Olympic Marathon participants 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

July 22, 2008

Only 17 days left until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games! Here is an (incomplete and inofficial) list of participants for the Olympic marathon of the Beijing Games (the list will be updated on a regular basis):

Women
AUS: Benita Johnson, Kate Smyth, Lisa-Jane Weightman
AUT: Eva Maria Gradwohl
BRA: Marily dos Santos
BRN: Nadia Ejjafini
CHN: Zhou Chunxiu, Zhu Xiaolin, Chen Rong, Zhang Shujing
ESP: Alessandra Aguilar, Yesenia Centeno, María J.Pueyo
ETH: Gete Wami, Berhane Adere, Dire Tune
FRA: Christelle Daunay
GBR: Paula Radcliffe, Mara Yamauchi, Liz Yelling
GER: Irina Mikitenko, Susanne Hahn, Melanie Kraus
GRE: Eléni Dónta
HUN: Bea Rakonczai, Petra Teveli
ITA: Bruna Genovese, Vincenza Sicari, Anna Incerti
IRL: Pauline Curley
JAP: Mizuki Noguchi, Yurika Nakamura, Reiko Tosa
LIT: Živilė Balčiūnaitė, Rasa Drazdauskaitė
MEX: Madaí Pérez, Dulce María Rodríguez, Patricia Rétiz
NOR: Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu
NZL: Nina Rillstone, Liza Hunter-Galvan
POL: Dorota Gruca, Monika Drybulska
POR: Ana Dias, Inês Monteiro, Marisa Barros
KEN: Catherine Ndereba, Martha Komu, Selina Kosgei
RUS: Galina Bogomolova, Svetlana Zakharova, Irina Timofeeva
SVK: Zuzana Tomasova
TUR: Bahar Doğan
UKR: Tetyana Filonyuk, Natalya Berkut, Oksana Sklyarenko
USA: Deena Kastor, Magdalena Lewy Boulet, Blake Russell

Men:
AUS: Lee Troop
BLR: Andrei Gordeev
BRA: Marilson Gomes, Jose Teles, Franck Caldeira
BRN: Stephen Kamara
CAM: Hem Bunting
CHN: Ren Longyun, Deng Haiyang, Li Zhuhong
ESP: Julio Rey, José Ríos, Chema Martínez
ETH: Tsegaye Kebede, Deriba Mergia, Gashaw Melese
FIN: Janne Holmen, Francis Kirwa
FRA: Simon Munyutu
GBR: Dan Robinson
ITA: Stefano Baldini, Ottavio Andriani, Ruggero Pertile
IRL: Martin Fagan
ISR: Ayele Seteng
JAP: Atsushi Sato, Satoshi Osaki, Tsuyoshi Ogata
KAZ: Takhir Mamashayev
KOR: Lee Bong-Ju
KEN: Martin Lel, Samuel Wanjiru, Robert Cheruiyot
LIE: Marcel Tschopp
MON: Ser-Od Bat-Ochir
NED: Kamiel Maase
POL: Henryk Szost, Arkadiusz Sowa
POR: Paulo Gomes, Hélder Ornelas
QUA: Yousif Othma, Mubarak Hassan
RSA: Norman Dlomo, Hendrick Ramaala
RUS: Alekesei Sokolov, Grigoriy Andreev, Oleg Kulkov
SUI: Viktor Röthlin
TAN: Samson Ramadhan, Msenduki Mohamed, Getuli Bayo
TUR: Abdil Ceylan
UGA: Alex Malinga
UKR: Oleksandr Kuzin, Oleksandr Sitkovskiy, Vasil Matviychuk
USA: Ryan Hall, Dathan Ritzenhein, Brian Sell