November 25, 2008
Swiss marathon ace Viktor Röthlin announced already now, that he is not going to compete in the 2009 World Championship marathon in Berlin. About his plans he said: “I will run another city marathon”. While he has not finalised the planning for the autumn, it is sure that he is going to run the London Marathon on 26th April 2009 as his spring marathon. “There are only few marathons in the world, in which a marathon runner must definitely compete. London is for sure one of those marathons” he stated about the marathon in the British capital.
As a preparation for London, Viktor Röthlin will run 3 road races in Switzerland this year before he is heading to a training camp to Kenya.
November 3, 2008
After Ethiopian Gete Wami placed “only” 6th in the 2008 ING New York City Marathon, both Irina Mikitenko and Gete Wami had 65 points in the World Marathon Majors series 2007/2008. The five race directors had to decide who is the winner and did so in an unanimous vote. Irina Mikitenko was made the champion and she now shares 1 million US-$ with the winner of the Men’s World Marathon Majors title, Martin Lel, who was already the winner before the NYC-marathon.
September 20, 2008
On Spiegel TV there is a nice short video about Haile’s preparation for the 36th real,-Berlin Marathon 2008.
German reports visited him in his home in Addis Abeba and on his training sites at 3000m above sea level. He daily trains with the bib, that the Berlin organisers already sent him. The trophy of the 2007 Berlin marathon victory has a special place, but there is still a lot of space for the 2008 tlin rophy…
The 3-minutes video can be seen on Spiegel TV.
September 16, 2008
On September, 14th the World Mountain Running Trophy was held in Crans-Montana (SUI).
Jonathan Wyatt recorded his 6th World title, covering the 12km, 1046m climb course in 55:03. The minor places on the podium were taken by Martin Toroitich (UGA; 55:16) and Ahmet Arslan (TUR; 55:26), who started the race in the leading position but could not match the experience of Wyatt in the steepest part of the course.
The womens race was won with a much bigger margin of 59 seconds by Austrian Andrea Mayr, who just missed to qualify for Beijing in the 3000m steeple by one second. The beaten field included Renate Rungger (ITA, 44:57) and Elisa Desco(ITA, 45:29) and Olympian Kirsten Otterbu (NOR, 45:29.02).
The German team ran rather disappointing. Only Timo Zeiler could compete against the best in the world, coming home 7th in the mens race.
Lead results were as follows:
men (11,970 km/1046 m):
1. Jonathan Wyatt (Nzl) 55:03
2. Martin Toroitich (Uga) 55:16
3. Ahmet Arslan (Tur) 55:26
4. Bernard Dematteis (Ita) 55:48
5. Raymond Fontaine (Fra) 55:52
6. Jairo Vargas Espinosa (Col) 56:30
7. Timo Zeiler (Ger/ TSV Trochtelfingen) 56:43
8. Marco de Gasperi (Ita) 56:50
9. Andrey Safronov (Rus) Rus) 56:53
10. David Schneider (Sui) 56:54
11. Marco Gaiardo (Ita) 57:14
12. Rickey Gates (USA) 57:17
13. Steve Vernon (Eng) 57:27
14. Elexis Gex-Fabry (Sui) 57:40
15. Moses Aliwa (Uga) 57:44
16. Joe Gray (USA) 57:53
17. Sébastien Epiney (Sui) 57:55
18. Tarcis Ancay (Sui) 58:05
19. James Walsh (Eng) 58:10
20. Gabriele Abate (Ita) 58:15
other Germans:
39. Manuel Stöckert (Ger/ TSV Ostheim) 59:29
46. Josef Beha (Ger/ FC Unterkirnach) 1:00:31
80. Marco Sturm (Ger/ LLC Marathon Regensburg) 1:02:46
teams:
1. Italy 43
2. Suisse 59
3. USA 76
8. Germany 172
women (8,330 km/733 m):
1. Andrea Mayr (Aut) 43:57
2. Renate Rungger (Ita) 44:57
3. Elisa Desco (Ita) 45:29
4. Kirsten Otterbu (Nor) 45:29
5. Martina Strähl (Sui) 45:43
6. Anita Haakenstad-Evertsen (Nor) 46:02
7. Paula Tudoran (Rom) 46:35
8. Bernadette Meier (Sui) 47:00
9. Constance Devillers (Fra) 47:07
10. Anna Frost (Nzl) 47:35,
Germans:
53. Veronica Ulrich (Ger/ LG Telis Finanz Regensburg) 52:26,
67. Annette Bendig (Ger/ TG Nürtingen) 54:02,
82. Kerstin Straub (Ger/ SSC Hanau-Rodenbach) 56:06
teams:
1. Norway 24
2. Suisse 25
3. Italy 33
17. Germany 202
junior men (8,33 km/733 m):
1. Sindre Buraas (Nor) 42:12
2. Ricardo Sterni (Ita) 42:25
3. Mevlut Savaser (Tur) 42:43
4. Alper Demir (Tur) 42:51
5. Tim Smith (USA) 43:02
Germans:
23. René Stöckert (Ger/ TSV Ostheim) 44:56
junior women:
1. Laura Park (Eng) 22:34
2. Esra Gullu (Tur) 23:07
3. Alex Dunne (USA) 23:33
4. Victoria Kreuzer (Sui) 23:55
5. Gina Paletta (Wal) 24:04
Germans:
22. Carolin Tuch (Ger/ LAC Erdgas Chemnitz) 25:51
32. Barbara Abler (Ger/ LC Ainring) 26:54
43. Lina Scherzer (Ger/ LAZ Salamander Kornwestheim/ Ludwigsburg) 29:01
teams:
1. England 8
2. Turkey 11
3. Suisse 22
13. Germany 54
full results of the race wmrt2008.org
September 11, 2008
38-year old Constantina Tomescu-Dita, who took the Olympic title in the 2008 Beijing Games announced, that she will run the Bank of America Chicago marathon on October, 12th. It will be her 5th appearance in the Chicago marathon and she might well repeat her victory in 2004 (in 2005 and 2006 she took 2nd place).
However, she will have strong opponents and it remains to be seen if she has recovered from the extraordinary run in Beijing.
the elite field of the Chicago marathon 2008 Womens race includes:
Bezunesh Bekele ETH 2:23:09
Alevtina Biktimirova RUS 2:25:12
Colleen De Reuck USA 2:26:35
Zoila Gomez USA 2:33:53
Lidiya Grigoryeva RUS 2:25:10
Kate O’Neill USA 2:36:15
Adriana Pirtea ROU 2:28:52
Kiyoko Shimahara JPN 2:26:14
Worknesh Tola ETH 2:25:37
Constantina Tomescu-Dita ROU 2:21:30
September 11, 2008
US-Girl Kara Goucher, who took 9th place in the 5.000m (15:49.39) and 10th place at the 10.000m (30:55.16/PB) in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will give her marathon debut in the 2008 ING New York City Marathon. Goucher’s biggest success so far was the bronze medal in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Now the 30-year old will turn to the marathon and on November 2nd 2008 she will race her first 42,195km in the city where she was born. Goucher is in good company as already several other marathon stars made their debut in New York, for example Grete Waitz (1978), Goucher’s coach Alberto Salazar (1980), Liz McColgan (1991), Deena Kastor (2001), Marla Runyan (2002), Meb Keflezighi (2002), and Dathan Ritzenhein (2006).
September 6, 2008
On Saturday, 6th of September 2008 the Jungfrau marathon was run in Interlaken (SUI) in ideal conditions. During the 42,195km the participants have to climb 1829 altitude. The men’s race was won by Hermann Achmüller (ITA), who prepared only in the plain and did not do any specific mountain-running training. Mountain-running specialist Martin Cox took 2nd place and Swiss halfmarathon champion Patrick Wieser came in 3rd.
In the womens’ race Hungarian Simona Staicu won as expected despite having stomach problems with Romanian Jeanna Malkova and Swiss Elena Kaledina following on the minor places of the podium.
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1. Achmüller Hermann 1971 ITA 3:03.18,6
2. Cox Martin 1969 ITA 3:05.32,1
3. Wieser Patrick 1979 SUI 3:08.07,9
4. Short Timothy 1981 GB 3:08.37,9
5. Frick Gerd 1974 ITA 3:11.15,1
6. Murzine Grigory 1970 RUS 3:11.32,4
7. Tanui Mike 1976 KEN 3:12.24,3
8. Raittila Anssi 1976 FIN 3:12.42,2
9. Kaledine Serguej 1968 FRA 3:17.16,4
10. Jenzer Urs 1970 SUI 3:18.28,5
marathon women:
1. Staicu Simona 1971 HUN-Hungary 3:39.05,5
2. Malkova Jeanna 1968 ROM 3:41.15,7
3. Kaledina Elena 1966 SUI 3:43.21,1
4. Reiber Carolina 1973 SUI 3:44.31,6
5. Guggisberg-Oberli Petra 1974 SUI 3:50.28,4
6. Amiet Tanja 1976 SUI 3:51.55,0
7. Huser Andrea 1973 SUI 3:52.59,4
8. Lilge-Leutner Carina 1960 AUT 3:53.28,7
9. Jaun Karin 1969 SUI 3:55.01,0
10. Kambara Yuri 1976 JAP 3:56.35,0
full results of the race services.datasport.com
September 6, 2008
Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru, the winner of the 2008 Olympic marathon in Beijing is going after the world record in the Berlin marathon in 2009. The 21-year old wants to break the current world record of Haile Gebrselassie (2:04:26 h, Berlin 2007): “I want the world record at next year’s Berlin marathon and I want to defend my Olympic title” he stated in an interview.
August 28, 2008
Italian marathon runner and Olympic Champion 2004, Stefano Baldini, announced that he will not run in big Championship-marathons any more after not being able to defend his Olympic title in this years Olympic marathon and taking “only” 12th place in the Beijing Olympic marathon.
Baldini’s accomplishments also include 2 European Marathon titles (1998 and 2006), 2 bronce medals in World Championships (2001 and 2003) and the Italian Marathon record, which he set in London two years ago with a time of 2:07:22h.
The Italian still wants to compete in smaller competitions, especially in Italy but is looking forward to spend more time with his family and to avoid the stress of major championships.
August 13, 2008
The final entry lists of the Olympic marathons are now available.
Women
ALG: Souad Aït Salem
AUS: Benita Johnson, Kate Smyth, Lisa Jane Weightman
AUT: Eva-Maria Gradwohl
BIH: Lucia Kimani
BOL: Sonia Calizaya
BRA: Marily dos Santos
BRN: Nadia Ejjafini
CHN: Rong Chen, Shujing Zhang, Chunxiu Zhou, Xiaolin Zhu
COL: Bertha Sánchez
CRC: Gabriela Traña
ECU: Sandra Ruales
ERI: Nebiat Habtemariam
ESP: Alessandra Aguilar, Yesenia Centeno, Maria José Pueyo
ETH: Berhane Adere, Dire Tune, Gete Wami
FRA: Christelle Daunay
GBR: Paula Radcliffe, Mara Yamauchi, Liz Yelling
GER: Susanne Hahn, Melanie Kraus, [Irina Mikitenko]
GRE: Eléni Dónta
HUN: Beáta Rakonczai, Petra Teveli
IRL: Pauline Curley
ITA: Bruna Genovese, Anna Incerti, Vincenza Sicari
JPN: Yurika Nakamura, [Mizuki Noguchi], Reiko Tosa
KEN: Catherine Ndereba, Martha Komu, Selina Kosgei
KGZ: Yuliya Arzipova
KOR: Eun-hee Chae, Eun-jung Lee, Sun-young Lee
LAT: Jelena Prokopcuka
LES: Mamorallo Tjoka
LTU: Zivilé Balciünaité, Rasa Drazdauskaité
MAR: Asmae Leghzaoui
MDA: Valentina Delion
MEX: Karina Pérez, Madaí Pérez, Patricia Rétiz
NAM: Helalia Johannes, Beata Naigambo
NOR: Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu
NZL: Liza Hunter-Galvan, Nina Rillstone
PER: María Portillo
POL: Monika Drybulska, Dorota Gruca,
POR: Ana Dias, Inês Monteiro, Marisa Barros
PRK: Bun-Hui Jo, Yong-Ok Jong, Kum-Ok Kim
ROU: Lidia Simon, Luminita Talpos, Constantina Tomescu
RUS: Galina Bogomolova, Irina Timofeyeva, Svetlana Zakharova
RWA: Epiphanie Nyirabarame
SRB: Olivera Jevtic
SVK: Zuzana Šaríková
TLS: Mariana Dias Ximenes
TUR: Bahar Dogan
UKR: Tetyana Filonyuk, Oksana Sklyarenko
USA: Deena Kastor, Magdalena Lewy Boulet, Blake Russell
ZIM: Tabitha Tsatsa
Men:
AND: Antoni Bernadó
ANG: João N’Tyamba
AUS: Lee Troop
BDI: Joachim Nshimirimana
BEL: Tom Van Hooste
BLR: Andrei Gordeev
BOT: Ndabili Bashingili
BRA: Franck de Almeida, José de Souza, Marilson dos Santos
BRN: Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria, Al Mustafa Riyadh, Nasar Sakar Saeed
CAM: Bunting Hem
CHI: Roberto Echeverria
CHN: Haiyang Deng, Zhuhong Li, Longyun Ren
COL: Juan Carlos Cardona
CPV: Nelson Cruz
ECU: Franklin Tenorio
ERI: Yared Asmerom, Yonas Kifle, Tesfayohannes Mesfin, Ghebru Sereke
ESP: José Manuel Martínez, Julio Rey, José Ríos
EST: Pavel Loskutov
ETH: Gashaw Asfaw, Tsegay Kebede, Deriba Merga
FIN: Janne Holmén, Francis Kirwa
FRA: Simon Munyutu
GBR: Dan Robinson
GUA: Alfredo Arévalo, José Amado García
IRL: Martin Fagan
ISR: Seteng Ayele
ITA: Ottaviano Andriani, Stefano Baldini, Ruggero Pertile
JPN: Tsuyoshi Ogata, Satoshi Osaki, Atsushi Sato
KAZ: Takhir Mamashayev
KEN: Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Martin Lel, Samuel Kamau Wanjiru
KOR: Yi-yong Kim, Bong-ju Lee, Myongseung Lee
LBA: Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi
LES: Clement Mabothile Lebopo, Simon Tsotang Maine, Moses Moeketsi Mosuhli
LIE: Marcel Tschopp
MAR: Abderrahime Bouramdane, Jaouad Gharib, Abderrahim Goumri
MDA: Iaroslav Musinschi
MEX: Francisco Bautista, Carlos Cordero, Procopio Franco
MGL: Ser-Od Bat-Ochir
MNE: Goran Stojiljkovic
NED: Kamiel Maase
NEP: Arjun Kumar Basnet
PER: Costantino León
POL: Arkadiusz Sowa, Henryk Szost
POR: Luís Feiteira, Paulo Gomes, Hélder Ornelas
PRK: Il-Nam Kim, Song-Chol Pak, Kum-Song Ri
QAT: Yousf Othman Qader, Mubarak Hassan Shami
RSA: Norman Dlomo, Hendrick Ramaala
RUS: Grigoriy Andreyev, Oleg Kulkov, Aleksey Sokolov
SLO: Roman Kejžar
SUI: Viktor Röthlin
TAN: Getuli Bayo, Mohamed Ikoki Msandeki, Samson Ramadhani
TLS: Augusto Soares
TPE: Wen-Chien Wu
TUR: Abdil Ceylan
UGA: Alex Malinga
UKR: Olexandr Kuzin, Vasyl Matviychuk, Oleksandr Sitkovskyy
USA: Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein, Brian Sell
VEN: Luis Fonseca
ZIM: Mike Fokoroni
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