May 15, 2009
After announcing the women team early this week, USATF now also named the team for the mens marathon.
2004-Olympians Dan Browne and Nate Jenkins both qualified with their performances in the 2007 Olympic Trials marathon (6th and 7th respectively). Fernando Cabada and Matt Gabrielson were the top finnishers in the 2008 USA Marathon Championships in Minneapolis and Justin Young was selected based on his 2:13:54 performance at the 2008 Rotterdam Marathon last April.
The complete men team:
Dan Browne, Nate Jenkins, Matt Gabrielson, Fernando Cabada, Justin Young
May 14, 2009
The athletics federation of the USA, USATF (United States of America Track and Field), announced the team for the women marathon for the IAAF World Championships 2009 in Berlin. The team is led by the 10.000m bronce medalist of the last world championships in Osaka 2007, Kara Goucher (marathon-PB: 2:25:53).
The complete women team:
Kara Goucher, Desiree Davila, Paige Higgins, Zoila Gomez, Tera Moody
May 8, 2009
Also Spain nominated the marathon runners for this years IAAF World Championships.
The squad consists of a complete team of five runners in the mens category and one female marathoner.
Men:
Jose Rios (35), José Manuel Martínez (37). Rafael Iglesias (29), Pedro Nimo (28), Ignacio Caceres (32)
Women:
Alessandra Aguilar (30)
May 7, 2009
Following Kenya, Japan is the second big marathon nation to announce its team for the IAAF Worl Championships 2009 in Berlin.
At a press conference on May 7th, Japan’s athletics federation Rikuren announced the official lineups for both men and women. The federation, its athletes and the country are determined to make up for the national team’s disappointing showing of last summer’s Olympic games. Both the men’s and women’s teams include a fair number of young athletes, with two of the men and all but one of the women having debuted within the last two years and three runners total having qualified for the World Championships team in their debut marathons.
Men:
Atsushi Sato, Satoshi Irifune, Arata Fujiwara, Masaya Shimizu, Kazuhiro Maeda
Women:
Yoshimi Ozaki, Yoko Shibui, Yuri Kano, Yukiko Akaba, Yoshiko Fujinaga
Reserves:
Men:
Kensuke Takahashi
Women:
Tomo Morimoto
May 1, 2009
As one of the first nations, Kenya has announced its marathon participants for this years World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
The squad is lead by reigning Olympic Champion Samuel Wanjiru on the mens side and the reigning World Champion Catherine Ndereba on the womens side. Kenya Athletics also named a team of 10 reserves.
Men: Samuel Wanjiru, James Kwambai, Duncan Kibet, Daniel Rono, Emmanuel Mutai
Women: Agnes Kiprop, Helena Loshanyang Kiprop, Irene Limika, Catherine Ndereba, Salina Kosgei
Reserves:
Men: Luke Kibet, Abel Kirui, Martin Lel, Robert Cheruiyot, David Kipkorir
Women: Martha Komu, Risper Jemeli, Lydia Cheromei, Edith Masai, Irene Mogaka
April 26, 2009
German marathoner Irina Mikitenko once again delivered a superb performance to win the 2009 edition of the Flora London marathon. with a world leading time of 2:22:11h. With a great show of front running she destroyed a very deep field of the best marathon women in the world.
After going through halfway in 1:10:53h together with Mara Yamauchi (GBR), Zhou Chunxiu (CHN) and pacemaker Aniko Kalovics (HUN), Mikitenko also fought off her closest competitors and was clear ahead after 35km. Until the finish she could extend her lead to a significant gap of 61 seconds.
Irina Mikitenko (GER) winning the 2009 Flora London Marathon. (picture by Moguli)
April 25, 2009
The Hamburg marathon that will be held on Sunday, April 26th (start at 9 AM) will be broadcasted live on German TV channel NDR. An internet stream is also available online at the webpage of NDR. An alternative link is here.
April 20, 2009
In a real unique marathon in Vienna, Kenya’s Gilbert Kipruto Kirwa and Austria’s Andrea Mayr were the winners of an interesting race. The special thing about the race was, that the whole elite field consisted of marathon debutants only!
23 year-old Kirwa took the race with a fine 2:08:21h ahead of Ethiopia’s Dereje Debele Tulu (2:09:08h) and Joseph Maregu (Kenya/ 2:09:25h). Despite the fact that the elite field consisted of rookies only, 4 men went sub 2:10. Never before in the history of the Vienna City marathon the results were so good.
Austrian hope and former steeplechaser Günther Weidlinger, ran an encouraging debut in Vienna. But in the end he was unlucky, because he missed the 23-year old Austrian record by just 17 seconds. Weidlinger finished in ninth with 2:12:39. “I was well in time for the record for a long time, but the final two kilometres really killed me. I could not run any more. To finish ninth is okay for me, but I am disappointed to have missed the record,” was his comment.
Surprisingly the womens race was throughoutly dominated by Andrea Mayr. The two time winner of the World Mountain Running Trophy also set a new Austrian record, clocking a 2:30:43h. Not bad for a debut!
Lead results were as follows:
marathon men:
1. Gilbert Kipruto Kirwa KEN 2:08:21
2. Dereje Debele Tulu ETH 2:09:08
3. Joseph Maregu KEN 2:08:25
4. Degefa Abebe Negewo ETH 2:09:52
5. Mohamed El-Hachimi MAR 2:10:24
6. Jafred Chirchir KEN 2:10:42
7. Getu Fekele ETH 2:11:42
8. Pedro Nimo Del-Oro ESP 2:12:10
9. Günther Weidlinger AUT 2:12:39
10. Maswai Kiptanui KEN 2:13:25
marathon women:
1. Andrea Mayr AUT 2:30:43
2. Derbe-Godana Gebissa ETH 2:31:31
3. Hayato-Zeineba Hasso ETH 2:34:01
4. Tiruwork Mekonnen ETH 2:34:07
5. Olga Kalenarova-Ochal UKR 2:35:25
6. Esther Muthuku KEN 2.39:22
April 18, 2009
The Vienna City Marathon that will be held on Sunday, April 19th (start at 9 AM) will be streamed live on the internet. The broadcast should be available from 8.40 AM (Central European Summer Time). via this link. An alternative link is here.
March 17, 2009
After Viktor Röthlin aborted his altitude training camp in Kenya and went back to Switzerland, he now has the bitter diagnosis: Pulmonary embolism in the right pulmonary lobe. Furthermore the doctors diagnosed a pneumonia and an edema in the chest region. It is suspected that the reason was a thrombosis in the right pelvis vein that Röthlin might have suffered during his return flight from Ras Al Khaima (where he dropped out of a halfmarathon after stomach problems) to Kenya. During the 5-hours flight he was “sandwiched” in four-man row.
For at least 4 weeks the World Championships Bronce medalist is not allowed to do any activity. For the next half year Röthlin’s blood will be diluted and the pneumonia will be treated with antibiotica. If the recovery goes well, the Swissman can imagine to participate in a autumn marathon.
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