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5 Elena SIMSIG ITA 3:11:596 Tiziana SCORZATO ITA 3:13:507 Maria Luisa COSTETTI ITA 3:15:298 Nathalie CHARLES FRA 3:16:329 Audrey AMARA USA 3:16:4510 Antonija ORLIC CRO 3:19:32Roma11.4km raceMEN:1 Zoltan KADLOT HUN 36:56WOMEN:1 Margherita GARGIONI ITA 42:4825 MARCH 2006:CITY-PIER-CITY HALFMARATHON, NETHERLANDSMEN:1 Moses KIGEN KEN 1:01:182 Solomon BUSHENDICH KEN 1:01:213 Kimwole KIMATTAI KEN 1:01:344 Patrick IVUTI KEN 1:01:505 William CHEBOR KEN 1:01:536 Stephan JUTTE 1:01:557 James MWANGI KEN 1:02:168 Sammy CHUMBA KEN 1:02:459 Peter KIPROTICH KEN 1:02:4710 David MUTAI KEN 1:03:36WOMEN:1 Simone STAICU HUN 1:12:492 Selina BORST NED 1:13:313 Lisa WIKLUND SWE 1:16:5225 MARCH 2006: XIAMENINTERNATIONAL MARATHON,CHINAWorld leading perfomer Zhou Chunxiou, who hadrun 2:19:51 in the Seoul Marathon only two weeksearlier, dropped out of the women's competition.In the men's race there was an impressive runfrom the 21-year old Deng Hai-Yang.MEN:1 Steven Kamar KEN 2:10:462 Jonathan Kosgei KEN 2:10:493 Hai-yang DENG CHN 2:10:504 Yusef SONGOKA KEN 2:11:145 Henry KAPKIAI KEN 2:11:336 Titus MUNJI KEN 2:12:187 Zhu-hong LI CHN 2:14:418 Wei SU CHN 2:14:489 Yun-shan ZHENG CHN 2:15:0310 Raymond KIPKOECH KEN 2:15:08WOMEN:1 Wei-wei SUN CHN 2:26:322 Xiao-lin ZHU CHN 2:28:273 Man JIN CHN 2:29:514 Yuan-yuan JIANG CHN 2:30:135 Shu-jing ZHANG CHN 2:30:356 Ya-nan WEI CHN 2:31:437 Si XU CHN 2:35:358 Li-nan WANG CHN 2:35:459 Shawutu NUERGULI CHN 2:36:0410 Shui-xian MU CHN 2:37:5626 MARCH 2006:MARATONA DELLA CITTA DIROMA, ITALYThe Rome City Marathon confirmed its place asItaly’s fastest after both winners smashed theirlifetime bests on a warm and sunny day writes DiegoSampoalo.Kipkorir kicked ahead to win from 35km and set aworld-leading time. His previous best, fromJanuary’s Mumbai Marathon, was nearly fourminutes slower. Behind him Daniele Caimmireturned to form while third-placed LabanKipngetich set another personal best by a hugemargin.So it went in the women’s race, as well, as TatyanaHladyr improved by four minutes and the topthree all finished inside the previous courserecord.The early men’s pace was fast (10km: 30:05) and athalfway was still just on record schedule (1:03:58)with a group of nine still together. As thetemperature rose runners dropped off, to leaveonly three at 35km and Kipkorir sensed hischance: “I did not expect to win but I realised noone could keep my pace” he said.Hladyr was the pacesetter in the women’s race,front running through halfway in 1:13:26. LarissaZousko, Zekiros Adanesh, Yanyan Dai and JenniferRhines were still in contention, but by 25km(1:26:54) only three remained. From 35km itbecame a duel between Zousko and Hladyr, butHladyr moved away from 40km to wincomfortably.MEN:1 David KIPKORIR KEN 2:08:382 Daniele CAIMMI ITA 2:09:303 Laban KIPNGETICH KEN 2:10:004 Thomas CHEMITEI KEN 2:10:055 Oleksandr KUZIN UKR 2:10:096 Solomon ROTICH KEN 2:11:427 Andrew LIMO KEN 2:11:488 Abdelhak EL GORCH BRN 2:11:499 Abebe HAILEMARIAM ETH 2:14:2810 Wesley NGETICH KEN 2:14:36WOMEN:1 Tatyana HLADYR UKR 2:25:442 Larissa ZOUSKO RUS 2:26:263 Zekiros ADENECH ETH 2:27:384 Jennifer RHINES USA 2:29:325 Svetlana NEKHIOROSH UKR 2:35:496 Yanyan DAI CHN 2:36:527 Jimma MARASHET ETH 2:37:0826 MARCH 2006:EDP MEIA MARATONA DELISBOA, PORTUGAL“She is running very strong” said SusanChepkemei of Salina Kosgei just two days before.So it proved, as after Chepkemei, a three-timewinner of this race had led for most of the way,Kosgei had the edge over the final kilometre. Itwas a specific weakness on Chepkemei´s partthat proved decisive, as with 800m to run shepulled over to the side with stomach pains. Shequickly recovered and strove hard to close downon Kosgei. Coming towards the final 100mstraight she seemed to be in with a fightingchance, but she had to slow again, and wasvomiting as Kosgei crossed the finish line eightseconds ahead of her.Another pre-race favourite, Paul Tergat, alsofound the finishing strength of his rivals toomuch to handle. Robert Cheruiyot had led formost of the race, occassionally accompanied bySamuel Wanjiru, as Tergat and Martin Lel kepttucked in behind. Wanjiru made moves at 19kmand at 20km, but his sprint came too early. Lelhad conserved his energy for the decisivemoment, as he took a small but clear lead beforethe final turning point of the course, only 300mfrom the finish line.Both leading groups had established themselvesearly. Rose Cheruyot had made the early runningand kept Chepkemei and Kosgei company untilafter 10km, when Chepkemei took over. Behindthem, Fernanda Ribeiro put in a very steady andpowerful performance to nearly catch Cheruyoton the line.58 DISTANCE RUNNING April – June 2006