Links to tracking, live and results at the 27th Florence Marathon

Out of the 10,400 enrolled, more than 10,000 runners have participated today to the 27th edition of the Florence Marathon, on the raining Florence. Assuming that you have not run today, if you want to see the key runners, you can watch live on Internet, since it is broadcast by the Italian Television. It has 55 second-delay compared to the real live.

If you want to track live all participants results, you can use the link to the Florence Marathon live tracking. Finally, at the following link you can find the 27th Florence Marathon results.
The 22-year old Ethiopian Tadese Aredo Tolesa won in 2h12:40.

Summary statistics and results at Turin Marathon, Livorno Marathon and Milano Pavia Marathon on 11.14.2010

Three marathons have been run this 11.14.10 week-end in Italy. The 24^th edition of the Turin Marathon, with live direct in TV, Satellite and internet delivered the highest performance. The Italian Ruggero Pertile waited 1h45 minutes before attaching the key Kenian and Ethiopian runners and completed the Turin Marathon in 2h10:58 minutes. The competition is still running, the Rai journalist implied that more than 2500 started the marathon. 2087 runners concluded the Turin Marathon, which is in line with the 2009 result in April 2009 (Milan and Turin have swapped the spot for the marathon in 2009).

At the Livorno Marathon, the Kenian Eric Kipkmei won the competition in 2h17:10.On the top 75 runners, 13 were international, confirming that Tuscany and Liguria represent a good combination of running and touristical activities. As background reading, Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian sea on the western edge of Tuscany. 224 runners completed the marathon, with around 300 enrolled (and 1000 participating to the half Marathon).

Finally, there was also the traditional Milano Pavia 33km competition, which included a full marathon. More than 260 runners arrived at the finish line after 26.2 miles. This is really a local race which is growing year after year becoming one of the top 30 in Italy. Stefano Ripamonti from CTL3 Atletics won in 2h32. Kenji Takahashi from Japan was the only international runner arriving in the top 100 (he finished in 2h58 at the 24th position). 265 runners completed the marathon.

Since few readers are interested to see the full results, you can find below the 11.14.2010 rankings.

Turin Marathon 11.14.2010 Ranking

Livorno Marathon 11.14.2010 Ranking

Milano Pavia Marathon 11.14.2010 Ranking

24th Turin Marathon live on Internet

At 9:15 am this Sunday November 14th, more than 4000 runners will take part to the 24th edition of the Turin Marathon, silver IAAF label and one of the top 5 in Italy. If you are not one of the participants, you still have a chance at least to see what you missed, by watching the internet through the Broadcasting from the Italian Television. Turin Marathon will be available in at the Turin Marathon Live Internet link. Good luck to all Runners.

Garmin track on top 10 Italian Marathons

Below you can find the Garmin links to the top 10 Italian Marathon, that has been requested by several readers. Please note that few marathons (eg. Florence) have changed their tracks.

1. 2010 Rome Marathon Garmin Track
2. 2009 Florence Marathon Garmin Track, will change in 2010.
3. 2010 Venice Marathon Garmin Track, might change in 2011.
4. 2010 Milan City Marathon Garmin Track
5. 2010 Treviso Marathon Garmin Track: negative elevation!
6. 2009 Reggio Emilia Marathon Garmin Track
7. 2010 Padua Marathon Garmin Track: very flat race, might change in 2011.
8. 2010 Verona Marathon Garmin Track
9. 2010 Turin Marathon Garmin Track
10. 2010 Lake Garda Marathon Garmin Track
11. 2010 Carpi Marathon Garmin Track, negative elevation!

2010 Venice Marathon: few statistics

Number of Foreign runners arrived at the 25th Venice Marathon 

As already mentioned on former post, 6260 runners arrived at the finish line of the 25th Venice Marathon. With 7000-bibs constraint, this represents a pretty good results for this incredibly oversubscribed marathon. Out of the 6260 runners, 54 countries have been represented in Venice on October 24th 2010. 78.4% of runners were Italians, while 6.2% where French, 3.9% British and 1.6% Germans. As curiosity, less then 100 runners from Unites States have crossed the finish line. This number is expected to grow in the next few years. 9 Kenians run for 26.2 miles, all in the top 30. In term of performance, 21 athletes completed the Venice Marathon in less than 2h30, 306 in less than 3h00, 675 in less than 3h15, 1490 in less than 3h30, 3491 in less than 4h.
Contrary to the original expectations, the race did not arrive in Piazza San Marco, due to weather condition. The weather was excellent for runners, with 13 degree Celtius, but due to acqua alta in Piazza San Marco, the race has been changed at the last minute. Details on what you can expect in Venice can be found on the Venice Marathon live experience.