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2015 #Londonmarathon Elite Races
2015 #Londonmarathon Elite Races
Name
Wilson Kipsang
Dennis Kimetto
Emmanuel Mutai
Eliud Kipchoge
Geoffrey Mutai
Sammy Kitwara
Tsegaye Mekonnen
Stanley Biwott
Tilahun Regassa
Samuel Tsegay
Serhiy Lebid
Aleksey Reunkov
Ghebrezgiabhier Kibrom
Marcin Chabowski
Koen Raymaekers
Scott Overall
Michael Shelley
Javier Guerra
Bekir Karayel
Hermano Ferreira
Christian Kreienbhl
Anuradha Cooray
Mert Girmalegesse
Cesar Lizano
Stijn Fincioen
Matthew Hynes
Pedro Ribeiro
Guye Adola
Nation
KEN
KEN
KEN
KEN
KEN
KEN
ETH
KEN
ETH
ERI
UKR
RUS
ERI
POL
NED
GBR
AUS
ESP
TUR
POR
SUI
SRI
TUR
CRC
BEL
GBR
POR
ETH
PB
2:03:23
2:02:57
2:03:13
2:04:05
2:04:15
2:04:28
2:04:32
2:04:55
2:05:27
2:07:28
2:08:32
2:09:54
2:10:00
2:10:07
2:10:35
2:10:55
2:11:15
2:12:21
2:13:21
2:13:28
2:15:35
2:15:51
2:17:45
2:17:50
2:17:57
Debut
Debut
Debut
Bib name
KIPSANG
KIMETTO
E. MUTAI
KIPCHOGE
G. MUTAI
KITWARA
MEKONNEN
BIWOTT
REGASSA
TSEGAY
LEBID
REUNKOV
KIBROM
CHABOWSKI
RAYMAEKERS
OVERALL
SHELLEY
GUERRA
KARAYEL
FERREIRA
KREIENBUEHL
COORAY
GIRMALEGESSE
LIZANO
FINCIOEN
HYNES
RIBEIRO
ADOLA
Olympic team, he stamped his authority on a highquality field with two bold surges and crossed the
line in 2:04:44, missing Mutais course record by four
seconds.
He returned to London that August to spearhead
Kenyas 2012 Olympic bid. Despite establishing
an early lead he could not maintain the pace and
eventually finished third.
After his two appearances in London in 2012, he went
on to win the Great North Run in a quick time of 59:06
and concluded 2012 with another victory, winning the
Honolulu Marathon in 2:12:31.
He warmed up for the 2013 London Marathon with
victory at the New York half in 61:02, but he could
place no higher than fifth in London, his lowest finish
in 11 marathon starts. He skipped the Moscow
2013 World Championships, saving himself for his
world record assault in Berlin which he executed
to perfection, breaking free after 30km to take 15
seconds from Makaus time.
Kipsangs second London victory 12 months ago
confirmed his status as the worlds number one, a rank
since challenged by his training partner, Kimetto.
He won the Granollers half marathon on 1 February this
year in 62:39, repeating his victory from 2013.
Personal notes
Kipsang was working as a travelling salesman of
farm produce when inspired to take up running
by Paul Tergats 2003 marathon world record. He
began running for the Kenyan police force and was
discovered when he finished second in the Tegla
Loroupe Peace Race over 10km.
He is married to Doreen Jepkechei Chebii and they
have four children. He owns a 37-room hotel on the
road between Eldoret and Iten.
His full name is Wilson Kiprotich Kipsang.
TSEGAYE MEKONNEN
(ETHIOPIA)
Personal notes
His full name is Stanley Kipleting Biwott. He is married
to Nancy Cherop Biwott and they have a son, Alan
Kipchumba.
MARCIN CHABOWSKI
(POLAND)
Born: 28 May 1986
Marathon best: 2:10:07 Dsseldorf 2012
London Marathon record: None
Other World Marathon Majors: None
Other major city marathons
Dsseldorf: 2012- 4th 2:10:07
Eindhoven: 2014- 8th 2:15:04
Ldz: 2014- 5th 2:11:23
Warsaw: 2011- 6th 2:14:32
Marathons in major championships
Europeans: 2014- dnf
Career notes
Marcin Chabowski made a bold bid for glory on the
final day of the European Championships in Zrich last
summer when he struck out alone at the start of the
mens marathon, throwing caution to the wind despite
the rising heat and brutal hilly course.
A former European junior steeplechase champion who
turned to the marathon in 2011, Chabowski led the
field by more than a minute at 25km before eventually
paying the price for his suicidal pace. He was caught
shortly after passing 30km and later dropped out
clutching his side less than 10km from the finish,
leaving Italys Daniele Meucci to take the gold.
It was a disappointing end for Chabowski who finished
sixth on his debut in Warsaw in 2:14:32, a time he
improved by nearly four and a half minutes when he
was fourth in Dsseldorf the following year.
He didnt attempt another marathon until 2014 when
he was fifth in Lodz last April, winning his place on
Polands team for Zrich.
After his crash landing in Switzerland, Chabowski
returned to action swiftly, running the Eindhoven
Marathon in October where he finished eighth, but in
his slowest time so far.
Chabowski had his first taste of international
competition in 2003 when he was fifth in the 2000m
steeplechase at the World Youth Championships.
The following year he was a 3000m steeplechase
finalist at the World Juniors. In 2005 he won the
European junior title in Kaunas and broke Polands
national junior record for the distance with 8:30.40. His
all-time PB is 8:25.90 from 2008.
In 2007, he was fifth at the European Under 23
Championships, but in more recent years he has
moved up in distance, becoming Polands senior
10,000m champion in 2009 with a PB of 28:27.59,
and running 10,000m for his country at European
Cups in 2010 and 2011.
He has been Polish cross country champion four
times, 10,000m champion twice, 10km champion
twice, and half marathon champion.
KOEN RAYMAEKERS
(NETHERLANDS)
Born: 31 January 1980 Cothen
Marathon best: 2:10:35 Rotterdam 2012
London Marathon record: None
Other World Marathon Majors: None
Other major city marathons
Amsterdam: 2006- 16th 2:15:50, 2007- 14th 2:13:02,
2009- 13th 2:12:59, 2011- dnf, 2013- dnf
Eindhoven: 2012- 21st 2:19:17
Rotterdam: 2007- 14th 2:19:44, 2008- 14th 2:15:07,
2009- 15th 2:18:59, 2010- 9th 2:11:09,
2011- 8th 2:13:41, 2012- 6th 2:10:35,
2013- 8th 2:12:09, 2014- 11th 2:15:19
Utrecht: 2006- 5th 2:23:38
Marathons in major championships
Europeans: 2010- 17th 2:23:24, 2014- 31st 2:20:49
Career notes
Koen Raymaekers is a veteran of 17 career
marathons, and has run all but two of them in his
home country, the Netherlands. His record includes
four Amsterdam Marathons since 2006 and every
single Rotterdam Marathon since 2007.
But he wont be running Rotterdam this April for the
35-year-old makes his World Marathon Majors debut
in London in the hope of dipping under 2:10 for the
first time.
A former Dutch junior record holder at 5000m and
10,000m, Raymaekers made his marathon debut in
Utrecht in 2006 when he was fifth, which remains his
highest ever finish.
He has completed at least one marathon every year
since and produced his best performance in 2012
when he was sixth in Rotterdam in 2:10:35, a race
which produced PBs for seven of the first 10 men,
including the top two, Ethiopians Yemane Adhane and
Getu Feleke, who both broke 2:05.
Raymaekers has been a Dutch international since
1997 when he finished 17th in the junior race at the
European Cross Country Championships.
In 1998 he ran 5000m at the World Junior
Championships, and the following year he was fourth
at 10,000m at the European juniors. In 2001 he won a
silver medal at the European Under 23 Championships
but he had to wait until hed moved up to the
marathon before winning his first senior Dutch vest.
That was in 2010 when he was 17th at the Barcelona
European Championships. He was selected for the
2014 championships too, and finished 31st in Zrich.
He has been a prolific half marathon runner in Holland,
his PB of 62:09 coming at the 2011 Den Haag race.
He was 15th in Den Haag this year in 64:17 and 17th
at the Venloop half in 64:21.
SCOTT OVERALL
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
Born: 9 February 1983 Hammersmith, London
Marathon best: 2:10:55 Berlin 2011
London Marathon record: 2012- pace, 2013- dnf,
2014- 19th 2:19:55
Other World Marathon Majors
Berlin: 2011- 5th 2:10:55, 2013- dnf,
2014- 14th 2:13:00
Other major city marathons
Fukuoka: 2012- 13th 2:14:15
Marathons in major championships
Olympics: 2012- 61st 2:22:37
Career notes
Scott Overall became the first British man to qualify for
the London 2012 Olympic athletics team when he ran
2:10:55 to finish fifth on his marathon debut in Berlin in
2011. It was the fastest time by a Briton since Tomas
Abyu was second in the Dublin Marathon in 2007.
Overall warmed up for the Olympics by winning the
Silverstone Half Marathon in March 2012, finishing
eighth at the New York City half marathon in a PB of
61:25, and pacemaking British runners at the 2012
London Marathon.
He then finished third at the Bupa London 10,000 at
the end of May, two places behind Mo Farah.
He was 61st in the Olympic race in 2:22:37 and ended
the year placing 13th at the Fukuoka Marathon in
2:14:15 to rank third in the UK for 2012.
He was seventh in the 2013 New Orleans half
marathon in 64:51, and won the Silverstone half again
in March 2013 in 65:43, looking in good shape for his
London Marathon debut that April. But it turned out to
be a race to forget as he dropped out around 25km
troubled by a knee injury.
He returned to the Berlin Marathon that September
but again struck bad luck when he tore his calf half
way into the race.
The 2014 London Marathon was also a frustrating
experience. Overall set off with high hopes of a quick
time after what he described as near enough perfect
training with Chris Thompson in Colorado Springs. But
he finished 19th, suffering a slow death over the last
seven to eight miles, and ended with a time only just
inside 2:20.
Things improved slightly when he placed 14th in Berlin
last September in 2:13:00, his second quickest time
and good enough to rank third in Britain for the year
behind Mo Farah and Thompson.
Overall was the national 5000m champion on the
track in 2009 and has represented Britain at European
indoor and cross country championships. He was
sixth in the 2005 European under 23 5000m and has
a best at the distance of 13:28.33 from 2008. He is
also a four-minute miler with an indoor best of 3:58.61.
HERMANO FERREIRA
(PORTUGAL)
CHRISTIAN KREIENBHL
(SWITZERLAND)
ANURADHA COORAY
(SRI LANKA)
MERT GIRMALEGESSE
(TURKEY)
Career notes
Anuradha Indrajith Cooray broke his personal best
to finish sixth at the Asian Games in Incheon last
October.
He won his first two marathons and has since run five
times in London, his best performance coming in 2012
when he clocked 2:17:50, while he was just three
seconds slower two years ago in 16th place.
He has represented Sri Lanka in the marathon at two
Olympics and one World Championships, while he
also ran in the 2005 and 2014 World Half Marathon
Championships. Last year in Copenhagen he broke
his own national record with 65:20.
Career notes
Mert Girmalegesse finished sixth in the Tempe
Marathon in Arizona in January 2008 shortly before
switching allegiance from Ethiopia to Turkey.
He became eliglible to run for Turkey in February
2008 and broke the Turkish 10,000m record clocking
27:29.33 to finish 11th in the Beijing 2008 Olympic
final. Earlier in the year he set a Turkish 5000m record
of 13:26.14.
He became European under 23 cross country bronze
medallist later that year, and the under 23 10,000m
champion the following year. He also finished ninth
in the 5000m and picked up a bronze at the 2009
Mediterranean Games.
In 2010 he was ninth in the 5000m at the European
Championships and represented Europe in the
Continental Cup. He was a World Youth bronze
medallist at 3000m back in 2003.
He ran for Turkey at last years World Half Marathon
Championships and finished 12th in the Istanbul
Marathon.
Mert Girmalegesse was his Ethiopian name, but since
switching to Turkey he has been known as Selim
Bayrak.
MATTHEW HYNES
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
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Name
Edna Kiplagat
Mary Keitany
Aselefech Mergia
Florence Kiplagat
Priscah Jeptoo
Tirfi Tsegaye
Feyse Tadese
Jemima Sumgong
Tigist Tufa
Tetyana Gamera
Tatyana Arkhipova
Ana Dulce Flix
Sara Moreira
Alessandra Aguilar
Rkia El Moukim
Iwona Lewandowska
Mary Davies
Elvan Abeylegesse
Diane Nukuri
Sonia Samuels
Emma Stepto
Volha Mazuronak
Rebecca Robinson
Nation
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ETH
UKR
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POR
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PB
2:19:50
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2:20:14
2:20:18
2:20:27
2:20:48
2:21:52
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2:28:32
2:28:57
2:29:30
2:29:35
2:30:56
2:32:40
2:33:33
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Bib name
E. KIPLAGAT
KEITANY
MERGIA
F. KIPLAGAT
JEPTOO
TSEGAYE
TADESE
SUMGONG
TUFA
GAMERA
ARKHIPOVA
FELIX
MOREIRA
AGUILAR
EL MOUKIM
LEWANDOWSKA
DAVIES
ABEYLEGESSE
NUKURI
SAMUELS
STEPTO
MAZURONAK
ROBINSON
She returned to the New York Marathon in November 2011 seemingly in pursuit of the marathon world
record. She swept through half way up on Paula
Radcliffes schedule (67:56) only to fade dramatically
over the final 10km and finish third for the second year
in a row.
She won the RAK again in 2012 before her stunning
second London Marathon victory. But there was disappointment for Keitany in the British capital that summer
when she missed out on an Olympic medal by less
than half a minute. She finished fourth in 2:23:56.
Keitany skipped the 2013 season to have her second
child, but made a spectacular return to competition last
year winning the Great North Run half marathon in a
PB of 65:39 before finally clinching the New York title in
2:25:07, three seconds ahead of Jemima Sumgong. in
a time considerably slowed by the cold and wind.
On the track, she has a 10,000m best of 32:18.07
from 2007. She set a 5km best of 15:25 in Lisbon last
year.
She ran a world leading time of 66:02 to win her third
Ras Al Khaymah half marathon title in February this
year.
Personal notes
Mary Jepkosgei Keitany married Kenyan athlete
Charles Koech on 31 December 2011. They have
a son Jared Kipchumba, born in June 2008, and a
daughter, born in April 2013.
She trains in Iten and is coached by Gabriele Nicola.
Her husband has run 61:27 for the half marathon.
ASELEFECH MERGIA
(ETHIOPIA)
Born: 23 January 1985
Marathon best: 2:19:31 Dubai 2012
London Marathon record: 2010- 2nd 2:22:38,
2011- dnf
Other World Marathon Majors
Other major city marathons
Dubai: 2011- 1st 2:22:45, 2012- 1st 2:19:31,
2015- 1st 2:20:02
Paris: 2009- 2nd 2:25:02
Marathons in major championships
Olympics: 2012- 42nd 2:32:03
Worlds: 2009- 3rd 2:25:32, 2011- dnf
Career notes
Aselefech Mergia has won the lucrative Dubai
Marathon three times in the last five years, including
2012 when she broke the course record and the
Ethiopian record with 2:19:31 as three women finished
under 2:20.
Although her national mark fell soon afterwards to
Tiki Gelana, Mergia is still placed eighth on the world
all-time list as one of just 18 women to have run
sub-2:20. She was fractionally outside that time this
January when she celebrated her 30th birthday by
winning her third Dubai title in 2:20:02. It was a perfect
comeback in her first marathon since 2012, and
her first since the birth of her daughter in July 2013.
She beat Gladys Cherono by just one second in the
greatest womens race in the events history.
She didnt race again for nearly two years when she
was on maternity leave. She returned to action at a
half marathon in Gothernburg last May and returned to
the marathon this January when she became the first
woman to win the Dubai Marathon three times, taking
victory and the $200,000 prize with a sprint finish
against Gladys Cherono.
Personal notes
Her full name is Tirfi Tsegaye Beyene.
She comes from Bekoji in the Oromia region, the
famous running town which nurtured Kenenisa Bekele,
the Dibaba sisters, and Tiki Gelana.
She trains with two-time Berlin Marathon winner Aberu
Kebede, the 2014 Frankfurt Marathon champion who
was fifth in London last year.
Personal notes
Her full name is Feyse Tadese Boru, and she is also
known as Feysa Tadesse.
She is coached by Gemedu Dedefo (the same as
Aslefech Mergia).
Personal notes
Her full name is Jemima Sumgong Jelagat and she is
sometimes referred to as Jemima Jelagat.
She married Noah Talam in 2009, a marathon runner
with a best of 2:14:54. She took a break from running
in 2009 and gave birth to her daughter in 2011.
Sumgong trains in Kapsabet in the Nandi Hills under
the direction of her coach, Claudio Beradelli.
She works for the Kenyan Armed Services.
Sumgong tested positive for the banned substance
prednisolone after the 2012 Boston Marathon and was
given a two-year ban by Athletics Kenya. However,
she was cleared on appeal by the IAAF in September
2012 as the local injection Sumgong had received was
permitted under the governing bodys rules.
She broke 2:30 for the first time the following year,
finishing fourth in Frankfurt in 2:29:41, but didnt notch
up another marathon victory until 2011 when she was
first in the Castelln de la Plana Marathon, lowering
her best to 2:28:32.
After making her WMM debut in Boston in 2012, she
had the biggest marathon victory of her career the
following spring in Rotterdam where she not only won
the prestigious race but knocked some five minutes
from her best with 2:23:27, a time she improved
still further over the next 12 months in Chicago and
Boston.
Sumgong also shaved a few seconds from her half
marathon best last year, clocking 68:32 for second
in Luanda. She was also second in the Lisbon half
marathon last March.
Her 10km PB of 31:15 was set in 2006.
Personal notes
Tufa lived in The Bronx in New York for 11 months
before moving back to Addis Ababa in December 2013
when she joined the training group of coach Haji Adilo.
IWONA LEWANDOWSKA
(POLAND)
Born: 19 February 1985
Marathon best: 2:28:32 Frankfurt 2012
London Marathon record: None
Other World Marathon Majors
Berlin: 2011- 11th 2:30:38
Other major city marathons
Eindhoven: 2014- 1st 2:28:33
Frankfurt: 2012- 7th 2:28:32
Los Angeles: 2012- 4th 2:31:17
Warsaw: 2010- 5th 2:41:58, 2014- 2nd 2:32:42
Marathons in major championships: None
Career notes
Iwona Lewandowska missed her personal best by just
one second when she won the Eindhoven Marathon
last October in 2:28:33.
It was a first victory in six marathons for the former
junior international steeplechaser.
Lewandowska made her marathon debut in Warsaw
in September 2010 when she was fifth in 2:41:58. She
ran the Berlin Marathon a year later and improved by
more than 11 minutes to finish 11th in 2:30:38.
After placing fourth in the 2012 Los Angeles Marathon
she took another two minutes from her best in that
years Frankfurt Marathon where she was seventh.
She was runner-up in Warsaw last April before
clinching her first marathon win in Eindhoven.
That capped an excellent year for Lewandowska
who set PBs at 1500m (4:17.40) and 10km (32:25) in
2014, and won Polish titles at 5km and cross country
before finishing eighth at the European Cross Country
Championships. She also won the Warsaw half
marathon in 73:10, half a minute outside her PB. Her
track PB for 5000m 15:35.75 from 2012.
Lewandowska first competed for Poland as a junior in
at the 2004 European Cross Country Championships.
She ran in the under 23 race in 2007 and was eighth
in the seniors in 2014. She ran in the World Cross
Country Championships in 2010.
She also represented her country in the 3000m
steeplechase at the European under 23
Championships in 2005 and 2007.
Personal notes
She runs for the LKS Vectra Wloclawek club.
SONIA SAMUELS
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
Born: 16 May 1979 Wallsend
Marathon best: 2:30:56 Berlin 2012
London Marathon record: 2012- 19th 2:33:41
Other World Marathon Majors
Berlin: 2012- 9th 2:30:56
Other major city marathons: None
Marathons in major championships
Worlds: 2013- 16th 2:39:03
Career notes
Sonia Samuels made her marathon debut in London
three years ago when she finished 19th, fourth Briton,
in 2:33:41.
She failed to make the British team for the London
Olympics but ran at the Berlin Marathon that
September and knocked nearly three minutes from
her London time to finish ninth.
She was selected for Britain at the 2013 World
Championships in Moscow and ran well to finish 16th
in 2:39:03.
Samuels took a break from marathon running in
2014 to improve over the shorter distances and,
after recording a personal best of 32:39.36, she was
selected to run 10,000m for England at the Glasgow
Commonwealth Games where she finished seventh.
EMMA STEPTO
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
Born: 4 April 1970 Wadebridge
Marathon best: 2:32:40 Frankfurt 2014
London Marathon record: 2012- 30th 2:44:17,
2014- 14th 2:36:05
Other World Marathon Majors: None
Other major city marathons
Amsterdam: 2013- 8th 2:35:05
Frankfurt: 2014- 7th 2:32:40
Toronto: 2012- 9th 2:42:58
Marathons in major championships: None
Career notes
Emma Stepto finished fourth on her London Marathon
debut three years ago, aged 42 not in the elite race, of
course, but in the womens section of the mass event.
She did run from the elite start last April and finished 14th
in 2:36:05 more than eight minutes quicker.
Better still came in Frankfurt last October where she
was seventh in 2:32:40, improving her best by two
minutes 25. In two years, she has reduced her PB by
more than 10 minutes from the 2:42:58 she ran to
finish ninth at the 2012 Toronto Marathon.
She took nearly eight minutes from that at the 2013
Amsterdam Marathon when she was eighth in
2:35:05, becoming the third fastest British woman
over 40 behind Priscilla Welch and Joyce Smith, and
the quickest in that age group for 36 years. She also
ranked fourth in the UK for the marathon in 2013; she
ranked third last year.
That was only the last of a string of impressive
performances by Stepto in 2013, topped by her
womens 40+ UK 5000m record of 16:13.0 in July.
She also placed seventh over 5000m at the British
championships and won the Bristol half marathon in
73:40, quicker than any British woman at the Great
North Run. She achieved all that despite missing two
months with a stress fracture which had forced her to
skip the 2013 London Marathon.
Last year she lowered her 10km PB to 33:11 in Leeds
and finished third in the Cardiff half marathon in 72:29,
another lifetime best.
Having broken Welchs 5000m mark by eight tenths
of a second, Stepto now has her sights set on her UK
masters marathon record of 2:26:51.
She won the Bath half marathon on 1 March this year
in 73:50 and ran 73:32 to finish fifth at the Reading
half on 22 March.
Personal notes
Growing up in the Cornish town of Wadebridge, Stepto
(then known as Emma Stallard) took part in many sports
but didnt take up running until she was 35.
In the last couple of years shes been coached by Alan
Rowling.
She lives in Redruth and runs for Cornwall Athletics
Club.
VOLHA MAZURONAK
(BELARUS)
Born: 14 April 1989
Marathon best: 2:33:33 Ldz 2013
London Marathon record: None
Other World Marathon Majors: None
Other major city marathons
Baltimore: 2012- 4th 2:40:06
Debno: 2012- 1st 2:33:56
Ldz: 2013- 2nd 2:33:33
Omsk: 2012- 1st 2:44:47
Sacramento: 2014- 1st 2:27:33
Marathons in major championships: None
Career notes
Volha Mazuronak shattered the course record by
nearly two minutes when she dipped under 2:30
for the first time to win last Decembers California
International Marathon in Sacramento, a race that
starts shortly after dawn but is run on a downhill
course, so doesnt count for records.
It was the 25-year-olds third victory in five marathons
and she improved her personal best by exactly six
minutes.
A former international race walker at youth and junior
level, she moved up to the marathon in 2012, winning
the Belarussian championships in Debno in 2:33:56.
That was in April, and four months later she won
again, this time in Omsk, although in a much slower
time.
She ran her first overseas marathon just two months
later, finishing fourth in Baltimore in 2:40:06. She
shaved 23 seconds from her PB when she was
second in Ldz in April 2013 before running her quick
time in California towards the end of last year.
Mazuronaks international career stretches back to
2005 when she was fourth in the 5000m walk at the
World Youth Championships.
She was fifth at the following years World Juniors in
the 10,000m walk having finished fourth in the junior
10km race at the World Race Walk Cup in La Corua
that year. She was Belarus junior champion at 10km
walk in 2006 and 2007.
She set a half marathon PB of 72:43 last year shortly
after finishing seventh over 10,000m at the European
Championships in 32:31.15, another PB. She also
lowered her 5000m best last summer to 15:35.44,
finishing third at the European Team Championships
in Tallinn.
REBECCA ROBINSON
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
Born: 28 October 1982
Marathon best: 2:37:14 London 2010
London Marathon record: 2010- 18th 2:37:14
Other World Marathon Majors: None
Other major city marathons
Brighton: 2014- 3rd 2:37:41
Marathons in major championships
Europeans: 2010- 22nd 2:44:06
Career notes
Rebecca Robinson finished third in last years Brighton
Marathon, just a fraction outside her best time in
2:37:41, good enough to rank fifth in the UK for 2014.
An established international mountain runner,
Robinson made her marathon debut on the roads in
London in 2010 when she was 18th in 2:37:14, which
remains her PB.
She was selected to run at that summers European
Championships in Barcelona where she finished 22nd,
helping Britain to a team bronze medal.
Shed placed 45th at the previous years World
Half Marathon Championships and was 17th at the
European Mountain Running Championships that July,
her best performance in three appearances at that
event.
She was 30th at the 2012 World Mountain Running
Championships in Italy and last September improved
to finish 14th in that event after winning the UK
mountain running title for the first time in August.
Robinson ran a half marathon best of 72:40 when she
was fifth in Cardiff last October while she was 12th,
10th, 11th and 12th at the Great North Run between
2008 and 2013. She won the Miami half marathon in
2010.
Personal notes
Robinson runs for Kendal.
She is a trained doctor, and works in Sheffield as a
registrar in sports and exercise medicine.
KENDAL
RUNNING CLUB
2:05:00 $100,000
2:06:00 $75,000
2:07:00 $50,000
2:08:00 $25,000
2:08:30 $15,000
2:09:00 $10,000
2:09:30 $5,000
2:10:00 $3,000
2:11:00 $1,000
2:18:00 $100,000
2:20:00 $75,000
2:22:00 $50,000
2:23:00 $25,000
2:24:00 $15,000
2:25:00 $10,000
2:26:00 $5,000
2:27:00 $3,000
2:28:00 $1,000
Any runner achieving the following will receive (in addition to the above):
First in race and mens course record (2:04:29) - $25,000
First in race and womens only course record (2:17:42) - $25,000
First in race and mens world record (currently 2:02:57) - $125,000
First in race and womens only world record (currently 2:17:42) - $125,000
British Runners
The British athletes listed below are those who will line-up at the elite start lines. To be considered part of the
elite entries British athletes must satisfy the following criteria:
Men: athletes who have run a sub-2:18:00 marathon or sub-67:00 half marathon between 1 January 2014 and
31 December 2014.
Women: athletes who have run a sub-2:38:00 marathon or sub-1:17:00 half marathon between 1 January 2014
and 31 December 2014.
These athletes are all offered travel expenses and two nights accommodation. Any other athlete achieving these
times at the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon will have their travel expenses reimbursed.
British Men
Bib
17
27
Name
Scott Overall
Matthew Hynes
Club
Blackheath & Bromley
Gateshead
PB (year) Age
2:10:55 (11) 32
Debut
27
Bib name
OVERALL
HYNES
Club
Sale Harriers, Manchester
Cornwall
Kendal
PB (year)
2:30:56 (12)
2:32:40 (14)
2:37:14 (10)
Bib name
SAMUELS
STEPTO
ROBINSON
British Women
Bib
120
121
123
Name
Sonia Samuels
Emma Stepto
Rebecca Robinson
Age
35
45
32
Note: Paula Radcliffe will not start with the elite womens field, but among the British Championship runners who
line up behind the elite men on the blue start at Blackheath. Her details are:
1255
Paula Radcliffe
2:15:25 (03) 41
PAULA
PAULA RADCLIFFE
(GREAT BRITAIN & NI)
Born: 17 December 1973 Davenham, Cheshire
Marathon best: 2:15:25 London 2003
London Marathon record: 2002- 1st 2:18:56,
2003- 1st 2:15:25, 2005- 1st 2:17:42
Other World Marathon Majors
Berlin: 2011- 3rd 2:23:46
Chicago: 2002- 1st 2:17:18
New York: 2004- 1st 2:23:10; 2007- 1st 2:23:09,
2008- 1st 2:23:56, 2009- 4th 2:29:27
Other major city marathons: None
Marathons in major championships
Olympics: 2004- dnf, 2008- 23rd 2:32:38
Worlds: 2005- 1st 2:20:57
Career notes
Paula Radcliffe returns to the London Marathon for
the first time since 2005 to make what is expected
to be her final appearance as a competitive athlete
on the course where 12 years ago she revolutionised
the notion of how fast a woman can run 26 miles 385
yards.
Radcliffe won the 2003 London Marathon in 2:15:25,
averaging 5 minutes 9.9 seconds per mile (or 3:12.56
per km). It was the first and only time in history that the
womens world record came within 10 minutes of the
contemporary mens record (2:05:38). She is the only
female athlete to run the marathon quicker than 2:18
and shes done it three times.
After her sensational marathon debut in London in
2002, she first broke the world record in Chicago
that October, running 2:17:18 with the aid of male
pacemakers, and clocked 2:17:42 to claim the
women-only world record in London in 2005. She
went on to add the World Championships title in
Helsinki that August, in a championship record time,
and shes also won the New York Marathon three
times, running sub-2:24 on each occasion.
The average of her three London Marathon times
alone is faster than any other woman has ever run.
Her final marathon on 26 April will be her 13th. In the
previous 12 she has won eight while she also finished
fourth in New York in 2009, and third in Berlin in 2011.
She has produced four of the seven fastest times in
history.
However, her dream of winning an Olympic marathon
gold was ruined three times by injury. She started the
2004 Olympic marathon as an overwhelming favourite
but was forced to drop out of the gruelling Athens
race because of illness caused by pain killers. The
pictures of Radcliffe sitting beside the Athens road in
tears were among the most enduring images of those
Games.
The 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon is also the 2015 British Athletics mens and womens marathon
championships. To compete in the championships an athlete must be a member of a UK Athletics affiliated club
and have run the following times in 2013 or 2014:
Men: 2:45, or 1:15 half marathon
Bonuses
These bonuses apply to all British athletes eligible to compete for the UK in major championships. These sums
are not cumulative.
Men Women
Sub 2:11:00 - $8,000
Sub 2:31:00 - $8,000
Sub 2:12:00 - $7,000
Sub 2:32:00 - $7,000
Sub 2:13:00 - $6,000
Sub 2:33:00 - $6,000
Sub 2:14:00 - $5,000
Sub 2:34:00 - $5,000
Sub 2:15:00 - $4,000
Sub 2:35:00 - $4,000
Sub 2:16:00 - $2,500
Sub 2:36:00 - $2,500
Sub 2:17:00 - $1,500
Sub 2:37:00 - $1,500
Sub 2:18:00 - $1,000
Sub 2:38:00 - $1,000
Sub 2:19:00 - $500
Sub 2:40:00 - $500