Olympic marathon Champion Constantina Tomescu-Dita to run in Chicago marathon 2008

September 11, 2008

38-year old Constantina Tomescu-Dita, who took the Olympic title in the 2008 Beijing Games announced, that she will run the Bank of America Chicago marathon on October, 12th. It will be her 5th appearance in the Chicago marathon and she might well repeat her victory in 2004 (in 2005 and 2006 she took 2nd place).
However, she will have strong opponents and it remains to be seen if she has recovered from the extraordinary run in Beijing.

the elite field of the Chicago marathon 2008 Womens race includes:
Bezunesh Bekele ETH 2:23:09
Alevtina Biktimirova RUS 2:25:12
Colleen De Reuck USA 2:26:35
Zoila Gomez USA 2:33:53
Lidiya Grigoryeva RUS 2:25:10
Kate O’Neill USA 2:36:15
Adriana Pirtea ROU 2:28:52
Kiyoko Shimahara JPN 2:26:14
Worknesh Tola ETH 2:25:37
Constantina Tomescu-Dita ROU 2:21:30