Results
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19 October 2014 Hyderabad Int’l 15K
19 October 2014 TCS Amsterdam Marathon Netherlands
India
Marathon
[Race not held]
Men
1 2 3 4 5
Bernard KIPYEGO Lucas ROTICH John MWANGANGI Essa RASHED Elijah KEMBOI
1 2 3 4 5
Betelhem MOGES Ogla KIMAIYO Diane Nukuri JOHNSON Megertu IFA Guteni SHONE
KEN KEN KEN QAT KEN
2:06:22 2:07:18 2:07:28 2:07:54 2:09:21
ETH KEN BDI ETH ETH
2:28:35 2:29:15 2:29:35 2:32:31 2:36:57
www.procamrunning.in Next date: tbc
19 October 2014 Lake Maggiore Marathon
Women
Italy It was unseasonably warm but that did not stop 2,331 participants completing the various race distances (42km — 33km — 21km and 21km+21km Relay) along the shores of Lake Maggiore in the Piedmont Region.
Half marathon Men
1 Tom ALDRED
GBR 1:07:21 Women
1 Gulzhanat ZHANATBEK
KAZ 1:19:18
www.tcsamsterdammarathon.nl Next date: 18 October 2015
The Marathon and 33km start and finish in Verbania Pallanza while the 21km starts in Verbania Pallanza and finishes in Stresa.
19 October 2014 Beijing Marathon China
Transportation for all participants is provided free of charge using panoramic ferryboats very much appreciated by everyone.
Ethiopia’s Girmay Birhanu and Fatuma Sado were winners of the 34th edition writes Mirko Jalava. Birhanu, fastest in the field and race favourite, became the third successive Ethiopian man to win the race. By contrast, Sado was the first overseas women’s winner since Great Britain’s Debbie Noy back in 1991. Starting from Tiananmen Square there were seven runners in the men’s lead pack after 10km and two fewer by 15km as Kenya’s Samwel Maswai led with a 44:55 split. Ethiopian trio Birhanu, Abebe Degefa and Debebe Tolossa along with Kenya’s Eliud Kiplagat Barngetuny were running just a stride behind Maswai. Maswai weakened but was replaced by Solomon Bushendich and the fiveman group reached reached 30km in 1:31:39. After 35km (1:47:53) Birhanu and Degefa broke free and quickly opened up a big gap. They remained together until the last 500m when Birhanu kicked clear. Fatuma Sado grabbed her fourth in 10 marathons. In third, 21-yearold Gong Lihua won the Chinese title in personal best with the world junior best holder (2:22:38 in 2008) Zhang Yingying rather short of that form in fourth. The race has won unwelcome notoriety as many of the estimated 30,000 participants — although none of the elite field — were running with face masks to combat a blanket of smog which had descended. The marathon’s organizing committee said late on Saturday that postponing the event would be difficult because of all the
The absence of African elite athletes made for a more unpredictable race, eventually won by an Austrian, Christian Robion, who was enthusiastic about the landscape said he would come back again – but on holiday.
Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival Australia planning that had gone into it, and asked competitors to understand, which generally seemed to be the case. The environmental conditions deteriorated on Sunday morning sufficiently for Beijing’s environmental centre to issue a warning suggesting children and the elderly stay indoors.
Marathon Men
1 2 3 4
Girmay BIRHANU Abebe DEGEFA Debebe TOLOSSA Eliud Kiplagat BARGETUNY
ETH ETH ETH KEN
2:10:42 2:10:54 2:11:07 2:11:07
Women
1 2 3 4
Fatuma SADO Meseret KITATA Liha GONG Yingying ZHANG
ETH ETH CHN CHN
2:30:03 2:31:08 2:32:23 2:37:09
www.beijing-marathon.com/en Next date: tbc
19 October 2014 Maratón Int’l de Guadalajara Mexico 3500 runners (1000 women and 2500 men) took to the streets and avenues of the metropolitan area in
the XXX edition supported by people cheering along the entire route.
The 33km distance started and finished in Verbania Pallanza for the first time, using the same gantry as the Marathon.
Marathon
Marathon
Men
Men
1 Christian ROBIN
AUT 2:28:00
1 Hilary Kipchirchir KIMAIYO
KEN 2:20:52
2 Pietro COLNAGHI
ITA 2:37:06
2 Christoper KIPYEGO
KEN 2:23:36
3 Gabriele BLARDONE
ITA 2:41:13
3 Pedro Espinoza PEREZ
MEX 2:24:24
4 Luca RIVA
ITA 2:42:05
4 Juan Carlos CARERA
MEX 2:24:53
5 Mauro MICHELIN
5 Carlos Cordero GOMEZ
MEX 2:25:59
ITA 2:50:29 Women
1 Simona GIULIANI
ITA 3:05:57
MEX 2:42:17
2 Sara Aimee LEPEE
ITA 3:14:38
2 Dorcas Jeruti KANGOGO
KEN 2:47:43
3 Monica PILLA
ITA 3:15:43
3 Liliana Cruz VALDEZ
MEX 2:48:45
4 Mieke DEIWEL
GER 3:20:02
4 Paula Apolonia JUAREZ
MEX 2:49:29
5 Daniela TORTORA
ITA 3:20:52
5 Philles Nyansiaboka MORITI
KEN 3:01:25
Women
1 Dulce Maria RODRIGUEZ
33km
www.maratonguadalajara.org Next date: tbc
Men
1 Ennio FRASSETTI
ITA 1:58:28 Women
19 October 2014 Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l Marathon Korea [Results unobtainable] marathon.donga.com/gyeongju.html Next date: tbc
1 Claudia GELSOMINO
ITA 2:13:32
Half marathon Men
1 Ivan BRESSANELLI
ITA 1:14:04
Women
1 Rosalba VASSALLI-ROSSI
ITA 1:24:03
www.lagomaggioremarathon.com Next date: 18 October 2015 Distance Running | 2015 Edition 1
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