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The World Championship 100km Seregno results will be published at the following link. The men's champion of the 2012 IAU 100K World Championships is Italy's Giorgio Calcaterra in 6:23:22, while at the second place arrived the Swedish Jonas Buud. Third place at the 2012 IAU 100K World Championships is the Italian Alberico di Cecco, while fourth is the Spanish Asier Cuevas.
Top 25-men ranking is available at the 100km World Championship ranking
In Padua the Kenian Robert Kwambai won the local Marathon in 2h09 and 14 seconds.The Padova Marathon results are already published at the following link.
At the Zurich Marathon, which is the 93rd worldwide marathon in term of runners, we will see the participation of John Kyalo, Zurich's defending champion, who won in under 2h10. Last year 3,310 runners completed the Zurich Marathon route, where runners can see the beautiful Lake Zurich.
2012 Zurich Marathon results will be available at the following link.
This Sunday The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series, the world’s largest running series with more than 500,000 participants in 24 U.S. cities, is making its European Marathon debut in Madrid. On Sunday, April 22th 2012, the legendary Madrid Marathon, Maraton de Madrid", which is at the thirty-ninth edition and takes place through the streets of the beautiful Spanish capital, will show a new face, by linking its name to a very solid marathon brand. At 9am no less than 12,000 runners will gather to take part in the ‘Rock’n’Roll Madrid Marathon’. This event is an IAAF Silver Label Road Race and has attracted a number of fine specialists over the 42.195km distance. Last year around 9,000 runners arrived at the finish line, representing the 30th place in the world ranking.
In the men’s section, there will be a numerous crop of Kenyan representatives led by the defending champion Moses Arusei, who broke the course record in 2011 thanks to a 2:10:58 time. The 28-year-old will be accompanied by Felix Limo, holder of an impressive 2:06:14 personal best clocking from 2004, although his fastest time for the last three years is 2:09:47 from London 2009. Limo’s last appearance came in Berlin last September when the 31-year-old managed the fourth place in a SB of 2:10:38.
The Madrid 2012 Marathon results will be published at the following link.
More than 37,500 runners will compete at the 2012 edition of the London Marathon, which will start at 9.45am (local time) on April 22th 2012. In the following links you can read the tracking of the 2012 London Marathon results.
This year in London the returning champions Emmanuel Mutai, who won last year in 2h04 40 seconds, has kept the London course record but he was beaten by Kenian Wilson Kipsang (the second fastest marathoner in the world).
In the second position there was the 3 times London champion Martin Lel, ahead of the Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede in a sprint finish. Mutai arrived 7th today with a "deceiving time" of 2h08 01 seconds.
Also the world record holder Patrick Makau (made last year in Berlin in 2h03 and 38 seconds) dropped off before 11 miles. The double world champion Abel Kirui finished at the sixth position and the Ethiopian Feyisa Lilesa (third at the WC in Daegu) who passed at the half marathon in 1h02 and 12 seconds, did not survive to Kipsang's pace, arriving at the finish line on the 10th position.
On the women competion, Mary Keitany retained her Virgin London Marathon title as Kenyan women enjoyed three winning on the streets of the capital.
Keitany produced a storming finish to win in an unofficial time of two hours 18 minutes 36 seconds, a new personal best and more than a minute ahead of world champion Edna Kiplagat. World silver medallist Priscah Jeptoo was 24 seconds further behind in third.
The 2012 London Marathon Live on TV was available on BBC and other TVs worldwide.
In the following links you can read the tracking of the 116th edition of the Boston Marathon, which will start at 9.32am (top female) and 10:00am (top male) on April 16th 2012: 116th 2012 Boston Marathon searchable results.
In the following link, you can also find the 2012 Boston Marathon top finishers ranking.
Moreover, this link provides 2012 Boston Marathon athlete tracking.
Finally, at the end of this article we have provided the list of the whole intermediate splits for men and women.
This year at the marathon in Boston we saw a very competitive elite, with 8 men under 2h07 minutes as well as 10 women below 2h24 minutes. But a year after Geoffrey Mutai run the fastest marathon ever, another Kenian, Wesley Korir was the first to cross the finish line. Due to very high temperature (as temperatures rose to around 30 degrees Celsius), it was the second-slowest Boston race since 1985. Korir was the 19th Kenians winning in the last 22 years. Mutai dropped out after 18 miles with cramps. Also the female competition was "slow", with Sharon Cherop winning in 2 hours, 31 minutes, 50 seconds. Cherop won at sprint with her compatriote Jemima Jelagat Sumgong.
The 2012 Boston Live on the Internet was available on UniversalSport.
Below you can find the links for intermediate splits of all athletes:
(*) = info already available, top runners have reached the split point.
Leading Men at 5k (*)
Leading Men at 10k (*)
Leading Men at 15k (*)
Leading Men at 20k (*)
Leading Men at half (*)
Leading Men at 25k (*)
Leading Men at 30k (*)
Leading Men at 35k (*)
Leading Men at 40k (*)
The 2012 Paris Marathon has started at 9:30am local time, you can track the results below.
The 26-year old Kenyan runner Stanley Biwott won the men’s Paris marathon in a record time of 2hrs 05 min 12 seconds, after his March victory in the Paris half-marathon. Biwott was able to improve the Paris record, by beating his compatriot Kipruto who won the 2009 edition in 2hr 05:47 set by compatriot Vincent Kipruto. Biwott attacked at the 30km mark and reached the finished line more than a minute ahead of Ethiopian duo Raji Assefa and Sisay Jisa. On the women competiton, the Ethiopian Tirfi Beyene came first in the new record time for the Paris renewal of 2h 21min 39sec. The women podium was completed by the Turkishs Sultan Haydar (2h25:09) and Ethiopian Makda Harun (2h26:46).
See at the following link the ranking for the 2012 Paris Marathon ranking.
