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WOMEN:1 Ma Elena VALENCIA MEX 2:33:142 Neria ASIBA KEN 2:36:283 Ericka GUEVARA MEX 2:38:274 Lucy MUHAMY KEN 2:39:245 Judith RAMIREZ MEX 2:40:086 Liliana MERLO MEX 2:41:577 Irene VAZQUEZ MEX 2:43:288 Adriana SANCHEZ MEX 2:43:529 Ma Guadalupe SANTANA MEX 2:47:2710 Emma MALDONALDO MEX 2:51:2310-13 MARCH 2006:100km DEL SAHARA,TUNISIASee seperate feature, page 19Sahara12 MARCH 2006:NAGOYA INTERNATIONALWOMEN’S MARATHON, JAPANHarumi Hiroyama overtook Yoko Shibui with onlya kilometre to go, after lagging nearly a minutebehind her at 30km.Shibui had gone into the lead from the start andin the early stages she led a nine-strong chasinggroup by up to 10 seconds. By 10km she had beencaught but very soon afterwards she struck out onher own again, passing halfway in 1:10:24, nearlytwo minutes up on Naoko Takahashi’s courseLaLarecord pace. It was too much, too soon, as Shibuistarted to slow after 25km. By 30km she waslosing ground to her pursuers.“At 35km I could see her” said Hiroyama, who by40km had closed to within 100m of the tiring raceleader. Hiroyama’s wining time fell short of herpersonal best time by 30 seconds.WOMEN (ONLY):1 Harumi HIROYAMA JPN 2:23:262 Yoko SHIBUI JPN 2:23:583 Chika HORIE JPN 2:28:014 Alina TECUTA ROM 2:29:305 Yuko MACHIDA JPN 2:29:486 Yasuko HASHIMOTO JPN 2:29:537 Hiromi OMINAMI JPN 2:29:598 Ayumi HAYASHI JPN 2:30:239 Mulu SEBOKA ETH 2:30:4110 Mika HIKICHI JPN 2:31:0312 MARCH 2006:13TH KYOTO CITYHALF MARATHONAround 7000 runners started in drizzling rain on acold morning.MEN:1 Takayuki OTA JPN 1:02:502 Takuya YAMAWAKI JPN 1:02:523 Akihiko THUMIRAI JPN 1:02:534 Rioji MATUSITA JPN 1:02:585 Hirotaka TANAKA JPN 1:02:596 Samuel NGANGA JPN 1:03:037 Athushi IKAWA JPN 1:03:038 Tomoya SHIMIZU JPN 1:03:169 Satoru SASAKI JPN 1:03:2110 Ryo OHASHI JPN 1:03:22WOMEN:1 Mai ITO JPN 1:11:112 Ryoko KIZAKI JPN 1:12:463 Noriko HIGUCHI JPN 1:13:144 Kasumi OYAGI JPN 1:13:255 Chizuru IDETA JPN 1:13:336 Ayumi SAKAIDA JPN 1:13:507 Sizuka MARUMO JPN 1:13:538 Akane YATAKI JPN 1:14:149 Yukina SAIJYO JPN 1:14:2910 Seika IWAMURA JPN 1:15:0512 MARCH 2006: SEOULMARATHON, KOREAZhou Chunxia, who turned 28 only four days earlier,celebrated by becoming the seventh woman tobreak the sub-2.20 barrier, first broached by hercountrywoman Naoko Takahshi in 2001. She hadfinished only fifth in last summer’s worldchampionships marathon in Helsinki, but in thisrace she set the time to beat for 2006 and finishedmore than 3km clear of her nearest competitor.Zhou’s previous best was 2:21:11, set in the 2005Beijing Marathon. The following day she won silverin the National Games 10,000m in a time of31:08.03.Gert Thys won the men’s race for the third time infour years. Last year he had slipped to secondplace.MEN:1 Gert THYS RSA 2:10:402 Jason MBOTE KEN 2:11:403 Araya HAREGOT KEN 2:11:564 Young-Joon JI KOR 2:12:085 Jimmy MUINDI KEN 2:12:206 Wilson KIGEN KEN 2:12:287 Mbarak HUSSEIN KEN 2:12:538 William KIPSANG KEN 2:13:30WOMEN:1 Chunxiou ZHOU CHN 2:19:512 Kyung-Hee LIM KOR 2:34:083 Kyung-Hee CHOI KOR 2:36:104 Eun-Hee CHAE KOR 2:40:475 Chieko YAMASAKI JPN 2:41:406 Emily KIMURIA KEN 2:42:057 Sakato UETANI JPN 2:44:248 Ok-Yuon SUH KOR 2:46:4119 MARCH 2006:LOS ANGELES MARATHON,USASee seperate feature, pageLos Angeles54 DISTANCE RUNNING April – June 2006