BMW BERLIN-MARATHON 2023: The Finisher Magazine
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
What was that BMW BERLIN-MARATHON like? September 24th will go down in history as one of the greatest festive days in running: Even before the first starting shot was fired, a record number of 47,912 entries from 156 nations had been allocated. And that is just the marathon runners. Of these, 43,010 reached the finish line at the Brandenburg Gate. This is the second highest number of finishers in the history of the race. Tigst Assefa runs into completely new dimensions with a world record. Eliud Kipchoge wins for the fifth time. Amanal Petros pulverises the German record. And Domenika Mayer becomes the second-best German of all time. In this digital finisher magazine we have compiled all the stories and the best photos from the 49th BMW BERLIN-MARATHON for you. We hope you enjoy reading, looking at the photos and reminiscing!
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give the <strong>BMW</strong> <strong>BERLIN</strong>-MARA-<br />
THON outstanding strength in<br />
depth. In ninth place was Amanal<br />
Petros who had set himself an<br />
ambitious pace from the start,<br />
going through halfway in 62:12.<br />
His split at 30km was 1:28:16<br />
which would have given a finishing<br />
time of 2:04 but he could<br />
not quite maintain that fine pace<br />
to the end. Nonetheless, he took<br />
a big slice off his personal best<br />
from 2:06:27 to 2:04:58. <strong>The</strong><br />
improvement of just a second<br />
short of one and a half minutes<br />
was the biggest among German<br />
men since the double Olympic<br />
champion Waldemar Cierpinski<br />
ran 2:09:55 in 1976.<br />
“I loved the atmosphere around<br />
the course. <strong>The</strong> last two kilometres<br />
were fantastic although I<br />
was very tired. This race was something<br />
special. I had this kind of<br />
time in my sights but, of course,<br />
in a marathon anything can happen,”<br />
said a delighted Amanal<br />
Petros, who was proud to move<br />
up to number four on the European<br />
all-time list. „It is my aim to<br />
further improve my time and do<br />
very well at the Olympic Games<br />
in Paris next year. This race today<br />
gives me great motivation<br />
for the Olympics.“<br />
Behind Amanal Petros two more<br />
Germans improved significantly<br />
Samuel Fitwi from Silvesterlauf Trier e.V.<br />
was the second best German in Berlin.<br />
After being on course for the Olympic<br />
standard of 2:08:10 for a long time, he<br />
narrowly missed it at the end in 2:08:28<br />
hours in 18th place.
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