Results at the fifth edition of the Lake Maggiore Half Marathon

At his debut in the half marathon, the Ethiopian Belaya Bedede won the fifth edition of the Lago Maggiore Half Marathon, completing the 21.1km in 1h01 minute, beating 4 Kenians, Edwin Kipyego, Charles Waweru, Michael Mutai and Jackson Munyao. The first non African was the Australian Clinton Perrett who finished in 1h03:40 seconds and achieved his personal Best. More than 1,800 runners took part this morning to the competition, one of the most successful and scenic course in Italy. Due to their unique characteristics, the half marathon will most likely become in the top 5 in Italy next few years. Unfortunately for the first time, we saw a decrease in participation. To give an idea, the first edition in 2008, already 1413 runners crossed the finish line, while the number increased to 1928 in 2009 (+36.4%), to 2024 in 2010 (+4.9%), to 2160 in 2011 (+6.7%). 


At the same time, 1798 (mostly) Italian runners participated to the 7th Edition of the Half Marathon on the 2 Pearls, with the Italian Daniele Meucci winning in 1h05:11.

Below you can find the link to the 2012 Lago Maggiore Half marathon results.
(*) please note that for technical reasons, results are still not fully available on the site.
Below you can find the link to the 2012 Portofino Half Marathon.

Results at the 9th Treviso Marathon and Placentia Marathon

During this week-end, two marathons took place for International runners willing to run in Italy.

First, the 9th edition of the Treviso Marathon took also place. Almost 2700 runners have enrolled to this  edition, and 2040 (6% less than last year) completed the competition. Clearly Treviso has a downhill route, allowing the possibility to generate personal best. The Kenian Chemchir won in 2h15:06 seconds, 2 minutes more than last year. Karlsson, the top runner from Island, who will be partecipating to the Olympics games arrived third in 2h18:52. Secondly, 485 runners completed the Placentia Marathon.

Since few readers are interested to see the full results, you can find below this morning results:

Treviso Marathon 2012 ranking

Placentia Marathon 2012 ranking

Results at the 38th Roma Ostia Half Marathon and at 12th Verdi Marathon

This Sunday thirteen thousand runners has  participated at the 38th edition of the most popular half marathon in Italy, Roma-Ostia, and the second largest running event in the country (after the Rome Marathon).

At the same time, a much smaller and cozy competition, the Verdi Marathon, has seen more than 1000 runners at the starting line.
Below you can find the results for the 2 competitions:
Roma Ostia 2012 results
Verdi marathon 2012 results

2012 Results at the Verona Half Marathon event

More than 4,800 runners have enrolled to the 5th edition of the Verona Romeo and Juliet half marathon, representing the third one in Italy this year, after Rome-Ostia and Stramilano. 



Kenian Kipyeko, running at the average pace of 2 minutes and 59 seconds /km, crossed first at the finish line in 1h02’37’’, followed by the youngest Kenian Ndiwa, in 1h02’50’’. At the third position the Italian runner Ruggero Pertile in 1h04’38’’, fourth Giovanni Gualdi, in 1h05’49’, then Roman Weger and Tahari Mohamed Raphael arrived in 1h09’02’’.

Last year 3,303 runners arrived at the finish line, while in 2012, 3,411 runners have completed the race (+3.6% versus last year)


Below you can find the link to the 2012 Verona half marathon results. 

New York City Marathon (NYCM) tracking and results

In the following link the tracking of the 6th November 2011 New York City Marathon, which started at 9.30am: 2011 New York Marathon searchable results, while below you can find the 2011 New York Marathon top male finishers ranking and 2011 New York Marathon top women finishers ranking.

Lago Maggiore Marathon: enrollments numbers and few information

This Sunday October 16th, the Lake Maggiore will see more than thousands runners participating to the first edition of the Lago Maggiore International Marathon (LMM). This is the brother event of the more famous Lago Maggiore Half marathon, which is already in the top 10 Half Marathons in Italy. Although it is new, the LMM marathon is already recognized by AIMS as international competition, and it is a Boston Marathon Qualifier.



The course will see the departure and arrival from Arona, Verbania Pallanza, and will run  along the lake so dear to Stendhal. The new Lake Maggiore Marathon will be characterized by a particularly impressive track, full of panoramic points that will surely relieve the fatigue of the runners.


As curiosity, this is not the first time that a long run competition will take place Arona and Verbania: at the beginning of last century we had the so called Marathon "Arona - Pallanza", about 41 km. Dorando Pietri, the great athlete from Carpi, who later became famous at the London Olympics of 1908, was at the starting line but was forced to retire.


On Sunday, this link will be the one where to check the 2011 Lago Maggiore Marathon results.

October 9th: Results for Chicago Marathon and all others

Some of the world's top runners are participating today to the third largest Marathon in the world, Chicago 2011 Marathon, which is expecting a projected field of about 37,000.
Kenyan Moses Mosop won in 2h05:37, beating the Chicago's best timing. It is interesting to know that Mosop run today his second marathon after a stunning debut at the Boston Marathon this April, where he finished 4 seconds behind Geoffrey Mutai.
2011 Chicago Marathon live tracking is available at the link above, while this link indicates the 2011 Chicago Marathon leaderboard.


At 2011 Munich Marathon, winners were both German, Richard Friedrich in 2h19 and Bernadette Pichlmaier in 2h38, with around 4600 crossing the finish line. In Eindhoven, one of the fastest marathon track, 11 Kenyans arrived in the first 14 places, with Jafred Kipchumba completing the 26.1 miles in 2h05:46. Another interesting result was at Carpi Ferrari Italian marathon, where another Kenyan, Nicolas Kurgat won the competition in 2h08:36. 937 runners completed the run. At the Lake Garda International marathon, we saw a significant reduction of participants (1390 in 2010 vs. 965 this year), winner was again Pietro Colnaghi in 2h31 minutes.

Since few readers are interested to see the full results for the week-end, you can find below the ranking for the different competitions this Sunday October 9th 2011:
2011 Chicago Marathon results (live tracking and results),
2011 Munich Marathon (live tracking and results),

2011 Portland Marathon (live tracking),
2011 Lake Garda International Marathon,
2011 Carpi International Marathon,
2011 Eindhoven Marathon results (in Dutch)
2011 Melbourne Marathon (live tracking).