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18 DECEMBER 2005:ING TAIPEI INT’L MARATHON,TAIWANMEN:1 Luke KIBET KEN 2:11:542 David CHERUIYOT KEN 2:13:393 Barnabas KOECH KEN 2:16:154 Onesmus MUTUSYA KEN 2:17:005 Tsutomu SAEKI JPN 2:22:296 Kasirai SITA ZIM 2:25:137 Zi-Jian ZHENG TPE 2:29:178 Yi-Cai ZENG TPE 2:32:139 Jia-Xiang WU TPE 2:35:2710 Jian-Xing CHIU TPE 2:35:36WOMEN:1 Jane EKIMAT KEN 2:33:392 Florence BARSOSIO KEN 2:35:083 Xiu-Ying HU CHN 2:38:284 Fabiola JOHN TAN 2:40:275 Madina BIKTAGIROVA RUS 2:42:436 Wan-Ling WU TPE 2:46:537 Shu-Hua CHEN TPE 2:58:518 Xiao-Yu LEE TPE 2:59:349 Yu-Fang XU TPE 3:01:2510 Shu-Rong CHIU TPE 3:11:3231 DECEMBER 2005:ST CATHERINE’S MARATHON& HALF, EGYPTThe race takes place right by the St CatherineMonastery at the foot of Mount Sinai over a twolapcourse which takes runners through the villageand past outlying Bedouin houses. Of the 16marathon participants 15 finished. Another 100people also ran in the Half Marathon, 10km and 5km races.Water and banana supply stations were in placeevery 2.5 km, with the whole course carefullycontrolled by 15 competition marshals with fullpolice co-operation. Two ambulances werepermanently moving along the course.All participants received T-shirts, medals, apapyrus and the race certificate.MEN:1 Mohamed EL-MORSY EGY 3:16:442 Ahmed MOSTAFA EGY 3:16:513 Hussein AHMED EGY 3:37:304 Osama AHMED EGY 3:56:385 Samy KHATER EGY 3:57:186 Hassan IBRAHIM EGY 4:12:447 Dieter STEMME GER 4:16:528 Dieter SKINBRECHER GER 4:19:439 Klaus BERMAN GER 4:48:1810 Leo SENTIS GER 4:57:35WOMEN:1 Renate WARNSTEDT GER 3:49:302 Helga STEMME GER 4:53:211 JANUARY 2006: ST CROIXINT’L MARATHON, US VIRGINISLANDSSoon after the pre-dawn start at Plaza Extra on theQueen Mary Highway Calvin Dallas burst awayfrom the group. After 8km last year’s winner, SteveBurkholder, and Lloyd Henry started to closedown on Dallas. Burkholder eventually caughthim at 11km as the pair ran back through townand towards the turnaround point at Hamm’sBluff. They ran together for the next 20km butDallas pulled away as they approached Hamm’sBluff for the second time, around 32km. In thewomen’s race defending champion Teresa Harperled all the way. As the race finished bemusedtourists disembarking a cruise ship enquired if therace was an annual event.MEN:1 Calvin DALLAS ISV 3:05:092 Steve BURKHOLDER ISV 3:10:293 Mike KLEIN ISV 3:17:504 Jean PIERRE ISV 3:31:045 Lloyd HENRY ISV 3:40:476 Ernest MITCHELL ISV 3:44:34WOMEN:1 Teresa HARPER ISV 3:57:445 JANUARY 2006: TIBERIASMARATHON, ISRAELSee feature on page 158 JANUARY 2006: DISNEYMARATHON, USAMEN:1 Adriano BASTOS BRA 2:19:432 Tim KELLER USA 2:31:343 Nick RICCO USA 2:32:344 Matthew DOBSON USA 2:33:385 Genildo FERNANDS BRA 2:34:536 Michael HEITZENRATER USA 2:41:167 Jim CLEMENS USA 2:41:268 Eric VANDERVORT USA 2:41:359 John REBACK USA 2:42:4210 Michael MOLLOD USA 2:42:52WOMEN:1 Paige HIGGINS USA 2:51:382 Amy SHERTZER USA 2:59:143 Maryanne PROTZ USA 3:00:404 Deborah TILLMAN USA 3:04:065 Lynn LEONARD USA 3:04:236 Laura DRAKE USA 3:07:037 Lou Hohnka OSWALD USA 3:12:558 Eileen TURENNE USA 3:14:039 Amy GRAB USA 3:14:1310 Heather RYNDAK USA 3:14:25MumbaiHALF MARATHON (7 JAN 2006):MEN:1 Josh EBERLEY USA 1:08:122 Josh MOEN USA 1:08:123 Jeff GAUDETTE USA 1:08:21WOMEN:1 Melissa WHITE USA 1:18:332 Dorothy MCMAHAN USA 1:19:013 Cassie HINTZ USA 1:19:208 JANUARY 2006: MIZUNOHONG KONG HALFMARATHONCHAMPIONSHIPSA new national record was set by 21-year-old ChanKa Ho with the time of 1:12:02. The championshiphas been held annually for 13 years, and nowattracts more than 2,000 runners. There were fourguest runners from Japan and Malaysia in thisyear’s event. “Gold Jerseys”, awarded to men whofinished the race under 1:25:00 and women whobettered 1:40:00 for 3 consecutive years, went to38 people. In addition, 100 medallions wereawarded to the top 100 finishers of the race inorder to celebrate the 100-year anniversary ofMizuno.MEN:1 Ka Ho CHAN HKG 1:12:022 Mark WILLIAMS GBR 1:12:513 Wang Kuen WONG HKG 1:13:014 Neil TAIT GBR 1:13:405 Ka Man GI HKG 1:13:556 Kirk SABEAN CAN 1:14:077 Wai Kwok CHAN HKG 1:14:348 Natsuki OKADA JPN 1:15:019 Hok Yan LAI HKG 1:15:0710 Chiu Lin LEUNG HKG 1:15:38WOMEN:1 So Liang TO HKG 1:23:282 Yuen Fan LEUNG HKG 1:24:463 Gillian CASTKA GBR 1:27:034 Terumi NIWA JPN 1:28:065 Christine BAILEY 1:28:216 Kit Yee CHAN HKG 1:28:267 Sui Ping FAN HKG 1:31:028 Ka Man WONG HKG 1:33:009 Shuk Han CHEUNG HKG 1:34:4510 Wai Ling CHU HKG 1:35:0842 DISTANCE RUNNING April – June 2006