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Contents 2015 Edition 3

Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de Béjaia, May 2015 Algeria

FEATURES Back on track in Bengaluru

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AIMS News IAAF News IAU News WMRA News

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Podium placers Worldwide race reports and pictures

Inspiration and integration

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Milton Keynes Marathon, Great Britain Over the last 40 years Milton Keynes’ “redways” have given ever-increasing numbers of runners the opportunity to enjoy undisturbed and varied runs beside the town’s lakes and through its parks at all times of the year, making it a great place to run.

World leading times The top times for men and women at Marathon, 57 Half Marathon and 10km

Making contact AIMS member races with full contact details

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Looking ahead Porto Marathon EDP, Portugal; Blackmores Sydney Running Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon), Australia; Tartu City Marathon, Estonia; Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon, Argentina; Taipei Marathon, Chinese 35 Taipei

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CAF Caracas Maratón, Venezuela For many runners the Marathon provides a chance to visit parts of the city that they rarely see when training. It’s an urban tourism opportunity for many inhabitants of Caracas: a chance to rediscover their own city.

Running red

Planning ahead Official listings for AIMS events

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Nagano Marathon, Japan The course leads around the athletic facilities that had been used for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games, starting from the Big Hat, the M-Wave, the White Ring, and finally the Nagano Olympic Stadium that had been the the setting for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games…

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TCS World 10K Bengaluru, India The 10km was always my first step to running longer distances. I knew once I got another 10km under my belt I could again push myself to a half marathon and beyond. Bengaluru seemed like the ideal place to start afresh: 10,000 metres through the heart of the city and past its iconic landmarks, yet still running in my own backyard.

Women run the city

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Austrian Women’s Run, Austria They come year on year from all places to the Austrian Women’s Run and are of all ages and levels of ability. Running together every woman offers her personal best efforts and all contribute to making the event into an incomparable experience.

Running into history

48 Spar Budapest Marathon In 1984 a few Hungarian sports organisers dreamed of staging a people’s marathon in Budapest. Today, the last decade has been one of continuous growth.

Hungarians came to appreciate the marathon and foreign runners have begun to discover quite how gorgeous a course Budapest offers.

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60 Opinion What makes the Marathon so popular in Italy?

Alessio Punzi, former Communications Officer of the Rome Marathon, offers his insight.

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AIMS News

AIMS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference

Keeping track The US company Road Race Management has created a listing of current and past distance running athletes convicted of doping offenses. The RRM website (www.rrm.com) contains separate lists of those currently serving suspensions (or who have announced their retirement from the sport) and a list of those who have completed suspensions and are actively competing again.

The historical list containing over 300 currently or formerly suspended runners is the only place for people to identify those previously banned which is particularly helpful for race directors if they have a policy of not inviting such runners to their events (even though they are currently eligible to compete).

The Penang Bridge Half Marathon — a new race held over a newly-opened bridge to that which provides the venue for the Penang Bridge International Marathon — hosted the first ever AIMS Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on 12–13 June.

Race organisers from as far afield as Australia, Japan and Sri Lanka attended as well as some guest speakers from outside the region including keynote speaker Carlo Capalbo from the Prague Marathon.

He spoke about the concept behind the 'Running Mall" which has operated in the Czech capital for the last two years. The programme continued with presentations on social media strategy for races and what factors must be put in place to facilitate a world record breaking race.

New AIMS members The Marathon du Gabon (GAB) has been held for the last two years and attracts 2700 men 350 women, with 150 foreign runners coming from 40 countries. Course records are held by Peter Kurui (KEN) at 2:14:42 and Milika Jerotich (KEN) at 2:34:04.

The Jakarta Marathon (INA) has been held for two years, along with a Half Marathon and 10km & 5km races. Taken together these attract 8455 men, 6120 women, including 1150 foreign runners from 50 countries. Course records are held

by Julius Seurei (KEN) 2:14:51 and Winifrida Nyansikera (KEN) 2:40; The Waterford Viking Marathon (IRL) was held for the fourth time on 27 June, after this edition of Distance Running went to press.. The previous year’s race was

Attendees broke into two groups for discussion on how to attract runners to their events from increasingly far away rather than just the neighbouring countries and reformed to compare findings. A final session addressed the successful strategy behind two formerly elite-only Japanese races — Tokyo Marathon and Nagoya Women;s Marathon — to reinvent themselves as mass participation events.

Regional conferences have previously been held in Africa and South America. The next is planned for Cape Town in September 2015.

The next World Congress of AIMS will be in South America, hosted by the Quito Ultimas Noticias 15km in the Ecuadorean capital on 2–4 June 2016.

contested by 415 men and 105 women, among them 35 foreign runners from eight countries. Course records stand to Gary O’Hanlon and Pauline Curley, both Irish, at 2:28:05 and 2.46.40 The Kaunas Marathon, Half 10km & 5km (LTU) was held for the third time on 14 June. Around 5000 runners compete, including 100 foreign participants from 30 countries. Aurimas Skinulis (LTU, 2:28:18) and Elena Simonok (UKR, 3:06:43) hold the course records.

The Legends Marathon 68km & 21.1km (RSA) will be held for the third time on 3 October. Around 200 runners compete, including seven foreign runners coming from five countries. Collen Makaza (ZIM) and Alemtsehay Kakissa (ETH) hold the course records for the ultra event at 3:50:36 and 4:50:14 respectively.

The 27km for Freedom (RSA) has been held for the last six years in the Cape Province and sets its length in

acknowledgement of the 27 years that ‘Father of the Nation’ Nelson Mandela spent behind bars during the years of the Apartheid regime. Bernard Rukadza and Bulelwa Simae, both from South Africa, hold the course records of 1:32:29 and 1:50:11 respectively. Around1400 men and 1300 women run the various race options, including 20 foreign runners hailing from six other countries.

New Associates The Erzurum Half Marathon & 10km (TUR) was held for the first time on 24 May (see Podium Placers section).

The Gran Marathon Mexiquense (MEX) was held for the second time on 8 March this year and hosted 2400 men and 1600 women with 80 foreign runners coming from 12 countries. Fastest yet over the distance have been Hillary Kipchir Kimayo (KEN) with 2:23:51 and Judy Kiniuge Chesire (KEN) with 2:55:51.

The new online tool is in a special section of the RRM Online Resources section of the RRM website, which also includes the Online Guide to Prize Money Races and Elite Athletes. The Guide is a free resource that lists over 1000 athlete biographies and contacts and details on over 600 prize money races.

Skopje Marathon cancellation The Wizz Air Skopje Marathon, which was to be held on 10 May 2015, was cancelled on the eve of the race at the request of the City of Skopje and the Ministry of the Interior of the FYR Macedonia. The request was made at 23.00 on 9 May in response to an incident earlier that day in which eight policemen were killed in an antiterrorist action in Kumanovo (a town 40km from Skopje).

The City and Ministry concluded that the safety of the 7500 participants in the Wizz Air Skopje Marathon, coming from 50 countries worldwide, was in danger, since the marathon was one of the targets of the terrorist group.

Organizers we were shocked to have to cancel at the very last moment but had no alternative.

“Participants’ safety must always come first” said race director Kire Sinadinovski. “We hope all participants and partners will understand the difficult situation in which we were placed.”

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AIMS News

Living the legend Yiannis N. Mamouzelos, The authentic Athens marathon: history and great moments 1896 to the present. Price EUR 13.50, GBP 10, USD 14. SALTO Publishing (www.salto.gr)

inform runners by disentangling the legend, misinformation and conjecture from reality.

The book presents the races, the protagonists and the performances, and the geography and history of the areas through which the route passes. In doing so it explains why this marathon has no equal on Earth.

Michel Bréal, father of the modern Olympic Marathon in 1896 could never have conceived how his creation would lead to an international movement with millions of adherents all over the world. The early pioneering competitors could not have imagined that hordes of men and women would be enthusiastically following in their footsteps a century later.

Running the original Marathon from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium is many a runner's lifelong dream: running the authentic marathon race along the road of history and legend. The Athens Marathon is uniquely appealing to

Road running database The Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) database may be accessed at http://more.arrs.net. It contains all men’s sub-2:20 marathon performances and women’s under 2:50 ever run.

Get up-to-date rankings at standard distances for any year and for any country. Each ranking entry provides links to that particular runner and that particular race.

Children’s Series The three races in the AIMS Children’s Series for 2015 are scheduled for: July : Featherstone, Zimbabwe (final event of three) August: Asuncion, Paraguay (final event of three) November: Valley of 1000 Hills, South Africa (second event of three)

AIMS Marathon Symposium The 9th AIMS Marathon Symposium will be held on 7 November 2015 in Athens, following the AIMS BMR Awards Gala.

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runners as the birthplace of the event.

This book is an aesthetically appealing publication (170 pages with extensive photographic and documentary material) written to

The historical record grips the reader like a novel. Any runner in the Athens Marathon who reads the book will then be able to appreciate how they are enacting a sequel to the events of another era: repeating the achievement of the ancient messenger in his unique effort in an earlier race with momentous historical significance.

The Athens Marathon, which comes colourfully alive in this book, is not just a great annual sporting event, but one of great cultural, social, touristic and economic importance.

The AIMS Best Marathon Runner Awards Gala The third annual AIMS Best Marathon Runner Awards Gala will be held on Friday 6 November in Athens.

Up to three male and female candidates will be nominated for the award, depending upon how runners’ performances rate after the Berlin Marathon on 27 September — the last result to be considered for this year’s awards.. Of a total prize fund of $50,000, $15,000 will be awarded to the man and woman voted ‘Best Marathon Runner’ and $5000 to each of the other candidates nominated.

Candidates will be proposed on the basis of athletes’ results achieved between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015 and they will be announced on 07 October 2015, when voting will begin. Each AIMS member can record their vote by email to AIMS HQ, choosing only one male candidate and one female candidate. The poll closes on 30 October 2015 and the result will be announced for first time during the BMR Gala on Friday night, 6 November 2015.

The other awards to be made at the Gala are: • The Lifetime Achievement Award, to a person who has given longtime service to the advancement of distance running.

• The Green Award, to an AIMS member race which practices innovative policies in pursuing an environmentally friendly event.

• The Social Award, to an AIMS member race which best integrates and services the wider social purposes of their host community.

AIMS Headquarters OACA Olympic Complex Av Spyros Louis, Athens, Greece www.aimsworldrunning.org

aimshq@aimsworldrunning.com Tel: +30 21 0683 2550

EXECUTIVES PRESIDENT:

Paco Borao (Valencia)

borao@correcaminos.org PRESIDENT EMERITUS:

Hiroaki Chosa

H O N O R A R Y V I C E -P R ES I D E N T S :

Allan Steinfeld, Carlos Moya H O N O R A R Y S T AT I S T I C I A N :

Dr. David Martin

V I C E -P R ES I D E N T S :

Martha Morales (Tangamanga) maratontangamanga@gmail.com

Dave Cundy (Great Wall) cundysm@ozemail.com.au SECRETARY:

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Bruno Boukobza (Nice-Cannes) bruno@zapsports.fr

Andrea Eby (Vancouver) andreaeby@shaw.ca

Fernando Jamarne (Santiago) fjamarne@alessandri.cl

Mark Milde (Berlin)

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Mitsugi Ogata (Fukuoka) m.ogata@jaaf.or.jp

A I M S H Q (AT H E N S ):

Theodosis Livitsanos (Administrator)

aimshq@aimsworldrunning.org C O N S U LT A N T S :

Frank Baillie (Magazine & Website) bailliefrank@aol.com

Peter McLean (Press & Public Relations)

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Horst Milde (AIMS Marathoneum, Berlin) horst-milde@t-online.de

International Measurement Administrators: AMERICAS:

Bernie Conway

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E N G L I S H -S P EA K I N G E U R O P E & AFRICA:

Hugh Jones

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The next edition of Distance Running will be published in October 2015, covering races held from late June to late September 2015. The advertising and editorial deadlines will be on 9 September.

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Dave Cundy

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T.O.U.R.S (Tour Operators United for Runners) is an association of selected global tour operators who specialise in sports travel, specifically running.

Members pride themselves in always delivering a high level of customer satisfaction. For over 27 years we’ve been ensuring that sports participants gain access to the best travel services for the world’s best running events.

T.O.U.R.S works closely with the race directors of the world’s leading events and we can guarantee entries to the most popular, oversubscribed races.

Our members offer various travel packages to suit different budgets and needs.

AUSTRALIA Travelling Fit www.travellingfit.com AUSTRIA Runners unlimited by Ruefa www.runners-unlimited.com BELGIUM BCD Travel www.bcdtravel.be BRAZIL Kamel Turismo www.kamelturismo.com.br DENMARK Marathon Travel Club www.marathon.dk FRANCE Contrastes Voyages www.contrastesvoyages.com Endurance Shop Tour www.enduranceshoptour.com Sportifs A Bord www.sportifsabord.com Sport Incentives International www.france-marathon.fr

Thomas Cook Marathons www.marathon-thomascook.com GERMANY Dertour www.detour-live.de interAir GmbH www.interair.de GREAT BRITAIN 2:09 Events Ltd www.209events.com IRELAND Sports Travel International Ltd www.sportstravelinternational.com

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Ovunque Running www.ovunquerunning.it Terramia Club www.terramia.com

Sportravel www.sportravel.es SWEDEN Springtime Travel www.springtime.se SRRC Sweden www.srrc-marathonresor.se SWITZERLAND Kuoni Reisen AG www.kuoni.ch/bern-groups Albis Reisen www.albisreisen.ch USA & CANADA Marathon Tours & Travel www.marathontours.com

SOUTH KOREA Open Care www.opencaretour.com S & B Tour Co Ltd www.snbtour.com

Visit www.runningtours.com or contact one of our members for more information Board of Directors: President – Thom Gilligan, Marathon Tours & Travel, USA | Martin Joyce, Sports Travel International Ltd, Ireland Achim Wricke, interAir GmbH, Germany | Patrik Yderberg, Springtime Travel, Sweden | Mari-Mar Walton, Travelling Fit, Australia

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IAAF News Letesenbet Gidey won the junior women’s race in her first international outing, sprinting ahead in the final metres to lead Ethiopia to a clean sweep of the medals for the first time since 2004 writes Michelle Sammet.

Kenyans had led when the field of 101 runners from 28 countries set off but during each of the three 2km laps they dropped back as the Ethiopians slowly took charge.

Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet held on to the end of the second lap in second place but then fell behind along with early leader Gladys Kipkoech.

Gidey, who only turned 17 eight days before the race and became the youngest junior women’s winner in 15 years, maintained a comfortable third through most of the race while the favoured Kenyans paid the price for their fast start. With a lap to go Kenya’s 2012 world junior steeplechase champion Daisy Jepkemei led, chased around the winding mountainous course by five Ethiopians.

Junior women 1 2 3 4 5

Letesenbet GIDEY Dera DIDA Etagegn WOLDU Daisy JEPKEMEI Mihret TEFERA

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TEAMS:

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1 Kenya 2 Ethiopia 3 Eritrea

ETH KEN KEN KEN BRN

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With 500m to go, Gidey took off, immediately opening a three-second gap, with Dera Dida and Etagegne Woldu following closely. Dida almost caught Gidey close to the line, finishing just one second behind her with Woldu a further four seconds back.

Jepkemei in fourth had the consolation of collecting the vital points that kept the Kenyan team in silver medal position as Bahrain’s Desi Mokonin and world junior steeplechase champion Jebet finished 8th and 9th to clinch team bronze medals.

Japan, who had won team medals in 11 of the past 15 junior women’s races finished in fifth.

Pictures: Getty

Kiptarus, competing internationally for the first time.

Yasin Haji unleashed a fearsome sprint finish to take the Junior men’s title writes Steven Mills.

The Kenyan team were well to the fore on the first lap, completed in 5:48, and on the second were the only country with their full complement of six runners in the leading group.

The twists and undulations on the circuit made it difficult to maintain consistent pace — one muddy corner in particular caused many runners to slip and lose their footing — as the second lap was timed at 5:55.

By lap three Haji remained tucked in behind a Kenyan trio which included Kenyan trials winner Dominic

After a slower third lap of 5:59 Geoffrey Korir and Alfred Ngeno surged at the bell, dropping Kiptarus and Uganda's world junior 10000m champion Joshua Cheptegei, but they could not shake off Haji.

He hit the front when the finish line came in to view and around the final bend his fearsome pace in the last 250m took him to a comfortable victory.

Kenya reclaimed the team title from Ethiopia while sixth-placed Abraham Habte led Eritrea to the team bronze medals, returning them to the junior men’s podium after being absent since Amman in 2009.

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IAAF News Agnes Tirop brought home Kenya’s 300th medal in the World Cross and became the youngest senior women’s winner since Zola Budd in 1985 writes Michelle Sammet.

Still only 19, the 2013 junior women’s silver medallist went out strongly — not intimidated in the slightest by two-time world crosscountry champion Emily Chebet and a strong set of Ethiopian runners — as she triumphed by kicking away from Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi in the final 200m.

“I was trying to push the pace from the start. I was just trying to run my own race” she said. Teferi, just a few months older, was the only one to challenge Tirop as the remaining athletes slowly dropped away to leave the two 19-year-olds contesting for the gold medal.

During the first lap of the 8010m race, the field was still huddled together but it quickly turned into a two-horse race — over the former horse racing circuit on the outskirts of the southern Chinese city — with regard to the team competition. The leading pack of 12 consisted of six Kenyans and six Ethiopians.

Ethiopia won by two points to end the Kenyans’ five-year winning streak. Uganda, the host country for the 2017 Championships, took third for their first ever senior women’s medal.

Local champion Ding Changqin, watched by many friends and family won the loudest cheers of the day for her courageous race to finish as the top Asian runner, in 16th place, just six days after running a personal best of 2:26:54 to win the Chinese

marathon title. With compatriot Zhang Xinyan in 17th the Chinese women took fourth team place, the hosts’ best result of the day.

Geoffrey Kamworor maintained his unbeaten championship record using his trademark front-running tactics writes Steven Mills. The 22-year-old Kenyan added the senior men’s title to his junior win from four years ago, and his world halfmarathon victory in Copenhagen last year.

Kamworor’s plan was to run the finish out of the track specialists and he headed the race from the early stages with Bedan Karoki and Philip

Langat as the Ethiopians sat back within the leading bunch.

Kamworor was seldom out of the top two for the entire race as laps were clicked off in 5:40, 5:50 and 5:43.

The Ethiopian challenge started to falter at this stage as Kamworor, Karoki and Muktar Edris began to pull clear towards the end of the fourth lap (5:45).

Running side by side Kamworor and Karoki maintained their pace as Edris hung on almost until the final lap but the damage was done and he faded in the next kilometre. With 400m to go Kamworor still had to shake off Karoki but he unleashed a dazzling kick over the last 300m to finish fully eight seconds clear.

Ethiopia and Kenya finished level in the team event on 20 points but the Ethiopians secured the title because their fourth counter Atsedu Tsegay finished ahead of Kenya’s. Led by Aweke Ayalew in 10th, Bahrain’s team bronze was their first ever medal in a men’s event at the World Cross.

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5 Stacy Chepkemboi NDIWA KEN 26:16

TEAMS: 1 Ethiopia

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2 Kenya

19 pts

3 Uganda

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ETH 35:06

4 Hagos GEBRHIWET

ETH 35:15

5 Leonard BARSOTON KEN 35:24

TEAMS: 1 Ethiopia

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2 Kenya

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3 Bahrain

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12 September 2015

THE RACE: The 15th Stockholm Half Marathon will take place on Saturday 12 September 2015. Start at 15.30.

THE COURSE: The Stockholm Half Marathon is run on an inspiring course through central Stockholm. The difference between the highest and the lowest point of the course is 27 metres. Start and finish in front of the Royal Palace.

THE RUNNERS: Interest in Stockholm Half Marathon has increased over the years. A record number of 18,046 runners registered for the 2014 Stockholm Half Marathon from 80 countries.

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Average temperature in mid September is 15 degrees C.

THE CITY: Welcome to Stockholm, one of the world’s most beautiful capitals. Built on 14 islands around one of Europe’s largest and best preserved medieval city centres, the Swedish capital is superbly positioned, with stunning and extremely varied scenery in every direction.

RACE OFFICE: Phone: +46 – 854 566 440.

E-mail: info@StockholmHalfMarathon.se Web site: StockholmHalfMarathon.se TOURIST INFORMATION: Stockholm Visitors Board. Web site: stockholmtown.com OFFICIAL HOTEL: Villa Brevik Web site: www.villabrevik.se Organisers: Athletic clubs Hässelby SK, Spårvägens FK and Turebergs FK.

STOCKHOLM ULTRA, 8 AUGUST The second Stockholm Ultra Marathon will be on Saturday 8 August. Fast and beautiful course in the Royal National City Park in central Stockholm. The event has three distances, 50km, 75km and 100km.

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Nagano Marathon, Japan 19 April 2015

Powered by the Olympic rings agano is a city of 400,000 people located in the central part of Honshu, Japan’s main island. The 1998 Winter Olympic Games were held here and the Nagano Marathon was launched as a ‘legacy’ event in 1999 called the “Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon”.

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But the city has a much longer association with the Marathon having staged a national event, the Shinmai Marathon, since 1958. This race had incorporated a women’s competition since 1980. The last edition held was the 41st, in 1998, before the baton was taken up by the current event.

The intention behind the re-launch was so that: “the Nagano Marathon reminds us of the inspiration of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games, keeping the excitement ringing in our hearts and contributing to the development of regional sports, culture and the Olympic Movement.”

The course is point-to-point, starting at the Nagano City Athletic Park where the ice hockey stadium of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games is located and heading south to pass the Zenkō-ji temple, the foremost cultural and touristic site in the city, before finishing at the Olympic Stadium. The route incorporates four of the former Olympic venues into the race.

prolific Yuki Kawauchi in 2013. Before 2004 the race was run on a downhill course well over the allowable limit for record-eligible performances. The current course is relatively flat with only a 5m incline from start to finish.

Francis Kibiwott (2:09:05 in 2012) and Alevtina Ivanová (2:26:38 in 2008) are the current men’s and women’s course record holders — although Madina Biktagirová ran 2:26:09 on the downhill course in 2002. Kenyan men have won 12 of the 16 races while Russians have dominated the women's race with 10 victories. Nephat Kinyanjui of Kenya won the race a record three times in succession between 2006 and 2008. The race was not held in 2011 because of the disruption of the Tokohin earthquake and tsunami.

Of the 9558 participants in the 17th edition a record-breaking 8372 runners (87.6%) officially finished. The race has a five-hour limit for completion which is a relatively high hurdle among mass participation races in Japan.

At 08.30 when the race started the temperature was 9.6C and the sky was lightly cloudy. It was a perfect day for a marathon race. Many of the runners wore the lime-green race T-shirts that helped us feel springtime in the air.

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The Shimai event had been a domestic marathon but the new race was always intended to be international. Only two Japanese men have won the Nagano Marathon: Akiyo Onishi in the first race and the

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Nagano Marathon, Japan Continued from page 13

Naoko Takahashi, the Olympic gold medalist in the Women’s Marathon at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, was guest of honour. She encouraged the runners to drink liquids as often as possible and cheered them with high-fives.

The runners all waved to her in response.

Just before six kilometres the Zenko-ji Temple, a national treasure, appeared on the right when making a left turn there. The course then led runners to the central avenue which descends into the heart of Nagano City. This year was the

rapeseed helped the runners to battle their fatigue.

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once-in-seven-years unveiling of the treasured Buddhist image at the Zenko-ji Temple. As a result many worshippers along the course who had come to pray for blessings also sent cheers.

Runners responded to the constant cheering of the spectators by giving high-fives as a pledge that they would put up a good fight.

The course leads around the athletic facilities that had been used for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games, starting from the Big Hat, the M-Wave, the White Ring, and finally the Nagano Olympic Stadium that had been the the setting for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

There was a constant stream of performances on the roadside by Taiko drummers, choruses, and alphorn players that in particular delighted the 366 overseas runners from 35 different countries and regions. The last half of the course leads along the Chikuma River where colourful peach and apple blossoms and yellow

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Henry CHIRCHIR Tomohiro TANIGAWA Kauhei OGINO Takayu FUKATSU Taiga ITO Shota YAMAGUCHI Tomonori SAKAMOTO Sho KATSUMOTO Topmohito TAKENAKA Akiyuki IWANAGA

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It started drizzling before noon but the rain kept the temperature low and running conditions favourable. Naoko Takahashi, Yoshimi Ozaki and two-time Olympic Marathon silver medallist Eric Wainaina, who spent much of his career in Japan and won this race twice, ran alongside the citizen runners to give them encouragement.

Runners pressed on to complete their 42,195m and were smiling when they received finisher towels and medals. There were some among them who shed tears and others who collapsed on the ground as they crossed the finish line. All expressed their gratitude to everyone involved, saying things like: “the cheering of the spectators re-energised me”; “thanks to them I was able to record my personal best time” and “I’d like to say thank you to all the many volunteers.” They joyfully waved their hands, saying “We’ll meet at this marathon again next year.”

Check the round-up film from the race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UOaK6 cvxk

Nagano Marathon ■ The next race is on Sun 17 April 2016.

■ For more information visit: www.naganomarathon.gr.jp

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CAF Caracas Maratón, Venezuela 26 April 2015

he CAF Caracas Marathon and its associated Half Marathon has become an important venue for thousands of Venezuelan and international runners. Although it has been held only four times this relatively new event on the international marathon circuit is already highly regarded by its participants and especially by Venezuelan runners to whom it offers a unique opportunity to run an international marathon in their own country.

The event is already earning its place among the quality marathons in South America, including Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

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The Venezuelan capital is home to five million inhabitants, sits about 900m above sea level and is surrounded by mountains which separate the city from the Caribbean Sea. Its irregular topography — a natural valley — makes for demanding running conditions. Not discouraged by this at all, some 10,000 runners gather at 04.00 near the Parque Los Caobos in the centre of Caracas. The race starts in the western part of the city, where the main government buildings and historical monuments are located, and heads east, where most of the iconic buildings of modern Caracas fill the skyline. The race ends back where it begins in Los Caobos next to the Museum of Natural Science and the National Gallery of Art. Elite runners are invited from throughout the region. The marathon is organised by CAFDevelopment Bank of Latin America to promote regional integration and social inclusion through sport.

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2km up to the Torres del Silencio. Runners quickly leave behind the iconic 225m-high twin towers which for many years were the tallest in Latin America.

Spectators line both sides of the street from the start: some are friends and family members who have come to cheer their runners but others are curious bystanders drawn by the spectacle. The race passes by El Calvario, a promenade area built towards the end of the nineteenth century, the O’Leary Plaza and Avenida San Martín.

The more difficult section of the course is yet to come. From the roadside the young and the not-so-young cheer the runners on as they pass through this area in Caracas, which is not yet

used to marathoners racing through their city streets. For many runners the Marathon provides a chance to visit parts of the city that they rarely see when training. It’s an urban tourism opportunity for many inhabitants of Caracas: a chance to rediscover their own city.

After 12km runners come up against one of the first testing sections of the course as they approach the Helicoide, an iconic spiral-shaped building from the 1950s. This relatively steep climb lasts for 400m and is followed by a level stretch leading towards Los Próceres, a beautiful urban promenade area where military parades and sporting events are held.

CAF Caracas Maratón, Venezuela RESULT Marathon

Men 1 Jose CARDONA

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2:22:09

2 Juan Carlos CARDONA

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2:22:51

3 Didimo SANCHEZ

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2:24:09

4 Pedro ESPINOSA

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5 Manuel BELLORIN

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Spectators crowd this part of the course and provide an emotional high point for the runners. An additional 800 volunteers man the hydration and cheering stations along the course. Banners, applause and marching bands encourage runners in their efforts. “I remember running past a cheering point and feeling a definite adrenalin boost thanks to the music,” says Carlos Jerez, a 30-year-old Spanish runner.

Having passed the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), another iconic group of buildings and works of art, the Half Marathon diverges from the Marathon and returns via Plaza Venezuela to the starting point. The Marathon continues eastwards for the second half of the route. Over the next few kilometres the number of spectators diminishes and the first signs of cramps and fatigue brought on by the sustained effort start to appear. “While I was training a friend told me that the CAF-Caracas Marathon actually starts at kilometre 30,” remembers Jerez.

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2 Sonia CALIZAYA

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At 33km the race reaches Francisco de Miranda Avenue, one of the main avenues in East Caracas with its businesses, hotels, shops and the Parque Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda, better known as the Parque del Este. It is one of the natural meeting points for running and training in Caracas: its wide walkways, gardens and lakes were designed by the Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx.

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2 William DIAZ

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3 Eudi PIAMO

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Women 1 Zuleima AMAYA

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2 Egris ARIAS

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3 Eulimarys CAMACARO

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At this point the course begins a slight climb for the next few kilometres before the home stretch.

It is on this part of the course where runners tell stories of the spontaneous support and encouragement that they have received from onlookers which have given them the strength and determination to see the race through to the finish.

“A cyclist I didn’t know started to yell out to me from the sidelines: ‘Are you going to stop after coming this far? … I will not move from here until I see you run again.’ And that’s how I began to run again, accompanied by this cyclist who kept encouraging me to go on,” wrote runner Bernardo Guinand in his blog.

There are many stories like these from this marathon, an initiative that seeks not only to promote Latin American integration but also the integration of Venezuelans with their beautiful capital city.

CAF Caracas Maratón ■ For more information visit: maraton.caf.com

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Milton Keynes Marathon, Great Britain 4 May 2015

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It is also very easily accessible, located 70km north-west of London on the M1 motorway and only 30 minutes away by train.

Luton Airport, with direct flights from throughout Europe and many places beyond lies 30km from MK, on the way to London.

ilton Keynes was a sleepy scenic village in rural Buckinghamshire before the urban planners of the 1960s came their way. In the 1970s it became a burgeoning “new town” — set up to attract companies that otherwise would probably have located in the British capital London, only 70km to the south…

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When the new town was first built one of the town planners with a sense of humour thought it would be a good idea to appease local opposition against development in the countryside by placing five concrete cows alongside the railway line to keep the rural feeling alive. The gesture was widely ridiculed: a post-modernist joke before its time.

More central to their concept of the new town was the network of “redways” (literally red-bricked pathways, with bridges and underpasses) that allowed pedestrians and cyclists the benefit of rarely having to come close to busy roads. That was when runners were still a rare breed but over the last 40 years the redways have given ever-increasing numbers of runners the opportunity to enjoy undisturbed and varied runs beside the town’s lakes and through its parks at all times of the year. Milton Keynes (known affectionately as MK) is a great place to run.

Redway Runners is the biggest running club in town with over 880 members. It was founded in 2010 to cater for every level of runner. Over 300 novices passed through the club beginners’ courses last year and organised runs take place every day of the week.

Against this background of local running activity and with the 2012 London Olympic Games looming closer by the month local runner Andy Hully woke up one morning in August 2010 with the idea of staging a Marathon in Milton Keynes to coincide with the Olympic year. His fellow Redway Runners could be relied upon to assist and official backing was quickly secured from Milton Keynes Council and StadiumMK who were in partnership working towards establishing MK as an ‘International Sporting City’.

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Jack PARSLOW Dan CARTER James GORDON Daniel ROBINSON Nathan WARREN Max DILLON Luke MOULTON Roger VILARDELL Dan LEAKE Chris BROOKMAN

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Kate WRIGHT Leanne HARLING Jo LAING Ricky BAIRD Sarah MORWOOD Emma WHEATCROFT Karen PATTERSON Elspeth TURNER Alex MARSHALL Alison BOYLE

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It took 18 months of hard work to plan the first event. It couldn't have been done without the enthusiastic support of the Redway Runners, who provide the majority of the 500 strong event crew required to stage MK’s flagship sporting event. Their commitment and enthusiasm has been instrumental, as it was with the London 2012 volunteers, in generating the very positive feedback received to date.

The inaugural race took place on a very wet and windy day in April 2012. The stadium was being extended by one tier at the time and the building works caused it to flood. Since it was completed the Stadium has provided a world class finish for the MK marathon.

section which from 4–11km is on the wide, treelined boulevards of the city centre. From 16km runners embark on a meandering loop through a mixture of quiet roads and rural redways which have a curiously intimate feeling to them as they progress through woodlands, along lakesides and across parks. The route skirts the pre-existing Milton Keynes village at around 25km. Three course records were broken in 2015 and the race is attracting faster runners as it becomes more widely known.

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Men 1 Marcus ENGSTROM 2 Jamie FARMER 3 Daniel PAINE

Many lessons have been learned since and the organising team strive to put on the best event possible each year. The stadium facilities include probably the biggest baggage hall of any event in the UK and runners find that there is minimal queuing for toilets. The MK Marathon has leapt into the top 10 marathons in Britain yet has one of the cheapest race entry fees. Modern hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities abound, making pre and post-race activities both fun and easy to arrange at very reasonable cost.

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Women 1 Sophie CARTER 2 Rachel CAVE 3 Karen MURPHY

The course takes full advantage of the green surroundings Milton Keynes offers. In the first third of the race runners complete an out-back Apart from providing hundreds of volunteers many Redway runners run the marathon. In a new initiative for 2015/16 MK Marathon and Redway Runners have established a “Zero to Hero” programme to take 12 aspiring marathon runners from novice status to running the MK Marathon in May 2016. A training programme is set for each runner and a network of mentors will take runners to their goal.

When planning your 2016 schedule why not look at the Milton Keynes Marathon and Half Marathon? Race day is the first Monday in May which is always a national holiday in UK. Visiting runners are more than welcome to join the Redway Runners (www.redwayrunners.com) at any time. Come and let us introduce you to the delights of running in MK.

Milton Keynes Marathon ■ The next race is on 2 May 2016.

■ For more information visit: www.mkmarathon.com

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Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bengaluru, India 17 May 2015

Back on track in Bengaluru

By Neha Kandalgaonkar

he TCS 10km Bengaluru this year was the eighth edition of the race in my home city.

It had started back in 2008 as the running movement began to get established in India. I became swept up in that movement a little later. But somehow life had moved on since then: work demands grew and after doing a half marathon in Mumbai my running stopped.

When the TCS World 10km registrations opened in early April this year I knew it was the time to re-start my running story.

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The 10km was always my first step to running longer distances. I knew once I got another 10km under my belt I could again push myself to a half marathon and beyond. Bengaluru seemed like the ideal place to start afresh: 10,000 metres through the heart of the city and past its iconic landmarks, yet still running in my own backyard.

It’s not called the World 10km for nothing.

There are two elite races run on very nearly the same course which attract the world’s best.

World record holder in the half marathon Zersenay Tadese set the inaugural course record of 27:51 and this year former world record holder in the 10km Micah Kogo could only manage fourth place. The women’s race is just as fierce a contest. There was a dead heat in the first edition and photo-finish equipment has been used ever since. Sitting up in the stands, watching runners enter the stadium for the last 350m, I have on occasion seen four or five of them come onto the track together and battle it out right down to the line.

The event’s different race categories give young, old, differently-abled… everyone a chance to

cross the finish line. For some it’s about health and fitness, setting personal goals, determination and triumph; for others it’s about charity. The event is one of the largest charity fundraising platforms in South India and has generated over US$2.5 million by more than 180 NGOs since inception.

The elite races used to be an inspirational curtain-raiser for the mass 10km race that followed, although until now I never quite found enough inspiration to toe the line myself.

But now it’s the mass race, starting at 06.00, that precedes the elite. This gives us better running conditions: the early-morning cool lasts for the entire race.

Indeed, the Bengaluru climate is tempered by slight elevation (around 900m) which makes it easier to train here than in most parts of India at this time of year. It’s also a green city with a lot of tree cover. The shade makes for pleasant running especially in Cubbon Park, a spacious oasis in the centre of town which runners pass through in the final part of the race.

A week before the race, the event’s running partner, Nike offers a familiarisation run over the race route. This can be more intimidating than confidence-building as it is done in open traffic. The air feels heavy and the roads are at their worst. This time around it was compounded by the stifling weather; we were all waiting for it to break before race day. My confidence began to sag as the days ticked by.

On Friday night I attended a race function “Beyond the Finish Line”, intended to Recognise, Reward & Reinforce catalysts of Indian Sport. Hosted by Bollywood star and running enthusiast Rahul Bose, his main interviewee was three-time Olympic gold medallist Marie-Jose Perec, in the role of international event ambassador for the race.

Listening to her story, of how she persevered and got out of herself what she knew she had within, provided the inspiration I needed.

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Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bengaluru, India RESULT 10km

Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Mosinet GEREMEW Fikadu SEBOKA Edwin KIPTOO Micah KOGO Birhanu LEGESE Kinde ATANAW Dickson CHUMBA Feyisa LELISA Bonsa DIDA Asmeraw MENGIST

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Mamitu DASKA Wude AYALEW Gladys CHESIR Helah KIPROP Emily CHEBET Jackline CHEPNGENO Belaynesh OLJIRA Aselefech MERGIA Adero NYAKISI Worknesh ALEMU

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Then on the eve of the race the weather broke: the rain came down in torrents. It would make for fresh conditions on race morning but in the meantime would it wash away the race itself?

The stadium, I later discovered, had been several inches deep in water and final preparations were precariously delayed.

At 04.30 I washed up at the stadium gates ready for them to open. All was on track for the race as I entered the holding area. I stood among a crowd of 11,000: we were all in it together, and if they were going to enjoy the run, was I not supposed to as well? I was doing this for me. I am not an elite runner but I remembered the words of Marie-Jose Perec about getting the best out of yourself.

Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bengaluru ■ The next race is in May 2016.

■ For more information visit www.procamrunning.in

By 6km we were circumnavigating the M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium on our right and skirting Cubbon Park to our left. A few hundred metres later we crossed the metro construction site and at 7km found ourselves taking a left turn by the Post Office onto Ambedkar Road — a grand thoroughfare onto which face two of the city’s main sights: the blood-red painted High Court and the looming domes of the Vidhana Soudha State Legislature.

When the start gun went there was no more thinking to be done. I was swept up in the occasion and once again being part of this mass movement where we all draw energy from each other. We eased our way directly out of the stadium (the elite runners first do two laps of the track) and up the gentle climb of Kasturba Road. At 2km we reached Cubbon Road, a long tree-lined boulevard that makes up the spine of the course. The elite do this as a straight out-back, but we take two diversions, one to each side of the road, to make up for the distance we missed on the track.

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A quick left-right brought us through the gates of Cubbon Park. Having been distracted from our efforts by the sights of the last couple of kilometres the rest of the route is so pleasant and gently downhill that it is almost effortless.

Sweeping left under the spreading boughs of flamboyant trees to round a water fountain we doubled back past the Library. We descended further to enter the final kilometre between a

tall colonnade of palms before exiting the Park, taking a left and starting our final sprint through the finish line outside the Stadium gates.

Past the finish line we enter the Volini recovery zone, with massage and a stretching area and professional trainers and physiotherapists on hand. Then comes the medal collection and the refreshment counter. The elite runners sweep past on their way back onto the track for the stadium finish while I am busy with all of this, but the faster finishers in our race have enough time to find themselves a grandstand seat to the spectacle.

The World 10km Bengaluru has got me back on my track. Next year I’ll do it again; and fast enough so I’ll be able to see fastest of them finish.

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Austrian Women’s Run, Vienna 31 May 2015

Women run the city

Photo: DIENER/Philipp Schalber

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ith a record 33,139 women from 90 nations participating the Austrian Women’s Run is among the top three women’s runs in the world.

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They come year on year from all places and are of all ages and levels of ability. Running together every woman offers her personal best efforts and all contribute to making the event into an incomparable experience.

Activity spreads over the entire weekend, with an extensive programme in the festival grounds.

It starts on the Saturday morning with the opening of the expo and the race package pickup accompanied by continuous entertainment all day on the Women’s Run stage, including informative talks and live music along with interesting exhibitors which attracts tens of thousands to the festival site.

More than 90% of runners pick up on the Saturday – that’s 30,000 of them. Apart from the race number the goodie-bag package includes many little gifts including product samples and information.

The specifically in-house designed Women’s Run T-shirt is a highlight every year. Every shirt received by participants serves as an indication that the wearer is part of the Women’s Run community. With a new design and in a new colour each year the T-shirt has become a collector’s item. It generates a lot of attention

and anticipation, as the secret of the new shirt is not revealed until a month before the event.

This year it bore the race motto: ’Run the City’.

The slogan carries a relevance that extends beyond the race weekend. It is a self-confident statement about the presence of female runners in urban areas the whole year round. Never before have so many women been seen running, walking and training in public areas.

For all those who don’t run in cities, it is a beautiful souvenir of their run in Vienna.

Throughout the Austrian Women’s Run tens of thousands of runners leave an imprint on the whole city, particularly on the “Wiener Prater” where the race is held. Well before arriving there on the Sunday morning thousands of women and girls – all bearing the new Women’s

Run shirt – start to make their way through the city by subway, tram and bicycle or on foot. The closer you get to the festival grounds, the more women join the throng. It is a thrilling and uplifting feeling for all participants when the unbelievably large Women’s Run community becomes visible and tangible and each runner discovers that she is a part of it.

All those arriving at the festival grounds are greeted by groups of drummers beating out a contagious rhythm. Well before the start a further highlight awaits runners — the warm-up with the star-choreographer Alamande Belfor.

Thousands of women and girls don’t want to miss this special event and join in enthusiastically.

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RESULT 5km

Women 1 Jessica OCONNELL

CAN

15:33

2 Viola JELEGAT

KEN

15:41

3 Jennifer WENTH

AUT

15:46

4 Ana Dulce FELIX

POR

15:51

5 Charlotta FOUGBERG

SWE

16:01

6 Silvia WEISSTEINER

ITA

16:26

7 Katrina BERESOVA

SVK

16:44

8 Magherita MAGNANI

ITA

16:54

9 Sara SKARDELLY

AUT

17:19

10 Victoria SCHENK

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17:21

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At exactly 09.00 the start gong chimes for the 33,000-plus runners. At the front there are top international and national runners who contest the 5km elite race. To offer optimum running conditions the rest of the field is divided into blocks that start in ‘waves’ every 2–3 minutes.

The course for both the 5km as well as the 10km is a flat loop through the beautiful green “Wiener Prater”. Thousands of spectators line the route and along with the drummers and bands create a sensational ambiance. A powerful wave of excitement carries the participants through the Prater.

The 10km distance is made up by an extra loop just after the 5km point running through the Viennese theme park and passing by one of the iconic Viennese landmarks: the giant ferris wheel.

Entering the finish straight a DJ offers an upbeat tempo for the final 100 metres and two

moderators motivate the participants to extraordinary final sprints. The finish is always thrilling for visitors and full of atmosphere as the crowd rousingly welcomes runners over the line.

A medal and a rose are awarded to every participant for her own personal best performance. Celebrations start directly after the run in the festival grounds, which rock with the wonderful atmosphere and live music as the crowd anticipate the start of the largest award ceremony in Austria. The top three finishers of each age group are honoured – which adds up to 185 awards. Many companions, spectators (friends, partners, families) share this wonderfully uplifting experience with the runners.

Every year the Austrian Women’s Run attracts more and more women from foreign countries.

Over 1000 participants in 2015 travelled from abroad to take part. With participants from 90

nations the Austrian Women’s Run embraces incredible diversity within those who start the run.

Women’s winner Jessica O’Connell from Canada enthused: “I I had such a great time in Vienna, meeting the other runners and enjoying the warm hospitality. This event was unlike any other and I was honoured to be a part of it”.

Kathrine Switzer, who has run the event three times, added: “Every woman is treated like an Olympic athlete. It’s exciting and perfectly organized – the best in the world.”

Become a part of the Women’s Run community.

Join the run in Vienna and celebrate your success with thousands of participants, family and friends. The 29th Austrian Women’s Runtakes place in May 2016 (date tbd). Online registration opens on 5 March 2016. Places are usually sold out within a month.

Winners of 5km elite race Date

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31.05.2015

Jessica O’Connell

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Time CAN

15:32.8

Ana Dulce-Félix

POR

15:41.6

Joyce Jemutai-Kiplimo

KEN

15:46.7

03.06.2012

Ana Dulce-Félix

POR

15:30.1

22.05.2011

Ana Dulce-Félix

POR

15:27.4

30.05.2010

Irina Mikitenko

GER

15:39.4

07.06.2009

Jelena Prokopcuka

LTU

15:29.4

18.05.2008

Sabrina Mockenhaupt

GER

15:57.6

03.06.2007

Sabrina Mockenhaupt

GER

15:36.6

11.06.2006

Krisztina Papp

HUN

15:35.9

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Porto Marathon EDP 8 November 2015 his year the Porto Marathon celebrates its 12th running.

During its short life so far it has hosted thousands of runners from around the world in Portugal’s atmospheric second city. Porto Marathon is a premier event in Portugal’s sports tourism calendar.

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Last year more than 5000 runners from 40 different countries registered and Porto Marathon set a new national finishers’ record, confirming the event as the largest Marathon in Portugal. Should you not want to go the whole 42195 metres there are other options: a 15 km run and a 6km walk.

Porto is one of the oldest tourist destinations in Europe, classed as a Unesco World Heritage site since 1996 and twice named as the ‘Best European Destination’ (in 2012 and 2014) by European citizens.

Its wealth of artistic heritage, the rich gastronomy and viniculture – including the famous Port wine, open-air leisure spaces and cultural life are just some of the reasons to visit this city. Porto in November is usually around 12–16ºC, ideal for marathon running.

See: www.maratonadoporto.com

Combining the Atlantic seacoast and the Douro River estuary the course is remarkably flat. It passes through three cities and crosses the river out and back on the lower level of the Eiffel bridge. Porto Marathon offers a life time experience.

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Blackmores Sydney Running Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon), Australia 20 September 2015

Pictures: Craig Golding

he Blackmores Sydney Marathon is one of the world’s most scenic with dazzling views of Sydney Harbour throughout the course.

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The event offers the unique opportunity of crossing the iconic Harbour Bridge in traffic free conditions right at the start of your marathon. Other spectacular sights you pass on the route include one of Sydney’s most treasured religious buildings, St Mary’s Cathedral, the historic sandstone buildings of the Rocks area, leafy Centennial Park and colourful Oxford Street, home to Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The race finish line is in an unrivalled location at the world famous Opera House.

Participants are invited to celebrate their achievements after the race in the Blackmores Recovery Village located in the Royal Botanic Gardens with views over the Harbour and of the Bridge.

The Recovery Village provides food and drink stands, massage tents,

stage entertainment and giveaways.

A public bar gives participants and their family and friends the chance to toast their achievements while taking in some of the most spectacular sights of Sydney.

The race is staged in Australia’s early Spring. Temperatures at night are around 10C and during the day up to 25C: perfect conditions for running, walking and sightseeing.

There is an extended course cut-off time of six hours which allows more time for runners to complete their marathon. This makes the Blackmores Sydney Marathon more accessible for first-time marathon runners and for those who like to take their marathon at a more leisurely pace.

Register at: www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au www.facebook.com/officialbsrf

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Tartu City Marathon, Estonia 3 October 2015 he Tartu City Marathon started off in life as a 19.2km ‘City Run’ first held on 2 October 1983. In 2012 the race celebrated its 30th anniversary. No longer just a single race, Tartu offers a Marathon, a half marathon and a 10km ‘city run’ for both runners and Nordic walkers.

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The marathon course is one of the most varied, interesting and beautiful in Estonia. Runners take a full tour of the university town during the event. The course passes through some of the most attractive and historical places in Tartu which is recognised as the intellectual capital of Estonia.

biggest mass sport events in Estonia – among them one of the biggest events in Europe.

The revamped Tartu City Marathon is the most recent Club Tartu Maraton event but its participant numbers are also the fastest growing.

Last year 2700 runners and Nordic walkers took part in the three events. This year more than 3500 participants are expected and the aim is to reach 10,000 participants in the coming years, in a town with a population of only 100,000.

Tartu City Marathon is organized by the Club Tartu Maraton which has 55 years of experience in organising the

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Buenos Aires International Marathon, Argentina 11 October 2015 very year the Buenos Aires Marathon draws over 10,000 runners from all around the world, attracted by its fast, flat sealevel course. The race takes place at the start of the southern hemisphere spring and temperatures are runnerfriendly.

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But Buenos Aires offers far more than just good running conditions and a good race. The city is known as the “Paris of South America”, offering elegant architecture, exquisite cuisine, a legendary nightlife and fashionable shopping.

Argentina is renowned for its rich European flavor. The country is in the midst of a tourism boom and Buenos Aires is voted among the most desirable cities to visit. It is a touristfriendly city with a developed tourism infrastructure.

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Taipei Marathon, Chinese Taipei 20 December 2015

he Taipei Marathon has been the biggest marathon in Taiwan ever since it was founded in 1986. There are now more than 60,000 runners who come each year to participate in one of the race distances offered. The event is co-organized

by Taipei City Government and Chinese Taipei Road Running Association.

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Runners can choose the full marathon, a half marathon, a 9km or a 2km run. Any runner

should be able to find a distance that suits them.

Every year on the third Sunday of December family and friends, or even just locals who enjoy the spectacle gather along the marathon route to celebrate and cheer.

Runners come from about 50 countries all around the world. The event is infused with their energy and the joy that this city has to offer.

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QUALITY, OUR HALLMARK

BMW Lurauto Marathon in San Sebastian (Spain) will once again take care of the smallest details so that more than 6,000 runners will be given the best and warmest welcome on 29th November in its 38th edition To run a marathon is one of the most challenging and rewarding events that any runner will experience, and in San Sebastian they are well aware of that. The organisers make sure the participants feel cared for and they try really hard to improve the quality of the race year after year.

San Sebastian is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, offering some breathtaking scenery including the famous La Concha Beach. The town has a great tourist and gastronomic variety that attracts visitors from all over the globe. The race caters for all kind of runners; there is room for everyone as there are three distances to choose from: Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K. The route is almost flat and at sea level, which is ideal for personal bests (69% of participants have improved their personal best in the last few years).

Facilities for registered athletes

Special treatment The main focus for this race is to offer the best attention to all the participants. The limit for the three distances is set at a total number of 6,000 runners and the main goal is to offer something different and special to each of the runners. There won’t be long delays or overcrowding during the race or for the showers after the race, all these details that runners really appreciate are taken into account, but this doesn’t affect the atmosphere in the streets as thousands of spectators pack the streets each year supporting and cheering the runners.

The first 500 bibs were sold out in just 48 hours, but there is still a discount of 25% in registrations. In addition to this, all registered athletes will participate in different monthly draws, having the chance to win free bibs and important prizes, such as integrated GPS or a room at a 4 star hotel the day before the race.

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The support toward our runners goes even further. For marathon and half marathon distances you can receive a 100% refund if you can´t finally run due to illness or injury (for requests sent by 30th September) or you can also have your registration saved for 2016 (for requests sent from 1st October to 10th November). Until 10th November it is also possible to transfer your bib to another runner.

All the participants will receive a technical shirt and marathon and half marathon finishers will also be given a well-deserved medal when crossing the finish line.

The local spectators add the rest of the necessary ingredients. San Sebastian inhabitants are really fond of all the running events that take place in the town and they pack the streets to support all participants in all races that take place throughout the year.

Whether you are a fast runner in search of a personal best or a slow runner just aiming to cross the finish line, you will feel that extra push coming from the spectators.

A marathon is a lifetime experience in itself, and to run it in San Sebastian definitely reaches a new dimension.

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Budapest Marathon, Hungary, 1984–2015 Running into history

The marathon under socialism: 1984–1988 Inauguration: 14 April 1984 In 1984, following some notably successful foreign examples, a few Hungarian sports organisers dreamed of staging a people’s marathon in Budapest. Marathons had been held in Hungary for decades but they only catered for limited fields of mainly professional runners. In the very first popular Budapest Marathon 625 male and 25 female runners finished the race, coming from 18 countries. The title sponsor, anticipating developments in the marathon market two or three decades into the future, was the state travel agency IBUSZ. A marathon programme, a participant’s T-shirt Hugh Jones on the podium

THE Englishman Hugh Jones won the half marathon of the first Budapest Marathon. He later became secretary of AIMS and editor of Distance Running.

During 1982, the year he won the London Marathon, he spent 10 months in Budapest on a British Council scholarship.

“I come back to Budapest a lot. I trained here often throughout my running career and continue to visit to measure the Marathon and Half Marathon courses.

Both are beyond question among the most beautiful city courses in the world.

The Marathon includes three crossings of the Danube; an extended passage along its embankments beneath the ramparts of the Castle, past the neo-Gothic dome of the Parliament and around the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and running the length of the ever-delightful urban resort, Margaret Island. I used to train there every day and never tired of it.”

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and complete results at the finish line were delivered from the beginning.

Budapest Marathon joined AIMS in 1986, the first East European marathon to do so. Since 1987 everyone completing the marathon has received a finisher’s medal.

Fred Lebow in Budapest

All for the run and the run for all The organisers have attempted to create a running festival offering the chance of participating to those who are not yet ready for the full, glorious Marathon. There's a wide variety of distances: 30km, 10km, relays, a fun run, a family run, and walking. Everyone who wants to run can find the distance appropriate for them. Race organisers expect to attract 30000 runners to this October’s 30th anniversary event.

The first medal in 1987

Finisher medal in 2014

Regime change: 1989-1995 In 1989 the Budapest Sportiroda (Budapest Sports Office), founded at the beginning of that year, became the organisers of the marathon for the first time and the race is still held under BSI direction. Runners came from 29 countries and the Guest of Honour was Fred Lebow, founder of the New York City Marathon. Lebow, who was born Fischel Lebowitz and lived his childhood years in Arad — a town in the Hungarian-speaking part of Romania, ran the half marathon.

In 1994 and 1995 there was a hiatus: the Marathon had not been organised at a sufficiently high level to attract adequate financial support. The city government showed no interest in helping and private companies in the emerging Hungarian marketplace were yet

to discover the possibilities that sponsorship of the Budapest Marathon could offer. In 1996 the SPAR group stepped in smartly to become the title sponsor of the marathon. The relationship has developed as the event has grown and this highly successful partnership has now endured for 20 years.

Revival: 1996–2004 Since 1996 the half marathon has become a separate event held a month before the marathon and the date of both races has moved to autumn. Since 1998, following a suggestion by Fred Lebow, the City Park, next to Heroes Square, has become the start and finish area. A new era began in the history of the Budapest Marathon: one in which the quality of the services provided is improving year by year.

Budapest Marathon, Hungary 1984–2015

Hungary: in the middle of Europe

Runner numbers 1991–2014 Marathon finishers All distances

1984

1991

2000

2005

2011

2014

650

999

2444

2792

2984

4348

3120

7881

10800

15200

16350

23450

The Course: beautiful beyond compare The Marathon route passes through designated World Heritage sites: runners pass over four Danube bridges, three of which are sights in themselves, and along the Danube embankments. These offer a vantage point from which runners can admire the Hungarian capital’s most beautiful sights.

Becoming big : 2005-2014 The last decade has been one of continuous growth. Hungarians came to appreciate the marathon and foreign runners have begun to discover quite how gorgeous a course Budapest offers. The number of participants is increasing rapidly.

Europe’s new favorite running city In 2014 more than 7000 foreign runners and their families arrived in Budapest from 72 countries of the six continents

42195 metres of music On the run in the Budapest Marathon runners have long been able to listen to different kinds of music throughout the length of the course.

Classical musicians, folk musicians, drummers and rock bands energise participants at 35 music points.

SPAR Budapest Marathon® Festival ■ 8—9 October 2016 ■ For more information visit: runinbudapest.com

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Race dates July 2015 – September 2016

Route du Vin Half Marathon 27 ING LUX H 92 Medio Maratón Int’l Tlajomulco27 Cajititlán

July 2015

5

Correcaminos Half Marathon & 10km CRC H 88

Coast Airport Marathon 5 Gold AUS M 85 Marathon de l’Ile Maurice 19 MRI M,H,R 92 Australian Outback Marathon 25 AUS M 85 25 Swissalpine SUI U 96 Maratón Int’l de Bogotá Media 26 COL H 88 39th National MILO Marathon 26 PHI M,H,R 94 de Janeiro City Marathon 26 Rio BRA M 85 Tijuana Marathon 26 MEX M 94 Westlink M7 Blacktown Running 26 Festival

MEX H

27 POL M,R

1–10 Jungle Marathon BRA U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

planned date

AUS M

85

ECU M

88

August 2015

2 2

AUS M,H,R

91

McDonald’s Townsville Running Festival AUS M,H,R Course not measurable to AIMS standards 85

9 CAM M,H,R Int’l de Asunción 9 Maratón PAR M,H,R City Marathon 15 Helsinki FIN M Half Marathon 22 Hvar CRO H

The Angkor Empire Marathon 10 94 98 88

22–30IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Beijing 9

CHN

22

90

Running Festival 23 Adelaide AUS M,H,R 85 Edmonton Marathon 23 CAN M 85 La Ruta de las Iglesias 29 ECU R 10 MAYBANK Bali Marathon 30 BII INA M,H,R 90 Da Nang Int’l Marathon 30 VIE M,H,R 97 Hokkaido Marathon 30 JPN M 92 Marathon 30 Longford IRL M 90 Mandela Day Marathon 30 RSA M,H,R 96 Maratón de la Ciudad de México 30 MEX M 94 Quebec City Marathon 30 SSQ CAN M 93 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon 30 AUS M,H,R 85 predicted date

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3 3 4 4 4 4 4

3 Country Sparkasse Marathon AUT M,H 85

5

Knarvikmila – The Great Fjord Run 94

NOR H

5 6 6 6 6 6

Birell Prague Grand Prix 88

CZE R

Luanda Half Marathon 85

ANG H,R

Volksbank-Münster-Marathon GER M 90 Pila Int’l Half Marathon 94

POL H

10K San José – Costa Rica 88

CRC R

7

PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon 90

Medio Maratón Atlas de Guadalajara 92

MEX H

11–13Running Festival of the Economic Forum 94

POL M

12 SUI M Half Marathon 12 Stockholm SWE H Beach Marathon 12 Tamarindo CRC M,H,R Ústí nad Labem Half 12 Mattoni Marathon Jungfrau-Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

12

96 12 88

Golden Ring Yaroslavl Half Marathon

Wizz Air Budapest Half 13 30th Marathon HUN H

16+17

Half Marathon 13 Copenhagen DEN H Marathon 13 Ladakh IND M,H,R,U

88

4

EST M,H,R

RSA U,H

Bank Vilnius Marathon 13 Danske LTU M,H 92 Int’l WACHAUmarathon 13 18th AUT M 85 33rd PKO Wroclaw Maraton 13 POL M 20 Bank Oslo Marathon 19 Danske NOR M,H,R 94 Scottish Half Marathon 19 GBR H 90 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon 20 RSA M 96 Dam tot Damloop 20 NED R 94 The Maui Marathon 20 USA M,H,R 97 Moscow Marathon 20 RUS M,R 96 Carrera de la Mujer Colombia 20 10km

See preview on page 41 EST M,H,R

DEN M UKR M

COL R

88

20 RUS M 20 Half Marathon Sport Zone 20 Porto POR H 94 Blackmores Sydney Running 20 Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon) See preview on page 37 AUS M

85

20 ITA H 92 Cross Country 20 Yangmingshan Race

14 90

TPE H

88

27 GER M 88 Loch Ness Marathon & 27 Baxters Festival of Running BMW Berlin Marathon

GBR M

20

97

Bournemouth Marathon Festival GBR M,H,R 90 Belfius Brussels Marathon & Half Marathon 85

¼ de Maraton Ciudad de Bucaramanga – Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia 88

Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon 32

Gatorade Caracas Rock 10K VEN R

97

Lloyds Bank Cardiff Half Marathon 90

RheinEnergieMarathon Cologne GER M,H 88 Colombo Marathon SRI M

96

Guayaquil Marathon ECU M predicted date

88

Standard Chartered KL Marathon MAS M,H,R

4 4 4 4 4

24

Bila Tserkva Marathon

GBR H

4 4 4 4

88

H.C. Andersen Marathon

ROU M,H

4 4

96

Tartu City Marathon

COL R

Maratonina Citta di Udine

96

RUS H

4

Siberian Int’l Marathon

88

CZE H,R

Maratón de las Flores Medellín COL M,H,R 88

13 SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half & 13 10k

85

Legends Marathon

BEL M,H

IND H,R

Islandsbanki Reykjavik Marathon ISL M,H

CAF Caracas Maratón Venezuela

September 2015

Brisbane Marathon Festival

94

October 2015

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tbc Maratón de Quito

94

37th PZU Warsaw Marathon

92

Košice Peace Marathon SVK M

22

RAHAL 10k Int’l Marrakech MAR R

94

Portland Marathon USA M

97

Queretaro Maraton MEX M,H,R

94

1/2 Maratón RPP PER H

94

Key M Marathon H Half Marathon R Road Race U Ultradistance

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Silesia Marathon POL M

24

Turin Marathon ITA M

10

11 See preview on page 43 ARG M

85

Bank of America Chicago Marathon USA M

11 GER M,H,R Sad Marathon 11 Novi SRB M Marathon 11 Poznan POL M Fitness Victoria 11 GoodLife Marathon

97 94

Munich Marathon

CAN M

27 24 94 85

11 CRO M,H 88 TCS Amsterdam Marathon 18 NED M 36 Int’l de Guadalajara 18 Maratón MEX M 94 Lake Maggiore Marathon 18 ITA M,H,R 34 Rock’n’Roll Lisbon 18 EDP Marathon & Rock’n’Roll Half Zagreb Marathon & Half

Marathon Vodafone RTP 40 Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival AUS M 85 Linker Oevert 1/2 Marathon BEL H,R 85 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon & Half Marathon & 5k CAN M,H,R 28 Medio Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso ESP H 30+31 Maratón Aguascalientes MEX M,H 34 Grand Marathon Int’l de Casablanca MAR M,H,R 94 Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon Marathon KOR M 92 Frankfurt Marathon GER M 39 Jakarta Marathon INA M.H,R 34 Lausanne Marathon SUI M 96 Ljubljana Marathon SLO M 96 Marine Corps Marathon USA M 38 Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon KEN M,H predicted date 92 Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon CAN M,H,R 32 Osaka Marathon JPN M 92 Podgorica Marathon MNE M 94 POR M,H

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Lage Landen Marathon 11 De Eindhoven NED M

88 SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne SUI M 38 HeidelbergCement TbilisiHalfMarathon GEO H,R 38 Venicemarathon ITA M 92 SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon IRL M 69 Erbil Marathon IRQ M,H,R 90 Beijing Marathon CHN M,H 10 Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l Marathon KOR M 92 Quito 21k Mitad del Mundo ECU H 88 UWI-SPEC Half Marathon TRI H 96 FRA H

92 Incheon Songdo Int’l Marathon KOR M,H,R 92 Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon JOR M 92 9–11 Lake Tahoe Triple Marathons & Triple Half Marathons USA M,H 97 10–11 30th Spar Budapest Marathon HUN M 16+17 10–11 BMO Okanagan Marathon CAN M 85 Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon GRE H,R 90 Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon

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November 2015

1 1 1 1 1 7

94

Bass Pro Shops Conservation Marathon USA M

97

8 8 8

CHN M USA M

15 15 15 15 15 15 19 20 21 22

NAM U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

predicted date

29 tbc

85

tbc

97

tbc

90

tbc

Yi Lan Chiang Wei Shui Memorial Freeway Marathon 88 Athens Marathon The Authentic GRE M 99 BDL Beirut Marathon LIB M 92 Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay USA H 42 French Riviera Marathon NiceCannes FRA M 88 Porto Marathon EDP See preview on page 35 POR M

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94

Ravenna City of Art Int’l Marathon 90 Garda Trentino Half Marathon ITA H 42 Volcano Marathon CHI M,H Course not measurable to AIMS standards 85 Standard Chartered Bangkok Marathon THA M,H,R predicted date 96 37th Vodafone İstanbul Marathon TUR M 96 Kanazawa Marathon JPN M 92 Kobe Marathon JPN M 92 Marabana Marathon & Half CUB M,H predicted date 88 Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half USA M,H 97 Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso ESP M 30+31 Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k ATA M,U 85 Pharaonic 100km EGY U 42 Medio Maraton Turistico Riviera Nayarit MEX H,R 42 Great Ethiopian Run 10km ETH R 88

tbc Mizuno Hong Kong Half-

Marathon Championships 90

HKG H

tbc Panama Int’l Marathon

94

PAN M

tbc Vadodara Int’l Marathon

90

IND H

January 2016 Zürich 1 Neujahrsmarathon SUI M,H,R Ice Half Marathon 7 Siberian RUS H Winner Marathon 8 Tiberias ISR M Marathon 11 Cebu PHI M,H,R Marathon 15 Egyptian EGY M,H Bahamas, Half & 17 Marathon Relay Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Curaçao Marathon 29 KLM CUR M,H,R Delhi Half Marathon 29 Airtel IND H Marathon 29 Firenze ITA M du Gabon 29 Marathon GAB M Fuji Marathon 29 Mount JPN M Donostia - San 29 Maratón Sebastián

Pune Int’l Marathon IND M predicted date

92

28–6 100km of the Namib Desert

TCS New York City Marathon

ITA M,H

8 11 15

MEX M

Hangzhou Int’l Marathon

TPE M,H

8 8 8

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

28–29 Gran Maraton Pacifico

88 52 45 88 92

46+47 Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon FRA M,H 88 Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune MAR H 94 JoongAng Seoul Marathon KOR M 92 Shanghai Int’l Marathon CHN M 85 UNICEF Charity Run Half Marathon & 10km HKG H,R 90 ESP M

ASB Auckland Marathon NZL M,H,R

Nuevo Leon 22 21km MEX H 94 Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon 22 MAS M 44 Philadelphia Marathon 22 Gore-Tex USA M 97 Full Desert Marathon Eilat 27 ISR M,H,R 63

December 2015

6 6 6 6 6 6

Ayla Red Sea Half Marathon JOR H,R

92

Reggae Marathon, Half & 10K 92 Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon CAM H,R 10 Intertrust Cayman Islands Marathon CAY M predicted date 85 Discoveries Half Marathon POR H 94 Macau Galaxy Entertainment Int’l Marathon MAC M,H 55 Maratón Cabberty Málaga ESP M 56 Milo Marathon Manila Finals Race PHI M,H,R 94 San José Costa Rica Half & Marathon CRC M,H 58 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore SIN M,H,R 96 Maratón Powerade Monterrey MEX M 94 Nara Marathon JPN M 58 Sfax Marathon Int’l Olive Trees TUN M,H 96 St Croix Int’l Marathon ISV M 58 Tata Steel Kolkata 25k IND R 90 Taipei Marathon JAM M,H,R

13 13 13 13 20 20 See preview on page 45

88 El Corte Inglés São Silvestre de Lisboa POR R 69 São Silvestre de Luanda 10km ANG R predicted date 85 tbc Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon Championship JPN M 92 TPE M,H,R

26 31

69 90 94 88 69

BAH M,H

China Coast Marathon 17 Gammon & Half 90

HKG M,H

Houston Marathon and 17 Chevron Aramco Houston Half Marathon 97

USA M,H

17

Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half USA M,H 97

Chartered Mumbai 17 Standard Marathon 73

IND M

de Sao Sebastiao 20 Corrida BRA R 85 Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon 24 THA M 96 Marato Int’l Vila de Santa 24 Mitja Pola 96

ESP H

4 5 6 6

96

31 POR R & Semi Int’l de 31 Marathon Marrakech

Grande Prémio Fim da Europa 94 94

MAR M,H

tbc Maratón Int’l de Culiacán

92

MEX M

tbc Disa Gran Canaria Maratón

96

ESP M,H

tbc Standard Chartered Hong Kong

Marathon 90

HKG M

tbc Kinmen Marathon

88

TPE M,H,R

tbc Osaka Women’s Marathon

92

JPN M

tbc Xiamen Int’l Marathon

64+65

CHN M

February 2016

6 7

27km for Freedom 96

RSA R

Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon 92

JPN H

7

Mostra d’Oltremare Half Marathon 90

ITA H

8

The Carthage Race Int’l Marathon 96

TUN M,H,R

Half Marathon 12 RAK UAE H Amerat Challenge Race 13 Al OMA R & Romeo Half 14 Giulietta Marathon

97 94 90

ITA H

21 JPN M Marathon 21 Kyoto JPN M

Kitakyushu Marathon planned date

92 92

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tbc ČSOB Bratislava Marathon

Maratón de Sevilla 21 Zurich ESP M di San Valentino 21 Maratona ITA M,H Marathon 22 Sahara ALG M Aviv Samsung Marathon 26 Tel ISR M Marathon 28 Kilimanjaro TAN M City Marathon 28 Maritzburg RSA M,H,R Marathon 28 Tokyo JPN M Best 10k Road Race 28 World’s PUR R

tbc Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

96 92 85

TPE M

MAR R

10km 92

Marathon 96

tbc Taipei Standard Chartered

Charity Marathon 88

March 2016 Nafplio Marathon 90

GRE M,H

Semi Marathon de Paris 88

FRA H

Sihanoukville Int’l Half Marathon 85

CAM H,R

Marathon 1.3 6 Treviso ITA M 92 Maggiore Half Marathon 6 Lake ITA H 34 Antarctica Marathon & Half 12 ATA M,H 85 ’n’ Roll DC Marathon & 1/2 12 Rock USA M,H,R 97 eDreams Mitja Marató de 13 Barcelona Course not measurable to AIMS standards

ESP H

Marato de Barcelona 13 Zurich ESP M Maraton Mexiquense 13 Gran MEX M Women’s Marathon 13 Nagoya JPN M

96 96 94 92

13–19100 km del Sahara ARG U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

75

17–209th Lake Balaton Supermarathon HUN U Course not measurable to AIMS standards 16+17

26

9

96

tbc Runatolia Marathon

(Half + 10km) TUR M,H,R

96

tbc Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon GER H

88

tbc Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon JPN M

92

See race feature on page 18 VEN M

94 97

tbc Daegu Int’l Marathon

92

KOR M

April 2016

92

Marathon

Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great 98 ASICS Medio Maratón Villa de Madrid ESP H 96 Novi Sad Half Marathon SRB H 96 Schneider Electric Paris Marathon FRA M 88 Diacore Gaborone Marathon BOT M,H,R 85 North Pole Marathon NPO M Course not measurable to AIMS standards 94 Australian Running Festival AUS M,H,U 85 Guam Int’l Marathon GUM M,H,R 90 HAJ Hannover Marathon GER M,H,R 90 Limassol Marathon GSO CYP M,H,R 88 Maratón de Montevideo URU M,H 97 Maratona di Roma ITA M 78 NN Marathon Rotterdam NED M 94 Vienna City Marathon AUT M,H,R 85 261 Women’s Marathon ESP M,R 96 DVV Antwerp Marathon BEL M 85 31st Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon Budapest HUN H,R 16+17 Enschede Marathon NED M 94 Haspa Marathon Hamburg GER M 82+83 Łódź Maraton Dbam o Zdrowie POL M,R 94 Nagano Marathon GRE M

3 3 3 3 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 17 17

17 17 17 17 See race feature on page 13

92 90 92

Financial 85

18 USA M Sur Int’l Marathon 24 Big USA M,H Laguna Half Marathon 24 Chia ITA H,R GROUP Marathon 24 METRO Düsseldorf B.A.A. Boston Marathon

GER M

96

TJK H

97 97

Marathon, 10km & 5km KOR M,R

92

Marathon 96

TUR H

97

tbc Milano Marathon

90

ITA M

88

tbc Pardubice Wine Half Marathon

88

CZE H

94 85

tbc São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon

85

1 2

90 88

GER R

tbc Dalian Int’l Marathon

85

CHN M

92

JPN H

Marathon RWA M,H

96 90

ITA H

88

CAM H,R

85 92

LIB H

tbc Turin Half Marathon

85

92

ITA H

June 2016 2–4 21st World Congress of AIMS 5

ECU

90

8 8

Trieste Green Europe Marathon ITA M,H 90

8 8

Volkswagen Prague Marathon CZE M 88

Harmony Genève Marathon for Unicef SUI M,H,R 96

Wizz Air Skopje Marathon

4 SWE M 96 Tórshavn Marathon 4 FRO M 88 Portumna Forest Marathon 11 IRL M,H,U 90 City Trophy Int’l Road 11 Telesia Race 10k ASICS Stockholm Marathon

92

ITA R

92

14–15OMV Petrom Bucharest Half Marathon ROU H,R

See race feature on page 25 IND R

tbc Tripoli Int’l Half Marathon

Milton Keynes Marathon

MKD M

90

tbc TCS World 10K Bengaluru

85 85

See race feature on page 21 GBR M planned date

Marathon

tbc Phnom Penh Half Marathon

BMO Vancouver Marathon CAN M

85

tbc Deep RiverRock Belfast City

92

GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon CAN M

de Béjaia

Course

Salzburg Marathon AUT M,H,R

85

tbc Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville

FRA R

Borneo Int’l Marathon MAS M,H,R

85

tbc Jacob’s Creek Barossa Marathon

tbc Paris St Germain en Laye – La

May 2016

1 1 1

94

tbc Austrian Women’s Run

tbc Moonlight Half Marathon

Corpore BRA H

Asunción

tbc Kigali International Peace

tbc Maratón de Santiago CHI M

tbc Media Maratón Int’l Ciudad de

tbc Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon

tbc Poznań Half Marathon POL H

29 Marathon 29 Comrades RSA U 96 Marathon Festival 29 Edinburgh GBR M 90

tbc BIG 25 Berlin

tbc Semi-Marathon Int’l de Nice FRA H

85

Scotiabank Calgary Marathon CAN M 85

GBR M

tbc Kharkiv Int’l Marathon UKR M,H,R

and Ottawa 10K CAN M,R

ALG H

tbc Vodafone İstanbul Half

94

16+17

HUN R

AUS M,H,R

tbc Gunsan Saemangeum Int’l

96

28–29Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon

See race feature on page 29 AUT R

tbc Dushanbe International Half

3

Half Marathon 22 Erzurum TUR H Marathon 22 Leiden NED M,H,R Wake Your Body 22 Coca-Cola Women’s Running Gala

PAR H

tbc Dead Sea Ultramarathon JOR U

CAN R

Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon RSA U

NOR M,H,R

88

Marathon, Half & 10k 18 Jerusalem ISR M,H,R 77 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon 20 POR H 94 JPN M ASICS Maratón de San José 20 CRC M,H,R 88 to Rhodes Marathon 17 Roads GRE M,R Chartered Stanley 20 Standard Marathon S. Antonio 17 Maratona FLK M 88 ITA M World Half Marathon Vancouver Sun Run 10K 26 IAAF 17 The Championships, Cardiff Presented By BlueShore GBR

tbc CAF Caracas Maratón

Marathon TPE M,H,R

tbc Seychelles Eco-Friendly

6 6 6

94

tbc New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi

96

96

tbc Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon

92

JPN M

92

92

tbc Tokushima Marathon

92

tbc Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race &

TPE M,H,R

tbc SuisseGas Belgrade Marathon

tbc ASTA 10km Int’l de Taroudant

96

96

94

SRB M

KOR M

96

94

tbc Almaty Marathon KAZ M,H,R

MEX M

96

88

tbc Seoul Int’l Marathon

94

SEY M

Warsaw Marathon 24 ORLEN POL M,R Marathon 24 Zurich SUI M

tbc Maratón Int’l Lala

90

92

JPN R

92

KOR H

tbc Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon

tbc Medio Maratón Int’l Guadalajara MEX H

92

KOR H

Rock ’n’ Roll Madrid 24 EDP Maratón & 1/2 ESP M,H

tbc Incheon Int’l Half Marathon

tbc Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon JPN M

96

SVK M,H

32

12 LTU M,H,R 92 Bridge Half Marathon 12 Penang MAS H 92 iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg 12 GER M 90 Wroclaw Night Half 18 PKO Marathon Kaunas Marathon

planned date

15 POL M 94 movistar Lima42k 15 Maratón PER M 94 POL H 94 Lattelecom Riga Marathon 15 LAT M,H 92 Midnight Sun Marathon 18 NOR M,H Half Marathon 97 21 GöteborgsVarvet SWE H 96 Suzuki Midnight Sun Run 23 Great Wall Marathon ISL H,R 90 21 The CHN M 85 Scotiabank Vancouver Half26 Marathon & 5k Hearts Marathon 21 Three SLO M,H,R 96 CAN H 85 Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon 22 DEN M 89 Continued on page 54 Cracovia Marathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

90

86+87

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Planning ahead Continued from page 53 Ergo White Nights 27 Int’l Marathon 96

RUS M

tbc RAHAL 10K Int’l de Casablanca

94

MAR R

tbc 21k Coahuila

92

MEX H

tbc Cork City Marathon

90

IRL M

tbc Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race

92

MDV R

tbc Carrera del Día Del Padre Medio

Maratón 92

MEX H

tbc Laguna Phuket Int’l Marathon

96

THA M

tbc Lanzhou Int’l Marathon CHN M,H,R

85

tbc Lisbon Eco Marathon POR M,R

94

tbc Paavo Nurmi Marathon

88

FIN M

tbc Gatorade Panama Int’l Half

Marathon 94

PAN H

tbc Quito Últimas Noticias 15k

88

ECU R

tbc Rovaniemi Marathon FIN M,H,R

88

tbc Lake Saroma 100km Ultra

Marathon 92

JPN U

tbc Tangamanga Int’l Marathon

94

MEX M

tbc Econet Victoria Falls Marathon

97

ZIM M

tbc Vidovdan 10km Road Race BIH R

85

BMO Vancouver Marathon Canada

90

Photo: Jeff Tsai

tbc Waterford Viking Marathon IRL M,H,R

July 2016 Marathon 24 Tijuana MEX M planned date

tbc Maratón Int’l de Asunción PAR M,H,R

94

tbc BII MAYBANK Bali Marathon

85

tbc Edmonton Marathon

INA M,H,R

tbc Australian Outback Marathon AUS M Course not measurable to AIMS standards

CAN M

tbc Media Maratón Int’l de Bogotá COL H

88

CRC H

88

tbc Gold Coast Airport Marathon AUS M

85

tbc 40th National MILO Marathon PHI M,H,R MRI M,H,R

CRO H

Quebec City Marathon 28 SSQ CAN M

85

RSA M,H,R MEX M

91

90

85

85

tbc

tbc McDonald’s Townsville Running

tbc

Festival AUS M,H,R Course not measurable to AIMS standards

54

85 tbc

September 2016

4 VIE M,H,R 10 Jungfrau-Marathon SUI M Beach Marathon 17 Tamarindo CRC M,H,R MetLife Satara Hill Half 18 PNB Marathon

tbc

25

97

tbc

88 tbc

90

Medio Maratón Int’l Tlajomulco-Cajititlán MEX H

10

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tbc

96

94

tbc BMW Berlin Marathon

tbc The Angkor Empire Marathon CAM M,H,R

tbc

tbc 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon

IND H,R

93

tbc

94 10

ECU R

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

98

tbc

96

Da Nang Int’l Marathon

tbc Adelaide Running Festival AUS M,H,R

90

IRL M

AUS M,H,R

96

tbc

tbc Longford Marathon

88

August 2016

ISL M,H

88

tbc La Ruta de las Iglesias

85

tbc

tbc Hvar Half Marathon

Festival

Marathon Festival 7 Brisbane AUS M,H,R City Marathon 13 Helsinki FIN M Reykjavik 20 Islandsbanki Marathon

92

JPN M

tbc Westlink M7 Blacktown Running AUS M

tbc

tbc Maratón de la Ciudad de México

tbc Swissalpine SUI U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

85

92

tbc Rio de Janeiro City Marathon BRA M

tbc

94

tbc Maratón de Quito ECU M

90

tbc Mandela Day Marathon

tbc Marathon de l’Ile Maurice

Marathon 16+17 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon RSA M 96 Medio Maratón Atlas de Guadalajara MEX H 92 Copenhagen Half Marathon DEN H 14 Dam tot Damloop NED R 94 Knarvikmila – The Great Fjord Run NOR H 94 Ladakh Marathon IND M,H,R,U 90 Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running GBR M 20 Luanda Half Marathon ANG H,R 85 The Maui Marathon USA M,H,R 97 Maratón de las Flores Medellín COL M,H,R 88 Moscow Marathon RUS M,R 96 Carrera de la Mujer Colombia 10km COL R 88 Volksbank-Münster-Marathon GER M 90 Siberian Int’l Marathon RUS M 20 Danske Bank Oslo Marathon NOR M,H,R 94 Pila Int’l Half Marathon POL H 94 Porto Half Marathon Sport Zone POR H 94 HUN H

tbc Hokkaido Marathon

tbc Correcaminos Half Marathon &

10km

tbc 31st Wizz Air Budapest Half

94

tbc tbc tbc

88

tbc ING Route du Vin Half Marathon LUX H

92

tbc Running Festival of the

Economic Forum POL M

94

tbc 10K San José – Costa Rica CRC R

88

tbc Scottish Half Marathon GBR H

90

tbc Stockholm Half Marathon SWE H

12

tbc Blackmores Sydney Running

Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon) See race feature on page 37 AUS M

85

tbc SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half &

10k EST M,H,R

88

tbc Maratonina Citta di Udine ITA H

92

tbc Danske Bank Vilnius Marathon LTU M,H

92

tbc 19th Int’l WACHAUmarathon AUT M

85

tbc 38th PZU Warsaw Marathon POL M,R

94

tbc 34th PKO Wroclaw Maraton POL M

20

tbc Yangmingshan Cross Country

Race TPE H

88

tbc Golden Ring Yaroslavl Half

Marathon RUS H

96

World leading times These lists give the current standings in the world of road racing, and are believed accurate at 25 June 2015. They have been drawn from the website of the Association of Road Racing Statisticians www.arrs.net and focus primarily on the Marathon and Half Marathon, as these constitute 75% and 18% of the AIMS membership respectively.

Marathon Men

Women

Present world record: Dennis Kimetto (KEN); 2:02:57; Berlin; 29 SEP 2014

Present world record (mixed race): Paula Radcliffe (GBR); 2:15:25; London; 13 APR 2003 Present world record (women’s-only race) Paula Radcliffe (GBR); 2:17:42; London; 17 APR 2005

Time

Athlete

2:04:42 Eliud KIPCHOGE 2:04:47 Wilson KIPSANG 2:05:28 Lemi BERHANU 2:05:49 Mark KORIR 2:05:50 Dennis KIMETTO 2:05:52 Lelisa DESISA 2:06:00 Endeshaw NEGESSE 2:06:06 Deribe ROBI 2:06:11 Wilson LOYANAE 2:06:19 Moses Cheruiyot MOSOP 2:06:33 Stephen KIPROTICH 2:06:34 Dickson CHUMBA 2:06:35 Feysa LELISA 2:06:41 Stanley BIWOTT 2:06:46 Abera KUMA 2:06:54 Tilahun REGASSA 2:06:59 Felix KIPROTICH 2:07:06 Sisay LEMMA 2:07:09 Bazu WORKU 2:07:16 Tilahun REGASSA 2:07:17 Lucas ROTICH 2:07:20 Shumi DECHASA 2:07:20 Luka KANDA 2:07:20 Mark KIPTOO 2:07:22 Peter SOME 2:07:25 Markos GENETI 2:07:26 Girmay BIRHANU 2:07:31 Sisay LEMMA 2:07:33 Seboka TOLA 2:07:39 Masato IMAI 2:07:42 Mike KIPRUTO 2:07:43 Samuel KITWARA 2:07:44 Gilbert Kipruto KIRWA 2:07:47 Jacob KIBET 2:07:47 Ghirmay GHEBRESLASSIE 2:07:54 Laban Kipngetich KORIR 2:07:56 Deressa CHIMSA 2:07:58 Tsegaye KEBEDE 2:07:57 Hayle Berhanu LEMI 2:08:01 Stephen CHEBOGUT 2:08:02 Bernard KOECH

Nation Rank Venue

KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN ETH ETH ETH KEN KEN UGA KEN ETH KEN ETH ETH KEN ETH ETH ETH KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN ETH ETH ETH ETH JPN KEN KEN KEN KEN ERI KEN ETH ETH ETH KEN KEN

1 2 1 1 3 2 1 3 1 1 2 3 2 4 1 2 2 5 6 5 1 4 2 2 5 6 1 1 3 7 4 6 5 3 2 6 7 8 1 3 3

Date

London London Dubai Paris London Dubai Tokyo Dubai Seoul Xiamen Tokyo Tokyo Xiamen London Rotterdam Xiamen Seoul Dubai Dubai London Hamburg Tokyo Paris Rotterdam Tokyo Tokyo Daegu Vienna Paris Tokyo Paris London Paris Seoul Hamburg Paris Paris Tokyo Warsaw Hamburg Rotterdam

26 APR 26 APR 23 JAN 12 APR 26 APR 23 JAN 22 FEB 23 JAN 15 MAR 03 JAN 22 FEB 22 FEB 03 JAN 26 APR 12 APR 03 JAN 15 MAR 23 JAN 23 JAN 26 APR 26 APR 22 FEB 12 APR 12 APR 22 FEB 22 FEB 05 APR 12 APR 12 APR 22 FEB 12 APR 26 APR 12 APR 15 MAR 26 APR 12 APR 12 APR 22 FEB 26 APR 26 APR 12 APR

Time

Athlete

2:19:52 2:20:02 2:20:03 2:20:21 2:20:59 2:21:17 2:21:56 2:22:09 2:22:51 2:23:06 2:23:15 2:23:22 2:23:23 2:23:24 2:23:29 2:23:32 2:23:33 2:23:40 2:23:41 2:23:43 2:23:49 2:23:51 2:23:53 2:24:03 2:24:07 2:24:15 2:24:23 2:24:26 2:24:29 2:24:42 2:24:44 2:24:49 2:25:01 2:25:15 2:25:22

Mare DIBABA Aselefech MERGIA Gladys CHERONO Lucy Wangui KABUU Shure DEMISE Aberu KEBEDE Mulu SEBOKA Tetiana SHMYRKO Tadelech BEKELE Aliaksandra DULIBA Birhane DIBABA Tigist TUFA Yebrqual MELESE Meseret MENGISTU Amane GOBENA Guteni SHONE Abebech AFEWORK Mary KEITANY Tirfi TSEGAYE Ashete BEKELE Yebrgual MELESE Biruktayit ESHETU Aselefech MERGIA Helah KIPROP Jelena PROKOPCUKA Florence KIPLAGAT Jemima SUMGONG Tiki GELANA Betelhem MOGES Visiline JEPKESHO Sultan HAYDAR Sara MOREIRA Priscah JEPTOO Ana Dulce FELIX Rebecca KANGOGO

Nation Rank Venue

ETH 1 ETH 1 KEN 2 KEN 3 ETH 4 ETH 5 ETH 6 UKR 1 ETH 7 BLR 8 ETH 1 ETH 1 ETH 1 ETH 1 ETH 2 ETH 2 ETH 9 KEN 2 ETH 3 ETH 10 ETH 1 ETH 3 ETH 4 KEN 2 LAT 2 KEN 5 KEN 6 ETH 3 ETH 11 KEN 3 TUR 12 POR 2 KEN 7 POR 8 KEN 13

Xiamen Dubai Dubai Dubai Dubai Dubai Dubai Osaka Dubai Dubai Tokyo London Houston Paris Paris Houston Dubai London London Dubai Prague Houston London Tokyo Osaka London London Tokyo Dubai Paris Dubai Prague London London Dubai

Date

03 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 25 JAN 23 JAN 23 JAN 22 FEB 26 APR 18 JAN 12 APR 12 APR 18 JAN 23 JAN 26 APR 26 APR 23 JAN 03 MAY 18 JAN 26 APR 22 FEB 25 JAN 26 APR 26 APR 22 FEB 23 JAN 12 APR 23 JAN 03 MAY 26 APR 26 APR 23 JAN

Other performances:

2:24:55 Caroline ROTICH 2:24:59 Mare DIBABA 2:25:09 Buzunesh DEBA

KEN 1 Boston ETH 2 Boston ETH 3 Boston

Mamitu Daska leads Aselefech Mergia in the TCS World 10K Bengaluru

20 APR 20 APR 20 APR

Half Marathon Present world record: Zersenay Tadese (ERI); 58:23; Lisboa; 21 MAR 2010

Men Time

Athlete

59:20 59:28 59:32 59:33 59:35 59:45 59:46 59:47 59:47 59:49 59:51 59:52 59:55 59:55 59:55

Stanley Biwott KEN Cyprian Kotut KEN Mo FARAH GBR Micah KOGO KEN Edwin Kiptoo KEN Birhanu LEGESSE ETH David KOGEI KEN Zane ROBERTSON NZL Paul Mutero KUIRA KEN Abraham CHEROBEN ETH Daniel WANJIRU KEN Mosinet GEREMEW ETH Geoffrey Kipkorir KIRUI KEN Nguse AMLOSOM ERI Vincent YATOR KEN

Nation Rank Venue

1 2 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 2 3 4

Date

Den Haag Den Haag Lisboa Lisboa Den Haag Berlin Berlin Marugame Marugame Berlin Prague Yangzhou Yangzhou Yangzhou Yangzhou

15 MAR 15 MAR 22 MAR 22 MAR 15 MAR 29 MAR 29 MAR 01 FEB 01 FEB 29 MAR 28 MAR 19 APR 19 APR' 19 APR 19 APR

Time

Athlete

59:57 59:57 59:58 59:59 1:00:03 1:00:04 1:00:05 1:00:05 1:00:06 1:00:08 1:00:08

Wilfred MURGOR KEN Leonard KOMON KEN Stephen KIBET KEN Richard MENGICH KEN Abraham KIPYATICH KEN Eliud TARUS KEN Mosinet GEREMEW ETH Bernard Kimani KEN Daniel WANJIRU KEN Jonathan MAIYO KEN Emmanuel Kipkemei BETT KEN

Women

Nation Rank Venue

2 3 3 4 5 4 1 5 2 3 1

Date

Prague 28 MAR Prague 28 MAR Lisbon 22 MAR Berlin 29 MAR Berlin 29 MAR Den Haag 15 MAR Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Den Haag 15 MAR Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Azpeitia 28 MAR

Other performances

59:37 Robert CHEMOSIN 59:39 Simon CHEPROT 59:43 Geoffrey KUSURU

KEN 1 Ostia KEN 2 Ostia UGA 3 Ostia

Present world record (women-only race) Lornah Kiplagat (KEN); 1:06:24; Udine; 14 OCT 2007 Present world record (mixed race): Florence Kiplagat (KEN); 1:05:12; Barcelona; 16 FEB 2014 Pending world record (mixed race): Florence Kiplagat (KEN); 1:05:09; Barcelona; 15 FEB 2015

22 FEB 22 FEB 22 FEB

Time

Athlete

1:05:09 1:06:02 1:06:28 1:06:38 1:06:38 1:07:02 1:07:14 1:07:32 1:08:08 1:08:13 1:08:13 1:08:21 1:08:21 1:08:22 1:08:23

Florence KIPLAGAT Mary KEITANY Mamitu DASKA Gladys CHERONO KEITANY Cynthia LIMO Worknesh DEGEFA Josephone CHEPKOECH Georgina RONO Mercy Jerotich KIBARUS Worknesh DEGEFA Yebrqual MELESE Rebecca CHESIR Rose CHELIMO Caroline KILEL

Nation Rank Venue

KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN ETH ETH KEN KEN KEN

1 1 2 1 1 3 1 4 1 2 1 2 1 1 3

Date

Barcelona 15 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Istanbul 26 APR Olomouc 20 JUN Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Prague 28 MAR Ras Al Khaimah 13 FEB Nairobi 08 MAR Nairobi 08 MAR Goteborg 23 MAY Prague 28 MAR Milano 29 MAR Lisboa 22 MAR Nairobi 08 MAR

Time

Athlete

1:08:23 1:08:31 1:08:33 1:08:36 1:08:37 1:08:41 1:08:42 1:08:42 1:08:53 1:08:53 1:09:00 1:09:07 1:09:11

Helah KIPROP KEN Molly HUDDLE USA CHELIMO KEN Flomena Cheyech DANIEL KEN Worknesh DEGEFA ETH Angela Jemesunde TANUI KEN Mercy Jemutai TANUI KEN Joyce CHEPKIRUI KEN CHELIMO KEN Netsanet GUDETA ETH Purity RIONORIPO KEN Sutume KEBEDE ETH Mulu SEBOKA ETH

Nation Rank Venue

2 1 2 1 2 3 4 2 1 3 4 1 1

Date

Istanbul 26 APR New York City 15 MAR Olomouc 20 JUN Yangzhou 19 APR Yangzhou 19 APR Olomouc 20 JUN Nairobi 08 MAR New York City15 MAR Adana 04 JAN Yangzhou 19 APR Yangzhou 19 APR Verbania 12 APR Karlovy Vary 23 MAY

Other performances

1:08:43 Amane BERISO

ETH 1 Ostia

22 FEB

10km Men Time

Athlete

27:30 27:38 27:43 27:47 27:48 27:48

Stephen SAMBU Stephen MOKOKA Zersenay TADESE Japhet Kipyegon KORIR Bernard LAGAT Jawad LAARISS

Present world record: Leonard Patrick Komon (KEN); 26:44; Utrecht; 26 SEP 2010 Nation Rank Venue

KEN RSA ERI KEN USA MAR

1 2 1 1 3 3

Date

Manchester 10 MAY Manchester 10 MAY Mohammedia 17 MAY Wuerzburg 26 APR Manchester 10 MAY Mohammedia 17 MAY

Time

Athlete

27:49 27:53 27:54 27:55 27:55 27:57

Salah Eddine BOUNASR MAR Wilson Kipsang KIPROTICH KEN Homiyu TESFAYE GER Hicham BELLANI MAR Nicholas Kipchirchir BOR KEN Simon CHEPROT KEN

Nation Rank Venue

4 4 1 5 1 2

Women Date

Mohammedia 17 MAY Manchester 10 MAY Paderborn 04 APR Mohammedia 17 MAY Ottawa 23 MAY Ottawa 23 MAY

Time

Athlete

30:56 31:00 31:15 31:18 31:22 31:30

Gladys CHERONO Malika ASAHSSAH Mary Jepkosgei KEITANY Peris CHEPCHIRCHIR Gladys YATOR Malika ASAHSSAH

Present world record: Paula Radcliffe (GBR); 30:21; San Juan; 23 FEB 2003 Nation Rank Venue

KEN MAR KEN KEN KEN MAR

1 1 1 2 1 1

Date

Ottawa 23 MAY Laredo 21 MAR New York 13 JUN Ottawa 23 MAY Mohammedia 17 MAY Taroudant 08 MAR

Time

Athlete

31:40 31:41 31:49 31:49 31:49 31:55

YATOR Karoline GRØVDAL Sutume ASEFA Betsy SAINA Lanni MARCHANT Hiwot AYALEW

Nation Rank Venue

KEN NOR ETH KEN CAN ETH

1 1 1 1 3 1

Date

Langueux 13 JUN Oslo 25 APR Paderborn 04 APR Manchester 10 MAY Ottawa 23 MAY New Orleans 04 APR

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WMRA News 7 June 2015

EXECUTIVES President: Bruno Gozzelino

20th Ratitovec Run

Secretary: Pierre Weiss (FRA) Treasurer: Nancy Hobbs (USA) Council Members:

Železniki, Slovenia

Galia Puhaleva (BUL) Erhan Basoglu (TUR) Andrjrej Puchacz (POL) Tomo Šarf (SLO) Wolfgang Munzel (GER) Member of Honour: Raimondo Balicco (ITA)

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CALENDAR 4 July

12th World Long Distance Championships Zermatt, SUI

26 July

17th Grintovec Mountain Run/World Cup 3 Kamnik, SLO

15 Aug Mountain Running World Cup, 1st race Winners Lucija Krkoc and Andrew Douglas were both strong in the final 2km which rises steeply as runners go from the forest to open mountain meadows. It also becomes more technical.

14 June 2015

Bustine, ROU

Grand Ballon Willer-sur-Thur, France

140 runners from 9 countries participated in the race which for the first time had an international character. Kids’ races were held as a part of the traditional event and more than 60 girls and boys ran the short up & down course in U12, U14 and U16 categories. The race incorporated the Slovenian national championships and was a selection race for the European Championships.

Mountain Running World Cup, 2nd race Race favourite Petro Mamu stopped the clock at the finish line on top of the Vosges in a time only 15 seconds slower than last year when he improved the course record by almost two minutes.

6 Sept

In the women’s race Emma Clayton from Great Britain was the favourite on paper but was upstaged by her compatriot Sara Tunstall over the 8.4km course with an elevation gain of 820m.

MEN: 1 Andrew DOUGLAS 2 David SCHNEIDER 3 Miran CVET 4 Sandor SZABÓ 5 Kamil JASTRZĘBSKI WOMEN: 1 Lucija KRKOC 2 Timea MERÉNYI 3 Dom WISNIEWSKA-ULFIK 4 Jana BRATINA 5 Mojca KERMAVNAR

GBR SUI SLO HUN POL

1:01:40 1:02:40 1:04:46 1:04:56 1:05:06

SLO HUN POL SLO SLO

49:09 51:14 52:50 53:41 54:47

Organisers of the 35th edition of this race were disappointed with the poor turnout of French runners. Conditions were good: a dry course and ideal temperatures with high humidity the only inhibiting factor.

3rd Asitzgipfel-MountainRun/World Cup 4 Leogang, AUT

12 Sept

15th World Masters Mountain Running Championships Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, GBR

19 Sept

31st World Mountain Running Championships Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, GBR

Mamu went ahead after only 4km of the 13.4km course which included 1230m of ascent and 210m of descent. Azaria Teklay repeated his second placing of last year trailing Mamu by almost 2 minutes but finished a similar margin ahead of third-placed Andrew Douglas, winner of the first World Cup race held the previous week.

The organisers, Athletic Club Železniki chaired by the enthusiastic president Brane Cencic celebrated the 20th edition of the race by becoming part of the Mountain Running World Cup. All the runners felt the meaning of the Slovenian tourist slogan “Slovenia – on the sunny side of the Alps” – the weather was summer hot.

7th Balkan Championships

The races will be held on a 4.1km lap with an elevation gain of 250m per lap.

Men’s race (3 laps): 12.8km +/– 750m Women & Junior Men’s race (2 laps): 8.7km +/– 500m Junior Women’s race (1 lap): 4.6km +/– 250m

3 Oct

36th Šmarna Gora Mountain Run/ World Cup 6 Ljubljana, SLO

The third race of the World Cup 2015 series will be the Grintovec race in Slovenia at the end of July.

MEN: 1 Petr MAMU 2 Azaria TEKLAY 3 Andrew DOUGLAS 4 Robbie SIMPSON 5 Andrew DAVIES WOMEN: 1 Sarah TUNSTALL 2 Emma CLAYTON 3 Timea MERENYI 4 Dominika WINIEWSKA ULFIK 5 Melanie NOLL

ERI ERI GBR GBR GBR

57:52 59:48 1:01:03 1:02:20 1:03:08

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There are 20 AIMS members in Italy: as many as in marathon-mad Japan and more than any other country. What makes the Marathon so popular there? Alessio Punzi, former Communications Officer of the Rome Marathon, offers his insight

La dolce via talian road runners are inherently marathoners, probably dating back to Dorando Pietri and the aura surrounding his legendary nonwin at the 1908 London Olympics. Dorando’s is the founding myth of generations of marathon runners. Equally iconic is Abebe Bikila’s flame-lit triumph in the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympics, arguably the climactic moment of the first Games ever broadcast in Italy.

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The mass ‘running boom’ that spread around the world from the USA reached Italy thanks to a collection of world-class victories: Gianni Poli in New York in 1984; Orlando Pizzolato there in 1985 and 1986; Gelindo Bordin at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. These continued in the 1990s with Giacomo Leone in New York in 1996 and Franca Fiacconi there in 1998. All of them contributed to investing a whole new meaning to the discipline and with the media trumpeting their feats “marathon” became a buzzword.

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the New York City Marathon. In 2004, Stefano Baldini’s 2004 Olympic Gold in Athens just added to the momentum.

So mainstream is the event in Italian popular culture that the concept of “marathon” and that of “running” are often synonymous. Even today, to most Italians unfamiliar with road running, every race is a marathon.

“Come and run our 10km marathon” is a common invitation found in advertisements for lower-tier events.

Many major Italian cities had started marathons in the early 1980s and these were often subsidised by the local government. This peaked in the 1990s with the ‘Rome-Marathon-as-we-know-it’ seeing the light in 1995.

In retrospect this can be seen as a successful attempt by the then Mayor Rutelli to make Rome a running capital to rival New York itself.

Opinion All over the country cities fell in love with marathons. They brought prestige and visibility.

Economic impact studies were yet to come let alone any data-based analysis of the public health benefits of physical activity. Yet every mayor felt they had to jump on the marathon bandwagon; every town wanted their own 42.2km event. Some succeeded: Rome, Turin, Florence, Venice, Milan; some struggle: Naples, Bari; and some became defunct.

In my personal opinion there are too many marathons in Italy. Simply because no mayor would settle for less and because local promoters are often so passionate for road running that they feel they have to stage a marathon, the queen of road races.

The ability of a runner to do a marathon is a scarce commodity. Most of them can run just two a year. As the big marathons enrich their offering participation will increasingly focus on the big city marathons. This is a global phenomenon and will make life harder for small town marathons. They’d probably be better off if they adapted themselves to meet the market’s demands rather than staging solipsistic, expensive marathons which are uselessly disruptive for the cities in which they are located and only boast a few hundred dispersed racers.

The market is changing though. Commercial outfits like RCS Sport are introducing new event formats (Colour Run, Electric Run, Fisherman’s Friend StrongmanRun Italia, etc.) which are providing more options. But the hard-core runner will always look at classic half marathons and marathons. The “competitive” attitude of Italians is legendary. For as much as they do it for recreational purposes they all love to look and behave like pros.

Much to the benefit of running brands and event organisers, new runners are joining the movement: more youngsters and significantly more women, both with a different approach to the event. More for fun and health than obsession with the stopwatch and veterans looks.

AIMS membership raises the profile of an event by acting as a legitimisation. A large part of this is having an AIMS-certified course. Italians do marathons to set personal bests, even if it means shaving 30 seconds off a 4:30 time.

Nothing is more upsetting to them than finding that the race in which they did so well was actually several hundred metres short. AIMS affiliation adds value to an event and, especially in the case of small-scale marathons, this helps the organiser score political points with the local administrators.

The AIMS label gives minor races the opportunity to get exposure and opportunities to promote themselves at reasonable cost. The AIMS booth, and the possibility of sending race representatives there, is an attractive membership perk.

Mass events and tourism go hand in hand.

AIMS membership is appealing because of the touristic possibilities of so many Italian cities. In Rome we stressed the leisure component of the Rome Marathon experience because we knew we would help the city’s economy most by attracting runners from overseas: those most

likely to stay a few days and spend more money in restaurants, hotels and shops.

The decision to stage a marathon only seldom follows a strategically thought-out plan. Mostly they are the impromptu endeavours of zealous volunteers. Only at a later stage, if initially successful, are they squeezed into the city’s marketing toolbox with public officials taking credit for them and organisers letting them do so.

City-subsidised events, which included pretty much every marathon in Italy until the current spending review, must be integrated with public policy objectives. City officials should ask themselves: what can a marathon do for my city? I would suggest they can help to change a city’s image, promote tourism growth, improve public health, develop sport, expand social inclusion and increase educational and employment prospects.

Events are not a substitute for policy. Sporting events are policy tools, and race organisers need to work a bit harder when it comes to understanding how they can support policy. In this respect Turin (unsurprisingly, a recent Winter Olympic host) is certainly doing well.

Race organisers specifically target foreign participants but the results vary hugely. Rome boasts some 5,000 participants from abroad (who contribute an estimated EUR40m to the city’s economy over race weekend according to a 2010 study). Florence and Venice have in percentage terms even more foreign runners by virtue of their unique positioning. But minor races can’t really be considered “destination marathons”. What they typically do is list all the countries represented among their entries and brag about it a bit at the pre-event press conferences. This is a legitimate and understandable effort to score political points, even if all they may have are a few locallyretired English expatriates. The point is that it’s probably harder to attract five Germans to Messina than five hundred of them to Rome.

Some organisers get support from their local tourism authorities in publicising their race. The Regione Veneto has supported its regional marathons (Venice, Verona and Treviso) in their marketing campaigns for years. But we have a

long way to go to reach that smooth integration you can see in some exemplary cases elsewhere, such as Vienna.

The host city often supports its marathon through VIK sponsorship: certainly in Rome we didn’t have to meet the full cost of the services we received from the city. This included the post-race city clean-up, extra shifts for hundreds of policemen, etc.

While the cities definitely recognise the benefits a marathon brings to them it is often their citizens who don’t want to accept the traffic disruption a marathon race inevitably causes.

Shutting down a city for a race of a few hundred participants is asking too much. We all love small, intimate, authentic races but you can’t close the city centre for them. They should be staged within parks. The heart of the city has to be exclusively for major events. You don’t want to upset motorists, shop owners and city residents by blocking traffic every other Sunday — and the City doesn’t want to upset its electorate.

For climatic reasons (summers are too hot to run marathons, winters too unpredictable) most marathons in Italy, in common with most temperate countries, are scheduled during two relatively restricted periods of the year: March to May and September to November. Organisers of races which attract lots of tourist runners tend to steer away from the peak tourist seasons of late April to May, late September to October and the winter holidays to avoid fullybooked hotels and high prices. By contrast smaller events in minor cities tend to capitalise on the “holiday effect” by offering their marathons at times of year most convenient to tourists.

Rome, Florence and Venice are so universally known and loved that their marathons, as big as they are, only account for a fraction of the overall volume of tourists in the season. It is a complicated picture but cities and organisers are increasingly working together to schedule their events in order to avoid clashes and generate the maximum possible impact.

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EXECUTIVES President: Dirk Strumane (BEL) Vice President & Director of Competitions: Liesbeth Jansen (NED) General Secretary: Hilary Walker (GBR) Director of Communications: Nadeem Khan (CAN) Director of Protocol (coopted): Paco Rico (ESP) Director of Statistics (coopted): Jürgen Schoch (GER) Director of Organizations: Jan Vandendriessche (BEL) Africa & Oceania Representative: James Evans (RSA) Americas Representative: Lin Gentling (USA) Asia Representative: Bokjin Park (KOR) Europe Representative: Paco Rico (ESP)

2 APRIL 2015:

IAU 24 Hour World and European Championships Turin, Italy A total field of 302 athletes from 40 countries contested the World and European 24-hour championships held in the European City of Sport for 2015, Turin. The course was a 2km loop around the Park Ruffini which was also holding the World Table Snooker Championships and American Football international matches to add to spectator interest.

Six hours into the race Yoshikazu Hara (JPN) was leading for the men but neither he nor his two close followers, Vasim Sharkov (RUS) and Elov Olsson (SWE) were going to feature in the final results. Tatyana Maslova (RUS) was leading the women with eventual winner Katalin Nagy (USA) close behind her. At half way the men’s order was the same but in the women’s race Nagy had edged in front of Maslova.

Germany’s Florian Reus had been in the medal positions for much of the

race but showed his strength by moving into the lead in the final hours. Nagy maintained her lead among the women.

Pawel Szynal won the World and European silver medal only 40m in front of the fast-finishing Robbie Britton (GBR). Nagy was followed home by her compatriot Traci Falbo while Maria Jansson (SWE) became European Champion by finishing third overall.

Regular information from the electronic lap recordings allowed the GBR men’s team to time their efforts well and come through strongly from a lowly early position to win Gold.

The USA had three superlative individual women’s performances to top the team podium. In the European Team Championships France finished third in the men’s event and Great Britain third in the women’s.

MEN: 1 2 3 4 5

Florian REUS Pawel SZYNAL Robbie BRITTON Ivan MACAJ Kim HANSEN

GER POL GBR SVK DEN

263,899m 261,181m 261,140m 258,333m 257,753m

TEAMS: 1 Great Britain 2 Australia 3 Germany

770,777m 752,665m 745,075m

WOMEN: 1 2 3 4 5

Katalin NAGY Traci FALBO Maria JANSSON Maggie GUTERL Patrycja BEREZNOWSKA

USA USA SWE USA POL

244,495m 239,740m 238,964m 235,811m 233,395m

TEAMS: 1 United States 2 Sweden 3 Poland

720,046m 684,981m 678,468m

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DIARY DATES 12 September 2015 100km World Championships (Winschoten, The Netherlands)

4 December 2015 50km World Championships (Doha, Qatar)

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IAU travel grants Travel grants for the IAU 50km World Championships may be awarded to athletes achieving the following times: Men: A standard: 3:00:00; B standard: 3:10:00; C standard : 3:20:00 Women: A standard: 3:30:00; B standard: 3:40:00; C standard: 3:50:00 The above standards relate to eligibility for the travel grant only.

National federations are exclusively responsible for selections.

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Annecy, France Sylvain Court and 2013 champion Nathalie Mauclair took individual victories while France also won the

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5th IAU Trail World Championships France used home territory advantage to the full to take all four titles writes Phil Minshull.

For more information contact: Nadeem Khan nadeem.khan@iau-ultramarathon.org

Sylvain COURT FRA Luis Alberto HENANDEZ ESP Patrick BRINGER FRA Tom OWENS GBR Ludovic POMMERET FRA

8:15:38 8:19:08 8:21:43 8:26:23 8:33:07

TEAMS:

men’s and women’s team competitions held over an 85km circuit around Lake Annecy, which included 5300m of vertical drop and gain.

With the scoring being based on the lowest accumulated time of a country’s first three runners France finished almost two hours ahead of the US trio.

Court was head-to-head with Spain’s Luis Alberto Hernando with 13km to go as the pair reached the summit of Mount Baron but then the Frenchman pulled away on the final stretch to cross the finish line in Annecy-le-Vieux exactly three-and-ahalf minutes in front. In similar fashion, in the battle for the bronze medal France’s Patrick Bringer pulled away from Great Britain’s Tom Owens on the long downhill section into Annecy.

Mauclair fulfilled predictions that she would defend her title although compatriot Caroline Chaverot, who knew the circuit very well, had more than five minutes advantage over her at 35km. But Mauclair slowly reduced the deficit: at 55km it was three minutes; with 15km to go, 45 seconds. She finally passed her rival with little more than 5km to go.

WOMEN:

The French team once again ran out convincing winners by more than an hour on accumulated time.

1 France 2 Spain 3 Italy

1 France 2 United States 3 Great Britain

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25:18:22 27:01:59 27:25:57

Nathalie MAUCLAIR FRA Caroline CHAVEROT FRA Maite MAYORA ESP Anne-Lise ROUSSET FRA Andrea HUSER SUI

TEAMS: 29:37:45 31:00:47 33:39:36

9:30:59 9:33:21 9:39:36 10:05:19 10:20:31

Podium placers 22 March – 21 June 2015 22 March 2015 Diacore Gaborone Marathon

Sportismo Prague Half Marathon Czech Republic Photo: Volker Adam

Botswana Marathon Men

1 Gilbert MUTANDIRO 2 Hosea FRANS 3 Simon SHIPINGANA

ZIM 2:17:34 NAM 2:22:02 NAM 2:22:29

Women

1 Anna AMITOKO 2 Aimwata OTTILE 3 Faithy NYASANGO

NAM 2:50:23 NAM 2:51:40 ZIM 2:55:14

www.diacoregaboronemarathon.com Next date: 3 April 2016

22 March 2015 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon Portugal Half marathon Men

1 Mo FARAH 2 Micah KOGO 3 Stephen KIBET

GBR KEN KEN

59:32 59:33 59:58

Women

1 Rose CHELIMO 2 Sara MOREIRA 3 Priscah JEPTOO

KEN 1:08:22 POR 1:09:18 KEN 1:09:21

www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com Next date: 20 March 2016

22 March 2015 Maratona di Roma Italy

1 Abebe Degewo NEGEFA 2 Birhanu Addis ACHAME 3 Jamel CHATBI

ETH 2:12:23 ETH 2:12:32 ITA 2:14:04

Women

1 Meseret TOLWALK 2 Alem Fikre KIFLE 3 Deborah TONIOLO

ETH 2:30:25 ETH 2:31:01 ITA 2:36:30

www.maratonadiroma.it Next date: 10 April 2016

22 March 2015 Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon Falkland Islands Marathon

www.tokushima-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

Germany

Korea

Half marathon

22 March 2015 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon

1 Birhanu LEGESSE 2 David KOGEI 3 Abraham CHEROBEN

KEN 2:13:14 KEN 2:15:51 KEN 2:18:30

Women

1 Gladys 2 Tigist Teshome AYANU 3 Ruth Wanjiru KURIA

GBR 2:35:39 GBR 2:37:43 GBR 3:04:15 Women

KEN 2:39:32 ETH 2:41:31 KEN 2:42:18

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www.incheonmarathon.co.kr Next date: tbc

KEN 1:10:52 KEN 1:10:56 SWE 1:11:31

www.scc-events.com Next date: tbc

29 March 2015 ČSOB Bratislava Marathon Slovakia

www.wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw Next date: tbc

Marathon Men

28 March 2015 Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon

1 Joel MWANGI 2 Iasaac CHESINY 3 CHEPKWONY

Czech Republic Men

1 Daniel WANJIRU 2 Wilfred MURGOR 3 Leonard KOMON

KEN KEN KEN

1 Worknesh DEGEFA 2 Yebrqual MELESE 3 Diane NUKURI

KEN 2:18:22 KEN 2:27:55 KEN 2:28:10 Women

59:51 59:57 59:57

Women

GBR 3:39:54 GBR 4:01:57 GBR 4:16:06

ETH KEN ETH

Women

1 Cynthia KOSGEI 2 Elizeba CHERONO 3 Isabellah ANDERSSON

Men

1 Eliud Kiplagat BARNGETUNY 2 Josphat Kiptanui TOO 3 KIPNGETICH

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[Results unobtainable]

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Men

1 Carrie-Ann WARD 2 Cheryl OROURKE 3 Sarah SMYTH

Japan

29 March 2015 Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon

Chinese Taipei

Marathon

1 Tim DREW 2 Matthew BLUNDEN 3 Stuart SMITH

22 March 2015 Tokushima Marathon

ETH 1:07:14 ETH 1:08:21 BDI 1:09:33

www.runczech.com Next date: 2 April 2016

1 Alice KIBOR 2 Tunde SZABO 3 Marija VRAJIC

KEN 2:42:55 HUN 2:44:37 CRO 2:57:32

Half marathon Men

1 Edwin KIPKORIR

KEN 1:03:10 Women

1 Aniko KALOVICS

HUN 1:17:28

www.bratislavamarathon.com Next date: tbc

CSOB Bratislava Marathon Slovakia

Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org 29 March 2015 Limassol Marathon GSO

29 March 2015 Novi Sad Half Marathon

Cyprus

Serbia

Marathon

Half marathon

Men

1 Ahmet Kassahun JEBEL 2 Michael KEENAN 3 Karavaslis VLASSIS

Men

CYP 2:46:05 GBR 2:51:04 GRE 2:57:17

1 Goran UKIC 2 Sebastjan PUS 3 Ognjen STOJANOVIC

GBR 3:21:16 CYP 3:38:58 GRE 3:43:21

1 Klara LJUBI 2 Radmila DUROVIC 3 Vesna KIRADIEVA

Women

1 Caroline JACKSON 2 Ioylia KANNAVA 3 Georgia LALIOTI

Women

Men

RUS 1:09:34

Women

1 Hanna MAKSIMAVA

BLR 1:25:15

www.limassolmarathon.com Next date: 10 April 2016

29 March 2015 ASICS Medio Maratón Villa de Madrid Spain Half marathon Men

1 Alex CHEROP 2 Elijah SEREM 3 Muhajr Haredin SRAJ

KEN 1:02:28 KEN 1:02:30 ETH 1:03:17

Women

1 Linah CHERUTO 2 Bizunesh Getachew GUDETA 3 Zeddy Jerop LIMO

SLO 1:23:35 SRB 1:28:09 MKD 1:28:29

www.marathon.org.rs Next date: 3 April 2016

Half marathon 1 Andrey BRUYUKHANKOV

SRB 1:11:36 SLO 1:12:13 SRB 1:12:58

KEN 1:10:43 ETH 1:12:07 KEN 1:15:28

www.mediomaratonmadrid.es Next date: 3 April 2016

3 April 2015 Dead Sea Ultramarathon Jordan Deputising for the race’s patron, the Crown Prince of Jordan, HRH Princess Dana Feras said: “We are proud of the success the marathon has achieved over the years with respect to organisation, participation and media coverage. It will continue to spread the message of healthy living among Jordanian society and will additionally foster the culture of volunteering.”

Men

Ultramarathon Men

Men

1 Raafat ZBOIUN

JOR 1:05:38 Women

1 Safaa NEMER

SUD 3:38:36

1 Motlokoa NKHABUTLANE 2 Collen MAKAZA 3 Moeketsi MOSHULI

JOR 1:26:12

JOR 2:58:19

Women

1 Hanouya HASBALLAH

Half marathon

www.runjordan.com Next date: tbc

Marathon 1 Mithqal AL-ABBADI

Dead Sea Ultramarathon Jordan

4 April 2015 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon

Women

1 Caroline WOSTMANN 2 Nina PODNEBEDNOVA 3 Tanith MAXWELL

Men

1 Stephen Lesego MOKOKA

ASICS Medio Maratón Villa de Madrid Spain

Title Sponsor Old Mutual had originally offered a million-rand prize to anyone breaking the 56km records, but the times set in 1988– 89 remain in place for another year.

RSA 1:04:00

Women

1 Lebogang PHALULA

Stephen Mokoka successfully defended his Half Marathon title in a sprint finish. The Phalula twins dominated the women’s race, with Lebogang winning and her sister Diana (defending her 2014 title) finishing third.

RSA 3:41:23 RUS 3:44:04 RSA 3:45:18

Half marathon

Republic of South Africa The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho took two podium places which winner Motlokoa Nkhabutlane put down to their strong focus on group training. The day’s biggest surprise was Caroline Wöstmann’s win in the women’s race — the first by a South African since 2001. She improved 70 minutes on her 2014 time.

Wöstmann inched her way to the front of the pack until she finally passed Podnebesnova, who had maintained a strong lead until that point, in the final 5km.

LES 3:10:27 ZIM 3:12:41 LES 3:13:44

RSA 1:14:48

www.twooceansmarathon.org.za Next date: 26 March 2016

5 April 2015 Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great Greece Marathon Men

1 Bonsa Atomsa GONFA 2 Silas TOO 3 James EMURIA

ETH 2:18:06 KEN 2:21:31 KEN 2:22:38

Women

1 Zeritu Wakjira BEGASHAW 2 Stellah BARSOSIO 3 Marija VRAJIC

ETH 2:40:49 KEN 2:40:54 CRO 2:47:51

10km Men

1 Henry KEMBOI

KEN

30:21

KEN

35:34

Women

1 Agnes CHEBET

www.alexanderthegreatmarathon.org Next date: 3 April 2016

5 April 2015 Daegu Int’l Marathon Korea Both recording their second career victories Girmay Birhanu and Meselech Melkamu made it three times in six years that Ethiopians had won both titles in Daegu writes Jon Mulkeen. Birhanu’s winning time Distance Running | 2015 Edition 3

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Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org More than 15,000 runners took part in the two main events (5000 in the Marathon and over 10,000 in the mass Relay Marathon representing 2570 teams running for charity organisations). Former marathon world record holder and two-time 10,000m Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie ran on the first leg of the Relay.

was the second fastest recorded while Melkamu finished over two minutes ahead of her nearest rival.

Six men led through the first half but Birhanu forged ahead in the final miles for an emphatic win.

Making his marathon debut 20-yearold Son Myeong-Jon was the top Korean finisher in fifth.

The women’s race played out in much the same way as Melkamu built up an unassailable lead in the second half of the race. It was her slowest time yet but her first victory since her debut in Frankfurt three years ago. Yeum Ko-Eun, the top Korean finisher, improved on her debut time by almost nine minutes.

14,452 runners finished the race.

Marathon Men

1 Kenneth MUNGARA 2 Cyprian KOTUT 3 Philemon BAARU Women

1 Lucy KARIMI 2 Geda Ayelu LEMMA 3 Fatna MARAOUI

12 April 2015 Schneider Electric Paris Marathon

Men

ETH 2:07:26 KEN 2:08:21 KEN 2:08:54

KEN 2:27:35 ETH 2:29:49 ITA 2:33:16

www.milanomarathon.it Next date: tbc

Marathon 1 Girmay BIRHANU 2 Stephen CHEMLANY 3 Benjamin MUTAI

KEN 2:08:44 KEN 2:08:55 KEN 2:09:08

NN Marathon Rotterdam Netherlands

France

Photo: Mel Boas

Women

1 Meselech MELKAMU 2 Dinknwesh MEKASH 3 Ayumi SAKAIDA

ETH 2:27:24 ETH 2:29:44 JPN 2:30:39

marathon.daegusports.or.kr Next date: tbc

9 April 2015 North Pole Marathon North Pole Marathon

11 April 2015 Kharkiv Int’l Marathon Ukraine Marathon Men

1 Dmitry PIOZHEVILOV 2 Artem PODDUBNI 3 Vadim SAPA Women

Men

1 Petr VABROUSEK 2 Douglas WILSON 3 Daniel PALKO

CZE 4:22:24 AUS 5:01:38 SVK 5:08:56 Women

1 Heather HAWKINS 2 Alice BURCH 3 Jennifer CHEUNG

AUS 6:57:39 GBR 7:04:42 HKG 7:06:06

www.npmarathon.com Next date: 9 April 2016

11 April 2015 Australian Running Festival Australia

1 Elena SIMONOK 2 Lyubov SUCH 3 Natalya KARAVAN

12 April 2015 Guam Int’l Marathon Guam Marathon Men

1 Yusuke INOSE 2 Yasukazu MIYAZATU 3 Derek MANDELL

JPN 2:41:23 JPN 2:44:46 GUM 2:50:55

Women

Men

AUS 2:26:27 AUS 2:31:25 AUS 2:37:57

Women

1 Fleur FLANNERY 2 Hannah OLDROYD 3 Rebecca ROSEL

UKR 2:35:01 UKR 3:24:49 UKR 4:14:23

www.kharkivmarathon.com Next date: tbc

Marathon 1 Rowan WALKER 2 Michael CHAPMAN 3 Andrew MCGOWAN

AUS 2:53:54 AUS 2:54:26 AUS 2:56:17

1 Hwa Ryu SUNG 2 Rhea MACALUSO 3 Kaori AKAGAWA

KOR 3:08:42 GUM 3:32:29 JPN 3:41:55

Half marathon Men

1 Shou MATSUMOTO

JPN 1:35:47

www.guaminternationalmarathon.com Next date: 10 April 2016

Men

AUS 2:59:19 Women

1 Kelly-Ann VARY

AUS 3:31:35

Men

1 Niel PEARSON

AUS 1:11:32 Women

1 Cath CHATTERTON

12 April 2015 Milano Marathon Italy

Half marathon

AUS 1:26:15

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JPN 1:11:43

Women

1 Manami IIJIMA

50km 1 John DUTTON

UKR 2:35:01 UKR 2:43:24 UKR 2:48:53

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Evergreen Kenneth Mungara, now 41, ran the fastest marathon ever by a runner over 40 — shaving two seconds from the time Mexico’s Andres Espinosa ran in the 2003

Berlin Marathon writes Diego Sampaolo. His compatriot Lucy Karimi took the women’s title.

Nine men, including pacemakers Emmanuel Kichwen and Asbel Kipsang, went through halfway in 1:04:11. Kipsang and Kichwen passed 30km in 1:31:22, 10 seconds ahead of the group, but after they dropped out it was down to five runners: Mungara, Philemon Baaru, Samson Bungei, Cyprian Kotut and William Koitile. This group battled it out until 40km before Mungara broke away with one kilometre to go to beat Kotut, the younger brother of three-time London Marathon winner Martin Lel, by 11 seconds. It was Kotut’s debut marathon. Mungara has won 10 of his 21 marathons in a late-blooming career. He only started running seriously in his early 30s, famously deciding to take up the sport when runners featured among his clients at his barber’s shop.

The women’s lead group comprised three Ethiopians and three Kenyans, including London and New York winner Priscah Jeptoo, who was only aiming to go to 30km. Jeptoo, Lucy Karimi and Geda Ayelu Lemma reached halfway together in 1:11:23. At 30km Jeptoo led through in 1:41.53 10 seconds ahead of Karimi but then dropped out, leaving Karimi alone at the front with an advantage of 54 seconds over Lemma. Karimi steadily increased her margin of supremacy over her Ethiopian rival to more than two minutes at the finish line.

Mark Korir surprised by running more than a minute faster than his personal best to win the 39th edition writes Miriam Walker-Khan.

He overhauled his compatriot Mike Kigen at 37km after Kigen had tried to run away from the rest of the field at 32km.

The leaders passed halfway in 1:03:23 but the pace steadily increased in the second half and Kigen passed 35km in 1:44:18.

Korir later said: “I didn’t go off with Kigen… because I wanted to run at my own pace.”

Ethiopia’s Meseret Mengistu made a huge breakthrough to win the women’s race and take almost six minutes off her best time after a thrilling finish with compatriot Amane Gobena. Gobena went ahead with 2km to go only for Mengistu to fight back and go past her in the final 500m. Behind them Visiline Jepkesho also improved her personal best, by over two minutes.

A record 41,342 runners participated with 40% coming from outside France, representing 150 countries. It was the largest field ever outside of the New York City Marathon, which tops 50,000 runners. Chicago is the only other marathon ever to exceed 40000 finishers (40801 in 2014). Starting on the Champs Elysée close by the Arc de Triomphe runners pass many of the French capital’s most historic landmarks including the Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuilleries, Place Vendome, Louvre, Hotel de Ville, Place de la Bastille, Bois de Vincennes, Notre-Dame Cathedral,

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Marathon

Kralingse Plas, the lake and park where the Rotterdam Marathon has its roots, Kuma picked up enough to drop Koech and Kiptoo.

Men

1 Mark KORIR 2 Luka KANDA 3 Seboka TOLA

KEN 2:05:49 KEN 2:07:20 ETH 2:07:33 Women

1 Meseret MENGISTU 2 Amane GOBENA 3 Visiline JEPKESHO

ETH 2:23:24 ETH 2:23:29 KEN 2:24:42

www.parismarathon.com Next date: 3 April 2016

12 April 2015 Poznan Half Marathon Poland Over 8000 runners from 27 countries finished the 8th edition, a record attendance. Paweł Ochal took the men’s title and his wife Olga won the women’s race. It was the first time that spectators in Poznan could acclaim a compatriot as the men’s winner and the second time they could do so in the women’s race. “It’s a remarkable feeling to win together in the same competition” said Paweł.

The 16th Poznan Marathon takes place on 11 October 2015. See: www.marathon.poznan.pl

In the women’s race a leading group of four quickly fronted the race: Japan’s Asami Kato, Ethiopia’s Marta Tigabea, Peru’s Gladys Tejeda and Kenya’s Bornes Kitur. Kato and Tigabea led through halfway in 1:12:03 while Tejeda and Kitur were starting to slip back. Kato forged ahead at around 27km, dropping Tigabea, and eventually finishing almost two minutes clear of her nearest challenger. Tejeda ran a tactically astute race to come through well for second place in a personal best. “It was a good race but I’m a bit disappointed with this time,” said Kato, despite improving by more than two minutes.

15,000 runners started the race at a runner-friendly temperature of 12C but a strong south-westerly breeze reached 4m/s.

Marathon Men

Half marathon

1 Abera KUMA

ETH 2:06:46

Men

2 Mark KIPTOO

KEN 2:07:20

1 Pawel OCHAL 2 Pawel MATNER 3 Lukasz KALASZCZYNSKI

POL 1:08:06 POL 1:09:32 POL 1:10:44

Women

1 Olga OCHAL 2 Alexsandra PEISERT 3 Dorota PAWLOWSKA

POL 1:14:34 POL 1:23:40 POL 1:25:25

3 Bernard KOECH

KEN 2:08:02 Women

1 Asami KATO

JPN 2:26:30

2 Gladys TEJEDA

PER 2:28:12

3 Krista DUCHENE

CAN 2:29:38

www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl Next date: tbc

www.nnmarathonrotterdam.org/home Next date: 10 April 2016

12 April 2015 NN Marathon Rotterdam

12 April 2015 Maratón de Santiago

Netherlands

Chile

Abera Kuma pulled away from his rivals in the last 7km of the 35th edition writes Cors van den Brink.

He nevertheless expressed disappointment, complaining about the wind having prevented him posting a new personal best (2:05:56, 3rd in Berlin last year).

Luka Rotich Lobuwan broke away before halfway to notch up the first marathon win of his career at ninth edition of the race writes Eduardo Biscayart. He missed the course record by 9 seconds. The 26-year-old Kenyan was in the initial break at 16km, along with South Africa’s Desmond Mokgobu and Ethiopia’s Haile Haja, but he went clear.

After passing 10km in 29:03 and continuing to rocket around the Dutch port city the pacemakers passed halfway in 1:02:04 with 10 runners on their tail. Just before crossing the Erasmus Bridge again at 25km two pacemakers finished.

The final pacer dropped out at 30km leaving two Kenyans and three Ethiopians: Bernard Koech, Kuma, Mark Kiptoo, Tebalu Zuwade and Abayleh Ayele. Koech led forcing the pace to the extent that Zuwade and Ayele dropped back, even though the tempo was slowing. After going around the 70

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South American record-holder Ines Melchor made a successful return to the Chilean capital, after finishing second in 2013, by winning the women’s race in a new course record. She had only ever run faster in Berlin 2014 when she set the South American record of 2:26:48.

An estimated 28,000 runners took place in all the day’s races.

Marathon Men

1 Luka LOBUWAN 2 Haile HAJA 3 Desmond MOKGOBU

KEN 2:11:53 ETH 2:15:04 RSA 2:15:17

Women

1 Ines MELCHOR 2 Goitetom HAFTU 3 Shewarge ALENE

PER 2:28:18 ETH 2:30:19 ETH 2:34:32

she said, admitting that she had hoped to improve on the Swiss record of 2:27:44.

A record number of 42,742 runners from 129 nations entered the various events of the Vienna City Marathon.

www.maratondesantiago.com Next date: tbc

12 April 2015 São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon Corpore Brazil Men

BRA 1:07:48 BRA 1:08:00 BRA 1:10:39

Women

1 Ariane MONTICELLI 2 Daniela Barcelos DE SOUZA 3 Suzana Gottlob GUERRELHAS

Men

1 Sisay LEMMNA 2 Duncan KOECH 3 Siraj GENA

ETH 2:07:31 KEN 2:12:14 ETH 2:12:48 Women

1 Maja NEUENSCHWANDER 2 Agnes MUTUNE 3 Esther CHEMTAI

Half marathon 1 Vagner NORONHA 2 Sebast VIANA 3 Cezidio Alves Rodrigues NETO

Marathon

BRA 1:21:47 BRA 1:26:54 BRA 1:32:09

www.vienna-marathon.com Next date: 10 April 2016

18 April 2015 SuisseGas Belgrade Marathon Serbia

www.corpore.org.br Next date: tbc

12 April 2015 Vienna City Marathon Austria Sisay Lemma won the 32nd edition in windy and relatively warm weather after breaking away at 27km writes Jörg Wenig. He achieved the biggest winning margin in the history of the race coming home more than four minutes clear. Pre-race favourite and defending champion Getu Feleke, who clocked a course record of 2:05:41 a year ago, dropped out with a muscle injury just before 17km. At halfway (1:03:07) only Lemma, Kenyan debutant Suleiman Simotwo and pacemaker David Kogei remained. When Kogei stepped aside shortly before 27km Lermma surged ahead and dropped Simotwo.

The women’s race was much more competitive. Maja Neuenschwander and Ethiopia’s Fate Tola broke away from a group of seven just before 15km. They went through halfway together in 1:13:35, 34 seconds ahead of a group consisting of Anna Hahner, Agnes Mutune, Esther Chemtai and Caroline Chepkwony.

Tola, back after childbirth, started to falter at 29km after the last pacemaker dropped out leaving Neuenschwander on her own for the last 10km. But she was being chased and at 35km her lead was down to 17 seconds with Chemtai leading the charge. The 35 year-old Neuenschwander, who has a personal best of 2:29:42, had enough left to hold on for the win.

“The wind was the problem, otherwise I would have run faster,”

SUI 2:30:09 KEN 2:30:19 KEN 2:30:32

Marathon Men

1 Silas SANG 2 Andre KIPROP 3 Julius KORIR

KEN 2:14:42 KEN 2:16:44 KEN 2:19:47 Women

1 Abebu GELAN 2 Jemila SHURE 3 Meseret DEKEBO

ETH 2:33:14 ETH 2:34:25 ETH 2:43:22

Half marathon Men

1 Velimir BOJOVIC

SRB 1:08:28 Women

1 Ana SUBOTIC

SRB 1:17:05

www.bgdmarathon.org Next date: tbc

18 April 2015 30th Telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon Hungary Half marathon Men

1 Istvan VARGA 2 Daniel SOOS 3 Martin CHOTEAU

HUN 1:11:31 HUN 1:12:04 FRA 1:12:16 Women

1 Krisztina Merenyi TIMEA 2 Reka BRASSAY 3 Lilla ROZSNYAI

HUN 1:20:32 HUN 1:23:23 HUN 1:24:37

10km Men

1 Zsolt KOSZAR

HUN 30:08 Women

1 Simona STAICU

HUN 35:58

www.budapestmarathon.com Next date: 17 April 2016

18 April 2015 Dushanbe International Half Marathon Tajikistan [Results unobtainable] www.dushanbe-marathon.com Next date: tbc

Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org 19 April 2015 Cracovia Marathon Poland

19 April 2015 The Vancouver Sun Run 10K Presented By BlueShore Financial Canada

Marathon Men

1 Taras SALO 2 Justus Kipchirchir KIPRONO 3 Anatolii ORZECHOWSKIY

UKR 2:17:03 KEN 2:18:56 UKR 2:21:37

Women

1 Hellen KIMUTAI 2 Stellah BARSOSIO 3 Elena Daniela CIRLAN

KEN 2:43:04 KEN 2:43:08 ROU 2:43:38

www.cracoviamaraton.pl Next date: 15 May 2016

19 April 2015 Lake Maggiore Half Marathon Italy Half marathon

HAJ Hannover Marathon Germany

Men

Photo: Christopher Busch

18 April 2015 Pardubice Wine Half Marathon Czech Republic Half marathon Men

1 Maiyo KIMAIYO 2 Mosei KOMON 3 Paul KIPROP

KEN 1:03:22 KEN 1:03:23 KEN 1:05:53 Women

1 Jepkurui BIWOT 2 Ivana SEKYROVA 3 Marta FENCLOVA

KEN 1:17:24 CZE 1:18:37 CZE 1:20:04

www.pardubickyvinarskypulmaraton.cz Next date: tbc

19 April 2015 Enschede Marathon Netherlands Marathon Men

1 Evans CHERUIYOT 2 Kaleb KESHEBO 3 Edwin KIMAIYO

KEN 2:09:40 ETH 2:09:44 KEN 2:09:47

Women

1 Mireille BAART 2 Esmé MORICKE 3 Ingrid PRIGGE

NED 2:51:48 NED 2:53:14 NED 2:55:23

www.enschedemarathon.nl Next date: 17 April 2016

19 April 2015 HAJ Hannover Marathon Germany 31-year old Kenyan Chesari Jacob prevailed over Chala Bekele in the final kilometre. Algeria’s national marathon record holder Souad Ait Salem built a big lead during the second half in the women’s race to win easily. The 36-year old missed the course record by just 14 seconds. Including all events on race day the HAJ Hannover Marathon had a record entry of over 20,000 runners.

A lead group of 15 runners including three pacemakers reached halfway in 64:08, just inside course record pace. However once the pacemakers dropped out at 25km the pace slackened for around six kilometres with nine runners still in contention. “There was no one pushing and it turned tactical,” said Jacob. He then surged ahead around 32km, splitting the group to lead by five seconds at 35km.

Bekele caught him at 40km and briefly took the lead but Jacob responded: “I knew I had something left and was confident that I would win” he said.

Ethiopians Kidist Tedla, Ayantu Hailemaryam and Aynalem Woldemichael, defending champion Souad Ait-Salem and Kenyan debutante Maryanne Wanjiru passed 10km in a brisk 34:26.

Before reaching halfway Wanjiru dropped out and Tedla and Hailemaryam did later on. With a 1:12:55 half way split only Salem and Woldemichael were left at the front and the Ethiopian dropped back between 25–30km. “During the final 2km I had a cramp in my calf,” said Ait Salem, who slowed but still clocked her second best marathon time. “I was not aware that I was that close to the course record so late on.”

Marathon KEN 2:09:32 ETH 2:09:42 KEN 2:09:50 Women

1 Souad AIT SALEM 2 Olha KOTOVSKA 3 Mapaseka MAKHANYA

KEN 1:00:47 KEN 1:00:56 KEN 1:01:05

Women

1 Sutume KEBEDE 2 Leonida MOSOP 3 Geneta KABELA

ETH 1:09:07 KEN 1:10:18 ETH 1:11:17

www.LMHM.it Next date: tbc

19 April 2015 Łódź Maraton Dbam o Zdrowie Poland Marathon Men

1 Albert MATEBOR 2 Dereje Tadesse RAYA 3 Gelgelo Tona OUTOYA

KEN 2:11:49 ETH 2:11:57 ETH 2:12:08

Women

1 Monika STEFANOWICZ 2 Agnieszka MIERZEJEWSKA 3 Tatyana VERNYHOR

POL 2:29:28 POL 2:30:55 UKR 2:31:34

www.lodzmaraton.pl Next date: 17 April 2016

19 April 2015 Nagano Marathon

ALG 2:27:21 UKR 2:29:13 RSA 2:31:02

www.marathon-hannover.de Next date: 10 April 2016

Men

1 Luke PUSKEDRA 2 Daniel KIPKOECH 3 Leonard KIPKOECH

28:53 28:58 29:05

Women

1 Risper GESABWA 2 Natasha WODAK 3 Jane MURAGE

KEN CAN KEN

32:28 32:34 33:17

www.vancouversunrun.com Next date: 17 April 2016

19 April 2015 Zurich Marathon Switzerland Yoshiko Sakamoto had no rival in the women’s race. She took the lead soon after the start and increased it to almost eight and a half minutes by the finish. Behind her Nicola Spirig carefully paced herself to the best Swiss performance of the day.

After dropping to fifth place at times the Olympic triathlon champion posted the fastest time for the final kilometre and moved up into second place.

The men’s race was tactical. A lead group of 10 (in which Yuki Kawauchi was the only non-African) held together all the way to 35km.

Edwin Kemboi Kyeng then made the decisive move: “no one showed any interest in taking charge (so) I decided to go… and I managed to drop the others.” Behind him Kawauchi had descended to a lowly 7th place before he upped his pace and managed to move up to second in the final 2km with Gebre Mekuant Ayenew only three seconds behind.

Marathon Men

1 Edwin KEMBOI 2 Yuki KAWAUCHI 3 Gebre Mekuant AYENEW

KEN 2:11:35 JPN 2:12:13 ETH 2:12:17

Women

See race feature on page 13 www.naganomarathon.gr.jp Next date: 17 April 2016

19 April 2015 Maratona S. Antonio

1 Yoshiko SAKAMOTO 2 Nicola SPIRIG 3 Mary FARDELL

Men

1 Christian MATHYS

SUI

30:02

SUI

36:29

Women

1 Franziska MEIER

Marathon 1 Robert Kiplimo KIPKEMBOI 2 Pierre Celestine NIHORIMBERE 3 Giovanni GUALDI

JPN 2:37:47 SUI 2:46:09 AUS 2:46:39

Cityrun 10km

Italy

www.zuerichmarathon.ch Next date: 24 April 2016

Men

Men

1 Cheshari JACOB 2 Chala BEKELE 3 Martin KOSGEY

1 Solomon YEGO 2 Festus TALAM 3 Cosmas Jairus BIRECH

10km

KEN 2:09:32 BDI 2:15:35 ITA 2:16:15

20 April 2015 B.A.A. Boston Marathon United States of America

Women

1 Nancy Githanga WAIGUMO 2 Simona SANTINI 3 Claudia GELSOMINO

KEN 2:41:28 ITA 2:43:41 ITA 2:46:16

www.maratonasantantonio.it Next date: 17 April 2016

Leslisa Desisa regained the Boston crown he won in 2013 while Caroline Rotich scored the biggest win of her career writes Parker Morse.

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Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org Desisa hadn’t won a marathon since his victory two years ago in Boston.

After his runner-up finish in Moscow 2013, Desisa did not finish Boston last year, and then lost a close duel with Wilson Kipsang in New York City last autumn and filled yet another second place in Dubai this January.

With overcast skies, occasional rain and an occasional headwind nobody wanted to lead. Desisa just stayed in contact, amid a lead pack of more than a dozen, until late in the race. Ten men crested ‘Heartbreak Hill’ together, but then the pack thinned to three: 2012 champion Wesley Korir, Desisa and Ethiopia’s Yemane Tsegay. Korir soon fell back to eventually finish fifth while Tsegay hung on longer, closing the gap on Desisa more than once but unable to get away. Desisa became the third Ethiopian man to won the Boston Marathon in this century, and the first to win a second time.

Rotich left her victory much later, as yet again the women’s race came down to the final strides on Boyleston Street. Buzunesh Deba dropped back with a kilometre to go but Rotich had to burn off Mare Dibaba in the final metres. As Dibaba faltered Rotich stole a somewhat flattering victory margin of four seconds. Dibaba, the current world leader with her 2:19:52 run in Xiamen, admitted: “I was confident that I could win, but at the end I saw I would have to settle for second.”

26 April 2015 METRO GROUP Marathon Düsseldorf Germany Marathon Men

1 Marius IONESCU 2 Abdelhadi EL HACHIMI 3 Marcin BLAZINSKI Women

1 Annie BERSAGEL 2 Fabienne GEHLEN 3 Sophia SALZWEDEL

1 Lelisa DESISA 2 Yemane TSEGAY 3 Wilson CHEBET

26 April 2015 Haspa Marathon Hamburg Germany Marathon Men

Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon Norway

Women

1 Caroline ROTICH 2 Mare DIBABA 3 Buzunesh DEBA

KEN 2:24:55 ETH 2:24:59 ETH 2:25:09

www.baa.org Next date: 18 April 2016

25 April 2015 Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon Norway Marathon Men

1 Kenneth SMEBY 2 Erlend AANO 3 Oscar AUBI

NOR 2:43:37 NOR 2:48:37 ESP 2:50:19 Women

1 Åslaug Golf KAARDAL 2 Cecilie KLUNGTVEIT 3 Hanna Sæverås BREIVOLD

NOR 3:05:16 NOR 3:08:46 NOR 3:13:23

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1 Lucas ROTICH 2 Ghirmay GHEBRESLASSIE 3 Stephen CHEBOGUT

Photo: Ricarda Grothey

KEN 2:07:17 ERI 2:07:47 KEN 2:08:01

Women

25 April 2015 100 km del Sahara Senegal Ultramarathon Men

1 Jurgen BAUMANN 2 Mari ROBERTO 3 Thomas DORR

GER 9:11:26 ITA 10:10:43 GER 10:20:24 Women

1 Alice MODIGNANI 2 Claudia GERLING 3 Cinzia TENCHINI

ITA 10:04:10 GER 10:28:32 ITA 11:19:02

www.100kmdelsahara.com Next date: 13–19 March 2016

runners off in three waves. Around 100,000 spectators lined the streets of Antwerp to cheer them on. Nick Van Peborgh took control of the race for his fourth victory. Only Kim Ruell and Jeroen Hendrikx managed to follow but they had to let Van Peborgh go before entering the Waaslandtunnel.

Marathon Men

1 Florent CAELEN

26 April 2015 Almaty Marathon Kazakhstan

BEL 2:16:08

Men

Marathon 1 Andrei LEIMENOV 2 Georgii SHEIKO 3 Almat IMASHEV

1 Veerle VAN LINDEN

Women

1 Gulzhanat ZHANATBEK 2 Polina REPINA 3 Ekaterina SHATNAYA

BEL

48:04

BEL

56:04

Women

KZK 2:35:51 KZK 2:37:50 KZK 2:54:20 KZK 2:52:18 KZK 3:29:43 KZK 3:35:48

www.dvvantwerpmarathon.be Next date: 17 April 2016

26 April 2015 Big Sur Int’l Marathon United States of America

www.almaty-marathon.kz Next date: tbc

26 April 2015 DVV Antwerp Marathon Belgium

Marathon Men

1 Adam ROACH

USA 2:30:48

2 Michael WARDIAN

USA 2:33:04

3 Neil PEARSON

41300 runners took part in the 30th edition with Nick Van Peborgh winning the 10 Miles in a new record. The very first edition in 1986 drew 800 runners. The marathon runners started first at 09.00.

Florent Caelen headed the 2450strong field in a new course record which met the Rio de Janiero Olympic qualifying standard.

After a brief rain shower Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever started the 10 mile event at 15.00, setting 29,000

AUS 2:42:24 Women

1 Malia CROUSE

USA 2:57:02

2 Christine TARANTO

USA 2:59:34

3 Veronica TYSSELAND

USA 3:02:49

www.bsim.org Next date: 24 April 2016

26 April 2015 CAF Caracas Maratón See race feature on page 18 maraton.caf.com Next date: tbc

1 Meseret HAILU 2 Sylvia KIBET 3 Beata NAIGAMBO

ETH 2:25:41 KEN 2:26:16 NAM 2:27:28

www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de Next date: 17 April 2016

26 April 2015 Vodafone İstanbul Half Marathon Turkey Half marathon Men

1 Evans KIPLAGAT 2 Leonard LANGAT 3 Joseph Kiprono KIPTUM

KEN 1:00:13 KEN 1:00:16 KEN 1:00:17

Women

1 Gladys CHERONO 2 Helah KIPROP 3 Muluhabt TSEGA

10 Miles 1 Nick VAN PEBORGH

Men

ETH 2:09:17 ETH 2:09:48 KEN 2:10:22

USA 2:28:29 LUX 2:55:26 GER 3:00:53

www.metrogroup-marathon.de Next date: 24 April 2016

Marathon Men

ROU 2:13:19 BEL 2:13:46 GER 2:16:08

KEN 1:06:38 KEN 1:08:23 ETH 1:09:22

www.istanbulyarimaratonu.org Next date: tbc

26 April 2015 Rock ’n’ Roll Madrid Maratón & 1/2 Spain Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii successfully defended his title, but rain and chilly conditions kept times slow.

Last year Chebii had lowered the course record on the undulating circuit to 2:09:15. He became only the second man to win back-to-back titles since the race was inaugurated in 1978.

Uganda’s Thomas Ayeko paced a 12 runners through the opening 10km in 31:16 and seven through halfway in 1:05:26. He dropped out after 25km Kiptoo pushed the pace for much of the next 10km. Five were still together at 35km but Kiptoo always looked the strongest and soon afterwards broke away. Wosen Feleke Demise hung on until 39km and Kipchirchir Koech didn’t let go until 2km from home.

Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org Monica Jepkoech sprinted away from Spain-based Ethiopian Marta Tigabea in the last 500m the latter coming home three seconds in arrears. Six women went through halfway in 1:16:57 with Jepkoech, Rose Jepchumba and Selly Korir for Kenya against the Ethiopian trio of Tigabea, Meseret Legese and Abebech Bekele but the group reduced to three by 32km.

The Kenyan pair of Silas Muturi and Emmanuel Bett looked on course for a fast time in the associated half marathon until the official car guiding the leaders took the wrong route and the pair ran an additional 600m.

Men

KEN 2:12:00 KEN 2:12:30 KEN 2:12:57

Women

1 Monica JEPKOECH 2 Marta TIGABEA 3 Meseret LEGESE

KEN 2:33:42 ETH 2:33:45 ETH 2:34:32

Half marathon Men

1 Silas MUTURI

KEN 1:03:32 Women

1 Vanesa COMESANA

ESP 1:19:32

www.rocknrollmadrid.com Next date: 24 April 2016

26 April 2015 Maratón de Montevideo Uruguay Marathon Men

1 Aguelmis ROJAS 2 Dario RIOS 3 Eduardo DUTRA

URU 2:20:59 URU 2:24:57 URU 2:37:09 Women

1 Maria Laura BAZALLO 2 Soledad MORLIO 3 Claudia Mercedes ROBLES

URU 2:58:28 URU 3:06:18 URU 3:06:28

Half marathon Men

1 Ghilmer SILVESTRE LOPES

BRA 1:05:43

Women

1 Marisol CANTARA

France Half marathon Men

1 James RUNGARU 2 Elijah TIROP 3 Norbert KIGEN

KEN 1:00:12 KEN 1:00:55 KEN 1:01:20 Women

1 Ednah KIMAIKO 2 Hirut ALEMAYEHU 3 Nelly BAUDA

KEN 1:10:45 ETH 1:14:01 FRA 1:21:16

www.nicesemimarathon.com Next date: tbc

26 April 2015 Roads to Rhodes Marathon Greece

Marathon 1 Ezekiel Kiptoo CHEBII 2 Kipchirchir KOECH 3 Pharis KIMANI

26 April 2015 Semi-Marathon Int’l de Nice

BRA 1:16:26

www.maratonmontevideo.com.uy Next date: 10 April 2016

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In the women’s race Fatuma Sado broke the course record by nearly two minutes. It was down to five by 10km and the same quintette passed halfway in 1:14:00. From there the pace steadily increased until by 30km it was Sado against Mercy Kibarus. They were still together at 35km but with 5km to go Sado started to build a lead which by 40km had grown to 17 seconds. She pressed on to the finish to set a new course record and Polish all-comers record, but fell 46 seconds short of her personal best.

Marathon Men

1 Hayle Berhanu LEMI 2 Robert KWEMOI 3 Markos GENETI

GRE 2:44:31 GRE 2:47:08 GRE 2:54:30

1 Fatuma SADO 2 Mwercy KIBARUS 3 Chaltu TAFA

Women

1 Rania REMBOULI 2 Xristina DEMESTIXA 3 Jane MARTIN

GRE 2:43:54 GRE 3:33:50 GBR 4:32:56

www.roadstorhodes.com Next date: 17 April 2016

www.chialagunahalfmarathon.com Next date: 24 April 2016

3 May 2015 Trieste Green Europe Marathon Italy Marathon

26 April 2015 ORLEN Warsaw Marathon Poland Hayle Lemi Berhanu claimed his third win in three marathons in a race in which the top six men finished within 32 seconds writes Pawel Jackowski.

More than a dozen runners passed 10km in exactly 30:00 and halfway in 1:03:31. The only European among them was the Polish record holder Henryk Szost. After 30km (1:30:47) the group began to break up with seven left to contest the race. Of these six were still together at 40km point. With a kilometre to go Berhanu broke away apparently little troubled by the competition.

KEN

28:45

POL

32:46

Women

1 Dominika NAPIERAJ

ITA 1:17:07 ITA 1:25:17 ITA 1:36:28

KEN 2:14:37 UGA 2:15:57 ITA 2:23:24

Women

www.orlenmarathon.pl Next date: 24 April 2016

1 May 2015 Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de Béjaia Algeria

ITA 2:45:59 ITA 2:51:27 SLO 2:53:43

Half marathon Men

1 Roland KEDVES

HUN 1:12:54

www.bavisela.it Next date: 8 May 2016

3 May 2015 Harmony Genève Marathon for Unicef Switzerland

Over 6000 participants came from 14 countries to celebrate the 10th edition of the race.

Half marathon Men

1 Anis SELMOUNI 2 Nicholas KIPKEMBOI 3 Sraj MUHAJIR

MAR 1:03:23 KEN 1:03:54 ETH 1:03:54

Women

1 Bizunesh GUDETA 2 Alice Jepemboui KIMUTAI 3 Yanet GARDEW

ETH 1:13:29 KEN 1:15:28 ETH 1:19:09

www.semi-marathondebejaia.com Next date: tbc

3 May 2015 Borneo Int’l Marathon

KEN 2:46:41 PHI 2:49:21 MAS 2:59:21 Women

1 Grace CHEN 2 Takayo SAKIDARA 3 Zijill TAN

SIN 3:51:10 JPN 3:55:00 MAS 3:58:04

Half marathon Men

1 Paul Kimani KIRAGU

KEN 1:13:37

Women

1 Pei-Yee NI

Marathon Men

1 Peter KIPLAGAT 2 Shume HAILU 3 Alemu GEMECHU

KEN 2:11:18 ETH 2:11:27 ETH 2:11:47 Women

1 Jane KIPTOO 2 Tinbit Gidey WELDEGEBRIEL 3 Abera AYANTU

KEN 2:35:44 ETH 2:36:42 ETH 2:37:24

Half marathon Men

1 Julien LYON

SUI 1:05:45 Women

1 Helen BEKELE

ETH 1:13:23

www.genevemarathon.org Next date: 8 May 2016

3 May 2015 Volkswagen Prague Marathon Czech Republic

Men

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Women

1 Valeria STRANEO 2 Gloria Rita GIUDICI 3 Barbara OTTELLI

1 Claudia DARDINI 2 Maurizia CUNICO 3 Neza MRAVLJE

Men

1 Hillary Kimaiyo MAIYO

ITA 1:11:18 ITA 1:14:11 ITA 1:17:50

Men

10km

1 John WAITHAKA 2 Noel TILLOR 3 Masri RUSTON

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Men

1 Ruggero PERTILE 2 Francesco PUPPI 3 Vincenzo TANCA

1 Robert Gaitho GITITU 2 Simon RUGUT 3 Liberato PELLECCHIA

Marathon

Photo: Perreard Michel

Half marathon

ETH 2:26:25 KEN 2:27:06 ETH 2:29:30

Malaysia

Semi-Marathon Int’l de Nice France

Italy

Women

Men

1 Nikolaos SKOYTARIS 2 Manolis SIFAKIS 3 Ioannis POLYMENIS

ETH 2:07:57 KEN 2:08:05 ETH 2:08:11

3 May 2015 Chia Laguna Half Marathon

MAS 1:39:50

www.borneomarathon.com Next date: 1 May 2016

Coming from behind Felix Kandie took his second marathon win in succession with another personal best. Yebrgual Melese of Ethiopia clocked the race’s third fastest winning time. 10,000 runners took part.

The lead group resisted the pace of the designated pacemaker and took things relatively easy through the first half in 64:00. By 30km Evans Chebet and Kipchumba led by 22 seconds with a chasing group of

Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org four comprising Kenyans Felix Kandie and Geoffrey Ronoh and Ethiopians Fikre Assefa and Deribe Robi. Chebet surged at 32km but Kandie quickly broke up the chasing group and covered the distance from 30–35km in 14:54 to all but catch Chebet. He overtook soon after and went on to build a big lead.

The women’s race was much faster during the first half with Kenya’s Janet Rono storming through 10km in 33.45 and Sarah Moreira following 100m behind her. Another 16 seconds back was the big group with all the Ethiopian contenders.

By half way (71:43) Rono began to slow and the Ethiopians were starting to close. Moreira hung on to the group when it caught her but Rono was quickly dropped. The Ethiopians, plus Moreira, passed 30km in 1:42:53. Yebrgual Melese surged and the small group broke up. She finished strongly over the final 5km and took a full minute out of Moreira. Rono rallied to take fourth place.

Marathon Men

1 Felix KANDIE 2 Evans CHEBET 3 Deribe ROBI

KEN 2:08:32 KEN 2:08:50 ETH 2:09:05

Marathon Men

1 Karl AUMAYR 2 Michael SIMMER 3 Luigi DE FRANCESCHI Women

1 Shewaye-Gemechu DEBELU 2 Sabine HOFER 3 Fruzsina BAKONY

3 May 2015 Salzburg Marathon Austria In rainy but otherwise good conditions 6500 runners from 60 nations enjoyed a great 12th edition of this “festival of running” in the home city of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Karl Aumayr, Austrian national champion in 2012, celebrated an emotional farewell in front of his home crowd in winning the men’s race while women’s winner Shewaye Gemechu Debelu triumphed in her first international marathon.

The two-lap course combines the atmosphere of Salzburg’s historic city, a UNESCO world heritage site, with pleasant green stretches and scenic views of the nearby mountains. The start and finish are in the famous Residenzplatz in the very heart of the city. Shorter races were held alongside the marathon including a half marathon and City Run. 76

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CZE 1:10:53 Women

1 Marthe-Katrine MYHRE

NOR 1:19:18

www.salzburg-marathon.at Next date: 1 May 2016

3 May 2015 GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon Canada Marathon Men

1 David LE PORHO 2 Sammy Kibet CHHUMBA 3 Nick BEST

CAN 2:21:54 KEN 2:25:49 CAN 2:30:36

Women

1 Jutta MERILAINEN 2 Julie HAMULECKI 3 Celine BEST

FIN 3:00:45 CAN 3:02:52 CAN 3:06:50

www.torontomarathon.com Next date: 1 May 2016

3 May 2015 BMO Vancouver Marathon Canada Marathon Men

1 Luka CHELIMO 2 Daniel KIPKOECH 3 Kip KANGOGO

KEN 2:18:37 KEN 2:18:49 CAN 2:19:21 Women

1 Lioudmila KORTCHAGUINA 2 Hirut GUANGUL 3 Ellie GREENWOOD

CAN 2:37:37 ETH 2:41:25 CAN 2:47:23

Half marathon Men

1 Rob WATSON

CAN 1:04:48 Women

1 Jane MURAGE

KEN 1:12:53

www.bmovanmarathon.ca Next date: 1 May 2016

4 May 2015 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon Great Britain

10 May 2015 BIG 25 Berlin

Half marathon Men

1 Asefa Diro HUNDE 2 Ephraim Mwangi KIMATA 3 Henry Kibet KIMTAI

Women

ETH 2:40:57 MAR 2:51:03 HUN 2:55:40

www.belfastcitymarathon.com

ETH 1:03:42 KEN 1:04:32 KEN 1:07:20

Women

Sutume Asefa Kebede stormed away from the start and kept going right to the finish line in the historic Berlin Olympic Stadium. She smashed the Ethiopian record despite very windy conditions. The 21-year old’s time is a world lead and the fifth fastest ever run.

Abraham Cheroben defended his title with a world lead.

11,480 runners registered for the 35th edition which back in 1981 was Germany’s first major city road race.

A tailwind and a downgrade made the first 10km very fast with the four leaders passing through in 28:30 on world record pace – a record set by Dennis Kimetto on this course in 2012. Pacing finished at 11km and they turned into a headwind. Kilometre splits dropped by almost ten seconds from 2:51 to slightly over three minutes.

Temesegne Ejerssa worked hard in the lead and dropped Kenneth Kipkemoi after 17km but he could not shake Cheroben. The defending champion attacked with around 6km to go on a slightly uphill section and built a decisive lead.

Kebede ran with a pacemaker through 10km in 31:05 – well inside Mary Keitany’s world record pace of 2010, when she ran 1:19:53.

Kebede slowed into the wind but still posted a world-class time (passing the half marathon distance in 1:08:23).

Half marathon Men

1 Sutume Asefa KEBEDE KEN 2:19:36 KEN 2:20:29 HUN 2:24:19

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www.mkmarathon.com Next date: 2 May 2016

KEN 1:12:31

Women

Men

1 Berhan GEBREMICHAEL 2 Khadja EL AARIBI 3 Katalin GARAMI

Lebanon

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1 Abraham CHEROBEN

Marathon 1 Joel KOSITANY 2 Gideon KIMOSOP 3 Tamas Janos NAGY

10 May 2015 Tripoli Int’l Half Marathon

Germany

Men

1 David PELISEK

ETH 2:23:49 POR 2:24:49 ETH 2:25:24

www.runczech.com Next date: 8 May 2016

ETH 2:45:09 AUT 3:00:28 HUN 3:01:42

Half marathon

Women

1 Yebrgual MELESE 2 Sara MOREIRA 3 Letebrhan HAYLAY

AUT 2:26:08 AUT 2:42:17 GER 2:43:12

4 May 2015 Milton Keynes Marathon

ETH 1:21:55

www.berlin-runs.com Next date: tbc

10 May 2015 Wizz Air Skopje Marathon Macedonia Race cancelled – see AIMS News p.5 www.skopjemarathon.com Next date: 8 May 2016

1 Gedamnesh Mekuanent YAYEH ETH 1:14:20 ETH 1:14:28 2 Askale Tafa MAGARSA 3 Gezahegn Hunduma GEMEDA ETH 1:15:47

www.tripolihalfmarathon.com Next date: tbc

16 May 2015 The Great Wall Marathon China Marathon Men

1 Jason SHEN 2 Patrick WALLIS 3 Vincent MEERS

CHN 3:41:40 GBR 3:43:31 BEL 3:49:33 Women

1 Eleanor WILLIAMSON 2 Anne-Marie DUPONT 3 Lucy LEFEVRE

USA 4:18:35 FRA 4:20:46 FRA 4:28:20

www.great-wall-marathon.com Next date: 21 May 2016

16 May 2015 Three Hearts Marathon Slovenia A total of 4236 runners took part in the Marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5.5km races. It was 15C and cloudy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon for the children’s run.

Placing second in the 10km was winter Olympic gold medallist Ola Vigen Hattestad (NOR). Also attending was Peter Prevc, the first man to cover more than 250m in a ski jump.

Marathon Men

1 Silas Kiprono TOO 2 David NJAGI 3 Juistuis Kipchirchir KIPRONO

KEN 2:16:20 KEN 2:17:00 KEN 2:17:26

Women

1 Gladys BIWOTT 2 Stellah BARSOSIO 3 Marija VRACIC

KEN 2:40:14 KEN 2:43:09 CRO 2:44:57

Half marathon Men

1 Abel Kibet ROP

KEN 1:04:03 Women

1 Hellen KIMUTAI

KEN 1:16:16

www.maraton-radenci.si Next date: 21 May 2016

17 May 2015 TCS World 10K Bengaluru See race feature on page 25 www.procamrunning.in Next date: tbc

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Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org 17 May 2015 OMV Petrom Bucharest Half Marathon

17 May 2015 Lattelecom Riga Marathon Latvia

Italy

Marathon

Half marathon

Romania Half marathon 1 Peter EMASE 2 David Kwemoi MARU 3 Gadisha Birhanu SHUMIE

KEN 1:02:05 KEN 1:02:05 ETH 1:02:05

1 Haile Tolossa BEKUMA

ETH 2:12:28

2 Beyene Effa SEBOKA

ETH 2:12:51

3 Duincan Cheruiyot KOECH

KEN 2:12:52

Women

Women

1 Anne-Mari HYRYLAINEN 2 Mihaela BOTEZAN 3 Nicoleta CIORTAN

Men

Men

Men

FIN 1:15:06 ROU 1:23:32 ROU 1:24:58

1 Meseret Ehsetui DEME

ETH 2:37:03

2 Worknesh Tola BIRU

ETH 2:42:06

3 Ruth WANJIRU

KEN 2:42:28

www.bucharest21km.com Next date: 14 May 2016

lattelecomrigamarathon.lv Next date: 15 May 2016

17 May 2015 Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon

17 May 2015 Coca-Cola Wake Your Body Women’s Running Gala

Japan

Hungary

Half marathon Men

1 James RUNGARU 2 Michael GITHAE 3 Martin MATHATHI

KEN 1:02:21 KEN 1:02:27 KEN 1:02:40 Women

1 Euinice Jepkiruii KIRWA 2 Atsede BAYSA 3 Brianne NELSON

BRN 1:09:37 ETH 1:10:37 USA 1:12:43

www.gifu-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

17 May 2015 Leiden Marathon Netherlands

10km Women

1 Simona STAICU

HUN 37:18

2 Zsanett KIS

HUN

37:39

3 Lilla ROZSNYAI

HUN

39:50

4 Lilla EGERVOLGYI

HUN

40:42

5 Adrien SZATMARI

HUN

42:02

6 Gabriella GYORGY

HUN

42:29

7 Natalia JANKOWSKA

POL

42:45

8 Melanie RAIDL

AUT

42:54

9 Csilla NAGY

HUN

43:05

10Dora CSATO

HUN

43:44

www.budapestmarathon.com Next date: 22 May 2016

Marathon Men

1 David RUTOH 2 David MARUS 3 Geordie KLEIN

KEN 2:17:27 SWE 2:24:23 NED 2:40:24

17 May 2015 iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg

NED 3:00:16 NED 3:10:40 NED 3:21:23

Marathon

Germany

Women

1 Christina SKOSANA 2 Jolien VAN HOOF 3 Alieke HOOGENBOOM

Men

1 Belachew GEBRESILASSIE

Half marathon 1 Pieter GEENS

NED 1:17:37 Women

1 Jozien STOLWIJK

ETH 2:34:07

Half marathon Men

NED 1:30:34

www.marathon.nl Next date: 22 May 2016

17 May 2015 Maratón movistar Lima42k Peru Marathon Men

1 Julius Muriuki WAHOME 2 Peter Lemayian NKAYA 3 Erick Monyenye MOSE

KEN 2:17:40 KEN 2:18:05 KEN 2:20:30

Women

1 Miriam WANGARI 2 Judith TORIBIO 3 Nicolasa CONDORI

KEN 2:41:42 PER 2:46:52 PER 2:48:37

Half marathon

1 Patrick FIEDERLING

GBR 1:18:57

www.wuerzburg-marathon.de Next date: 12 June 2016

23 May 2015 GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon Sweden Half marathon Men

1 Richard MENGICH

KEN 1:00:44

2 Hizkial TEWELDE

ERI 1:01:19

3 Josphat KIPTIS

KEN 1:01:30 Women

PER 1:05:50

Women

1 Clara CANCHANYA

GER 1:12:46

Women

1 Felicity MILTON

Men

1 Daverso Ramos ACEVEDO

ETH 2:20:44

Women

1 Abiyot DEME

Men

PER 1:16:24

www.lima42k.com Next date: 15 May 2016

23 May 2015 Moonlight Half Marathon

1 Worknesh DEGEFA

ETH 1:08:13

2 Isabella OCHICHI

KEN 1:09:45

3 Beatrice MUTAI

KEN 1:09:46

www.goteborgsvarvet.se Next date: 21 May 2016

1 Faniel Eyob GHEBREHIWET 2 Francesco BONA 3 Ruggero PERTILE

ERI 1:05:34 ITA 1:05:37 ITA 1:05:37

Women

1 Giovanna PIZZATO 2 Rosa ALFIERI 3 Mirella BERGAMO

ITA 1:19:09 ITA 1:19:40 ITA 1:21:20

www.moonlighthalfmarathon.it Next date: tbc

23 May 2015 Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon and Ottawa 10K Canada

adrift of the course record in his fourth marathon finish in seven months.

The women’s race was equally exciting as 31-year old Aberu Mekuria ran a 37-second PB and her best performance in two years to defeat strong favourite Meselech Melkamu. Ethiopians Mekuria, Melkamu, and Abebech Afework battled it out with Kenyan Rebecca Chesire from 30km [1:42:42] to 40k [2:18:06] before Mekuria dropped the hammer to pull away from Chesire who finished very pleased in second place while Melkamu faded to a disappointed fifth.

Marathon A record 49,317 participants from 51 countries descended on Canada’s capital city for this year’s Ottawa race weekend – a series of 6 races spread across Saturday [Children’s Run, 2k, 5k, 10k] and Sunday [marathon & halfmarathon].

Despite a brisk wind on Saturday evening sunny skies, a moderate temperature of 17C and large numbers of spectators all contributed to a fine early-summer spectacle. The women won the $2,000 cash bonus in the “Battle of the Sexes” thanks to some impressive racing from Gladys Cherono. Canadians Lanni Marchant and Natasha Wodak had a spirited tussle for third which Marchant won by 10 seconds. The men were unable to close the 3:25 gap given to the women as a head start but still posted some competitive times.

Conditions were ideal for the 6000 runners in the 41st Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday morning. Overcast skies, 11C, and only a light breeze contributed to some ambitious racing. A pack of 12, with 3 pacers led the men out on 3-minute pace, chasing the course and Canadian All-Comers Record of 2:06:54 set by Yemane Tsegay in Ottawa last year. The pack stayed together and passed halfway in 1:03:16. Then the excitement boiled over with a 14:41 split from 20–25km. After they hit Alexandra Bridge over the scenic Ottawa River at 26km and climbed up from the river only eventual winner Girmay Berhanu, Philip Kangogo and Alfers Lagat remained with the final pacer.

They hit 30km in 1:29:49 with the record still in sight but the damage had been done. Berhanu managed to drop the Kenyans with two surges at 32km and 35km but his pace fell to over 3:15 per kilometre and he eventually crossed the line 1:20

Men

1 Girmay BIRHANU 2 Philip KANGOGO 3 Chele DECHASA

ETH 2:08:14 KEN 2:09:56 ETH 2:09:59 Women

1 Aberu ZENNEBE 2 Rebecca CHESIR 3 Abebech AFEWORK

ETH 2:25:30 KEN 2:25:41 ETH 2:25:53

10km Men

1 Nicholas BOR

KEN

27:55

KEN

30:58

Women

1 Gladys CHERONO

www.runottawa.ca Next date: 28 May 2016

24 May 2015 Media Maratón Int’l Ciudad de Asunción Paraguay Half marathon Men

1 Joel FERREIRA 2 Marcos Alexandre ELIAS 3 Derlis Ramon AYALA

PAR 1:07:24 PAR 1:09:45 PAR 1:10:14

Women

1 Carmen MARTINEZ 2 Marcela Cristina GOMEZ 3 Ilda Alves DOS SANTOS

PAR 1:20:42 PAR 1:23:06 BRA 1:25:53

www.paraguaymarathonclub.org Next date: tbc

24 May 2015 Jacob’s Creek Barossa Marathon Australia Marathon Men

1 David STAEHR 2 Raymond WAREHAM 3 Tim Paul GREEN

AUS 2:38:53 AUS 2:43:36 AUS 2:48:03

Women

1 Sheena JACKSON 2 Mandy TOWLER 3 Chris Anne GRENVOLD

AUS 3:01:14 AUS 3:15:15 AUS 3:16:41

Half marathon Men

1 Steven MCKENNA

AUS 1:12:46 Women

1 Lisa DAVIS

AUS 1:22:51

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Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org Alan Mackay completed the grand slam of marathon, half marathon, 10km and 5km races over the weekend, covering 77km in race distances. “In order to get back to the start of the marathon, I needed to do the half in 1:30. I did that but I found the marathon tough around 15km.”

24 May 2015 Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon Denmark Marathon Men

1 Hassane AHOUCHAR 2 Fikadu Kebebe DEBELE 3 Lahcen MOKRAJI

MAR 2:15:24 ETH 2:15:38 MAR 2:18:50

Women

1 Nancy Jebet KOECH 2 Mulunesh Zewedu ASSAFA 3 Hellen Jepkosgei KIMITAI

KEN 2:33:42 ETH 2:37:06 KEN 2:39:05

Marathon Men

www.copenhagenmarathon.dk Next date: 22 May 2016

1 Peter WANJIRU 2 Neil RENAULT

GBR 2:24:35

24 May 2015 Erzurum Half Marathon

3 David TONIOK

KEN 2:26:00 Women

Turkey 10km Men

1 Wendmagegn Seid EGISO

ETH

31:01

TUR

35:18

1 Joan KIGEN

KEN 2:39:43

2 Charlotte FIRTH

GBR 2:48:51

3 Samantha AMEND

GBR 2:49:58

Half marathon

Women

1 Sevilay EYTEM S

Women

1 Gillian COOPER

Half marathon Men

1 Yohannis Bekele JIDA 2 Zelete Getaneh BEKELE 3 Fetene Alemu REGASA

ETH 1:06:23 ETH 1:06:26 ETH 1:06:30 ETH 1:18:28 KEN 1:19:06 TUR 1:20:06

Jacob’s Creek Barossa Marathon Australia

Next date: 29 May 2016

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30 May 2015 ASICS Stockholm Marathon Sweden

www.erzurumyarimaratonu.org Next date: 22 May 2016

24 May 2015 Kigali International Peace Marathon Rwanda Men

1 Ezekiel Kemboi OMULLO 2 Jean Baptiste RUVUBI 3 Benard KIPNGETICH

KEN 2:18:15 RWA 2:19:03 KEN 2:19:29

Women

1 Peris Jerotich TOROITICH 2 Elisabether CHEMWNO 3 Shelmith Nyawira MURIUKI

ETH 2:18:22 IRI 2:21:09 SWE 2:23:05

Women

Marathon

KEN 2:47:22 KEN 2:48:02 KEN 2:50:21

1 Isabellah ANDERSSON 2 Eunice JEPTOO 3 Meseret Legese BIRATU

SWE 2:34:14 KEN 2:34:59 ETH 2:35:24

www.stockholmmarathon.se Next date: 4 June 2016

31 May 2015 Austrian Women’s Run See race feature on page 29 www.austrianwomensrun.com Next date: tbc

Half marathon Men

1 Wycliffe Kipkorir BIWOT

KEN 1:04:40

Women

1 Gladys KIPKEMOI

KEN 1:12:39

31 May 2015 Scotiabank Calgary Marathon

www.kigalimarathon.org Next date: tbc

24 May 2015 Turin Half Marathon Italy

Canada Marathon Men

1 Jonathan CHESOO 2 Brendan KENNY 3 Nelson NDEREVA

Half marathon

KEN 2:17:12 CAN 2:35:34 CAN 2:40:22 Women

Men

1 Benard KIPKEMOI 2 Henry Kimani MUKURIA 3 Gideon Kiplagat KURGAT

KEN 1:03:21 KEN 1:04:43 KEN 1:04:57

1 Lioudmila KORTCHAGUINA 2 Catrin JONES 3 Kanami KOSHIMIZU

1 Catherine BERTONE 2 Marina CORSICO 3 Monica PANUELLO

Men

ITA 1:14:49 ITA 1:26:17 ITA 1:26:23

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CAN 2:48:24 CAN 2:50:58 CAN 3:03:14

Half marathon

Women

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1 Kip KANGOGO

CAN 1:06:39 Women

1 Lanni MARCHANT

France

Republic of South Africa

20km

Men

Men

1 Yekaber BAYABEL 2 Mohammad Jafar MORADI 3 Fredrik JOHANSSON

31 May 2015 Comrades Marathon

31 May 2015 Paris St Germain en Laye – La Course

Ultramarathon

Marathon

GBR 1:17:14

www.edinburgh-marathon.com

Women

1 Denbeli Chefo SHUKE 2 Alice Jepkemboi KIMUTAI 3 Seyran ADANIR

KEN 2:19:36

CAN 1:12:17

www.calgarymarathon.com Next date: 29 May 2016

1 Gift KELEHE 2 Mohammed HUSSEIN 3 Hatiwande NYAMANDE

Men

RSA 5:38:36 ETH 5:46:14 RSA 5:48:19

Women

1 Caroline WOSTMANN 2 Charne BOSMAN 3 Elena NURGALIEVA

RSA 6:12:22 RSA 6:33:24 RUS 6:40:36

www.comrades.com Next date: 29 May 2016

31 May 2015 Edinburgh Marathon Festival Great Britain Over 30,000 runners from across the globe gathered for Scotland’s biggest running festival. Windy conditions slowed times and even the winner Peter Wanjiru, who broke away at 30km, for an otherwise untroubled win complained: “The last mile was very difficult, the wind was blocking me.” Hometown runner Neil Renault took a crowdpleasing second place as more heralded runners struggled with the blustery conditions. “You always convince yourself that you are slowing down more than anyone else,” he said. “But it turns out I was running faster. You have to respect the conditions. I sacrificed at the start knowing I needed to be stronger in the second half into the wind.” Joan Kigen led the women’s race from gun to tape.

1 Olivier GAILLARD

FRA 1:12:50

2 Olivier VIDAL

FRA 1:13:37

3 Anis CHEFIRAT

FRA 1:14:06 Women

1 Olga MALLET

FRA 1:23:54

2 Laure MEHUT

FRA 1:26:16

3 Virginie THOMAS

FRA 1:29:51

www.parissaintgermainlacourse.com Next date: tbc

31 May 2015 Phnom Penh Half Marathon Cambodia Half marathon Men

1 Oki KAZUHIKO

JPN 1:16:47

2 Samorn KEANG

CAM 1:20:42

3 Hem BUNTING

CAM 1:24:35 Women

1 Veronique MESSINA

FRA 1:38:40

2 Celine MARHEIM FADNES

NOR 1:45:40

3 Eleanor HART

USA 1:52:05

10km Men

1 Mar VIRO

CAM 33:35 Women

1 Meichu HENG

CAM 45:07

www.phnompenhmarathon.org Next date: tbc

Podium placers aimsworldrunning.org 1 June 2015 Cork City Marathon

12 June 2015 Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race

Ireland

13 June 2015 Tórshavn Marathon

IRL 2:30:41 KEN 2:31:41 IRL 2:32:29

1 Nollaigh HUNTER 2 Joan ENNIS 3 Sorcha KEARNY

IRL 2:57:45 IRL 2:58:38 IRL 3:14:40

www.dmrr.mv Next date: tbc

China

Men

1 Sergiu CIOBANU 1 Norah NEWCOMBE-PIETERSE

IRL 1:21:12

www.corkcitymarathon.ie Next date: tbc

1 Abayneh Ayele WOLDEGIORGIS ETH 2:10:10 2 Abdellah TAGHRAFET

MAR 2:11:39

3 Lawrence CHERONO

KEN 2:12:33

Women

7 June 2015 RAHAL 10K Int’l de Casablanca Morocco

1 Rael KIYARA NGURIATUKEI

KEN 2:31:22

2 Margaret AGAI

KEN 2:31:47

3 Georgina RONO

KEN 2:32:06

www.lanzhoumarathon.com Next date: tbc

10km

2 Martin GRAVESEN

FAR 2:54:30

1 Rigmor Napoleonsdóttir ARGE FAR 3:22:48 2 Ann THOMSEN

FAR 3:36:55

3 Krista NIELSEN

FAR 3:40:05

KEN 28:20 MAR 28:21 ETH 28:21

1 Violah JEPCHUMBA 2 Polline WANJIKU 3 Hanane KALOUJ

Ireland

KEN 32:09 KEN 32:47 MAR 33:10

www.running.ma Next date: tbc

7 June 2015 Laguna Phuket Int’l Marathon

1 Tommy HAGA Women

1 Paula MOHR

Marathon Men

1 Ciaran FAHERTY

IRL 2:38:37

2 Mick RICE

IRL 2:58:35

3 John GILBERT

IRL 3:08:12

FAR 1:42:38

IRL 3:44:36

2 Daria LUNBINSKA

3:54:16

3 Carmel BRANNIGAN

Marathon PHI 2:55:36 HKG 2:57:39 JPN 3:01:10 Women

1 Satomi OKA 2 Monika KOVARIKOVA 3 Tatiana NOVOSELTSEVA

JPN 3:43:17 RUS 3:44:43 RUS 3:49:42

Half marathon Men

1 Kohichiro YAMANAKA

JPN 1:14:39

Women

1 Christabel MARTES

PHI 1:25:12

www.phuketmarathon.com Next date: tbc

7 June 2015 Quito Últimas Noticias 15k

Men

1 Andrew GREANEY 2 Alan GORSKI

IRL 8:52:17

3 Maurice LOOBEY

IRL 9:32:08

14 June 2015 21k Coahuila

Marathon

Men

1 Elisha Korir CHUMO 2 Daniel MUINDI 3 Raul Machacuay ECU

KEN KEN ECU

46:33 47:08 47:19

Women

1 Ines MELCHOR 2 Maria Balvina PASTUNA 3 Rose JEBET

IRL 11:54:57

2 Elle ONEILL

IRL 12:36:59

3 Christina DEVANE

IRL 13:16:05

www.21kcoahuila.org Next date: tbc

14 June 2015 Kaunas Marathon

51:55 52:57 55:28

www.quitoultimasnoticias15k.ec Next date: tbc

Men

1 Sture ANDERSEN

Marathon 1 Hilde ADERS LAT 2:39:30 2:50:09

3 Dzimitry DZERAZANKA

2:52:30

1 Antonia JOHNSON

3:15:32

2 Vilija DAMASKIENE

LTU 3:34:16

3 Svetlana CERLIONA

3:39:19

NOR 1:20:42

www.msm.no Next date: tbc

20 June 2015 PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon Poland Half marathon Men

Half marathon LAT 1:15:59

Women

1 Rasa DRAZDAUSKAITE

NOR 1:16:58 Women

2 Maksim KULIK

1 Remigijus KANCYS

GBR 2:49:07 NOR 3:01:49 NOR 3:02:58

Half marathon

Lithuania

1 Aurimas SKINULIS

KEN 2:26:15 AUS 2:39:13 NOR 2:54:11

Women

1 Claire GRIMA 2 Anja Kristin LINDANGER 3 Kathrine KVERNMO

1 David Kiprono METTO 2 John Kibichy TANUI 3 Francis LAGAT

KEN 1:03:04 KEN 1:03:26 KEN 1:03:55

Women

LTU 1:21:44

www.forestmarathon.com Next date: 11 June 2016

www.kaunasmarathon.lt Next date: 12 June 2016

13 June 2015 Telesia City Trophy Int’l Road Race 10k

14 June 2015 Penang Bridge Half Marathon

Italy

Malaysia

10km

Half marathon

Men

Men

1 Marina DAMANTSEVICH 2 Sylwia EJDYS-TOMASZEWSKA 3 Ewa CHRESCIONKO

BLR 1:13:25 POL 1:15:05 POL 1:16:12

pol.wroclawmaraton.pl Next date: 18 June 2016

21 June 2015 Carrera del Día Del Padre Medio Maratón Mexico Half marathon Men

1 Cosmas Jairus BIRECH

KEN

28:22

1 Josphat Kiptanui CHEBEI

KEN 1:04:09

2 Thomas James LOKOMW

KEN

29:02

2 Felix Kipkorir KANGOGO

KEN 1:04:47

3 John KOSGEI

KEN

29:17

3 Silas Maturi GICHOVI

KEN 1:05:44

Women

1 Viola JELAGAT PER ECU KEN

Men

Men

1 Brenda OKEEFE

Norway

1 Antony MUGO 2 Grant SCHMIDLECHNER 3 Tom Andre HENRIKSEN

[Results unobtainable]

Women

Ecuador 15km

IRL 8:06:01

POR 2:10:39

www.lisbonmarathon.pt Next date: tbc

20 June 2015 Midnight Sun Marathon

Women

100km

Men

1 Mario MAGLINAO 2 Franky LEE 3 Chikara YANADA

IRL 3:57:48

1 Sarah MARTIN

www.torshavnmarathon.com Next date: 4 June 2016

Men

1 Tracy FLANAGAN

POR 1:32:31

Women

NOR 1:18:42

Women

Thailand

FRA 3:55:55 POR 3:59:42 POR 4:08:00

Half marathon 1 Enric Gomez MARIN

Mexico

13 June 2015 Portumna Forest Marathon

Women

1 Chantal XHERVELLE 2 Daniela Cristina MARINHEIRO 3 Isabel MOLEIRO

Men

Men

1 Daniel CHEBII 2 Samir JOUAHER 3 Fikadu DAWIT

POR 3:24:36 POR 3:28:57 POR 3:37:57

Women

FAR 2:56:23 Women

Half marathon

Men

Women

GBR 2:53:50

1 Joao Hora FAUSTINO 2 Joao SERRAS 3 Mario SA

Men

Marathon

ROU 1:07:40

1 Joe DALE 3 Cecil WEIHE

13 June 2015 Lanzhou Int’l Marathon

Half marathon

Men

Men

[Race postponed]

Women

Marathon

Marathon

Men

1 Cillian OLEARY 2 Vincent CHEPYEGON 3 Brian HEGARTY

Portugal

Faroe Islands

Maldives

Marathon

20 June 2015 Lisbon Eco Marathon

MEX 1:05:48 KEN 1:06:24 KEN 1:07:00

Women

Women

KEN

33:08

1 Peninah KIGEN

KEN 1:15:05

2 Anna INCERTI

ITA

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2 Gladys Tarus JEPKECHEI

KEN 1:15:18

3 Lucy MURIGI

KEN

33:26

3 Mercy JELIMO

KEN 1:17:34

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KEN 1:14:35 MEX 1:14:53 MEX 1:17:35

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July 2015

5 Jul Gold Coast Airport Marathon (AUS) 26 Jul Bogota International Half Marathon (COL)

September 2015

5 Sep Birell Prague Grand Prix (CZE) 12 Sep Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon (CZE) 13 Sep Great North Run (GBR) 20 Sep Carrera de la Mujer (COL) 20 Sep Blackmores Sydney Marathon (AUS) 27 Sep BMW Berlin Marathon (GER)

20 Sep Cape Town Marathon (RSA) 20 Sep Dam Tot Damloop (NED)

4 Oct Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run (GBR) 11 Oct Bank of America Chicago Marathon

18 Oct Medio Maraton Valencia Trinidad Alfonso (ESP) 18 Oct Great Birmingham Run (GBR) 25 Oct Marseille Cassis 20km (FRA) 25 Oct 30th Venice Marathon (ITA)

4 Oct The Bournemouth Marathon (GBR) 10 Oct 20 Kilometres de Paris (FRA)

8 Nov BDL Beirut Marathon (LIB) 15 Nov Saitama Marathon (JPN) 15 Nov Maraton Valencia Trinidad Alfonso

8 Nov Marathon des Alpes Maritimes Nice-Cannes (FRA) 15 Nov Semi-Marathon de BoulogneBillancourt Christian Granger (FRA) 29 Nov Marathon du Gabon (GAB)

October 2015

(USA)

18 Oct RNR Marathon of Lisbon EDP (POR) 18 Oct RNR Half Marathon Vodafone RTP

13 Sep Copenhagen Half Marathon (DEN) 20 Sep Siberian International Marathon (RUS)

(POR)

18 Oct TCS Amsterdam Marathon (NED) 18 Oct Beijing Marathon (CHN) 18 Oct Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon (CAN) 25 Oct Frankfurt Marathon (GER) 25 Oct Great South Run (GBR) November 2015

1 Nov TCS New York City Marathon (USA) 8 Nov Shanghai International Marathon (CHN)

15 Nov Vodafone 37th Istanbul Marathon

(ESP)

(TUR)

December 2015

6 Dec The 69th Fukuoka International Open Marathon Championship (JPN) 6 Dec Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SIN)

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Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad (QAT) Sergey Bubka (UKR) Sebastian Coe (GBR)

Ahmed Al Kamali (UAE) Bernard Amsalem (FRA) Sylvia Barlag (NED) Pauline Davis-Thompson (BAH) Helmut Digel (GER) Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR) Frank Fredericks (NAM) Abby Hoffman (CAN) Alberto Juantorena Danger (CUB) Isaiah Kiplagat (KEN) José Maria Odriozola (ESP) Jung-Ki Park (KOR) Anna Riccardi (ITA) Irena Szewinska (POL) Katsuyuki Tanaka (JPN)

Essar Gabriel (FRA)

Honorary Treasurer: Valentin V. Balakhnichev (RUS)

Area Representatives: Zhaocai Du (CHN) Geoff Gardner (NFI) Roberto Gesta de Melo (BRA) Hamad Kalkaba Malboum (CMR) Victor Lopez (PUR) Hansjörg Wirz (SUI)

Deputy General Secretary and Communications Director Nick Davies (GBR)

IAAF Road Running Commission David Bedford (GBR) Paco Borao (ESP) Hugh Jones (GBR) James Evans (RSA) Katsuyuki Tanaka (JPN) Pierre Weiss (FRA) Bernard Amsalem (FRA) Mary Wittenberg (USA) Carlos Cardoso (POR)

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Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org ALGERIA Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de MAY Béjaia Haddad Fatsah T: 213 660 570 795 E: fatsahmarathon@hotmail.fr W: www.semi-marathondebejaia.com Sahara Marathon James E. B. Carney T: 1 703 969 0049 E: saharamarathon@aol.com W: www.saharamarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/19tVscY

FEB

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

ANGOLA Luanda Half Marathon Bernardo Manuel T: 351 91 305 3824 E: bmanuel@arquiber.com W: www.luandahalfmarathon.com São Silvestre de Luanda 10km Carlos Rosa de Souza T: 244 923 39 5804 E: crabreluz@gmail.com W: www.saosilvestreangola.com

SEP

DEC

ANTARCTICA Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k Richard Donovan T: 353 91 51 6644 E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.icemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/19tXV7k Antarctica Marathon & Half Thom Gilligan T: 1 617 242 7845 E: info@marathontours.com W: www.antarcticamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyhZ8

NOV

MAR

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

100 km del Sahara Adriano Zito T: 39 059 359 813 E: info@zitoway.com W: www.100kmdelsahara.com fb: facebook.com/100kmdelsahara

OCT

MAR

JUL

Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival OCT Greg Hooton T: 61 3 9864 1118 E: enquiries@melbournemarathon.com.au W: www.melbournemarathon.com.au fb: on.fb.me/19tXuKi 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon AUG Jason Crowther Atlas Multisports T: 61 410 313 551 E: jason@atlasmultisports.com.au W: www.sunshinecoastmarathon.com.au fb: on.fb.me/1bWyhZg Blackmores Sydney Running Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon) SEP Wayne Larden T: 61 2 9282 0400 E: info@sydneyrunningfestival.org W: www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au fb: facebook.com/officialbsrf McDonald’s Townsville Running Festival AUG Brian Armit T: 61 7 4751 6607 E: admin@townsvillerunningfestival.com W: www.townsvillerunningfestival.com fb: on.fb.me/19u09DK Westlink M7 Blacktown Running Festival JUL Mark Gibson Blacktown City Council T: 61 29 839 6075 E: mark.gibson@blacktown.nsw.gov.au W: www.wm7citiesmarathon.com.au

AUSTRALIA AUG

Australian Outback Marathon JUL Michael Walton T: 61 2 4385 2455 E: michael.walton@travellingfit.com W: www.australianoutbackmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/outbackmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Australian Running Festival APR Rebecca Wilmer Fairfax Media T: 61 2 9282 2241 E: rebeccawilmer@fairfaxmedia.com.au W: www.runningfestival.com.au fb: facebook.com/austrunningfest Jacob’s Creek Barossa Marathon MAY Michael Slagter SA Road Runners Club T: 61 8 8363 7377 E: office@sarrc.asn.au W: www.barossamarathon.com.au fb: on.fb.me/1lb7Y1t

3 Country Sparkasse Marathon Günter Ernst T: 43 66 41 00 82 78 E: info@sparkasse-3-laendermarathon.at W: www.sparkasse-3-laendermarathon.at fb: on.fb.me/1CycWRp Austrian Women’s Run Ilse Dippmann, Andreas Schnabl T: 43 1 713 87 86 E: office@oesterreichischerfrauenlauf.at W: www.austrianwomensrun.com Salzburg Marathon Johannes Langer T: 43 662 62 68 58 E: office@salzburg-marathon.at W: www.salzburg-marathon.at fb: on.fb.me/1bWyjAn Vienna City Marathon Wolfgang Konrad Enterprise Sport Promotion GmbH T: 43 1 606 95 10 E: office@vienna-marathon.com W: www.vienna-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyjAq Int’l WACHAUmarathon Mag. Michael Buchleitner T: 43 22 3637 9095 0 E: office@wachaumarathon.com W: www.wachaumarathon.com fb: facebook.com/wachaumarathon

*Associate member

BAHAMAS Marathon Bahamas, Half & Relay Pamela Richardson T: 1 242 394 0012 / 502 6538 E: info@marathonbahamas.com W: www.marathonbahamas.com fb: facebook.com/marathon242

JAN

BELGIUM

AUSTRIA

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Adelaide Running Festival Michael Slagter SA Road Runners Club T: 61 8 8363 7377 E: office@sarrc.asn.au W: www.adelaidemarathon.com.au fb: on.fb.me/1lb8axI

Gold Coast Airport Marathon Cameron Hart T: 61 07 5668 9888 E: info@goldcoastmarathon.com.au W: www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/gcmarathon

AUG

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon Mario Petrucci T: 54 11 2072 9190 E: info@maratondebuenosaires.org W: www.maratondebuenosaires.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWyjAh

Brisbane Marathon Festival Steve Manning T: 61 7 336 98938 E: info@brisbanemarathon.com W: www.brisbanemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyhZe

OCT

DVV Antwerp Marathon Greg Broekmans T: 32 11 45 99 99 E: info@golazo.com W: www.dvvantwerpmarathon.be fb: facebook.com/antwerp10miles

APR

Linker Oevert 1/2 Marathon Kid Van Thienen T: 32 477 853 822 E: kvth@telenet.be W: www.kidvanthienenmusic.com fb: on.fb.me/ZPKj2k

OCT

OCT

BOSNIA Vidovdan 10km Road Race Borislav Djurdjevic T: 387 49 217 781 E: vidovdanskatrka@gmail.com W: www.vidovdanskatrka.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWyifL

JUN

BOTSWANA Diacore Gaborone Marathon APR Thola Magang T: 267 718 99977 E: tmagang@phakalane.co.bw W: www.diacoregaboronemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyifP BRAZIL Jungle Marathon Shirley Thompson T: 33 6 74 62 71 35 E: shirley@eventrate.com W: www.junglemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/JungleMarathon

OCT

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon Corpore Octavio Jose Aronis T: 55 11 3884 4188 E: corpore@corpore.org.br W: www.corpore.org.br fb: facebook.com/CorporeBrasil

APR

MAY

Corrida de Sao Sebastiao JAN Joao Traven T: 55 21 2223 2773 E: spiridon@spiridon.com.br W: www.corridadesaosebastiao.com.br APR

Sihanoukville Int’l Half Marathon MAR Mr. Sem Phalla T: 885 23 213 525 E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.sihanoukville-marathon.org fb: facebook.com/sihanoukvillerun

*The Angkor Empire Marathon Sem Phalla T: 855 23 213 525 E: coop@angkormarathon.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.angkorempiremarathon.org

DEC

Scotiabank Calgary Marathon Cheryl Lowery T: 1 403 264 2996 E: info@calgarymarathon.com W: www.calgarymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyk7c

MAY

Edmonton Marathon Tom Keogh T: 1 780 504 0005 E: info@edmontonmarathon.ca W: www.edmontonmarathon.ca fb: facebook.com/EdmMarathon

AUG

Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon OCT Joyce Harris T: 1 905 356 9460 E: racedirector@niagarafallsmarathon.com W: www.niagarafallsmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1Egojj7 BMO Okanagan Marathon Tom Keogh T: 1 780 504 0005 E: info@okanaganmarathon.ca W: www.okanaganmarathon.ca fb: on.fb.me/1bWyiwm

OCT

JUN

GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon Rob Reid T: 1 250 658 4520 E: info@runvictoriamarathon.com W: www.runvictoriamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyiMT

OCT

Intertrust Cayman DEC Islands Marathon Rhonda Kelly T: 1 345 623 8822 E: info@caymanislandsmarathon.com W: www.caymanislandsmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/CaymanMarathon CHILE Maratón de Santiago Fernando Jamarne T: 562 2787 6012 E: fjamarne@alessandri.cl W: www.maratondesantiago.com fb: on.fb.me/19tVIZz

APR

Volcano Marathon Richard Donovan T: 353 91 51 6644 E: npmarathon@gmail.com W: www.volcanomarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1nftdpf

NOV

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

CHINA

Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon and Ottawa 10K John Halvorsen T: 1 613 234 2221 E: halvorsen@runottawa.ca W: www.runottawa.ca fb: facebook.com/OttawaMarathon

MAY

Beijing Marathon Wang Dawei Chinese Athletic Association T: 86 10 6716 7482 E: oc@beijing-marathon.com W: www.beijing-marathon.com/en

OCT

Dalian Int’l Marathon Sun Xinsheng T: 86 411 8368 2293 E: mls@dl.cn W: www.dlmls.org

SSQ Quebec City Marathon Denis Therrien T: 1 418 694 4442 E: info@marathonquebec.com W: quebecmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/marathonquebec

MAY

AUG

Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon & Half Marathon & 5k OCT Alan Brookes T: 1 416 944 2765 x508 E: alan@canadarunningseries.com W: www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyknI GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon Jay Glassman T: 1 416 920 3466 E: info@torontomarathon.com W: www.torontomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/torontomarathon

MAY

The Great Wall Marathon Dave Cundy T: 86 10 635 52521 / 685 12395 E: gwm_booking@263.net.cn, kent.wang@great-wallmarathon.com.cn W: www.great-wall-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/19tW0Qc

APR

BMO Vancouver Marathon Andrea Eby T: 1 604 872 2928 E: andrea@runvan.org W: www.bmovanmarathon.ca fb: facebook.com/BMOVanMarathon

MAY

MAY

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Hangzhou Int’l Marathon Mr. Long Jiang T: 86 571 85062369 E: marathon@hzim.org W: www.hzim.org fb: on.fb.me/ZPKISz Lanzhou Int’l Marathon Long Fuguo T: 86 931 8473885 E: lzmarathon@126.com W: www.lanzhoumarathon.com

Tim Hopkins T: 1 604 689 9441 E: info@vancouversunrun.com W: www.vancouversunrun.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyknN AUG

Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon & 5k Clifton Cunningham T: 1 778 786 3116 E: svhm@canadarunningseries.com W: www.vancouverhalf.com fb: facebook.com/vancouverhalf

CAYMAN ISLANDS

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CAMBODIA Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon Muy Lath T: 855 23 213 525 E: coop@angkormarathon.org W: www.angkormarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWyjQW

SEP

MAY

CANADA Belfius Brussels Marathon & Half Marathon Greg Broekmans T: 32 11 45 99 99 E: info@golazo.com W: www.belfiusbrusselsmarathon.be fb: on.fb.me/1bWyifF

Rio de Janeiro City Marathon JUL Joao Traven T: 55 21 222 33 073 E: maratonadorio@maratonadorio.com.br W: www.maratonadorio.com.br fb: on.fb.me/19tWqWH MAY

Phnom Penh Half Marathon Mr. Sem Phalla T: 885 23 213 525 E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.phnompenhmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1nfsVir

Shanghai Int’l Marathon Yong Yang Shanghai Eastbest Lansheng Event Management Co.,Ltd. T: 86 21 6212 9719 E: general@shmarathon.com W: www.shmarathon.com Xiamen Int’l Marathon Fu Xiaochun Organizing Committee T: 86 592 511 4853 E: xmmidc@163.com, xmmarathon@126.com W: www.xmim.org

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Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org Chinese Taipei Kaohsiung int’l Marathon Ching-Cheng Wang T: 886 2 2778 2240 E: tpe@mf.iaaf.org W: www.kaohsiungmarathon.com Kinmen Marathon Queenie Juang T: 886 2 2585 5659 E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw Taipei Marathon Queenie Juang T: 886 2 2585 5659 E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Mar

Jan

DeC

Taipei standard Chartered Charity Marathon Feb Queenie Juang T: 886 2 2585 5659 E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw fb: on.fb.me/1iTFrwa new Taipei City Wan Jin shi Marathon Ching-Cheng Wang T: 886 2 2778 2240 E: tpe@mf.iaaf.org W: www.wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw fb: on.fb.me/1bWyj3d Yangmingshan Cross Country race Queenie Juang T: 886 2 2585 5659 E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Mar

sep

asiCs Maratón de san José Victor López Jiménez T: 506 2296 1905 E: runners@racsa.co.cr W: www.gsxg.net

san José Costa rica half & DeC Marathon Guillermo Sáenz Costa Rica marathon association T: 506 2222 0804 / 506 8354 6000 / 506 8343 9868 E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathoncostarica.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyj3p Tamarindo beach Marathon Victor López Jiménez T: 506 8811 3344 E: runners@racsa.co.cr W: www.tamarindobeachmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/17hrlVK CroaTia hvar half Marathon Boris Reinic T: 385 91 206 2256 E: info@hvarmarathon.com W: www.hvarmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/HvarHalfMarathon

Marabana Marathon & half Carlos R. Gattorno Correa T: 53 7 6410911 / 53 7 6410953 E: marabana@inder.cu W: www.inder.cu/marabana

nov

nov

oCT

sep

Limassol Marathon Gso Spyros Spyrou T: 357 25880102 E: info@limassolmarathon.com W: www.limassolmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyjjF

apr

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Mattoni Karlovy vary half Marathon Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

Jun

MaY

JuL

10K san José – Costa rica sep Guillermo Sáenz Costa Rica marathon association T: 506 2222 0804/ 506 8354 6000/ 506 8343 9868 E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathoncostarica.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEg

Mattoni olomouc half Marathon Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

Jun

pardubice Wine half Marathon apr Oldřich Bujnoch T: 420 602 490 127 E: oldrichbujnoch@seznam.cz W: www.pardubickyvinarskypulmaraton.cz fb: on.fb.me/1HWsAYy

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sportisimo prague half Marathon apr Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs volkswagen prague Marathon Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs Mattoni Ústí nad Labem half Marathon Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

h.C. andersen Marathon Torben Simonsen T: 45 3059 2444 E: ts@hcamarathon.dk W: www.hcamarathon.dk fb: on.fb.me/1bWymfl nykredit Copenhagen Marathon Dorte Vibjerg T: 45 35 26 69 00 E: vibjerg@sparta.dk W: www.copenhagenmarathon.dk fb: facebook.com/cphmarathon Copenhagen half Marathon Niels Jorgen Holdt / Dorte Vibjerg T: 45 35 26 69 00 E: vibjerg@sparta.dk W: copenhagenhalfmarathon.dk fb: facebook.com/cphhalf

Guayaquil Marathon Diego Maruri T: 593 4 292 5540 E: diegomaruri@dm3.com W: www.dm3.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymvQ

sep

La ruta de las iglesias Samia Solah, Nina Solah T: 593 2 244 8850 E: samia@tventas.net W: www.rutadelasiglesias.com fb: facebook.com/rutaiglesias

oCT

esTonia

paris st Germain en Laye – MaY La Course Bruno Boukobza T: 33 6 88 84 73 98 E: info@parissaintgermainlacourse.com W: www.parissaintgermainlacourse.com fb: on.fb.me/1vnXjoB semi Marathon de paris Edouard Cassignal T: 33 1 4133 1568 E: infos@parismarathon.com W: www.semideparis.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyn2R

Tartu City Marathon Indrek Kelk T: 372 74 216 44 E: indrek@tartumaraton.ee W: www.tartumaraton.ee fb: facebook.com/tartumaraton

serge vigot La rochelle int’l Marathon Mauny Nicolas T: 33 5 46 44 4219 E: info@marathondelarochelle.com W: marathondelarochelle.com fb: facebook.com/marathonLR

MaY

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oCT

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FaLKLanD isLanDs standard Chartered stanley Marathon Stuart Horsewood T: 500 2 2220 E: bank.info@sc.com W: www.sc.com/fk/marathon

Mar

Faroe isLanDs Tórshavn Marathon Jóhan E. Simonsen T: 298 230 454 E: info@torshavnmarathon.com W: www.torshavnmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bBWlf2

Jun

Mar

oCT

Jun

auG

Jan

helsinki City Marathon Markku Haverinen Finnish Athletics Federation T: 358 9 3481 2405 E: maraton@sul.fi W: www.helsinkicitymarathon.fi fb: on.fb.me/1bWylbq paavo nurmi Marathon Kari Ahonen T: 358 44 5678 256 E: info@paavonurmisports.com W: www.paavonurmisports.com rovaniemi Marathon Olli Tiuraniemi T: 358 400 69 5418 E: rovaniemimarathon@gmail.com W: www.rovaniemimarathon.com/en fb: on.fb.me/1bWymMp

auG

semi-Marathon int’l de nice Hugues Lelievre Nice Premium – Azur Sport Organisation T: 33 4 93 26 1912 E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.nicesemimarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWylrU schneider electric paris Marathon Edouard Cassignal Amaury Sport Organisation T: 33 1 41 33 1568 E: infos@parismarathon.com W: www.parismarathon.com fb: facebook.com/parismarathon

oCT

Gabon nov Marathon du Gabon Sebastien Bottari T: 41 079 641 81 02 E: s.bottari@marathondugabon.com, bburlot@hotmail.com W: www.marathondugabon.com fb: facebook.com/marathondugabon

heidelbergCement TbilisihalfMarathon Peter Gottwald c/o HeidelbergCement Caucasus Ltd. T: 49 172 8204508 E: info@tbilisimarathon.ge W: www.tbilisimarathon.ge

oCT

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Jun

FranCe French riviera Marathon nice-Cannes Hugues Lelievre Nice Premium – Azur Sport Organisation T: 33 4 93 26 1912 E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.marathonfrenchriviera.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymMt

st Denis half Marathon – La voie royale Thierry Vernay / Antonio Agostinho T: 33 1 48 20 5681 / 33 06 81 63 5382 E: info@wanago.com W: www.lavoieroyale.fr fb: on.fb.me/Ni5eVx

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eGYpT egyptian Marathon Gasser Riad Event Sports T: 202 2260 6930 E: info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.net fb: on.fb.me/1bWykUW

nov

seb Tallinn Marathon, half & 10k sep Mati Lilliallik T: 372 654 8462 E: info@tallinnmarathon.ee W: www.tallinnmarathon.ee fb: on.fb.me/1vnYjZO

Great ethiopian run 10km Dagmawit Amare T: 251 11 663 3646 E: dagim@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWylbi

Quito 21k Mitad del Mundo oCT Marialuz Arellano T: 593 9 980 3237 E: marialuzarellano@sportime.com.ec W: www.quito21k.com Quito Últimas noticias 15k Pablo Gonzalez Peña T: 593 2 2677824 E: pgonzalez@elcomercio.com W: www.quitoultimasnoticias15k.ec fb: https://facebook.com/UN15K

pharaonic 100km Gasser Riad T: 202 2260 6930 E: info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.net fb: on.fb.me/1bWykV0

MaY

Maratón de Quito JuL Hipatia Puente, Jorge A. Mera T: 593 999490598 / 593 2 2552414 E: hipatia.puente@hotmail.com W: www.maratondequito.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymvV

CZeCh repubLiC Mattoni České budějovice half Marathon Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

*Associate member sep

eCuaDor

CYprus

Carrera de la Mujer Colombia 10km sep Maria Stella Granados Acosta T: 57 1 288 7797 E: sgranados @carreradelamujercolombia.com W: www.carreradelamujercolombia.com fb: facebook.com/carreramujercol

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*KLM Curaçao Marathon Kees van Muiswinkel and Willem Cordelia T: 31 653 350 589 E: kees@curacaomarathon.com W: www.klmcuracaomarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1FWbXLv

birell prague Grand prix Václav Skřivánek T: 420 224 919 209 E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

DenMarK

Curaçao

Media Maratón int’l de bogotá JuL Martha Santos T: 57 1 257 3107 E: msantos@correcaminoscolombia.com W: www.mediamaratonbogota.com fb: facebook.com/mmboficial

Correcaminos half Marathon & 10km Gustavo Alvarez T: 506 22 23 5193 E: info@correcaminoscr.com W: www.mediacorrecaminos.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEc

auG

Zagreb Marathon & half oCT Franjo Kordic T: 385 1 6431 030, 385 1 6431 031 E: zagrebacki.atletski.savez@gmail.com W: www.zagreb-marathon.com fb: bit.ly/1bWykEi

CoLoMbia

Maratón de las Flores Medellín Gustavo Orozco Posada T: 57 4 448 2283 E: direccion@maratonmedellin.com W: www.maratonmedellin.co fb: facebook.com/maratonmedellin

sep

Cuba

*Yi Lan Chiang Wei shui Memorial nov Freeway Marathon Queenie Juang T: 886 2 2585 5659 E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

¼ de Maraton Ciudad de bucaramanga – Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia Mariela Sanchez Aguirre T: 57 31 582 54149 E: marielasanchez@fcv.org W: www.fcv.org/maraton

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apr

bMW berlin Marathon Mark Milde T: 49 30 301 288 10 W: www.scc-events.com fb: facebook.com/berlinmarathon vattenfall berlin half Marathon Mark Milde T: 49 30 301 288 10 W: www.scc-events.com fb: facebook.com/sccevents biG 25 berlin Gerhard Janetzky Golazo Sports GmbH T: 49 30 243 199 77 E: info@berlin-laeuft.de W: www.berlin-runs.com fb: facebook.com/Berlinlaeuft rheinenergieMarathon Cologne Markus Frisch Köln Marathon Veranstaltungs- und Werbe GmbH T: 49 221 33 77 73 11 E: info@koeln-marathon.de W: www.cologne-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/koelnmarathon MeTro Group Marathon Düsseldorf Jan Winschermann T: 49 211 61 0190 0 E: info@metrogroup-marathon.de W: www.metrogroup-marathon.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWyn31

sep

Mar

MaY

oCT

apr

apr

Frankfurt Marathon Jo Schindler T: 49 69 37004680 E: mail@frankfurt-marathon.com W: www.frankfurt-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ffmmarathon

oCT

37th

COPENHAGEN MARATHON 22 May, 2016

Commencing at the harbour front with its skyline of modern architecture and historic towers, 42,195 awesome kilometres through a vibrant and edgy city await you. A genuine city marathon, the Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon course takes you on a tour past numerous highlights and attractions.

An absolutely flat course makes the Nykredit Copenhagen Marathon ideal for first time marathoners, while sublime organization satisfies the demands of the experienced runner. Join the Copenhagen Marathon to experience a classic race in an innovative city.

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12,000 participants from 75 nations Massive entertainment programme Enthusiastic crowd support Intense and vibrant city atmosphere Live coverage on app and web Three day expo

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Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org Haspa Marathon Hamburg APR T: 49 1805 77 1760 E: office@marathonhamburg.de W: www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWyn36 HAJ Hannover Marathon Stefanie Eichel T: 49 511 81 20 14 E: kontakt@marathon-hannover.de W: www.marathon-hannover.de fb: facebook.com/MarathonHannover Munich Marathon Gernot Weigl T: 49 89 170 9 5570 E: info@muenchenmarathon.de W: www.muenchenmarathon.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjp Volksbank-Münster-Marathon Michael Brinkmann T: 49 251 92 77 288 E: brinkmann@volksbank-muenstermarathon.de W: www.volksbank-muenstermarathon.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWylIv iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg Guenter Herrmann T: 49 931 903 3851 E: g.herrmann@wuerzburgmarathon.de W: www.wuerzburg-marathon.de fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjt

APR

OCT

SEP

JUN

GREAT BRITAIN Deep RiverRock Belfast City MAY Marathon Claire O’Reilly T: 44 2890 605933 E: claire.oreilly@belfastcitymarathon.org W: www.belfastcitymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjv *Bournemouth Marathon Festival Neil Kilgour GSi Events Ltd T: 44 131 208 0031 E: james@gsi-events.com W: www.run-bmf.com fb: on.fb.me/WWhtwp

OCT

Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running Malcolm Sutherland T: 44 844 875 1411 E: info@lochnessmarathon.com W: www.lochnessmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/lochnessmarathon

MAY

SEP

Milton Keynes Marathon MAY Andrew Hully PB Running Ltd. E: run@miltonkeynesmarathon.co.uk W: www.mkmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWylYU *Scottish Half Marathon Neil Kilgour T: 44 131 208 0031 E: james@gsi-events.com W: www.scottishhalfmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1H808VG

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Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great APR Drosos Christopoulos T: 30 2310 200 360 E: info@atgm.gr, info@alexanderthegreatmarathon.org W: www.alexanderthegreatmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWylYY Athens Marathon The Authentic NOV Evangelos Papapostolou T: 30 210 931 5886 / 0 210 933 1113 E: info@athensauthenticmarathon.gr W: www.athensauthenticmarathon.gr fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjD *Nafplio Marathon Evangelos Papapostolou T: 30 697 588 8926 E: racedirector@nafpliomarathon.gr W: www.nafpliomarathon.gr fb: on.fb.me/1DXeYsT *Roads to Rhodes Marathon Giorgios Michalakis/Takis Michailidis T: 30 6 977 430 468 E: segasdod@gmail.com, rodiga@otenet.gr W: www.roadstorhodes.com fb: facebook.com/roads2rhodes Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon Drosos Christopoulos T: 30 23 1020 0360 E: info@thesshalfmarathon.org W: www.thesshalfmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjE

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APR

OCT

GUAM Guam Int’l Marathon APR Ben Ferguson T: 1 671 646 9171 E: info@guaminternationalmarathon.com W: www.guaminternationalmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUt

SEP

Gammon China Coast Marathon & Half JAN David Smith AVOHK T: 852 6629 3866 E: chinacoastmarathon2016@gmail.com W: www.avohk.org Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon William Ko T: 852 2577 0800 E: hkmarathon@hkaaa.com W: www.hkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/hkmarathon

JAN

Mizuno Hong Kong Half-Marathon Championships DEC Alan Wong Kim Lun T: 852 2504 8215 E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hkaaa.com fb: facebook.com/ilovehkaaa UNICEF Charity Run Half Marathon & 10km NOV Ann Choy T: 852 2833 6139 E: ann.choy@unicef.org.hk W: run.unicef.org.hk fb: facebook.com/runforchildren HUNGARY Lake Balaton Supermarathon Árpád Kocsis BSI Sportmarketing Kft T: 36 1 273 0939 E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: www.budapestmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUE Course not measurable to AIMS standards

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PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon Dr Sandeep Suryakant Kate T: 919 822 690 955 E: drsandeep@suryaprabha.com, satarahillmarathon@gmail.com W: www.satarahillmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1xf8nov

Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon Árpád Kocsis BSI Sportmarketing Kft T: 36 1 273 0939 E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: www.budapestmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/budapestmarathon

Vadodara Int’l Marathon Amit Bhatnagar T: 91 98 2500 6811 E: abhatnagar@dicabs.com fb: facebook.com/VadodaraMarathon

Spar Budapest Marathon Árpád Kocsis BSI Sportmarketing Kft T: 36 1 273 0939 E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: www.budapestmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/budapestmarathon Coca-Cola Wake Your Body Women’s Running Gala Árpád Kocsis BSI Sportmarketing Kft T: 36 1 273 0939 E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: www.budapestmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUE

SEP

OCT

MAY

JUN

Jakarta Marathon Jacqueline Losung T: 62 21 296 66 868 E: jacqueline@inspirogroup.co.id W: www.thejakartamarathon.com

Erbil Marathon Abdulsattar Younus T: 964 750 777 0578 E: erbilmarathon@yahoo.com W: www.erbilmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/JifjR5

AUG

OCT

OCT

IRELAND Cork City Marathon Jim O’Donovan T: 353 21 492 4170 E: info@corkcitymarathon.ie W: www.corkcitymarathon.ie fb: facebook.com/corkcitymarathon SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon Jim Aughney T: 353 1 623 2250 E: office@dublinmarathon.ie W: www.dublinmarathon.ie fb: facebook.com/dublinmarathon

INDIA TCS World 10K Bengaluru Hugh Jones Procam International T: 91 22 2202 0284 E: tcsworld10K@procam.in W: www.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/tcsw10k

BII MAYBANK Bali Marathon Satyo Haryo Wibisono T: 62 21 292 2 8888 E: info@balimarathon.com W: www.balimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/BaliMarathon

JUN

OCT

MAY

Longford Marathon Fr Ciaran McGovern T: 353 43 3349682 E: info@longfordmarathon.com W: www.longfordmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/WCzyQ1

AUG

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon NOV Hugh Jones T: 91 22 2202 0284 E: adhm@procam.in, arati@procam.in W: www.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/runadhm?fref=ts

Portumna Forest Marathon Sebastien Locteau T: 353 090 666 5411 E: info@sportsireland.ie W: www.forestmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/18Fhabi

*Tata Steel Kolkata 25k Hugh Jones T: 9122 220 202 84 E: tsk25@procam.in, aimssec@aol.com W: www.tsk25.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/TSKolkata25

Waterford Viking Marathon JUN Joe Cawley T: 353 86 232 0795 E: info@waterfordvikingmarathon.com W: www.waterfordvikingmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1HWuFDI

Ladakh Marathon Chewang Motup Goba T: 91 991 011 8739 E: info@ladakhmarathon.com W: www.ladakhmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ladakhmarathon

DEC

Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon JAN Hugh Jones T: 91 22 2202 0284 E: scmm@procam.in, arati@procam.in W: www.procamrunning.in fb: on.fb.me/1bWynQt

MAR

Pune Int’l Marathon Mr. Pralhad M. Savant T: 91 20 2442 8360/ 91 20 2442 8390 E: Marathonpune@yahoo.com W: www.marathonpune.com fb: facebook.com/marathonpune

JUN

ISRAEL SEP

Eilat Full Desert Marathon Ofer Padan Marathon Israel T: 97 239 016 214 E: ofer@marathonisrael.co.il W: www.desertrun.co.il fb: on.fb.me/1AJSNX0

NOV

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k Simon Avraham T: 972 2 629 6542 E: marathon@jerusalem.muni.il W: www.jerusalem-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/WCyXOj

Tiberias Winner Marathon Jack Cohen T: 972 3 648 6256 E: iaa@zahav.net.il W: www.tiberias-marathon.co.il fb: on.fb.me/1bGrlOi

JAN

ITALY DEC

IRAQ

Islandsbanki Reykjavik Marathon AUG Svava Oddný Ásgeirsdóttir T: 354 535 3700 E: marathon@marathon.is W: marathon.is/reykjavik-marathon fb: on.fb.me/1bWynQp Suzuki Midnight Sun Run Svava Oddný Ásgeirsdóttir Reykjavik Marathon T: 354 535 3700 E: marathon@marathon.is W: marathon.is/midnight-run fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUI

SEP

INDONESIA

ICELAND

HONG KONG, CHINA

Lloyds Bank Cardiff Half Marathon OCT Steve Brace T: 44 2921 660 790 E: cardiffhalfmarathon@runwales.org.uk W: www.cardiffhalfmarathon.co.uk fb: facebook.com/Cardiffhalf Edinburgh Marathon Festival Neil Kilgour GSi Events T: 44 131 208 0031 E: james@gsi-events.com W: www.edinburgh-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWylYR

GREECE

*Associate member

31st Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon Budapest APR Árpád Kocsis BSI Sportmarketing Kft T: 36 1 273 0939 E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: www.budapestmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUE

MAR

NOV

Tel Aviv Samsung Marathon FEB Ofer Shytrit “Kapaim” T: 972 3 571 1575 E: tlvmarathon.international@gmail.com W: www.tlvmarathon.co.il fb: facebook.com/TelAvivMarathon

APR Chia Laguna Half Marathon Marcello Magnani T: 39 335 700 2407 E: marcello@magnanisport.it W: www.chialagunahalfmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1E0yKUp

Trieste Green Europe Marathon Fabio Carini A.S.D. La Bavisela T: 39 040 410399 E: fabio.carini@bavisela.it W: www.bavisela.it fb: facebook.com/baviselatrieste Firenze Marathon Giancarlo Romiti FIRENZE MARATHON S.c.d.p.A. T: 39 055 5522957 E: staff@firenzemarathon.it W: www.firenzemarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1lpsOz8 Giulietta & Romeo Half Marathon Stefano Stanzial T: 39 333 88 40 402 E: info@giuliettaeromeohalfmarathon.it W: www.giuliettaeromeohalfmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/veronamarathon Lake Maggiore Marathon Paolo Ottone Sport PRO-MOTION A.S.D. T: 39 0323 919 861 E: LMM@pro-motion.it W: www.lagomaggioremarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bGw82d Lake Maggiore Half Marathon Paolo Ottone Sport PRO-MOTION A.S.D. T: 39 0323 919 861 E: LMHM@pro-motion.it W: www.LMHM.it fb: on.fb.me/1bGw82d Milano Marathon Andrea Trabuio Rcs Sport T: 39 02 6282 7562 E: info@milanomarathon.it W: www.milanomarathon.it fb: facebook.com/MilanoMarathon Moonlight Half Marathon Piero Rosa Salva A.S.D. Venicemarathon Club T: 39 041 532 1871 E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.moonlighthalfmarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1zhSboz *Mostra d’Oltremare Half Marathon Benedetto Scarpellino T: 39 347 470 8797 E: bennyscarpellino@gmail.com W: www.runaples.it fb: on.fb.me/WCyj3j Ravenna City of Art Int’l Marathon Stefano Righini Ravenna Runners Club ASD T: 39 345 442 0145 E: info@maratonadiravenna.com W: www.maratonadiravenna.com fb: on.fb.me/IReDAL Maratona di Roma Enrico Castrucci T: 39 06 406 5064 E: info@maratonadiroma.it W: www.maratonadiroma.it fb: facebook.com/maratonadiroma

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NOV

APR

Making contact

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Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org Maratona S. Antonio Federico dè Stefani T: 39 049 822 7114 E: info@maratonasantantonio.it W: www.maratonasantantonio.it fb: on.fb.me/1f9jmJp Telesia City Trophy Int’l Road Race 10k Viscusi Diego T: 39 338 6346317 E: info@trofeotelesia.it W: www.trofeotelesia.it fb: on.fb.me/IReGww Garda Trentino Half Marathon Poli Sandro T: 39 046 458 3268 E: eventi@trentinoeventi.it W: www.trentinoeventi.it fb: on.fb.me/IRab5f Treviso Marathon 1.3 Aldo Zanetti T: 39 0438 413 255 E: segreteria@trevisomarathon.com W: www.trevisomarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1FCs82B Turin Half Marathon Luigi Chiabrera T: 39 011 455 9959 E: info@turinmarathon.it W: www.turinmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/turinmarathon Turin Marathon Luigi Chiabrera T: 39 011 455 9959 E: info@turinmarathon.it W: www.turinmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/turinmarathon Maratonina Citta di Udine Paolo Bordon T: 39 043 250 1612 E: info@maratoninadiudine.it W: www.maratoninadiudine.it fb: on.fb.me/1uxZgTf Maratona di San Valentino Marcello Vettese T: 39 347 633 5647 E: info@maratonadisanvalentino.it W: www.maratonadisanvalentino.it Venicemarathon Piero Rosa Salva A.S.D. Venicemarathon Club T: 39 041 532 1871 E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.venicemarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/IR9n05

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OCT

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FEB

OCT

Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Kosuke Sakakibara T: 81 52 221 0737 E: sakkbr.k@chunichi.co.jp W: www.gifu-marathon.jp Hokkaido Marathon Seiji Teramachi T: 81 112 32 0840 E: t-seig@hokkaido-np.co.jp W: www.hokkaido-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/hokkaidomarathon Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon Masaharu Kaji T: 81 877 24 6274 E: marugame-half@aroma.ocn.ne.jp W: www.km-half.com *Kanazawa Marathon Yukiyoshi Yamano T: 81 76 220 2726 E: marathon@city.kanazawa.lg.jp W: www.kanazawa-marathon.jp fb: on.fb.me/1KptMUi

Kobe Marathon Masaaki Uetsuki T: 81 78 325 1430 E: kobemarathon1@pearl.ocn.ne.jp W: www.kobe-marathon.net fb: on.fb.me/14v34ex Kyoto Marathon Masayoshi Sakoda T: 81 6 6305 6330 E: isono@runners.co.jp W: www.kyoto-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1yMavHq Mount Fuji Marathon Nikkan Sports Press T: 81 3 5733 2451 E: m.koike@sports-info.co.jp W: www.fujisan-marathon.com Nagano Marathon Takehumi Oonishi T: 81 26 252 7687 E: info@naganomarathon.gr.jp W: www.naganomarathon.gr.jp fb: facebook.com/naganomarathon

JAMAICA

Tokushima Marathon Kamon Iizumi T: 81 88621 2309 E: hashiru_ahoo@circus.ocn.ne.jp W: www.tokushima-marathon.jp fb: on.fb.me/1HWu2Kp FEB

Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Mitsugi Ogata T: 81 663 46 8249 E: jigyoubu@pearl.ocn.ne.jp W: www.lakebiwa-marathon.com Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon Championship Mitsugi Ogata Asahi Shimbun Sports Promotion Department T: 81 3 5540 7455 E: m.ogata@jaaf.or.jp W: www.fukuoka-marathon.com/ en/index.html

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*Associate member JUN

Tokyo Marathon Tad Hayano T: 81 3 5500 6677 E: hayano@tokyo42195.org W: www.tokyo42195.com fb: facebook.com/tokyo42195.org

MAR

FEB

NOV

JORDAN

NOV

FEB

Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon Lina El Kurd Amman International Marathon Company T: 962 6 566 2999 E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz Ayla Red Sea Half Marathon Lina El Kurd T: 962 6566 2999 E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz Dead Sea Ultramarathon Lina El Kurd T: 962 566 2999 E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz

OCT

NOV

APR

Almaty Marathon Saltanat Kazybayeva World Class Almaty fitness club T: 7 727 315 39 39 x702 E: saltanat.k@wclass.kz W: www.almaty-marathon.kz fb: facebook.com/MarathonAlmaty

DEC

DEC

Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race FEB & 10km Daijiro Asahara T: 81 3 5479 1294 E: info@ohme-marathon.sakura.ne.jp W: www.ohme-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/ohme.marathon Osaka Marathon Ms. Izumi Hirano T: 81 6 6210 9317 E: hirano@osaka-marathon.com W: www.osakamarathon.com/index_en.html fb: on.fb.me/IR9M2y Osaka Women’s Marathon Mitsugi Ogata T: 81 6 6314 8550 E: s-takeda@ktv.co.jp W: www.osaka-marathon.jp

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OCT

JAN

Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon Marathon The Chosunilbo Daily, Eunji Lee T: 82 2 724 6314 E: marathon@chosun.com W: marathon.chosun.com fb: facebook.com/marathonchosun Daegu Int’l Marathon Rachel Lee T: 82 53 803 6186 E: rachel.soul.lee@gmail.com W: marathon.daegusports.or.kr fb: facebook.com/daegumarathon Gunsan Saemangeum Int’l Marathon, 10km & 5km Kim Ok Sun T: 82 63 450 6127 E: sn1976@korea.kr, sn1976@hanmail.net W: www.smgmara.com

Seoul Int’l Marathon Inchul Lee T: 82 2 361 1404 E: joong4n2@donga.com W: www.seoul-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/dongamarathon

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NOV

LATVIA

APR

BDL Beirut Marathon Mr. Wissam Terro T: 961 5 959 262 E: w.terro@gmail.com W: beirutmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/BeirutMarathon

OCT

Tripoli Int’l Half Marathon Rabih Lazkani/Mrs Bassima Elnahi Ma’an Loubnan Association T: 961 3 100 201/961 3 438 252 E: Rabih@maanloubnan.org, Bassima@maanloubnan.org W: www.tripolihalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Maanloubnan

Danske Bank Vilnius Marathon Darius Mikulis T: 370 687 555 92 E: info@vilniausmaratonas.lt W: www.vilniusmarathon.lt fb: facebook.com/vilniusmarathon

Standard Chartered KL Marathon Rainer Biemans T: 603 7887 4717 E: rainer.biemans@dirigo.com.my W: www.kl-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/SCKLmarathon Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon Law Heng Kiang Penang State Tourism Development T: 60 16 4110000 E: info@penangmarathon.gov.my W: www.penangmarathon.gov.my fb: on.fb.me/1bWwYtg *Penang Bridge Half Marathon Law Heng Kiang T: 604 650 5136 E: hm@penangmarathon.gov.my W: www.penangmarathon.gov.my fb: on.fb.me/1K7WhpQ

MAY

OCT

NOV

JUN

Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race Mirshan Hassan Dhiraagu Head Office T: 960 7784468, 960 3311336 E: mirshan@dhiraagu.com.mv W: www.dmrr.mv

JUN

MAURITIUS NOV

Marathon de l’Ile Maurice JUL Jean Marie Grall T: 230 622 2148 E: inscription@ilemauricemarathon.com W: www.mauritiusmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/18FizyF

MAY

MEXICO OCT Maratón Aguascalientes Jose Luis Trujillo Alcala T: 52 449 993 0941 E: maratonaguascalientes@hotmail.com W: www.maratonaguascalientes.com.mx fb: on.fb.me/1zvc8Hp

LITHUANIA Kaunas Marathon Algirdas Pukis T: 370 675 93492 E: info@kaunasmarathon.lt W: www.kaunasmarathon.lt

MALAYSIA Borneo Int’l Marathon Dr Heng Aik Cheng Borneo International Marathon Secretariat T: 6019 8801670 E: 1234heng@gmail.com W: www.borneomarathon.com

MALDIVES MAY

LEBANON

Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon OCT Joy Ochuka Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank T: 25 420 329 3811 E: Joy.Ochuka@sc.com W: www.nairobimarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/19tXpWV

Incheon Songdo Int’l Marathon SooHong Woo T: 82 32 872 9000 E: cchasooh@hanmail.net W: www.songdorun.com

Incheon Int’l Half Marathon Jaeyoung Kwak T: 82 32 452 0197 E: tingi@naver.com W: www.incheonmarathon.co.kr

APR

KOREA Nara Marathon Shogo Arai T: 81 742 81 8752 E: athletic@nara-marathon.jp W: www.nara-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/naramarathon.jp

MAR

Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l OCT Marathon In-Cheol Lee T: 82 2 2020 0311 E: marathon@donga.com W: marathon.donga.com/gyeongju.html

Lattelecom Riga Marathon Aigars Nords T: 371 6750 4931 E: marathon@necom.lv W: lattelecomrigamarathon.lv fb: on.fb.me/1yM9LlE

KENYA

MAR

Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon We Jang Ryang T: 82 2 2202 1238 E: artwjr@empas.com W: www.ggimarathon.com

JoongAng Seoul Marathon JoongAng Culture Media T: 82 2 751 9685 E: marathon@joongang.co.kr W: marathon.joins.com fb: on.fb.me/IRdOYV

KAZAKHSTAN

JAPAN Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Mr Megumi Furuichi T: 81 93 511 1119 E: furuichi-m@mainichi.co.jp

Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon Jiro Hashimoto T: 81 3 5771 7907 E: saroma@runners.co.jp W: saromanblue.jp/index.shtml fb: facebook.com/saroma100km

AUG

*Kitakyushu Marathon FEB Kenji Kitahashi T: 81 93 582 2831 E: toiawase@kitakyushu-marathon.jp W: kitakyushu-marathon.jp fb: on.fb.me/VyPKjJ

Nagoya Women’s Marathon Mitsugi Ogata T: 81 52 201 1560 E: sakkbr.k@chunichi.co.jp W: womens.marathon-festival.com fb: facebook.com/gowomencity

Reggae Marathon, Half & 10K DEC Alfred Francis T: 1 876 967 4903 E: racedirector@reggaemarathon.com W: www.reggaemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ReggaeMarathon

MAY

JUN

SEP

21k Coahuila Arq. Dora Maria Galindo Ramos T: 52 844 414 19 07 E: coahuila21k@hotmail.com W: www.21kcoahuila.org Medio Maratón Atlas de Guadalajara Saul Joaquin Figueroa Lopez T: 52 333 648 0120 Ext. 1145 E: medio.maraton@atlas.com.mx W: www.mediomaratonatlas.com fb: on.fb.me/IR59pk

JUN

SEP

LUXEMBOURG OCT

ING Route du Vin Half Marathon Frédéric Kimmlingen T: 352 48 06 70 E: routeduvin@fla.lu W: www.routeduvin.lu

SEP

Maratón Int’l de Culiacán Tomás Villa Velázquez Santillanes T: 52 667 790 6175 E: eldsin@hotmail.com W: maratonculiacan.org fb: on.fb.me/1zhRUC4

JAN

MACAU, CHINA APR

Macau Galaxy Entertainment Int’l Marathon José Tavares Macau Sport Development Board T: 853 2858 0762 E: sport@macau.ctm.net W: www.macaumarathon.com

DEC

F Y REP OF MACEDONIA APR

MAY Wizz Air Skopje Marathon Kire Sinadinovski T: 389 7024 6935 / 389 2322 8624 E: kire@skopskimaraton.com.mk W: www.skopjemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/skopskimaraton

Carrera del Día Del Padre Medio JUN Maratón Mario Romero Saínos T: 52 555 335 3333 E: contacto@ corredoresdelbosquedetlalpan.com.mx W: www.corredoresdelbosquedetlalpan .com.mx Gran Maraton Pacifico NOV Juan Francisco Ayla Barajas T: 525 55 22660058 E: francisco.ayala@gmodelo.com.mx W: www.maraton.org fb: on.fb.me/JhYA00

Making contact

www.aimsworldrunning.org

Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org Maratón Int’l de guadalajara Marcos Luis Esquivel Tabares T: 52 333 883 4000 ext. 101/102 E: marcosesquivel@ comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.maratonguadalajara.org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL Medio Maratón Int’l guadalajara Marcos Luis Esquivel Tabares T: 52 333 883 4000 E: marcosesquivel@ comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: medio.maratonguadalajara.org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL Maratón Int’l Lala Luis Rey Delgado García T: 52 871 729 31 00 Ext. 3053 E: nydia.rocha@grupolala.com W: www.maratonlala.org fb: on.fb.me/1f9fPdX

Oct

Feb

MAR

Maratón de la ciudad de México AUg Mtro. Horacio de la Vega Flores T: 52 55 56048255 E: contacto@maratoncdmx.com W: www.maratoncdmx.com/index.php fb: facebook.com/MaratonCdMx *gran Maraton Mexiquense Enrique Aquino T: 52 55 5250 8729 E: eaquino@meta.mx W: www.meta.mx Maratón Powerade Monterrey Edilberto González Serna T: 52 81 8863 1744 E: edilberto.gonzalez@correnl.com W: www.maratonmonterrey.com fb: facebook.com/Maratonmty

MAR

Dec

NeW ZeALAND

MOROccO grand Marathon Int’l de casablanca Oct Said Ibrahimi Moulay Skali T: 212 522 94 7700 E: contact@casablanca-marathon.com, m.skali@casablanca-marathon.com W: www.casablanca-marathon.com RAHAL 10K Int’l de casablanca Abdelouahed Essoulami Rahal T: 212 660 167 242 E: arahal@grouperahal.ma W: www.running.ma

JUN

Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune NOV Mohamed Derhim T: 212 661 38 7946 E: mohamedderhim@atlassahara.ma W: www.semi-marathon-laayoune.ma RAHAL 10k Int’l Marrakech Oct Rachid Ben Meziane T: 31 626 148367 / 212 660 002562 E: info@2cras.com, info@running.ma W: www.running.ma Marathon & Semi Int’l de Marrakech Mohamed Knidiri T: 212 524 31 35 72 E: marathonmarrakech@gmail.com W: www.marathon-marrakech.com fb: on.fb.me/10EJCdj AStA 10km Int’l de taroudant Mohamed Astaib T: 31 626 148 367 E: info@2cras.com W: www.running.ma

JAN

MAR

100km of the Namib Desert Adriano Zito T: 390 5935 9813 E: info@100kmofnamibdesert.com W: www.100kmofnamibdesert.com fb: on.fb.me/1dJS0hS

NOV

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

tangamanga Int’l Marathon Jaime Eduardo Morales Reyes T: 52 44 48 15 4444 E: maratontangamanga@gmail.com W: www.maratontangamanga.com fb: on.fb.me/1bqaYlK tijuana Marathon Komar Rivera Fernández T: 52 664 215 9000 E: komarimdet@gmail.com W: www.imdet.tijuana.gob.mx fb: facebook.com/IMDET

JUN

JUL

MONteNegRO Oct

tcS Amsterdam Marathon Cees Pronk T: 31 725 324 849 E: info@tcsamsterdammarathon.nl W: www.tcsamsterdammarathon.nl fb: on.fb.me/IR8BjF Dam tot Damloop Jan Willem Mijderwijk T: 31 725 338 136 E: info@lechampion.nl W: www.damloop.nl fb: facebook.com/damtotdamloop

Oct

North Pole Marathon Richard Donovan T: 353 91 44 3408 E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.npmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/npmarathon

APR

enschede Marathon Sabine Boshuis - van der Snoek T: 31 53 430 5486 E: info@enschedemarathon.nl W: www.enschedemarathon.nl fb: bit.ly/1f9jcSl

NORWAy Fjordkraft bergen city Marathon APR Halfdan Haukeland TIF Viking T: 47 55 36 53 46, 47 47 41 30 03 E: post@bergencitymarathon.no W: www.bergencitymarathon.no fb: on.fb.me/JicD5N Knarvikmila – the great Fjord Run Helge Brekke T: 47 971 4 5628 E: Info@knarvikmila.no W: www.knarvikmila.no fb: on.fb.me/IR5057 Midnight Sun Marathon Nils I. Haetta T: 47 776 7 3363 E: post@msm.no W: www.msm.no fb: on.fb.me/18FhPtw

SeP

JUN

Danske bank Oslo Marathon Odd Arne Støstad Marsteinstredet Oslo Marathon AS T: 47 41 42 43 12 E: omar@skvidar.no W: www.oslomaraton.no/en fb: facebook.com/oslomaraton

SeP

Leiden Marathon Tjeerd Scheffer T: 31 71 514 4461 E: info@marathon.nl W: www.marathon.nl fb: facebook.com/Leidenmarathon

gatorade Panama Int’l Half Marathon Elmer Ortiz Nunez T: 507 260 1918 E: panamarunners@gmail.com W: www.panamahalfmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1zQ4212

Dec

JUN

PARAgUAy

MAy

NN Marathon Rotterdam APR Mario J Kadiks T: 31 10 432 3210 E: info@marathonrotterdam.nl W: www.nnmarathonrotterdam.org/home fb: facebook.com/MarathonRdam

Distance Running | 2015 Edition 3

*Al Amerat challenge Race Feb Rashid Ibrahim Alkindi T: 968 980 999 03 E: rashid@excellencperformance.com, info@excellencperformance.com W: www.alameratchallenge.com fb: facebook.com/ameratchallenge

Panama Int’l Marathon Rodrigo Espinosa T: 507 667 23909 E: rodriespinosa@gmail.com W: www.corredoresdelistmo.com fb: on.fb.me/19tYlKX

Maratón Int’l de Asunción Myrta Doldan Roman T: 595 21 506787 E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.paraguaymarathonclub.org fb: on.fb.me/IR4Meo Media Maratón Int’l ciudad de Asunción Marcelo Ithurralde T: 595 21 506787 E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.paraguaymarathonclub.org fb: on.fb.me/MyLq0b

1/2 Maratón RPP Andreas Müller T: 51 1 253 5278 E: info@zmpromociones.org W: www.maratonrpp.pe fb: on.fb.me/1nftfNU

Oct

cebu Marathon Rio de la Cruz T: 632 8876194 E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.cebumarathon.com fb: facebook.com/cebumarathon Milo Marathon Manila Finals Race Rio de la Cruz T: 632 8876194 E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.runrio.com fb: on.fb.me/18FmfR5 National MILO Marathon Rio de la Cruz T: 632 8876194 E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.runrio.com fb: on.fb.me/18FmfR5

JAN

Dec

AUg

MAy

cracovia Marathon Krzysztof Kowal Sports Infrastructure Management Board of Krakow T: 48 12 616 6300 E: strona@zis.krakow.pl W: www.cracoviamaraton.pl fb: bit.ly/1f9j995 Łódź Maraton Dbam o Zdrowie Michal Drelich T: 48 510 175 462 E: michal@sportevolution.pl W: www.lodzmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/lodzmaraton Pila Int’l Half Marathon Henryk Paskal T: 48 67 212 0111 E: info@pila.halfmarathon.pl W: www.pila.halfmarathon.pl fb: facebook.com/polmaraton.pila

PZU Warsaw Marathon Marek Tronina T: 48 510 175 461 E: info@warsawmarathon.com W: www.warsawmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/WarsawMarathon ORLeN Warsaw Marathon Czeslaw Zapala T: 48 602 452 629 E: zapala.czeslaw@gmail.com W: www.orlenmarathon.pl fb: facebook.com/ORLENMarathon PKO Wroclaw Maraton Wojciech Gestwa T: 48 71 733 40 60 E: biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: www.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: on.fb.me/IR5ZSP PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon Wojciech Gestwa T: 48 71 733 40 60 E: wojciech.gestwa@msc.wroc.pl, biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: pol.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: on.fb.me/IR5ZSP

SeP

APR

SeP

JUN

PORtUgAL JUL

POLAND

PANAMA

APR

MAy

PHILIPPINeS

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

SeP

De Lage Landen Marathon Oct eindhoven Hans de Greef T: 31 651 963 458 E: hansdegreef@marathoneindhoven.nl W: www.marathoneindhoven.nl fb: on.fb.me/19tX46L

Maratón movistar Lima42k Andreas Müller T: 51 1 253 5278 E: info@zmpromociones.org W: www.lima42k.com fb: on.fb.me/18FfgaU

NORtH POLe

OMAN

NetHeRLANDS

Medio Maraton turistico Riviera Nayarit NOV Arturo García Ruiz Velasco T: 52 33 3616 6428 E: arturo@conserviexpress.com W: www.mediomaratonrivieranayarit.com fb: on.fb.me/Jic0Js

94

NOV

Oct

*Medio Maratón Int’l tlajomulco-cajititlán SeP Elena Aguilar Fuentes T: 52 33 160 499 86 E: mediomaratontlajomulco@gmail.com W: www.tlajomulco.gob.mx/ maraton/index.html fb: on.fb.me/1QqNqnD

Podgorica Marathon Milan Madžgalj T: 382 67 61 2057 E: maraton@t-com.me W: www.maraton.co.me

ASb Auckland Marathon T: 64 9 303 0193 E: info@aucklandmarathon.co.nz W: www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz fb: on.fb.me/IR91GH

PeRU

NAMIbIA

21km Nuevo Leon NOV Luciano Ramirez Gallardo T: 52 818 161 6725 E: atletismonuevoleon@gmail.com W: www.asociaciondeatletismonl.com fb: facebook.com/21knl Queretaro Maraton Enrique Taracena Sanz T: 52 442 2452773 E: etaracena57@gmail.com W: www.queretaromaraton.com fb: facebook.com/QueretaroMaraton

*Associate member

MAy

APR

Discoveries Half Marathon Dec António Campos T: 351 21 361 6160 E: geral@xistarca.pt W: www.discoverieshalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Xistarca grande Prémio Fim da europa Luis Sousa T: 351 933 034 700 E: info@sportscience.pt W: www.fimdaeuropa.com fb: facebook.com/FimDaEuropa

JAN

eDP Rock’n’Roll Lisbon Marathon & Rock’n’Roll Half Marathon Vodafone RtP Oct Carlos Moya Maratona Clube de Portugal T: 351 21 441 6830 E: info@maratonaportugal.com W: www.rocknrollLisbon.com fb: facebook.com/RnRPortugal

SeP

Poznań Marathon Oct Lukasz Miadziolko Poznań Sports and Recreation Centres T: 48 61 835 7917 E: info@marathon.poznan.pl W: www.marathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton Poznań Half Marathon APR Łukasz Miadziołko Poznań Sports and Recreation Centres T: 48 61 835 7917 E: info@halfmarathon.poznan.pl W: www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton

eDP Lisbon Half Marathon Carlos Moya Maratona Clube de Portugal T: 351 4413182 E: info@maratonaportugal.com W: www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com fb: on.fb.me/1bGx0DR Lisbon eco Marathon Luis Sousa T: 351 93 303 4700 E: ls@honoris.pt W: www.lisbonmarathon.pt fb: on.fb.me/1bqd7Ok

JUN

Porto Half Marathon Sport Zone SeP Jorge Teixeira T: 351 22 030 47 26 E: geral@runporto.com W: www.meiamaratonasportzone.com fb: on.fb.me/1bqbekL

Running Festival of the economic SeP Forum Tomasz Lipiec T: 48 22 583 1100 E: festiwalbiegowy@isw.org.pl W: www.runningfestival.pl fb: facebook.com/festiwalbiegowy

Porto Marathon eDP Jorge Teixeira T: 351 917 850 216 E: runporto@sapo.pt W: www.maratonadoporto.com fb: on.fb.me/19tXqKC

Silesia Marathon Bohdan Witwicki Silesia Pro Active T: 48 693 11 2411 E: info@silesiaproactive.pl W: www.silesiamarathon.pl fb: on.fb.me/18FdJS0

el corte Inglés São Silvestre de Lisboa Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa T: 351 214 574 405 E: info@saosilvestredelisboa.com W: www.saosilvestredelisboa.com fb: on.fb.me/1HQU1nt

Oct

MAR

NOV

Dec

Making contact

www.aimsworldrunning.org

Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org PuerTo riCo World’s best 10k road race Rafael B. Acosta T: 1 787 767 2000 E: Lynn.santiago@wb10k.com W: www.wb10k.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9fJTB

Feb

rePubliC oF SouTh aFriCa SeP Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Janet Welham T: 27 087 820 7223 E: running@capetownmarathon.com, janet@saige.co.za W: www.capetownmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/CTMarathon

Comrades Marathon Rowyn James T: 27 (0) 33 897 8650 E: rowyn@comrades.com W: www.comrades.com fb: on.fb.me/18FgEtV 27km for Freedom Kevin Lodge T: 27 021 511 7130 E: karen@topevents.co.za W: www.27forfreedom.co.za fb: facebook.com/27FORFREEDOM legends Marathon Meta Scott T: 27 043 735 1302 E: meta@legendsmarathon.co.za W: www.legendsmarathon.co.za fb: facebook.com/legendsmarathon Mandela day Marathon Sbu Khuzwayo T: 27 33 897 6763 E: mm@umdm.gov.za W: www.mandelamarathon.co.za fb: on.fb.me/Jib8Vp Maritzburg City Marathon John Hall T: 27 824 917 679 E: rd@pmb42.co.za W: www.pmb42.co.za fb: facebook.com/pmb42

May

Feb

golden ring yaroslavl half Marathon Grigorii Krichmara T: 7 915 000 6960 E: gkrichmara@gmail.com W: www.yaroslavlhalfmarathon.com

Kigali international Peace Marathon Jean Pierre Ndacyayisenga T: 250 788 353 479 E: coach2020a@gmail.com W: www.kigalimarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1izuxQO

oCT

aug

Feb

Suissegas belgrade Marathon Dejan Nikolic T: 381 11 3065 720 E: office@bgdmarathon.org W: www.bgdmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IRdTeY novi Sad Marathon Milan Dolga T: 381 21 527 214 E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: on.fb.me/1f9hqjZ novi Sad half Marathon Dimitrije Dolga T: 381 21 52 7214 E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: on.fb.me/1f9hqjZ

oCT

aPr

SingaPore oCT

ruSSia

deC

SlovaKia ČSob bratislava Marathon Jozef Pukalovič T: 421 221 29 2050 E: info@becool.sk W: www.bratislavamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9hFLR Košice Peace Marathon Dr. Stefan Dano Marathon Club Košice T: 421 55 622 0010 E: info@kosicemarathon.com W: www.kosicemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR7Nvl

Moscow Marathon Dmitry Tarasov LLC STsport T: 7 495 780 0808 E: tarasov@newathletics.ru W: moscowmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/moscowmarathon

ljubljana Marathon Gojko Zalokar T: 386 1 234 8000 E: info@timingljubljana.si W: www.vw-ljubljanskimaraton.si fb: facebook.com/ljmaraton

Mar

oCT

Distance Running | 2015 Edition 3

oCT

aPr

Colombo Marathon Mr P.T. Weerasinghe T: 94 11 282 4500 E: colombomarathon@LSRsrilanka.com, LSRtilak@sltnet.lk W: www.srilankamarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IR7DUA

oCT

disa gran Canaria Maratón Jan Carlos Javier Arteaga Herrera Instituto Insular de Deportes de Gran Canaria T: 928 415 644 x10731 E: carteaga@grancanariadeportes.com W: www.grancanariamaraton.com fb: facebook.com/GCMaraton aSiCS Medio Maratón villa de Madrid Guillermo Ferrero Centeno T: 34 91 402 6962 E: gferrero1944@yahoo.es W: www.mediomaratonmadrid.es fb: on.fb.me/1f9hRLh edP rock ’n’ roll Madrid Maratón & 1/2 Pedro Rumbao T: 34 913 54 0389 E: drumbao@mapoma.es W: www.rocknrollmadrid.com fb: facebook.com/RnRMadrid Maratón Cabberty Málaga Pepe Checa Fajardo T: 34 952 176 392 E: jmcheca@malaga.eu, fjjurado@malaga.eu W: www.maratonmalaga.info fb: facebook.com/maratondemalaga

aPr

zurich Maratón de Sevilla Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez T: 34 913 470 137 E: info@zurichmaratonsevilla.es W: www.zurichmaratonsevilla.es fb: on.fb.me/1f9frw6

Maratón valencia Trinidad alfonso Paco Borao T: 34 96 346 0707 E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.maratonvalencia.com fb: facebook.com/maratonvalencia

Stockholm half Marathon Ulf Saletti Stockholm Marathon Group T: 46 8 545 664 40 E: info@stockholmhalfmarathon.se W: www.stockholmhalfmarathon.se fb: on.fb.me/LtTfmI aSiCS Stockholm Marathon Ulf Saletti T: 46 8 545 664 40 E: info@marathon.se W: www.stockholmmarathon.se fb: on.fb.me/18Fgi6F

May

SeP

Jun

aPr

deC

harmony genève Marathon for unicef Benjamin Chandelier E: info@genevemarathon.org W: www.genevemarathon.org fb: facebook.com/GeneveMarathon Jungfrau-Marathon Richi Umberg T: 41 33 827 6290 E: info@jungfrau-marathon.ch W: www.jungfrau-marathon.ch fb: on.fb.me/19tWWnN

May

Jan

Feb

neujahrsmarathon zürich Roger Kaufmann E: info@neujahrsmarathon.ch W: www.neujahrsmarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/neujahrsmarathon SwissCityMarathon – lucerne Reto Schorno T: 41 41 375 0330 E: info@swisscitymarathon.ch W: www.swisscitymarathon.ch fb: on.fb.me/IR9icT Swissalpine Andrea Tuffli T: 41 81 401 1490 E: info@swissalpine.ch W: www.swissalpine.ch fb: on.fb.me/1bGsftU

Standard Chartered bangkok Marathon Songkram Kraisonthi T: 66 22 77 6670 E: signupamazingfield@hotmail.com W: www.bkkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/NJAThailand

nov

Khon Kaen int’l Marathon Jan Asst. Prof. Likhit Amarttyakong Khon Kaen University Alumni Association T: 66 81 9740784 E: khonkaenmarathon@gmail.com W: www.khonkaenmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/khonkaenmarathon laguna Phuket int’l Marathon Raimund Wellenhofer T: 662 236 2921 E: info@goadventureasia.com W: www.phuketmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/phuketmarathon

Jun

uWi-SPeC half Marathon Dr. Iva Gloudon T: 868 645 9239 E: specinfo@sta.uwi.edu W: www.sta.uwi.edu/spec fb: facebook.com/UWISPEC

oCT

TuniSia SeP

*The Carthage race int’l Marathon Naamen Bouhamed Sports Mediterranean Events T: 216 98 354 405 E: info@the-carthage-race.com W: www.the-carthage-race.com

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

lausanne Marathon Robert Bruchez T: 41 21 806 3016 E: info@lausanne-marathon.com W: www.lausanne-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR9bxS

Feb

Trinidad & Tobago

SWiTzerland

Maratón donostia - San Sebastián nov Patxi Larrea Perurena T: 34 94 347 4341 E: info@maratondonostia.com (sport questions), maraton@flygroupnet.com (registrations) W: www.maratondonostia.com fb: on.fb.me/IRbtNs Mitja Marato int’l vila de Santa Pola Roque M. Alemañ Bonet T: 34 670 73 6040 E: chiplevante@gmail.com W: www.mitjasantapola.com fb: on.fb.me/1bGrVLV

göteborgsvarvet half Marathon Bo Edsberger T: 46 31 772 7880 E: info@goteborgsvarvet.se W: www.goteborgsvarvet.se fb: facebook.com/goteborgsvarvet

Tanzania Kilimanjaro Marathon John Addison Wild Frontiers T: 27 11 702 2035 E: john@wildfrontiers.com W: www.kilimanjaromarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9fxns Thailand

SWeden Mar

oCT

Jan

Sfax Marathon int’l olive Trees Naamen Bouhamed T: 216 98 354 405 E: contact@marathon-des-olivierssfax.com W: www.sfaxmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1yI6eog

Feb

deC

TurKey

oCT

Jul

runatolia Marathon (half + 10km) Mr. Ali Dogan / Ms. Nergiz Gürler Holiday Plan Turizm T: 90 242 310 40 40 E: info@runatolia.com W: www.runatolia.com fb: facebook.com/runtalya.de *erzurum half Marathon Ahmet Dal T: 90 0442 234 77 77 E: ahmetdalsau@gmail.com W: www.erzurumyarimaratonu.org

Mar

May

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Medio Maratón valencia Trinidad alfonso oCT Paco Borao T: 34 96 346 0707 E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com fb: on.fb.me/IR8MLZ

Slovenia

SeP

Mar

May

aPr

*261 Women’s Marathon José Luis Carrera T: 349 1758 2098 E: jlcarrera@smm.es W: www.261wm.com fb: facebook.com/261WM Sri lanKa

SPain

zurich Marato de barcelona Cristian Llorens T: 34 93 431 5533 E: cllorens@rpmracing.es, cllorens@ghcsports.com W: www.zurichmaratobarcelona.es fb: on.fb.me/1f9hujE

Seychelles eco-Friendly Marathon Feb Giovanna Rousseau National Sports Council T: 248 467 1208 / Mobile: 248 2722 333 E: highlevelsports@seychelles.sc W: www.seychelles-marathon.com

May

*Associate member May

SeP

SeyChelleS

Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore Chris Robb Spectrum Worldwide T: 65 6377 5360 W: www.marathonsingapore.com fb: facebook.com/MarathonSG

Three hearts Marathon Marko Pintaric T: 386 41 811 708 / 386 2 520 37 07 E: info@maraton-radenci.si W: www.maraton-radenci.si fb: facebook.com/MaratonTrehSrc

edreams Mitja Marató de barcelona Cristian Llorens T: 34 615 57 3936 E: cllorens@rpmracing.es W: www.mitjabarcelona.com fb: on.fb.me/1EgeYb2

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

int’l ergo White nights Marathon Jun Mikhail Kochetkov / Anton Uyk T: 7 812 335 6904 / 7 812 493 2120 E: info@wnmarathon.ru, whitenights1@mail.ru, uyk@startspb.ru W: www.wnmarathon.ru fb: on.fb.me/ZPJZ3E

96

Jan

Serbia

roMania

oMv Petrom bucharest half Marathon Oana Nastase T: 40 744 556 576 E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest21km.com fb: facebook.com/Bucharest21km

Siberian ice half Marathon Konstantin Podbelskiy T: 7 381 224 2567 E: mail@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1zzM9nj

SeP

rWanda

old Mutual Two oceans Marathon Mar Carol Vosloo Two Oceans Marathon NPC T: 27 21 799 3040 E: stefanie@twooceansmarathon.org.za W: www.twooceansmarathon.org.za fb: on.fb.me/1f9isMT

raiffeisen bank bucharest Marathon Oana Nastase T: 40 212 303 249 E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR7yQK

Siberian int’l Marathon Konstantin Podbelskiy T: 7 381 224 2567 E: mail@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1lttnsK

nov

zurich Marathon Bruno Lafranchi E: info@zuerichmarathon.ch W: www.zuerichmarathon.ch fb: on.fb.me/1f9jrgb

aPr

vodafone İstanbul half Marathon aPr Ismail Ozbayraktar T: 90 212 453 3000 E: istanbulyarimaratonu@sporas.com.tr W: www.istanbulyarimaratonu.org fb: facebook.com/ibbsporas

TaJiKiSTan dushanbe international half Marathon Dilshod Kurbanov T: 992372216736 E: dilshod197779@mail.ru W: www.dushanbe-marathon.com

aPr

vodafone İstanbul Marathon Ismail Ozbayraktar T: 90 212 453 3000 E: info@istanbulmarathon.org W: www.istanbulmarathon.org b: on.fb.me/IRa8pQ

nov

Making contact

www.aimsworldrunning.org

Race Directors: Send updated race contact details to update@aimsworldrunning.org U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS St Croix Int’l Marathon Wallace Williams T: 1 340 643 2557 E: wallacewilliams@msn.com W: http://virginislandspace.org/ stxmarathonregistration2015.html

DEC

Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay Doug Thurston T: 1 831 625 6226 E: doug@bsim.org W: www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IRalcA

Marine Corps Marathon NOV

Rick Nealis T: 1 703 432 8022 E: marine.marathon@usmc.mil W: www.marinemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR9s3N Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half

UKRAINE Bila Tserkva Marathon Sergey Bocharov T: 38 0674 06 4806 E: org@bc-marathon.org.ua W: www.bc-marathon.org.ua fb: on.fb.me/1oWXmp8

OCT

Kharkiv Int’l Marathon Dmitry Garmash T: 38 050 343 15 63 E: info@kharkivmarathon.com W: www.kharkivmarathon.com

APR

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES RAK Half Marathon Nathan Clayton T: 971 50 96 97 597 E: registration@rakmarathon.org W: www.rakmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/rakmarathon

FEB

Big Sur Int’l Marathon Doug Thurston T: 1 831 625 6226 E: info@bsim.org W: www.bsim.org fb: on.fb.me/1f9jxV9 B.A.A. Boston Marathon Dave McGillivray Boston Athletic Association T: 1 617 236 1652 E: info@baa.org W: www.baa.org fb: on.fb.me/1f9j4lM Bank of America Chicago Marathon Carey Pinkowski T: 1 312 904 9800 E: office@chicagomarathon.com W: www.chicagomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ChicagoMarathon

APR

APR

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OCT

NOV

Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon Brant Kotch T: 1 713 957 3453 E: bkotch@craincaton.com W: www.houstonmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/houstonmarathon

APR

Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia T: 58 212 209 6661

JAN

SEP

Rudy Huber T: 1 808 280 5801 E: info@mauimarathonhawaii.com W: www.mauimarathonhawaii.com fb: on.fb.me/JicoHP

Rock ’n’ Roll DC Marathon & Half Marathon Erica Wood Competitor Group T: 1 (800) 311-1255 E: rnrdc@competitorgroup.com W: www.runrocknroll.com/DC fb: facebook.com/RocknRollDC

W: maraton.caf.com MAR

fb: on.fb.me/1f9ft7d Gatorade Caracas Rock 10K

OCT

Sonia Rosales T: 58 212 754 0073 E: srosales@hipereventos.com

Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half Alex Bennett T: 1 858 450 6510 E: RnRvegas@competitorgroup.com W: runrocknroll.com/las-vegas fb: facebook.com/RnRLasVegas

W: www.hipereventos.com NOV

fb: on.fb.me/IRe3mA VIETNAM *Da Nang Int’l Marathon

AUG

Phillip Nguyen Pulse Ltd.

OCT

TCS New York City Marathon

NOV

Peter Ciaccia T: 1 212 423 2230 E: mwittenberg@nyrr.org W: www.tcsnycmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/nycmarathon

Lake Tahoe Triple Marathons & Triple Half Marathons Les Wright T: 1 530 559 2261 E: Leswright@sbcglobal.net W: www.laketahoemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/RunTahoe

E: Phillip.nguyen@imexpan.net OCT

W: www.rundanang.com fb: on.fb.me/1rKwXAg ZIMBABWE Econet Victoria Falls Marathon

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Bass Pro Shops Conservation Marathon Melissa Bondy T: 1 417 891 5333 E: mlbondy@basspro.com W: fitness.basspro.com fb: on.fb.me/IR9LMc

VENEZUELA CAF Caracas Maratón

E: maratoncaf@caf.com

Les Wright T: 1 530 559 2261 E: RunMaui@gmail.com W: www.RunMaui.com fb: on.fb.me/1bGrMbk The Maui Marathon

Portland Marathon Les Smith T: 1 503 248 1134 E: info@portlandmarathon.org W: www.portlandmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IR7VuL

Gore-Tex Philadelphia Marathon JAN

Desiree Peterkin-Bell T: 215 683 2122 E: info@philadelphiamarathon.com W: www.philadelphiamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IRapt5

NOV

URUGUAY

JUN

John Addison

*Maratón de Montevideo Pablo Sanmartino T: 598 98 205 108 E: uru@mf.iaaf.org W: www.maratonmontevideo.com.uy fb: on.fb.me/1ESS04M

APR

Wild Frontiers T: 27 11 702 2035 E: john@wildfrontiers.com W: www.vicfallsmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR4TGU

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