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It was a Kenyan 1-2-3 at the Beijing International marathon with Mugo Samuel taking the lead from countryman Nicholas Manza with four kilometers to go and winning in 2:08:20. Manza finished 22 seconds behind, with Barus Benson another 9 secs later.
In the womens event, it was a relatively slow race by international standards, with reigning world champion Chinese Bai Xue winning in 2:34:44.
Women’s winner: Bai Xue (China)
Men’s winner: Mugo Samuel (Kenya)
The Beijing Marathon is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.
About 26,000 runners took part in the various runs for the day, which included the Marathon, Half Marathon, 9KM run and a mini-marathon too!
Results (Men):
1. Samuel Mugo (KEN) 2:08:20
2. Nicholas Manza (KEN) 2:08:42
3. Benson Barus (KEN) 2:08:51
4. Rachid Kisri (MAR) 2:09:36
5. Berga Bekele (ETH) 2:09:41
6. David Kemboi (KEN) 2:11:49
7. Han Gang (CHN) 2:12:36
8. Masashi Hayashi (JPN) 2:12:39
9. Edwin Komen (KEN) 2:12:49
10. He Ping (CHN) 2:12:53
Results (Women):
1. Bai Xue (CHN) 2:34.44
2. Zhang Xin (CHN) 2:34:49
3. Zhu Xiaolin (CHN) 2:34:55
4. Zhou Chunxiu (CHN) 2:34:57
5. Alice Timbilili (KEN) 2:35:48
6. Sun Weiwei (CHN) 2:35:51
7. Wang Jiali (CHN) 2:36:16
8. Yang Jing (CHN) 2:36:28
9. Wei Yanan (CHN) 2:36:40
10. Zhang Junli (CHN) 2:36:44
More results at the official website.
The results are quite a contrast for the Men’s and women’s event, the men’s being completely dominated by the international runners, while the national Chinese runners totally dominating the women’s events, probably due to lack of quality international participation. For the record, the womens marathon record is in the range of 2:15, and this was more than 19 minutes off that, simply too huge, while the men were about just 4 minutes off. I guess this one must be a tactics of the organizers to balance things out, trying to retain the IAAF Gold Label for the race with great timings in the Men’s, and then compensating it in the women, just a guess.
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