’L CORRECAMINOS,<br />
COSTA RICA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Marvin Martinez CASTRO CRC 1:09:58<br />
2 Pedro Jimenez ARRIETA CRC 1:11:43<br />
3 Eugenio Fernandez RODRIGUEZ CRC 1:12:22<br />
4 Cristian Arguello JIMENEZ CRC 1:13:38<br />
5 Kenneth Rocha GUTIERREZ CRC 1:14:18<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Cristina Marin GONZALEZ CRC 1:27:20<br />
2 Rosibel Aguilar CORRALES CRC 1:27:42<br />
3 Karina Fernandez MADRIGAL CRC 1:29:24<br />
4 Adriana Bermudez MURILLO CRC 1:30:06<br />
5 Carlorina Duran FERNANDEZ CRC 1:31:37<br />
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Results<br />
09 JULY 2011:<br />
ZERMATT MARATHON, SWITZERLAND<br />
10km<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Yasser Reyes SANCHEZ CRC 32:12<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Norma RODRIGUEZ CRC 37:44<br />
17 JULY 2011:<br />
MARATONA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Patrick Tambwe NGOIE FRA 2:18:17<br />
2 Erick Kiprono KIMAIYO KEN 2:18:27<br />
3 Rachid HAMNOUMI FRA 2:18:43<br />
4 Marcos Alexandre ELIAS BRA 2:19:55<br />
5 Paul KOSGEI KEN 2:20:43<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Kim Ok KUM PRK 2:35:22<br />
2 Yanan WEI CHN 2:36:19<br />
3 Thabita KIBET KEN 2:36:52<br />
4 Helalia JOHANNES NAM 2:37:15<br />
5 Winifrida KWAMBOKA KEN 2:39:49<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Damiao A DA SOUZA BRA 1:04:41<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Elizabeth Rumukol CHEPKEMEI KEN 1:14:17<br />
24 JULY 2011:<br />
YANGMINGSHAN CROSS COUNTRY<br />
[No results available]<br />
30 JULY 2011:<br />
AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK MARATHON<br />
See separate feature, p13<br />
30 JULY 2011:<br />
SWISSALPINE MARATHON DAVOS, 78km<br />
Jonas Buud won his fifth consecutive Swissalpine<br />
while Lizzy Hawker followed up her 2006 and 2007<br />
wins writes Anita Fuchs. Buud’s latest win was his<br />
slowest over the extremely tough 78km course from<br />
Davos to the Keschhütte (2632m) and on to the<br />
Sertigpass (2739m) and before returning to the<br />
start. He displayed more battle scars than ever, with<br />
bloody abrasions on both knees, arms and hands. First<br />
he fell on the descent from the Keschhütte in his<br />
pursuit of Huw Lobb, who had been the first over,<br />
leading by 87 seconds. After passing Lobb he fell<br />
while running down the Sertigpass. As previously<br />
Budd created his victory on the 5.4km section<br />
30 JULY 2011:<br />
AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK MARATHON<br />
between the two highest points of the world’s biggest<br />
mountain ultra-marathon, gaining more than 4.5<br />
minutes on Lobb. Over the remaining 20km the 37-<br />
year-old from Mora gradually extended his lead to win<br />
by 17:37. Bruno Heuberger, who lives in St<br />
Margarethenin Thurgau and came fourth as the best<br />
Swiss runner on Saturday was in a podium position up<br />
to 3km from the finish but then ceded to Japan’s<br />
Kaburaki Kaburagi.<br />
In the women’s race Lizzy Hawker set the pace from<br />
the beginning and was more than 3.5 minutes ahead<br />
by halfway, ultimately extending her winning margin<br />
to 11:29. Kajsa Berg, a compatriot of Jonas Buud, was<br />
already 20:28 behind in third place. Based in Scuol,<br />
35-year-old Hawker has fought many exciting battles<br />
for a podium position with Davos’s Jasmin Nunige, to<br />
whom she dedicated her win. Nunige could not<br />
contest the longer distance for health reasons. They<br />
are now even on wins, with Hawker holding the<br />
course record of 6:30:12 from 2006. Nunige won in<br />
2005, 2008 and 2010, and this year fired the<br />
starting gun before winning the Half Marathon event<br />
later in the day. Overall, 5382 runners from 62<br />
nations participated in the eight categories.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jonas BUUD SWE 6:11:02<br />
2 Huw LOBB GBR 6:28:40<br />
3 Kaburaki KABURAGI JPN 6:41:12<br />
4 Bruno HEUBERGER SUI 6:41:46<br />
5 Mattias DIPPACHER GER 6:55:00<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lizzy HAWKER GBR 7:16:17<br />
2 Maja MENEGHIN-PLISKA SUI 7:27:47<br />
3 Kajsa BERG SWE 7:36:46<br />
4 Joasia ZAKRZEWSKI GBR 7:36:50<br />
5 Denise ZIMMERMANN SUI 7:51:59<br />
42km<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Trond IDLAND NOR 3:21:52<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Melissa DAWES USA 3:56:50<br />
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Results<br />
31 JULY 2011:<br />
MEDIA MARATON INT’L DE BOGOTA,<br />
COLOMBIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Geoffrey MUTAI KEN 1:02:20<br />
2 Deribe MERGA ETH 1:02:49<br />
3 Wilson CHEBET KEN 1:04:57<br />
4 Diego COLORADO COL 1:05:11<br />
5 Isaac MACHARIA KEN 1:05:26<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Joyce CHEPKIRUI KEN 1:13:34<br />
2 Mare DIBABA ERH 1:13:54<br />
3 Emily CHEBET KEN 1:15:41<br />
4 Shewarge ALENE ETH 1:16:26<br />
5 Gladys TEJADA PER 1:16:33<br />
31 JULY 2011:<br />
SAN FRANCISCO MARATHON, USA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Michael WARDIAN USA 2:27:06<br />
2 Alex VARNER USA 2:35:00<br />
3 Robert KILLIAN USA 2:35:24<br />
4 Andrew COOK USA 2:37:40<br />
5 Chris KNORZER USA 2:40:54<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Emily FIELD USA 2:50:24<br />
2 Emily BELLI USA 2:51:11<br />
3 Devon CROSBY-HELMS USA 2:53:55<br />
4 Elizabeth LYLES USA 2:58:42<br />
5 Whitney TAWNEY USA 3:02:22<br />
1st HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 B GEITHMAN USA 1:12:30<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lauren TIPPETS USA 1:27:27<br />
2nd HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Keith BECHTOL USA 1:05:19<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Caroline KIRUI KEN 1:15:15<br />
31 JULY 2011:<br />
WESTLINK M7 CITIES MARATHON,<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Alexander MATTHEWS AUS 2:32:34<br />
2 Raymond WAREHAM AUS 2:40:05<br />
3 Ian GALLAGHER AUS 2:48:25<br />
4 John BINFIELD AUS 2:53:56<br />
5 Brad PAMP AUS 2:54:03<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Magda KARIMALI-POULOS AUS 2:49:11<br />
2 Sarah BURGESS AUS 2:54:56<br />
3 Verity BREEN AUS 2:55:26<br />
4 Johanna PARSONS AUS 2:56:02<br />
5 Leanne RUDLOFF AUS 3:06:36<br />
06 AUGUST 2011:<br />
SIBERIAN INTERNATIONAL MARATHON,<br />
RUSSIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Keiyo KIPLIMO KEN 2:14:25<br />
2 Oleg MARUSIN RUS 2:14:35<br />
3 Joseph Ngolepus PKERKER KEN 2:25:41<br />
4 Igor TYUPIN RUS 2:32:40<br />
5 Ivan KRASNOPEROV RUS 2:35:11<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Nina PODNEBESNOVA RUS 2:37:22<br />
2 Olga MALEVICH BLR 2:37:45<br />
3 Dehininet Demsew JARA ETH 2:39:20<br />
4 Larisa ANDROSOVA RUS 2:48:14<br />
5 Tatiana BELKINA RUS 2:50:28<br />
10km<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Egor NIKOLAEV RUS 29:46<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Marina KISELEVA RUS 35:03<br />
07 AUGUST 2011:<br />
ASUNCION INT’L MARATHON, PARAGUAY<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Anderson Chirchir KIPRONO KEN 2:17:35<br />
2 Christopher KIPYEGO KEN 2:23:47<br />
3 Stanley Kimutai TIYOT KEN 2:25:06<br />
4 Alemayehu NEGASH ETH 2:26:02<br />
5 Simon KARIUKI KEN 2:27:16<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Chemtai RIONOTUKEI KEN 2:53:10<br />
2 Carmen Martinez AGUILERA PAR 2:55:11<br />
3 Gabriela ALMADA ARG 3:04:54<br />
4 Leone Justino DA SILVA BRA 3:06:16<br />
5 Gisele Lisboa OLIVEIRA BRA 3:09:50<br />
07 AUGUST 2011:<br />
ASUNCION INT’L MARATHON, PARAGUAY<br />
Continued on page 60<br />
06 AUGUST 2011:<br />
SIBERIAN INTERNATIONAL<br />
MARATHON, RUSSIA<br />
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Results<br />
Continued from page 56<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Nicholas Kimeli KETER KEN 1:07:07<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Dorcas Jepchirchir KIPTARUS KEN 1:16:46<br />
20 AUGUST 2011:<br />
HELSINKI CITY MARATHON, FINLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Pius ONDORO KEN 2:23:24<br />
2 Elicky MASE KEN 2:24:08<br />
3 Edwin KIBOWEN KEN 2:27:28<br />
4 David BRICKHILL-JONES GBR 2:32:45<br />
5 Jaakko KERO FIN 2:34:22<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Leena PUOTINIEMI FIN 2:38:05<br />
2 Aleytsehay Mesfin DEMSE ETH 2:46:05<br />
3 Flora KANDIE KEN 2:46:06<br />
4 Irina PANKOVSKAYA RUS 2:55:41<br />
5 Evelina RANDELIN FIN 2:55:43<br />
20 AUGUST 2011:<br />
REYKJAVIK MARATHON ISLANDSBANKI,<br />
ICELAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Arnar PETURSSON ISL 2:44:18<br />
2 Lasloe BODEN GBR 2:45:57<br />
3 Sergio MINDER CHI 2:46:30<br />
4 Carl Bladh JOHANSSON ISL 2:49:13<br />
5 Pierre BOULAY 2:50:06<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Veronika S BJARNARDOTTIR ISL 3:02:42<br />
2 Thurídur GUDMUNDSDOTTIR ISL 3:06:55<br />
3 Brit EYRICH GER 3:08:14<br />
4 Margret ELIASDOTTIR ISL 3:12:35<br />
5 Saeborg Snaedal LOGADOTTIR ISL 3:15:07<br />
HALF MARATHON:<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Kári Steinn KARLSSON ISL 1:05:35<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rannveig ODDSDOTTIR ISL 1:24:05<br />
07 AUGUST 2011:<br />
ASUNCION INT’L MARATHON, PARAGUAY<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
POWERADE KOBENHAVN HALVMARATON,<br />
DENMARK<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jakob Hannibal KLAUSEN DEN 1:08:17<br />
2 Steen WALTHER DEN 1:09:17<br />
3 Ulrik HEITMANN DEN 1:12:15<br />
4 Ulrik Dam NIELSEN DEN 1:12:55<br />
5 Thomas SANDVALL FIN 1:13:21<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
RIO DE JANEIRO HALF MARATHON,<br />
BRAZIL<br />
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Results<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Maria Sig MOELLER DEN 1:15:56<br />
2 Anne-Mette AAGAARD DEN 1:16:21<br />
3 Lene HJELMSO DEN 1:17:38<br />
4 Anne-Sofia PADE HANSEN DEN 1:19:39<br />
5 Liselotte Perch LIND DEN 1:24:23<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
RIO DE JANEIRO HALF MARATHON, BRAZIL<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Mark KORIR KEN 1:01:33<br />
2 James KWAMBAI KEN 1:01:36<br />
3 Damiao Ancelmo DA SILVA BRA 1:02:25<br />
4 Paulo Roberto ALMEIDA BRA 1:02:30<br />
5 Marco JOSEPH 1:02:45<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Eunice Jepkirui KIRWA KEN 1:10:29<br />
2 Nadia EJJAFINI 1:11:08<br />
3 Nonata Cruz DA SILVA BRA 1:11:50<br />
4 Rita JEPTOO KEN 1:12:06<br />
5 Anastazia Mhomi GHAAMA KEN 1:13:00<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
RIO DE JANEIRO HALF MARATHON, BRAZIL<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
INTACT INSURANCE CANADIAN DERBY<br />
EDMONTON MARATHON, CANADA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jacob MENGICH KEN 2:23:33<br />
2 Ryan DAY CAN 2:35:09<br />
3 Brendan LUNTY CAN 2:39:55<br />
4 David CORBETT CAN 2:42:24<br />
5 Chris STONE CAN 2:44:14<br />
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Results<br />
27 AUGUST 2011:<br />
RUTA DE LAS IGLESIAS 10km, ECUADOR<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
INTACT INSURANCE CANADIAN DERBY EDMONTON<br />
MARATHON, CANADA<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Ellie GREENWOOD GBR 2:47:17<br />
2 Kathryn WAALE CAN 3:05:52<br />
3 Kim LERBEKMO CAN 3:11:40<br />
4 Claudette AUGERT CAN 3:16:38<br />
5 Joylin NODWELL CAN 3:16:54<br />
27 AUGUST 2011:<br />
RUTA DE LAS IGLESIAS 10km, ECUADOR<br />
“The Path of the Churches” is a nocturnal 10km race<br />
involving the entire city of Quito. Locals and tourists<br />
gather to run or to join the fun as spectators in this<br />
race that is also a celebration of culture and athletics.<br />
6000 runners registered for the seventh edition.<br />
At the start line the Special Olympics choir sung the<br />
Quito anthem, starting a theme which is maintained<br />
throughout the entire race. The sky is lit up with<br />
fireworks and stars as the runners take off. Along the<br />
way bands play typical Ecuadorian music and along<br />
the route there are 10 beautiful colonial churches,<br />
mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, which stand<br />
out against the starlit Andes sky.<br />
There are all types of runners from the elite to<br />
families and those in fancy dress. At the finish line the<br />
celebrations continue as once again the fireworks fill<br />
the sky and people reuniting with their families and<br />
friends are everywhere to be seen. The night is vibrant<br />
with an experience no one should miss and no one<br />
will forget.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Constantino Leon LOPEZ 30:55<br />
2 Pedro Manuel RAMOS 31:55<br />
3 Miguel Angel ALMACHI 32:04<br />
4 Paulo Roberto BUENANO 32:08<br />
5 Segundo Oswaldo JAMI 32:10<br />
21 AUGUST 2011:<br />
INTACT INSURANCE CANADIAN DERBY EDMONTON<br />
MARATHON, CANADA<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rosalba CHACHA 36:30<br />
2 Alicia Gabriela CAMACHO 37:26<br />
3 Jeanneth Narciza TOAPANTA 37:28<br />
4 Evelyn Alexandra GODOY 37:46<br />
5 Edith Jeanine SUNTAXI 37:52<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
HOKKAIDO MARATHON, JAPAN<br />
Harun Njoroge moved into top gear at 39km to claim<br />
the men’s title. In the women’s race Tomoko Morimoto<br />
overtook front-running Kaori Yoshida with just over<br />
2km to go.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Harun Njoroge MBUGA KEN 2:14:10<br />
2 Seiji KOBAYASHI JPN 2:14:22<br />
3 Chiharu TAKADA JPN 2:14:39<br />
4 Kensuke TAKAHASHI JPN 2:16:29<br />
5 Akira YAMAMOTO JPN 2:16:49<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Tomoko MORIMOTO JPN 2:33:45<br />
2 Kiyoko Goto HARA JPN 2:34:26<br />
3 Yoko SHIBUIJPN JPN 2:35:10<br />
4 Kaori YOSHIDA JPN 2:35:49<br />
5 Emi IKEDA JPN 2:36:35<br />
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Results<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
VICTORIA FALLS MARATHON, ZIMBABWE<br />
See separate feature, p19<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
LONGFORD MARATHON, IRELAND<br />
MEN:<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
VICTORIA FALLS MARATHON, ZIMBABWE<br />
1 Sergiu CIOBANU ROM 2:29:21<br />
2 Vasily NEUMERZHITSKY RUS 2:45:31<br />
3 Ryszard KOBAJLO POL 2:52:59<br />
4 Martin FRANCIS IRL 2:58:10<br />
5 Peter MOONEY IRL 2:58:36<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Pauline CURLEY IRL 2:50:03<br />
2 Helena CROSSMAN IRL 3:00:12<br />
3 Mary HANLEY IRL 3:11:47<br />
4 Mary JENNINGS IRL 3:22:27<br />
5 Anne WOLFE IRL 3:33:39<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Lorcan CRONIN IRL 1:09:59<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Breege CONOLLY IRL 1:21:57<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
SSQ QUEBEC CITY MARATHON, CANADA<br />
[Full Marathon cancelled due to Hurricane Irene]<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Rejean CHIASSON CAN 1:11:07<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lucy NJERI KEN 1:20:10<br />
28 AUGUST 2011:<br />
MARATON DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Isaac KIMAIYO KEN 2:14:24<br />
2 Hillary CHIPCHIRCHIR KEN 2:15:39<br />
3 Philip Kigitok METTO KEN 2:18:33<br />
4 Eric MONYENYE KEN 2:18:51<br />
5 Isaac MACHARIA KEN 2:19:28<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rose JEBET KEN 2:39:08<br />
2 Karina PEREZ MEX 2:39:17<br />
3 Hyvon NGETICH KEN 2:41:30<br />
4 Angelica SANCHEZ MEX 2:45:18<br />
5 Jessica RODRIGUEZ MEX 2:45:21<br />
3 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
FJORD NORWAY HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Ambesse TOLOSA ETH 1:07:36<br />
2 Mirza NALIC NOR 1:13:32<br />
3 Olaide OGUNRONBI NGR 1:13:59<br />
4 Alemayehu SITOTAW NOR 1:14:42<br />
5 Bjarte EIKANGER NOR 1:16:04<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Christina HOLTH NOR 1:19:09<br />
2 Tone Ilstad HJALMARSEN NOR 1:19:09<br />
3 Arbe Berhe HAILEMARIAM NOR 1:22:40<br />
4 Audhild HESTAD NOR 1:25:00<br />
5 Stine SANDEN NOR 1:31:08<br />
3 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
RUSKAMARATHON, FINLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Petri HUHTALA FIN 2:49:42<br />
2 Tero JUNKKARI FIN 2:51:41<br />
3 Hannu MANNINEN FIN 2:53:38<br />
4 Jussi HERTTUALA FIN 2:56:06<br />
5 Jarmo RAATEROVA FIN 2:59:32<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Fiona OAKES GBR 2:58:12<br />
2 Johanna DAVIDILA 3:16:50<br />
3 Pauliina AULA-KYRO FIN 3:19:35<br />
4 Ritva PESONEN FIN 3:22:19<br />
5 Erja KIVINIEMI FIN 3:24:46<br />
4 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
PILA INT’L HALF MARATHON, POLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Martin MUKULE KEN 1:02:25<br />
2 Marcin CHABOWSKI POL 1:02:26<br />
3 Henryk SZOST POL 1:04:09<br />
4 Michal KACZMAREK POL 1:04:18<br />
5 Artur KOZLOWSKI POL 1:05:01<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Agnieszka GORTEL POL 1:14:43<br />
2 Natallia TSYTSORINA BLR 1:16:11<br />
3 Volha KRAUTSOVA BLR 1:16:24<br />
4 Akane MUTAZAKI JPN 1:16:43<br />
5 Katarzyna DURAK POL 1:17:00<br />
4 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
NIKE BUDAPEST INT’L HALF MARATHON,<br />
HUNGARY<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Tamas KOVACS HUN 1:06:04<br />
2 Zsolt KOSZAR HUN 1:06:34<br />
3 Tamas TOTH HUN 1:08:12<br />
4 Laszlo TOTH HUN 1:08:51<br />
5 Gabor JOZSA HUN 1:09:19<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Aniko KALOVICS HUN 1:15:04<br />
2 Beata RAKONCZAI HUN 1:17:09<br />
3 Ida KOVACS HUN 1:19:00<br />
4 Simona STAICU HUN 1:20:20<br />
5 Judit FOLDINGNE NAGY HUN 1:20:33<br />
4 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
TORSHAVN MARATHON, FAROE ISLANDS<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Hallur HOLM FAR 3:05:10<br />
2 Eirikur HANSEN FAR 3:10:16<br />
3 Petur LAMHAUGE FAR 3:19:43<br />
4 Maciej RAKOWSKI POL 3:24:15<br />
5 Johan HAVN FAR 3:26:40<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rigmor N ARGE 3:31:15<br />
2 Katarzyna OLES POL 3:42:30<br />
3 Sunneva OLSEN 4:00:39<br />
4 Torvor Ostero VANG FAR 4:07:24<br />
5 Magdalena MOSTOWSKA POL 4:14:58<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Marnar DJURHUUS 1:21:55<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Andrea CORONA ITA 1:24:02<br />
4 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
GREAT SCOTTISH RUN, GREAT BRITAIN<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Joseph BIRECH KEN 1:01:26<br />
2 Bernard Kipkemoi ROTICH KEN 1:01:28<br />
3 Rashed Essa ISMAEL QAT 1:02:10<br />
4 Jason MBOTE KEN 1:02:44<br />
5 Kazuhiro MAEDA JPN 1:03:45<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Flomena CHEPCHIRCHIR KEN 1:09:26<br />
2 Hilda KIBET NED 1:09:36<br />
3 Mayumi FUJITA JPN 1:11:51<br />
4 Yuko WATANABE JPN 1:14:06<br />
5 Dinknesh TEFERA ETH 1:14:27<br />
04 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MEDIO MARATON ATLAS DE<br />
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jaime APOLONIO MEX 1:04:18<br />
2 Robert LETTING KEN 1:04:59<br />
3 Joseph NGETICH KEN 1:05:16<br />
4 Teodoro Vega MORALES MEX 1:05:17<br />
5 Hillary KIMAIYO KEN 1:05:21<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Madai PEREZ MEX 1:14:53<br />
2 Maria Dulce RODRIGUEZ MEX 1:16:26<br />
3 Hyvon NGETICH KEN 1:17:12<br />
4 Margarita HERNANDEZ MEX 1:17:44<br />
5 Risper BIYAKI KEN 1:18:04<br />
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Results<br />
4 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
KAUA’I MARATHON, USA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Tyler MCCANDLESS USA 2:23:22<br />
2 Michael WARDIAN USA 2:26:20<br />
3 David TUWEI KEN 2:32:24<br />
4 Richard KANDIE KEN 2:34:43<br />
5 Robert KILLIAN USA 2:35:41<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rumi OTANI JPN 3:10:07<br />
2 Becki Lynne LASSLEY USA 3:25:19<br />
3 Penny MCPHAIL USA 3:29:45<br />
4 Mary CASTELANELLI USA 3:36:25<br />
5 Amy Wieser WILSON USA 3:43:49<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Clark DAVIS USA 1:20:01<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Emily SHERTZER USA 1:20:13<br />
10 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
JUNGFRAU MARATHON, SWITZERLAND<br />
Markus Hohenwarter put up a commanding<br />
performance on the flatter first section as well as on<br />
the steeper parts and scored a start-to-finish victory.<br />
British runner Huw Lobb took second place with<br />
Robert Krupicka from the Czech Republic making a<br />
strong finish to come in third. Aline Camboulives from<br />
France was the first-placed woman in front of two<br />
Swiss.<br />
4206 runners lined up at 09.00 in Interlaken for the<br />
start signal from European Marathon Champion Viktor<br />
Röthlin. The route led from Interlaken up to Kleine<br />
Scheidegg, a height gain of1800m. Some 30,000<br />
spectators followed the race in Interlaken and along<br />
the route, enjoying wonderful weather.<br />
Measured by the number of participants, the<br />
Jungfrau Marathon is the world’s biggest mountain<br />
marathon. Next year, two marathons will be held to<br />
mark the 20th anniversary of the event and so twice<br />
the number of starting places will be available. The<br />
double event will take place on 8-9 September 2012.<br />
The World Championship Long-<strong>Distance</strong> Mountain<br />
<strong>Running</strong> event will also be held within the event.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Markus HOENWARTER AUT 3:01:52<br />
2 Huw LOBB GBR 3:02:30<br />
3 Robert KRUPICKA CZE 3:02:44<br />
4 Hosea TUEI KEN 3:04:04<br />
5 Paul Maticha MICHIEKA KEN 3:07:20<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Aline CAMBOULIVES FRA 3:29:56<br />
2 Daniela GASSMAN BARR SUI 3:34:49<br />
3 Jasmin NUNIGE SUI 3:35:51<br />
4 Corinne ZELLER SUI 3:47:18<br />
5 Angela HALDEMAN-RIEDO SUI 3:47:48<br />
10 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MATTONI PRAGUE GRAND PRIX<br />
A minute’s silence was held before each of the races<br />
led by the Czech footballer Pavel Nedved, in tribute to<br />
the three national ice hockey players who died in a<br />
plane crash earlier in the week. Despite such a sad<br />
start, the race was a huge success.<br />
Philemon Limo was quickly into the lead alongside<br />
three others, with two groups of four hard on their<br />
heels. By 3km Limo had broken away with Henry<br />
Chirchir and Adugna Tekele. He won in 27:34,<br />
smashing the course record by nearly thirty seconds.<br />
The adidas Women’s Race 5km, started an hour and<br />
a half earlier at 19.00, was much more<br />
straightforward. Race favourite Priscah Ngetich was<br />
never challenged for the lead. By 4km she<br />
was clear of the field and looked as if she might break<br />
the 2002 course record, but in the end she was just<br />
two seconds outside.<br />
METRO 10km MEN’S RACE:<br />
1 Philemon LIMO KEN 27:34<br />
2 Henry CHIRCHIR KEN 28:34<br />
3 Adugna TEKELE ETH 28:56<br />
4 Gadengoi LOITARENG KEN 28:58<br />
5 Abraham TADESSE ETH 29:25<br />
10 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
JUNGFRAU MARATHON, SWITZERLAND<br />
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Results<br />
adidas WOMEN’S 5km:<br />
1 Priscah NGETICH KEN 15:32<br />
2 Tadelech BEKELE ETH 15:51<br />
3 Tabitha Gichia WAMBUI KEN 15:56<br />
4 Yelena ZADOROZHNAYA RUS 16:14<br />
5 Lucy Wambui MURIGI KEN 16:19<br />
10 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
NOVOSIBIRSK HALF MARATHON, RUSSIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Andrey RYBAKOV RUS 1:03:08<br />
2 Sergey NECHPAY RUS 1:05:56<br />
3 Victor UGAROV RUS 1:06:12<br />
4 Dmitriy SEMENOV RUS 1:06:30<br />
5 Vasiliy MINAEV RUS 1:07:15<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Mariya KONOVALOVA RUS 1:10:30<br />
2 Elena NAROVITSYNA RUS 1:13:35<br />
3 Mariya KISELEVA RUS 1:14:51<br />
4 Svetlana BOSIKOVA RUS 1:16:08<br />
5 Svetlana PODOSENOVA RUS 1:17:11<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MEDIO MARATON DE MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
VILNIUS MARATHON, LITHUANIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Dzmitriy HRYHORYEU BLR 2:34:40<br />
2 Saulius VALALIS LTU 2:35:09<br />
3 Tomas VENCKUNAS LTU 2:37:34<br />
4 Gediminas GRINIUS LTU 2:42:30<br />
5 Vidas TOTILAS LTU 2:43:54<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Modesta KAMINSKIENE LTU 3:07:28<br />
2 Sada BUKSNIENE LTU 3:18:11<br />
3 Renate SILIUK LTU 3:20:51<br />
4 Ieva LOBACIUTE LTU 3:45:40<br />
5 Ruta GAIZUTAYTE LTU 3:49:22<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Darius SADECKAS LTU 1:09:35<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Gaitute KELIOTIENE LTU 1:31:26<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
SEB TALLINN MARATHON, ESTONIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Julius MURIUKI KEN 2:12:56<br />
2 Isaak KOSGEI KEN 2:12:56<br />
3 Hassane AHOUCHAR MAR 2:13:17<br />
4 Pharis KIMANI KEN 2:14:39<br />
5 Mesfin Admasu ABEBE ETH 2:19:40<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Almaz Alemu BALCHA ETH 2:34:14<br />
2 Irene CHEPKIRUI KEN 2:34:41<br />
3 Leila LUIK EST 2:52:05<br />
4 Yulia KAZHOVA RUS 2:55:11<br />
5 Evelin KARNER EST 2:59:19<br />
HALF MARATHON:<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Valerius ZOLNEROVICS LAT 1:07:07<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Inna POLUSKINA LAT 1:17:27<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MARATHON OF THE RUNNING FESTIVAL OF<br />
THE ECONOMIC FORUM, POLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Grzegorz CZYZ POL 2:43:33<br />
2 Piotr POBLOCKI POL 2:49:52<br />
3 Dmytro IVANYSH POL 2:52:21<br />
4 Miroslaw BUGAJ POL 2:53:30<br />
5 Krzysztof POKRZYWINSKI POL 2:58:43<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Danuta PISKOROWSKA POL 3:03:56<br />
2 Barbara GRUCA POL 3:22:57<br />
3 Nataliia MALAI UKR 3:24:54<br />
4 Agnieszka MALINOWSKA-SYPEK POL 3:33:13<br />
5 Monika SMUTER POL 3:43:06<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
HASCO-LEK WROCLAW MARATHON,<br />
POLAND<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Vincent KIPCHIRCHIR KEN 2:20:20<br />
2 Anatoli ORZHEKHOVSKIY UKR 2:22:18<br />
3 Boniface WAMBUA KEN 2:22:26<br />
4 Mike CHERUIYOT KEN 2:22:53<br />
5 Przemyslaw ROJEWSKI POL 2:31:44<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Emily CHEPKORIR KEN 2:44:53<br />
2 Halina KARNATSEVICH BLR 2:57:08<br />
3 Agnieszka KUZYK POL 3:02:06<br />
4 Dorota PRZYBYSZ POL 3:06:23<br />
5 Antonina RYCHTER POL 3:09:13<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
BRISTOL HALF MARATHON, GREAT BRITAIN<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Edwin KIYEGO KEN 1:03:20<br />
2 Allan NDIWA KEN 1:05:04<br />
3 Anurahha COORAY GBR 1:06:15<br />
4 James CONNOR GBR 1:06:17<br />
5 Tomas ABYU GBR 1:06:36<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Gemma STEEL GBR 1:13:32<br />
2 Fidelis CHEBET KEN 1:16:53<br />
3 Lucy MCALLISTER GBR 1:16:58<br />
4 Emma STEPTO GBR 1:17:32<br />
5 Catherine ANSELL GBR 1:17:41<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MEDIO MARATON DE MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Julius Kipyego KETER KEN 1:03:21<br />
2 Diego COLORADO COL 1:04:05<br />
3 Alirio CARRASCO COL 1:05:28<br />
4 Javier Alexander GUARIN COL 1:05:40<br />
5 Solonei ROCHA BRA 1:06:13<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Erika Abril SUAREZ COL 1:14:41<br />
2 Shewarge Alena AMARE ETH 1:15:06<br />
3 Sandra RUALES ECU 1:19:48<br />
4 Michele Cristina DOS CHAGOS BRA 1:20:35<br />
5 Ana Joaquina Rondon MESIAS COL 1:21:08<br />
11 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MEDIO MARATON DE MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA<br />
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Results<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Helena JAVORNIK SLO 1:21:32<br />
2 Matea MATOSEVIC CRO 1:22:49<br />
3 Haimanot BEKELE WONDIMU ETH 1:25:07<br />
4 Valentina BELOVIC CRO 1:26:40<br />
5 Danijela CERNIK CRO 1:32:24<br />
17 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
DN STOCKHOLM<br />
HALF MARATHON, SWEDEN<br />
17 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
DN STOCKHOLM<br />
HALF MARATHON,<br />
SWEDEN<br />
See separate feature, p23<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
BLACKMORE’S SYDNEY<br />
RUNNING FESTIVAL,<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Kemboi KIPLIMO KEN 2:17:39<br />
2 Oswald REVELIAN TAN 2:25:51<br />
3 Michael AISH AUS 2:26:40<br />
4 Takaki MORI JPN 2:28:00<br />
5 Julius MARITIM KEN 2:30:19<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Letay HADISH ETH 2:43:22<br />
2 Margaret MJUGUNA KEN 2:45:16<br />
3 Gabrielle OROURKE NZL 2:53:17<br />
4 Mitsuko HIROSE JPN 2:54:57<br />
5 Jenny WICKHAM AUS 2:57:24<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Lee TROOP AUS 1:07:15<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Belinda MARTIN AUS 1:17:18<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
VARAZDIN HALF MARATHON, CROATIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Miratu Yared ADMASU ETH 1:04:54<br />
2 Zoran ZILIC CRO 1:11:50<br />
3 Istvan ORI HUN 1:12:32<br />
4 Drazen DINJAR CRO 1:12:50<br />
5 Matija GRABOVECKI CRO 1:13:33<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
WACHAU MARATHON, AUSTRIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Wolfgang WALLNER AUT 2:36:20<br />
2 Gabor MUHARI HUN 2:39:45<br />
3 Markus REICH AUT 2:45:22<br />
4 Thomas SCHEICHEL AUT 2:50:29<br />
5 Martin REISINGER AUT 2:51:30<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Meta STEINBACK-OLSSON SWE 3:12:11<br />
2 Christine WENZL AUT 3:16:02<br />
3 Simone FURNKRANZ AUT 3:25:31<br />
4 Gabi KENKENBERG GER 3:25:59<br />
5 Daniela STUPPHANN AUT 3:29:16<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Geoffrey KANYANJUA KEN 1:01:18<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Alice MOGIRE KEN 1:12:28<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
USTI HALF MARATHON, CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
This new race in the Czech Republic debuted with<br />
some very fast times. Several athletes who have<br />
appeared in other races promoted by the Prague<br />
International Marathon supported the event, including<br />
Prague Half winner Philemon Limo. From the gun he<br />
went to the front alongside Henry Chirchir and<br />
Adugna Tekele. In the sixth kilometre Limo and<br />
Tekele put 50m between the two of them and<br />
Chirchir, and within another two kilometres Limo had<br />
set sail for home. At one point in the race he was on<br />
target to crack one hour, but running on his own in<br />
the rain he did slow slightly finishing just under 61<br />
minutes and nearly three minutes ahead.<br />
In the women’s race a group of four ran together<br />
close to the second group of men until nearly halfway<br />
through the race. Soon after 10km Agnes Kiprop<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
BLACKMORE’S SYDNEY<br />
RUNNING FESTIVAL,<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
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Results<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
USTI HALF MARATHON,<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
broke away from Tadelech Bekele and Justina Heslop,<br />
and they stayed in this order to the finish.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Philemon LIMO KEN 1:00:58<br />
2 Adugna TEKELE ETH 1:03:35<br />
3 Henry CHIRCHIR KEN 1:04:42<br />
4 Igor GELETIY UKR 1:04:55<br />
5 Sammy Kiprono KIRUI KEN 1:07:14<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Agnes KIPROP KEN 1:09:12<br />
2 Tadelech BEKELE ETH 1:11:58<br />
3 Justina HESLOP GBR 1:13:13<br />
4 Lucia KIMANI BIH 1:14:21<br />
5 Petra KAMINCOVA CZE 1:22:19<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
HC ANDERSEN MARATHON, DENMARK<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Julius ROTICH KEN 2:17:13<br />
2 Julius Kiprono MUTAI KEN 2:17:42<br />
3 Peter Kipyator BIWOTT KEN 2:18:46<br />
4 Mikkel KLEIS DEN 2:19:12<br />
5 Jonah Kibiwott KEMBOI KEN 2:19:15<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Tatiana VILISOVA RUS 2:35:41<br />
2 Jennifer BLIZZARD GBR 2:45:10<br />
3 Samantha AMEND GBR 2:46:55<br />
4 Luise SONDER DEN 2:51:08<br />
5 Susanne SVENDSEN DEN 2:51:46<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
DAM TOT DAMLOOP 16.1km, NETHERLANDS<br />
Leonard Patrick Komon broke the course record and<br />
was just four seconds short of the world best time.<br />
Komon led from the beginning. At first Samuel Tsegay<br />
from Eritrea and the Kenyan John Mwangangi were<br />
able to follow him, but after 20 minutes they had to<br />
let him go. After 10km Komon was 15 seconds under<br />
the schedule of the world best time for 10 miles, but<br />
after 40 minutes Tsegay got back to him. Komon had<br />
enough energy left to get away again and ran on to<br />
claim the victory and course record (previously 44:45<br />
to Paul Koech in 1997). Komon afterwards said that it<br />
was the heavy rainfall during the last 1.5km that<br />
prevented him from improving Haile Gebrselassie’s<br />
world best time. As a track athlete Priscah Jepleting<br />
was a suprising winner in the women’s race<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Leonard KOMON KEN 44:27<br />
2 Samuel TSEGAY ERI 44:38<br />
3 John MWANGANGI KEN 45:13<br />
4 Kennedy KIMUTAI KEN 45:15<br />
5 Henri KIPLAGAT KEN 46:19<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Priscah JEPLETING KEN 51:57<br />
2 Dinah CHEPKEMOI KEN 52:46<br />
3 Abebech AFEWORK ETH 52:48<br />
4 Lornah KIPLAGAT NED 53:01<br />
5 Tabitha WAMBUI KEN 53:38<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MEIA MARATONA SPORT ZONE, PORTUGAL<br />
Zersenay Tadese returned to Portugal, where he had<br />
set the two fastest half marathon times ever run, but<br />
this time he was not in Lisbon but in the second city<br />
of Porto. He won the race with ease, to equal the<br />
third fastest time of the year (the fastest being his<br />
58:30 from the Lisbon Half Marathon in March).<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Zersenay TADESE ERI 59:30<br />
2 Philip Kimnutai SANGA KEN 1:01:09<br />
3 Stanley Biwott KIPLETING KEN 1:01:10<br />
4 Amanuel MESSEL ERI 1:01:10<br />
5 Joel KIMURER KEN 1:01:23<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Doris CHANGEYWO KEN 1:10:36<br />
2 Dulce FELIX POR 1:10:46<br />
3 Josephine KIMUYU KEN 1:11:55<br />
4 Hellen Mugo WANJIKU KEN 1:13:26<br />
5 Jane MUIA KEN 1:13:57<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MOSCOW PEACE MARATHON, RUSSIA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Aleksander MATVEYCHUK UKR 2:17:27<br />
2 Andrey TOPTUN UKR 2:17:42<br />
3 Dmitriy SHILKIN RUS 2:18:52<br />
4 Andrey NAUMOV UKR 2:21:27<br />
5 Igor SCHERBINA RUS 2:23:58<br />
18 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
DAM TOT DAMLOOP 16.1KM, NETHERLANDS<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Tatyana PEREPELKINA RUS 2:47:48<br />
2 Marfa PAKHMOVA RUS 2:49:53<br />
3 Vera ILYINA RUS 2:57:54<br />
4 Saori HASHIMOTO JPN 2:58:19<br />
5 Marina KIRILOVA RUS 3:00:27<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
CAMSUR MARATHON, PHILIPPINES<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Nathan NABEI KEN 2:25:14<br />
2 James TALLANI KEN 2:29:17<br />
3 Hailemariam KAHSAY ETH 2:30:17<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Rose Jepkemboi CHESIRE KEN 2:50:26<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
CAPE TOWN MARATHON, SOUTH AFRICA<br />
In ideal conditions, the leaders of the 1800-strong<br />
field went through 11km in 34:30 halfway in 1:06:10.<br />
Amos Maiyo, who has been a pacemaker in the Berlin,<br />
Amsterdam and Rotterdam marathons, was clear by<br />
32km, and opened a gap of almost 2 minutes by the<br />
time he hit the line, setting a new personal best to<br />
take home the R25000 purse. Regular Cape Town<br />
Marathon runner Raphael Segodi recorded the fastest<br />
second half of the day as he came through from four<br />
minutes down at halfway.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Amos MAIYO KEN 2:14:55<br />
2 Raphael SEGODI RSA 2:16:47<br />
3 Anthony GODONGWANA RSA 2:17:01<br />
4 Gilbert MUTANDIRO ZIM 2:17:17<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Chiyedza CHOKORE ZIM 2:46:31<br />
2 Margaret MAHOHOMA ZIM 2:47:01<br />
3 Bulelwa MTSHAGI RSA 2:48:44<br />
4 Miya LAWRIE RSA 2:51:31<br />
10km<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Stephen MOKOKA RSA 28:45<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Irvette VAN BLERK RSA 33:20<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
MARATONINA DI UDINE, ITALY<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Stephen KIBET KEN 1:00:20<br />
2 William CHEBOR KEN 1:01:10<br />
3 Charles KIMELI KEN 1:01:45<br />
4 Albert MATEBOR KEN 1:01:46<br />
5 Lema Birbirsa TOLA ETH 1:01:56<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Pauline NJERI KEN 1:10:44<br />
2 Joyce Jemutai KIPLIMO KEN 1:12:34<br />
3 Fridah Domongole CHEPKEMOI KEN 1:13:45<br />
4 Ana DIAS POR 1:15:43<br />
5 Martina FACCIANI ITA 1:16:43<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
TURIN HALF MARATHON, ITALY<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Atalay YIRSAW ETH 1:03:49<br />
2 Ivano POZZEBON ITA 1:07:52<br />
3 Abdelhadi LAAOUINA ITA 1:09:12<br />
4 Salvatore CALDERONE ITA 1:10:18<br />
5 Alessandro GIANNONE ITA 1:10:36<br />
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Results<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Yisak MELAK ETH 1:12:41<br />
2 Claudia SOLARO ITA 1:25:44<br />
3 Cristina BENEDETTO ITA 1:27:48<br />
4 Rosanna MATTE ITA 1:28:57<br />
5 Stefania ALBANESE ITA 1:30:38<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
HALF MARATHON OF PORTUGAL VODAFONE<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Silas SANG KEN 1:01:12<br />
2 Lucas ROTICH KEN 1:01:37<br />
3 Benson OLENAKERY KEN 1:02:19<br />
4 Sammy KIGEN KEN 1:02:30<br />
5 Dickson MARWA TAN 1:03:10<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Mary KEITANY KEN 1:07:53<br />
2 Helena KIPROP KEN 1:08:57<br />
3 Caroline KILEL KEN 1:10:30<br />
4 Rita JEPTOO KEN 1:10:33<br />
5 Desire DAVILA USA 1:11:27<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
DEXIA BIL ROUTE DU VIN HALF MARATHON,<br />
LUXEMBOURG<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Leonard LANGAT KEN 1:01:07<br />
2 Joseph KIPTUM KEN 1:01:08<br />
3 Hassan ELABBASSI MAR 1:01:13<br />
4 Pius Maiyo KIROP KEN 1:01:16<br />
5 Michael MUTAI KEN 1:01:41<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Abebech AFEWORK ETH 1:10:30<br />
2 Edinah KWAMBAI KEN 1:12:10<br />
3 Meseret Hailu DEBELE ETH 1:15:53<br />
4 Gladys KIPROTICH KEN 1:16:31<br />
5 Ayato Haso ZEINEBA ETH 1:16:43<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
ABN AMRO SINGELLOOP UTRECHT 10KM,<br />
NETHERLANDS<br />
MEN<br />
1 Philip LANGAT KEN 27:28<br />
2 Timothy KIPTOO KEN 27:44<br />
3 Nicholas KEMBOI KEN 27:56<br />
4 Kennedy KIMUTAI KEN 27:57<br />
5 Aschalew Neguse MEKETA ETH 28:44<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Winnie JEPKEMBOI KEN 31:31<br />
2 Rakiya EL MOUKIM MAR 32:12<br />
3 Elziba CHERONO KEN 32:12<br />
4 Jane MUIA KEN 33:37<br />
5 Yelena ZADOROSHNAYA RUS 33:51<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
BMW BERLIN MARATHON, GERMANY<br />
The 38th BMW Berlin Marathon lived up to all<br />
expectations, with Patrick Makau (KEN) setting the<br />
seventh world record in 13 years in the event writes<br />
Pat Butcher. Makau first broke Haile Gebreselassie,<br />
then took the Ethiopian legend’s world record with<br />
2:03:38. One of the pacemakers, Stephen Chemlani,<br />
hung on to finish second.<br />
Gebrselassie, who stopped in discomfort when<br />
Makau surged away, recommenced and briefly<br />
reclaimed second place, but eventually dropped out<br />
after 35km.<br />
There was another Kenyan success in the women’s<br />
race. Florence Kiplagat, the 2010 world half marathon<br />
champion who had dropped out of her only previous<br />
marathon in New York last autumn, was never<br />
headed. World record holder Paul Radcliffe, returning<br />
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from childbirth and a barren two years competitively,<br />
stayed with Kiplagat for 12km before gradually<br />
dropping away. Kiplagat won by almost as big a<br />
margin as Makau, in 2:19:44. Radliffe was passed by<br />
the steady starting local hero Irina Mikitenko at<br />
33km, and the German went on to take second place.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Patrick MAKAU KEN 2:03:38<br />
2 Stephen CHEMLANY KEN 2:07:55<br />
3 Edwin KIMAIYO KEN 2:09:50<br />
4 Felix LIMO KEN 2:10:38<br />
5 Scott OVERALL GBR 2:10:55<br />
Patrick Makau on his way to setting a<br />
new world record (Just behind him, on the<br />
bicycle, is race director Mark Milde)<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
BMW BERLIN MARATHON, GERMANY<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
HALF MARATHON OF PORTUGAL VODAFONE<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Florence KIPLAGAT KEN 2:19:44<br />
2 Irina MIKITENKO GER 2:22:18<br />
3 Paula RADCLIFFE GBR 2:23:46<br />
4 Atsede HABTAMU ETH 2:24:25<br />
5 Tatyana PETROVA RUS 2:25:01<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
10km SAN JOSE COSTA RICA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Fernando CABADA CRC 30:58<br />
2 Jose Francisco CHAVEZ CRC 31:48<br />
3 Roy VARGAS CRC 32:20<br />
4 Marvin MARTINEZ CRC 32:58<br />
5 Pedto JIMENEZ CRC 33:53<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Norma RODRIGUEZ CRC 38:25<br />
2 Sheyla ARAYA CRC 40:02<br />
3 Rosario VARGAS CRC 41:05<br />
4 Georani CORONADO CRC 41:05<br />
5 Candy SALAZAR CRC 41:18<br />
25 SEPTEMBER 2011:<br />
LAKE TAHOE MARATHON, USA<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Jesus LOPEZ USA 2:56:48<br />
2 Blue BENADUM USA 2:58:54<br />
3 Barry SMITH USA 3:03:20<br />
4 Sean MEISSNER USA 3:03:21<br />
5 Charlie JOHNSTON USA 3:05:40<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Elizabeth LYMES USA 3:10:16<br />
2 Liz DOWNING USA 3:44:41<br />
3 Letitia DUSICH USA 3:46:31<br />
4 Martina SAILER USA 3:56:27<br />
5 Vickie LAU USA 3:56:52<br />
HALF MARATHON<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Yusuke INOUE JPN 1:27:10<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Tawnie MCDONALD USA 1:36:18
WMRA News<br />
28th WMRA Congress<br />
Durres, Albania, 10 September 2011<br />
30 countries sent delgates to the Congress with Otto Klappert (Germany) present as IAAF<br />
Delegate. Bashir Hussain (GBR) was appointed as secretary and several significant decisions<br />
were taken, including an update of the Constitution and the World Mountain <strong>Running</strong><br />
Championships rules, and fixing the most important races in the 2012 and 2013 calendar.<br />
6th Int’l Youth MR Challenge<br />
Gorenja Vas, Slovenia, 25 June 2011<br />
WMRA President Bruno Gozzelino opened<br />
proceedings in the presence of Janez<br />
Aljancic, Vice-President of the Slovenian<br />
Athletics Federation and Milan Cadej, the<br />
Mayor of Gorenja vas. A record 13 countries<br />
competed, with a total of 75 athletes - 39<br />
boys and 36 girls - on a very runnable mainly<br />
grass course. Five countries took the medals,<br />
Poland topping the table ahead of Russia,<br />
and Slovenia.<br />
In the boys’ race Nekagenet Crippa broke away at<br />
the start but he had gone too hard and fell back to<br />
fourth. Polish runner Rafal Matuszczak was the first<br />
to pass the Italian and he held on from a strong<br />
chasing group to take victory. In the girl’s race the<br />
2010 winner Ffion Price took an early lead of<br />
around 40m but the Slovenes and Turkish runner<br />
Remuye Temel pulled her back over the second half<br />
of the first lap.<br />
Ireland has applied to host the next edition in<br />
2012, in the ancient monastic village of<br />
Glendalough in County Wicklow. The event title will<br />
become the International Youth Mountain <strong>Running</strong><br />
Cup.<br />
EXECUTIVES<br />
President: Bruno Gozzelino (ITA)<br />
Treasurer: Nancy Hobbs (USA)<br />
Reserved Position – Women: Galia Puhaleva (BUL)<br />
Director of Marketing: Erhan Basoglu (TUR)<br />
Director of Competition: Raimondo Ballico (ITA)<br />
Director of Development: Tomo Sarf (SLO)<br />
Director of Organisation: Wolfgang Munzel (GER)<br />
CALENDAR<br />
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3rd ACC MR Championships, Obudu Ranch, Nigeria<br />
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Boy’s race winner<br />
Rafal Matuszczak<br />
Result<br />
BOYS’ RACE:<br />
1 Rafal MATUSZCZAK POL 15:01<br />
2 Konstantin GALIULLIN RUS 15:04<br />
3 Marcin ZYCHSKI POL 15:09<br />
4 Nekagenet CRIPPA ITA 15:17<br />
5 Rdion RESHETNIKOV RUS 15:21<br />
BOYS’ TEAMS<br />
1 Poland 16 points<br />
2 Russia 23 points<br />
3 Italy 24 points<br />
[11 countries finished teams]<br />
GIRLS’ RACE:<br />
1 Lea EINFALT SLO 14:06<br />
2 Ekaterina IVONINA RUS 14:18<br />
3 Katja STANONIK SLO 14:27<br />
4 Remuye TEMEL TUR 14:36<br />
5 Ffion PRICE GBR 14:58<br />
GIRLS’ TEAMS<br />
1 Russia 20 points<br />
2 Slovenia 30 points<br />
3 Turkey 31 points<br />
[10 countries finished teams]<br />
Girl’s race winner<br />
Lea Einfalt<br />
Results<br />
17 JULY 2011:<br />
NACAC MOUNTAIN<br />
RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS,<br />
AIJIJC, MEXICO<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Joe GRAY USA 1:16:44<br />
2 Ranulfo SANCHEZ MEX 1:19:06<br />
3 James GOSSELIN CAN 1:21:20<br />
MEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Canada 13 points<br />
2 Mexico 14 points<br />
3 USA 26 points<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Maria DALZOT USA 1:47:04<br />
2 Christian LUNDY USA 1:48:05<br />
3 Amber MORAN USA 1:51:29<br />
WOMEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 USA 6 points<br />
2 Mexico 17 points<br />
Continued on page 81<br />
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WMRA News<br />
Continued from page 79<br />
24 JULY 2011:<br />
3rd WMRA GRAND PRIX RACE<br />
13th Int’l Grintovic MR Race, Kamink, Slovenia<br />
The uphill mountain challenge was in such<br />
difficult conditions that for safety reasons the<br />
course was altered to protect runners from the<br />
severe weather on this exhausting course. David<br />
Schneider and Lucija Krkoc lead the Grand Prix<br />
with 200 points from the three races so far: the<br />
series is decided by the best four races of six.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Ahmed ARSLAN TUR 42:50<br />
2 David SCHNEIDER SUI 44:26<br />
3 Robert KRUPICKA CZE 46:08<br />
4 Simon ALIC SLO 46:32<br />
4 Orlando EDWARDS GBR 47:08<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Lucija KRKOC SLO 55:21<br />
2 Denisa DRAGOMIR ROM 57:06<br />
3 Lauren JESKA GBR 58:38<br />
4 Veronika JURISIC CRO 1:01:26<br />
5 Marion KAPUCINSKY AUT 1:02:56<br />
31 JULY 2011:<br />
4th WMRA GRAND PRIX RACE<br />
3rd HARIKIRI MR RACE,<br />
MAYRHOFEN, AUSTRIA<br />
After nearly two weeks of rain in the eastern Alps<br />
the sun appeared to be the first winner on the<br />
day. As for the previous editions there was a<br />
perfect summer-picnic-feeling in Mayrhofen with<br />
runners from more than 20 nations coming<br />
together to run up Mount Penken.<br />
The silver medallist from last year Azarya<br />
Weldemariam won after a hard fight with the<br />
recently-crowned five-time European Mountain<br />
<strong>Running</strong> Champion Ahmet Arslan.<br />
In the women’s race we had the revenge of the<br />
European Champion as Antonella Confortola kept<br />
in front of Lucija Krkoc.<br />
The 5th Grand Prix event is in Tirane, Albania on<br />
11 September, to be held as a part of the 27th<br />
World MR Championships.<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Azarya WEIDEMARIAM ERI 50:00<br />
2 Ahmet ARSLAN TUR 50:23<br />
3 Geoffey NDUNGU KEN 51:20<br />
4 Isaac KOSGEI KEN 51:45<br />
5 Jonathan WYAT NZL 52:25<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Antonella CONFORTOLA ITA 1:02:50<br />
2 Lucija KRKOC SLO 1:03:32<br />
3 Lisa REISINGER GER 1:03:58<br />
4 Brandy ERHOLTZ USA 1:05:02<br />
5 Susanne MAIR AUT 1:05:34<br />
7 AUGUST 2011:<br />
6TH CONSUDATLE MOUNTAIN<br />
RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011,<br />
CARACAS, VENEZUELA.<br />
The South American championships were held in<br />
the Parque Nacional Warairarepano. among four<br />
nations: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela.<br />
MEN’S 12km RACE<br />
1 Pedro RAMOS ECU 1:00:04<br />
2 Jhon Jairo VARGAS COL 1:00:49<br />
3 Pedro José PUENTES VEN 1:01:17<br />
WOMEN’S 8km RACE:<br />
1 Jaimes MILEYDIS VEN 52:09<br />
2 Yaritza SAAVEDRA VEN 53:52<br />
3 Rosa MENDEZ VEN 57:24<br />
27th World Mountain<br />
<strong>Running</strong> Championships<br />
Tirana, Albania, 11 September 2011<br />
A welcome from the Albanian President and<br />
Minister of Sport was backed up with five<br />
hours of live television covering the opening<br />
ceremony of the first ever world sporting<br />
event to be hosted in Albania.<br />
The athletes’ village in the beach resort of Durres<br />
offered cool accommodation from the oppressive<br />
heat that many struggled with on race day. Albania<br />
has the highest average altitude in Europe - so is a<br />
perfect fitting for the sport of mountain running.<br />
Many struggled in the hot and humid conditions on<br />
a varied and technically demanding course.<br />
The men’s race (13.1km) included 750m of<br />
ascent/descent). Four of the Ugandan team set a<br />
fierce early pace, but five-time European champion<br />
Ahmet Arslan (TUR) and Max King (USA) were<br />
never far behind. The Italian team packed well,<br />
starting steadily but then moving up the field as<br />
the Ugandans started to slow in the midday heat.<br />
Heat exhaustion got the better of the prominent<br />
leader Ayeko as he ground to a halt less than<br />
1000m from the finish. Max King finished fastest<br />
to win from Arslan.<br />
In the women’s race, over 8.8km with 500m<br />
ascent/descent, USA took top honours with Kasie<br />
Enman winning by more than a minute. After<br />
trying to make the American team for the past five<br />
years all of Kasie’s dreams came true on this<br />
poignant date of 9/11. She became a first-time<br />
mother in 2010 and her family were on hand to<br />
cheer her to victory.<br />
Junior Men:<br />
(8.8km, 500m ascent/descent)<br />
The Turkish team attempted to dominate with a<br />
furious start, and had four runners in the top six<br />
after the first climb. Columbian Saul Padua<br />
Rodriguez bided his time on the first lap but<br />
started to force the pace after two laps. Only the<br />
dusty descent allowed Turkey’s Adem Karagoz to<br />
pull away for a comfortable victory. Turkey did<br />
dominate the team category with an impressive 12<br />
points to Poland’s 22 with Italy taking the bronze<br />
medals with 32 points.<br />
Junior Women<br />
4.5km, 250m ascent/descent<br />
Slovenian Lea Einfalt impressed as she took the<br />
world title and led her team-mates to bronze team<br />
medals. Turkey took second and fourth places to<br />
secure the team gold.<br />
Junior men’s<br />
podium<br />
Result<br />
Senior<br />
women’s<br />
podium<br />
MEN:<br />
1 Max KING USA 52:06<br />
2 Ahmet ARSLAN TUR 52:41<br />
3 Martin DEMATTEIS ITA 52:57<br />
4 Bernard DEMATTEIS ITA 54:16<br />
5 Marco DI GASPERI ITA 54:33<br />
MEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Italy 26 points<br />
2 Turkey 65 points<br />
3 France 77 points<br />
WOMEN:<br />
1 Kasie ENMAN USA 40:39<br />
2 Elena RUKHLYADA RUS 41:47<br />
3 Marie-Laure DUMERQUES FRA 42:23<br />
4 Pavia SCHORNA CZE 42:43<br />
5 Lizzie ADAMS GBR 42:55<br />
WOMEN’S TEAMS:<br />
1 Italy 24 points<br />
2 Czech Republic 30 points<br />
3 Great Britain 31 points<br />
JUNIOR MEN:<br />
1 Adem KARAGOZ TUR 37:01<br />
2 Saul A PADUA RODRIGUEZ COL 37:40<br />
3 Murat ORAK TUR 38:05<br />
JUNIOR MEN’s TEAMS:<br />
1 Turkey 12 points<br />
2 Poland 22 points<br />
3 Italy 32 points<br />
JUNIOR WOMEN<br />
1 Lea EINFALT SLO 20:23<br />
2 Yilmaz CESMINAZ TUR 20:36<br />
3 Denisa Ionela DRAGOMIR ROM 20:44<br />
JUNIOR WOMEN’S TEAMS<br />
1 Turkey 6 points<br />
2 Romania 11 points<br />
3 Slovenia 14 points<br />
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World leading times<br />
Joyce Chepkirui<br />
10km Road, Women<br />
Present world best (mixed competition):<br />
Paula Radcliffe (GBR): 30:21.<br />
San Juan, 23 FEB 2003<br />
Present world record (women-only race):<br />
Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR): 30:29.<br />
New York, 08 JUN 2002<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
30:38 Joyce Chepkirui KEN 1 Tilburg 04 SEP<br />
30:43 Chepkirui KEN 1 Appingedam 25 JUN<br />
31:18 Emily Muge Chebet KEN 2 Tilburg 04 SEP<br />
31:26 Doris Changeywo KEN 1 Wurzburg 17 APR<br />
31:27 Esther Chemutai Ndiema KEN 2 Wurzburg 17APR<br />
31:31 Winnie Jepkemboi KEN 1 Utrecht 25 SEP<br />
31:40 Linet Masai KEN 1 New York 11 JUN<br />
31:44 Dire Tune Arissi ETH 1 Ottawa 28 MAY<br />
31:45 Helen Clitheroe GBR 1 Manchester 15 MAY<br />
31:50 Sentayehu Ejigu ETH 1 San Juan 27 FEB<br />
31:51 Arissi ETH 2 San Juan 27 FEB<br />
31:54 Atsede Habtamu ETH 3 San Juan 27 FEB<br />
Other performances:<br />
31:23 Workenesh Kidane ETH 1 Atlanta 04 JUL<br />
31:36 Ayalew Yimer Wude ETH 1 New Orleans 23 APR<br />
10km Road, Men<br />
Present world record:<br />
Leonard Patrick Komon (KEN); 26:44;<br />
Utrecht; 26 SEP 2010<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
27:15 Micah Kogo KEN 1 Brunssum 03 APR<br />
27:19 Geoffrey Mutai KEN 1 Boston 26 JUN<br />
27:26 Mike Kigen KEN 2 Brunssum 03 APR<br />
27:28 Philip Langat KEN 1 Utrecht 25 SEP<br />
27:32 Titus Mbishei KEN 1 Marseille 01 MAY<br />
27:33 Leonard Patrick Komon KEN 1 Wurzburg 17 APR<br />
27:34 Philemon Kimeli Limo KEN 1 Prague 10 SEP<br />
27:35 Sammy Kitwara KEN 1 San Juan 27 FEB<br />
27:35 Limo KEN 2 Marseille 01 MAY<br />
27:35 Komon KEN 1 New York 14 MAY<br />
27:44 Tomothy Kiptoo KEN 2 Utrecht 25 SEP<br />
27:45 Dejene Gebremeskel ETH 2 San Juan 27 FEB<br />
27:46 Atsedu Tsegaye ETH 1 Langueux 25 JUN<br />
27:49 Langat KEN 1 Oelde 10 JUN<br />
27:54 Langat KEN 1 Groesbeek 05 JUN<br />
Latest standings at Marathon,<br />
Half Marathon & 10km<br />
These lists give the current standings in the world of road racing, and are<br />
believed accurate at 30 September 2011. They have been drawn from the<br />
website of the Association of Road Racing Statisticians www.arrs.net and<br />
focus primarily on the Marathon and Half Marathon, as these constitute 75%<br />
and 18% of the AIMS membership respectively.<br />
Half Marathon, Women<br />
Present world best (mixed competition):<br />
Mary Keitany (KEN): 1:05:50. Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB 2011<br />
Present world record (women-only race):<br />
Lornah Kiplagat (NED): 1:05:25. Udine 14 OCT 2007<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
1:05:50 Mary Keitany Chepkosgei KEN 1 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:07:11 Kimberley Smith NZL 1 Philadelphia 18 SEP<br />
1:07:26 Workenesh Kidane ETH 2 Philadelphia 18 SEP<br />
1:07:33 Lydia Cheromei KEN 1 Prague 02 APR<br />
1:07:55 Keitany KEN 1 Lisbon 25 SEP<br />
1:08:07 Sarah Chepchirchir KEN 1 Vitry-sur-Seine 03 APR<br />
1:08:21 Valentine Kipketer Kibet KEN 1 Lille 03 SEP<br />
1:08:22 Filomena Chepchirchir KEN 1 Zwolle 18 JUN<br />
1:08:28 Peninah Arusei KEN 1 Paris 06 MAR<br />
1:08:28 Aberu Kebede Shewaye ETH 1 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:08:32 Fyles Ongori Moraa KEN 2 Paris 06 MAR<br />
1:08:33 Ana Dulce Felix POR 2 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:08:41 Grace Momanyi KEN 3 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:08:44 Feyissa Tadese Boru ETH 1 Rabat 03 APR<br />
1:08:49 Doris Changeywo KEN 2 Rabat 03 APR<br />
1:08:49 Chepchirchir KEN 3 Rabat 03 APR<br />
1:08:52 Dire Tune Arissi ETH 2 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:08:55 Pauline Njeri KEN 4 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:08:57 Mare Dibaba ETH 3 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:08:57 Helena Kiprop KEN 2 Lisbon 25 SEP<br />
1:09:00 Kayoko Fukushi JPN 1 Marugame 06 FEB<br />
1:09:02 Fatuma Sado Dergo ETH 2 Vitry-sur-Seine 03 APR<br />
1:09:04 Rose Cherotich Kosgei KEN 4 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:09:04 Joyce Chepkirui KEN 1 Goteborg 21 MAY<br />
1:09:06 Chepchirchir KEN 1 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
1:09:08 Ines Chenonge KEN 5 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:09:08 Georgina Rono KEN 4 Rabat 03 APR<br />
1:09:10 Aheza Kiros Abeye ETH 3 Paris 06 MAR<br />
1:09:11 Agnes Kiprop KEN 5 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:09:12 Kiprop KEN 1 Usti 18 SEP<br />
1:09:17 Belainesh Zemedken Gebre ETH 2 Prague 02 APR<br />
1:09:33 Kosgei KEN 3 Prague 02 APR<br />
1:09:29 Chepchirchir KEN 1 Glasgow 04 SEP<br />
1:09:35 Hilda Kibet NED 6 RasAl Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:09:36 Kibet NED 2 Glasgow 04 SEP<br />
1:09:41 Dibaba ETH 1 Yangzhou 24 APR<br />
1:09:45 Rose Chelimo KEN 1 Lille 03 SEP<br />
1:09:50 Helena Kirop Loshanyang KEN 6 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
Other performances:<br />
1:07:06 Lucy Kabuu Wangui KEN 1 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
1:07:36 Smith NZL 1 New Orleans 13 FEB<br />
1:08:02 Florence Chebet Kiplagat KEN 1 Klagenfurt 21 AUG<br />
1:08:52 Caroline Rotich Cheptanui KEN 1 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:09:00 Edna Kiplagat KEN 2 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:09:03 Kara Goucher USA 3 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:09:06 Anna Incerti ITA 1 Ostia 27 FEB<br />
1:09:10 Jessica Augusto POR 2 Ostia 27 FEB<br />
1:09:26 Alene Shewarge Amara ETH 4 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:09:27 Augusto POR 2 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
1:09:33 Kidane ETH 5 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:09:34 Jo Pavey GBR 6 New York 20 MAR<br />
* Other performances - Half marathon: Ostia: separation 82%; New York: drop 35m<br />
- 10km: New Orleans: separation 51%<br />
Half Marathon, Men<br />
Present world record:<br />
Zersenay Tadese (ERI); 58:23.<br />
Lisboa; 21 MAR 2010<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
58:30 Zersenay Tadese ERI 1 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
58:46 Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio KEN 1 Philadelphia 18 SEP<br />
58:48 Sammy Kitwara Kirop KEN 2 Philadelphia 18 SEP<br />
59:25 Deribe Merga ETH 1 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
59:30 Philemon Kimeli Limo KEN 1 Prague 02 APR<br />
59:37 Lelisa Desisa ETH 1 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
59:39 Azmiraw Bekele Molalign ETH 2 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
59:40 Peter Kirui Cheruiyot KEN 3 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
59:42 Ayele Abshiro ETH 4 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
59:42 Dino Sefir Kemal ETH 1 Vitry-sur-Seine 03 APR<br />
59:43 Tujuba Beyu Mergesa ETH 2 Vitry-sur-Seine 03 APR<br />
59:44 Lucas Kimeli Rotich KEN 5 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
59:45 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego KEN 2 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
59:52 Leonard Langat KEN 3 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:00:00 Deribe Deme Hailegiorgis ETH 1 Verbiana 06 MAR<br />
1:00:01 James Kwambai KEN 6 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
1:00:02 Geoffrey Kipsang KEN 1 Lille 03 SEP<br />
1:00:03 Shume Gerbada Eticha ETH 2 Verbiana 06 MAR<br />
1:00:03 Kisorio KEN 1 Milan 27 MAR<br />
1:00:04 Pius Maiyo Kiprop KEN 3 Verbiana 06 MAR<br />
1:00:06 Levi Matebo Omari KEN 1 Nice 17 APR<br />
1:00:09 Kipyego KEN 2 Lille 03 SEP<br />
1:00:10 John Kiprotich Chemisto KEN 4 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:00:18 Haile Gebreselasie ETH 1 Vienna 18 APR<br />
1:00:20 Eric Ndiema KEN 2 Milan 27 MAR<br />
1:00:20 Stephen Kibet KEN 1 Udine 25 SEP<br />
1:00:23 Stanley Kipleting Biwott KEN 1 Azkoitia 26 MAR<br />
1:00:23 Stephen Kibiwott Kipkoech KEN 3 Lille 03 SEP<br />
1:00:25 Hailegiorgis ETH 3 Milan 27 MAR<br />
1:00:26 Kitwara KEN 7 Den Haag 13 MAR<br />
1:00:29 Mark Kiptoo Kosgei KEN 2 Azkoitia 26 MAR<br />
1:00:30 John Mwangangi KEN 2 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:00:32 Molalign ETH 1 Alicante 23 JAN<br />
1:00:35 Molalign ETH 2 Prague 02 APR<br />
1:00:38 Silas Sang KEN 3 Lisbon 20 MAR<br />
1:00:38 Kipsang KEN 1 Berlin 02 APR<br />
1:00:40 Kiptoo KEN 2 Alicante 23 JAN<br />
1:00:40 Titus Masai KEN 5 Ras Al Khaimah 18 FEB<br />
1:00:40 Peter Chesang Kurui KEN 4 Milan 27 MAR<br />
1:00:40 Masai KEN 3 Prague 02 APR<br />
Other performances:<br />
58:56 Martin Irungu Mathathi KEN 1 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
59:27 Jonathan Maiyo Kiplimo KEN 2 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
59:52 Emmanuel Mutai KEN 3 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
59:58 Mergesa ETH 1 Ostia 27 FEB<br />
1:00:03 Micah Kogo KEN 4 South Shields 18 SEP<br />
1:00:05 Joel Kimurer Kemboi KEN 2 Ostia 27 FEB<br />
1:00:07 Abraham Chebii KEN 3 Ostia 27 FEB<br />
1:00:23 Mo Farah GBR 1 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:00:25 Gebre Gebremariam Egziabher ETH 2 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:00:30 Galen Rupp USA 3 New York 20 MAR<br />
1:00:36 Tesfaye Girma Bekele ETH 4 New York 20 MAR<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 83
World leading times<br />
Marathon, Men<br />
Present world record:<br />
Haile Gebrselassie (ETH); 2:03:59; Berlin; 28 SEP 2008<br />
Pending world record:<br />
Patrick Makau (KEN); 2:03:38; Berlin, 25 SEP 2011<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
2:03:38 Patrick Makau KEN 1 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:04:40 Emanuel Mutai KEN 1 London 17 APR<br />
2:05:27 Wilson Chebet KEN 1 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:05:33 Vincent Kipruto KEN 2 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:05:45 Martin Lel KEN 2 London 17 APR<br />
2:05:45 Makau KEN 3 London 17 APR<br />
2:06:13 Wilson Kipsang KEN 1 Otsu 06 MAR<br />
2:06:31 Benjamin Kiptoo KEN 1 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:06:34 Marilson Gomes BRA 4 London 17 APR<br />
2:07:04 Bekana Daba ETH 1 Houston 30 JAN<br />
2:07:07 Benson Barus KEN 1 Prague 08 MAY<br />
2:07:16 Bernard Kiprop Kipyego KEN 2 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:07:18 David Barmasai Tumo KEN 1 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:07:20 Stephen Kiprotich UGA 1 Enschede 17 APR<br />
2:07:31 Levi Matebo KEN 1 Barcelona 06 MAR<br />
2:07:33 Eshetu Wondimu ETH 3 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:07:35 Hailu Mekonnen Legesse ETH 1 Tokyo 27 FEB<br />
2:07:36 Kenneth Mburu Mungara KEN 2 Prague 08 MAY<br />
2:07:38 Abel Kirui KEN 1 Daegu 04 SEP<br />
2:07:41 Alfred Kering KEN 4 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:07:43 Girma Assefa Reta ETH 5 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:07:47 Samuel Kiplimo Kosgei KEN 3 Prague 08 MAY<br />
2:07:48 Tsegay Kebede ETH 5 London 17 APR<br />
2:07:55 Stephen Chemlany KEN 2 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:08:02 Stephen Chebogut KEN 6 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:08:07 Robert Kipchumba Kipkorir KEN 1 Xiamen 02 JAN<br />
2:08:08 Yusef Songoka KEN 1 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:08:17 Evans Cheruiyot KEN 2 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:08:17 Paul Biwott KEN 2 Tokyo 27 FEB<br />
2:08:17 Sammy Kibet Kipoorir KEN 1 Warsaw 25 SEP<br />
Marathon, Women<br />
Present world best (mixed competition):<br />
Paula Radcliffe (GBR): 2:15:25 London, 13 APR 2003<br />
Present world record (women-only race):<br />
Paula Radcliffe (GBR): 2:17:42 London, 17 APR 2005<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
2:08:17 Hillary Kimaiyo KEN 1 Torreon 06 MAR<br />
2:08:18 Abdellah Falil MAR 2 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:08:22 Henry Sugut KEN 7 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:08:26 Jaouad Gharib MAR 6 London 17 APR<br />
2:08:29 John Kiprotich KEN 1 Vienna 17 APR<br />
2:08:37 Yuki Kawauchi JPN 3 Tokyo 27 FEB<br />
2:08:41 Patrick Ivuti KEN 2 Vienna 17 APR<br />
2:08:42 Abderrahim Bouramdhane MAR 7 London 17 APR<br />
2:08:45 Dickson Kiptolo Chumba KEN 1 Rome 20 MAR<br />
2:08:47 Chala Dechase ETH 3 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:08:53 Leonard Mucheru KEN 3 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:08:54 Wondimu ETH 3 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:09:03 Yoshinori Oda JPN 4 Tokyo 27 FEB<br />
2:09:08 Chimsa Edae ETH 4 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:09:08 Eliud Kiptanui KEN 4 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:09:10 Cyrus Njubi Gichobi KEN 5 Tokyo 27 FEB<br />
2:09:11 Abderrahim Goumri MAR 1 Seoul 20 MAR<br />
2:09:13 Deribe Merga ETH 2 Otsu 06 MAR<br />
2:09:16 Albert Matebor KEN 1 Verona 20 FEB<br />
2:09:20 Haile Gemeda Haja ETH 4 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:09:21 Siraj Gena Amda ETH 2 Rome 20 MAR<br />
2:09:22 Evans Kiplagat KEN 3 Vienna 17 APR<br />
2:09:25 Hiroyuki Horibata JPN 3 Otsu 06 MAR<br />
2:09:25 Felix Keny KEN 5 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:09:25 Lusapho April RSA 1 Hannover 08 MAY<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
2:09:27 Steven Kibet KEN 5 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:09:28 Jin-Hyeong Jeong KOR 2 Seoul 20 MAR<br />
2:09:31 Kentaro Nakamoto JPN 4 Otsu 06 MAR<br />
2:09:35 Dmitriy Safronov RUS 8 London 17 APR<br />
2:09:35 Peter Chesang Kurui KEN 2 Hannover 08 MAY<br />
2:09:36 Alemayehu Shumye ETH 5 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:09:37 Nixon Kipkoech KEN 1 Linz 10 APR<br />
2:09:42 Abdullah Dawit ETH 3 Rome 20 MAR<br />
2:09:42 Rachid Kishri MAR 4 Prague 08 MAY<br />
2:09:43 Isaac Macharia KEN 4 Vienna 17 APR<br />
Other performances:<br />
2:03:02 Geoffrey Mutai KEN 1 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:03:06 Moses Mosop KEN 2 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:04:53 Gebre Gebremariam Egziabher ETH 3 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:04:58 Ryan Hall USA 4 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:06:13 Abraham Cherkos Feleke ETH 5 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:06:35 Markos Geneti ETH 1 Los Angeles 20 MAR<br />
2:06:43 Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot KEN 6 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:07:10 Philip Kimutai Sanga KEN 7 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:07:39 Deresse Chimsa ETH 8 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:08:03 Daba ETH 9 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:08:44 Kipkorir KEN 10 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:09:02 Tadesse Arede Toleda ETH 1 Padova 17 APR<br />
2:09:26 Nicholas Manza Kamacha KEN 2 Los Angeles 20 MAR<br />
2:09:26 Benjamin Kipruto Chebet KEN 2 Pafova 17 APR<br />
Patrick Makau,<br />
Berlin, 25 SEP 2011<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
2:19:19 Mary Keitany KEN 1 London 17 APR<br />
2:19:44 Florence Kiplagat KEN 1 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:20:15 Liliya Shobukhova RUS 2 London 17 APR<br />
2:20:46 Edna Kiplagat KEN 3 London 17 APR<br />
2:22:18 Irina Mikitenko GER 2 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:22:34 Lydia Cheromei KEN 1 Prague 08 MAY<br />
2:22:45 Aselefech Mergia ETH 1 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:22:55 Priscilla Cheptoo KEN 1 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:23:01 Cheromei KEN 2 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:23:41 Isabella Andersson SWE 3 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:23:42 Bizunesh Bekele ETH 4 London 17 APR<br />
2:23:46 Paula Radcliffe GBR 3 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:23:50 Atseda Baysa ETH 5 London 17 APR<br />
2:23:56 Yoshimi Ozaki JPN 1 Yokohama 20 FEB<br />
2:24:09 Yukiko Akaba JPN 6 London 17 APR<br />
2:24:13 Firehiwot Dado ETH 1 Rome 20 MAR<br />
2:24:20 Fyles Ongori Moraa KEN 1 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:24:24 Mikitenko GER 7 London 17 APR<br />
2:24:25 Atsede Habtamu ETH 4 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:24:26 Habtamu ETH 4 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:24:27 Hilda Kibet NED 2 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:24:29 Remi Nakazato JPN 2 Yokohama 20 FEB<br />
2:24:33 Jessica Augusto POR 8 London 17 APR<br />
2:24:34 Aberu Kebede ETH 9 London 17 APR<br />
2:24:43 Agnes Kiprop KEN 2 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:25:01 Tatiana Petrova RUS 5 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:25:04 Elisa Marisa Barros POR 3 Yokohama 20 FEB<br />
2:25:08 Baysa ETH 5 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:25:18 Mariya Konovalova RUS 10 London 17 APR<br />
2:25:24 Askale Tafa Magarsa ETH 11 London 17 APR<br />
TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE TIME ATHLETE NATION RANK VENUE DATE<br />
2:25:29 Azusa Nojiri JPN 12 London 17 APR<br />
2:35:31 Anna Incerti ITA 6 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:25:40 Yoshiko Fujinaga JPN 13 London 17 APR<br />
2:25:52 Habtamu ETH 1 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:26:04 Yeshi Esayias Tesemma ETH 2 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:26:10 Rosaria Console ITA 7 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:26:12 Jia-li Wang CHN 1 Dalian 30 APR<br />
2:26:21 Goitetom Haftu Tesema ETH 2 Rome 20 MAR<br />
2:26:21 Gelete Fate Tola ETH 1 Vienna 17 APR<br />
2:26:28 Xiao-lin Zhu CHN 14 London 17 APR<br />
2:26:29 Akaba JPN 1 Osaka 30 JAN<br />
2:26:30 Ana Dulce Felix POR 2 Vienna 17 APR<br />
2:26:31 Inga Abitova RUS 15 London 17 APR<br />
2:26:33 Mamitu Daska ETH 1 Houston 30 JAN<br />
2:26:33 Alemitu Abera ETH 3 Daegu 10 APR<br />
2:26:33 Valeria Straneo ITA 8 Berlin 25 SEP<br />
2:26:41 Ji-e Wei CHN 1 Zhengzhou 27 MAR<br />
2:26:49 Rong Chen CHN 2 Dalian 30 APR<br />
2:26:51 Robe Tola Guta ETH 1 Seoul 20 MAR<br />
2:26:53 Diana Chepkemoi KEN 6 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:26:54 Noriko Matsuoka JPN 16 London 17 APR<br />
2:26:55 Mai Ito JPN 2 Osaka 30 JAN<br />
2:26:56 Koren Yal ETH 1 Mumbai 16 JAN<br />
2:26:56 Lishan Dula BRN 3 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:26:57 Merima Mohammed ETH 2 Mumbai 16 Jan<br />
2:26:57 Yal ETH 3 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:26:58 Kaoru Nagao JPN 4 Yokohama 20 FEB<br />
2:27:00 Alessandra Aguilar ESP 4 Rotterdam 10 APR<br />
2:27:02 Eyerusalem Kuma ETH 4 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:27:02 Madai Perez MEX 17 London 17 APR<br />
2:27:07 Margarita Plaksina RUS 5 Paris 10 APR<br />
2:27:13 Genet Getaneh ETH 7 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:27:13 Ya-nan Wei CHN 2 Seoul 20 MAR<br />
2:27:15 Kidane ETH 8 Dubai 21 JAN<br />
2:27:16 Karolina Jarzynska POL 5 Yokohama 20 FEB<br />
Other performances<br />
2:22:36 Caroline Cheptonui Kilel KEN 1 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:22:38 Desiree Davila USA 2 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:22:42 Sharon Cherop Chemutai KEN 3 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:23:31 Bizunesh Deba ETH 1 San Diego 05 JUN<br />
2:24:46 Caroline Rotich KEN 4 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:24:52 Kara Goucher USA 5 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:25:08 Dire Tune Arissi ETH 6 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:26:15 Workenesh Kidane ETH 7 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:26:17 Yolanda Caballero COL 8 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:26:34 Deba ETH 1 Los Angeles 20 MAR<br />
2:26:34 Alice Timbilili KEN 9 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:27:00 Yuliya Ruban UKR 10 Boston 18 APR<br />
2:27:01 Helena Kirop KEN 2 San Diego 05 JUN<br />
2:27:03 Amy Hastings USA 2 Los Angeles 20 MAR<br />
* Other performances - Marathon: Boston: separation 91%, drop 135m; San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll: drop 86m (2m/km) Los Angeles: separation 60%, drop 122m (2.9m/km)<br />
<strong>Distance</strong> <strong>Running</strong> | 2011 Edition 4 85
Race contact details<br />
Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org<br />
ALGERIA<br />
Sahara Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
James E. B. Carney<br />
P.O. Box 455, Marshall, VA 20116, USA<br />
T: 703 969 0049<br />
F: 503 905 9526<br />
E: saharamarathon@aol.com<br />
www.saharamarathon.org<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
ANGOLA<br />
São Silvestre de Luanda 10k<br />
DEC<br />
Carlos Rosa de Souza<br />
Complexo Cidadela Desportiva, Senado da<br />
Camara, BP 2541, Luanda<br />
T: 244 923 395804<br />
F: 244 222 339377<br />
E: crabreluz@gmail.com<br />
www.saosilvestreluanda.com<br />
ANTARCTICA<br />
Antarctica Marathon & Half<br />
MAR<br />
Thom Gilligan<br />
C-5 Shipway Place, Boston, MA 02129<br />
T: 1 617 242 7845<br />
F: 1 617 242 7686<br />
E: info@marathontours.com<br />
www.antarcticamarathon.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k NOV<br />
Richard Donovan<br />
Polar <strong>Running</strong> Adventures, 95 Rosan Glas,<br />
Rahoon Road, Galway, Ireland<br />
T: 353 91 44 3408<br />
F: 353 91 44 3408<br />
E: rd@npmarathon.com<br />
www.icemarathon.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
ARGENTINA<br />
Maratón Int’l de la<br />
Ciudad de Buenos Aires<br />
OCT<br />
Carlos Saez<br />
Medrano 1260 CP (C1179aax), Ciudad<br />
Autónoma de Buenos Aires<br />
T: 5411 4867 3400<br />
E: info@maratondebuenosaires.com<br />
www.maratondebuenosaires.com<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
*Australian Outback Marathon JUL<br />
Michael Walton<br />
PO Box 583, Terrigal, NSW 2260<br />
T: 61 2 4385 2455<br />
F: 61 2 4385 2476<br />
E: michael.walton@travellingfit.com<br />
www.australianoutbackmarathon.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Blackmores Sydney <strong>Running</strong><br />
Festival (incl.) Sydney Marathon SEP<br />
Wayne Larden<br />
Locked Bag 1596, Strawberry Hills,<br />
NSW 2010<br />
T: 61 2 9282 0400<br />
F: 61 2 9282 0499<br />
E: info@sydneyrunningfestival.org<br />
www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au<br />
Gold Coast Airport Marathon<br />
JUL<br />
Cameron Hart<br />
PO Box 4920, Gold Coast Mail Centre,<br />
QLD, 9726<br />
T: 61 07 5668 9888<br />
F: 61 07 5668 9899<br />
E: info@goldcoastmarathon.com.au<br />
www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au<br />
Bank of Melbourne<br />
Marathon Festival<br />
OCT<br />
Greg Hooton<br />
c/o level 3, 480 St Kilda Road, Melbourne,<br />
Victoria 3004<br />
T: 61 3 9864 1138<br />
F: 61 3 9864 1190<br />
E: enquiries@melbournemarathon.com.au<br />
www.melbournemarathon.com.au<br />
Westlink M7 Cities Marathon<br />
JUL<br />
Mark Gibson (Blacktown City Council)<br />
PO Box 63, Blacktown, NSW, 2148<br />
T: 61 2 9839 6075<br />
F: 61 2 9839 6389<br />
E: mark.gibson@blacktown.nsw.gov.au<br />
www.wm7citiesmarathon.com.au<br />
AUSTRIA<br />
Int’l WACHAUmarathon<br />
SEP<br />
Mag. Michael Buchleitner<br />
Babenbergerstrasse 22,<br />
A-2345 Brunn am Gebirge<br />
T: 43 2236 379095 0<br />
F: 43 2236 379095 5<br />
E: office@wachaumarathon.com<br />
www.wachaumarathon.com<br />
Sparkasse 3 Country<br />
Marathon & Half<br />
OCT<br />
Guenther Ernst<br />
Sparkassenplatz 1, 6900 Bregenz<br />
T: 43 66 4100 8278<br />
E: info@sparkasse-marathon.at<br />
www.sparkasse-marathon.com<br />
Vienna City Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Wolfgang Konrad<br />
Enterprise Sport Promotion GmbH,<br />
Gußhausstraße 21/19, 1040 Wien<br />
T: 43 1 606 95 10<br />
F: 43 1 606 95 10 40<br />
E: office@vienna-marathon.com<br />
www.vienna-marathon.com<br />
BAHAMAS<br />
Marathon Bahamas, Half & Relay JAN<br />
Veronica Duncanson<br />
P.O. Box N3180, Nassau, Bahamas<br />
T: 1 242 394 0012 / 502 6538<br />
F: 1 242 394 3101 / 0019<br />
E: info@marathonbahamas.com<br />
www.marathonbahamas.com<br />
BARBADOS<br />
Run Barbados Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Winston Carter<br />
Barbardos Tourism Authority, Harbour Road,<br />
St. Michael, P.O. Box 242 Bridgetown<br />
T: 246 427 2623<br />
F: 246 426 4080<br />
E: sportsbarbados@usa.net<br />
www.runbarbados.org<br />
BELGIUM<br />
DVV Antwerp Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Greg Broekmans<br />
Schoebroekstraat, 8, 3583 Paal-Beringen<br />
T: 32 11 45 99 99<br />
F: 32 11 45 99 10<br />
E: greg.broekmans@golazo.com<br />
www.dvvantwerpmarathon.be<br />
Brussels Marathon & Half<br />
OCT<br />
Christophe Impens<br />
Schoebroekstraat 8, 3583 Paal-Beringen<br />
T: 32 11 45 99 99<br />
F: 32 11 45 99 10<br />
E: greg.broekmans@golazo.com<br />
www.brusselsmarathon.be<br />
BOSNIA<br />
Vidovdan 10km Road Race<br />
JUN<br />
Borislav Djurdjevic<br />
Brace Ribnikar 17, 76100 Brcko<br />
T: 387 49 217 771<br />
F: 387 49 217 771<br />
E: mpc1@teol.net<br />
www.vidovdanskatrka.org<br />
BOTSWANA<br />
*Gaborone City Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Thola Magang<br />
PGM Foundation, P.O. Box 132, Gaborone<br />
T: 267 395 3711<br />
F: 267 350 0232<br />
E: tmagang@phakalane.co.bw<br />
www.gaboronecitymarathon.com<br />
BRAZIL<br />
10k Rio Pan-American Race<br />
NOV<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.10krio.com.br<br />
City of Rio de Janeiro Marathon JUL<br />
Joao Traven<br />
Rua Felix Pacheco 150 Bldg C Apt. 102,<br />
Leblon 22450-080<br />
T: 55 21 222 33 073<br />
F: 55 21 222 32 773<br />
E: traven@spiridon.com.br<br />
www.maratonadorio.com.br<br />
Corrida de Sao Sebastiao 10km JAN<br />
Joao Traven<br />
Rua Felix Pacheco 150 BL C-Apt 102,<br />
Leblon, Rio - RJ<br />
T: 55 21 2223 2773<br />
F: 55 21 2223 3073<br />
E: spiridon@spiridon.com.br<br />
www.corridadesaosebastiao.com.br<br />
Pampulha Lagoon Int’l Race<br />
DEC<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.yescom.com.br<br />
Rio De Janeiro Half Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.yescom.com.br<br />
São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.yescom.com.br<br />
São Paulo Int’l<br />
Half Marathon Corpore<br />
APR<br />
Octavio Jose Aronis<br />
Rua Bento De Andrade, 436,<br />
Cep 04503-001 - Sao Paulo - SP<br />
T: 55 11 3884 4188<br />
F: 55 11 3885 0213<br />
E: corpore@corpore.org.br<br />
www.corpore.org.br<br />
São Paulo Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.yescom.com.br<br />
São Silvestre Int’l Road Race<br />
DEC<br />
Thadeus Kassabian<br />
Alameda Amazonas, 938 first floor,<br />
Barueri - SP, CEP 06454-070<br />
T: 55 11 4208 7633<br />
F: 55 11 4208 7286<br />
E: tgk@yescom.com.br<br />
www.yescom.com.br<br />
CAMBODIA<br />
Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon DEC<br />
Muy Lath<br />
# 44 Ceoc, st. 410 Sangkat Toul Tompoung<br />
I, Khan Chamkar Morn, Phnom Penh<br />
T: 855 16 628 788<br />
F: 855 23 221 802<br />
E: coop@angkormarathon.org<br />
www.angkormarathon.org<br />
*Sihanoukville International<br />
Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Mr. Sem Phalla<br />
#79CE0, St. 155 corner st.<br />
476 Sangkat Toul Tompoung I,<br />
Khan Chamkar Morn, PNH<br />
T: 885 23 213 525<br />
F: 855 23 216 296<br />
E: direct@cambodia-events.org,<br />
info@cambodia-events.org<br />
www.cambodia-events.org<br />
CANADA<br />
BMO Okanagan Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Tom Keogh<br />
9750 47 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6E 5P3<br />
T: 1 780 504 0005<br />
F: 1 888 240 2469<br />
E: info@okanaganmarathon.ca<br />
www.okanaganmarathon.ca<br />
BMO Vancouver Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Andrea Eby<br />
PO BOX 3213, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3X8<br />
T: 1 604 872 2928<br />
F: 1 604 872 2903<br />
E: info@bmovanmarathon.ca<br />
www.bmovanmarathon.ca<br />
Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon MAY<br />
Jay Glassman<br />
450 Walmer Road, Suite 412, Toronto,<br />
ON, M5P 2X8<br />
T: 1 416 972 1062<br />
F: 1 416 972 1238<br />
E: info@torontomarathon.com<br />
www.torontomarathon.com<br />
Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon OCT<br />
Rob Reid<br />
P.O. Box 675, 185-911 Yates Street,<br />
Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 4Y9<br />
T: 1 250 658 4520<br />
F: 1 250 658 4280<br />
E: info@runvictoriamarathon.com<br />
www.runvictoriamarathon.com<br />
Intact Insurance Canadian Derby<br />
Edmonton Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Tom Keogh<br />
9750 47 Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6E 5P3<br />
T: 1 780 504 0005<br />
F: 1 888 240 2469<br />
E: info@edmontonmarathon.ca<br />
www.edmontonmarathon.ca<br />
Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Jim R. Ralston<br />
5300 Willmott Street,<br />
Niagara Falls, Ontario, L2E 2A7<br />
T: 1 905 356 9460<br />
F: 1 905 356 7156<br />
E: racedirector@niagarafallsmarathon.com<br />
www.niagarafallsmarathon.com<br />
*Northwest Passage<br />
Marathon & 55km<br />
JUL<br />
Richard Weber<br />
363 Pritchard Road, Alcove,<br />
Québec J0X 1A0<br />
T: 1 819 459 1794<br />
E: mail@CanadianArcticHolidays.ca<br />
www.canadianarcticholidays.ca/<br />
northwest_passage_marathon.html<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Ottawa Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Jim Robinson<br />
PO Box 426, Stn A, Ottawa, Ontario<br />
T: 1 613 234 2221<br />
F: 1 613 234 5880<br />
E: info@runottawa.ca<br />
www.runottawa.ca<br />
Scotiabank Calgary<br />
Marathon & Half<br />
MAY<br />
Helen Kolodziejzyk<br />
PO Box 296, Stn M, Calgary,<br />
Alberta T2P 2H9<br />
T: 1 403 264 2996<br />
F: 1 403 251 9070<br />
E: info@calgarymarathon.com<br />
www.calgarymarathon.com<br />
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront<br />
Marathon & Half Marathon & 5k OCT<br />
Alan Brookes<br />
260 The Esplanade, Toronto, ON, M5A 4J6<br />
T: 1 416 944 2765 x510<br />
F: 1 416 944 8527<br />
E: sabrina@canadarunningseries.com<br />
www.TorontoWaterfrontMarathon.com<br />
Scotiabank Vancouver<br />
Half-Marathon & 5k<br />
JUN<br />
Clifton Cunningham<br />
176-1917 W 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC,<br />
V6J 1M7<br />
T: 1 778 786 3116<br />
F: 1 778 786 3117<br />
E: svhm@canadarunningseries.com<br />
www.vancouverhalf.com<br />
SSQ Quebec City Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Denis Therrien<br />
711 rue des Rocailles, Quebec City, QC,<br />
Canada G2J 1A9<br />
T: 1 418 694 4442<br />
F: 1 418 694 4441<br />
E: info@marathonquebec.com<br />
www.quebecmarathon.com<br />
Vancouver Sun Run 10km<br />
APR<br />
Jamie Pitblado<br />
1-200 Granville St, Vancouver BC, V6C 3N3<br />
T: 1 604 605 2316<br />
F: 1 604 605 2342<br />
E: jpitblado@png.canwest.com<br />
www.sunrun.com<br />
CAYMAN ISLANDS<br />
Cayman Islands Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Rhonda Kelly<br />
PO BOX 2712 GT, Grand Cayman<br />
T: 1 345 946 8822<br />
F: 1 345 946 8811<br />
E: rhonda@kellyholding.com<br />
www.caymanislandsmarathon.com<br />
CHILE<br />
mds – Maratón de Santiago<br />
APR<br />
Fernando Jamarne<br />
El Regidor 66, 10th Floor, Las Condes,<br />
Santiago<br />
T: 562 787 6012<br />
F: 562 787 6076<br />
E: fjamarne@alessandri.cl<br />
www.maratondesantiago.com,<br />
www.fedachi.cl<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
CHINA<br />
Beijing Int’l Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Wang Dawei<br />
Chinese Athletic Association,<br />
2 Tiyuguan Road, 100763 Beijing<br />
T: 86 10 8718 3441<br />
F: 86 10 6714 0801<br />
E: chn@athletics.com<br />
www.beijing-marathon.com<br />
Dalian Int’l Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Sun Xinsheng<br />
KDalian Sports Bureau, 66 Wusi Road,<br />
Xigang District, Dalian<br />
T: 86 411 8368 2293<br />
F: 86 411 8368 2693<br />
E: kouzhengjie@sina.com<br />
www.tyj.dl.gov.cn/2007<br />
The Great Wall Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Dave Cundy<br />
Head Office, Room A-2-1201, Fenghua<br />
Square, No.6 Guanganmennei Street,<br />
Beijing, 100053<br />
T: 86 10 635 52521 / 685 12395<br />
F: 86 10 635 53573<br />
E: grace.li@great-wall-marathon.com.cn,<br />
kent.wang@great-wall-marathon.com.cn<br />
www.great-wall-marathon.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Hangzhou Int’l Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Michelle Hsia<br />
Rm 701, China Lifetower, Chaoyang<br />
District, Beijing<br />
T: 86 10 8525 1200<br />
F: 86 10 8525 1789<br />
E: hzjinyiqun@126.com<br />
www.hangzhoumarathon.com<br />
Toray Cup Shanghai Int’l Marathon DEC<br />
Zhenwei Bu<br />
Room 602 & 603, Dongya Building,<br />
1500 Zhongshan Er Rd(S), Shanghi 200030<br />
T: 86 21 6428 5971<br />
F: 86 21 6481 1020<br />
E: shmarathon@126.com<br />
www.shmarathon.com<br />
Xiamen Int’l Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Yu Zhenjie<br />
No. 2 Tiyu Road, Xiamen<br />
T: 86 592 511 4853<br />
F: 82 592 512 1241<br />
E: xmmarathon@126.com<br />
www.xmim.org<br />
CHINESE TAIPEI<br />
*Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Sunny Chen<br />
Room 206/2F, No 55, Chang Ji Street,<br />
Datong District<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: sunny@sportsnet.org.tw,<br />
queenie@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
Kinmen Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Woon Kong Lee, Queenie Juang<br />
PO Box 47-110 Taipei<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: aspire@sportsnet.org.tw,<br />
queenie@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
Taroko Gorge Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Woon Kong Lee<br />
PO Box 47-110 Taipei<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: aspire@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
Tainan Ancient Capital Marathon JAN<br />
Woon Kong Lee, Queenie Juang<br />
PO Box 47-110 Taipei<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: aspire@sportsnet.org.tw,<br />
queenie@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
Fubon Taipei Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Woon Kong Lee, Queenie Juang<br />
PO Box 47-110 Taipei<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: aspire@sportsnet.org.tw,<br />
queenie@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
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*Yangmingshan Cross-country Race JUL<br />
Sunny Chen<br />
Room 206/2F, No 55, Chang Ji Street,<br />
Datong District, Taipei<br />
T: 886 2 2585 5659<br />
F: 886 2 2599 6716<br />
E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw<br />
www.sportsnet.org.tw<br />
COLOMBIA<br />
Media Maratón Int’l de Bogotá JUL<br />
Martha Santos<br />
Calle 93B No.15 - 34 Oficina 207-208,<br />
Bogota<br />
T: 57 1 257 3107<br />
F: 57 1 257 3107<br />
E: msantos@correcaminoscolombia.com<br />
www.correcaminoscolombia.com<br />
Media Maratón Int’l<br />
Ciudad de Medellin<br />
SEP<br />
Gustavo Orozco Posada<br />
Calle 49B, nro 63-21, Oficina 507, Edificio<br />
Camacol, Medellin<br />
T: 574 230 4872<br />
F: 574 230 3688<br />
E: direccion@maratonmedellin.com<br />
www.maratonmedellin.com<br />
COSTA RICA<br />
10k Costa Rica<br />
SEP<br />
Guillermo Saenz<br />
7-0230 - 1000 San José<br />
T: 506 22 22 0804 / 506 22 32 7411 /<br />
506 83 54 6000<br />
F: 506 22 32 4543<br />
E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com<br />
www.marathoncostarica.com<br />
Costa Rica Marathon & Half<br />
DEC<br />
Guillermo Saenz<br />
7-0230 - 1000 San José<br />
T: 506 22 22 0804 / 506 22 32 7411 /<br />
506 83 54 6000<br />
F: 506 22 32 4543<br />
E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com<br />
www.marathoncostarica.com<br />
*Correcaminos<br />
Half Marathon & 10km<br />
JUL<br />
Gustavo Alvarez<br />
Calle 3, Avenida 13, Barrio Amón, Thrifty<br />
Car Rental, San José<br />
T: 506 22 23 5193<br />
F: 506 22 56 3097<br />
E: info@correcaminoscr.com<br />
www.correcaminoscr.com/2011<br />
CROATIA<br />
Zagreb Marathon & Half<br />
OCT<br />
Franjo Kordic<br />
UlicaGrada Vukovara 284, 10000 Zagreb<br />
T: 385 1 6398 586<br />
F: 385 1 6398 564<br />
E: zagrebacki.atletski.savez@zg.t-com.hr<br />
www.z-as.hr<br />
Varazdinski Polumarathon<br />
SEP<br />
Krunoslav Borovec<br />
TK Marathon 95 - Varazdin, Gornji Kucan,<br />
Varazdinska 73, 42000 Varazdin<br />
T: 385 42 641 705<br />
F: 385 42 400 402<br />
E: krunoslav@gmail.com<br />
www.marathon95.hr<br />
CUBA<br />
Marabana Marathon & Half<br />
NOV<br />
Carlos R. Gattorno Correa<br />
Ciudad Deportiva,<br />
Apartado 5130 La Habana<br />
T: 53 7 6410911 / 53 7 6410953<br />
F: 53 7 204 1914<br />
E: marabana@inder.cu<br />
www.inder.cu/marabana<br />
CYPRUS<br />
Cyprus Aphrodite Half Marathon NOV<br />
P.O. Box 28167, 2091 Strovolos, Nicosia<br />
T: 357 224 2 0559<br />
F: 357 224 2 0559<br />
E: runclub@cytanet.com.cy<br />
www.runclub.com.cy<br />
Limassol Marathon GSO<br />
MAR<br />
Spyros Spyrou<br />
Omonoias 38, 3052, Limassol<br />
T: 357 25880102<br />
F: 357 25571664<br />
E: info@limassolmarathon.com<br />
www.limassolmarathon.com<br />
Quantum Nicosia Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Evangelos Papostoulou<br />
Akti Themistokleous 58, Piraeus 185 37,<br />
Greece<br />
T: 30 697 588 8926<br />
F: 30 210 453 2460<br />
E: epapostolou@nicosiamarathon.com<br />
www.nicosiamarathon.com<br />
CZECH REPUBLIC<br />
Hervis Prague Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Carlo Capalbo<br />
Záhořanského 3, Prague 2, 12000<br />
T: 420 224 919 209<br />
F: 420 224 923 355<br />
E: marathon@pim.cz<br />
www.praguemarathon.com<br />
Pardubice Wine Half Marathon APR<br />
Oldřich Bujnoch<br />
Topolská 739, 537 05 Chrudim<br />
T: 420 602 490 127<br />
E: oldrichbujnoch@seznam.cz<br />
www.winehalfmaraton.cz<br />
Volkswagen Olomouc Half Marathon JUN<br />
Jan Dopita<br />
Záhořanského 3, Prague 2, 12000<br />
T: 420 224 919 209<br />
F: 420 224 923 355<br />
E: dopita@pim.cz<br />
www.olomouchalfmarathon.com<br />
Mattoni Prague Grand Prix - Metro<br />
10k Race & adidas Women’s 5k SEP<br />
Václav Skřivánek<br />
Záhořanského 3, Prague 2, 12000<br />
T: 420 224 919 209<br />
F: 420 224 923 355<br />
E: skrivanek@pim.cz<br />
www.praguemarathon.com<br />
*Volkswagen Usti Half Marathon SEP<br />
Carlo Capalbo<br />
Záhořanského 3, Prague 2, 12000<br />
T: 420 224 919 209<br />
F: 420 224 923 355<br />
E: info@ustihalfmarathon.com<br />
www.ustihalfmarathon.com<br />
Volkswagen Prague Marathon MAY<br />
Carlo Capalbo<br />
Záhořanského 3, Prague 2, 12000<br />
T: 420 224 919 209<br />
F: 420 224 923 355<br />
E: info@praguemarathon.com<br />
www.praguemarathon.com<br />
DENMARK<br />
Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon MAY<br />
Niels Jorgen Holdt<br />
Gunner Nu Hansens Plads 11,<br />
DK 2100 KBH, Copenhagen<br />
T: 45 35 26 69 00<br />
E: vibjerg@sparta.dk<br />
www.copenhagenmarathon.dk<br />
H.C. Andersen Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Torben Simonsen<br />
Gråbrødre Plads 3, 1 DK - 5000 Odense C<br />
T: 45 3059 2444<br />
E: ts@hcamarathon.dk<br />
www.hcamarathon.dk<br />
Powerade Copenhagen<br />
Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Niels Jorgen Holdt / Dorte Vibjerg<br />
Sparta Løbskontor, Gunnar Nu Hansens<br />
Plads 11, DK-2100 Copenhagen<br />
T: 45 35 26 69 00<br />
E: vibjerg@sparta.dk<br />
www.copenhagenhalfmarathon.dk<br />
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC<br />
*Las Terrenas 10k<br />
MAR<br />
Alma Arellano Campos<br />
Calle Principal, Plaza Taína, Las Terrenas,<br />
Samaná 3200<br />
T: 1 809 769 7267<br />
F: 1 809 240 6776<br />
E: info@lasterrenasmarathon.com<br />
www.lasterrenasmarathon.com<br />
Punta Cana Half Marathon & 10k APR<br />
Desde el medio tours,<br />
Punta Cana, La 23000<br />
T: 1 809 472 4422<br />
F: 1 809 616 2762<br />
E: info@puntacanamarathon.com<br />
www.puntacanamarathon.com<br />
ECUADOR<br />
Guayaquil Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Diego Maruri<br />
DM3, Centro de Convenciones Simón<br />
Bolivar, Ofc.9-B, Guayaquil, Ecuador<br />
T: 593 4 228 1063<br />
F: 593 4 228 1060<br />
E: diegomaruri@dm3.com<br />
www.dm3.com<br />
La Ruta de las Iglesias<br />
AUG<br />
Samia Solah, Nina Solah<br />
Juan de Ascaray 355 y Amazonas, Quito<br />
T: 593 2244 8850<br />
F: 593 2 244 8857<br />
E: samia@tventas.net, nsolah@tventas.net<br />
www.rutadelasiglesias.com<br />
Quito 21k Mitad del Mundo<br />
NOV<br />
Marialuz Arellano<br />
Av. de los Shyris N34-108 y<br />
Republica del Salvador<br />
T: 593 9 9803237<br />
F: 593 9 26003310<br />
E: marialuzarellano@sportime.com.ec<br />
www.quito21k.com<br />
Carrera Quito<br />
Ultimas Noticias 15K<br />
JUN<br />
Pablo Gonzalez Peña<br />
Av. Pedro Vicente Maldonado 11515, Quito<br />
T: 593 2 2670 999<br />
F: 593 2 2670 214 (ext.2340)<br />
E: pgonzalez@elcomercio.com<br />
www.ultimasnoticias.ec/homeUN.asp<br />
Maraton De Quito<br />
JUL<br />
Hipatia Puente T<br />
Gonzalez Suarez 869, Edificio Casabella,<br />
Apt. 9W<br />
T: 593 2 2552414<br />
E: maraton.uio@zerolimites.org<br />
www.maratondequito.com<br />
EGYPT<br />
Egyptian Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Gasser Riad<br />
Event Sports, 1/4 Anwer El-Mofty St.<br />
(Area No.1), Nasr City, Cairo<br />
T: 202 2260 69 30<br />
F: 202 2260 69 32<br />
E: info@egyptianmarathon.net<br />
www.egyptianmarathon.com<br />
*Egyptian Red Sea Marathon & Half MAR<br />
Tarek Moshref<br />
Pronto Tours, Salah Salem St. 1, Ard El<br />
Gamiea, Cairo<br />
T: 202 2531 5781 / 202 2531 7581<br />
F: 202 2532 2094<br />
E: info@prontotours.com.eg<br />
www.redseamarathon.prontotours.com.eg<br />
Pharaonic 100km<br />
NOV<br />
Gasser Riad<br />
Event Sports, 1/4 Anwer El-Mofty St.<br />
(Area No.1), Nasr City, Cairo<br />
T: 202 2260 69 30<br />
F: 202 2260 69 32<br />
E: info@egyptianmarathon.net<br />
www.egyptianmarathon.com<br />
Sharm El Sheikh Half Marathon NOV<br />
Francesco Nazzaro<br />
start Line club, Corso di Francia, 213,<br />
00191 Rome, Italy<br />
T: 39 06 639 0135<br />
F: 39 06 3991 8460<br />
E: info@sharmarathon.com<br />
www.sharmelsheikhhalfmarathon.com<br />
St Catherine Int’l Marathon & Half DEC<br />
Tarek Moshref<br />
Pronto Tours, Salah Salem St. 1, Ard El<br />
Gamiea, Cairo<br />
T: 202 2531 5781 / 202 2531 7581<br />
F: 202 2532 2094<br />
E: info@prontotours.com.eg<br />
www.catherinemarathon.com<br />
*El Gouna Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Dr. Ahmed M. El Ashker<br />
Uferweg 1, 6022 Grosswangen, Switzerland<br />
T: 41 41 980 45 88<br />
F: 41 41 980 40 70<br />
E: info@elgouna-marathon.com<br />
www.elgouna-marathon.com<br />
ESTONIA<br />
SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half & 10k SEP<br />
Mati Lilliallik<br />
Spordiurituste Korraldamise Klubi,<br />
Parnu Street 142a 11317 Tallinn<br />
T: 372 654 8462<br />
F: 372 654 8401<br />
E: info@tallinnmarathon.ee<br />
www.tallinnmarathon.ee<br />
ETHIOPIA<br />
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia<br />
Great Ethiopian Run<br />
NOV<br />
Ermias Ayele<br />
Bole Road, Alem Bld #2 Room 302,<br />
P.O. Box 26905 Code 1000, Addis Ababa<br />
T: 251 11 663 36 46<br />
F: 251 11 662 78 76<br />
E: ermias@ethiopianrun.org<br />
www.ethiopianrun.org<br />
FALKLAND ISLANDS<br />
Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon MAR<br />
Barbara Keenleyside<br />
Standard Chartered Bank,<br />
Ross Road, Stanley<br />
T: 500 22220<br />
F: 500 22219<br />
E: bank.info@sc.com<br />
www.standardchartered.com/fk/marathon<br />
FAROE ISLANDS<br />
Torshavn Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Robert Vilhelmsen<br />
Box 3004, 110 Torshavn<br />
T: 298 230240<br />
E: info@torshavnmarathon.com<br />
www.torshavnmarathon.com<br />
FINLAND<br />
Helsinki City Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Pertti Raunio<br />
Finnish Athletics Federation, Radiokatu 20,<br />
00240 Helsinki<br />
T: 358 9 3481 2405<br />
F: 358 9 3481 2367<br />
E: maraton@sul.fi<br />
www.helsinkicitymarathon.com<br />
Paavo Nurmi Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Jari Salonen<br />
Turun Urheiluliitto Urheilupuisto, Paavo<br />
Nurmen Stadion, 20810 Turku<br />
T: 358 2 431 0810<br />
F: 358 2 431 0812<br />
E: info@paavonurmisports.com<br />
www.paavonurmisports.com<br />
Rovaniemi Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Olli Tiuraniemi<br />
Piisivalkeantie 15, 96100 Rovaniemi<br />
T: 358 400 695418<br />
E: olli.tiuraniemi@ulapland.fi<br />
www.rovaniemimarathon.com<br />
Ruska Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Pekka Erikkson<br />
Valtatie 15, 99100 Kittila<br />
T: 358 400 808 784<br />
F: 358 16 642 259<br />
E: pekka.eriksson@kittila.fi<br />
www.ruskamaraton.com<br />
Santa Claus Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Mr. Rauno Riekkinen<br />
Kivirinne 16, 96910 Rovaniemi<br />
T: 358 403 44 7775<br />
F: 358 403 44 7771<br />
E: info@santaclausmarathon.com<br />
www.santaclausmarathon.com<br />
Terwamarathon<br />
MAY<br />
Asko Vääräniemi<br />
Notaarintie 3 B 27, 90650 Oulu<br />
T: 358 405 06 8803<br />
E: asko.vaaraniemi@elisanet.fi<br />
www.terwamaraton.fi/english<br />
FRANCE<br />
Marathon des Alpes<br />
Maritimes Nice-Cannes<br />
NOV<br />
Matthieu Etancelin<br />
Azur Sport Organisation,<br />
16 bvd Pape Jean XXIII, 06300 Nice<br />
T: 33 4 93 26 19 12<br />
F: 33 4 93 26 19 34<br />
E: mail@azur-sport.org<br />
www.marathon06.com<br />
Serge Vigot La Rochelle<br />
Int’l Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Mauny Nicolas<br />
B.P. 97, 17004 La Rochelle, Cedex 01<br />
T: 33 5 46 44 42 19<br />
F: 33 5 46 45 09 04<br />
E: info@marathondelarochelle.com<br />
www.marathondelarochelle.com<br />
Semi Marathon Int’l de Nice<br />
APR<br />
Matthieu Etancelin<br />
Azur Sport Organisation,<br />
16 bd. Pape Jean XXIII, 06300 Nice<br />
T: 33 4 93 26 19 88<br />
F: 33 4 93 26 19 34<br />
E: communication@azur-sport.org<br />
www.nicesemimarathon.com<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
Paris Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Joël Laine<br />
Amaury Sport Organisation, Immeuble<br />
Panorama B, 253 quai de la Bataille de<br />
Stalingrad, 92137 Issy les Moulineaux<br />
Cedex<br />
T: 33 1 41 33 15 68<br />
F: 33 1 41 33 14 74<br />
E: infos@parismarathon.com<br />
www.parismarathon.com<br />
Semi Marathon de Paris<br />
MAR<br />
Joel Laine<br />
ASO, Immeuble Panorama - 253, rue de la<br />
Bataille de Stalingrad - 92137 Issy les<br />
Moulineaux Cedex<br />
T: 33 1 41 33 14 77<br />
F: 33 1 41 33 14 29<br />
E: infos@parismarathon.com<br />
www.semideparis.com<br />
St Denis Half Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Thierry Vernay / Antonio Agostinho<br />
34 rue la Boulangerie, 93200, St Denis<br />
T: 33 1 48 20 56 81 / 33 06 81 63 53 82<br />
F: 33 1 49 22 01 74<br />
E: info@wanago.com<br />
www.saint-denis-marathon.com<br />
GERMANY<br />
Vattenfall Berliner Halbmarathon APR<br />
Mark Milde<br />
Hanns Braun Straße, Adlerplatz,<br />
14053 Berlin<br />
T: 49 30 301 288 10<br />
F: 49 30 301 288 20<br />
E: info@berlin-marathon.com<br />
www.scc-events.com<br />
BMW Berlin Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Mark Milde<br />
Hanns Braun Straße, Adlerplatz,<br />
14053 Berlin<br />
T: 49 30 301 288 10<br />
F: 49 30 301 288 20<br />
E: info@berlin-marathon.com<br />
www.scc-events.com<br />
BIG 25 Berlin<br />
MAY<br />
Gerhard Janetzky<br />
Berlin laeuft! GmbH, Olympischer Platz 5,<br />
14053 Berlin<br />
T: 49 30 243 199 77<br />
F: 49 30 243 199 99<br />
E: info@berlin-laeuft.de<br />
www.berlin-runs.com<br />
BMW Frankfurt Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Jo Schindler<br />
Sonnemannstr 5, 60314 Frankfurt<br />
T: 49 69 370 0468 0<br />
F: 49 69 370 0468 11<br />
E: mail@frankfurt-marathon.com<br />
www.frankfurt-marathon.com<br />
Cologne Marathon & Half<br />
presented by Sparkasse KölnBonn OCT<br />
Markus Frisch<br />
Peter-Günther-Weg, Radstadion/Sportpark<br />
Mungersdorf, 50933 Cologne (Köln)<br />
T: 49 221 33 77 73 11<br />
F: 49 221 58 94 233<br />
E: info@koeln-marathon.de<br />
www.koeln-marathon.de<br />
iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg<br />
MAY<br />
Guenter Herrmann<br />
Domweg 12, 97084, Wuerzburg<br />
T: 49 931 65616<br />
F: 49 936 65619<br />
E: g.herrmann@wuerzburg-marathon.de<br />
www.wuerzburg-marathon.de<br />
Haspa Marathon Hamburg<br />
APR<br />
Marathon Hamburg Veranstaltungs GmbH,<br />
Alsterdorfer Straße 262, 22297 Hamburg<br />
T: 49 1805 77 17 60<br />
www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de<br />
METRO GROUP<br />
Marathon Düsseldorf<br />
APR<br />
Jan Winschermann<br />
Faunastrasse 3, D-40239 Düsseldorf<br />
T: 49 211 610190-0<br />
F: 49 211 610190-20<br />
E: info@metrogroup-marathon.de<br />
www.metrogroup-marathon.de<br />
Munich Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Gernot Weigl<br />
Boschetsrieder Straße 69, 81379 München<br />
T: 49 89 170 95570<br />
F: 49 89 170 95572<br />
E: s.richter@run-about.de<br />
www.muenchenmarathon.de<br />
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GREAT BRITAIN<br />
Baxters Loch Ness Marathon<br />
& Festival of <strong>Running</strong><br />
OCT / SEP<br />
Malcolm Sutherland<br />
PO Box 26, Muir of Ord IV6 7WZ<br />
T: 44 844 875 1411<br />
F: 44 1463 897990<br />
E: info@lochnessmarathon.com<br />
www.lochnessmarathon.com<br />
Bristol Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
c/o FRsystems, PO Box 512, Cheadle,<br />
Stoke on Trent ST10 4RJ<br />
T: 44 178 239 6113<br />
F: 44 117 922 3744<br />
E: bristol@frsystems.co.uk<br />
www.bristolhalfmarathon.com<br />
Edinburgh Marathon Festival<br />
MAY<br />
Neil Kilgour<br />
GSi Events, North Berwick Business Centre,<br />
Melbourne Place, North Berwick EH39 4JS<br />
T: 44 1620 890 444<br />
F: 44 1620 890 787<br />
E: info@gsi-events.com<br />
www.edinburgh-marathon.com<br />
Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run SEP<br />
Gavin Lightwood<br />
c/o FR Systems, Unit 30, Blythe Business<br />
Base, Cresswell, Stoke on Trent, ST11 9RD<br />
T: 44 845 270 0166<br />
E: glasgow@frsystems.co.uk<br />
www.runglasgow.org<br />
GREECE<br />
Athens Classic Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Evangelos Papapostolou<br />
137, Syngrou Avenue, 17121 Nea Smirni,<br />
Athens<br />
T: 30 210 931 5886 / 0 210 933 1113<br />
F: 30 210 933 1152<br />
E: info@athensclassicmarathon.gr<br />
www.athensclassicmarathon.gr<br />
Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great APR<br />
George Konstantopoulos<br />
Kaftanzoglio National Stadium, Extension of<br />
Agiou Dimitriou Street, Zip Code 54638<br />
T: 30 6944 269962<br />
F: 30 2310 200361<br />
E: info@atgm.gr<br />
www.atgm.gr<br />
HONG KONG, CHINA<br />
China Coast Marathon & Half<br />
JAN<br />
Catherine Leonard<br />
AVOHK, P.O. Box 28893,<br />
Gloucester Road Post Office, Wanchai<br />
T: 852 9038 5460<br />
E: catherineavohk@gmail.com<br />
www.avohk.org<br />
Mizuno Hong Kong<br />
Half-Marathon Championships JAN<br />
Alan Wong Kim Lun<br />
Rm 2015, Olympic House, 1 Stadium Path,<br />
So Kon Po, Causeway Bay<br />
T: 852 2504 8215<br />
F: 852 2577 5392<br />
E: inquiry@hkaaa.com<br />
www.hkaaa.com<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Hong Kong Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
William Ko<br />
Unit 1103, Sunbeam Plaza,<br />
1155 Canton Road, Mongkok<br />
T: 852 2367 6648<br />
F: 852 2367 6166<br />
E: hkmarathon@hkaaa.com<br />
www.hkmarathon.com<br />
UNICEF Charity Run<br />
Half Marathon & 10km<br />
NOV<br />
Kenneth Lau<br />
3/F, 60 Blue Pool Road, Happy Valley<br />
T: 852 2833 6139 / 852 2836 2921<br />
F: 852 2834 0996<br />
E: klau@unicef.org.hk<br />
http://run.unicef.org.hk<br />
HUNGARY<br />
Nike Budapest Int’l Half Marathon SEP<br />
Árpád Kocsis<br />
1138 Budapest, Váci út 152-156<br />
T: 36 1 273 0939<br />
F: 36 1 273 0936<br />
E: budapest.run@futanet.hu<br />
www.budapestmarathon.com<br />
Spar Budapest Int’l Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Árpád Kocsis<br />
1138 Budapest, Váci út 152-156<br />
T: 36 1 273 0939<br />
F: 36 1 273 0936<br />
E: budapest.run@futanet.hu<br />
www.budapestmarathon.com<br />
ICELAND<br />
Reykjavík Marathon Íslandsbanka AUG<br />
Svava Oddný Ásgeirsdóttir<br />
Engjavegur 6, 104 Reykjavík<br />
T: 354 535 3700<br />
F: 354 568 7566<br />
E: marathon@marathon.is<br />
www.marathon.is<br />
INDIA<br />
Airtel Delhi Half Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Hugh Jones<br />
Procam International, 14, St. James Court,<br />
Marine Drive, Mumbai - 400 020<br />
T: 91 22 2202 0284<br />
F: 91 22 2202 5112<br />
E: vivek@procam.in<br />
www.procamrunning.in<br />
Hyderabad 10k Run<br />
NOV<br />
Uma Chigurupati<br />
Plot No. 512/M, Road No. 31, Jubilee Hills,<br />
Hyderabad - 500033<br />
T: 91 40 6676 0000<br />
F: 91 40 2311 5145<br />
E: umachig@gmail.com<br />
www.hyderabad10k.com<br />
Hyderabad Heritage Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Uma Chigurupati<br />
Plot No. 512/M, Road No. 31, Jubilee Hills,<br />
Hyderabad - 500033<br />
T: 91 40 6676 0000<br />
F: 91 40 2311 5145<br />
E: umachig@gmail.com<br />
www.hyderabadheritagemarathon.com<br />
*Navi Mumbai Barefoot<br />
Half Marathon<br />
NOV / DEC<br />
Anand Anantharaman<br />
31 / 502, Seawoods Estates, Nerul, Navi<br />
Mumbai – 400 706<br />
T: 91 98198 35921<br />
E: info@barefootrunnersindia.org<br />
www.barefootrunnersindia.org<br />
Poona Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Mr. Pralhad M. Savant<br />
Sharayu, Patrakar Nagar, Senapati Bapat<br />
Road, Pune - 411 016, Maharashtra<br />
T: 91 20 2444 8360<br />
F: 91 20 2444 8390<br />
E: Marathonpune@yahoo.com<br />
www.marathonpune.com<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Mumbai Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Hugh Jones<br />
Procam International,<br />
14, St. James Court,<br />
Marine Drive, Mumbai - 400 020<br />
T: 91 22 2202 0284<br />
F: 91 22 2202 5112<br />
E: vivek@procam.in<br />
www.procamrunning.in<br />
World 10k Bangalore<br />
MAY<br />
Hugh Jones<br />
Procam International, 14, St. James Court,<br />
Marine Drive, Mumbai - 400 020<br />
T: 91 22 2202 0284<br />
F: 91 22 2202 5112<br />
E: vivek@procam.in<br />
www.procamintl.com<br />
*Vadodara Half Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Amit Bhatnagar<br />
c/o Diamond Power Infrastructure Ltd, 5/9<br />
BIDC, Gorwa, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390002<br />
T: 91 982 5006811<br />
F: 91 265 2284006<br />
E: abhatnagar@dicabs.com<br />
www.vadodaramarathon.com<br />
IRELAND<br />
Cork City Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Jim O’Donovan<br />
Cork City Hall, Cork<br />
T: 353 21 492 4105<br />
F: 353 21 492 4074<br />
E: jim_odonovan@corkcity.ie<br />
www.corkcitymarathon.ie<br />
Galway City Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Richard Donovan<br />
Galway City Marathon, No. 2 Atlanta House,<br />
Dominick Street, Galway<br />
T: 353 91 566077<br />
E: info@galwaycitymarathon.com<br />
www.galwaycitymarathon.com<br />
National Lottery Dublin Marathon OCT<br />
Jim Aughney<br />
Donore Harriers Sports, Complex,<br />
Chapelizod, Dublin 20<br />
T: 353 1 623 2250<br />
F: 353 1 626 3757<br />
E: office@dublinmarathon.ie<br />
www.dublinmarathon.ie<br />
Longford Marathon<br />
Fr Ciaran McGovern<br />
Newtownforbes, Longford, Co Longford<br />
T: 353 43 334 6805<br />
E: info@longfordmarathon.com<br />
www.longfordmarathon.com<br />
*Portumna Marathon,<br />
Ultra & 100km<br />
Sebastien Locteau<br />
49 The Glade, Athenry, Co. Galway<br />
T: 353 857 350 850<br />
E: staff@sebfitness.com<br />
www.sebfitness.com<br />
ISRAEL<br />
Tiberias Marathon<br />
Jack Cohen,<br />
Israeli Athletic Association, 10 Shitrit St,<br />
Tel Aviv, 89482<br />
T: 972 3 648 6256<br />
F: 972 3 648 6255<br />
E: iaa@zahav.net.il<br />
www.tiberias-marathon.co.il<br />
Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k<br />
Simon Avraham<br />
Sport Department, 10 Safra Square,<br />
Jerusalem 91007<br />
T: 972 2 629 6542<br />
F: 972 2 629 7452 / 972 2 629 7411<br />
E: marathon@jerusalem.muni.il<br />
www.jerusalem-marathon.com<br />
*Tel Aviv Marathon<br />
Ofer Shytrit “Kapaim”<br />
1 Hahagana St. Givatayin, Israel 53449<br />
T: 972 3 571 1575<br />
F: 972 3 571 1574<br />
E: tlvmaraton.international@gmail.com<br />
www.tlvmarathon.co.il<br />
ITALY<br />
Firenze Marathon<br />
Giancarlo Romiti<br />
Organizzazione Firenze Marathon<br />
Viale Manfredo Fanti, 2 Firenze 50137<br />
T: 39 055 5522 957<br />
F: 39 055 5536 823<br />
E: direzione@firenzemarathon.it<br />
www.firenzemarathon.it<br />
Giuseppe Verdi Country<br />
Marathon & Half<br />
Giancarlo Chittolini<br />
Via Adhemar 2, 43039 Salsomaggiore,<br />
Terme, Parma<br />
T: 39 0524 580211<br />
F: 39 0524 580219<br />
E: pietrospino@virgilio.it<br />
www.verdimarathon.it<br />
Garda Trentino Half Marathon<br />
Poli Sandro<br />
Via Vittorio Veneto 20/A, 38062 Arco (TN)<br />
T: Mobile 339 6467887 /<br />
Office 0464 583268<br />
F: 390 464 5209 00<br />
E: event@trentinoevents.it<br />
www.trentinoevents.it<br />
Maratona d’Italia<br />
memorial Enzo Ferrari<br />
Cristiana Barbolini<br />
Via Lago Maggiore, 13, 41012 Carpi (MO)<br />
T: 39 059 650297<br />
F: 39 059 651330<br />
E: info@maratonaditalia.it<br />
www.maratonaditalia.it<br />
Lago Maggiore Half Marathon<br />
Paolo Ottone<br />
Sport PRO-MOTION A.S.D.,<br />
Via Marconi, 3 - 28831 Baveno (VB)<br />
T: 39 0323 919861<br />
F: 39 0323 922761<br />
E: info@pro-motion.it<br />
www.lmhm.it<br />
*Lago Maggiore Marathon<br />
Paolo Ottone<br />
Sport PRO-MOTION A.S.D.,<br />
Via Marconi, 3 - 28831 Baveno (VB)<br />
T: 39 0323 919861<br />
F. 39 0323 922761<br />
E: info@pro-motion.it<br />
www.lagomaggioremarathon.com<br />
Maratona d’Europa<br />
Enrico Benedetti<br />
Via San Nicolo 7, 34121 Trieste (TS)<br />
T: 39 040 410 399<br />
F: 39 040 418 634<br />
E: info@bavisela.it<br />
www.bavisela.it<br />
AUG<br />
JUN<br />
JAN<br />
MAR<br />
MAR<br />
NOV<br />
FEB<br />
NOV<br />
OCT<br />
MAR<br />
OCT<br />
MAY<br />
Maratona di Roma<br />
MAR<br />
Enrico Castrucci<br />
Viale Battista Bardanzellu 65, 00155 Rome<br />
T: 39 06 40 65 064<br />
F: 39 06 40 65 063<br />
E: info@maratonadiroma.it<br />
www.maratonadiroma.it<br />
Pisa Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Andrea Maggini<br />
P.O. Box 79 - PPTT Pisa Centro,<br />
56125 Pisa<br />
T: 39 050 888000<br />
F: 39 050 503119<br />
E: maggini@pisamarathon.it<br />
www.pisamarathon.it<br />
Maratona S. Antonio<br />
APR<br />
Silvana Santi<br />
Via E. P. Masini 2, 35131 Padova<br />
T: 39 049 822 7114<br />
F: 39 049 822 7164<br />
E: info@maratonasantantonio.com<br />
www.maratonasantantonio.com<br />
Milano City Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Andrea Trabuio<br />
Rcs Sport, via San Marco 21, 20121 Milano<br />
T: 39 02 6282 7562<br />
F: 39 02 6282 8186<br />
E: info@milanocitymarathon.it<br />
www.milanocitymarathon.it<br />
Treviso Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Fernanda Rasera<br />
Via Martiri delle Foibe18/b, 31015<br />
Conegliano (Tv)<br />
T: 39 043 841 3255<br />
F: 39 043 841 3475<br />
E: segreteria@trevisomarathon.com<br />
www.trevisomarathon.com<br />
Turin Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Luigi Chiabrera<br />
Cascina Marchesa, C.so Regina Margherita<br />
371, 10151 Torino<br />
T: 39 011 455 9959<br />
F: 39 011 407 6054<br />
E: info@turinmarathon.it<br />
www.turinmarathon.it<br />
Turin Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Luigi Chiabrera<br />
Cascina Marchesa, C.so Regina Margherita<br />
371, 10151 Torino<br />
T: 39 011 455 9959<br />
F: 39 011 407 6054<br />
E: info@turinmarathon.it<br />
www.turinmarathon.it<br />
Maratonina Citta Di Udine<br />
SEP<br />
Paolo Bordon<br />
Viale Trieste 141, 33100 Udine<br />
T: 390 432 501612<br />
F: 390 432 299674<br />
E: info@maratoninadiudine.it<br />
www.maratoninadiudine.it<br />
Venice Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Piero Rosa Salva<br />
A.S.D. Venicemarathon Club, Via Linghindal<br />
5/5, 30172 Mestre Venice<br />
T: 39 041 532 1871<br />
F: 39 041 532 1879<br />
E: info@venicemarathon.it<br />
www.venicemarathon.it<br />
JAMAICA<br />
Reggae Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Alfred Francis<br />
87-89 Tower Street, Kingston<br />
T: 1 876 922 8677<br />
F: 1 876 922 0155<br />
E: racedirector@reggaemarathon.com<br />
www.reggaemarathon.com<br />
JAPAN<br />
Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon FEB<br />
Mr Megumi Furuichi<br />
Mainichi-Shinbun, Beppu-Oita Mainichi<br />
Marathon Office, 13-1, Konya-machi,<br />
Kokurakita-ku, Kita Kyushu-city (802-8651),<br />
Fukuoka<br />
T: 81 93 511 1119<br />
F: 81 93 541 8239<br />
E: furuichi-m@mainichi.co.jp<br />
Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon<br />
Championship<br />
DEC<br />
Hiroaki Chosa<br />
Japan Association of Athletics Federations,<br />
1-1-1 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8050<br />
T: 81 3 3481 2300<br />
F: 81 3 3481 2449<br />
E: jaaf@rikuren.or.jp<br />
www.asahi.com/fukuoka-marathon<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
Hokkaido Marathon<br />
AUG<br />
Seiji Teramachi<br />
The Hokkaido Marathon Secretariat, The<br />
Hokkaido Shimubun Press, Nishi-3, Odori,<br />
Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8711<br />
T: 81 11 232 0840<br />
F: 81 11 210 5734<br />
E: t-seig@hokkaido-np.co.jp<br />
www.hokkaido-marathon.com<br />
Kagawa Marugame<br />
Int’l Half Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Tetsuji Araj<br />
Marugame Shimin Gymnastics, 924-1,<br />
Kanakura-cho, Marugame-shi, Kagawa-pref<br />
763 0053<br />
T: 81 877 24 6274<br />
F: 81 877 24 7966<br />
E: marugame-half@aroma.ocn.ne.jp<br />
www.km-half.com<br />
Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon MAR<br />
Izumi Matsumoto<br />
The Mainichi Newspapers Osaka Office,<br />
3-4-5 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8251<br />
T: 81 6 6346 8249<br />
F: 81 6 6346 8372<br />
E: jigyoubu@pearl.ocn.ne.jp<br />
www.lakebiwa-marathon.com<br />
Lake Kawaguchi Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Nikkan Sports Press<br />
c/o Sports Information Centre Co., Ltd.,<br />
502 Bureau Shimbashi Bldg, 5-7-13,<br />
Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-004<br />
T: 81 3 5733 2451<br />
F: 81 3 5733 2452<br />
E: m.koike@sports-info.co.jp<br />
www.sports-info.co.jp<br />
Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon JUN<br />
Jiro Hashimoto<br />
2-4-12 Jingumae, Sibuya-ku,<br />
Tokyo 150-0001<br />
T: 81 3 5771 7907<br />
F: 81 3 3405 8496<br />
E: saroma@runners.co.jp<br />
www.runnet.co.jp<br />
Nagoya Women’s Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Kosuke Sakakibara<br />
1-6-1, Sannomaru, Naka-ku, Nagoya<br />
T: 81 52 201 1560<br />
F: 81 52 201 1561<br />
E: sakkbr.k@chunichi.co.jp<br />
www.marathon-festival.com<br />
*Nara Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Syougo Arai<br />
4-1-1 Houren Sahoyama, Nara City,<br />
Nara Prefecture<br />
T: 81 742 23 7870<br />
F: 81 742 23 7877<br />
E: naramarason@ion.ocn.ne.jp<br />
www.nara-marathon.jp<br />
Olympic Commemorative<br />
Nagano Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Takehumi Oonishi<br />
1-3-8 Hakoshimizu, Nagano City, 380-0801<br />
T: 81 26 252 7687<br />
F: 81 26 234 6381<br />
E: info@naganomarathon.gr.jp<br />
www.naganomarathon.gr.jp<br />
Ohme-Hochi<br />
30km Road Race (& 10km)<br />
FEB<br />
Daijiro Asahara<br />
Publicity & Promotion Dept, 4-6-49 Kohnan,<br />
Minato-Ku, Tokyo 108-8485<br />
T: 81 3 5479 1294<br />
F: 81 3 5479 1155<br />
E: event@hochi.co.jp<br />
www.ohme-marathon.jp<br />
Osaka Int’l Ladies’ Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Mitsumasa Matsumoto<br />
KTV, 2-1-7, Ogimachi, Kita-ku,<br />
Osaka 530-8408<br />
T: 81 6 6314 8277<br />
F: 81 6 6314 8549<br />
E: mm-matsumoto@ktv.co.jp<br />
Osaka Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Hiroshi Yokokawa<br />
14-16 nanko-kita1,<br />
suminoe-Ward Osaka City<br />
T: 81 6 6210 9317<br />
F: 81 6 6210 9318<br />
E: ichiroT@osaka-marathon.com<br />
www.osaka-marathon.com/2011/index_en.html<br />
Tokyo Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Tad Hayano<br />
2-8-1- Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku,<br />
Tokyo 163 8001<br />
T: 81 3 3 5320 6894<br />
F: 81 3 3 5388 1739<br />
E: hayano@tokyo42195.org<br />
www.tokyo42195.com<br />
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Yokohama Women’s Marathon NOV<br />
Keisuke Sawaki<br />
Jinnan 1-1-1,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo<br />
T: 81 3 3481 2300<br />
F: 81 3 3481 2449<br />
www.yokohamawomensmarathon.com<br />
JORDAN<br />
Aqaba Marathon (Red Sea)<br />
DEC<br />
Ghazi Farouk<br />
5 Hussain El Jesser Street, Shemesani,<br />
Amman<br />
T: 962 6 567 7660<br />
F: 962 6 566 0296<br />
E: registration@deadseamarathon.com<br />
www.deadseamarathon.com<br />
Dead Sea Ultramarathon<br />
APR<br />
Ghazi Farouk<br />
5 Hussain El Jesser Street, Shemesani,<br />
Amman<br />
T: 962 6 567 7660<br />
F: 962 6 566 0296<br />
E: registration@deadseamarathon.com<br />
www.deadseamarathon.com<br />
*Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon OCT<br />
Lina El Kurd<br />
Amman International Marathon Company,<br />
P.O. Box 941001 Amman 11194<br />
T: 962 6 566 2999<br />
F: 962 6 566 0038<br />
E: l.kurd@amman-marathon.com<br />
www.amman-marathon.com<br />
KENYA<br />
Sotokoto Safari Half Marathon<br />
JUL<br />
Douglas Wakihuri<br />
PO Box 27767-00506, Nairobi, Kenya<br />
T: 254 20 252 6978 / 9<br />
F: 254 20 252 6977<br />
E: info@sotokotomarathon.co.ke<br />
www.sotokotosafarimarathon.co.ke<br />
Standard Chartered Nairobi<br />
Marathon and Half<br />
OCT<br />
John Velzian<br />
PO Box 328, Sarit Centre, Nairobi<br />
T: 254 2086 0186<br />
E: johnrdc@africaonline.co.ke<br />
www.nairobimarathon.com<br />
KOREA<br />
Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon<br />
Int’l Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
The Chosunilbo Daily, Eunji Lee<br />
61, 1-ga, Taepyeongno, Jung-gu, Seoul,<br />
South Korea<br />
T: 82 2 724 6314<br />
F: 82 2 724 6309<br />
E: marathon@chosun.com<br />
www.marathon.chosun.com<br />
*Daegu Int’l Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Suk-Joon Chang<br />
Gosungdong 3-ga bu8k-gu,<br />
Daegu 702-073<br />
T: 82 53 358 3261~2<br />
F: 82 53 354 0491<br />
E: daegu@sports.or.kr<br />
www.marathon.daegusports.or.kr<br />
Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju<br />
Int’l Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Wha-Kyung Choi<br />
139 Sejongno, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-715<br />
T: 82 2 2020 0311<br />
F: 82 2 2020 1639<br />
E: marathon@donga.com<br />
www.marathon.donga.com/gyeongju.html<br />
*Goyang Int’l Women’s<br />
Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Young Ho-Ryu<br />
2-6 Sunhwa-dong, Jung-gu,<br />
Seoul, 100-732<br />
T: 82 2 2000 6489<br />
F: 82 2 2000 6399<br />
E: rungoyang@joongang.co.kr<br />
www.rungoyang.com<br />
Incheon Int’l Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Jaeyoung Kwak<br />
#222, Jungbongno, 4-ga, Hong-dong,<br />
Jung-gu, Incheon<br />
T: 82 32 452 0197<br />
F: 82 32 763 8828<br />
E: tingi@naver.com<br />
www.incheonmarathon.co.kr<br />
Seoul Int’l Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Joong San Ahn,<br />
7th Floor, Dong - A Ilbo, 139 Sejongno,<br />
Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-715<br />
T: 82 2 2020 0708<br />
F: 82 2 2020 1639<br />
E: marathon@donga.com<br />
www.seoul-marathon.com<br />
JoongAng Seoul Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
JoongAng Culture Media<br />
7 Soonhwa-dong, Chung-ku Seoul,<br />
100-759 Korea<br />
T: 82 2 751 9685<br />
F: 82 2 751 9625<br />
E: marathon@joongang.co.kr<br />
marathon.joins.com<br />
LATVIA<br />
Nordea Riga Marathon & Half<br />
MAY<br />
Aigars Nords<br />
Brivibas 40-24, Riga LV-1050<br />
T: 371 6750 4931<br />
F: 371 6750 5286<br />
E: marathon@necom.lv<br />
nordearigamarathon.lv<br />
LEBANON<br />
Blom Beirut Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Mr. Peter Hier, Mr. Wissam Terro<br />
4th floor, Makateb Building, Mar Takla,<br />
Hazmieh, Baabda<br />
T: 961 5 959 262<br />
F: 961 5 959 263<br />
E: president@beirutmarathon.org<br />
www.beirutmarathon.org<br />
LITHUANIA<br />
Vilniaus Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Evaldas Martinka<br />
Odminiu str. 8, Vilnius, Lithuania<br />
T: 370 650 28225<br />
F: 370 5 2339971<br />
E: info@vilniausmaratonas.lt<br />
www.vilniausmaratonas.lt<br />
LUXEMBOURG<br />
Dexia Route du Vin Half Marathon SEP<br />
Georges Klepper<br />
Fédération Luxembourgeoise D’Athletisme,<br />
3, route d’Arlon; L-8009 Strassen<br />
T: 352 48 06 70<br />
F: 352 48 05 72<br />
E: routeduvin@fla.lu<br />
www.fla.lu<br />
MACAU, CHINA<br />
Macau Galaxy Entertainment<br />
Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
José Tavares<br />
Macau Sport Development Board,<br />
Av. Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, s/n,<br />
Forum de Macau, Edif. Complementar,<br />
Bloco 1, 4 andar, Macau<br />
T: 853 2858 0762<br />
F: 853 2834 3708<br />
E: sport@macau.ctm.net<br />
www.macaumarathon.com<br />
MACEDONIA (FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF)<br />
Skopje Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Kire Sinadinovski<br />
J.H. Dzinot 12a, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia<br />
T: 389 70 246935 / 389 2 3228624<br />
F: 389 2 3228624<br />
E: kire@skopskimaraton.com.mk<br />
www.skopjemarathon.com<br />
MALTA<br />
Malta Int’l Challenge Marathon NOV<br />
Barry M. Whitmore<br />
P.O. Box 5, New Mill Street, Mellieha,<br />
MLH 1000 Malta<br />
T: 356 79 33 90 46<br />
E: bmw@marathonchallengemalta.com<br />
www.marathonchallengemalta.com<br />
MALAYSIA<br />
Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Law Heng Kiang<br />
Penang State Tourism Development and<br />
Culture Komtar 534d Floor, 10503 Penang<br />
T: 601 2498 8630<br />
F: 604 2618 744<br />
E: info@penangmarathon.gov.my<br />
www.penangmarathon.gov.my<br />
Standard Chartered KL Marathon JUN<br />
Rainer Biemans<br />
Golazo Sdn Bhd, Suite 1005, 10th Floor,<br />
Wisma Hamzah-Kwong Hing No.1, Leboh<br />
Ampang, 50100 Kuala Lumpur<br />
T: 603 4021 2672<br />
F: 603 4021 2671<br />
E: help@kl-marathon.com<br />
www.kl-marathon.com<br />
MAURITIUS<br />
Marathon de l’Ile Maurice<br />
JUL<br />
Jean Marie Grall<br />
C/O Incentive Partners Ltd, Impasse de la<br />
Foret-Chamouny-Ile Maurice<br />
T: 230 622 2148<br />
F: 230 622 2149<br />
E: inscription@ilemauricemarathon.com<br />
www.ilemauricemarathon.com<br />
MEXICO<br />
Gran Maraton Pacifico<br />
DEC<br />
Alejandro Irarragorri Gutiérrez<br />
Javier Barros Sierra 555, 3 Piso Zedec Ed<br />
Plaza Santa Fe, Delegacion Alvaro Obregon,<br />
Distrito Federal, CP 01210<br />
T: 525 552 833 600 (ext 2208)<br />
F: 525 552 801 716<br />
E: francisco.ayala@gmodelo.com.mx<br />
www.maraton.org<br />
Maraton Int’l de la<br />
Ciudad de Mexico<br />
AUG<br />
Lic. Rodolfo Martinez Figueroa<br />
Instituto del Deporte del Distrito Federal,<br />
Calzada, Del Hueso n° 400 esquina Rancho<br />
el Arenal, Colonia Girasoles cp. 04920<br />
Delegacion Coyoacan<br />
T: 52 55 5679 4278<br />
E: rodolfomartinez01@hotmail.com<br />
www.maraton.df.gob.mx<br />
Maraton Int’l de Culiacan<br />
JAN<br />
Juan Antonio Lopez Garibaldi<br />
Constitución 175 pte., Colonia Almada<br />
C.P. 80200, Culiacán, Sinaloa<br />
T: 52 667 712 4710<br />
F: 42 667 713 9116<br />
E: boletinaa@hotmail.com<br />
www.maratonculiacan.org.mx<br />
Maraton LaLa Int’l<br />
MAR<br />
Héctor Guerrero Herrera<br />
Calle Martires de Rio Blanco s/n (esquina<br />
con Lerdo de Tejada), Col. Centro,<br />
CP27000 Torreon, Coahuila<br />
T: 52 871 729 2453<br />
F: 52 871 729 2436<br />
E: marballo@grupolala.com,<br />
kilometro42@prodigy.net.mx<br />
www.maratonlala.org<br />
Maraton Powerade Monterrey<br />
DEC<br />
Edilberto González Serna<br />
Rio Pilon 2124, Fraccionamiento Bernardo<br />
Reyes, Monterrey (NL), CP 64280<br />
T: 52 81 8863 1744<br />
F: 52 81 8373 2026<br />
E: edilberto.gonzalez@correnl.com<br />
www.maratonmonterrey.com<br />
Medio Maraton Atlas de Guadalajara SEP<br />
Javier Peña de la Mora<br />
Paseo Atlas Colomos, 2000, Col. Lomas del<br />
Bosque, C.P. 45110, Zapopan, Jalisco<br />
T: 52 333 648 0120 Ext. 1145<br />
F: 52 333 648 0120 Ext. 1145<br />
E: direccion@mediomaratonatlas.com<br />
www.mediomaratonatlas.com<br />
21km Nuevo Leon<br />
NOV<br />
Luciano Ramirez Gallardo<br />
Francisco Murguia 4200, Col Guadalupe<br />
Victoria, Guadalupe NL<br />
T: 52 818 161 6725<br />
F: 52 811 505 1799<br />
E: atletismo_nl@axtel.net<br />
Tangamanga Int’l Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Jaime Eduardo Morales Reyes<br />
Avenida Mariano Jimenez, 1450<br />
Fraccionamiento del Real C.P 78280 San<br />
Luis Potosi, S.L.P.<br />
T: 52 44 48 15 4444<br />
F: 52 44 48 15 8921<br />
E: maratontangamanga@gmail.com<br />
www.maratontangamanga.com<br />
*Medio Maraton Turistico<br />
Riviera Nayarit<br />
NOV<br />
Javier Peña de la Mora<br />
Nelson # 48 Vallarta Poniente Guadalajara,<br />
Jal., c.p. 44690<br />
T: 52 333 616 6428<br />
F: 52 333 616 6428<br />
E: deportres@mediomaratonnuevovallarta.com<br />
www.mediomaratonnuevovallarta.com<br />
MONTENEGRO<br />
Podgorica Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Milan Madžgalj<br />
st. 19 December No. 21, 81000 Podgorica<br />
T: 382 67 612 057<br />
F: 382 20 206 690<br />
E: maraton@t-com.me<br />
www.maraton.co.me<br />
MOROCCO<br />
*RAHAL 10k Int’l Marrakech<br />
OCT<br />
Rachid Ben Meziane<br />
Avenhil 14, 3274 CT, Heinenoord,<br />
Netherlands<br />
T: 31 626 148 367<br />
F: 31 186 602 470<br />
E: info@2cras.com, info@running.ma<br />
www.running.ma<br />
Marathon Int’l de Marrakech<br />
JAN<br />
Mohamed Knidiri<br />
Boîte Postale 682, Marrakech<br />
T: 212 661 241 402<br />
E: marathonmarrakech@yahoo.fr<br />
www.marathon-marrakech.com<br />
Grand Marathon Int’l de Casablanca OCT<br />
Said Ibrahimi Moulay Skali<br />
Complexe sportif Mohamed V - Porte 10 -<br />
Casablanca, BP 16145 Casablanca<br />
principal<br />
T: 212 522 947 700<br />
F: 212 522 947 705<br />
E: contact@casablanca-marathon.com,<br />
m.skali@casablanca-marathon.com<br />
www.casablanca-marathon.com<br />
Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune NOV<br />
Mohamed Derhim<br />
24 Av. de la Marine, Hay El Hebain<br />
Laayoune<br />
T: 212 661 387 946<br />
F: 212 528 893 022<br />
E: mohamedderhim@atlassahara.ma<br />
www.semi-marathon-laayoune.ma<br />
Semi-Marathon Int’l de Rabat<br />
APR<br />
Badr Bennis<br />
FUS Athletisme, Avenue Misr, Tamejajt,<br />
Rabat<br />
T: 212 6 00 00 30 30<br />
F: 212 5 37 73 37 09<br />
E: contact@rabatmarathon.com<br />
www.rabatmarathon.com<br />
NETHERLANDS<br />
Dam tot Damloop<br />
SEP<br />
Jan Willem Mijderwijk<br />
P.O. Box 5029, 1802 Alkmaar<br />
T: 31 725 338 136<br />
F: 31 725 339 398<br />
E: info@lechampion.nl<br />
www.damloop.nl<br />
ABN AMRO Marathon Rotterdam APR<br />
Mario J Kadiks<br />
P.O. Box 21955, 3001 AZ Rotterdam<br />
F: 31 10 432 5050<br />
E: info@marathonrotterdam.nl<br />
www.marathonrotterdam.nl<br />
ABN AMRO Singelloop Utrecht 10km SEP<br />
Wim Verhoorn<br />
Wetering 1, 3451 BN Vleuten<br />
T: 31 30 677 4850<br />
F: 31 30 666 3241<br />
E: info@fortissingellooputrecht.nl<br />
www.fortissingellooputrecht.nl<br />
Eindhoven Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Cor Vriend<br />
Postbus 196, 5600 AD Eindhoven<br />
T: 31 40 238 8911<br />
E: corvriend@marathoneindhoven.nl<br />
www.marathoneindhoven.nl<br />
Enschede Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Michel van Sluijs<br />
Postbus 555, 7500 AN Enschede<br />
T: 31 53 430 5486<br />
F: 31 53 434 4768<br />
E: info@enschedemarathon.nl<br />
www.enschedemarathon.nl<br />
Amsterdam Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Cees Pronk<br />
P.O. Box 5029, 1802 TA, Alkmaar<br />
T: 31 72 5322729<br />
F: 31 72 5339398<br />
E: info@amsterdammarathon.nl<br />
www.amsterdammarathon.nl<br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
adidas Auckland Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Richard Lindroos<br />
M129, Private Bag 300987, Albany,<br />
Auckland<br />
T: 64 9415 0617<br />
F: 64 9415 0615<br />
E: racedirector@aucklandmarathon.co.nz<br />
www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
NORTH POLE<br />
North Pole Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Richard Donovan<br />
Polar <strong>Running</strong> Adventures, 95 Rosan Glas,<br />
Rahoon Road, Galway, Ireland<br />
T: 353 91 443 408<br />
F: 353 91 443 408<br />
E: rd@npmarathon.com<br />
www.npmarathon.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
NORWAY<br />
Midnight Sun Marathon & Half JUN<br />
Nils I. Haetta<br />
P.O. Box 821, N-9258, Tromsø<br />
T: 47 776 73363<br />
F: 47 776 73364<br />
E: post@msm.no<br />
www.msm.no<br />
Fjord Norway Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Helge Brekke<br />
Boks 177, 5903 Isdalstø, Norway<br />
T: 47 971 45 628<br />
F: 47 56375053<br />
E: Info@knarvikmila.no<br />
www.knarvikmila.no<br />
PARAGUAY<br />
*Maraton Int’l de Asuncion<br />
AUG<br />
Myrta Doldan Roman<br />
Pai Perez, 1293, Asuncion, Paraguay<br />
T: 595 21 213 613<br />
F: 595 21 213 613<br />
E: myrta.doldan@gmail.com<br />
www.paraguaymarathonclub.org<br />
PANAMA<br />
Panama City Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Armando Lopez<br />
San Francisco Avenida 3B-SUR, entre calle<br />
68 y 67 Casa # 1, Panama<br />
T: 507 6030 0843<br />
F: 507 226 6277<br />
E: alopezo@gmail.com<br />
www.corredoresdelistmo.com<br />
Panama Int’l Half Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Elmer Ortiz Nuñez<br />
Plaza Real San Francisco 3d, Panama<br />
T: 507 264 1038 / 507 6672 8855<br />
F: 507 204 6146<br />
E: panamahalfmarathon@gmail.com,<br />
info@panamahalfmarathon.com<br />
www.panamahalfmarathon.com<br />
PERU<br />
Lima 42k<br />
MAY<br />
Andreas Müller<br />
Calle Los Paujiles 285, of C, Surquillo,<br />
Lima, Peru<br />
T: 51 1 421 6282<br />
F: 51 1 421 6282<br />
E: a.muller@zmpromociones.org<br />
www.lima42k.com<br />
PHILIPPINES<br />
CamSur Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Rio de la Cruz<br />
46 D Macapagal St, Vista Valley<br />
Subdivision, Marikina City, Philippines<br />
T: 63 918 985 9211<br />
F: 632 647 4251<br />
E: mail.runrio@gmail.com,<br />
princess.galura@gmail.com<br />
www.camsurmarathon.com<br />
POLAND<br />
Cracovia Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Krzysztof Kowal<br />
Zarzad Infrastruktury Sportowej w Krakowie<br />
ul. Walerego Slawka 1030-633 Krakow<br />
T: 48 12 616 63 00<br />
F: 48 12 616 63 01<br />
E: biuro@cracoviamaraton.pl<br />
www.cracoviamaraton.pl<br />
Marathon of the <strong>Running</strong> Festival<br />
of the Economic Forum<br />
SEP<br />
Tomasz Lipiec<br />
ul. Solec 85, 00-382 Warszawa<br />
T: 48 22 583 11 00<br />
F: 48 22 583 11 50<br />
E: t.lipiec@isw.org.pl<br />
www.runningfestival.pl<br />
Poznan Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Janusz Rajewski<br />
POSIR, Chwialkowskiego 34, 61-553<br />
Poznan<br />
T: 48 61 835 79 17<br />
F: 48 61 835 79 20<br />
E: info@marathon.poznan.pl<br />
www.marathon.poznan.pl<br />
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Poznan Half Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Janusz Rajewski<br />
POSIR, Chwialkowskiego 34, 61-553<br />
Poznan<br />
T: 48 61 835 79 17<br />
F: 48 61 835 79 20<br />
E: info@halfmarathon.poznan.pl<br />
www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl<br />
Pila Int’l Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Henryk Paskal<br />
Stowarzyszenie Biegow Ulicznych, Al.<br />
Powstancow Wlkp. 164, 64-920 Pila<br />
T: 48 67 212 01 11<br />
F: 48 67 212 5975<br />
E: info@pila.halfmarathon.pl<br />
www.pila.halfmarathon.pl<br />
*Silesia Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Bohdan Witwicki<br />
ul. Brynowska 51D/5, 40-089 Katowice<br />
T: 48 693 112 411<br />
F: 48 693 112 411<br />
E: info@silesiaproactive.pl<br />
www.silesiamarathon.pl<br />
Wroclaw Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Waldemar Biskup<br />
Al.I.J. Paderewskiego 35 51-612, Wroclaw<br />
T: 48 71 733 40 60<br />
F: 48 71 315 43 18<br />
E: biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl<br />
www.wroclawmaraton.pl<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
Douro Valley Half Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Paulo Jorge Alves da Cruz Costa<br />
Rua José Teixeira de Mello e Castro nº34,<br />
Largo do Troviscal 5000-430 Vila Real<br />
T: 351 916 345 454<br />
F: 351 259 372 339<br />
E: paulo.costa@globalsportdouro.com<br />
www.meiamaratonadouro.com<br />
EDP Lisbon Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Carlos Moya<br />
B Francisco Sá Carneiro, Av. João Freitas<br />
Branco, 10, Laveiras - 2760-073 Caxias<br />
T: 351 21 441 3182<br />
F: 351 21 441 3073<br />
E: geral@maratonaportugal.com<br />
www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com<br />
EDP Porto Marathon<br />
OCT / NOV<br />
Jorge Teixeira<br />
Loja do Corredor, Rua Santa Luzia, 808<br />
4250-415, Porto<br />
T: 352 91 78 50 216<br />
F: 351 22 03 04 726<br />
E: runporto@sapo.pt<br />
www.maratonadoporto.com<br />
Lisbon Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
António Campos<br />
Calçada da Tapada, 71A, 1349-012 Lisboa<br />
T: 351 21 361 6160<br />
F: 351 21 361 6169<br />
E: info@wanago.com<br />
www.lisbon-marathon.com<br />
*Maratona do Algarve<br />
OCT<br />
António Campos<br />
Xistarca, Calçada da Tapada, 71A, 1349-<br />
012 Lisboa<br />
T: 351 21 361 6160<br />
F: 351 21 361 6169<br />
E: antonio.campos@xistarca.pt<br />
www.algarve-marathon.com<br />
Meia Maratona Sport Zone<br />
SEP<br />
Ricardo Cunha Magalhães Lopes<br />
Sonae Maia Business Center, EN13,<br />
km6.78, Lugar do Espido - Via Norte, Maia<br />
T: 351 222 454 402<br />
F: 351 222 454 516<br />
E: inscricoes@meiamaratonasportzone.com<br />
www.meiamaratonasportzone.com<br />
RTP Rock ‘n’ Roll<br />
Half Marathon Vodafone<br />
SEP<br />
Carlos Moya<br />
B Francisco Sá Carneiro, Av. João Freitas<br />
Branco, 10, Laveiras - 2760-073 Caxias<br />
T: 351 21 441 3182<br />
F: 351 21 441 3073<br />
E: geral@maratonaportugal.com<br />
www.runrocknroll.competitor.com/lisbon<br />
PUERTO RICO<br />
World’s Best 10k Road Race<br />
FEB<br />
Rafael B. Acosta<br />
P.O. Box 29227, San Juan,<br />
PR 00929-0227<br />
T: 1 787 767 2000<br />
F: 1 787 763 2000<br />
E: lynns@ptmpr.com<br />
www.wb10k.com<br />
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REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA<br />
Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon<br />
Rowyn James<br />
PO Box 2276, Clareinch, 7740,<br />
Cape Town,<br />
T: 27 21 657 5140<br />
F: 27 21 671 6892<br />
E: info@twooceansmarathon.org.za<br />
www.twooceansmarathon.org.za<br />
Comrades Marathon<br />
Johan Van Staden<br />
18 Connaught Road Scottsville,<br />
Pietermaritzburg, 3201 South Africa<br />
T: 27 (0) 33 897 8650<br />
F: 27 (0) 33 897 8660<br />
E: johan@comrades.com<br />
www.comrades.com<br />
Marizburg Marathon & Half<br />
John Hall<br />
PO Box 860, Pietermaritzburg, 3200,<br />
KwaZulu Natal, RSA.<br />
T: 273 3342 3284<br />
F: 270 8661 67500<br />
E: info@pmb42.co.za<br />
www.pmb42.co.za<br />
Cape Town Marathon<br />
James Evans<br />
PO Box 101, Lansdowne, 7779, Western<br />
Cape, Republic of South Africa<br />
T: 27 21 689 4009<br />
F: 27 21 699 0615<br />
E: jtevans@mweb.co.za,<br />
sue@wpathletics.co.za<br />
www.capetownmarathon.org.za<br />
ROMANIA<br />
Bucharest Int’l Marathon & Half<br />
Paolo Ottone<br />
Atena Street 20, Sector 1 - 011832<br />
Bucharest<br />
T: 40 212 337 868<br />
F: 40 212 337 868<br />
E: info@bucharest-marathon.com<br />
www.bucharest-marathon.com<br />
Timisoara Marathon<br />
Dumitra Constantin<br />
Atletic Club Maraton, O.P. 1 C.P. 283,<br />
300024 Timisoara<br />
T: 40 722 801 440<br />
E: dumitra@marathon.ro<br />
www.marathon.ro<br />
RUSSIA<br />
Int’l “White Nights” Marathon<br />
Michael Andreevich Kochetkov / Anton Uyk<br />
191186 Russia, St.-Petersburg,<br />
street Millionnaya, 22<br />
T: 7 812 335 69 04 / 7 812 493 21 20<br />
F: 7 812 335 69 04<br />
E: info@wnmarathon.ru,<br />
whitenights1@mail.ru<br />
www.wnmarathon.ru<br />
Moscow Int’l Peace Marathon<br />
Boris Fadeev<br />
18 Milyutinsky Pereulok, Moscow 101000<br />
T: 7 495 624 0824<br />
F: 7 495 624 0824<br />
E: fond@marafon.msk.ru<br />
www.marafon.msk.ru<br />
Moscow Marathon Luzhniki<br />
Valeriy Shekhanov<br />
24 Luzhnetskaya Embankment, Moscow<br />
119048<br />
T: 7 495 637 02 78<br />
F: 7 499 255 28 51<br />
E: moscow-marathon@mail.ru<br />
www.marafonluzhniki.narod2.ru<br />
Novosibirsk Half Marathon<br />
Alexandr Chepasov<br />
Suharnaya Str. 35, Novosibirsk 630001<br />
T: 7 383 204 77 68<br />
F: 7 383 204 77 22<br />
E: info@marafon.nsk.ru<br />
www.marafon.nsk.ru<br />
Siberian Int’l Marathon<br />
Andrey Sandalkin<br />
644043 Omsk, Pevtzova str, 1<br />
T: 7 3812 242567<br />
F: 7 3812 242567<br />
E: mail@runsim.ru<br />
www.runsim.ru<br />
Zelenograd Half Marathon<br />
Oleg Manzha<br />
2-nd Zvenigorodskaya, 13-36, 123022<br />
Moscow<br />
T: 7 495 363 1090<br />
F: 7 495 783 3105<br />
E: zelinfo@sportima.ru<br />
www.zelrun.ru, www.sportima.ru<br />
APR<br />
JUN<br />
FEB<br />
SEP<br />
OCT<br />
OCT<br />
JUL<br />
SEP<br />
MAY<br />
SEP<br />
AUG<br />
JUN<br />
RWANDA<br />
Kigali Peace Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Bettina Scholl-Sabatini<br />
Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture,<br />
P.O. Box 1044, Kigali<br />
T: 352 621 214 804<br />
F: 352 26 61 52 64<br />
E: minicult@rwanda1.com,<br />
betmar@tango.lu<br />
www.kigalimarathon.com<br />
SERBIA<br />
Belgrade Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Dejan Nikolic<br />
Humska 4, 11000 Belgrade<br />
T: 381 11 369 0709<br />
F: 381 11 306 5720<br />
E: office@bgdmarathon.org<br />
www.bgdmarathon.org<br />
Novi Sad Half Marathon<br />
MAR<br />
Dimitrije Dolga<br />
Trg Republike 13, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbie<br />
T: 381 21 527 214<br />
F: 381 21 4722120<br />
E: marathon@sbb.rs<br />
www.marathon.org.rs<br />
Novi Sad Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Milan Dolga<br />
Trg Republike 13, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbie<br />
T: 381 21 527 214<br />
F: 381 21 4722120<br />
E: marathon@sbb.rs<br />
www.marathon.org.rs<br />
SEYCHELLES<br />
Seychelles Eco-Healing Marathon FEB<br />
Giovanna Rousseau<br />
National Sports Council, P.O. Box 580,<br />
Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles<br />
T: 248 4671208 / Mobile: 248 272233<br />
F: 248 4321448<br />
E: highlevelsports@seychelles.sc<br />
www.seychellesmarathon.com<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Marathon Singapore<br />
DEC<br />
David Voth<br />
Singapore Sports Council, 230 Stadium<br />
Blvd, Singapore 397799<br />
T: 65 6500 5221<br />
F: 65 6346 1842<br />
E: david_voth@ssc.gov.sg<br />
www.marathonsingapore.com<br />
SLOVAKIA<br />
Bratislava City Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Jozef Pukalovič<br />
Vajnorská 8/A, 831 04 Bratislava<br />
T: 421 255 568 172<br />
F: 421 255 568 173<br />
E: jozo@becoolagency.sk<br />
www.bratislavamarathon.com<br />
Kosice Peace Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Dr. Stefan Dano<br />
Marathon Club Kosice, Pri Jazdiarni 1,<br />
PO Box F-24, 043 04 Kosice<br />
T: 421 55 622 00 10<br />
F: 421 55 622 41 58<br />
E: info@kosicemarathon.com<br />
www.kosicemarathon.com<br />
SLOVENIA<br />
Ljubljana Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Gojko Zalokar<br />
Timing Ljubljana, Staniceva 41, 1000 Ljubljana<br />
T: 386 1 234 8000<br />
F: 386 1 234 8005<br />
E: info@timingljubljana.si<br />
www.ljubljanskimaraton.si<br />
Three Hearts Marathon<br />
MAY<br />
Marko Pintaric<br />
Maraton treh src, p.p. 69, SI – 9252 Radenci<br />
T: 386 2 565 1170 / 386 4 182 1223<br />
F: 386 2 566 91 95<br />
E: info@maraton-radenci.si<br />
www.maraton-radenci.si<br />
SPAIN<br />
Maraton De Zaragoza<br />
NOV<br />
David Constante<br />
<strong>Running</strong> Zaragoza, Calle Ricla, No 2,<br />
55055 Zaragoza<br />
T: 34 976 22 14 28<br />
F: 34 976 22 14 28<br />
E: gestion@zaragozamaraton.com<br />
www.zaragozamaraton.com<br />
Marato de Barcelona<br />
MAR<br />
RPM Racing / Cristian Llorens<br />
Gran Via 8-10, 6ª pl., 08902 Hospitalet de<br />
Llobregat, Barcelona<br />
T: 34 93 431 55 33<br />
F: 34 93 422 75 53<br />
E: cllorens@rpmracing.es<br />
www.maratobarcelona.com<br />
Maratón Donostia - San Sebastián NOV<br />
Patxi Larrea Perurena<br />
Fly Group, Akarregi 12, Parcela 5,<br />
20120 Hernani, San Sebastian<br />
T: 34 943474341<br />
F: 34 943474309<br />
E: info@maratondonostia.com (sport questions),<br />
maraton@flygroupnet.com (registrations)<br />
www.maratondonostia.com<br />
Medio Maraton de Madrid<br />
APR<br />
Guillermo Ferrero Centeno<br />
Calle Villaamil 65, Madrid 28039<br />
T: 34 91 402 6962<br />
F: 34 91 401 4573<br />
E: gferrero1944@yahoo.es<br />
www.mediomaratonmadrid.es<br />
Mitja Marato Int’l Santa Pola<br />
JAN<br />
Roque M. Alemañ Bonet<br />
C/ Logroño, 10-BW 21, 03130 Santa Pola,<br />
Alicante<br />
T: 34 670 736 040<br />
F: 34 966 696 049<br />
E: chiplevante@gmail.com<br />
www.mitjasantapola.com<br />
Seville City Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Manuel Nieto González<br />
Instituto Municipal de Deportes, Estadio Olimpico,<br />
Puerta E, Planta Baja, 2 a y 3 a , Sevilla 41092<br />
T: 34 955 47 51 33<br />
F: 34 955 47 51 34<br />
E: maraton@imd.sevilla.org<br />
www.imd.sevilla.org/maraton<br />
Maraton Int’l Martin Fiz,<br />
Vitoria-Gasteiz<br />
MAY<br />
Eduardo Martinez Lobera<br />
C/ Ricardo Sacristán Nº 30 Bajo,<br />
01008 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava)<br />
T: 34 945 22 20 13<br />
F: 34 945 21 42 79<br />
E: ascentium@ascentium.org<br />
www.maratonmartinfiz.com<br />
Rock ‘n’ Roll Madrid Marathon APR<br />
Guillermo Jimenez<br />
C/ Galileo No 74 (28015 Madrid)<br />
T: 914479631 / 914479641 / 913540389<br />
F: 913651001<br />
E: vlopez@mapoma.es<br />
www.rocknrollmadrid.com<br />
Mediterranean Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Josep Mª Antentas, Jaime Grau Hollenstein<br />
Elisabets, 5 Entr.2 0 8001, Barcalona<br />
T: 34 699 000 499<br />
F: 34 933 189 820<br />
E: antenas@gmail.com,<br />
jgrau@zonavipevents.com<br />
www.maratomediterrani.com<br />
Maratón Divina Pastora Valencia NOV<br />
Paco Borao<br />
Arz. Fabian y Fuero, 14, 46009 Valencia<br />
T: 34 96 346 0707<br />
F: 34 96 346 3635<br />
E: gerencia@correcaminos.org<br />
www.correcaminos.org<br />
Medio Maraton de Valencia<br />
OCT<br />
Paco Borao<br />
Arz. Fabian y Fuero, 14, 46009 Valencia<br />
T: 34 96 346 0707<br />
F: 34 96 346 3635<br />
E: gerencia@correcaminos.org<br />
www.correcaminos.org<br />
SRI LANKA<br />
Colombo Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Mr P.T. Weerasinghe<br />
29 B, S.De S. Jayasinghe Mawathe,<br />
Kalubowila, Dehiwela<br />
T: 94 11 2824500<br />
F: 94 11 2826125<br />
E: colombomarathon@lsr-srilanka.com,<br />
lsrtilak@sltnet.lk<br />
www.lsr-srilanka.com<br />
SWEDEN<br />
GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon MAY<br />
Bo Edsberger<br />
P.O. Box 12174, S-402 42 Göteborg<br />
T: 46 31 772 78 80<br />
F: 46 31 772 78 90<br />
E: varvet@gfif.se<br />
www.goteborgsvarvet.com<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
ASICS Stockholm Marathon<br />
JUNE<br />
Ulf Saletti<br />
P.O. Box 10023, SE 10055, Stockholm<br />
T: 46 8 545 66 440<br />
F: 46 8 664 38 22<br />
E: info@marathon.se<br />
www.stockholmmarathon.se<br />
DN Stockholm Half Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Anders Tallgren<br />
P.O. Box 10023, 100 55 Stockholm<br />
T: 46 8 545 66 440<br />
F: 46 8 664 38 22<br />
E: anders.tallgren@marathon.se<br />
www.stockholmhalfmarathon.se<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
Jungfrau Marathon<br />
SEP<br />
Richard Umberg<br />
Strandbadstr. 44, PO Box 243, CH-3800,<br />
Interlaken<br />
T: 41 33 827 62 90<br />
F: 41 33 827 62 05<br />
E: info@jungfrau-marathon.ch<br />
www.jungfrau-marathon.ch<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Lausanne Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Robert Bruchez<br />
Av, de Rhodanie 54, 1007 Lausanne<br />
T: 41 21 806 3016<br />
F: 41 21 806 2548<br />
E: info@lausanne-marathon.com<br />
www.lausanne-marathon.com<br />
Lucerne Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Reto Schorno<br />
Lidostrasse 5, CH- 6006 Luzern<br />
T: 41 41 375 03 30<br />
F: 41 41 375 03 31<br />
E: info@lucernemarathon.ch<br />
www.lucernemarathon.ch<br />
Neujahrsmarathon Zurich<br />
JAN<br />
Roger Kaufmann<br />
Verein Neujahrsmarathon, CH - 8000 Zürich<br />
E: info@neujahrsmarathon.ch<br />
www.neujahrsmarathon.ch<br />
Swiss Alpine Marathon Davos<br />
JUL<br />
Andrea Tuffli<br />
P.O. Box 536, CH - 7270 Davos Platz<br />
T: 41 81 401 1490<br />
F: 41 81 401 1489<br />
E: info@swissalpine.ch<br />
www.swissalpine.ch<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
Zermatt Marathon<br />
JUL<br />
Andrea Schneider<br />
Postfach 52, CH-3924, St. Niklaus<br />
T: 41 27 946 0033<br />
F: 41 27 946 1836<br />
E: andrea@zermattmarathon.ch<br />
www.zermattmarathon.ch<br />
Zurich Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Bruno Lafranchi<br />
Spindelstrasse 2 8041 Zurich<br />
T: 41 44 480 25 57<br />
F: 41 44 480 25 56<br />
E: marathon@42195km.com<br />
www.zurichmarathon.ch<br />
TANZANIA<br />
Kilimanjaro Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
John Addison<br />
Wild Frontiers, Box 844, Halfway House<br />
1685, Republic of South Africa<br />
T: 27 11 702 2035<br />
F: 27 11 468 1655<br />
E: john@wildfrontiers.com<br />
www.kilimanjaromarathon.com<br />
THAILAND<br />
Standard Chartered<br />
Bangkok Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Songkram Kraisonthi<br />
20/1 Inthamara, 38 Suthisarn Road,<br />
Dindaeng, Bangkok 10400<br />
T: 66 22 77 6670<br />
F: 66 22 77 2567<br />
E: info@amazingfield.org<br />
www.bkkmarathon.com<br />
Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon<br />
JAN<br />
Apsit Rujikeatkamjorm<br />
Khon Kaen University Alumni Association,<br />
123/101 Moo 16, Tumbol Nai Muang,<br />
Amphur Muang, Khon Kaen 40002<br />
T: 66 43 202 750 / 66 43 202 388<br />
F: 66 43 202 750 / 66 43 202 388<br />
E: thasor@kku.ac.th,<br />
info@khonkaenmarathon.com<br />
www.khonkaenmarathon.com
Race contact details<br />
Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org<br />
Laguna Phuket Int’l Marathon<br />
JUN<br />
Raimund Wellenhofer<br />
Chip Timing Co. Ltd, 5th floor. CCT Building,<br />
109 Surawong Road, Bangkok, 10500<br />
T: 662 236 2921<br />
F: 662 237 2321<br />
E: info@goadventureasia.com<br />
www.phuketmarathon.com<br />
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO<br />
UWI-SPEC Half Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Dr. Iva Gloudon<br />
Sport & Physical Ed. Centre, University of<br />
the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad<br />
T: 868 645 9239<br />
F: 868 645 9239<br />
E: info@spec.uwi.tt<br />
www.sta.uwi.edu/spec<br />
TUNISIA<br />
Sahara 100k Challenge Race<br />
MAR<br />
Adriano Zito<br />
Via Giardini 464/n, 41100 Modena, Italy<br />
T: 39 059 359 813<br />
F: 39 059 867 2069<br />
E: info@zitoway.com<br />
www.100kmdelsahara.com<br />
Course not measurable to AIMS standards<br />
TURKEY<br />
*Bozcaada Half Marathon & 10k MAY<br />
Zaynel Alhan<br />
Küçüksu Cad. Inkilap Mah. Emir Apr.<br />
No.151/4 34768 Ümraniye-Istanbul<br />
T: 90 216 632 51 50<br />
F: 90 216 632 52 80<br />
E: info@yaristakvimi.com<br />
www.yaristakvimi.com<br />
*Golden Horn Half Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Alpaslan Baki Ertekin<br />
Neslisah Mah. Kaleboyu Cad. No: 111,<br />
Fatih/Istanbul<br />
T: 90 212 453 3000<br />
F: 90 212 621 3848<br />
E: info@halicyarimaratonu.org<br />
www.halicyarimaratonu.org<br />
Intercontinental Istanbul<br />
Eurasia Marathon<br />
OCT<br />
Alpaslan Baki Ertekin<br />
Neslisah Mah. Kaleboyu Cad. No: 111,<br />
Fatih/Istanbul<br />
T: 90 212 453 3000<br />
F: 90 212 621 3848<br />
E: info@istanbulmarathon.org<br />
www.istanbulmarathon.org<br />
*Int’l Cayirova Run 10km<br />
MAY<br />
Mr. Mücahit Sak<br />
Cayirova Gençlik ve Spor Ilçe Müdürlügü.,<br />
Cayirova Kaymakamlik Konagi. Sekerpinar<br />
Mah., Cayirova, Kocaeli<br />
T: 90 262 658 1472<br />
F: 90 262 658 1452<br />
E: mucahitsak@hotmail.com,<br />
cayirovagenclikvespor@hotmail.com<br />
www.cayirovakosusu.org<br />
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES<br />
Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon JAN<br />
Peter Connerton<br />
P.O. Box 57176, Dubai<br />
T: 97 14 367 1062<br />
F: 97 14 367 2524<br />
E: marathon@dubaimarathon.org<br />
www.dubaimarathon.org<br />
RAK Half Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Nathan Clayton<br />
P.O. Box 34878, Ras Al Khaimah<br />
T: 971 50 347 6474<br />
F: 971 7 244 7627<br />
E: mail@rakmarathon.org<br />
www.rakmarathon.org<br />
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA<br />
BAA Boston Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Dave McGillivray<br />
Boston Athletic Association, 40 Trinity<br />
Place, 4th Floor, Boston MA 02116<br />
T: 1 617 236 1652<br />
F: 1 617 236 4505<br />
E: info@baa.org<br />
www.baa.org<br />
Bass Pro Shops<br />
Conservation Marathon<br />
NOV<br />
Dean Cheatham<br />
1935 S. Campbell, Springfield, MO 65807<br />
T: 1 417 891 5216<br />
F: 1 417 882 0072<br />
E: dcheatham@basspro.com<br />
www.basspro.com/fitness<br />
Big Sur Int’l Marathon<br />
APR<br />
Wally Kastner<br />
P.O. Box 222620, Carmel, CA 93922<br />
T: 1 831 625 6226<br />
F: 1 831 625 2119<br />
E: info@bsim.org<br />
www.bsim.org<br />
Big Sur Half Marathon<br />
on Monterey Bay<br />
NOV<br />
Wally Kastner<br />
P.O. Box 222620, Carmel, CA 93922<br />
T: 1 831 625 6226<br />
F: 1 831 625 2119<br />
E: info@bsim.org<br />
www.bsim.org<br />
Freihofer’s Run for Women 5k<br />
JUN<br />
George P Regan<br />
233 Fourth Street, Troy, Ny 12180<br />
T: 1 518 273-5552<br />
F: 1 518 273-0647<br />
E: gregan@freihofersrun.com<br />
www.freihofersrun.com<br />
Lake Tahoe Marathon & Half<br />
SEP<br />
Les Wright<br />
PO Box 20,000, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151<br />
T: 1 530 544 7095<br />
F: 1 484 346 3651<br />
E: Leswright@sbcglobal.net<br />
www.laketahoemarathon.com<br />
Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half JAN<br />
Les Wright<br />
2480 S. Kihei #28, Kihei, Maui, HI 96753<br />
T: 1 808 344 3651<br />
F: 1 484 346 3651<br />
E: RunMaui@gmail.com<br />
www.mauioceanfrontmarathon.com<br />
Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas<br />
Marathon & Half<br />
Adam Zocks / Brewer Baker<br />
9401 Waples Street, STE 150, San Diego,<br />
CA 92121<br />
T: 1 858 450 6510<br />
F: 1 858 450 6905<br />
E: bbaker@competitorgroup.com<br />
www.runrocknroll.com<br />
Marine Corps Marathon<br />
Rick Nealis<br />
PO Box 188, Quantico, VA 22134<br />
T: 1 703 432 8022<br />
F: 1 703 784 2265<br />
E: marine.marathon@usmc.mil<br />
www.marinemarathon.com<br />
Philadelphia Marathon<br />
Melanie Johnson<br />
P.O. Box 58130, Philadelphia PA19102<br />
T: 215 683 2122<br />
F: 215 683 2051<br />
E: philadelphiamarathon@gmail.com<br />
www.philadelphiamarathon.com<br />
Portland Marathon<br />
Les Smith<br />
200 SW Market, Suite 1900,<br />
Portland, OR 97201<br />
T: 1 503 248 1134<br />
F: 1 503 224 8851<br />
E: info@portlandmarathon.org<br />
www.portlandmarathon.org<br />
San Francisco Marathon<br />
PO Box 77148, San Francisco, CA 94107<br />
T: 1 415 814 2823<br />
F: 1 415 276 4179<br />
E: info@runsfm.com<br />
www.runsfm.com<br />
DEC<br />
OCT<br />
NOV<br />
OCT<br />
JUL<br />
www.aimsworldrunning.org<br />
*Associate member<br />
Amica Insurance Seattle Marathon<br />
Louise Long<br />
Seattle Marathon Association,<br />
P.O. Box 31849, Seattle, WA 98103<br />
T: 1 206 729 3660<br />
F: 1 206 729 3662<br />
E: info@seattlemarathon.org<br />
www.seattlemarathon.org<br />
NOV<br />
Kaua’i Marathon and Half<br />
SEP<br />
Bob Craver / Jeff Sacchini<br />
P.O. BOX 573, Koloa, Kaua’i, 96756 Hawaii<br />
T: 1 808 283 2078<br />
E: infothekauaimarathon@yahoo.com<br />
www.thekauaimarathon.com<br />
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS<br />
St Croix Int’l Marathon<br />
DEC<br />
Wallace Williams<br />
P.O. Box 222720, Christiansted, St. Croix,<br />
U.S. Virgin Islands 00822<br />
T: 1 340 643 2557<br />
F: 1 340 692 5305<br />
E: wallacewilliams@msn.com<br />
www.virginislandspace.org<br />
VENEZUELA<br />
*CAF Caracas Marathon<br />
FEB<br />
Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia<br />
Av. Luis Roche, Torre CAF, Altamira,<br />
Caracas<br />
T: 58 212 2092414<br />
F: 58 212 2092386<br />
E: iperalta@caf.com<br />
maraton.caf.com<br />
ZIMBABWE<br />
Victoria Falls Marathon & Half AUG<br />
John Addison<br />
Box 844, Halfway House, 1685, South Africa<br />
T: 27 11 7022035<br />
F: 27 11 4681655<br />
E: john@wildfrontiers.com<br />
www.vicfallsmarathon.com<br />
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