16th Jungfrau marathon 2008 results

September 6, 2008

On Saturday, 6th of September 2008 the Jungfrau marathon was run in Interlaken (SUI) in ideal conditions. During the 42,195km the participants have to climb 1829 altitude. The men’s race was won by Hermann Achmüller (ITA), who prepared only in the plain and did not do any specific mountain-running training. Mountain-running specialist Martin Cox took 2nd place and Swiss halfmarathon champion Patrick Wieser came in 3rd.
In the womens’ race Hungarian Simona Staicu won as expected despite having stomach problems with Romanian Jeanna Malkova and Swiss Elena Kaledina following on the minor places of the podium.

Lead results were as follows:

marathon men:
1. Achmüller Hermann 1971 ITA 3:03.18,6
2. Cox Martin 1969 ITA 3:05.32,1
3. Wieser Patrick 1979 SUI 3:08.07,9
4. Short Timothy 1981 GB 3:08.37,9
5. Frick Gerd 1974 ITA 3:11.15,1
6. Murzine Grigory 1970 RUS 3:11.32,4
7. Tanui Mike 1976 KEN 3:12.24,3
8. Raittila Anssi 1976 FIN 3:12.42,2
9. Kaledine Serguej 1968 FRA 3:17.16,4
10. Jenzer Urs 1970 SUI 3:18.28,5

marathon women:
1. Staicu Simona 1971 HUN-Hungary 3:39.05,5
2. Malkova Jeanna 1968 ROM 3:41.15,7
3. Kaledina Elena 1966 SUI 3:43.21,1
4. Reiber Carolina 1973 SUI 3:44.31,6
5. Guggisberg-Oberli Petra 1974 SUI 3:50.28,4
6. Amiet Tanja 1976 SUI 3:51.55,0
7. Huser Andrea 1973 SUI 3:52.59,4
8. Lilge-Leutner Carina 1960 AUT 3:53.28,7
9. Jaun Karin 1969 SUI 3:55.01,0
10. Kambara Yuri 1976 JAP 3:56.35,0

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