Marathon Running News, Reviews and Results
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June 13, Bangalore – Bharath won the premier 5K-20K-5K event at the 2nd edition of the BSA Hercules Duathlon, a running-cycling event from Runners for Life, Bangalore with a time of 1 hour 17 mins 51 secs. Filippo Colucci was second in 1:18:19 and Matt Barrett third with 1:18:54. It was a repeat win for Bharath, who [...]
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Bangalore – Leaving behind much fancied opponents in the form of defending champion Deriba Merga, Paris Marathon winner Tadese Tola, and 3rd place finisher from 2009 Wilson Kipsang, 19 year old Titus Mbieshei of Kenya won the 3rd edition of the Sunfeast World 10K run in Bangalore. Mbieshei finished in 27:54.
In the womens race, a new [...]
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Augustine Rono of Kenya won the 8th edition of the Chennai Marathon in 2:14:45, organized by SDAT, a remarkable time considering the hot and humid Chennai conditions. The margin of victory was a remarkable 13 minutes, but not too surprising since the second placed runner was from India, Santosh Kumar, who finished in 2:27:25. What [...]
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Defending chanpion Bining Lyngkhoi (Army Sports Institute, Pune) won the 6th edition of the Kolkata Marathon. In the women’s event, Kavita Raut from Karnataka took the top spot. The event saw nearly 17,000 runners take part in the various events, 42.195 km Run (Men), 10.5 km Run (Women), 4.2 km Fun Run, and a 200 [...]
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Results of the 3rd Auroville Marathon are now out. The event reached new heights this year with reported participation of about 800 runners. Impressive!
Results Summary
Full Marathon – MEN
1094 LOURDES IRUDAYA BOSCO 3:15:15
1115 ASHOK NATH 3:21:41
1010 MICHAEL HARMJANZ 3:29:55
Full Marathon – WOMEN
1150 ING-MARIE PUTKA 4:41:47
1014 AMRITA MITRA 4:47:46
1151 SUMATI KALIDINDI 5:03:31
HALF Marathon – MEN
2393 SANTHASIVAN M [...]
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This was the first half marathon I was running since the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in Nov. In recent times, or rather last couple of years, my focus has shifted from half marathons to marathons, so its only once in a while that I get to run half marathon as part of any event.
The Noida [...]
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Deep Chand of Rajputana Rifles won the Men’s marathon at the Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon in a time of 2:22:33. The Women’s marathon was won by Shukanya Mall in 2:59:58. About 5,000 runners took part in the various runs. The route for the marathon was the same as that for the upcoming Commonwealth Games [...]
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2nd international marathon at Nagpur saw a reported 80,000 participants on the various runs on day (give or take a few tens of thousands ). It was also reported that the winners said that they prefer Nagpur over Mumbai due to the weather, go figure.
Results Summary
Marathon (Men):
Patrick Nhyangero Lusato (Tanzania) 2:13:06
Oswald Reverian Kaharuzi [...]
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Fantastic weather and a great scenic route (and not to forget, some great crowd support) inspired runners to some fantastic timings at the 1st Running and Living Chandigarh Marathon. Almost every runner I met at the finish line was doing a personal best – one of the main reasons being, the more popular marathons here [...]
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Results of the 7th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (courtesy iaaf.org) are now available. Also, for the first time, live timing results for all participants for the marathon are available within 24 hours of the event on the timing partner’s website.
Dennis Ndiso of Kenya won the Mumbai Marathon to continue the dominance of Kenyan runners at [...]
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