Distance Running 2017 edition 2

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Contents 2017 Edition 2

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RACE COVERAGE Winter balm for runners

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Gran Canaria Marathon, Spain The circuit through city’s most emblematic spots, the old district of Vegueta and the Avenida Marítima along the Atlantic, grabs the attention of both amateur and elite athletes

The home of world running™ AIMS Headquarters Olympic Athletic Center of Athens — OACA Olympic Aquatics Center, Spyros Louis Avenue Maroussi — Athens 15123, Greece www.aims-worldrunning.org

Stargazing from up close

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Osaka Women’s Marathon, Japan Celebrating its 36th anniversary this year, Osaka — one of the few elite women’s marathons in Japan.

See Naples and … run

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Napoli City Half Marathon, Italy This mischievous yet artistic and elegant city is full of unique charm with a vibrant atmosphere

6–8 Quai Antoine 1er BP 359, MC 98007 Monaco www.iaaf.org

To the next level

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Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Hong Kong, China The unexpected rise of a financial centre to also become a centre of the marathon movement

NEWS

5 Looking ahead 9 PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon, Poland; Suzuki Midnight Sun Run, Iceland; hella hamburg 57 halbmarathon, Germany; Correcaminos Marathon Half Marathon, Costa Rica; Golden Ring Ultra 56 & 29 Trail 100, Russia

AIMS News IAAF News IAU News WMRA News

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Podium placers

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World leading times The top times for men and women at Marathon, 63 Half Marathon and 10km

Making contact AIMS member races with full contact details

PATRON

Anil and Vivek Singh

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45 On the shoulders of runners Fun run with a message challenges female infanticide 47 Upping their chances Everything humanly possible will be done to boost the chance of one of three select athletes running under two hours for the Marathon this spring — but it will still not be enough, argues Hugh Jones.

Calendar

Worldwide race reports and pictures

Marathon movers Opinion

REGULARS Official listings for AIMS events

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Marathon greats

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Lives remembered Ed Whitlock, Miruts Yifter

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AIMS News

New world record Jepchirchir runs 1:05:06 in RAK women’s half marathon World champion Peres Jepchirchir broke the women’s world record* at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon on 10 February.

4th in RAK last year, also broke the world record for 20km (mixed race) with 1:01:40 — 14 seconds faster than the mark set by Kiplagat in Barcelona.

She finished in 1:05:06, shaving three seconds off the time her compatriot Florence Kiplagat set in Barcelona two years ago. Fully recovered from a bout of pneumonia at the end of 2016 the 23-year old,

Jepchirchir was pushed all the way by former world and course record holder Mary Keitany who finished seven seconds behind her. Keitany had broken the world record on the same course back in 2011.

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Hiroaki Chosa

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

Carlos Moya

H O N O R A R Y S T AT I S T I C I A N :

* For a mixed race, subject to IAAF ratification

Dr. David Martin

AIMS website in Japanese

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:

Hugh Jones

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Al Boka (Las Vegas)

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Gary BE Boshoff

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Fernando Jamarne (Santiago) fjamarne@alessandri.cl

Árpád Kocsis (Budapest) kocsisa@futanet.hu

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

Václav Skřivánek (Prague) Info@runczech.com

Medical AIMS’ medical education partner the International Institute for Race Medicine (IIRM), is offering AIMS members special introductory subscription of $100 for one year’s membership of IIRM. AIMS member events can also, for a limited time, apply for a grant to receive the one-year membership for free. Up to 100 eligible events will be awarded a scholarship grant provided by the UK-based Matthew Good Foundation.

The next edition of Distance Running will be published in July 2017. The advertising and editorial deadlines will be on 2 June.

From 22 February AIMS' official website has been available in Japanese at the address: www.aims-worldrunning.jp AIMS counts 22 of its members in Japan — many of them with more than 10,000 runners participating.

By eliminating the language barrier, this new website is expected to bring Japanese runners and worldwide AIMS member races much closer to each other.

The site will provide the Japanese media with AIMS news releases translated from English into Japanese. This will contribute to smoother news distribution in Japan as well as a closer connection between Japanese runners and media and AIMS’ member races around the world.

AIMS President Paco Borao comments: “This new Japaneselanguage website will give AIMS a strong platform to enhance our relations with our members in Japan,

other Japanese distance running events, Japanese runners and the media in Japan, all in the Japanese language. It offers the opportunity for Japanese Runners to access over 410 AIMS member races in 110 countries and territories. It will connect our member races with a large audience of Japanese runners who hold a great passion for running and travel.”

AIMS Board Member (also Senior Managing Director of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF)), Mitsugi Ogata, Ph.D. comments: “I am very pleased that AIMS has taken this step towards communicating directly with the large Japanese running audience. I can see this will have great benefits for Japanese races and runners and the media in Japan as well as AIMS. It is also providing access for millions of Japanese runners to the exciting variety of international running events around the world in AIMS membership.”

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

International Measurement Administrators: AMERICAS:

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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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F R E N C H & S P A N I S H -S P EA K I N G EUROPE & AFRICA:

Jean Francois Delasalle jf.delasalle@aliceadsl.fr ASIA & OCEANIA:

Dave Cundy

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AIMS News New race members Since the last edition of Distance Running was published the following new members have joined AIMS:

Allan Steinfeld 1946–2017 3 Nov 1996: Allan Steinfeld with Anuta Catuna of Romania, winner of that year’s NYC marathon.

Photo: Jason Wise

■ PZU Warsaw Half Marathon (POL) ■ Brasilia City Half Marathon (BRA) ■ Okpekpe International 10km Road Race

(NGR)

When London Marathon race founder Chris Brasher saw the 1979 New York Marathon and its impact on those who participated and spectated he immediately enlisted the help of Lebow and Steinfeld. They helped him convince the authorities in London that staging a marathon was both possible and worthwhile. But London was not the first. The New York example was the essential impetus behind the Barcelona and Stockholm Marathons when they were set up in 1978 and behind many other marathons the world over.

■ Thunder Dragon Marathon (BHU) ■ Sarajevo Half Marathon (BIH) ■ Wuxi Marathon (CHN) ■ IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi

Marathon (IND) ■ 9 Eylül İzmir Half Marathon (TUR) ■ Rio City Half Marathon (BRA)

New associates ■ Sao Paulo City Marathon (BRA) ■ UNIQA Bucharest 10K (ROU) ■ Telesia Half Marathon (ITA) ■ Logicom Cyprus Marathon (CYP)

Allan Steinfeld, a key figure in the world’s original running ‘boom’ that took place in the United States during the 1970s, passed away on 24 January at the age of 70.

Born a New Yorker on 7 June 1946 Steinfeld was an accomplished college distance runner who attended Cornell University. After graduation in 1971 he began volunteering technical service to the New York Road Runners Club which was set up by NYC race founder Fred Lebow to co-ordinate the organisation of the Marathon and local races throughout the city.

The race grew from hundreds in the early 1970s to 2000 in the 1976 Five-Borough Bicentennial race and then took off in the late 1970s. Steinfeld joined the staff full-time and became technical

Kathrine Switzer: 50 years on Fifty years after the attempt to bundle her out of the BAA Boston Marathon as an unauthorised entrant — a woman — running pioneer Kathrine Switzer will take part in the 121st BAA Boston Marathon on 17 April.

This time, she will be joined by 114 women and seven men from 20 counties who are representing and raising funds for 261 Fearless, Inc., Switzer’s global non-profit organisation that empowers women around the world through a social running community.

“It is an honour and joy to participate in the 121st

director in 1981. He was the person primarily responsible for getting the show on the road.

While his contribution to the sport of distance running and to the organisation of the Marathon is widely acknowledged, what he and Fred Lebow did to promote the Marathon internationally is not so well known.

Boston Marathon,” said Kathrine Switzer. “That dramatic incident 50 years ago when an angry race official tried to throw me off the course became instead a defining moment for me and women runners throughout the world. The result is nothing less than a social revolution; there are now more women runners in the United States than men.”

Despite the inauspicious beginning, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) early on understood the seriousness of women’s desire to participate in the Marathon. In 1972, five years after the ‘Switzer Incident’, the BAA welcomed women as official competitors.

Steinfeld and Lebow became de facto marathon ambassadors advising organisers in places like Belgrade and Siberia on how to put on an event.

Where they saw ideas they could use in the New York Marathon they promptly introduced these, rapidly spreading a culture of ‘best practice’.

This effort was enhanced by the establishment of AIMS in 1982. Steinfeld had made accurate course measurement part of his field of technical expertise and was instrumental in spreading the practice both in the United States and internationally through the Association. He also instituted a chute system for assigning places and times to all runners even when hundreds were crossing the finish line every minute. This remained in place for mass marathons until the transponder timing system had proved its reliability by the late 1990s.

Photo: Boston Herald

Switzer placed third in that race, ran Boston eight times, and posted her personal best of 2:51:37 in the 1975 edition.

“We are pleased to welcome Kathrine back to the race which elevated and hastened the movement in women’s sports,” said BAA President Joann Flaminio “and we look forward to greeting her at the finish line on 17 April.” “[The 71st BAA Boston Marathon] was a race that changed all of us,” said Switzer, now 70. “I’m running to say thanks to a race, a city and all those people who have done so much to give strength and self-esteem to women.”

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IAAF World Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda, 26 March 2017 MEN’S RACE A year to the day after taking the IAAF World Half Marathon title in Cardiff Geoffrey Kamworor defended his cross country crown from 2015 writes Michelle Sammet. He became the first senior man in 11 years to successfully do so.

Kamworor led a pack of about 30 athletes through the first of five 2km laps with his teammate Vincent Kipsang Rono leading through 4km. Going into the third lap local favourite Joshua Cheptegei kicked ahead and for the next 4km had the crowd in ecstasy as a second victory for Uganda loomed after Jacob Kiplimo had secured gold in the men’s U20 race an hour earlier.

But with one lap to go his reckless pace in the hot and humid conditions began to tell. His 11-second lead the Ugandan reduced to seven with a kilometre to go.

Kamworor saw his chance and swiftly closed the gap.

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With about 500m to go Cheptegei’s legs almost fully gave way. Courageously and cheered on by the crowd he pulled himself over the line in 30th, which proved vital in the team rankings.

He was the fourth scoring Ugandan which meant the host nation went home with a team bronze, just 3 points ahead of Eritrea. Ethiopia secured team gold by just one point over Kenya.

WOMEN’S RACE Capping an unprecedented display of team dominance, Irene Chepet Cheptai led Kenya to the first-ever top-six sweep at a World Cross Country Championships writes Bob Ramsak.

Cheptai, undefeated this cross country season, broke from teammates Alice Aprot and Lilian Kasait Rengeruk in the final kilometre to reach the line four seconds clear of Aprot and 52 seconds before the first non-Kenyan.

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With 26C at the start and little shade available the first of five 2km laps was at a conservative pace but the Kenyan sextet then got to work to reduce the lead pack to a group of eight. One lap later a podium sweep was all but secure. Only the Ethiopian Sebere Teferi, in fifth, stood between Kenya posting a perfect 15-point tally and an unprecedented top-six sweep.

Aprot, Cheptai and Rengeruk entered the final lap with a 14-second lead. Behind them, Hyven Kiyeng moved into fourth while Faith Kipyegon, another six seconds back, kept her in her sights. Agnes Tirop, who had struggled and fell off the pace midway through the third lap, rebounded to pass Teferi.

It was Kenya’s 12th senior women’s team title and fifth out of the last six editions. For Ethiopia, the distant runners-up with 45 points, their fifth team silver in the last six editions.

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IAAF News JUNIOR WOMEN Ethiopia’s Gidey Letesenbet became the fourth woman to win back-to-back U20 titles writes Celestine Karoney. The 19-yearold won in much the same way she clinched her first title on her debut two years ago in Guiyang, China.

After 2km Gidey was among a lead group of six Kenyans and four Ethiopians. With no international experience Kenya’s Hellen Lobun hung on to the lead on the winding course with Celliphine Chepsol and Gidey tracking her as the rest dropped off the pace. Gidey injected a burst of pace 50m into the last 2km lap and raced on to win.

Hawi Feysa who was third in the Ethiopian nationals worked her way back up the field to win silver while Chepsol came in third and Lobun wound up a distant fifth.

Ethiopia beat Kenya to the team title by one point after scoring 19 to take the gold. Uganda’s 62 points was enough for the bronze medal, the country’s second team medal in the category.

The competition featured 30 nations, 16 fielding full teams.

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MIXED RELAY – OPENING EVENT A new mixed team relay event introduced in these championships proved an interesting contrast in team tactics writes Michelle Sammet. On the first leg Asbel Kiprop led out for Kenya: Ethiopia had reserved their two strongest runners for the final two legs.

Kiprop handed over to Winfried Nzisa Mbithe with a six-second lead. Mbithe took off like a storm while her Ethiopian rival Bone Cheluke went out more conservatively. Turkey’s Meryem Akdag momentarily caught her but over the last 600m Cheluke reclaimed second, but a further 11 seconds behind.

On the third leg World indoor 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha went out hard to chase down Bernard Kipkorir Koros, His long strides saw him slowly close the gap as Beatrice Chepkoech received the wristband from Koros with a 12second lead over Genzebe Dibaba.

As Chepkoech regularly glanced over her shoulder Dibaba was working hard to close the gap. With 600m to go she was still about 15m behind the leader: it was as close as she got as Chepkoech fought to the end and crossed the line eight seconds clear.

Bronze went to Turkey ahead of hosts Uganda in fourth.

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JUNIOR MEN Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo produced a performance of a lifetime to win gold in the Men’s U20 race writes Bonnie Mugabe. He ended the Kenyan and Ethiopian dominance in the event to win the first global title of his career and the first gold for Uganda at a World Cross Country Championships.

After one lap Yemane Haileselassie led a tightly wound 10-man pack alongside Ethiopian Solomon Berihu and the entire Kenyan squad. The lead exchanged several times during the second lap before Kiplimo took command of the race.

Unconcerned about the hot conditions at the Kololo Grounds, and backed by his vociferous home fans he broke away from Amos Kirui and Edwin Kiplangat going into the final lap.

Amdework Walelegn pushed hard to close the gap. He moved past Kirui and Kiplangat but Kiplimo crossed the line three second ahead.

Walelegn led Ethiopia to the men's U20 title with 17 points, one ahead of Kenya.

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TEAMS: 1 Ethiopia: 21 pts; 2 Kenya: 22 pts; 3 Uganda: 72 pts; 4 Eritrea: 75 pts; 5 United States: 78 pts

TEAMS: 1 Ethiopia: 17 pts; 2 Kenya: 28 pts; 3 Eritrea: 55 pts; 4 Uganda: 56 pts; 5 Morocco: 113 pts

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TEAMS: 1 Kenya: 10 pts; 2 Ethiopia: 45 pts; 3 Bahrain: 59 pts; 4 Uganda 68 pts; United States: 90 pts

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TEAMS: 1 Ethiopia: 19 pts; 2 Kenya: 20 pts; 3 Uganda: 63 pts; 4 Japan: 73 pts; Eritrea: 134 pts

Mixed team relay: 1 Kenya 22:22; 2 Ethiopia 22:30; 3 Turkey 22:37; 4 Bahrain 23:20; 5 Morocco 24:02

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Gran Canaria Marathon, Spain 22 January 2017

The circuit through the city’s most emblematic spots, the old district of Vegueta and the Avenida Marítima along the Atlantic, grabs the attention of both amateur and elite athletes

Winter balm for runners The Gran Canaria Marathon is the Canary Islands’ most important athletics event.

It brings together over 40,000 runners and fans. Few places can host a marathon in winter but January is the best time for the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the average daily temperature varying from 15–21C. The Gran Canaria Marathon is one of the most anticipated events in the sports calendar. The whole island gets involved and there are different activities over the course of this fantastic festival of sport.

The Cajasiete Gran Canaria Marathon was held between 19–22 January, a weekend dedicated to runners and to athletics. More than 2000 foreign runners flocked to the island days

before the race to experience the atmosphere surrounding the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, the marathon’s starting point and where all the activities take place. It is one of the city’s most visited areas, with Las Canteras Beach as its main attraction.

Runners can choose from three distances: the 10km, half marathon or the title event, the marathon. Over 6300 runners signed up for one of these events. There are other supporting races for families and fans who want to share the fun. These were the 3km Gran Canaria Accessible, based on principles of social inclusion, and the Islacao Mini Marathon for children. Over 7000 people took part in these two races.

The Gran Canaria Marathon has built its reputation by treating runners well. They are the stars of the event and the organisers acknowledge it. The 2017 race featured a new course. The new event organisers committed themselves to one full and flatter lap. The certified circuit grabbed the attention of both amateur and elite athletes. It passes the city’s most emblematic spots, runs through the old district of Vegueta, the city centre and the Avenida Marítima along the Atlantic. Runners were able to improve their times by taking advantage of the flat and attractive course and some of the world's warmest winter conditions — a balmy 20C. Record numbers took part: over 1400 registered for the marathon and for the first time ever over 1000 runners finished the race, ranking it in the top 10 in Spain. The Gran Canaria Marathon is part of the Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) national calendar and a Distance Running | 2017 Edition 2

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The Cajasiete Gran Canaria Marathon takes great care to provide quality services. One of the highlights is the post-race area set up exclusively for the runners. Different refreshment stations are available as well as a physical therapy tent with almost a hundred professionals ready to look after runners. There are also swimming pools for hydrotherapy treatment.

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Mathew KIPSAAT Stanley KIPROTICH Pharis KIMANI Hilary KIPKOGEI Josphat KIPKEMBOI Moses MOI Julius KIPKORIR Cristóbal ORTIGOSA Kevin HOLLERAN Yeray ALEMAN

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Aroa MERINO BETANCOR Nina GRIFFITH Alejandra ARRIBAS Marta VENA TORRES Sara CARDUCCI Fabiola GIUDICI Anita EHRHARDT Ana Cristina CONSTANTIN Mariló GONZÁLEZ Rosa CUSELLO

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2:13:19 2:14:22 2:15:41 2:16:39 2:19:27 2:22:17 2:22:20 2:30:42 2:41:00 2:41:56

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2:46:21 2:53:16 3:02:25 3:03:59 3:08:33 3:20:45 3:23:15 3:24:51 3:24:52 3:25:47

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The Perpetuo Socorro Hospital was in charge of coordinating the medical services, providing medical care at different points along the course and setting up a field hospital near the finish line area. The Gran Canaria Marathon’s medical services are on a par with the best marathons in Spain.

One of the Gran Canaria Marathon’s most interesting features was the Expodeporte, the sports expo that takes place on the days prior to the marathon alongside the race registration where runners pick up their race numbers.

The expo provides an opportunity for institutions, companies and fans to meet and for visitors to see the latest innovations. 20,000 people visited the expo which also hosted

specialist workshops where professionals involved in athletics gave talks and seminars and shared their experiences and knowledge with the fans.

The Cajasiete Gran Canaria 2017 Marathon caught the media’s eye. National and international press covered the event, mainly because of the increased number of runners and heightened anticipation.

The local television channel, Televisión Canaria, broadcasted five hours of live coverage, emphasising the channel’s commitment to capture every aspect of the competition. The national broadcaster Televisión Española carried nationwide reports on its sports channel Teledeporte.

Mathew Kipsaat broke the men’s course record and there was a popular local victory for the Canarian Aroa Merino in the women’s race.

Another local, Jose Carlos Hernandez, won the men’s half marathon while women’s winner Esther Ramos came from the mainland.

Half marathon

Men : 1 Jose Carlos HERNÁNDEZ ESP 2 Nelson NEVES DA CRUZ CBV 3 Will MACKAY GBR

1:08:27 1:08:34 1:10:17

Women 1 Esther RAMOS ESP 2 Laura VAN DEN BEUCKEN NED 3 Maria Yolanda GUTIERREZ ESP

Gran Canaria Marathon ■ Next event: 21 January 2018

1:21:47 1:22:29 1:25:22

■ For more information visit: www.grancanariamaraton.com

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Osaka Women’s Marathon, Japan 29 January 2017 Celebrating its 36th anniversary this year Osaka is one of the few remaining elite women’s marathons in Japan

Stargazing from up close

by Satoru Takeda Since 2006 popular marathons in Japan have taken off — a little later than in many other parts of the world but at greater velocity. Two dozen of them have more than 10,000 entrants and Osaka Marathon has 30,000. Alongside this movement the Osaka Women’s Marathon has maintained its traditional focus on staging a competitive race.

Most of the new mass marathons use public roads and open spaces for the start and finish area. It’s an efficient way to pump up the event

and increase the value of a road race. But as a traditional event the Osaka Women’s Marathon has stuck to a start and finish set-up in the athletics stadium. The Yanmar Stadium has a capacity of 50,000 and is one of the largest in Japan. It enhances the appeal of competitive racing because it’s a place where ordinary runners long to run.

As an elite race the qualifying criteria for Japanese women are to have run 3:10 or faster in an official IAAF-AIMS certified race in the past two years and be aged over 19 on the day of the race. Debutante runners must have met the standard of sub-37 for 10,000m. About 500 runners qualify under these criteria every year, and 400 of them finish.

Among all races at which Japanese runners can qualify for the Olympics and the World Championships Osaka Women’s Marathon is the oldest. Many of Japan’s top women runners have qualified in this race and gone on to win Olympic medals — such as Naoko Takahashi (gold in Sydney 2000) and Mizuki Noguchi (gold in Athens 2004).

The course is flat and fast; the variation in height is just 7m. Last year Kayoko Fukushi won

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top Japanese top runner heard a bystander shout “Not too fast — are you alright?” from the sidelines because this person knew that she always slows down in the second half of the race and cared about her performance enough to approach her in a friendly way. People in Osaka develop great familiarity with runners and support them as if they are part of their family.

The Osaka Women’s Marathon is held on the very last weekend of the [Japanese] year and becomes a breath of life to the public. It also shows how the marathon has taken root in people in Osaka as their culture.

in a record of 2:22:17 to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Invitations are given to up-and-coming runners in their early 20s who are yet to run their first marathon with a view to discovering the “Next Heroine”.

Osaka Women’s Marathon also emphasises regional competition among neighbouring countries like China, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia and Hong Kong and invites aspiring runners from those countries. Osaka has long had close links to nearby countries and is adept at crosscultural communication. We hope to energise Asian runners to compete with the best in the world, including those from Kenya and Ethiopia.

Osaka hosts both an elite full marathon and a half marathon which start at the same time on race day. Every year about 6000 male and female, elite and mass runners participate in the half marathon. They start from Osaka Castle Park, the main symbol of Osaka, and run through the downtown area to finish at Nagai Stadium Park — normally a place where people enjoy time in a more leisurely way.

There is a mini marathon event for about 1000 runners on race day which follows the outer perimeter of the stadium. The Olympic gold medalist Naoko Takahashi and other major sports personalities and marathon aficionados participated this year, surrounded by crowds of kids. The purpose of staging the event is to

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provide an opportunity for children to interact with major stars from baseball, football, basketball and other sports.

In 2020 — only three years from now — the next Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Japan. We believe that not only Tokyo but everywhere in Japan will greet athletes and people from all over the world with great enthusiasm. The Marathon used to be Japan’s strongest event and we are fully confident that Japanese runners will bring it back to public attention by performing outstandingly once again.

Osaka Women’s Marathon aspires to be being an ideal race for runners both from Japan and from all parts of the world.

Osaka has a distinct tradition of passionate encouragement for runners. The city of Osaka is second to Tokyo but it is more vibrant and generates a powerful momentum. About 350,000 people cheered from the sidelines during the 2017 race. This continuous rousing cheering lifts the runners and becomes an important force in propelling them forward. One

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Napoli City Half Marathon, Italy 5 February 2017

This mischievous yet artistic and elegant city is full of unique charm with a vibrant atmosphere

See Naples and … run Despite misconceptions this ancient southern Italian city is full of unique charm with a vibrant atmosphere that is chaos, harmony and mystery all at the same time.

Thanks to its mixture of disparate historical periods and cultures it is constantly fascinating.

Come to see for yourself. And why not discover it in your running shoes?

The Napoli City Half Marathon, this year held for the first time under the umbrella of Napoli Running, offers you a great opportunity to sense this mischievous yet artistic and elegant city on the Mediterranean.

The race is held at the beginning of February, the month of love, with an average temperature of 10°C, which together with almost no wind creates perfect conditions for running in winter at a time when there are fewer races taking place in Europe.

The certified course leads you through the most attractive parts of the city. Starting from J. F. Kennedy Avenue you run the first part of the race through the Fuorigrotta district. You pass by the Posillipo Gallery, Piazza Sannazaro and then enter the waterfront area with the

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beautiful Siren's fountain. Continuing on your way along the seafront for almost three kilometres you will get a lift from the amazing views.

On your way you pass by the Castel dell’Ovo (originally built in the 12th century by the Normans), Plebiscito Square (the City’s most famous square), the majestic Teatro San Carlo, the Castel Nuovo (another Neapolitan symbol) and the Duomo Cathedral. These sights will energise you and provide enough of a boost to get you to the finish line in the Mostra d’Oltremare area. Just few hundred metres before the finish line you will be confronted by the spectacular Fontana dell'Esedra.

Over 4200 runners participated in this last race, an increase of more than 52% over the previous edition. The entry limit was increased but because of the huge interest registration had to be closed three weeks prior to the event with the capacity fully reached. Some hundreds of runners didn’t manage to get a start number.

The 2017 race also had other exciting new developments. The race records were bettered by large margins: Philip Kibungei Tarbei – a RunCzech racer from Kenya – improved the men’s record by more than three minutes and Eva Vrabcova the women’s by more than five.

Vrabcova’s winning time qualified the RunCzech racer to compete in the World Championships Marathon in London this August.

■ Next event: 4 February 2018 ■ For more information visit: www.napolimohm.org

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Men 1 Philip TARBEI

KEN

1:01:21

2 Eliud MACHARIA

KEN

1:01:21

3 Paul MWANGI

KEN

1:05:37

4 Bernard DEMATTEIS

ITA

1:07:36

5 Roman PRODIUS

MLD

1:08:03

6 Ismail ADIM ISMAIL

MAR

1:08:52

7 Antonello LANDI

ITA

1:09:50

8 Luca TASSAROTTI LUCA

ITA

1:10:05

9 Raffaele GIOVANNELLI

ITA

1:10:12

10 Giuseppe SOPRANO

ITA

1:10:30

Women 1 Eva VRABCOVA

CZE

1:11:54

2 Laila SOUFYANE

ITA

1:14:11

3 Deborah TONIOLO

ITA

1:16:59

4 Gloria Rita GUIDICI

ITA

1:21:21

5 Barbara BANI

ITA

1:22:00

6 Samantha GALASSI

ITA

1:22:06

7 Stefania LEONDIADIS

GRE

1:22:43

8 Anna PEDEVILLA

ITA

1:25:10

9 Loredana BRUSCIATA

ITA

1:26:08

10 Carla MAZZA

ITA

1:27:25

stay few a more days in Naples to explore this very real Italian city and its surroundings.

Naples is built on tuff, a soft, volcanic stone, and tor the past 2500 years residents from the ancient Greeks on up to today have made use of this tuff by digging chambers and passageways beneath the city. Naples’ subterranean gems include everything from ancient Greek aqueducts and pagan burial chambers to Christian catacombs and World War II air raid shelters. Naples has another whole other city underground.

It is also perfectly situated to visit some of Italy’s finest sights: Pompeii and Herculaneum on the mighty slopes of Vesuvius, the fabled islands Capri, Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples and the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.

As Boccaccio wrote in the Decameron: “The ancient city of Naples is perhaps the most delightful of all Italian towns…”

Napoli Running is a project dedicated to encouraging a healthy lifestyle and promoting running and tourism in the beautiful Metropolitan area of Naples. It was founded by Carlo Capalbo and the local organisers to bring the Napoli City Marathon and the Coast to Coast Sorrento Positano Marathon & Half (held in December on the stunning Amalfi coastline) under the same umbrella. Besides these two events Napoli Running, led by the Neapolitan chair of the IAAF Road Running Commission and the organiser of the RunCzech Running League, Carlo Capalbo, is also planning to bring about the rebirth of the Napoli International Marathon.

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Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Hong Kong, China 12 February 2017

To the next level The unexpected rise of a financial centre to also become a centre of the marathon movement

74,000 runners from around the world showed up for the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2017 this year. This is phenomenal growth since the first edition, held in 1997 during the year Hong Kong was “handed back” to China, attracted just 1,076 runners.

Chairman of the Organising Committee William Ko said: “Since the beginning we have witnessed how running has brought positive change to Hong Kong. Marathon running is fast becoming the sport of choice among Hong Kong’s urbanites, and everywhere you go, you see people training for their next race.”

and the event again hosted this regional competition in 2008, 2013 and 2015.

arch marquee nearby which runners drop off their belongings at the baggage deposit.

As the years passed the number of runners grew exponentially until two years ago they were capped at 74,000. The Marathon now features several complementary races: a Half Marathon, 10km Race, 10km and 3km Wheelchair Races and the all-new 1.8km Family Run.

The race starts at 06.10 on Nathan Road outside The Mira Hong Kong, one of the city’s most iconic hotels. The surrounding Tsim Sha Tsui area is a vibrant shopping, dining and commercial district visited by locals and tourists alike and renowned for its eclectic mix of highend shopping and local eateries.

The race is held in late January / early February so that temperatures will be favourable for long distance running (13–19C). Runners arrive at the starting line at Tsim Sha Tsui from around 05.00. The start area is marked with a towering

Hong Kong streets are not as wide as those in North America so to get a better starting position you have to come early. Before the turn point at 19km the course is mostly uphill, rising from 10m to 80m, and thereafter it gently

No one could have predicted that one the world’s top financial centres, known for its manic 24/7, 365-days full-on lifestyle, would become one of the epicentres of the marathon movement.

“What makes the race unique is that it reflects Hong Kong residents’ core values of perseverance, determination, efficiency, and can-do spirit,” said Ko. “Runners experience the many facets of Hong Kong all at once, the contradiction of old and modern Hong Kong as well as the city’s rich greenery versus hardedged urbanism.”

The Marathon began as a celebration of the return of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China, a cross-border race from Hong Kong to Shenzhen.

At the time the event drew the largest field of runners ever to a distance event in Hong Kong.

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Emerging from the Western Harbour Tunnel on an uphill slope you will have passed 35km.

From now on the race flies by as you run along the city’s waterline, looking across the harbour towards the Kowloon side.

Entering Causeway Bay — one of the city’s main shopping, dining and commercial districts — you see hundreds of shops along Hennessy Road with thousands of fervent supporters cheering you home over the final 800m.

Remember to raise your arms and smile for the cameras as you cross the finish line. Runners who finish the race within six hours receive finisher medals.

Water stations are placed at 15 locations with energy drinks available after 10km and bananas and chocolate at 25km and 30km.

First aid is available at key areas and at every water station while first aiders patrol the course on bicycles. Physiotherapy stations are at 37km and at the finish. Mobile toilets are strategically placed along the course.

Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon ■ 21 January 2018

The Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon is not the oldest race around but it is a challenging and fun competition that is attracting more and more overseas runners.

■ For more information visit: www.hkmarathon.com

declines until reaching the Western Harbour tunnel (30m below sea level) and on to Hong Kong Island.

After the start you find yourself on Nathan Road in the heart of Kowloon. This is the Mongkok area, a hangout for locals filled with shops and restaurants — young fashion and small boutiques mixed together with street food and performers. You can see mid-rise buildings — the older side of Hong Kong — nestling amid towering concrete skyscrapers. This scene is especially impressive in the early morning.

As you reach the West Kowloon Highway and step onto Stonecutters Bridge you get expansive views of Victoria Harbour and the west side of Hong Kong Island. At this point you are quarter of the way into the race. After 15km you reach Tsing Ma Bridge, the world’s 11th longest

suspension bridge (second longest at the time of its completion) and one of the key arteries that connect to Hong Kong International Airport. Be sure to enjoy the scenery and greenery, as it's a unique side of Hong Kong that should be admired more.

After zipping through the Cheung Tsing Tunnel you pass halfway and race along the Tsing Kwai Highway. On your right are Hong Kong’s main container terminals, which are at the heart of Hong Kong’s industry. To the left, in stark contrast, are majestic mountains and rolling green hills. Hong Kong truly is a city of contrasts.

The course takes a giant dip as you enter the Western Harbour Tunnel to cross back over to Hong Kong Island side. Before you go underground you will catch sight of the

RESULT Marathon

Men 1 Melaku BELACHEW

ETH

2:10:31

2 Julius KETER

KEN

2:10:34

3 Adugna TAKELE

ETH

2:11:32

4 Julius ROTICH

KEN

2:11:44

5 Samuel MASWAI

KEN

2:12:50

6 Mike MUTAI

KEN

2:13:16

7 David KIYENG

KEN

2:13:29

8 Joel KOPTOO

KEN

2:13:57

9 Abraraw MISAGANAW

ETH

2:14:19

10 Benson CHERUIYOT

KEN

2:14:50

1 Gulume TOLLESA

ETH

2:33:39

2 Aberu MERKURIA

ETH

2:33:43

3 Betelhem MOGES

ETH

2:33:48

4 Letebrhan HAYLAY

ETH

2:33:56

5 Azalech MASRESHA

ETH

2:34:35

6 Tsehay DESALEGN

ETH

2:34:44

7 Ehite BIZUAYEHU

ETH

2:34:49

8 Ayantu ABERA

ETH

2:34:58

9 Etalemahu HABTEWOLDE ETH

2:35:39

10 Shewarge ALENE

2:40:21

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PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon, Poland 17 June 2017 This Half Marathon in the capital of Lower Silesia is one of the fastest growing city runs in Poland. From almost 5000 participants in 2014 the number of runners doubled to 10,000 in just two years. This year the first 3000 starting numbers were sold in just 48 hours. What is behind this phenomenal growth?

First of all the city of Wrocław has a special atmosphere that makes it unique in Europe.

During its thousand-year history it has been part of many countries. The past has made Wrocław a point of connection and interaction between different cultures and languages. This is reflected in the city’s motto: Wrocław — the

A night run through ‘The Meeting Place’ uses the illuminated city as its backdrop

meeting place. It comprises a mix of old and new: architectural monuments like the Centennial Hall (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and a contemporary student population of over 100,000 from all over Europe.

The 5th PKO Wrocław Night Half Marathon uses the city as its backdrop. As a night run it offers a different experience of running through the streets between illuminated monuments and bridges over the Odra river.

Each year the race includes some special cultural element. Two years ago the bridges in the city were part of a European Capital of Culture preview. Artistic performances including

Photos: Dorota Swiderska

music, light etc. were staged on them; Grunwaldzki bridge — one of the city’s symbols — was illuminated for all of the runners crossing it. Last year, during the period as European Capital of Culture, classical music was played live by small bands in designated places alongside the Half Marathon route. In 2017 the theme will be film music. Sound tracks of the best-known movies will be heard on the way to the finish.

The race finish will be in the renovated Olympic Stadium, to be used as one of the main arenas for the World Games 2017. The run will be the biggest warm-up event and runners will cross the finish line in front of stands which can contain up to 11,000 spectators.

The PKO Wrocław Marathon takes place on 9 September only 12 weeks after the Night Half Marathon. This 35th anniversary race incorporates the European Masters Marathon Championship.

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Suzuki Midnight Sun Run, Iceland 23 June 2017 The Suzuki Midnight Sun Run starts on a midsummer evening from the Laugardalur valley in Reykjavik. This year’s edition is the 25th anniversary race.

Championships when maverick American Bobby Fischer defeated the defending champion Boris Spassky. Runners pick up their race number and timing chip at this historic location.

Runners can participate in the half marathon, 10km or 5km. All races start on Engjavegur and finish by the old laundry springs in Laugardalur valley, which is in full bloom at this time of the year. There are many sports facilities located here — including the national sports stadium and an indoor arena — along with a botanical garden, the family park and zoo and Reykjavik art museum.

After leaving Laugardalur valley the course is mostly along paths. Runners next enter Elliðaárdalur with its famous salmon river Elliðaár. They run beside the river and then along a riding trail by lake Rauðavatn and then through a golf course in the newly built residential area Grafarholt. Between 3–12km the course is demanding.

Apart from mass concerts, trade shows, exhibitions and the 1995 World Championship of Handball, the Laugardalsholl indoor venue also hosted the 1972 World Chess

The Laugardalslaug geothermal outdoor swimming pools lie right alongside the finish line. Runners are invited to use the swimming pool, hot tubs and steam baths after the race. It is probably hard to find a better way to relax

after a race than in a hot tub or pool under a bright sky at midnight.

With almost 24 hours of daylight during at the summer solstice, Reykjavík (64ºN) becomes a city that never sleeps. You can enjoy whalewatching, sea-fishing, horse-back-riding and trips to the many natural wonders nearby and still hit town for the nightlife.

The west coast of Iceland is a great place to view the setting of the midnight sun. The best places to take pictures are the lighthouse at Grotta in Seltjarnarnes and on the waterfront

by Sólfar (the Sun Voyager sculpture).

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hella hamburg halbmarathon, Germany 25 June 2017 The 23rd hella hamburg halbmarathon promises to be a spectacular sporting event for the city. As one of the few ‘stand alone’ half marathon races in Germany, this classic city race leads runners past numerous Hamburg tourist attractions and is considered to be the fastest of the German summer half marathon races.

Held since 1995 the race has grown to become Germany’s second biggest half marathon attracting over 10000 runners.

The fast route leads past the harbour, lakes, world heritage sites and the fish market

The race starts at 10.00 on the four-lane Reeperbahn, in the centre of Hamburg’s famous night life district, accompanied by a DJ with typical St. Pauli/Hamburg sound. Skaters in the German Inline Cup are set off along the course 15 minutes before the runners.

The point-to-point course runs through the heart of the city and has over 50 sightseeing highlights. You will see Hamburg from a new perspective: passing the harbour and the traditional Altona fish market, the Speicherstadt (UNESCO world heritage site) and Hamburg’s new landmark the Elbphilharmonie. You will cross the Kennedy Bridge between the two Alsterlakes “Binnen and Aussenalster” and run around the Aussenalster, an oasis of green along the waterfront. You find the finish at the old Rothenbaumchaussee tennis stadium.

This year the hella hamburg halbmarathon has adopted a new concept of 21 ‘living’ kilometre points. Be ready for our famous tunnel DJs, big samba bands, sign spinner, cheering points from running crews, event points from running partners, the world’s first bike disco with spectator-driven pedal power, live bands and many more attractions. Our live acts, DJs and artists will make the race even more unique, combining sport with a huge party for Hamburg’s enthusiastic spectators.

There is always a strong elite field. Two years ago Eritrea’s Merhawi Kesete set the current course record of 1:00:52 and Kenya’s Agnes Mutune set the women’s record with 1:11:27.

“This year’s race could be a record-setting event for the 14th time in a row,” says Race Director Karsten Schölermann. “Take your chance and discover our beautiful city by running the hella hamburg half.” The New York Times rated Hamburg in the top ten places to go in 2017.

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Looking ahead Correcaminos offers you the perfect excuse to combine your passion for a healthy lifestyle with an exotic vacation in Costa Rica.

Founded in 2005 Correcaminos was at first a group dedicated to running marathons in different destinations around the world. We have expanded our mission to include actively helping people to achieve their goals and to share feelings of solidarity.

To this end the “La Correcaminos” race was founded. We have staged the race for seven years, raising funds through our non-profit organisation.

Correcaminos Marathon & Half Marathon, Costa Rica 9 July 2017

The route was designed to appeal to the senses and help visitors to discover our country and city. The journey begins in the low lands of historical Cartago, the location of the impressive Irazú Volcano, and progresses through the coffee plantations of Tres Rios before descending into the heart of our capital.

San José is located in the central valley and offers many sites of interest including the Presidential Palace, the Supreme Court, National Museum, National Congress, National Park and parliament and a passage along the elegant and well-known Paseo Colon. All three distances on offer finish in the beautiful Sabana Park. The marathon is a Boston Qualifier.

Costa Rica undoubtedly offers some of the most challenging hills and terrain but the course has mainly downhill thrills and is considered one of the fastest races in the country. Come some days before and visit the Expo Correcaminos in the National Stadium — one of the most spectacular buildings in Central America.

The race offers the perfect excuse to escape to one of the most touristic and appealing places in the world. The national territory extends a length of 320km and includes both Pacific and Caribbean coasts. A huge variety of landscapes and microclimates are contained within an area of only 51,000 square km. Our natural habitat is presented in more than 20 national parks and eight nature reserves.

Costa Rica is a small country with a big heart.

We are excited to offer you an adventure which will leave you with unforgettable memories.

Come and discover what it means to live a “Pura Vida” lifestyle.

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Golden Ring Ultra Trail 100, Russia 23 July 2017

A Russian summer landscape that will stick in your memory

The ‘Golden Ring’ ultra trail event takes place in Suzdal, one of the oldest cities in Russia. It lies just 220km from Moscow and is home to a lot of beautiful landmarks. There are over 300 chapels, churches and other monuments in the city situated at the heart of Russia and of Russian history.

The main idea behind the Golden Ring Ultra Trail race was to create something great in Suzdal, something that would support the trail running community of Russia and which would allow the beauty of Russia to be presented to runners from overseas. Here you can run, take a holiday and enjoy Russian hospitality and food.

2017 will be the third running of the event after its inauguration in 2015. To get to Suzdal city you can transfer from Moscow using the arrangement organised by the race or you can apply to us for a private transfer. There are many different hotels and hostels in the city to suit various budgets, and local restaurants and cafes where you can try delicious Russian food.

Suzdal city is a great destination for a vacation, to walk around, visit historical monuments, do some shopping, buy souvenirs, enjoy traditional Russian restaurants (dumplings, pancakes, medovuha) and see how people live. Combining all this with the race will make an amazing experience.

Overall the scenery is a classical Russian summer landscape with scented flowers and great views. You may also catch some wild life on the course, such a moose or wild boar, or hedgehogs. In summertime Suzdal, and the Russian countryside in general, is at its most charming. Morning temperatures are cool and fresh. It gradually gets warmer during the day and can become hot, which makes the race harder — but this is a trail race: it should be hard.

There are four different distances offered. A 10km city run takes you on a tour of the landmarks of the town. The T30-T50 and T100 are for real lovers of trail running.

Last year registration closed early because of outstanding demand. Runners pick up race numbers at the expo on 22 July. There is also a pasta party, a runners’ briefing, booths of the race partners and some local folk performances.

The races are on 23 July.

Running trail races is quite difficult. You need to run across city streets, through natural landscape and along the banks of a river. Some sections lead you through the forest and across wild fields. You need strong legs to run through nettle brush, tall grass and a few bits of swamp.

As organisers we are runners ourselves and love trail running. It is a way of life and makes it shine with full colour. This run will stay in your memories for a very long time.

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Marathon movers Vivek and Anil Singh The jewel in the crown of India’s distance running calendar, the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (SCMM), holds its 14th edition on 15 January. Asia’s richest marathon, offering USD 370,000 as prizemoney, grants the freedom of the streets to more than 40,000 runners who take centre-stage along with some world-class athletes on 15 January 2017.

Singh when you’re winning

All thanks to the vision, perseverance and dynamism of two brothers, Anil and Vivek Singh. Ardent sports lovers with an innate passion for the development of sport, a burning desire to improve professional standards of sport in India led them to establish their company Procam International in 1988. One of the earliest professional sports management companies in the country, Procam has conducted a host of events within many different sports: cricket, tennis, football, volleyball, WWE and horseracing among others.

But for Vivek Singh personally there was always the dream of conducting a popular marathon.

Back then India was more a nation of spectators and a participative sport such as distance running was a distant possibility.

Vivek believed that running was something approaching a panacea for society: bringing together people from across the world;

Brothers who pioneered India’s distance running revolution encouraging communal harmony; providing the largest possible platform for charity; creating a chance for local talent to compete at the highest level; encouraging health and fitness; and instilling a sense of pride in the host city and its citizenry.

Vivek and Anil visited the London Marathon in 2003. That experience was an endorsement of their dream. The energy, positivity and the smiles bore striking witness to each participant’s triumph. An unforgettable event, it became an indelible memory for both of them.

Over the last thirteen editions the SCMM has evolved in various ways: the initial stages of putting on an event of this grandeur; the challenge of getting city and state civic authorities to work in sync; managing thousands and then tens of thousands of registrations; and securing the participation of international athletes. Today runners from different parts of the country and the world all come to run for a reason of their own. Amidst loud cheers and support for the participants across all categories the SCMM has proved time and again that as a sporting event it can rise above cultural and religious sentiments.

SCMM was the first major event hosted by the city only seven weeks after the deadly terror attacks in Mumbai on 27 November 2007. The city stood in unison for peace and solidarity.

Registrations for the event were vastly oversubscribed and 40,000 participants showed the world the “can do, will do” spirit of Mumbai.

The SCMM spirit is demonstrated not only by the participants but also by the state and civic authorities granting the requisite permissions; the police who are on their toes to ensure both continued traffic flow and law and order; those providing the medical facilities; the volunteers at work; the sponsors and partners of the event; and above all the locals who are all smiles offering biscuits and water to participants along the course.

The event galvanised the high flyers of India’s financial capital including Bollywood stars, sports icons, sports federations and bigwigs of Distance Running | 2017 Edition 2

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Marathon movers Vivek and Anil Singh

the corporate world.

Film actors Rahul Bose, John Abraham and Milind Soman, avid sports lovers themselves, have been highly supportive of the SCMM since inception. Corporate head honchos like Anil Ambani, Anand Mahindra, Dharmesh Jain threw themselves into the fray. The media (print, television and radio) took it up with enthusiasm. Soon enough the entire eco-system believed in it and joined hands.

The SCMM is not just a sporting extravaganza but an event with a social conscience; it is the largest charity fundraising platform in the country. Since inception it has raised funds benefitting more than 500 NGOs that support over 20 different social causes.

The Singh brothers did not rest after achieving such gratifying success in Mumbai. The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon was established in 2005, as a legacy event to the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships held in Delhi in 2004, entirely through the application of the vision, drive and hard-won expertise of the Procam company. The Tata Consultancy

Services World 10km in Bengaluru followed in 2008 and the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K in 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of them have evolved into major international sporting events in their respective home cities.

The Elite Distance Running Programme (EDRP) has been an outgrowth of the Procam running

events. In partnership with the Sports Authority of India and the Global Sports Communications company the EDRP is an extension of Procamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to the development of distance running in the country. Its aim is to find and hone potential local talent into world-class competitors.

With 37 international road running events under their belt Vivek and Anil Singh, through a lot of sweat, hard work and determination, have proved that you can live your dream. Their undying dedication to initiate and popularise running events in the larger interests of society has made running into an industry and given a phenomenal boost to the sports sector as a whole. The annual turnover of the running industry in India is currently estimated at about USD200million; it has created opportunities for brands and generated employment for untold thousands of people.

Thanks to the founders of SCMM India now hosts more than 500 running events each year and the number is growing inexorably. It has been not so much a running movement as a running revolution.

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On the shoulders of runners On 18 September 2016, over 4000 runners lined up at the start of the PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon in India. The challenge for these participants, apart from the distance, was the significant climb they faced. It makes the race one of the toughest half marathons in India.

Fun run with a message challenges female infanticide

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As organisers of the Satara Hill Half Marathon we chose “Run with your daughter” as a theme to support this cause. As a build up to the run, an online photo competition was also organised one month before the event, where participants were asked to post “Run-fies” (running selfies) with their daughters in a “Run-fie with your daughter” contest.

Meanwhile another set of runners was gearing up at the start line of the Dhamaal Run [literally: ‘Fun run’]. Although they only had 3.5km to run they faced a very different kind of challenge.

Runners were lining up with their daughters perched on their shoulders or on their backs, waiting for the starting gun to go off. It was no mean task for the participants to run a hilly 3.5km route while carrying their daughters but these road warriors were not out to prove their strength or win any prizes. This was a run with a cause. They were running, while carrying their daughters, to send out a message.

“Beti Koi Bojh Nahi” is the message in Hindi (India’s major official language) — a slogan which translates as “The Girl Child is not a Burden but an Asset”.

India is making rapid strides as a nation on several fronts and we are working hard to progress from a developing nation to a developed one. Among the many challenges we still face is the issue of gender discrimination in our society. Discrimination against the girl child has been a part of the social set up in India for generations. Even today the girl child is treated as a burden in some sections of our society.

While the boys are given preferential treatment and privileges the girls are often confined to their homes and given lesser opportunities.

The Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22 January 2015 when he called upon the nation to unite for the eradication of female foeticide and invited suggestions from the citizens of India on the MyGov.in portal.

There were two competitions: one determined by responses on social media and one by a panel of experts. The winning photos were displayed both on the event’s homepage and in a gallery during the Expo one day before the main event. Huge crowds appreciated the creative photos of the winners.

It is of great concern that cases of female infanticide and foeticide (where the female foetus is aborted in the mother’s womb) are still reported. Even as initiatives undertaken by successive governments and several nongovernment organisations have started to show positive results, we still have a long way to go.

The “Beti Koi Bojh Nahi” Run was flagged off by the popular Member of Parliament for Satara. The entire city turned out, lining the streets on both sides of the route, to cheer the participants. Many runners carried their young daughters on their shoulders for almost the entire distance. Others ran hand in hand with their daughters shouting “Beti Koi Bojh Nahi” and carrying posters and placards.

According to figures from the 2011 census there are just 918 girls per 1000 boys in India.

This skewed gender ratio needs to be urgently corrected with affirmative action to ensure that India stays firmly on the path towards becoming a progressive and developed nation.

It was a satisfying feeling to be able to contribute towards an important cause and to help further the AIMS’ objective of using running events as a platform to promote important and socially relevant messages all over the world.

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Opinion

Upping their chances Everything humanly possible will be done to boost the chance of one of three select athletes running under two hours for the Marathon this spring — but it will still not be enough, argues Hugh Jones.

Eliud Kipchoge at the Berlin Marathon in 2015 Picture: Jiro Mochizuki

As a child I grew into athletics — and then distance running — in the wake of Roger Bannister’s achievement of running 3 minutes 59.7 seconds for the mile or “breaking the four-minute-mile barrier”.

It was an event that was invested with huge significance at the time and long thereafter.

Other “significant number” barriers have been broken since — 10 seconds for 100m (Jim Hines, 1968), 20 seconds for 200m (Tommie Smith, 1968) without attracting much comment but it seems people have eyed a new prize: the sub 2-hour marathon.

The first person to run under an hour for a half marathon was Moses Tanui in 1993, at a time when the World record for the Marathon stood at 2:06:50 (Belayneh Dinsamo, 1988). The half marathon record has come down by 84 seconds since then, and the Marathon record by 233 seconds. Combined with the regularity with which the Marathon word record has been broken — five times in the last 10 years — it is no wonder the chances of a sub 2-hour marathon are being talked up.

Even though 178 more seconds have to be lopped off the Marathon time to take it below two hours the chatter about doing this has intensified. Everyone had thought that to achieve that time would take several years at minimum and likely over a decade. But late last year Nike launched a “2 hour project” aimed at one of their own sponsored athletes doing it within a matter of months.

Of these they have selected Eliud Kipchoge, Lelisa Desisa and Zersenay Tadesse. These three, particularly Kipchoge, will have sacrificed the possibility of big paydays at one of the coming Spring marathons which gives some indication of the amount of money Nike are

investing. But might success for the project be defined differently to the declared aim?

It fits with the habitual ‘in your face’ sloganising of the athletic shoe companies (“Just do it”; “Impossible is nothing”). The 2 hour project is interesting as an example of how a company like Nike aspire to fill the ‘conversational’ or marketing space — and that this is thought of as success in its own right, never mind the outcome in terms of the times posted (if any).

Others think differently: “[W]hen sports science promises and then under-delivers it actually hurts us in the long run,” wrote sports scientist Ross Tucker. But sports science and sports marketing goals can often be divergent.

What has been announced — or surmised — about the logistics of the project so far is that the named runners will compete head-to-head, although presumably in the company of pacemakers, on a closed, purpose-designed course that will observe world record criteria.

This means that the elevation of the finish will be not more than 42m below that of the start or more than 21.1km distant from it in a direct line. It is likely that to maintain a literally level field of play it will be run on a lap the shape of that in a stadium but much enlarged in size.

The entire course could be conducted on the lap or also taking advantage of a separate extended finish section which drops an allowable amount — which might make for a faster final few kilometres than otherwise possible, especially if it drops off in a direction where runners would also benefit from a prevailing wind.

The date has not been announced beyond indicating it would be ‘spring’ — presumably in either Europe or North America — with Europe

requiring less adaptation to time zone changes by the runners. If the attempt has not been staged by the time of publication of this edition of Distance Running then it would have to happen within a month (by mid-May).

While the attempt will be on a record-eligible course it is not clear whether other assistance may be afforded the runners such that it rules any time recorded out of consideration as an official world record. That kind of assistance could be the use of ‘relays’ of pacemakers (who therefore would not be considered as participating in the race) or a vehicular ‘shield’ to protect runners from headwind.

To engineer ‘drafting’ in this way would be reminiscent of 'mile-a-minute’ Murphy who achieved that feat on a bicycle way back in 1899 but completely shielded from wind resistance by a train which encased him. The catchy soubriquet seems to have made the first time this was matched without such protection into an insignificant event: it’s hard to find in recorded cycling history — perhaps it still hasn’t happened.

Yet what are the chances, even with all assistance short of brazen cheating, of any of the three selected athletes running under two hours? I’ll stick my neck out and say zero. Eliud Kipchoge is the obvious front runner and he will have to fulfil that role if the early pace is to give any chance of reaching the target time.

They would have to go through 10km in something like 28:25 and the half marathon (of course) in an hour. So far so easy, but when one or both of the others drop out — as common sense dictates they will — can the frontrunner keep lapping as if someone is right on his shoulder? That’s why world records are still more likely to be set in conventional competition than tailor-made time trials.

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Calendar

AIMS member events for the forthcoming 15 months April 2017 – June 2018 For the latest dates visit aims-worldrunning.org/calendar.html

April 2017

1 2

Novi Sad Half Marathon SRB H

Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great GRE M,R

2 2 2 2 2 2

94

Berlin Halfmarathon GER H

90

ČSOB Bratislava Marathon SVK M,H,R

98

UNIQA Bucharest 10K ROU R

96

Daegu Int’l Marathon KOR M

95

ASICS Medio Maratón de Madrid ESP H 98 EA7 Emporio Armani Milano Marathon ITA M

2 2 2

98

94

Maratona di Roma ITA M

91

Maratón de Santiago CHI M

88

8–9 Australian Running Festival AUS M,H,R,U

ESP M,H

88

São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon Corpore BRA H

Int’l de Nice 16 Semi-Marathon FRA H Boston Marathon 17 B.A.A. USA M Belgrade Marathon 22 30th SRB M Vert D’Agadir 23 Marathon MAR M,H,R Marathon 23 Almaty KAZ M,H,R Antwerp Marathon 23 DVV BEL M Marathon 23 Enschede NED M Seiryu Half Marathon 23 Gifu JPN H Marathon Hamburg 23 Haspa GER M Marathon Łódź 23 DOZ POL M,R Rock ’n’ Roll Madrid 23 EDP Maratón & 1/2

88

8–9 32nd Telekom Vivicittá Spring

de Montevideo 23 Maratón URU M,H Marathon 23 Padova ITA M Vancouver Sun Run 23 The Presented by Ford CAN R

Half Marathon HUN H,R

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

94

Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon ROU M,H,R 96 Dogi’s Half Marathon ITA H

94

United Airlines Guam Marathon GUM M,H,R 94 HAJ Hannover Marathon GER M,H,R

90

Kharkiv Int’l Marathon UKR M,H,R

98

Nova Poshta Kyiv Half Marathon UKR H,R 98 North Pole Marathon NPO M Course not measurable to AIMS standards

96

Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris FRA M 90

9 GRE M,R City Half Marathon 9 Rio BRA H Marathon Rotterdam 9 NN NED M Marathon 9 Zurich SUI M Sea Ultramarathon 14 Dead JOR U,H,R International Half 15 Dushanbe Marathon

16 JPN M

98 95 95 88

94

96

98 98 94

88

62

KOR M,R

88

May 2017

96

1

7 7 7 7 7

Volkswagen Prague Marathon CZE M 17 Rosa Run Half Marathon 777 96

RUS H,R

Salzburg Marathon 88

AUT M,H,R

7

95

MKD M,H,R

GBR M

98 95

98

96

Nagano Marathon 95

1 7 7 7 7 7

88

BMO Vancouver Marathon 88

CAN M

13–14 OMV Petrom Bucharest Half 17

ROU H,R

Int’l Marathon 13 Dalian CHN M 88 Okpekpe Int’l 10km Road Race 13 NGR R 96 Luka Half Marathon 14 Banja BIH H 88 PKO Bialystok Halfmarathon 14 POL H 96 Lattelecom Riga Marathon 14 LAT M,H 95 Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville 19 de Béjaia 88

ALG H

90 90

Borneo Int’l Marathon MAS M,H,R

95

RAHAL Mémorial Casablanca MAR R

95

Erzurum Half Marathon TUR H

98

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

88

June 2017 3–4 Laguna Phuket Marathon 98

THA M

3 4 4

ASICS Stockholm Marathon 98

SWE M

Comrades Marathon 96

RSA U

Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon 20

IRL M

Últimas Noticias 15k 4 Quito ECU R Half Marathon 10 Helsinki FIN H,R Coahuila 11 21k MEX H Marathon 11 Kaunas LTU M,H,R Int’l Marathon 11 Lanzhou CHN M,H,R Sun Marathon 17 Midnight NOR M,H Wroclaw Night Half 17 PKO Marathon predicted date

90 90 95 95 88

predicted date

21 RUS M,H,R International Peace 21 Kigali Marathon

95

Kazan Marathon

96

96

21 NED M,H,R 96 Maratón movistar Lima42k 21 PER M,H,R 96 Eco Marathon 21 Lisbon POR M,R 96 Paris St Germain en Laye – La 21 Course

Big Five Marathon 24 The RSA M,H 96 Vidovdan 10km Road Race 24 BIH R 88 Viking Marathon 24 Waterford IRL M,H,R 20 hella hamburg halbmarathon 25 See race preview on page 33 90

GER H

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Course not measurable to AIMS standards

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FRA R

Marathon Wuerzburg 21 iWelt GER M

90

27–28 Edinburgh Marathon Festival

Diacore Gaborone Marathon

27 ITA H

GBR M

90

Moonlight Half Marathon

88

28 BHU M,H

Thunder Dragon Marathon

predicted date

Trieste Green Europe Marathon ITA M,H 94 BOT M,H,R

88

CAN M,R

Half Marathon 20 GöteborgsVarvet 20 SWE H 98 The Great Wall Marathon 20 CHN M 88 See race preview on page 29 POL H 96 Three Hearts Marathon 20 SLO M,H,R 98 Phnom Penh Half Marathon 18 CAM H,R Maratón Int’l Ciudad de 88 21 Media Asunción Rio de Janeiro City Marathon PAR H 96 18 BRA M 88 Women’s Run 21 Austrian Telesia City Trophy Int’l Road AUT R 88 18 Race 10k World 10K Bengaluru ITA R 94 21 TCS IND R 94 Econet Victoria Falls Marathon 18 ZIM M Copenhagen Marathon 98 21 Telenor DEN M 18 Suzuki Midnight Sun Run 23 Chartered KL See race preview on page 31 21 Standard Marathon ISL H,R 94

Leiden Marathon

Milton Keynes Marathon GBR M,H,R

90

GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon

RWA M,H

Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon

Marathon Festival 28 Barossa AUS M,H,R 88 Scotiabank Calgary Marathon 28 CAN M 88 Ottawa Marathon 28 Scotiabank and Ottawa 10K

Wizz Air Skopje Marathon

MAS M,H,R

tbc Gunsan Saemangeum Int’l

94

Harmony Genève Marathon for Unicef SUI M,H,R 98

Marathon 97

23 AUT M,H,R 88 ORLEN Warsaw Marathon 23 POL M,R 96 Run Taipei 23 Women TPE H,R 12 Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon 29 NOR M,H,R 96 Big Sur Int’l Marathon 30 USA M,H 78 PZU Cracovia Marathon 30 POL M 96 Marathon Düsseldorf 30 METRO GER M 92+93 Vodafone İstanbul Half 30 Marathon TUR H

7

CAN M

96

Marathon, 10km & 5km

Wine Half Marathon 15 Pardubice CZE H 90 Old Mutual Two Oceans 15 Marathon RSA U

98

Vienna City Marathon

Roads to Rhodes Marathon

TJK H

90

planned date

94

Key M Marathon H Half Marathon R Road Race U Ultradistance

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Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon JPN U predicted date

Swansea Half Marathon 25 JCP GBR H Int’l Marathon 25 Tangamanga MEX M 21.1 25 Tarblazer IND H,R

95 90 24 94

tbc Carrera del Día Del Padre Medio

Maratón MEX H

AUS M

1 1 1 9

90

Gatorade Panama Int’l Half Marathon PAN H

96

Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon SUI M,H,U

98

Correcaminos Marathon & Half Marathon See race preview on page 37 CRC M,H

Nights Marathon 9 White RUS M Marathon 16 Mauritius MRI M,H,R Ring Ultra Trail 100 23 Golden See race preview on page 39 RUS U,R Course not measurable to AIMS standards

28–30 Swissalpine SUI U Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Outback Marathon 29 Australian AUS M predicted date Course not measurable to AIMS standards

90 96 95 96 24 88

30 Paulo City Marathon 30 Sao BRA M 88 Westlink M7 Blacktown Running 30 Festival 88

tbc 41st National MILO Marathon PHI M,H,R

96

Siberian Int’l Marathon RUS M

24

The Angkor Empire Marathon CAM M,H,R

24

Maratón Int’l de Asunción PAR M,H,R

96

Brisbane Marathon Festival AUS M,H,R

88

Da Nang Int’l Marathon VIE M,H,R

98

McDonald’s Townsville Running Festival AUS M,H,R 88

Maldives Road Race 11 Dhiraagu MDV R 95 Helsinki City Marathon 12 FIN M 26 Kuching Marathon 13 MAS M,H,R 95 Half Marathon 19 Hvar CRO H 26 Islandsbanki Reykjavik 19 Marathon ISL M,H

Marathon Festival 20 Adelaide AUS M,H,R Marathon 20 Edmonton CAN M Coast Marathon 20 7AUSSunshine M,H,R

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Pila Int’l Half Marathon POL H

Sydney Running 17 Blackmores Festival (incl. Sydney Marathon) 88

AUS M

Città di Udine 17 Maratonina ITA H 94 20th Int’l WACHAUmarathon 17 AUT M 88 Berlin Marathon BMW 24 GER M 90 Loch Ness Marathon 24 Baxters & Festival of Running

96

October 2017

90

1 1 1

10K San José – Costa Rica CRC R

Golden Ring Yaroslavl Half Marathon 96

RUS H

Economic Forum

8 8 8 8 8 8

Wizz Air Kyiv City Marathon 98

UKR M,H,R

Munich Marathon 50

GER M,H,R

BMO Okanagan Marathon 44

CAN M

Portland Marathon 98

USA M

Telesia Half Marathon 94

ITA H

GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon 88

CAN M

8 CRO M,H 90 Amman Int’l Marathon Samsung 13 JOR M,H,R 95 Zagreb Marathon & Half

8–10 SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half & 10k

94 88 26 88

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EST M,H,R

9 Jungfrau-Marathon SUI M Half Marathon 9 Stockholm SWE H Wizz Air Budapest Half 10 32nd Marathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

98 30

15–16 BMW Oslo Marathon 96

16–17 Dam tot Damloop NED R

28+40

Bila Tserkva Marathon UKR M

1 1 1 1

96

Beach Marathon 16 Tamarindo CRC M,H,R 90 Beijing Marathon 17 CHN M,H 88 Sanlam Cape Town Marathon 17 RSA M 96 Half Marathon 17 Copenhagen DEN H 36 Maratón de las Flores Medellín 17 COL M,H,R 90 Porto Half Marathon Sport Zone 17 POR H 38 Sarajevo Half Marathon 17 BIH H 88

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

98

Belfius Brussels Marathon & Half Marathon 88

Gatorade Caracas Rock 10K VEN R

98

Cardiff Half Marathon GBR H

90

Chisinau Int’l Marathon MDA M,H,R

95

90

Trento Half Marathon ITA H

94

Guayaquil Marathon ECU M predicted date

90

Incheon Songdo Int’l Marathon KOR M,H,R 95 Košice Peace Marathon SVK M

42

20km Int’l de Marrakech MAR R

Rock ’n’ Roll Querétaro Maratón MEX M,H,R 95 Silesia Marathon POL M,H,R

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Festival 34+35

HUN M

14

Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon 94

GRE H,R

Amsterdam Marathon 15 TCS NED M Properties Bengaluru 15 Sriram Marathon

96

94

IND M,H

Rock’n’Roll Lisbon Marathon EDP | Rock’n’Roll Half Marathon Santander Totta POR M,H 46

Melbourne Marathon 15 Medibank Festival 88

AUS M

15 CAN M,H,R 88 Palma de Mallorca Marathon 15 ESP M,H,R 98 18th PKO Poznań Marathon 15 POL M 96 Linker Oevert 1/2 Marathon 15 BEL H,R 88 Yerevan Half Marathon 15 ARM H,R 88 de Maraton Ciudad de 22 ¼ Bucaramanga – FCV Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon

ITA H

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WMRA News EXECUTIVES President: Bruno Gozzelino Secretary: Pierre Weiss (FRA) Treasurer: Nancy Hobbs (USA) Council Members: 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 2017 28th May Monte Velo / 1st WMRA World Cup race Arco (ITA)

4th June 33rd Int. Muttersberglauf / 2nd WMRA World Cup race Bludenz (AUT)

10th June 9th ABAF Balkan Mountain Running Championships Teteven (BUL)

11th June 37th La Montée du Grand Ballon / 3rd WMRA World Cup race Willer-sur-Thur (FRA)

24th June 12th WMRA International Youth Cup (competition for 16 and 17 years olds) ■ The mountain running season starts from April and is concentrated in central Europe.

Premana is a little-known village of 2000 inhabitants located in remote mountains near the more famous Lake Como. For Mountain runners it is well known as the venue for a traditional race called the "Giir di Mont" and will this year host the World Mountain Running Championships. The week-long “Mountain Running Festival” will start on 30 July with races for seniors over a 13km course and half this for juniors. For the first time the distances

will be the same for both men and women. A week later the Long Distance Championship will be contested on the traditional “Giir di Mont” course over 40km and with a total climb of almost 3000m. All the races will start and finish in Premana.

Youth runners will gather on the last weekend of June in another part of Italy: Gagliano del Capo, in the far south, hosts the “International Youth Cup”. This will be an interesting experience for runners and organisers alike as there are no mountains in the area and the highest point is just 150m above sea level.

Gagliano del Capo (ITA)

8th July

16th EA Mountain Running Championships Kamnik (SLO)

30th July 33rd WMRA World Mountain Running Championships Premana (ITA)

30th July 33rd WMRA World Mountain Running Championships / 4nd WMRA World Cup race Premana (ITA)

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On 8 July Slovenia hosts the European Championships in Kamnik with the Velika Planina Mountain already having hosted the World Championships in 2010. The course is fast and wide to start followed by a steep middle section before the more technical part of the course where runners will be cheered by crowds of spectators.

6th Aug

The World Cup begins with the “Monte Velo Race” in a new venue near Arco in Italy (host of the European Championships last year).

Bludenz (AUT) will stage the second race and the third at Grand Ballon in France/Alsace is already a regular stop on the World Cup circuit.

The Challenge Stelina in Italy is next, this year to be organised under new management. The Bavarian Hochfelln race that follows has the longest tradition of all having been run for 44 years. The final race of the World Cup series is, as has become traditional, the Šmarna gora race near Ljubljana-Slovenia.

2nd Sep

14th WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships Premana (ITA)

27th Aug 29th Challenge Stellina / 5th WMRA World Cup race Susa (ITA)

17th WMRA/WMA Masters’ World Mountain Running Championships Dubnica nad Vahom (SVK)

24th Sep 44th Hochfelln Berglauf / 6th WMRA World Cup race Bergen (GER)

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38th Smarna Gora Int. mountain race / final and 7th WMRA World Cup race Ljubljana (SLO)

IAU News ■ At the IAU Executive Council held on 16 January 2017 Dirk Strumane resigned as IAU President.

During the12 years of his presidency Dirk guided the IAU into its current position of serving the ultrarunning community with strong governance, competitive international championships and co-operation between athletes, federations and race organisers across the world. The IAU is very grateful for the superlative work that Dirk did during his tenure and his leadership will be missed. His resignation is for personal reasons.

IAU 100km Championships 2018 Croatia will stage the IAU 100km World Championships in 2018 at the Sveti Life Class Martin Spa north of Zagreb (www.spa-sport.hr).

The proposed course is a 10km loop along local roads closed to traffic. Accommodation will be on site at the Spa. The proposed date is 8 September but could change by a week either way.

Athletes of 2016 Maria Jannson (SWE) and Yamauchi Hideaki (JPN) have been voted as the IAU Athletes of the Year 2016.

Both winners gained more than double the number of votes of the second in the ranking. Maria Jannson (SWE) became European 24-hour champion by breaking the

14-year old European Record of Edit Berces (HUN/250.106km) with an outstanding 250.647km.

Yamauchi Hideaki (JPN) came second in the famous River Shimanto 100km in June 2016, followed by a strong 6-hour result in September (88.230km). In the IAU World Championships he impressed by running an astonishing last 10km to win the title.

EXECUTIVES President: Vice President: Nadeem Khan (CAN) General Secretary: Hilary Walker (GBR) Directors: Liesbeth Jansen (NED); Paco Rico (ESP); Jan Vandendriessche (BEL); Robert Boyce (AUS) Africa Representative: Solomon Ogba (NGR)

Inaugural 100km Americas Championship The 11th MAD CITY 100km, (Madison, USA) will be the venue for the first ever IAU 100km Americas Championships to be held on 8 April 2017. The race will be 10 laps of a 10km loop on Madison’s most popular 10km race course which takes runners along the shore of Lake Wingra and through the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. see : www.madcity100k.com

Americas Representative: Lin Gentling (USA) Asia & Oceania Representative: Gilsoo Park (KOR) Europe Representative: Walter Hill (GBR)

For more information contact: Jan Vandendriessche jan.vandendriessche@iau-ultramarathon.org

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New members The Tunisian Athletics Federation and the Indian Athletics Federation have become members of the IAU to bring the membership total to 83.

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Marathon greats Marathon running has moved on in the last 60 years but few runners today will have much appreciation of what they have moved on from. In Britain during those post-World War II years marathon running was the poor relation of the athletics family with runners banished from the stadium soon after starting the race and only re-entering for a final lap or less in front of the crowd.

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What happened for the rest of the time — 98% of the race — was seen only by race officials, a few enthusiasts and random pedestrians who happened to be on the race route.

In training it was harder. There were no professional runners: training had to be done after a full working day, at lunch time or by commuting to work on the run. There were no specialised or even rudimentary training shoes — just cheap thin-soled “plimsolls” with no stabilising or shock-absorbing qualities, the same sort worn by children for school PE lessons. And diet was still constrained by postwar food rationing.

Yet a world beater emerged from these unlikely circumstances. Jim Peters ran his first marathon in 1951 (a British record of 2:29:24) and in the following three years improved the world record four consecutive times by a total of eight minutes from 2:25:39 by Korean Yun Bok Suh (likely run on a short course) to the 2:17:39 he ran in the 1954 Polytechnic Marathon. No one before or since has come close to such a feat.

Peters was born on 24 October 1918 in Hackney in east London. He showed a gift for sport at school: at football and cricket before taking up running. He returned to his local club, Essex Beagles, after the war and became English AAA Champion at six miles (9656m) and 10 miles (16.1km) from 1946-7 to qualify for the 1948 London Olympic Games 10000m.

Emil Zatopek won gold and lapped Peters, who finished eighth in 31:16. Chastened but resolved Peters and his coach Jimmy Johnson drew up a long-term training plan to increase his workload to tackle the Marathon. He was running only 4–6 miles (6.5–10km) daily to

Breaking the sub-2:20 barrier was no less an achievement than breaking the 4-minute mile barrier achieved the following May by Roger Bannister to a much greater and more longlasting fanfare. Acclaim for Peters’ achievement was more muted but he himself put it into perspective when he referenced another worldshaking achievement in 1953 in calling the Marathon “the Everest of athletics”. He followed up over the next few months with marathons in Cardiff (2:22), Enschede and Turku where he knocked another few seconds off his world record by recording 2:18:35.

London optician who set four marathon world records

Peters improved further in 1954. Leading up to the Empire Games (later Commonwealth Games) he set his fourth and final world record at the Poly Marathon on 26 June, running 2:17:39.

Jim Peters

At the Games in Vancouver Peters won a bronze in the six miles days before starting the Marathon in the midday heat. Ten runners were to drop out with heatstroke and dehydration.

Peters himself entered the stadium 17 minutes ahead but began to lose co-ordination and weave across the track. He collapsed time and again, taking an agonising 11 minutes to cover 200m while spectators, including Roger Bannister, looked on aghast. GB team masseur Mickey Mays intervened to have Peters stretchered off the track 150m from the finish line.

begin with but the following winter built up to nine miles (15km). His training pace and workload was still modest at 3:45/km and 100km/week but he ran sub-2:30 for his first marathon and in doing so defeated Jack Holden who had dominated distance running in Britain for the previous two decades.

“I set off too fast in the heat, but that was always my way,” he said. “If someone had told me I was so far ahead, I dare say I’d have eased off a bit … When I woke up in hospital I thought I’d won. I was lucky not to have died that day.” Before the race Peters had claimed that he had measured the course and found it 1200m too long.

Peters started training twice a day in 1952: 12km in the morning and eventually up to twice that in the evening. Peters and Johnson, against the received wisdom of the time, set the training pace as “just below racing speed”. With this build up he won the 1952 Poly Marathon and beat the world record by five minutes with a time of 2:20:42.

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This second Olympic disappointment did nothing to suppress Peters’ appetite for training. He continued to run, in plimsolls, to his regular job at an optician’s practice in South London and gradually build up his training workload. In the Poly Marathon in June 1953 he improved his own world record to 2:18:40 and at Enschede (NED) on 12 September he ran 2:19:22 — the first ever sub-2:20 performance on an out-and-back course.

At the 1952 Olympic Marathon in Helsinki he ran up against his old adversary Emil Zatopek, who had already retained his 5000m and 10000m titles. Peters set a frenetic pace and raced into an early lead but was caught by Zatopek at 15km who deadpanned: “Jim — the pace — is it ok?” Peters tersely replied: “too slow”. Although Zatopek edged ahead Peters was still only 10m down at the turnaround point but he then started to fade and dropped out with leg cramps at 37km. If any explanation for Peters’ defeat is sought it can perhaps be found in the short six-week interval between running his world record and his Olympic appearance.

The Duke of Edinburgh sent a medal to Peters inscribed “To a most gallant marathon runner”.

That, and his running kit — including the plimsolls — were donated to the Sports Hall of Fame in Vancouver.

Peters never fully physically recovered from his Vancouver ordeal and soon after announced his retirement from distance running. He served as president of the Road Runners Club from 1955–1956 and continued to work as an optician in Mitcham, South London and later at Chadwell Heath in Essex.

The Polytechnic Marathon trophy that he won four times was later re-named the Jim Peters Trophy and is now presented to the first British finisher in the London Marathon. In 2005 it went to Paula Radcliffe.

Jim Peters died on 9 January 1999 after a sixyear battle with cancer.

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Just a week after his 86th birthday the ever-gracious and remarkably talented long distance runner Ed Whitlock died in Toronto on 13 March from prostate cancer writes Paul Gains.

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Although he was an accomplished British club runner in school and at university Whitlock put the sport on hold while he embarked on an engineering career in Canada. Much later in life he became the first septuagenarian to run under three hours with a 70+ world marathon record of 2:59:10 at the 2003 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, an event to which he became particularly attached.

A year later he improved that record with a 2:54:49 at age 73, again in Toronto. Eventually he set world masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marathon records for age 75+, 80+ and, most recently, 85+ with a time of 3:56:38 set on 16 October 2016 in Toronto.

In all he set roughly 25 world masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s records over distances from 1500m to the marathon.

Alan Brookes, the race director of the Toronto event, enjoyed a longstanding friendship with Whitlock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ed Whitlock, The Master. The Legend. This is an enormous loss to Canada and the global running community. Somehow we thought Ed would just go on setting records foreverâ&#x20AC;Ś He defined our Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. He will always be a vital part of the identity and spirit of the race. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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World leading times These lists give the current standings in the world of road racing, and are believed accurate at 31 March 2017. 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 Present world record: Dennis Kimetto (KEN); 2:02:57; Berlin; 29 SEP 2014

Men Time

Athlete

Nation Rank Venue

KEN 2:03:58 Wilson KIPSANG 2:04:11 Tamirat TOLA ETH KEN 2:05:51 Gideon KIPKETER 2:05:54 Amos Choge KIPRUTO KEN 2:06:03 Felix KANDIE KEN 2:06:05 Mark KORIR KEN 2:06:07 Norbert Kipkoech KIGEN KEN KEN 2:06:25 Dickson CHUMBA 2:06:27 Wilson LOYANAE KEN 2:06:42 Evans CHEBET KEN ETH 2:06:46 Mule WASIHUN KEN 2:07:33 Jacob KENDAGOR 2:07:39 Alfers LAGAT KEN KEN 2:07:43 Titus EKIRU ETH 2:07:48 Tariku KINFU 2:08:04 Sisay LEMMA ETH 2:08:09 Sisay JIGSA ETH KEN 2:08:10 Bernard KIPYEGO 2:08:14 Yohannes GHEBREGERGISH ERI

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

Tokyo Dubai Tokyo Seoul Seoul Seoul Seoul Tokyo Seoul Tokyo Dubai Seoul Tokyo Sevilla Sevilla Dubai Dubai Tokyo Tokyo

Date

26 FEB 20 JAN 26 FEB 19 MAR 19 MAR 19 MAR 19 MAR 26 FEB 19 MAR 26 FEB 20 JAN 19 MAR 26 FEB 19 FEB 19 FEB 20 JAN 20 JAN 26 FEB 26 FEB

Time

Athlete

2:08:22 Hiroto INOUE 2:08:26 Kipkempoi KIPSANG 2:08:27 Lemi BERHANU 2:08:39 Mark LOKWANAMOI 2:08:45 Tsegaye KEBEDE 2:08:52 Victor KIPCHIRCHIR 2:08:55 Gebresadik ABRAHA 2:08:57 Jonah Kipkemoi CHESUM 2:09:06 Ezekiel CHEBII 2:09:12 Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO 2:09:15 Vincent KIPRUTO 2:09:23 Mekuant AYENEW 2:09:24 Jacob Cheshari KIRUI 2:09:27 Yuta SHITARA 2:09:31 Solomon DEKSISA 2:09:32 Alphonce SIMBU 2:09:32 Kentaro NAKAMOTO 2:09:37 Hikadu KEBEDE 2:09:39 Sammy KORIR

Nation Rank Venue

JPN 8 KEN 3 ETH 1 KEN 5 ETH 9 KEN 7 ETH 1 KEN 1 KEN 1 JPN 10 KEN 2 ETH 6 KEN 2 JPN 11 ETH 12 TAN 1 JPN 1 ETH 1 KEN 2

Tokyo Sevilla Xiamen Dubai Tokyo Seoul Marrakech Barcelona Otsu Tokyo Otsu Dubai Barcelona Tokyo Tokyo Mumbai Oita Rabat Rabat

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

Women Date

26 FEB 19 FEB 02 JAN 20 JAN 26 FEB 19 MAR 29 JAN 12 MAR 05 MAR 26 FEB 05 MAR 20 JAN 12 MAR 26 FEB 26 FEB 15 JAN 05 FEB 05 MAR 05 MAR

Time

Athlete

2:19:47 2:21:17 2:21:19 2:21:36 2:22:36 2:22:57 2:23:09 2:23:13 2:23:47 2:24:04 2:24:22 2:25:04 2:25:12 2:25:44 2:25:45 2:25:52 2:25:57 2:25:58 2:26:09

Sarah CHEPCHIRCHIR Eunice KIRWA Berhane DIBABA Yuka ANDO Worknesh DEGEFA Shure DEMISE Amane GOBENA Yebrgual MELESE Mao KIYOTA Tadelech BEKELE Risa SHIGETOMO Helen BEKELE Hirut TIBEBU Misato HORIE Hiwot GEBREKIDAN Margaret AGAI Ashete BEKERE Meseret MENGISTU Sayaka KUWAHAA

Nation Rank Venue

KEN BRN ETH JPN ETH ETH ETH ETH JPN ETH JPN ETH ETH JPN ETH KEN ETH ETH JPN

1 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 3 4 1 1 5 2 1 1 2 1 4

Date

Tokyo Nagoya Tokyo Nagoya Dubai Dubai Tokyo Dubai Nagoya Dubai Osaka Barcelona Dubai Osaka Tiberias Seoul Seoul Xiamen Nagoya

26 FEB 12 MAR 26 FEB 12 MAR 20 JAN 20 JAN 26 FEB 20 JAN 12 MAR 20 JAN 29 JAN 12 MAR 20 JAN 29 JAN 06 JAN 19 MAR 19 MAR 02 JAN 12 MAR

Time

Athlete

2:26:19 2:26:22 2:26:27 2:26:44 2:26:47 2:26:52 2:26:53 2:26:55 2:26:58 2:27:04 2:27:08 2:27:18 2:27:35 2:27:37 2:27:54

Hanae TANAKA Rael KIYARA Workenesh EDESA Meselech TSEGAYE Melkam GIZAW Mercy KIBARUS Serena BURLA Aberu MERKURIA Roza DEREJE Aberash Fayesa ROBI Ayaka FUJIMOTO Anne BERERWE Hisami IHII Marta LEMA Miharu HIMOKADO

Nation Rank Venue

JPN KEN ETH ETH ETH KEN USA ETH ETH ETH JPN KEN JPN ETH JPN

3 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 6 3 4 2 5 5 6

Osaka Chongqing Xiamen Barcelona Xiamen Seoul Osaka Seoul Dubai Barcelona Tokyo Chongqing Nagoya Tokyo Nagoya

Date

29 JAN 19 MAR 02 JAN 12 MAR 02 JAN 19 MAR 29 JAN 19 MAR 20 JAN 12 MAR 26 FEB 19 MAR 12 MAR 26 FEB 12 MAR

Half Marathon Men Time

Athlete

59:10 59:19 59:26 59:50 59:56 59:59 1:00:00 1:00:01 1:00:04 1:00:04 1:00:05 1:00:07 1:00:08 1:00:11 1:00:24 1:00:28 1:00:28 1:00:38

Bedan KAROKI Yigrem DEMELASH Augustine CHOGE Solomon YEGO Geoffrey YEGON Edwin KIPTOO Callum HAWKINS Jake ROBERTSON Nguse AMSOLOM Feyisa LILESA Edwin KIPYEGO Shadrack KIMINING Callum HAWKINS James MWANGI Edwin KOECH Mohamed ZIANI Teshome MEKONEN Morris GACHAGA

Nation Rank Venue

KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN KEN GBR NZL ERI ETH KEN KEN GBR KEN KEN MAR ETH KEN

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

Date

Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB Den Haag 12 MAR Den Haag 12 MAR Marugame 05 FEB Lisboa 19 MAR Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB New York 19 MAR Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah10 FEB New York 19 MAR Lisboa 19 MAR Verona 12 FEB Marrakech 29 JAN New York 19 MAR Paris 05 MAR

Time

Athlete

1:00:40 1:00:42 1:00:45 1:00:46 1:00:48 1:00:52 1:00:54 1:00:55 1:00:56 1:00:57 1:00:58 1:00:59 1:00:59 1:01:00

Paul LONYANGATA Alex KORIO Edwin KOECH Tadu ABATE James RUNGARU Leonard LANGAT Meshack KOECH Stephen SAMBU Peter Cheruiyot KIRUI Kenta MURAYAMA Atsedu TSEGAYE Joel KIMURER Joel KIMUTAI Abraham KIPYATCH

Nation Rank Venue

KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN KEN KEN JPN ETH KEN KEN KEN

2 3 3 4 3 1 2 4 1 5 2 3 3 4

Paris Paris Lisboa Lisboa Den Haag Barcelona Barcelona New York Santa Pola New York Marugame Marugame Barcelona Marugame

Date

05 MAR 05 MAR 19 MAR 19 MAR 12 MAR 12 FEB 12 FEB 19 MAR 22 JAN 19 MAR 05 FEB 05 FEB 12 FEB 05 FEB

Other Performances

59:18 Guye ADOLA 59:31 Justus KANGOGO 1:00:13 Peter NDOROBO

ETH 1 Ostia KEN 2 Ostia KEN 3 Ostia

Present world record (mixed race): Peres Jepchirchir (KEN); 1:05:06; Ras al Khaimah; 10 FEB 2017 Present world record (women’s-only race) Lornah Kiplagat (KEN); 1:06:24; Udine; 14 OCT 2007

Women

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

12 MAR 12 MAR 12 MAR

Time

Athlete

1:05:06 1:05:13 1:06:08 1:06:43 1:06:50 1:07:35 1:07:42 1:07:48 1:07:58 1:08:06 1:08:07 1:08:08 1:08:15 1:08:19 1:08:21 1:08:27 1:08:37 1:08:38 1:08:40 1:09:01 1:09:05 1:09:06 1:09:13 1:09:15 1:09:25 1:09:31 1:09:33 1:09:37 1:09:43 1:09:44 1:09:46 1:09:49 1:09:49 1:09:54 1:09:55 1:09:58 1:09:58 1:09:56 1:09:58

Peres JEPCHIRCHIR Mary KEITANY Joyciline JEPKOSGEI Jemima SUMGONG Tirunesh DIBABA Brigit KOSGEI Ruth CHEPNGETICH Helah KIPROP Veronicah WANJIRU Dera DIDA Eunice Jepkirui KIRWA Ruth CHEPNGETICH Florence KIPLAGAT Molly HUDDLE Emily SISSON Amy CRAGG Rose CHELIMO Mary WACERA Jordan HASAY Mamitu DASKA Vivian KIPLAGAT Ruth CHEPNGETICH Diane NKURI Mimi GEBREGIORGIOS Betty LEMPUS Stellah BARSOSIO Veronicah WANJIRU Edna KIPLAGAT Mare DIBABA Vivian CHERUIYOT Muliye DEKEBO Antonina KWAMBAI Dibaba KUMA Karolina NADOLSKA Afera GODFAY Aliphine BOLTON Sarah LAHTI Angela TANUI Aliphine TULIAMUK

Nation Rank Venue

KEN KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN KEN KEN KEN ETH BRN KEN KEN USA USA USA BRN KEN USA ETH KEN KEN BDI BRN KEN KEN KEN KEN ETH KEN ETH KEN ETH KEN ETH USA SWE KEN USA

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

Date

Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Verbiana 12 MAR Milano 19 MAR Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Houston 15 JAN Houston 15 JAN Marugame 05 FEB Paris 05 MAR Barcelona 12 FEB New York 19 MAR New York 19 MAR Marugame 05 FEB Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB Houston 15 JAN Houston 15 JAN Houston 15 JAN Verbiana 12 MAR Adana 08 JAN New York 19 MAR Verona 12 FEB Milano 19 MAR Limassol 19 MAR Ras Al Khaimah 10 FEB New York 19 MAR Lisboa 19 MAR Lisboa 19 MAR Houston 15 JAN Santa Pola 22 JAN Barcelona 12 FEB Poznan 26 MAR Lisboa 19 MAR Houston 15 JAN New York 19 MAR Adana 08 JAN Houston 15 JAN

Peres Jepchirchir

Other performances:

1:07:01 1:07:43 1:08:46 1:09:01 1:09:10

Gladys KIPRONO Anglea TANUI Aselefech MERGIA Rewbecca KANGOGO Muliye DEKEBO

KEN KEN ETH KEN ETH

1 2 3 4 5

Ostia Ostia Ostia Ostia Ostia

12 MAR 12 MAR 12 MAR 12 MAR 12 MAR

10km Men Time

Athlete

27:52 Nicholas KOSIMBEI 28:00 Stephen ARISA

Women Nation Rank Venue

KEN 1 Valencia KEN 2 Valencia

Date

08 JAN 08 JAN

Time

Athlete

31:41 31:43

Mary WACERA Susan KRUMINS

Nation Rank Venue

KEN 1 San JUAN NED 1 Schoorl

Date

26 FEB 12 FEB

Bedan Karoki Photo: Victah Sailer/PhotoRun

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Lives remembered

24 Aug 1979: Miruts Yifter shakes hands with a fellow competitor after a race at the IAAF World Cup in Montreal while John Treacy (IRL) looks on.

Photo: Tony Duffy/Allsport

Miruts Yifter Pioneering Ethiopian distance runner Miruts Yifter, who won gold medals in the 5000m and 10,000m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, died on 22 December 2016 in a Toronto hospital. He was thought to be 72 but his birthdate, most often cited as 15 May 1944, has also been given as 1 January 1938. He had been suffering from respiratory problems after having suffered a collapsed lung.

Yifter was one of the pioneers of Ethiopian success at distance running but it was not until late in his career that he enjoyed his greatest triumph at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Commentators nicknamed him “Yifter the Shifter” for the way he could change pace repeatedly during a race and demoralise the opposition. Like others after him he trained specifically to perfect a last-lap finishing kick. He described how he unleashed it at the Moscow Olympics in a 2004 interview:

stepped aside to allow Yifter to come through.

Kedir had won bronze in the 10000m but after moving aside to let Yifter through he fell and finished last.

Yifter had previously run eight years earlier in the 1972 Munich Olympics. He won a bronze medal at 10,000m but controversially failed to show for the 5000m final. He claimed that national coaches had kept him on the warm-up

Miruts Yifter passes compatriot Tolossa Kotu on his way to the gold medal in the Men’s 10,000 metres at the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Photo: Tony Duffy/Getty Images

track too long for him to meet the requirements of the call room procedures. When he returned to Ethiopia this criticism was labelled ‘treasonous’ by the Government of the Emperor Haile Selassie and he was imprisoned for three months.

He missed the 1976 Olympics in Montreal through the African boycott of those Games.

Before him Olympic success for Ethiopia had come exclusively in the Marathon with victories from Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964 and Mamo Wolde in 1968. Alongside them Yifter inspired the next generation of Ethiopian runners — including Haile Gebrselassie.

“Miruts was everything to me and my athletics career,” Gebreselassie said. “When I started running, I just wanted to be like him. He is the reason for who I am now and for what I have achieved.”

“I listened to my opponents until there were five laps to go. Then I decided. The tension started at the bell but before they could go, I made my move. 300m is the ideal – not too late, not too early.”

But Haile was then an unknown athletic aspirant. In 1998 Yifter, despite being from the same ethnic region as the Prime Minister and governing party, protested that he was accused of being too close to the previous regime, and sought asylum in Canada.

In the 5000m he was boxed in as they entered the last lap but his young protegee Mohamed Kedir (who went on to become world cross-country champion in 1982)

Yifter won asylum in Canada and had lived there since 1998 until his death on 22 December.

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Results 12 December 2016 – 17 March 2017 17 December 2016 Bangsaen21 Half Marathon Thailand Half marathon Men

1 Abera Tariku DEMELASH

ETH 1:08:13

2 Onesmus Muasya MUINDI

KEN 1:08:48

3 Hillary Kipkering KOECH

KEN 1:09:17

Women

1 Tanaphon ASSAWAONGCHAROENTHA 1:27:08 2 Valentine Jepkemoi SEREM

KEN 1:27:49

3 Apassara PRASATHINPIMAI

THA 1:28:13

10km Men

1 Nattawat INNUM

THA

33:29

THA

43:17

Women

1 Kamonporn YEMSEE

www.bangsaen21.com/index_eng.html Next date: 16 December 2017

18 December 2016 Tata Steel Kolkata 25k India

Tata Steel Kolkata 25k India Photo: Retina Charmer

18 December 2016 PisaMarathon Italy

2 Srinu BUGATA

IND 1:17:18

3 A B BALLIAPA

IND 1:17:24

1 Ahmed NASEF 2 Jeroen HENDRIKX 3 Riccado PASSERI

ITA 2:24:00 BEL 2:25:53 ITA 2:26:33 Women

Women

IND 1:34:15

2 Jyoti GAWTE

IND 1:35:34

3 Monika RAUT

IND 1:35:37

www.tsk25.procamrunning.in Next date: tbc

18 December 2016 Mizuno Hong Kong HalfMarathon Championships

1 Giorgia MORANO 2 Claudia GELSOMINO 3 Roberta FERRU

ITA 2:47:10 ITA 2:50:29 ITA 2:51:20

18 December 2016 Taipei Marathon Chinese Taipei

Men

KEN 2:09:59 KEN 2:13:40 KEN 2:13:59

Women

1:11:27

2 Hin-Wa YU

1:14:04

3 Kang NGAI

1:14:19

1 Mercy Jerotich KIBARUS 2 Leah Kiprono JEBET 3 Dorcas Jepchirchir KIPTARUS

KEN 2:36:33 KEN 2:37:01 KEN 2:41:22

Half marathon

Women

1 Chi-Ngan CHOW

1:26:29

2 Ka-Yan Larissa TONG

1:26:46 1:28:48

www.hkaaa.com Next date: 17 December 2017

Men

1 Ting Yin CHOU

TPE 1:08:34 Women

1 Hannah Wabera GATHINGI

KEN 1:15:45

www.sportsnet.org.tw Next date: 17 December 2017

SUI 2:41:34 SUI 2:44:59 GER 2:47:05

Women

SUI 3:19:28 GER 3:33:22 FRA 3:38:21

Half marathon

Portugal

Men

1 David JEKER

10km 1 Hermano FERREIRA 2 João PEREIRA 3 João SILVA 1 Jéssica AUGUSTO 2 Ana Dulce FELIX 3 Doroteia PEIXOTO

CAN 1:21:51 Women

POR POR POR

30:10 30:22 30:43

POR POR POR

33:07 34:04 35:10

Women

Marathon

1 Philipp ARNOLD 2 Urs SCHOENHOLZOR 3 Andreas PROBST 1 Astrid LEUTERT 2 Kerstin HOTTE 3 Atika KUHN

31 December 2016 El Corte Inglés São Silvestre de Lisboa

Men

1 Sammy KITWARA 2 William Chebon CHEBOR 3 Johnstone KIBET

Half marathon

www.saosilvestreangola.co.ao Next date: 31 December 2017

www.maratonadipisa.com Next date: 17 December 2017

Men

Hong Kong, China

3 Tsz Ying VUT

Men

[Results unobtainable]

Men

IND 1:17:16

1 Kun WANG

Marathon

Marathon

Men

1 Monika ATHARE

won by the current Swiss record holder at 3000m indoors, Astrid Leutert.

Angola

10km 1 G LAKSHMANAN

31 December 2016 São Silvestre de Luanda 10km

www.saosilvestredelisboa.com Next date: 30 December 2017

1 January 2017 Neujahrsmarathon Zürich Switzerland 2014 winner Philipp Arnold celebrated his second victory after giving long and finally successful chase to catch the frontrunner Negussie Bekele (ETH) after 35km.

Bekele was slowed by cramps and finished fifth. The women’s race was

1 Caroline ROHERL

GER 1:34:05

www.neujahrsmarathon.ch Next date: 1 January 2018

2 January 2017 Xiamen Int’l Marathon China Race favourites Lemi Berhanu and Meseret Mengistu led podium sweeps for Ethiopia writes Vincent Wu. After a group of 15 runners passed through 10km in 30:15 Berhanu made an early break. Running alone at the front, with countrymen Shura Kitata and Mosinet Geremew chasing, Berhanu passed 25km in 1:15:16 with an advantage of 36 seconds but then began to slow. His lead was not threatened and behind Distance Running | 2017 Edition 2

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Siberian Ice Half Marathon Russia him half marathon specialist Geremew outraced Kitata over the last 10km. Xiamen was his marathon debut.

6 January 2017 Tiberias Winner Marathon

7 January 2017 Siberian Ice Half Marathon

8 January 2017 Merida Marathon

Israel

Russia

Mexico

Meseret Mengistu followed her win in Beijing last September with another in Xiamen finishing with a time two seconds slower and six minutes shy of Mare Dibaba’s 2:19:52 course record set in 2015.

1330 runners completed the full marathon and 1170 the 10km in sunny but cool conditions. There were two exceptional results: a littleknown Ethiopian Gebremaryan Gebrekid Hiwot improved her personal best by nine minutes to break the 25-year old course record and set a world-leading time. The second impressive achievement was by the Israeli Girma Amara who set a national record for a debut marathon with 2:17:20. This gave him a qualifying time for the World Championships to be held in London this summer.

Half marathon

Marathon

Seven runners passed through 10km in 34:30; by halfway there were four of them left. Mengistu, defending champion Workenesh Edesa, 2016 Beijing Marathon runner-up Melkam Gizaw and 2016 Wuhan Marathon winner Meseret Legese. Legese has run the last four Xiamen Marathons but is yet to claim a victory. Edesa and Mengistu pulled away after about 26km. Edesa tried to shake off Mengistu with surges but her efforts came to nothing as the patient Mengistu took her chance at 35km and never looked back.

Men

ETH 2:08:27

2 Mosinet GEREMEW

ETH 2:10:20

3 Shuru KITATA

ETH 2:10:36

RUS 1:08:16

1 Julius KIPYEGO

2 Maksim KARAMASHEV

RUS 1:09:32

2 Simon NJOROGE

KEN 2:21:38

3 Vadim ULIZHOV

RUS 1:09:40

3 Patricio CASTILLO

MEX 2:21:54

1 Natalia TARASOVA

RUS 1:22:06

1 Amare SHEWARE

ETH 2:54:00

2 Marina KOVALYOVA

RUS 1:28:00

2 Claudia JUÁREZ

MEX 2:59:09

3 Asel SOGNAYEVA

RUS 1:28:52

3 Eunice KAVUU

KEN 3:01:47

Women

Men

www.runsim.ru

www.merida.gob.mx

Next date: tbc

Next date: tbc

8 January 2017 Cebu Marathon

13 January 2017 Egyptian Marathon

Philippines

Egypt

Marathon

Marathon PHI 2:34:26

1 Hayel ALRAWAHNEH

ETH 2:25:58 ETH 2:26:27

3 Melkam GIZAW

ETH 2:26:47

www.xmim.org/en/ Next date: tbc

JOR 2:42:27

ETH 2:16:39

2 Rafael PESCOS

PHI 2:38:14

2 Mohamed ALNAHWASRAH

JOR 2:53:48

2 Girma AMARA

ISR 2:17:20

3 Joseph MURURI

KEN 2:38:54

3 Elyamanie KAMER

EGY 2:54:36

1 Jennylyn NOBLEZA

PHI 3:18:46

1 Margartet WANG

CAN 3:44:50

2 Susan CHEPKWONY

KEN 3:33:39

2 Georgia KOLETA

GRE 3:58:09

3 Lizane ABELLA

PHI 3:45:44

3 Chantale COMTE

FRA 4:44:34

3 Weba BRIHUN

ISR 2:21:51

2 Meryem ERDOGAN

TUR 2:43:33

3 Mintamar BIKAYA

ISR 2:53:22

Women

1 Mokat PATENA

Luxor Run 22km

Men

ISR

31:18

1 Prince Joey LEE

Men

PHI 1:15:42

1 Rafat ZOBOON

Women

Women

1 Irena Or KONOBELOV

Women

Half marathon

10km Men

2 Workenesh EDESA

Men

1 Eric CHEPSIROR

1 Arga Wegi HABTAMU

Women

1 Meseret MENGISTU

KEN 2:21:21

Women

Men

1 Gebremaryan Gebrekid HIWOT ETH 2:25:45

1 Lemi BERHANU

Men

1 Sergey PETROV

Marathon

Women

Marathon

Men

ISR

www.tiberiasmarathon.com Next date: 5 January 2018

37:04

1 Ruffa SORONGON

JOR 1:16:00 Women

PHI 1:35:56

1 Leila RUIZ

USA 1:37:50

www.cebumarathon.net

www.egyptianmarathon.net

Next date: tbc

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Podium placers aims-worldrunning.org 15 January 2017 Kinmen Marathon Chinese Taipei

15 January 2017 Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon India

Marathon Men

1 George Mbugua NGURE 2 David Musyoki MAILU

KEN 2:20:46 KEN 2:30:18

Women

1 Cecilia Wayua MICHAEL 2 Risper Lagat CHELEGAT

KEN 2:51:06 KEN 2:52:06

Half marathon Men

1 Erastus Mumo MUTUA

KEN 1:09:15

Women

1 Runner 5637

TPE 1:20:28

www.sportsnet.org.tw Next date: tbc

15 January 2017 Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half United States of America Marathon Men

1 Brian POST 2 Luc DROLET 3 Linus CANDELARIA

USA 2:56:22 CAN 3:00:16 USA 3:01:13

Women

1 Yuko NAKAI 2 Meg LANDYMORE 3 Sadie SMITH

USA 3:06:21 USA 3:21:24 USA 3:29:40

Half marathon Men

1 Jay ELLIS

USA 1:28:54 Women

1 Varinka ENSMINGER

USA 1:26:17

www.RunMaui.com Next date: 14 January 2018

Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu, fifth at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, hit the front with 1km to go and sprinted away for victory after a duel over the last 7km with Kenyan Joshua Kipkorir. A group of 13 passed through halfway in 1:04:49 and the pace stayed steady as far as 30km with seven men still together at that point. Kipkorir then changed pace and split the pack. By 35km, as they started on an 800m-long drag up a tough hill, Simbu was his only rival. Simbu tucked in to Kipkorir’s frustration. With 2km to go the strain of leading began to tell on Kipkorir as Simbu awaited his moment to strike. He raced away to equal the second-fastest winning time in the 14 years the race has been held. Falling only 13 seconds short of his personal best time was an impressive performance as the course is challenging, with two big hills, and conditions were warm and humid. All the more impressive that Kipkorir sliced more than three minutes off his best time.

By contrast to the thrilling two-man battle in the men’s race Bournes Kitur, after passing halfway in 1:14:03 with three other women, raced away to a one-minute lead at 30km. The 21-year-old Kenyan kept on extending her advantage over

Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half United States of America

15 January 2017 Marathon Bahamas, Half & Relay Bahamas

15 January 2017 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon United States of America

Marathon Marathon

Men

1 Leigh SCHMIT

Men

USA 2:52:25

2 Amos DESJARDINS

USA 3:04:47

3 Antoine BOSFIELD

BAH 3:04:52

1 Dominic ONDORO

KEN 2:12:05

2 Yitayal ATANAFU

ETH 2:12:33

3 Abayneh AYELE

Women

1 Chen LO

USA 3:17:58

2 Mari KAURI

USA 3:28:03

3 Suzy ENEAS

BAH 3:36:35

Half marathon

ETH 2:12:44 Women

1 Meskerem ASSEFA

ETH 2:30:18

2 Biruktayit DEGEFA

ETH 2:30:44

3 Becky WADE

USA 2:35:57

Half marathon

Men

1 Jonathan VOLPI

Men

USA 1:14:44 Women

1 Florencia MORALES

1 Leonard KORIR

USA 1:01:14 Women

ARG 1:29:45

1 Veronicah WANJIRU

KEN 1:07:58

www.marathonbahamas.com

www.houstonmarathon.com

Next date: 14 January 2018

Next date: 14 January 2018

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1.855 1.452

1500 1000

928 627

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Runners coming from 45 different countries placed their trust in the race last year Running in San Sebastian is, without a doubt, very special. There are not many places in the world that offer the visitor so many interesting and tourist attractions as San Sebastian, a beautiful coastal town in the North of Spain, washed by the Cantabric Sea and located just 20km from France. In addition to this, the athletics tradition is almost unique in San Sebastian, where the best long distance runners such as Zatopek and Bekele have run in the past.

Registrations are already open on the www.zurichmaratondonostia.com official website and the race will take place on Sunday 26th November this year. It will be the 40th edition of this international race.

Runners coming from 45 countries on four continents took part in 2016.

They had the opportunity to enjoy a magical environment in an ideal town for personal bests that offers favorable temperatures and a flat pollution-free

route at sea level, certified by AIMS. This was confirmed by participants of previous editions: 64% of them improved their PB in 2016 and 70% did so in 2015. The race offers Half Marathon and 10k races on the same day.

The runners have five hours to complete the race. In San Sebastian the spectators know a lot about athletics, which is why they really appreciate and value the runners’ efforts. It is normal to see the town’s streets full of spectators cheering the runners and shouting their names – which are printed on the runners’ bibs.

Much more than a Marathon 93% of 2016 participants rated the whole of the race as very good or good. This is great news for such an international race which runs along La Concha Beach, the best beach in Europe and the sixth best beach worldwide according to TripAdvisor rankings.

Travelling to San Sebastian to run the marathon does not only mean participation in a race. The experience goes far beyond that: visiting the town means enjoying unique gastronomy and extraordinary culture in addition to visiting magic places.

San Sebastian is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in the world. Nominated in 2017 as European Best Destination, the town offers visitors a wide variety of attractions. There are also great accommodation offers on the official website.

In this 40th edition the race is proud to welcome a new title sponsor. For the first time Zurich Insurance becomes the title sponsor, contributing with the brand’s image and support to runners, volunteers and staff and confirming the brand’s involvement and commitment to athletics.

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the remainder of the race. “I was confident I could win because I knew the course after finishing second here last year,” said the quietly-spoken Kitur. 2014 and 2015 champion Dinknesh Mekash started to struggle just before halfway and finished a disappointing fifth.

Mumbai Marathon is one of the largest sporting events in Asia and India’s biggest platform for charity.

There were four other associated races with an estimated 42,000 runners taking to the streets of Mumbai.

Men

29 January 2017 Maratona do Funchal

Brazil

Mexico

Portugal

10km

Marathon

Marathon

Men

Men

1 Dawit Fikadu ADMASU 2 Willian KIBOR 3 Joseph Tiophil PANGA

TAN 2:09:32

2 Joshua KIPKORIR

KEN 2:09:50

3 Eliud BARNGETUNY

KEN 2:10:39

Women

1 Bornes KITUR

KEN 2:29:02

2 Chaltu TAFA

ETH 2:33:03 ETH 2:33:19

Half marathon

29:09 29:24 29:41

1 Hillary Kipchirchir KIMAIYO 2 Benjamin KIPLIMO 3 Jose Guadalupe DE JESUS

KEN KEN BRA

33:59 34:22 34:31

1 Misha Elena RUIZ 2 Cristina MUAIZ 3 Regina Chepchirchir KOECH

www.corridadesaosebastiao.com.br Next date: tbc

22 January 2017 Gammon China Coast Marathon & Half

2:46:46 2:54:23 2:57:37

1 Marcia ZHOU 2 Yuk-Lin TZE 3 Wan-Yee LEUNG

3:16:23 3:38:04 3:45:15

1 Matthew CLARKE

Women

IND 1:19:11

1 Annette HOLM 2 Ewelina PUCHALA 3 Rebecca PARRY

maratonculiacan.org Next date: tbc

22 January 2017 Gran Canaria Marathon See race feature on page 13

22 January 2017 Mitja Marato Int’l Vila de Santa Pola

1 Megumi MATRUI

JPN 1:29:50

www.avohk.org Next date: 21 January 2018

DEN 3:32:17 POL 3:42:58 GBR 3:51:12

Half marathon Men

1 Carlos FREITAS

POR 1:09:46 Women

1 Janina HEYN

GER 1:28:58

www.funchalmarathon.com Next date: 28 January 2018

29 January 2017 Grande Prémio Fim da Europa

Spain

Portugal

Half marathon

16.95km Men

Men

1 Peter CHERUIYOT 2 Daniel MUNIDI 3 John LOTIANG 1 Antonia KWAMBAI 2 Buzunesh GUDETA 3 Lillian PARTRIDGE

POR 2:41:35 MAR 2:41:55 GBR 2:48:13

Women

KEN 1:00:56 KEN 1:02:29 KEN 1:02:58

1 Bruno LOURENCO 2 Diogo RAMALHEIRA 3 Fernando GOMES

KEN 1:09:49 ETH 1:11:31 GBR 1:12:12

1 Tania FERNANDES 2 Isabel SILVA 3 Patricia RIVOTTI

POR 1:01:15 POR 1:01:25 POR 1:02:20

Women

Women

1:15:05 Women

scmm.procamrunning.in Next date: 21 January 2018

MEX 2:50:58 MEX 2:55:53 KEN 2:59:50

Women

Men

IND 1:05:05

1 Américo CALDEIRA 2 Mostafa CHANNI 3 Ally WATSON

www.grancanariamaraton.com Next date: 21 January 2018

Men

1 Etienne RODRIGUEZ 2 Tung-Hoi YIP 3 Jason SKILLICORN

Men

KEN 2:19:20 KEN 2:22:14 MEX 2:27:38

Women

Women

1 Failuna Abdi MATANGA 2 Caroline Chemutai KOMEN 3 Joziane Cardoso DA SILVA

Half marathon

Men

1 Monika ATHARE

ETH KEN BRA

Marathon

1 Alphonce SIMBU

1 G LAKSHMANAN

22 January 2017 Maratón Int’l de Culiacán

Hong Kong, China

Marathon

3 Tigist GIRMA

20 January 2017 Corrida de Sao Sebastiao

www.mitjasantapola.com Next date: tbc

POR 1:12:49 POR 1:13:15 ITA 1:15:19

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Thailand

Thailand Men

Men

1 Degefa Yohannesse LAFEBO

ETH 2:23:55

2 Mulatu Tesfaye REGASA

ETH 2:23:57

3 Peter Kipleting KETER

KEN 2:23:58

Women

1 Margaret NJUGUNA

KEN 2:50:50

2 Irene MOGAKA

KEN 2:51:10

3 Birtukan Fetene SHIFERAW

ETH 2:54:39

1 Peter KIPLETING 2 Jofar Robi LEGESSE 3 Onesmus Muasya MUINDI

KEN 2:26:14 ETH 2:26:18 KEN 2:26:47

Women

1 Mahlet SHEWANGIZAW 2 Oarorydo JEPILOSUEI 3 Asnakech ABEJE

ETH 2:52:43 KEN 3:01:48 ETH 3:03:01

Half marathon Men

1 Denneth KEMBOI

Half marathon

KEN 1:07:06 Women

Men

1 Hana Abrema TESHOME

ETH 1:19:08

KEN 1:04:03

www.bkkmarathon.com Next date: 18 November 2018

ETH 1:18:14

5 February 2017 Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon

Women

1 Adawork ABERTA

www.khonkaenmarathon.com Next date: 28 January 2018

29 January 2017 Marathon & Semi Int’l de Marrakech

Japan [Results unobtainable] Next date: 4 February 2018

Morocco Marathon

5 February 2017 Mitja Marato Granollers

Men

Spain

1 Adhiana GEBRETSADIK

ETH 2:08:55

2 Hicham LAQOUAHI

MAR 2:10:24

3 Sahah EDDINE BOUNASR

MAR 2:10:25

Women

1 Ashu KASIM

ETH 2:30:18

2 Beatrice Jelegat CHEROP

KEN 2:31:07

3 Alice Kibor JEPKEMBOI

KEN 2:32:28

Half marathon

Half marathon Men

1 Matthew Kipkoech KISORIO 2 Evans KORIR 3 Simon CHEPROT 1 Irene PIELAGOS 2 Gemma STEEL 3 Elena Loyo MENOYO

ESP 1:12:09 GBR 1:12:46 ESP 1:13:26

10km MAR 1:00:28

Men

1 Arturo CASADO

Women

1 Hayat ALLAOUI

KEN 1:01:30 KEN 1:02:07 KEN 1:02:09

Women

Men

1 Mohammed ZIANI

flat. Tsegaye made up ground in the waning stages to finish second while Kipyatch fell back to fourth.

Japan

Half marathon

Marathon

Marathon

1 Kenneth Kemboi ROTICH

5 February 2017 Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon

MAR 1:14:36

www.marathon-marrakech.com Next date: 28 January 2018

ESP

32:58

ESP

40:30

Women

1 Nidia Zurma BIRGET

www.lamitja.cat Next date: 4 February 2018

Callum Hawkins won convincingly in a new personal best to become second only to Mo Farah on the UK all-time list writes Ken Nakamura.

Olympic Marathon silver medallist Eunice Kirwa pushed the pace in the women’s race from the start (15:35 at 5km) to build a 30-second lead.

She reached 10km in 31:37, 44 seconds clear of Amy Cragg. Cragg then began to chip away at the lead, cutting the margin to 32 seconds at 15 kilometres and to 26 at 20km. But Kirwa was never threatened finishing just one second slower than her winning time last year. Cragg lopped 1:23 from her previous lifetime best.

Hawkins was even more dominant in the men’s race but had begun much more cautiously. Abraham Kipyatich led a large group through 5km in 14:20 and 10km in 28:28.

The pack included Hawkins, Ethiopian Atsedu Tsegaye, Joel Mwaura and the Japanese trio of Daichi Kamino, Suguru Osako, and Yuta Shitara who were mounting an assault on the 1:00:25 national record. At 13km the pack began to break up, with Hawkins and Kipyatich taking to the front.

Hawkins made his move soon after the pair reached 15km in 42:37. By 20km he was more than 50 seconds ahead of Kipyatich who in turn had a gap of a few seconds on the chase pack that included Tsegaye, Kamino and Mwaura. The 24-year-old Briton stopped the clock at 60 minutes

29 January 2017 Osaka Women’s Marathon See race feature on page 16 www.osaka-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

29 January 2017 Pune Int’l Marathon India Marathon Men

1 Hosea Kiprotich RUTTO

KEN 2:12:18

2 Urgesa Kedir FITA

ETH 2:12:19

3 Simon Kiprugut KIRUI

KEN 2:12:21

Half marathon Men

1 Chuko Kuma TERECHA

ETH 1:02:41

Women

1 Gladys TARUS

KEN 1:12:37

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1 Callum HAWKINS

GBR 1:00:00

2 Atsedu TSEGAYE

ETH 1:00:58

3 Joel MWAURA

KEN 1:00:59 Women

1 Eunice Jepkirui KIRWA

BRN 1:08:07

2 Amy CRAGG

USA 1:08:27

3 Riko MATSUZAKI

JPN 1:11:04

www.km-half.com Next date: 4 February 2018

5 February 2017 Napoli City Half Marathon See race feature on page 21 www.napolirunning.com Next date: 4 February 2018

5 February 2017 Vadodara Int’l Half Marathon India Half marathon Men

1 A B BELLIAPPA

IND 1:06:57

2 Ranjan SINGH

IND 1:07:42

3 Pradeep Singh CHAUDARY

IND 1:08:11

Women

1 Shobhaben MAKAVANA

IND 1:39:53

2 KAUNA

IND 1:48:08

3 Leelamma ALPHONSO

IND 1:49:37

Marathon Men

1 Elam SINGH

IND 2:26:33 Women

1 Poonam SINGH

IND 3:32:24

www.vadodaramarathon.com Next date: tbc

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World champion Peres Jepchirchir broke the women’s world record but was pushed all the way by former world and course record holder Mary Keitany writes Tim Hutchings. She shaved three seconds off the time her compatriot Florence Kiplagat set in Barcelona two years ago. Fully recovered from a bout of pneumonia at the end of 2016 the 23-year old, 4th in RAK last year, also broke the world record for 20km (mixed race) with 61:40 — 14 seconds faster than the mark set by Kiplagat in Barcelona.

Half marathon Men

1 Julius Kipyego KETER 2 Geoffrey Kenisi BUNDI 3 Jesus Armando TORRES Women

1 Risper GESABWA 2 Angie Rocio OJEDA 3 Rocio CANTARA

19 February 2017 Kitakyushu Marathon Japan [Results unobtainable] kitakyushu-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

19 February 2017 Kyoto Marathon Japan 12,500 men and 4500 women took part including 2600 foreign runners from 29 countries.

Half marathon

Marathon

Men

KEN ETH KEN

59:10 59:19 59:26

Men

1 Kosuke MURASASHI 2 Teruto TAYA 3 Syunsuke HISAMOTO

Women

1 Peres JEPCHIRCHIR 2 Mary KEITANY 3 Joyciline JEPKOSGEI

KEN 1:05:06 KEN 1:05:13 KEN 1:06:08

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11 February 2017 27km for Freedom

Photo: Juan Jose Ubeda

Republic of South Africa 27km Men

RSA 1:31:31 RSA 1:34:24 RSA 1:34:50

Women

1 Bulelwa SIMAE 2 Candice HALL 3 Laura PEDDLE

RSA 1:55:57 RSA 2:00:20 RSA 2:08:52

www.27forfreedom.co.za Next date: tbc

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KEN 1:00:52 KEN 1:00:54 KEN 1:00:59 Women

1 Florence KIPLAGAT 2 Kuma DIBABA 3 Jessica AUGUSTO

Italy Edwin Koech won by a huge margin — maybe 900m — to break both his personal best and the old course record of 1:00:51 set in 2014. In the women’s race Mimi Gebregiorgios also improved the course record, by 30 seconds, in her debut at the distance.

KEN 1:08:15 ETH 1:09:49 POR 1:10:36

www.mitjabarcelona.com Next date: 11 February 2018

12 February 2017 Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon Chinese Taipei [Results unobtainable]

KEN 1:00:24 KEN 1:03:08 KEN 1:03:15 Women

BRN 1:09:15 ITA 1:12:37 ITA 1:12:48

www.giuliettaeromeohalfmarathon.it Next date: tbc

12 February 2017 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon See race feature on page 25 www.hkmarathon.com Next date: 21 January 2018

www.kyoto-marathon.com Next date: tbc

19 February 2017 Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race & 10km Japan 30km

Next date: tbc

Men

12 February 2017 Taipei Standard Chartered Charity Marathon

Men

1 Edwin KOECH 2 Bernard BETT 3 Robert NDIWA

JPN 2:45:15 JPN 2:56:44 JPN 2:57:45

www.khm.com.tw

1 Ezekiel CHENOTIBIN 2 Michael GITHAE 3 Daichi KAMINO

KEN 1:30:49 KEN 1:30:55 JPN 1:31:33

Women

1 Ami UTSUNOMIYA

Chinese Taipei

Half marathon

1 Mimi Bele GEBREGIORGIOS 2 Fatna MARAOUI 3 Rosalba CONSOLE

Half marathon 1 Leonard LANGAT 2 Meshak KOECH 3 Joel KIMURER

12 February 2017 Gensan Giulietta & Romeo Half Marathon

JPN 2:20:32 JPN 2:27:29 JPN 2:27:56

Women

1 Yuria IKUNO 2 Hiroko UEKI 3 Yukari MITSUI

www.rakmarathon.org Next date: 9 February 2018

1 Ettiene PLAATJIES 2 Nombi SIWIWE 3 Hein CAMPHER

KEN 1:14:55 MEX 1:14:56 MEX 1:14:59

medio.maratonguadalajara.org Next date: tbc

In the men’s race World Half Marathon runner-up Bedan Karoki surged to victory over the last 3km after having made much of the running in the second half of the race once the pacemakers had stepped aside. Behind him rising star Yigrem Demelash broke his personal best by 29 seconds.

1 Bedan KAROKI 2 Yigrem DEMELASH 3 Augustine CHOGE

KEN 1:03:55 KEN 1:05:07 MEX 1:05:20

JPN 1:46:24

www.ohme-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

Marathon 1 Makino SAEKI

JPN 2:21:27

19 February 2017 Zurich Maratón de Sevilla

2 Erastus Mumo MUTUA

KEN 2:29:01

Spain

Men

Women

1 Cecilia Wayua MICHAEL

KEN 2:48:35

Half marathon Men

1 Elijah MWANGANGI

KEN 1:06:53

Women

1 Unknown RUNNER

TPE 1:16:31

www.sportsnet.org.tw Next date: tbc

Erik Titus broke the course record in only his second marathon, controlling the leading pack and pulling away at 37km to take victory by five seconds. Paula Gonzalez Berodia got her second victory in Sevilla, setting a new personal best and finishing ahead of all the African athletes. Her time was the fastest for a Spanish Distance Running | 2017 Edition 2

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1 Samuel Kariuki NDIRITU

KEN 1:02:45

2 Youssef NASIR

MAR 1:03:02

3 Elisha Kipchirchir ROTICH

KEN 1:04:17

Women

1 Da-Eun JEONG

KOR 1:14:46

2 Do-Yeon KIM

KOR 1:15:07

3 Kyeong-Seon CHOI

KOR 1:15:07

www.ggimarathon.com Next date: tbc

26 February 2017 Kilimanjaro Marathon Tanzania Marathon Men

1 Moses HENGITTI

2:16:42

2 William KOSKEI

2:17:37

3 Yangus KATUM

2:18:04 Women

1 Sheimith MURIUKI

2:43:42

2 Teresia OMOSA

2:46:56

3 Everline ATANCHA

2:47:58

Half marathon Men

1 Emanuel GINIKI

1:03:49 Women

1 Grace KIMANZI

1:14:06

www.kilimanjaromarathon.com Next date: 4 March 2018

26 February 2017 Maritzburg City Marathon Republic of South Africa Marathon Men

Seychelles Eco-Friendly Marathon Seychelles

1 Thobile MBOLEKWA

2:25:00

2 Temo RAMPUKUO

2:25:59

3 Thulani DUMA

woman in the last 15 years. Briton Lily Partridge finished fourth in her debut marathon.

24 February 2017 Tel Aviv Samsung Marathon

Marathon

Israel

26 February 2017 The Carthage Race Int’l Marathon Tunisia

Men

1 Erik TITUS 2 Tariku KEBEDE 3 Kipkemboi KIPSANG

KEN 2:07:43 ETH 2:07:48 KEN 2:08:26

Women

1 Paula Gonzalez BERODIA 2 Pauline WANGUI 3 Bekelech Diba BEDADA

ESP 2:28:54 KEN 2:30:49 ETH 2:31:47

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2:52:21

2 Janie GRUNDLING

3:01:23

3 Fikile MBUTHUMA

3:03:12

Half marathon Men

Marathon

Men

ETH 2:12:12 KEN 2:12:53 KEN 2:13:50

Women

1 Margaret NJUGUNA 2 Zeytuna Arba MUDE 3 Tanja GREISSBAUM

KEN 2:35:51 ETH 2:40:00 GER 2:51:00

TUN 2:45:41

2 Michael WATSON

GBR 2:53:08

3 Asefaw Tadu TSEGE

ETH 2:54:50

Half marathon Men

ISR 1:06:20

1 Ricky SALEM

ISR 1:22:48

www.tlvmarathon.co.il Next date: 23 February 2018

TUN 1:07:25 Women

1 Mahbouba BELGECEM

TUN 1:21:04

www.the-carthage-race.com Next date: tbc

1:04:34

Women

1 Armine MEJRI

1 Tarak HACHENNI

Men

1 Aymara ALAMI

1 Motlokoa Clement NKHABUTLANE

Men

Half marathon

Women

[Results unobtainable]

1 Moleboheng MAFATA

Marathon 1 Belete Mekonen GEZU 2 Ernest Kiprugot KEBENEI 3 Patrick Kipyegon TERER

2:26:25 Women

1 Nwabisa MJOLI

1:25:41

www.pmb42.co.za Next date: 25 February 2018

26 February 2017 IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon India [Results unobtainable] www.newdelhimarathon.com Next date: 25 February 2018

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26 February 2017 Seychelles Eco-Friendly Marathon Seychelles Marathon Men

1 Moses MBUGUA 2 Weiqing WU 3 Michal ZVRSKOVEC

SEY 3:31:18 CHN 3:57:12 SVK 4:18:32

Women

1 Olivia PETOUR 2 Monika MRUCATA 3 Elizabeth HALL

FRA 4:00:00 POL 4:31:46 USA 5:12:45

Half marathon Men

1 Iven MOISE

SEY 1:20:06 Women

1 Anita Florence Ama SOGNO

MAL 1:59:56

www.seychelles-marathon.com Next date: 25 February 2018

26 February 2017 Split Half Marathon Croatia [Results unobtainable] www.splithalf.eu/en Next date: 25 February 2018

26 February 2017 Tokyo Marathon Japan Kenyans Wilson Kipsang and Sarah Chepchirchir clocked impressive world-leading performances and course records writes Ken Nakamura.

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by more than a minute. Both were also the fastest marathons ever run in Japan.

Strong winds notwithstanding the men’s race began fast with a 2:46 first kilometre and 14:13 at 5km.

Halfway was reached in 1:01:22 and 30km in 1:27:27 — still on target for a world record.

Pacemakers then stepped aside and it was up to Kipsang and Dickson Chumba to keep up the tempo. They slackened slightly, but Kipsang pulled away to pass 40km in 1:57:29. “I pushed really hard at the end, because I could see that a 2:03 marathon was still a possibility,” he said. No one else has run sub-2:04 more than twice; he has done so four times. His time eclipsed Tamirat Tola’s 2:04:11 in Dubai as the fastest ever in Asia and his margin of victory was greater than ever before in Tokyo.

almost four and a half minutes and establishing a new race and Japanese all-comers record.

from the other three but when it came to the finish Chelanga forged ahead to win.

Hiroto Inoue came from behind to pass Yuta Shitara and finish eighth overall, but first Japanese, improving from 2:12:56 last year.

The 20th San Juan World’s Best 10k drew more than 6500 runners and honoured Puerto Rico’s Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Ivan Rodriguez. The race also served as the NACAC 10km Cup, which was won by the USA ahead of Canada and Puerto Rico.

Marathon Men

1 Wilson KIPSANG 2 Gideon KIPKETER 3 Dickson CHUMBA

KEN 2:03:58 KEN 2:05:51 KEN 2:06:25 Women

1 Sarah CHEPCHIRCHIR 2 Birhane DIBABA 3 Amane GOBENA

KEN 2:19:47 ETH 2:21:19 ETH 2:23:09

www.marathon.tokyo/en/ Next date: tbc

26 February 2017 World’s Best 10k Race Puerto Rico Kenya’s Mary Wacera defended her title, winning by almost 100m from Ethiopia’s Mamitu Daska, while USA’s Samuel Chelanga pipped Phillip Langat by two seconds.

Sarah Chepchirchir reached 30km in 1:46:26 along with Ethiopians Birhane Dibaba and Amane Gobena. She upped the pace over the next 5km (15:46) to build a 40second advantage on Dibaba.

On a new course, without the landmark Teodoro Moscoso Bridge, seven women passed 3km together in 9:12. By 8km, reached in 25:13, it was down to Wacera, Gelete Burka and Magdalene Masai. Just as in her previous victories here Wacera proved to have the strongest finish, while Daska overtook a fading Burka in the final stages.

Chepchirchir, 32, forged on to join the elite sub-2:20 club. She became the 16th fastest performer ever, bettering her previous best time by

In the men’s race Chelanga ran through 3km as part of an 11-man pack in 8:27. Five of them were still together at 8km, reached in 22:36.

Chelanga and Langat eased away

The new course took runners from the Sixto Escobar Park to the scenic Old San Juan, a UNESCO World Heritage site, before returning to the same park to finish.

IAAF President Sebastian Coe ran the race following his participation at the annual NACAC Council in San Juan. The two-time Olympic gold medallist covered the distance in 48:05.

10km Men

1 Samuel CHELANGA 2 Phillip LANGAT 3 Stephen SAMBU

USA KEN KEN

28:19 28:21 28:34

KEN ETH ETH

31:41 31:59 32:01

Women

1 Mary WACERA 2 Mamitu DASKA 3 Gelete BURKA

www.wb10k.com Next date: tbc

28 February 2017 Sahara Marathon Algeria [Results unobtainable] www.saharamarathon.org Next date: tbc

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5 March 2017 Logicom Cyprus Marathon Cyprus

Japan

Marathon Men

1 Liviu CROITORU

MOL 2:36:18

2 Denys OLEFIR

GBR 2:38:23

3 Yury VINOGRADOV

RUS 2:39:39

Women

1 Alexandra MOZOROVA

RUS 3:11:49

2 Marina POPOVA

RUS 3:15:25

3 Zoritza HRISTOVA

BUL 3:31:47

Half marathon Men

1 Marek HLADIK

SVK 1:12:21 Women

1 Julia ANDREOU

5 March 2017 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon

CYP 1:29:44

www.cyprusmarathon.com Next date: 4 March 2018

5 March 2017 Runatolia Marathon (Half + 10km) Turkey [Results unobtainable] www.runatolia.com Next date: tbc

Ezekiel Chebeii sprinted away from 2013 winner Vincent Kipruto with 300m to go writes Ken Nakamura.

Three pacers set a three minutes/km clip right through to 30km (14:57 14:53, 14:59, 15:11, 14:53 and 14:59 5km splits) before the first of them dropped out. The two remaining pace makers looked strongest among the leaders. Chebii fell behind but then worked his way back a kilometre later. The duel between the two Kenyans continued for more than 10km, and they entered the Ojiyama stadium together before Chebeii unleashed his winning kick to record the third fastest time of his career and fourth time under 2:10 (but the first since Lake Biwa 2014).

Japanese debutant Akinobu Murasawa ran aggressively in the first half to reach midway in 1:03:20 just behind Chebii and Kipruto. He was still running well at 25km but then began to slow. After

35km he was caught by Satoru Sasaki and drifted back. Sasaki had struggled with side stitches from 17–25km but fought his way back to finish fourth overall and first Japanese to finish — but likely out of contention for a place in Japan’s 2017 world championships team for which Lake Biwa was the final qualifying race.

Conditions were favourable: around 11C with 50% humidity and mostly cloudy skies.

Marathon Men

1 Ezekiel CHEBII

KEN 2:09:06

2 Vincent KIPRUTO

KEN 2:09:15

3 Munyo Solomon MUTAI

UGA 2:09:59

www.lakebiwa-marathon.com Next date: 4 March 2018

5 March 2017 Lake Maggiore Half Marathon Italy [Results unobtainable] www.LMHM.it Next date: tbc

5 March 2017 Maratón Int’l Lala Mexico The record field of 5200 runners took off at 06.45 from in front of the main Grupo Lala factory in Gomez Palacio writes Alan Brookes.

It was a chilly 12C in the high desert country and remained cool until three hours after the start.

Then the sun climbed to high noon and pushed temperatures to the mid-20s as the last runners crossed the festive finish line in front of the Bosque Venustiano Carranza.

Runners came from all 31 Mexican states, Colombia, Guatemala and the USA. The race sold out online within 11 days and enjoyed record female participation (31.4% of the field).

While “La Fiesta Lagunera” continued its proud tradition of enthusiastic crowds, first-class organization and strong community support from 29 neighbourhood cheer sites a significant change was the decision to move the post-race area from the magnificent Bosque — a beautiful, irrigated oasis of greenery in the desert and the finest Distance Running | 2017 Edition 2

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Podium placers aims-worldrunning.org feature of Torreon — to a nearby parking lot. The organisers also ditched the elite field. Subtly, “Maraton Internacional Lala” became “Maraton Lala” and “La Fiesta Lagunera” became “La fiesta de los Laguneros”.

Slower winning times still produced some good local drama. Mexico City’s Ciro Perez Barragan pushed a group of eight through the early stages before taking off on his own.

He was caught and passed in the final 2km by “Lagunero” Daniel Ortiz. The women’s race was a thrilling duel between two Laguneras. Marie Isabel Velez and Ana Maria Ortiz ran side by side for 42km before Velez sprinted away over the final 200m to take the tape under the Grito del Triunfo arch.

When the ubiquitous desert dust settles it will be interesting to see what international dairy conglomerate Grupo Lala decides to do for next year’s 30th anniversary edition. This once-proud race staged the fastest marathon in all of Latin America (2:08:17) as recently as 2011.

Athens Half Marathon Greece

5 March 2017 Sihanoukville Int’l Half Marathon Cambodia

10 March 2017 Antarctica Marathon & Half

Spain

Antarctica

Marathon

Half marathon

Men

Men

Marathon [Results unobtainable] CAM 1:21:41

Men

1 Daniel ORTIZ

MEX 2:27:13

1 Ma VIRO

2 Mauricio De Leon MARTINEZ

MEX 2:27:32

2 Brendon THOMAS

1:25:31

www.antarcticamarathon.com

3 Ciro Perez BARRAGAN

MEX 2:27:52

3 James HAPPELL

1:27:57

Next date: tbc

Women

Women

1 Maria Isabela VELEZ 2 Ana Maria Ortiz NAVARRETE 3 Gladys Paula HERNANDEZ

MEX 3:00:06 MEX 3:00:16 MEX 3:03:09

www.maratonlala.org Next date: tbc

5 March 2017 Nafplio Marathon Greece

1 Lois WOODWARD

1:44:53

2 Hillary SNYDER

1:44:55

3 Sara BAWDEN

1:52:56

www.cambodia-events.org Next date: 11 March 2018

Marathon

Marathon

Men

GRE 2:46:29

2 Konstantinos KARAKPSTAS

GRE 2:52:08

3 Stamatis ROMAS

GRE 2:54:47

Men

1 Stefano LA ROSA

ITA 2:12:26

2 Wesley Kiprono KEMBOI

KEN 2:16:32

3 Simon Rugut KIPNGETICH

Women

UGA 2:23:40

Women

1 Mata KANSARI

GRE 3:32:45

1 Lucy LIAVOGA

KEN 2:52:12

2 Ioanna KALAMATIANOU

GRE 3:33:03

2 Marija VRAJIC

CRO 2:52:29

3 Ksifara DESPOINA

GRE 3:52:22

3 Jasmina ILIJAS

CRO 2:55:55

Half marathon

1 Fabio BERNARDI FABIO

GRE 1:22:24

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Men

1 Samuel DOUD

2:26:57

2 Girma BEDADA

2:29:57

3 Mike WARDIAN

2:30:40

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1 Rosaria CONSOLE

www.trevisomarathon.com Next date: tbc

KEN 2:09:24

3 Justus KIPROTICH

KEN 2:11:38 Women

1 Helen BEKELE

ETH 2:25:04

2 Meselech Tsegaye BEYENE

ETH 2:26:44

3 Aberash Fayesa ROBI

ETH 2:27:04

www.zurichmaratobarcelona.es

12 March 2017 Nagoya Women’s Marathon Japan Marathon Women

1 Christie WETZEL

3:04:01

2 Sabine FISCHER-DALY 3 Angela HAERMAN

1 Eunice KIRWA

BRN 2:21:17

3:08:41

2 Yuka ANDO

JPN 2:21:36

3:10:07

3 Mao KIYOTA

JPN 2:23:47

4 Sayaka KUWAHAA

JPN 2:26:09

5 Hisami IHII

JPN 2:27:35

Half marathon 1 Mizael CARRERA

ITA 1:13:29

KEN 2:08:57

2 Jacob Cheshari KIRUI

Women

ITA 1:10:06

Women

1 Jonah Kipkemoi CHESUM

Next date: tbc

Marathon

Men

Men

GRE 1:16:36

Women

1 Itenis DIMAKI

United States of America

Half marathon

Men

1 Grigoris SKOULARIKIS

11 March 2017 Rock ’n’ Roll DC Marathon & Half Marathon

5 March 2017 Treviso Marathon 1.4 and Half Italy

1 Giorgos KALAPODIS

12 March 2017 Zurich Marato de Barcelona

1:05:51 Women

1 Kerry ALLEN

1:19:20

6 Miharu HIMOKADO

JPN 2:27:54

7 Kaori YOHIDA

JPN 2:28:24

8 Ai UTUNOMIYA

JPN 2:28:52

9 Shiho TAKECHI

JPN 2:30:10

10Sinead DIVER

AUS 2:31:37

www.runrocknroll.com/DC

womens-marathon.nagoya

Next date: 17 March 2018

Next date: tbc

Podium placers aims-worldrunning.org 17 March 2017 Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k

19 March 2017 EDP Lisbon Half Marathon

26 March 2017 CAF Caracas Maratón

Portugal

Venezuela

26 March 2017 Incheon Int’l Half Marathon

Israel

Half marathon

Marathon

Korea

Men

Men

Marathon Men

1 Shadrack KIPKOGEI

KEN 2:17:35

2 Wendwesen Tilahum DAMTE

ETH 2:20:45

3 Mathew SANG

KEN 2:21:23 Women

1 Emily SAMOEI

KEN 2:49:25

2 Mercy TOO

KEN 2:57:44

www.jerusalem-marathon.com Next date: 9 March 2018

19 March 2017 Athens Half Marathon Greece

NZL 1:00:01 KEN 1:00:11 KEN 1:00:45

1 Mare DIBABA 2 Vivian CHERUIYOT 3 Mary WACERA

ETH 1:09:43 KEN 1:09:44 KEN 1:09:53

www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com Next date: tbc

19 March 2017 Seoul Marathon Korea

2 Konstantinos GKELAOUZOS

GRE 1:09:04

3 Charalampos PITSOLIS

GRE 1:10:22

Women

1 Ourania REMPOULI

GRE 1:19:44

2 Deniz DIMAKI

GRE 1:23:03

3 Michala EIRINIRIA

GRE 1:23:36

www.athinahalfmarathon.gr Next date: tbc

19 March 2017 ONICO Gdynia Half Marathon Poland

KEN 2:25:52 ETH 2:25:57 KEN 2:26:52

www.seoul-marathon.com Next date: tbc

19 March 2017 Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon Falkland Islands [Results unobtainable] www.sc.com/fk/marathon Next date: tbc

19 March 2017 Taipei Expressway Marathon

Half marathon Men

KEN 1:02:55

Chinese Taipei

2 Zelalem GEZAHEGNE

ETH 1:03:21

3 Bernard MUINDE

KEN 1:04:23

Marathon

1 Hilary Kiptum MAIYO

Women

1 Fatiha BENCHATKI

KEN 2:05:54 KEN 2:06:03 KEN 2:06:05

Women

1 Margaret AGAI 2 Ashete BEKERE 3 Mercy KIBARUS

MAR 1:12:23

2 Christine MORAA

KEN 1:12:49

3 Runa SKROVE FALCH

NOR 1:14:14

www.gdyniapolmaraton.pl Next date: tbc

Men

1 Lukas Wambua MUTETI 2 Morris WAMBUA

KEN 2:32:44 KEN 2:32:47

Women

1 Hannah Wabera GATHINGI

KEN 3:00:41

www.sportsnet.org.tw Next date: tbc

19 March 2017 Limassol Marathon GSO

19 March 2017 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon

Cyprus

Chinese Taipei

Marathon

Marathon Men

Men

1 Edwin Kiprop KIYENG

KEN 2:15:04

2 Wycliffe BIWOTT

KEN 2:15:40

3 Pavel BORODIN

Women

KEN 2:40:41

1 Munkhzaya BAYARTSOGT 2 Gebre GETISO 3 Ayele BELACHEW

2 Dagmara Anna HANDZLIK

CYP 2:42:12

3 Hellen KIMUTAI

KEN 2:45:49

Half marathon Men

1 Joel Maina MWANGI

KEN 1:02:52

Women

1 Stellah BARSOSIO

KEN 1:09:31

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KEN 2:17:02 ETH 2:17:04 KEN 2:17:15

CYP 2:38:42 Women

1 Gladys Jepkurui BIWOTT

1 Kipkogei YEGO 2 Debele BELDA 3 Kipchirchir KEIYO

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1 Zuleima AMAYA 2 Nubia ARTEAGA 3 Magali GARCIA

VEN 2:49:46 2:24:47 2:25:12

Men

1 Marvin BLANCO

VEN 1:09:28 Women

1 Dolores PEREZ

MNG 2:38:08 ETH 2:38:21 ETH 2:39:07

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

19 March 2017 Wuxi Marathon China [Results unobtainable] www.wuximarathon.com Next date: 18 March 2018

[Results unobtainable] www.incheonmarathon.co.kr Next date: 25 March 2018

26 March 2017 Tokushima Marathon Japan

Half marathon

VEN 1:22:57

maraton.caf.com Next date: tbc

Marathon

GRE 1:09:03

COL 2:23:25 2:24:47 2:25:12

Women

Men

Men

1 Jose Luis CARDONA 2 Andres RUIZ 3 Alex PENA

Women

1 Amos Choge KIPRUTO 2 Felix KANDIE 3 Mark KORIR

Half marathon 1 Ioannis ZERVAKIS

1 Jake ROBERTSON 2 James MWANGI 3 Edwin Kibet KOECH

26 March 2017 10th PKO Poznan Half Marathon Poland

[Results unobtainable] www.tokushima-marathon.jp Next date: tbc

26 March 2017 PZU Warsaw Half Marathon Poland Half marathon Men

Half marathon Men

1 Marcin CHABOWSKI 2 Joel Maina MWANGI 3 Ezra KERING

POL 1:03:16 KEN 1:03:50 KEN 1:03:52

Women

1 Karolina NADOLSKA 2 Teresa KWAMBOKA 3 Betty CHEPLETENG

POL 1:09:54 KEN 1:13:32 KEN 1:13:43

www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl Next date: 15 April 2018

1 John KIPSANG 2 Masresha BISETENG 3 Hunegnaw MESFIN

KEN 1:01:12 ETH 1:01:41 ETH 1:01:42

Women

1 Ayantu Gemechu ABDI 2 Peninah ARUSEI 3 Christine MORAA

ETH 1:10:26 KEN 1:11:31 KEN 1:11:50

www.warsawhalfmarathon.com Next date: 25 March 2018

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Algeria Semi Marathon Int’l de la Ville de May Béjaia Haddad Fatsah E: fatsahmarathon@hotmail.fr W: www.semimarathondebejaia.com fb: facebook.com/semimarathondebejaia Sahara Marathon James E. B. Carney E: saharamarathon@aol.com W: www.saharamarathon.org fb: facebook.com/saharamarathonorg

Feb

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Angola São Silvestre de Luanda 10km Carlos Rosa de Souza E: crabreluz@gmail.com W: www.saosilvestreangola.co.ao fb: facebook.com/saosilvestreangola

Dec

Antarctica Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k Nov Richard Donovan E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.icemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/AntarcticIceMarathon Antarctica Marathon & Half Mar Thom Gilligan E: info@marathontours.com W: www.antarcticamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/AntarcticaMarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Argentina Buenos Aires Int’l Marathon Oct Luis Vinker E: info@maratondebuenosaires.com W: www.maratondebuenosaires.com fb: facebook.com/maratonbuenosaires Armenia *Yerevan Half Marathon Oct Anahit Adamyan E: anahit.adamyan@ armeniamarathon.org W: www.armeniamarathon.org fb: facebook.com/Yerevanhalfmarathon/ Australia Adelaide Marathon Festival Aug Simon Duncan E: office@sarrc.asn.au W: www.adelaidemarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/SARoadRunnersClub Australian Outback Marathon Jul Michael Walton E: michael.walton@travellingfit.com W: www.australianoutbackmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/outbackmarathon

Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival Oct Marcus Gale E: enquiries@melbournemarathon. com.au W: www.melbournemarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/ melbournemarathonfestival 7 Sunshine Coast Marathon Aug Jason Crowther E: jason@atlasmultisports.com.au W: www.sunshinecoastmarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/ SunshineCoastMarathon Blackmores Sydney Running Festival Sep (incl. Sydney Marathon) Wayne Larden E: info@sydneyrunningfestival.com.au W: www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au fb: facebook.com/officialbsrf McDonald’s Townsville Running Aug Festival Brian Armit E: admin@townsvillerunningfestival. com W: www.townsvillerunningfestival.com fb: facebook.com/townsvillerunningfest Westlink M7 Blacktown Running Festival Mark Gibson E: mark.gibson@blacktown. nsw.gov.au W: www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/ runningfestival

Jul

May

May

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Australian Running Festival Apr Sarah Young E: sarah.young@fairfaxmedia.com.au W: www.runningfestival.com.au fb: facebook.com/austrunningfest

Int’l WACHAUmarathon Mag. Michael Buchleitner E: office@wachaumarathon.com W: www.wachaumarathon.com fb: facebook.com/wachaumarathon

Brisbane Marathon Festival Steve Manning E: info@brisbanemarathon.com W: www.brisbanemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/brisbanemarathon

May

Aug

Gold Coast Airport Marathon Jul Cameron Hart E: info@goldcoastmarathon.com.au W: www.goldcoastmarathon.com.au fb: facebook.com/gcmarathon

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Sep

Bahamas Marathon Bahamas, Half & Relay Pamela Richardson E: info@marathonbahamas.com W: www.marathonbahamas.com fb: facebook.com/marathon242

Jan

Barbados Run Barbados Marathon Weekend Dec Island Races (Zary Evelyn, Kristina Evelyn & Peter Gibbs) E: runbarbados@gmail.com W: www.runbarbados.org fb: facebook.com/RunBarbadosSeries/

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Apr

Belfius Brussels Marathon & Half Marathon Oct Greg Broekmans E: info@golazo.com W: www.belfiusbrusselsmarathon.be fb: facebook.com/brusselsmarathon Linker Oevert 1/2 Marathon Oct Kid Van Thienen E: kvth@telenet.be W: www.linkeroeverthalfmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/ZPKj2k Bhutan Thunder Dragon Marathon May Mike Gratton E: mike@209events.com W: www.thunderdragonmarathon.com Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Sarajevo Half Marathon Sep Franjo Sola E: franjo.sola@sarajevomarathon.ba W: sarajevomarathon.ba/en Vidovdan 10km Road Race Borislav Djurdjevic E: vidovdanskatrka@gmail.com W: www.vidovdanskatrka.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWyifL

Jun

Diacore Gaborone Marathon May Danny Blumberg E: info@diacoregaboronemarathon. com W: www.diacoregaboronemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ Diacoregaboronemarathon Brazil Brasilia City Half Marathon Nov Paulo Roberto Passos Carelli E: paulo@iguanasports.com.br W: runcities.com.br/brasilia/home Rio de Janeiro City Marathon Jun Joao Traven E: maratonadorio@ maratonadorio.com.br W: www.maratonadorio.com.br fb: facebook.com/maratonadoriodejaneiro Rio City Half Marathon Paulo Roberto Passos Carelli E: paulo@iguanasports.com.br W: runcities.com.br/rio/home/ *Sao Paulo City Marathon Paulo Roberto Passos Carelli E: paulo@iguanasports.com.br W: www.spcitymarathon.com.br

Apr

Jul

São Paulo Int’l Half Marathon Corpore

Octávio José Aronis E: corpore@corpore.org.br W: www.corpore.org.br fb: facebook.com/CorporeBrasil

Corrida de Sao Sebastiao Jan Joao Traven E: spiridon@spiridon.com.br W: www.corridadesaosebastiao.com.br Cambodia Angkor Wat Int’l Half Marathon Dec Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/angkorwathalfmarathon *The Angkor Empire Marathon Aug Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/angkorempiremarathon Phnom Penh Half Marathon Mr. Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: on.fb.me/1nfsVir

Jun

Sihanoukville Int’l Half Marathon Mar Mr. Sem Phalla E: direct@cambodia-events.org, info@cambodia-events.org W: www.cambodia-events.org fb: facebook.com/sihanoukvillemarathon

Apr

Scotiabank Calgary Marathon Cheryl Lowery E: info@calgarymarathon.com W: www.calgarymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyk7c Edmonton Marathon Tom Keogh E: info@edmontonmarathon.ca W: www.edmontonmarathon.ca fb: facebook.com/EdmMarathon

GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon Oct Rob Reid E: info@runvictoriamarathon.com W: www.runvictoriamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Victoria.Marathon Cayman Islands Intertrust Cayman Islands Marathon

Dec

Rhonda Kelly E: info@caymanislandsmarathon.com W: www.caymanislandsmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/CaymanMarathon

Maratón de Santiago Fernando Jamarne E: fjamarne@alessandri.cl W: www.maratondesantiago.com fb: facebook.com/maratondesantiago

Apr

Volcano Marathon Nov Richard Donovan E: npmarathon@gmail.com W: www.volcanomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/thevolcanomarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

China

Aug

BMO Okanagan Marathon Oct Tom Keogh E: info@okanaganmarathon.ca W: www.okanaganmarathon.ca fb: facebook.com/okanaganmarathon.ca

SSQ Quebec City Marathon Patrice Drouin E: info@marathonquebec.com W: quebecmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/marathonquebec

May

May

Niagara Falls Int’l Marathon Oct Diane Chesla & Henri Ragetlie E: racedirector@ niagarafallsmarathon.com W: www.niagarafallsmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1Egojj7

Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon and Ottawa 10K John Halvorsen E: info@runottawa.ca W: www.runottawa.ca fb: facebook.com/OttawaMarathon

BMO Vancouver Marathon Andrea Eby E: andrea@runvan.org W: www.bmovanmarathon.ca fb: facebook.com/BMOVanMarathon

Chile

Canada

Botswana

Vienna City Marathon Apr Wolfgang Konrad E: office@vienna-marathon.com W: www.vienna-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/vienna.city.marathon

Barossa Marathon Festival Simon Duncan E: office@sarrc.asn.au W: www.barossamarathon.com.au fb: on.fb.me/1lb7Y1t

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

*Banja Luka Half Marathon May Vladimir Selec E: info@banjalukamarathon.com W: www.banjalukamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/banjalukamarathon/

Austria

Salzburg Marathon Johannes Langer E: office@salzburg-marathon.at W: www.salzburg-marathon.at fb: facebook.com/salzburg.marathon

Belgium

Bosnia

3 Country Sparkasse Marathon Oct Günter Ernst E: info@sparkasse-3laender-marathon.at W: www.sparkasse-3-laender-marathon.at fb: facebook.com/ Sparkasse3LaenderMarathon Austrian Women’s Run Ilse Dippmann, Andreas Schnabl E: office@oesterreichischerfrauenlauf.at W: www.austrianwomensrun.com

Belarus Minsk Half Marathon Sep Vadim Devyatovskiy E: belarus.athletics@gmail.com W: minskhalfmarathon.by fb: facebook.com/minskhalfmarathon/

May

Beijing Marathon Wang Dawei E: oc@beijing-marathon.com W: www.beijing-marathon.com/en Dalian Int’l Marathon Sun Xinsheng E: mls@dl.cn W: www.dlmls.org

Sep

May

*Great Hakka Marathon Nov Dave Cundy E: guo.feng@great-hakkamarathon.com W: www.great-hakka-marathon.com Course not measurable to AIMS standards

The Great Wall Marathon May Dave Cundy E: gwm_booking@263.net.cn, kent. wang@great-wall-marathon.com.cn W: www.great-wall-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/greatwallmarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Aug

Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon & Half Marathon & 5k Oct Alan Brookes E: alan@canadarunningseries.com W: www.torontowaterfrontmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/TorontoWaterfront42k

Hangzhou Int’l Marathon Nov Mr. Long Jiang E: marathon@hzim.org W: www.hzim.org fb: facebook.com/hangzhou.marathon Lanzhou Int’l Marathon Long Fuguo E: lzmarathon@126.com W: www.lanzhoumarathon.org

Jun

Shanghai Int’l Marathon Nov Yong Yang E: general@shmarathon.com W: www.shang-ma.com

GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon May Jay Glassman E: info@torontomarathon.com W: www.torontomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/torontomarathon

Wuxi Marathon Wang Lei E: wanglei@ihuipao.com W: www.wuximarathon.com

The Vancouver Sun Run Apr Presented by Ford Tim Hopkins E: info@vancouversunrun.com W: www.vancouversunrun.com fb: facebook.com/#!/vancouversunrun

Xiamen Int’l Marathon Fu Xiaochun E: xmmarathon@126.com, ealin_zhuo@126.com W: www.xmim.org/en/ fb: facebook.com/xiamenmarathon

Mar

Jan

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Chinese Taipei Kaohsiung Int’l Marathon Huang Yu E: khmskhms@kcg.gov.tw W: www.khm.com.tw fb: facebook.com/khmarathon/ Kinmen Marathon Queenie Juang E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw Taipei Marathon Queenie Juang E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw Taipei Expressway Marathon Sunny Chen/Queenie Juang E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Croatia Feb

Hvar Half Marathon Boris Reinic E: info@hvarmarathon.com W: www.hvarmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/HvarHalfMarathon

Jan

Losinjski Half Marathon Miroslav Cavlek E: miroslav.cavlek@ri.t-com.hr W: www.ak-losinj.hr fb: facebook.com/losinjhalfmaraton/

Dec

Mar

Taipei Standard Chartered Charity Feb Marathon Queenie Juang E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw fb: facebook.com/scbmarathon?fref=ts New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon Ching-Cheng Wang E: tpe@mf.iaaf.org W: www.wanjinshi-marathon.com.tw fb: on.fb.me/1bWyj3d Women Run Taipei Sunny Chen/Queenie Juang E: queenie@sportsnet.org.tw W: www.sportsnet.org.tw

Mar

Apr

Jul

Maratón de las Flores Medellín Sep Gustavo Orozco Posada E: direccion@maratonmedellin.com W: www.maratonmedellin.co fb: facebook.com/maratonmedellin

Jul

Sep

San José Costa Rica Dec Half & Marathon Guillermo Sáenz E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathoncostarica.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWyj3p Tamarindo Beach Marathon Sep Victor López Jiménez E: info@tamarindobeachmarathon.com W: www.tamarindobeachmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/tamarindobeachmaraton Côte d’Ivoire Marathon de Côte d’Ivoire Nov Yapobi Attie Vicotr Jean Michel E: yapobi_v2@mediajoker.com W: www.marathondecotedivoire.com

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Sep

Zagreb Marathon & Half Oct Franjo Kordic E: zagrebacki.atletski. savez@gmail.com W: www.zagreb-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/zagreb.marathon

Marabana Marathon & Half Nov Carlos R. Gattorno Correa E: marabana@inder.cu W: www.inder.cu/marabana

KLM Curaçao Marathon Nov Kees van Muiswinkel and Willem Cordelia E: kees@curacaomarathon.com W: www.curacaomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/klmcuracaomarathon Cyprus *Logicom Cyprus Marathon Stavros Kakourides E: run@cyprusmarathon.com W: www.cyprusmarathon.com Limassol Marathon GSO Spyros Spyrou E: info@limassolmarathon.com W: www.limassolmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/limassolmarathon

Mar

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Aug

Egyptian Marathon Gasser Riad E: info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.net fb: on.fb.me/1bWykUW

May

Sep

Jan

Estonia

Tartu City Marathon Oct Indrek Kelk E: kristina@tartumaraton.ee W: www.tartumaraton.ee fb: facebook.com/tartumaraton Ethiopia Great Ethiopian Run 10km Nov Ermias Ayele E: ermias@ethiopianrun.org W: www.ethiopianrun.org fb: facebook.com/GreatEthiopianRun

Mar

Stuart Horsewood E: bank.info@sc.com W: www.sc.com/fk/marathon Finland Helsinki City Marathon Aug Markku Haverinen E: maraton@sul.fi W: www.helsinkicitymarathon.fi fb: facebook.com/HelsinkiCityMarathon *Helsinki Half Marathon Jun Aki Nummela E: info@helsinkihalfmarathon.fi W: www.helsinkihalfmarathon.fi fb: facebook.com/helsinkihalfmarathon Jul

France Nov

Hugues Lelievre E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.frenchrivieramarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymMt

Apr

Edouard Cassignal E: parismarathon@aso.fr W: www.schneiderelectricparismarathon. com fb: facebook.com/parismarathon May

Serge Vigot La Rochelle Int’l Marathon Nov Mauny Nicolas E: info@marathondelarochelle.com W: marathondelarochelle.com fb: facebook.com/marathonLR St Denis Half Marathon – La Voie Royale Nov Thierry Vernay / Antonio Agostinho E: info@wanago.com W: www.lavoieroyale.fr fb: facebook.com/semimarathon. saintdenis/ FYR Macedonia *First Postal Marathon Oct Vlatko Atanasoski E: contact@postalmarathon.com W: www.postalmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/postalmarathon Wizz Air Skopje Marathon Kire Sinadinovski E: kire@skopskimaraton.com.mk W: www.skopjemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/skopskimaraton

May

Georgia HeidelbergCement TbilisiHalfMarathon Oct Peter Gottwald E: info@tbilisimarathon.ge W: www.tbilisimarathon.ge fb: facebook.com/Tbilisimarathon

BMW Berlin Marathon Mark Milde W: www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/berlinmarathon Berlin Halfmarathon Mark Milde W: www.berliner-halbmarathon.de fb: facebook.com/sccevents

Sep

Apr

RheinEnergieMarathon Cologne Oct Markus Frisch E: info@koeln-marathon.de W: www.cologne-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/koelnmarathon METRO Marathon Düsseldorf Jan Winschermann E: info@rhein-marathon.de W: www.metro-marathon.de fb: bit.ly/2mIOkT2

hella hamburg halbmarathon Karsten Schölermann E: info@dielaufgesellschaft.de W: www.hamburg-halbmarathon.de fb: facebook.com/ laufgesellschaft/?fref=ts

Jun

Haspa Marathon Hamburg Apr E: service@marathonhamburg.de W: www.haspa-marathon-hamburg.de fb: facebook.com/ haspamarathonhamburg HAJ Hannover Marathon Apr Stefanie Eichel E: kontakt@marathon-hannover.de W: www.marathon-hannover.de fb: facebook.com/MarathonHannover Munich Marathon Oct Gernot Weigl E: info@muenchenmarathon.de W: www.muenchenmarathon.de fb: facebook.com/muenchenmarathon Volksbank-Münster-Marathon Sep Michael Brinkmann E: info@volksbank-muenstermarathon.de W: www.volksbank-muenster-marathon. de fb: on.fb.me/1bWylIv iWelt Marathon Wuerzburg May Guenter Herrmann E: g.herrmann@wuerzburgmarathon.de W: www.wuerzburg-marathon.de fb: facebook.com/Wuerzburg.Marathon Great Britain Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon

May

Claire O’Neill E: claire.oneill@ belfastcitymarathon.org W: www.belfastcitymarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjv *Bournemouth Marathon Festival Oct Neil Kilgour E: Freya@gsi-events.com W: www.bournemouthmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/WWhtwp

Germany

French Riviera Marathon Nice-Cannes May

Bruno Boukobza E: bruno.boukobza@gmail.com W: www.parissaintgermainlacourse.com fb: on.fb.me/1vnXjoB

SEB Tallinn Marathon, Half & 10k Sep Mati Lilliallik E: info@tallinnmarathon.ee W: www.tallinnmarathon.ee fb: facebook.com/SEBTallinnMarathon/

Paavo Nurmi Marathon Kari Ahonen E: info@paavonurmisports.fi W: www.paavonurmimarathon.fi fb: on.fb.me/1SlsUaQ

Apr

Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris

Pharaonic 100km Nov Gasser Riad E: info@egyptianmarathon.net W: www.egyptianmarathon.net fb: facebook.com/egytpian.marathon

Semi-Marathon Int’l de Nice Hugues Lelievre E: communication@azur-sport.org W: www.nicesemimarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWylrU

Paris St Germain en Laye – La Course

Standard Chartered Stanley Marathon

H.C. Andersen Marathon Oct Torben Simonsen E: ts@hcamarathon.dk W: www.hcamarathon.dk fb: on.fb.me/1bWymfl

Telenor Copenhagen Marathon Dorte Vibjerg E: vibjerg@sparta.dk W: www.copenhagenmarathon.dk fb: facebook.com/cphmarathon

La Ruta de las Iglesias Samia Solah, Nina Solah E: samia@tventasec.com, nsolah@tventasec.com W: www.rutadelasiglesias.com fb: facebook.com/rutaiglesias

Falkland Islands

Denmark

Copenhagen Half Marathon Niels Jorgen Holdt / Dorte Vibjerg E: vibjerg@sparta.dk W: copenhagenhalfmarathon.dk fb: facebook.com/cphhalf

Quito Últimas Noticias 15k Jun Pablo Gonzalez Peña E: pabloarturogonzalez@gmail.com W: www.quitoultimasnoticias15k.ec fb: facebook.com/UN15K

Mar

Pardubice Wine Half Marathon Apr Oldřich Bujnoch E: oldrichbujnoch@seznam.cz W: www.pardubickyvinarskypulmaraton.cz fb: on.fb.me/1HWsAYy Volkswagen Prague Marathon Václav Skřivánek E: info@runczech.com W: www.runczech.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEs

Guayaquil Marathon Oct Diego Maruri E: diegomaruri@dm3.com W: www.dm3.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWymvQ

Egypt

Czech Republic

Costa Rica

10K San José – Costa Rica Guillermo Sáenz E: marathoncostarica@gmail.com W: www.marathoncostarica.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEg

Feb

Curaçao

¼ de Maraton Ciudad de Bucaramanga – FCV Oct Mariela Sanchez Aguirre E: marielasanchez@fcv.org W: www.fcv.org/maraton fb: facebook.com/FCVColombia

Correcaminos Marathon & Half Marathon Gustavo Alvarez E: info@correcaminoscr.com W: www.maratoncorrecaminos.com fb: on.fb.me/1bWykEc

Ston Wall Marathon Zeljko Konosic E: info@ston-wall-marathon.com W: www.ston-wall-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/StonWallMarathon

Sep

Cuba

Colombia Media Maratón Int’l de Bogotá Martha Santos E: msantos@ correcaminoscolombia.com W: www.mediamaratonbogota.com fb: facebook.com/mmboficial

Split Half Marathon Krisitjan Sindik E: maraton.hr@gmail.com W: www.splithalf.eu/en

Ecuador Aug

Apr

Mainova Frankfurt Marathon Oct Jo Schindler E: mail@frankfurt-marathon.com W: www.frankfurt-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/ffmmarathon

Cardiff Half Marathon Oct Steve Brace E: cardiffhalfmarathon@ run4wales.org W: www.cardiffhalfmarathon.co.uk fb: facebook.com/Cardiffhalf Edinburgh Marathon Festival Neil Kilgour E: Freya@gsi-events.com W: www.edinburghmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ EdinburghMarathonFestival Baxters Loch Ness Marathon & Festival of Running Malcolm Sutherland E: info@lochnessmarathon.com W: www.lochnessmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/lochnessmarathon

May

Sep

Milton Keynes Marathon May Andrew Hully E: run@miltonkeynesmarathon.co.uk W: www.mkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/MiltonKeynesMarathon *Scottish Half Marathon & 10K Sep Neil Kilgour E: Freya@gsi-events.com W: www.scottishhalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ScottishHalfMarathon JCP Swansea Half Marathon David Martin-Jewell E: david@frontrunnerevents.co.uk W: swanseahalfmarathon.co.uk fb: facebook.com/SwanseaHalf

Jun

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Greece Athens Half Marathon Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@athinahalfmarathon.gr W: www.athinahalfmarathon.gr fb: bit.ly/2bvGYfV

Mar

Int’l Marathon Alexander the Great Apr Drosos Christopoulos E: info@atgm.gr, info@ alexanderthegreatmarathon.org W: www.alexanderthegreatmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWylYY

Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon Árpád Kocsis E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: halfmarathon.runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/

Sep

SPAR Budapest Marathon Festival Oct Árpád Kocsis E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: marathon.runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/ Iceland

Athens Marathon The Authentic Nov Evangelos Papapostolou E: info@athensauthenticmarathon.gr W: www.athensauthenticmarathon.gr fb: facebook.com/athensclassicmarathon

Islandsbanki Reykjavik Marathon Aug Svava Oddný Ásgeirsdóttir E: marathon@marathon.is W: marathon.is/reykjavik-marathon fb: facebook.com/Reykjavikurmarathon

*Nafplio Marathon Mar Evangelos Papapostolou E: racedirector@nafpliomarathon.gr W: www.nafpliomarathon.gr fb: on.fb.me/1DXeYsT

Suzuki Midnight Sun Run Svava Oddný Ásgeirsdóttir E: marathon@marathon.is W: marathon.is/midnight-run fb: on.fb.me/1bWyoUI

*Roads to Rhodes Marathon Nikolaos Polias E: segasdod@gmail.com, rodiga@otenet.gr W: www.roadstorhodes.com fb: facebook.com/roads2rhodes

India

Oct

Greenland Polar Circle Marathon Oct Lars Fyhr E: lf@albatros-adventure.com W: www.polar-circle-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/polarcirclemarathon/ Guam United Airlines Guam Marathon Apr Ben Ferguson E: info@guaminternationalmarathon. com W: www.guammarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ guaminternationalmarathon Hong Kong, China

Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon William Ko E: hkmarathon@hkaaa.com W: www.hkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/hkmarathon Mizuno Hong Kong Half-Marathon Championships Alan Wong Kim Lun E: inquiry@hkaaa.com W: www.hkaaa.com fb: facebook.com/ilovehkaaa

Jan

Jan

Dec

UNICEF Charity Run Half Marathon & 10km Nov Ann Choy E: ann.choy@unicef.org.hk W: run.unicef.org.hk fb: facebook.com/runforchildren Hungary Telekom Vivicittá Spring Half Marathon Apr Árpád Kocsis E: info@budapestmarathon.com W: springhalfmarathon.runinbudapest.com fb: facebook.com/runinbudapest/

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Bengaluru Midnight Marathon Dec Gul Mohamed Akbar E: gul@bangaloretalkies.co W: midnightmarathon.in fb: facebook.com/midnightmarathon.in Sriram Properties Bengaluru Marathon Oct Nagaraj Adiga E: adiga@nebsports.in W: www.bengalurumarathon.in fb: facebook.com/marathonbengaluru/

Drosos Christopoulos E: info@thesshalfmarathon.org W: www.thesshalfmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/1bWynjE

Gammon China Coast Marathon & Half David Smith E: chinacoastmarathon2017@ gmail.com W: www.avohk.org

Jun

Apr

Int’l Thessaloniki Night Half Marathon

TCS World 10K Bengaluru Hugh Jones E: tcsworld10K@procam.in W: tcsworld10k.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/tcsw10k

May

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon Nov Hugh Jones E: adhm@procam.in, arati@procam.in W: adhm.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/runadhm?fref=ts Goa River Marathon Nitin Bandekar E: nbandekar@nrbgroup.biz W: www.goarivermarathon.com fb: facebook.com/goarivermarathon *Tata Steel Kolkata 25k Hugh Jones E: tsk25@procam.in, aimssec@aol.com W: www.tsk25.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/TSKolkata25 Ladakh Marathon Chewang Motup Goba E: info@ladakhmarathon.com W: www.ladakhmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ladakhmarathon Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon Hugh Jones E: scmm@procam.in, arati@procam.in W: scmm.procamrunning.in fb: facebook.com/ scmumbaimarathon?fref=ts

PNB MetLife Satara Hill Half Marathon

Dec

Dec

Sep

Sep

Dr Sandeep Suryakant Kate E: hillmarathonsatara@gmail.com W: www.satarahillmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/SataraHillMarathon *Tarblazer 21.1 S. Shashidhar E: shashi@sportman.in W: www.sportman.in/tarblazer/ fb: facebook.com/hellosportman/ Vadodara Int’l Half Marathon Sameer Khera E: samkhera@gmail.com W: www.vadodaramarathon.com

Jun

Feb

Indonesia Maybank Bali Marathon Wahyu Rizky E: info@balimarathon.com W: www.balimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/BaliMarathon

Aug

Jakarta Marathon Oct Jacqueline Losung E: jacqueline@inspirogroup.co.id W: www.thejakartamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/TheJKTMarathon Iraq Erbil Marathon Oct Abdulsattar Younus E: erbilmarathon@yahoo.com W: www.erbilmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/JifjR5 Ireland Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon Jun Jim O’Donovan E: info@corkcitymarathon.ie W: www.corkcitymarathon.ie fb: facebook.com/corkcitymarathon/ SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon Oct Jim Aughney E: office@dublinmarathon.ie W: www.sseairtricitydublinmarathon.ie fb: facebook.com/dublinmarathon Longford Marathon Fr Ciaran McGovern E: info@longfordmarathon.com W: www.longfordmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/longfordmarathon

Aug

Waterford Viking Marathon Jun Joe Cawley E: info@waterfordvikingmarathon.com W: www.waterfordvikingmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1HWuFDI Israel Eilat Full Desert Marathon Nov Ofer Padan E: ofer@marathonisrael.co.il W: www.desertrun.co.il fb: facebook.com/desertrun.co.il/

Jan

Trieste Green Europe Marathon Fabio Carini E: fabio.carini@bavisela.it W: www.bavisela.it fb: facebook.com/baviselatrieste

Apr

May

Firenze Marathon Nov Giancarlo Romiti E: staff@firenzemarathon.it W: www.firenzemarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1lpsOz8 Gensan Giulietta & Romeo Half Marathon Feb Stefano Stanzial E: matteo@veronamarathon.it W: www.giuliettaeromeohalfmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/veronamarathon Lake Maggiore Marathon Nov Paolo Ottone E: LMM@pro-motion.it W: www.lagomaggioremarathon.com fb: facebook.com/lagomaggiore. marathon Lake Maggiore Half Marathon Paolo Ottone E: LMHM@pro-motion.it W: www.LMHM.it fb: facebook.com/lagomaggiore. marathon EA7 Emporio Armani Milano Marathon Andrea Trabuio E: info@milanomarathon.it W: www.milanomarathon.it fb: facebook.com/MilanoMarathon Moonlight Half Marathon Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.moonlighthalfmarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1zhSboz *Napoli City Half Marathon Carlo Capalbo E: info@napolirunning.com W: www.napolirunning.com fb: facebook.com/ Mostradoltremarehalfmarathon/ Padova Marathon Leopoldo Destro E: info@padovamarathon.com W: www.padovamarathon.com fb: bit.ly/2h0vdjZ

Mar

Apr

May

Apr

Ravenna Marathon – City of Art Nov Stefano Righini E: info@maratonadiravenna.com W: www.maratonadiravenna.com fb: facebook.com/maratonadiravenna/

Pune Int’l Marathon Mr. Pralhad M. Savant E: Marathonpune@yahoo.com W: www.marathonpune.com fb: facebook.com/marathonpune

Sea of Galilee Tiberias Marathon Jan Doron Amir E: dorona88@gmail.com W: www.tiberiasmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/TiberiasMarathonIL

Feb

Maratona di Roma Enrico Castrucci E: info@maratonadiroma.it W: www.maratonadiroma.it fb: facebook.com/maratonadiroma Telesia City Trophy Int’l Road Race 10k Viscusi Diego E: info@trofeotelesia.it W: www.trofeotelesia.it fb: facebook.com/trofeotelese

Garda Trentino Half Marathon Nov Poli Sandro E: eventi@trentinoeventi.it W: www.trentinoeventi.it fb: facebook.com/ gardatrentinohalfmarathon Treviso Marathon 1.4 and Half Mauro Miani E: info@trevisomarathon.com W: www.trevisomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/MaratonaDiTreviso Turin Half Marathon Luigi Chiabrera E: info@turinmarathon.it W: www.turinmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/turinmarathon

Mar

May

Turin Marathon Oct Luigi Chiabrera E: info@turinmarathon.it W: www.turinmarathon.it fb: facebook.com/turinmarathon Maratonina Città di Udine Sep Paolo Bordon E: info@maratoninadiudine.it W: www.maratoninadiudine.it fb: facebook.com/asdmaratoninaudinese Maratona di San Valentino Marcello Vettese E: info@maratonadisanvalentino.it W: www.maratonadisanvalentino.it fb: facebook.com/maratona. disanvalentino

Feb

Venicemarathon Oct Piero Rosa Salva E: info@venicemarathon.it W: www.venicemarathon.it fb: facebook.com/ ASDVenicemarathon?fref=ts Verona Marathon Nov Stefano Stanzial E: stefano@veronamarathon.it W: www.veronamarathon.it fb: facebook.com/veronamarathon

Reggae Marathon, Half & 10K Dec Alfred Francis E: racedirector@reggaemarathon.com W: www.reggaemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ReggaeMarathon Japan Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon Mr Megumi Furuichi E: furuichi-m@mainichi.co.jp

Jerusalem Marathon, Half & 10k Simon Avraham E: JEM@target-market.co.il W: www.jerusalem-marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/WCyXOj

Mar

*Telesia Half Marathon Oct Diego Viscusi E: info@telesiahalfmarathon.it W: www.telesiahalfmarathon.it

Jamaica Feb

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Tel Aviv Samsung Marathon Ofer Shytrit “Kapaim” E: marathon@kapaim.co.il W: www.tlvmarathon.co.il fb: facebook.com/TelAvivMarathon

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Dogi’s Half Marathon Michele Stellon E: info@dogishalfmarathon.it W: www.dogishalfmarathon.it fb: on.fb.me/1UGyWR0

PisaMarathon Andrea Maggini E: info@1063ad.it W: www.maratonadipisa.com

IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon Feb Nagaraj Adiga E: adiga@nebsports.in W: www.newdelhimarathon.com Dec

Italy Trento Half Marathon Oct Ferruccio Demadonna E: gilbertoconati@gmail.com W: www.trentorunningfestival.it fb: facebook.com/trentorunningfestival

Dec

Apr

Jun

Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon Hiroshige Nakata E: jigyoubu@pearl.ocn.ne.jp W: www.lakebiwa-marathon.com Fukuoka Int’l Open Marathon Championship Takanori Saito E: saito-t5@asahi.com W: www.fukuoka-marathon.com/en/ index.html Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon Tetsuya “Teddy” Okamura E: okamura.chunichi@biz.nifty.jp W: www.gifu-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/gifu.marathon Hokkaido Marathon Konosuke Matsushima E: k-matsu@hokkaido-np.co.jp W: www.hokkaido-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/hokkaidomarathon

Feb

Mar

Dec

Apr

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Kagawa Marugame Int’l Half Marathon Feb Masaharu Kaji E: marugame-half@aroma.ocn.ne.jp W: www.km-half.com fb: bit.ly/2mrsm5x *Kanazawa Marathon Oct Yukiyoshi Yamano E: marathon@city.kanazawa.lg.jp W: www.kanazawa-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/kanazawa.marathon. soshiki *Kitakyushu Marathon Feb Kenji Kitahashi E: toiawase@kitakyushu-marathon.jp W: kitakyushu-marathon.jp fb: on.fb.me/VyPKjJ Kobe Marathon Nov Masaaki Uetsuki E: kobemarathon1@pearl.ocn.ne.jp W: www.kobe-marathon.net fb: facebook.com/Kobe.Marathon.Office Kyoto Marathon Feb Masayoshi Sakoda E: isono@runners.co.jp W: www.kyoto-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/kyoto.marathon.2013 Mount Fuji Marathon Nov Nikkan Sports Press E: m.koike@sports-info.co.jp W: www.fujisan-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/fujisanmarathon Nagano Marathon Shinichi Maejima E: info@naganomarathon.gr.jp W: www.naganomarathon.gr.jp fb: facebook.com/naganomarathon Nagoya Women’s Marathon Tetsuya “Teddy” Okamura E: okamura.chunichi@biz.nifty.jp W: womens-marathon.nagoya fb: facebook.com/nagoya.womens. marathon Nara Marathon Shogo Arai E: athletic@nara-marathon.jp W: www.nara-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/naramarathon.jp

Apr

*Toyama Marathon Oct Takakazu Ishii E: tm-info@toyamamarathon.com W: www.toyamamarathon.com/entry/ oversea.html Jordan Samsung Amman Int’l Marathon Oct Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz Ayla Red Sea Half Marathon Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz Dead Sea Ultramarathon Lina El Kurd E: l.kurd@runjordan.com W: www.runjordan.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9ilRz Petra Desert Marathon Lars Fyhr E: lf@albatros-adventure.com W: www.petra-desert-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/petramarathon

Dec

Apr

Apr

Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon Oct

Dec

Joy Ochuka E: Joy.Ochuka@sc.com W: www.nairobimarathon.com fb: facebook.com/StandardCharteredKE Korea

Jan

Saitama Int’l Marathon Nov Hiroki Sugiyama E: info@saitama-internationalmarathon.com W: saitama-international-marathon.jp Jun

Tokushima Marathon Mar Kamon Iizumi E: hashiru_ahoo@circus.ocn.ne.jp W: www.tokushima-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/tokushima.marathon

Chosunilbo Chuncheon Int’l Marathon Oct Ina Choi E: marathon@chosun.com W: marathon.chosun.com fb: facebook.com/marathonchosun Daegu Int’l Marathon Rachel Lee 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 E: sn1976@korea.kr, sn1976@hanmail.net W: www.smgmara.com Gyeonggi Int’l Half Marathon We Jang Ryang E: artwjr@empas.com W: www.ggimarathon.com

Apr

JoongAng Seoul Marathon Nov E: marathon@joongang.co.kr W: marathon.joins.com fb: on.fb.me/IRdOYV Kuwait Gulf Bank 642 Marathon Nov Ahmed Almajed E: events@pro-vision.com W: www.gulfbank642marathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1Pz6xYJ

Lattelecom Riga Marathon Aigars Nords E: marathon@necom.lv W: lattelecomrigamarathon.lv fb: facebook.com/ LattelecomRigaMarathon

May

Lithuania

Danske Bank Vilnius Marathon Darius Mikulis E: info@vilniausmaratonas.lt W: www.vilniusmarathon.lt fb: facebook.com/vilniusmarathon

Jun

Feb

Incheon Songdo Int’l Marathon Oct SooHong Woo E: road42195@naver.com W: www.songdorun.com Mar

Borneo Int’l Marathon Datuk Dr Heng Aik Cheng E: 1234heng@gmail.com W: www.borneomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/borneomarathon Standard Chartered KL Marathon Rainer Biemans E: rainer.biemans@dirigo.com.my W: www.kl-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/SCKLmarathon *Kuching Marathon Liew Tang Chieh E: kchmarathon@gmail.com W: www.marathonkuching.com fb: on.fb.me/1OhT46J

Jul

Mexico Maratón Aguascalientes Oct Jose Luis Trujillo Alcala E: maratonaguascalientes@ hotmail.com W: www.maratonaguascalientes.com.mx fb: facebook.com/maratonaguascalientes

Medio Maratón Atlas de Guadalajara Saúl Figueroa E: medio.maraton@ atlascolomos.com.mx W: www.mediomaratonatlas.com fb: on.fb.me/IR59pk Maratón Int’l de Culiacán Tomás Villa Velázquez Santillanes E: eldsin@hotmail.com W: maratonculiacan.org fb: on.fb.me/1zhRUC4

Jun

Sep

Sep

Gran Maraton Pacifico Dec Juan Francisco Ayla Barajas E: francisco.ayala@gmodelo.com.mx W: www.maraton.org fb: facebook.com/gran.maratonpacifico

Dec

May

May

Maraton Guadalajara Megacable Nov Elena Aguilar Fuentes E: elena.aguilar@ comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: www.maratonguadalajara.org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL 21k Guadalajara Electrolit Elena Aguilar Fuentes E: elena.aguilar@ comudeguadalajara.gob.mx W: medio.maratonguadalajara.org fb: facebook.com/MaratonGDL Maratón Int’l Lala Luis Rey Delgado García E: nydia.rocha@grupolala.com W: www.maratonlala.org fb: on.fb.me/1f9fPdX Merida Marathon Pablo Suinaga Sainz E: psuinaga@asdeporte.com W: www.merida.gob.mx

Aug

ASICS Penang Bridge Int’l Marathon Nov

Law Heng Kiang E: info@penangmarathon.gov.my W: www.penangmarathon.gov.my fb: facebook.com/penangbridgemarathon

Maratón de la Ciudad de México Telcel Horacio de la Vega Flores E: contacto@maratoncdmx.com W: www.maratoncdmx.com fb: facebook.com/MaratonCdMx

21km Nuevo Leon Nov Luciano Ramirez Gallardo E: atletismonuevoleon@gmail.com W: www.asociaciondeatletismonl.com fb: facebook.com/21knl Rock ’n’ Roll Querétaro Maratón Oct Luis Galvez E: lgalvez@asdeporte.com W: www.runrocknroll.com/queretaro fb: facebook.com/RnRQueretaro/ Tangamanga Int’l Marathon Jun Jaime Eduardo Morales Reyes E: maratontangamanga@gmail.com W: www.maratontangamanga.com fb: facebook.com/maratontangamanga *Medio Maratón Int’l TlajomulcoCajititlán Elena Aguilar Fuentes E: mediomaratontlajomulco@ gmail.com W: medio-maraton.tlajomulco.gob.mx fb: facebook.com/ mediomaratontlajomulco

Sep

Medio Maraton Turistico Riviera Nayarit Nov Arturo García Ruiz Velasco E: arturo@conserviexpress.com W: www.mediomaratonrivieranayarit.com fb: on.fb.me/Jic0Js Moldova

Jan

Sep

Macau, China Macao Galaxy Entertainment Int’l Marathon José Tavares E: sport@macau.ctm.net W: www.macaumarathon.com

Mauritius Marathon Jean Marie Grall E: eventsip@gmail.com W: www.mauritiusmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/pages/MauritiusMarathon

Carrera del Día Del Padre Jun Medio Maratón Adriana Corach E: corach@ corredoresdelbosquedetlalpan. com.mx W: www.corredoresdelbosquedetlalpan. com.mx fb: bit.ly/2cEPAVs

Luxembourg ING Route du Vin Half Marathon Frédéric Kimmlingen E: routeduvin@fla.lu W: www.ingrouteduvin.lu

Aug

Mauritius

21k Coahuila Arq. Dora Maria Galindo Ramos E: coahuila21k@hotmail.com W: www.21kcoahuila.org

BLOM BANK Beirut Marathon Nov Mr. Wissam Terro E: wissam.terro@beirutmarathon.org W: www.beirutmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/beirutmarathon

Kaunas Marathon Algirdas Pukis E: info@kaunasmarathon.lt W: www.kaunasmarathon.lt fb: facebook.com/KaunoMaratonas

Maldives Dhiraagu Maldives Road Race Mirshan Hassan E: mirshan@dhiraagu.com.mv W: www.dmrr.mv

Malaysia Apr

Dong-A Ilbo Gyeongju Int’l Marathon Oct In-Cheol Lee E: marathon@donga.com W: marathon.donga.com/gyeongju.html

Incheon Int’l Half Marathon Jaeyoung Kwak E: tingi@naver.com W: www.incheonmarathon.co.kr

Mar

Lebanon Aug

Kazakhstan Almaty Marathon Saltanat Kazybayeva E: saltanat.k@wclass.kz W: www.almaty-marathon.kz fb: facebook.com/almatymarathon

Seoul Marathon Inchul Lee E: joong4n2@donga.com W: www.seoul-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/dongamarathon

Latvia

Kenya

Osaka Marathon Nov Mr. Kazuhiro Kawachi E: kawachi@osaka-marathon.com W: www.osaka-marathon.com/ index_en.html fb: on.fb.me/IR9M2y

Lake Saroma 100km Ultra Marathon Jiro Hashimoto E: saroma@runners.co.jp W: saromanblue.jp/index.shtml fb: facebook.com/saroma100km

Feb

Mar

Ohme-Hochi 30km Road Race & 10km Feb Daijiro Asahara E: info@ohme-marathon.sakura.ne.jp W: www.ohme-marathon.jp fb: facebook.com/ohme.marathon

Osaka Women’s Marathon Satoru Takeda E: s-takeda@ktv.co.jp W: www.osaka-marathon.jp

Tokyo Marathon Tad Hayano E: hayano@tokyo42195.org W: www.marathon.tokyo/en/ fb: facebook.com/tokyo42195.org

Feb

Mar

Jan

Aug

*Chisinau Int’l Marathon Oct Dmitri Voloshin E: info@marathon.md W: www.marathon.md fb: facebook.com/ chisinaumarathon/?fref=ts Montenegro Podgorica Marathon Oct Milan Madžgalj E: maraton@t-com.me W: www.maraton.co.me fb: on.fb.me/1Sh24z2 Morocco *Marathon Vert D’Agadir Mr. Abdellah Jeddad E: info@2cras.com W: www.agadirmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ MarathonAgadir/?fref=ts

Apr

Grand Marathon Int’l de Casablanca Oct

Said Ibrahimi Moulay Skali E: contact@casablancamarathon.com, m.skali@ casablanca-marathon.com W: www.casablanca-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/casablanca.marathon RAHAL Mémorial Casablanca Mr. Abdellah Jeddad E: info@2cras.com W: www.running.ma

May

Semi Marathon Int’l de Laayoune Nov Mr. Abdellah Jeddad E: info@2cras.com W: www.running.ma 20km Int’l de Marrakech Oct Rachid Ben Meziane E: info@2cras.com, info@running.ma W: www.running.ma fb: facebook.com/ marrakech10km/?fref=ts Marathon & Semi Int’l de Marrakech

Maratón Powerade Monterrey Dec Edilberto González Serna E: edilbertogonzalez.accnl@gmail.com W: www.maratonmonterrey.com fb: facebook.com/Maratonmty

Jan

Mohamed Knidiri E: marathonmarrakech@gmail.com W: www.marathon-marrakech.com fb: facebook.com/marathon2marrakech

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Myanmar Bagan Temple Marathon Nov Rune Nortoft E: rn@albatros-adventure.com W: www.bagan-temple-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/bagantemplemarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Netherlands TCS Amsterdam Marathon Oct Cees Pronk E: info@tcsamsterdammarathon.nl W: www.tcsamsterdammarathon.nl fb: facebook.com/ TCSAmsterdamMarathon Dam tot Damloop Jan Willem Mijderwijk E: info@lechampion.nl W: www.damloop.nl fb: facebook.com/damtotdamloop

Oct

Hans de Greef E: hansdegreef@ marathoneindhoven.nl W: www.marathoneindhoven.nl fb: facebook.com/marathon.eindhoven

Leiden Marathon Tjeerd Scheffer E: info@marathon.nl W: www.marathon.nl fb: facebook.com/Leidenmarathon

Panama Panama Int’l Marathon Nov Rodrigo Espinosa E: rodriespinosa@gmail.com W: www.corredoresdelistmo.com fb: on.fb.me/19tYlKX Gatorade Panama Int’l Half Marathon Elmer Ortiz Nunez E: panamarunners@gmail.com W: www.panamahalfmarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1zQ4212

May

New Zealand

Nigeria

Maratón Int’l de Asunción Myrta Doldan Roman E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.pmcpy.org fb: facebook.com/PyMarathonClub

Aug

Media Maratón Int’l Ciudad de Asunción May Marcelo Ithurralde E: pmc.paraguay@gmail.com W: www.paraguaymarathonclub.org fb: facebook.com/ParaguayMarathonClub Peru Maratón movistar Lima42k Andreas Müller E: info@zmpromociones.org W: www.lima42k.com fb: on.fb.me/18FfgaU Toyota Media Maratón de Lima 21k & 10k Gonzalo Rodriguez Larrain de Lavalle E: alejandra@perurunners.com fb: facebook.com/perurunners

May

Aug

Philippines

Apr

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Norway Fjordkraft Bergen City Marathon Apr Janne Jensen E: post@bergencitymarathon.no W: www.bergencitymarathon.no fb: facebook.com/BergenCityMarathon/

Cebu Marathon Rio de la Cruz E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.cebumarathon.net fb: facebook.com/cebumarathon

Jul

PKO Bialystok Halfmarathon Grzegorz Kuczynski E: fundacja@bialystokbiega.pl W: www.bialystokpolmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/bialystokbiega

Midnight Sun Marathon Nils I. Haetta E: info@msm.no W: www.msm.no fb: on.fb.me/18FhPtw

PZU Cracovia Marathon Krzysztof Kowal E: strona@zis.krakow.pl W: www.pzucracoviamaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/CracoviaMaraton

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DOZ Marathon Łódź Michal Drelich E: michal@sportevolution.pl W: www.lodzmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/lodzmaraton Pila Int’l Half Marathon Henryk Paskal E: info@pila.halfmarathon.pl W: www.pila.halfmarathon.pl fb: facebook.com/polmaraton.pila

Apr

Rock’n’Roll Lisbon Marathon EDP | Rock’n’Roll Half Marathon Santander Totta Oct Carlos Moya E: info@maratonaportugal.com W: www.rocknrollLisbon.com fb: facebook.com/RnRPortugal

Sep

EDP Lisbon Half Marathon Mar Carlos Moya E: info@maratonaportugal.com W: www.meiamaratonadelisboa.com fb: facebook.com/MeiaMaratonaLisboa

Mar

PKO Poznań Marathon Oct Lukasz Miadziolko E: info@marathon.poznan.pl W: www.marathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton PKO Poznań Half Marathon apr Łukasz Miadziołko E: info@halfmarathon.poznan.pl W: www.halfmarathon.poznan.pl fb: facebook.com/PoznanMaraton Running Festival of the Economic Forum Marek Tokarczyk E: festiwalbiegowy@isw.org.pl W: www.festiwalbiegowy.pl fb: facebook.com/festiwalbiegowy

Sep

Silesia Marathon Oct Bohdan Witwicki E: info@silesiaproactive.pl W: www.silesiamarathon.pl/en/ fb: on.fb.me/18FdJS0 PZU Warsaw Marathon Marek Tronina E: info@warsawmarathon.com W: www.warsawmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/WarsawMarathon

PZU Warsaw Half Marathon Marek Tronina E: info@warsawmarathon.com W: www.warsawhalfmarathon.com

Sep

May

Apr

Mar

PKO Wroclaw Maraton Sep Wojciech Gestwa E: biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: www.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/maraton.wroclawski PKO Wroclaw Night Half Marathon Jun Wojciech Gestwa E: wojciech.gestwa@msc.wroc. pl, biuro@wroclawmaraton.pl W: pol.wroclawmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/maraton.wroclawski Portugal

Apr

Funchal Marathon Mario Machado E: mario.spiridon@gmail.com W: www.funchalmarathon.com Grande Prémio Fim da Europa Luis Sousa E: info@sportscience.pt W: www.fimdaeuropa.com fb: facebook.com/FimDaEuropa

Lisbon Eco Marathon May Luis Sousa E: ls@honoris.pt W: www.lisbonmarathon.pt fb: facebook.com/LisbonECOMarathon Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Porto Half Marathon Sport Zone Sep Jorge Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.meiamaratonasportzone.com fb: on.fb.me/1bqbekL Porto Marathon EDP Nov Jorge Teixeira E: geral@runporto.com W: www.maratonadoporto.com fb: on.fb.me/19tXqKC El Corte Inglés São Silvestre de Lisboa Dec Hugo Miguel Ramos Sousa E: info@saosilvestredelisboa.com W: www.saosilvestredelisboa.com fb: facebook.com/saosilvestredelisboa

World’s Best 10k Race Rafael B. Acosta Rosario E: rafael.acosta@wb10k.com W: www.wb10k.com fb: on.fb.me/1f9fJTB

Jan

Jan

The Big Five Marathon Rune Nortoft E: rn@albatros-adventure.com W: www.big-five-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/bigfivemarathon Sanlam Cape Town Marathon Janet Welham E: running@capetownmarathon. com, janet@saige.co.za W: www.capetownmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/CTMarathon

Feb

Jun

Sep

Feb

Legends Marathon Oct Meta Scott E: meta@legendsmarathon.co.za W: www.legendsmarathon.co.za fb: facebook.com/legendsmarathon Mandela Day Marathon Aug Sbu Khuzwayo E: mm@umdm.gov.za W: www.mandelamarathon.co.za fb: facebook.com/mandeladay.marathon Maritzburg City Marathon John Hall E: rd@pmb42.co.za W: www.pmb42.co.za fb: facebook.com/pmb42

Romania Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Marathon Oct

Oana Nastase/Paolo Ottone E: info@abrc.ro, register@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/BucharestMarathon OMV Petrom Bucharest May Half Marathon Oana Nastase/Paolo Ottone E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucharest21km.com fb: facebook.com/Bucharest21km *UNIQA Bucharest 10K Paolo Ottone E: info@abrc.ro W: www.bucuresti10km.ro Wizz Air Cluj-Napoca Marathon Horatiu Morar E: office@runnersclub.ro W: www.maraton-cluj.ro/en fb: bit.ly/2fUJuR1

Apr

Apr

Russia Golden Ring Ultra Trail 100 Jul Michael Dolgy E: info@goldenultra.ru W: www.goldenultra.ru fb: facebook.com/GoldenRingUltraTrail/ *Kazan Marathon Vadim Yangirov E: vadim@youngirov.ru W: www.kazanmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/kazanmarathon/

May

Promsvyazbank Moscow Marathon

Comrades Marathon Jun Rowyn James E: rowyn@comrades.com W: www.comrades.com fb: facebook.com/ComradesMarathon 27km for Freedom Kevin Lodge E: info@topevents.co.za W: www.27forfreedom.co.za fb: facebook.com/27FORFREEDOM

Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon Apr Carol Vosloo E: stefanie@twooceansmarathon. org.za W: www.twooceansmarathon.org.za fb: facebook.com/TwoOceansMarathon

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Puerto Rico

Republic of South Africa

Discoveries Half Marathon Dec António Campos E: geral@xistarca.pt W: www.discoverieshalfmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Xistarca

Poland

Knarvikmila – The Great Fjord Run Sep Helge Brekke E: Info@knarvikmila.no W: www.knarvikmila.no fb: on.fb.me/IR5057 Jun

Jan

Milo Marathon Manila Finals Race Dec Rio de la Cruz E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.runrio.com fb: on.fb.me/18FmfR5 National MILO Marathon Rio de la Cruz E: Rio.delacruz316@gmail.com W: www.runrio.com fb: on.fb.me/18FmfR5

ONICO Gdynia Half Marathon Michal Drelich E: biuro@sportevolution.pl W: www.gdyniapolmaraton.pl fb: facebook.com/gdyniapolmaraton

ORLEN Warsaw Marathon Czeslaw Zapala E: zapala.czeslaw@gmail.com W: www.orlenmarathon.pl fb: facebook.com/ORLENMarathon

May

North Pole

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Jul

Paraguay

ASB Auckland Marathon Oct E: nzinfo@ironman.com W: www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz fb: facebook.com/aucklandmarathon

North Pole Marathon Richard Donovan E: rd@npmarathon.com W: www.npmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/npmarathon

Stavanger Marathon Aug Johannes Økland E: lop@gti-friidrett.no W: www.stavangermarathon.no fb: facebook.com/StavangerMarathon/

Apr

NN Marathon Rotterdam Apr Mario J Kadiks E: info@marathonrotterdam.nl W: www.nnmarathonrotterdam.org/home fb: facebook.com/MarathonRdam

Okpekpe Int’l 10km Road Race Mike Itemuagbor E: mike@pamodzi-ng.com W: www.okpekperoadrace.com

Sep

3-Sjøersløpet Nov Johannes Økland E: lop@gti-friidrett.no W: www.3sjoers.no fb: facebook.com/3sjoers

Sep

De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven

Enschede Marathon Sandra Melief E: info@enschedemarathon.nl W: www.enschedemarathon.nl fb: nl-nl.facebook.com/ EnschedeMarathon

BMW Oslo Marathon Edwin Ingebrigtsen E: edwin@skvidar.no W: www.oslomaraton.no/en fb: facebook.com/oslomaraton

Feb

Sep

Dmitry Tarasov E: tarasov@moscowmarathon.org W: moscowmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/moscowmarathon *Rosa Run Half Marathon 777 Sergey Makeenkov E: info@rosarun.ru W: www.rosarun.ru/en Siberian Int’l Marathon Inna Chernoblavskaya E: mail@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1lttnsK Siberian Ice Half Marathon Inna Chernoblavskaya E: mail@runsim.ru W: www.runsim.ru fb: on.fb.me/1zzM9nj

May

Aug

Jan

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

White Nights Marathon Mikhail Kochetkov / Anton Uyk E: info@wnmarathon. ru, whitenights1@mail. ru, uyk@startspb.ru W: www.wnmarathon.ru fb: facebook.com/wnmarathon/ Golden Ring Yaroslavl Half Marathon Grigorii Krichmara E: gkrichmara@gmail.com W: goldenringrun.ru/Steps/Yaroslavl fb: facebook.com/goldenringrun

Jul

Sep

Rwanda Kigali International Peace Marathon Jean Pierre Ndacyayisenga E: coach2020a@gmail.com W: www.kigalimarathon.org fb: bit.ly/2llV4W3

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Serbia Belgrade Marathon Dejan Nikolic E: office@bgdmarathon.org W: www.bgdmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/Belgrade.Marathon

Apr

Novi Sad Marathon Oct Milan Dolga E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: facebook.com/novisad.marathon Novi Sad Half Marathon Dimitrije Dolga E: marathon@sbb.rs W: www.marathon.org.rs fb: facebook.com/novisad.marathon

Apr

Seychelles Seychelles Eco-Friendly Marathon Feb Giovanna Rousseau E: ceonsc@seychelles.net W: www.seychelles-marathon.com Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore Thibault Vellard E: thibault.vellard@ironman.com W: www.marathonsingapore.com fb: facebook.com/MarathonSG

Dec

ASICS Medio Maratón de Madrid Guillermo Ferrero Centeno E: gferrero1944@yahoo.es W: www.mediomaratonmadrid.es fb: on.fb.me/1f9hRLh EDP Rock ’n’ Roll Madrid Maratón & 1/2 Pedro Rumbao E: drumbao@mapoma.es W: www.rocknrollmadrid.com fb: facebook.com/RnRMadrid Maratón Málaga Pepe Checa Fajardo E: info@maratonmalaga.com W: www.maratonmalaga.com fb: facebook.com/maratondemalaga/

ČSOB Bratislava Marathon Apr Jozef Pukalovič E: info@becool.sk W: www.bratislavamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/bratislava.marathon Košice Peace Marathon Oct Branislav Koniar E: info@kosicemarathon.com W: www.kosicemarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/IR7Nvl Slovenia Volkswagen Ljubljana Marathon Oct Gojko Zalokar E: info@timingljubljana.si W: www.vw-ljubljanskimaraton.si fb: facebook.com/ljmaraton May

Maratón Donostia - San Sebastián Nov Patxi Larrea Perurena E: info@maratondonostia.com (sport questions), maraton@ flygroupnet.com (registrations) W: www.maratondonostia.com fb: facebook.com/maratonsansebastian

*EDP Medio Maratón de la Mujer de Madrid Oct Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez E: fjgavela@mpib.es W: www.edpmediomaratondelamujer.es eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona Feb

Cristian Llorens E: cllorens@rpmracing.es W: www.mitjabarcelona.com fb: facebook.com/mitjamaratobarcelona

Gran Canaria Marathon Orlando Montesdeoca Santana E: orlando@grupojuanarmas.com W: www.grancanariamaraton.com fb: facebook.com/GCMaraton Mitja Marato Granollers Joan Villuendas Bornau E: joanvilluendas@lamitja.cat W: www.lamitja.cat fb: facebook.com/lamitja

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Jan

Roque M. Alemañ Bonet E: chiplevante@gmail.com W: www.mitjasantapola.com fb: facebook.com/MitjaMaratoSantaPola Zurich Maratón de Sevilla Francisco Javier Gavela Rodríguez E: info@zurichmaratonsevilla.es W: www.zurichmaratonsevilla.es fb: facebook.com/MaratonDeSevilla

Feb

Medio Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Oct Paco Borao E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com/ medio-maraton fb: facebook.com/mediomaratonvalencia Maratón Valencia Trinidad Alfonso EDP Nov Paco Borao E: gerencia@correcaminos.org W: www.maratonvalencia.com fb: facebook.com/maratonvalencia Sri Lanka

Spain

Zurich Marato de Barcelona Cristian Llorens E: cllorens@rpmracing.es, cllorens@ghcsports.com W: www.zurichmaratobarcelona.es fb: facebook.com/ ZURICHMARATODEBARCELONA

Dec

Palma de Mallorca Marathon Oct David Thompson Foronda E: info@palmademallorcamarathon. com W: www.palmademallorcamarathon.com fb: on.fb.me/1RZOiR8

Apr

Mitja Marato Int’l Vila de Santa Pola

Slovakia

Three Hearts Marathon Marko Pintaric E: info@maraton-radenci.si W: www.maraton-radenci.si fb: facebook.com/MaratonTrehSrc

Apr

Mar

Jan

LSR Colombo Marathon Oct Mr P.T. Weerasinghe E: colombomarathon@LSR-srilanka. com, LSRtilak@sltnet.lk W: www.colombomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/LSRColomboMarathon Sweden GöteborgsVarvet Half Marathon May Bo Edsberger E: info@goteborgsvarvet.se W: www.goteborgsvarvet.se fb: facebook.com/goteborgsvarvet Stockholm Half Marathon Sep Ulf Saletti E: info@stockholmhalfmarathon.se W: www.stockholmhalfmarathon.se fb: facebook.com/stockholmhalfmarathon ASICS Stockholm Marathon Jun Ulf Saletti E: info@marathon.se W: www.stockholmmarathon.se fb: facebook.com/stockholmmarathon.se Switzerland

Feb

Harmony Genève Marathon for Unicef May Benjamin Chandelier E: info@genevemarathon.org W: www.harmonygenevemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/GeneveMarathon

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Jungfrau-Marathon Richi Umberg E: info@jungfrau-marathon.ch W: www.jungfrau-marathon.ch fb: facebook.com/JungfrauMarathon

Sep

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Lausanne Marathon Oct Josette Bruchez E: info@lausanne-marathon.com W: www.lausanne-marathon.com fb: facebook.com/LausanneMarathon Neujahrsmarathon Zürich Roger Kaufmann E: info@neujahrsmarathon.ch W: www.neujahrsmarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/neujahrsmarathon

Jan

Jul

Course not measurable to AIMS standards

Gornergrat Zermatt Marathon Andrea Schneider E: info@zermattmarathon.ch W: www.zermattmarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/zermattmarathon Zurich Marathon Bruno Lafranchi E: info@zuerichmarathon.ch W: www.zuerichmarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/zurichmarathon

Jul

Apr

Dec

Runatolia Marathon (Half + 10km) Mar Mr. Ali Dogan / Ms. Nergiz Gürler E: info@runatolia.com W: www.runatolia.com fb: facebook.com/runtalya.de *Erzurum Half Marathon May Ahmet Dal E: ahmetdalsau@gmail.com W: www.erzurumyarimaratonu.org Vodafone İstanbul Half Marathon Apr Ismail Ozbayraktar E: istanbulyarimaratonu@ sporas.com.tr W: www.istanbulyarimaratonu.org fb: on.fb.me/1OYHCP2 Vodafone İstanbul Marathon Nov Ismail Ozbayraktar E: info@istanbulmarathon.org W: www.istanbulmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IRa8pQ 9 Eylül İzmir Half Marathon Sep Ganime Nalbantoglu E: international@izmir.bel.tr W: www.9eylulyarimaratonu.com U.S. Virgin Islands

Tajikistan Dushanbe International Half Marathon

Sfax Marathon Int’l Olive Trees Naamen Bouhamed E: contact@marathon-desoliviers-sfax.com W: www.sfaxmarathon.com fb: bit.ly/20VpGLC Turkey

SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne Oct Reto Schorno E: info@swisscitymarathon.ch W: www.swisscitymarathon.ch fb: facebook.com/SwissCityMarathon Swissalpine Andrea Tuffli E: info@swissalpine.ch W: www.swissalpine.ch fb: facebook.com/swissalpinedavos

Tunisia *The Carthage Race Int’l Marathon Feb Naamen Bouhamed E: info@the-carthage-race.com W: www.the-carthage-race.com fb: bit.ly/20VpGLC

Apr

Dilshod Kurbanov E: dilshod197779@mail.ru W: www.dushanbe-marathon.com

St Croix Int’l Marathon Wallace Williams E: wallacewilliams@msn.com W: virginislandspace.org/ stxmarathonregistration2016.html

Dec

Ukraine

Tanzania Kilimanjaro Marathon Mar John Addison E: john@wildfrontiers.com W: www.kilimanjaromarathon.com fb: facebook.com/kilimanjaromarathon/ Thailand

Bila Tserkva Marathon Oct Sergey Bocharov E: org@bc-marathon.org.ua W: www.bc-marathon.org.ua fb: on.fb.me/1oWXmp8 Kharkiv Int’l Marathon Dmitry Garmash E: info@kharkivmarathon.com W: www.kharkivmarathon.com

Apr

BDMS Bangkok Marathon Nov Songkram Kraisonthi E: amazingfield@hotmail.com W: www.bkkmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/Bkkmarathon

Nova Poshta Kyiv Half Marathon Dmitro Chernitsky E: registration@runukraine.org W: www.kyivhalfmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/ kyivhalfmarathon/?fref=ts

*Bangsaen21 Half Marathon Dec Rut Jiroajvanichakorn E: info@Bangsaen21.com W: www.bangsaen21.com/index_eng. html fb: facebook.com/bangsaen21/

Wizz Air Kyiv City Marathon Oct Dmitro Chernitsky E: registration@runukraine.org W: www.kyivmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/kyivmarathon/?fref=ts

Khon Kaen Int’l Marathon Jan Assoct. Prof.Piansak Pakdee E: info@khonkaenmarathon.com W: www.khonkaenmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/khonkaenmarathon

RAK Half Marathon Nathan Clayton E: registration@rakmarathon.org W: www.rakmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/rakmarathon

Laguna Phuket Marathon Roman Floesser E: info1@phuketmarathon.com W: www.phuketmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/phuketmarathon

Jun

Trinidad & Tobago UWI-SPEC Half Marathon Oct Dr. Iva Gloudon E: specinfo@sta.uwi.edu W: sta.uwi.edu/spec/marathon fb: facebook.com/UWISPEC

Apr

United Arab Emirates Feb

United States of America Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay Nov Doug Thurston E: doug@bsim.org W: www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IRalcA Big Sur Int’l Marathon Apr Doug Thurston E: info@bsim.org W: www.bsim.org fb: on.fb.me/1f9jxV9

B.A.A. Boston Marathon Apr Dave McGillivray E: info@baa.org W: www.baa.org fb: facebook.com/TheBostonMarathon Bank of America Chicago Marathon Oct Carey Pinkowski E: office@chicagomarathon.com W: www.chicagomarathon.com fb: facebook.com/ChicagoMarathon Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon Jan Brant Kotch E: bkotch@craincaton.com W: www.houstonmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/houstonmarathon Marine Corps Marathon Oct Rick Nealis E: mcmcustomerservice@ usmc-mccs.org W: www.marinemarathon.com fb: facebook.com/MarineCorpsMarathon Maui Ocean Front Marathon & Half Jan Les Wright E: RunMaui@gmail.com W: www.RunMaui.com fb: on.fb.me/1bGrMbk TCS New York City Marathon Nov Peter Ciaccia E: pciaccia@nyrr.org W: www.tcsnycmarathon.org fb: facebook.com/nycmarathon Philadelphia Marathon Nov Jim Marino E: info@philadelphiamarathon.com W: www.philadelphiamarathon.com fb: facebook.com/PhiladelphiaMarathon Portland Marathon Oct Les Smith E: info@portlandmarathon.org W: www.portlandmarathon.org fb: on.fb.me/IR7VuL Rock ’n’ Roll DC Marathon & Half Marathon Mar Kevin Buffalino E: rnrdc@competitorgroup.com W: www.runrocknroll.com/DC fb: facebook.com/RocknRollDC Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & 1/2 Marathon Nov Kevin LaRue E: RnRvegas@competitorgroup.com W: runrocknroll.com/las-vegas fb: facebook.com/RnRLasVegas Uruguay *Maratón de Montevideo Lionel de Mello E: secretariacau2016@gmail.com W: www.maratonmontevideo.com.uy fb: facebook.com/ maratonmontevideo42km

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Venezuela CAF Caracas Maratón Mar Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia E: maratoncaf@caf.com W: maraton.caf.com fb: facebook.com/MaratonCafCaracas Gatorade Caracas Rock 10K Oct Sonia Rosales E: srosales@hipereventos.com W: www.hipereventos.com fb: on.fb.me/IRe3mA Vietnam *Da Nang Int’l Marathon Aug Phillip Nguyen E: info@pulse.vn W: www.rundanang.com fb: fb.com/dananginternationalmarathon Zimbabwe Econet Victoria Falls Marathon Jun John Addison E: john@wildfrontiers.com W: www.vicfallsmarathon.com fb: facebook.com/VictoriaFallsMarathon

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