Sunday, September 30, 2012

2:04:15 (WL) - Mutai narrowly beats Kimetto at the Berlin Marathon finish today







Favourite Geoffrey Mutai (KEN), 31, who ran the fastest marathon ever run’ of 2:03:02 (2:55/km pace) at the 20112 Boston Marathon (a course which is not ratified by IAAF for  world record consideration due to its elevation drop and point-to-point measurements ), won the 39th Berlin Marathon this morning under fine weather conditions of 10 deg C during the start.

He narrowly beat his compatriot and training partner Dennis Kimetto, 28, making his marathon debut, with a time of 2:04:15 (fastest this year), just 38 seconds shy of the world record of 2:03:38 set by his countryman Patrick Makau on the same course 12 months ago. Kimetoo finished closely behind in 2:04:16, an all time fastest marathon debut  (Boston excluded).
Another dedutant Geoffrey Kipsang ,19, also from Kenya came in third in 2:06:12.
The Kenyan made a clean sweep of the men's top 8 positions followed by two Japanese.

The Ethiopian women dominated the women category by winning the top 2 positions through Aberu Kebede and Tirfi Tsegaye who finished in 2:20:30 and 2:21:19 respectively. Olena Shurhno of Ukraine was third in 2:23:32 .

There were 34,485 finishers among 40,000 entries and about 1 million spectators including 20,000 fans.

Men
1) 2:04:15 (WL) - Geoffrey Mutai (KEN)
2) 2:04:16 - Dennis Kimetto (KEN) (Debutant)
3) 2:06:12 - Geoffrey Kipsang (KEN) (Debutant)
4) 2:08:28 - Nicholas Manza (KEN)
5) 2:08:41 - Josphate Keiyo (KEN)
6) 2:09:19 - Jonathan Kiplimo Maiyo (KEN)
7) 2:09:59 -  Eliud Kiptanui (KEN)
8) 2:10:22 - Felix Keny (KEN)
9) 2:11:31 -  Masakazu Fujiwara (JPN)
10) 2:11:46 - Suehiro Ishikawa (JPN)

Women
1) 2:20:30 - Aberu Kebede (ETH)
2) 2:21:19 - Tirfi Tsegaye (ETH)
3) 2:23:32 - Olena Shurhno (UKR)

4) 2:24:56 - Filomena Chepchirchir (KEN)
5) 2:25:14 - Fate Tola (ETH)
6) 2:28:45 - Alevtina Biktimirova (RUS)
7) 2:30:34 - Caroline Chepkwony (KEN)
8) 2:30:37 - Anna Hahner (GER)
9) 2:30:56 - Sonia Samuels (GBR)
10) 2:33:27 - Degefa Biruktayit (ETH)


Course records :
M - 2:03:38 (WR) Patrick Makau (KEN)  2011
W - 2:19:12 (AR) Mizuki Noguchi (JPN)  2005


With this victory, Geoffrey Mutai becomes the winner of the 2011/12 World Marathon Major (WMM) title which carries a prize jackpot of USD500,000 even with 2 races remaining in Chicago and New York


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