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. 

Results for this week three big running events in Italy: Stramilano half Marathon, Treviso and Ferrara Marathon

During last week of March 2011, three major events are relevant for International runners willing to run in Italy.

First of all, the second largest half marathon in the country, Stramilano, takes place this morning at 10:45am from Piazza Duomo. This is the 40th edition and more than 5,200 runners participated to the competitive race, a figure that is 35% higher than previous year, where however Stramilano faced competition with Scarpadoro in the nearby Vigevano. The result was interesting from a performance perspective: 31 athletes finished before 70 minutes, and the Kenian winner Kisorio Mathew Kipkoech just reached the finish line 3 seconds after 1 hour from the start. On the other side, around 50,000 took part to the non competitive one.

Moreover, the 8th edition of the Treviso Marathon took also place. Almost 3000 runners have enrolled to this  edition, and 2186 completed the competition. Clearly Treviso has a downhill route, allowing the possibility to generate personal best. The Maroccan Nasef Ahmed won in 2h13:06 seconds, while the first Italian Francesco Bona who represents the new Italian running hope for the 2012 Olympics Games in London, arrived third and improved his personal best by 2 minutes. Finally, after 1 year stop, the Ferrara Marathon started back with a different route, inside the city that has been declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. The athletes had the chance to run inside the Castello Estense, very closed to the finish line in the center of the city. 636 runners completed the 26.2 miles in Ferrara, with the Kenian Biwott Zakayo Kipsang arriving in 2h25:06 seconds.

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

Stramilano 2011 Ranking

Treviso Marathon 2011 ranking

Ferrara Marathon 2011 ranking

15 days to the Lago Maggiore Half Marathon (*)

With the ending of the second phase of the enrollment for the 4th edition of the Lago Maggiore Half Marathon ("LMHM"), we can finally provide statistics about participation to this fascinating competition that will be held on March 6 2011. It looks like that this "brand new" race will be competing to the top league of half Marathon in Italy: the number of enrollment at the end of January were already 1,570 which represents as an increase of about 13% compared to last year. If the trend continues, the LMHM will become in the top 7 of the Italian league for Half Marathon.
This year the LMHM course starts from Stresa and goes to Verbania, and it will be all along the Lake Maggiore, providing to the runners one of the most beautiful and evocative of the world. This explains the success of the competition. Finally, LMHM is also very fast. On the same course in 2009 (each year there will be swap from departure and arrival), all three best timing in Italy have been performed on the lake: the Tanzanian Ezekiel Jafari Ngimba completed the 2009 competition with the best  time of 1h00'41", followed by the Kenyans Jacob Kiplagat Yator (1h00'43") and David Kemboi Kiyeng (1h00'44 ").


"Registration continues quite well - said Paul Otto, Chairman of Sport PRO-MOTION - and we are comforted by the comparison, far more positive, with last year. There are all premises that we can break the 2010 record of runners."
The number of subscriptions is also function of the increase of international runners. Runners from 25 countries have already enrolled: from Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary and the USA, to Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia and Spain.
Obviously the Italian athletes are the most numerous, followed by Swiss runners: there are 44 members so far in fact the Swiss athletes. Moreover, in Italy, there are only 4 regions that are not yet been represented: Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Calabria.

It is worthwhile to notice that on the 16th of October there will also be the first edition of the Lago Maggiore Marathon (stay tuned for the details...)

(*) adapted and enriched from the original Italian document on the Podisti.net site. 

Italian Half Marathon top 30 ranking 2010

Below the list of the top 30 half Marathons in Italy, which represent a small proportion of the total number of competition in the country. Except for the top 5, the Italian half marathon list has regional participants (under parenthesis, the number of finishers in 2010).


TOP 10
1. Roma Ostia Half Marathon (8505), 28-Feb 2010, Rome 
2. Stramilano Half Marathon (3867), 21-Mar 2010, Milan  
3. Giulietta & Romeo Half Marathon (3826), 21-Feb 2010, Verona
4. Garda Trentino Half Marathon (2723), 14-Nov 2010, Riva del Garda (TN) 
5. Monza Half Marathon (2517), 19-Sep 2010, Monza (MI) 
6. Palmanova Half Marathon (2337), 21-Nov 2010,  Palmanova (UD) 
7. Agropoli Half Marathon (2280), 10-Oct 2010, Agropoli (SA) 
8. Cremona Half Marathon (2273), 17-Oct 2010, Cremona 
9. Turin Half Marathon (2112) 26-Sep 2010, Turin 
10. Lago Maggiore Half Marathon (2024) 7-Mar 2010, Verbania 


TOP 20
11. Fiumicino Half Marathon (2018) 14-Feb 2010, Rome 
12. Mezza Maratona delle Due Perle (1967), 14-Feb 2010, Santa Margherita Ligure (GE) 
13. Maratonina dei Tre Comuni (1936), 31-Jan 2010, Nepi (VT)

14. Bavisela Half Marathon (1869), 2-May Trieste 

15. UniCredit Run Tun up Bologna (1592), 5-Sep 2010, Bologna 
16. Dogi Half Marathon (1481), 11-Apr 2010 Stra (Venice) 
17. Montefortiana Half Marathon (1428), 17-Jan 2010, Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona) 
18. Scarpa d'oro Half Marathon (1411), 21-Mar 2010, Vigevano (Milan) 
19. Strapiacenza Half Marathon for Unicef (1409), 7-Mar 2010, Piacenza 
20. Padua Half Marathon (1405), 25-Apr 2010, Padua 


TOP 30
21. Busto Half Marathon (1390), 7-Nov 2010, Busto Arsizio (VA)
22. Udine Half Marathon (1332), 26-Sep 2010, Udine 
23. Genova Half Marathon (1331), 18-Apr 2010, Genova 
24. Meran Half Marathon (1287), 25-Apr 2010, Meran 
25. Gardaland Half Marathon (1150), 5-Dec 2010, Castelnuovo del Garda (Verona)
26. Flowers Half Marathon (1133), 18-Apr 2010, San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) 
27. Vivicittà Firenze Half Marathon (1102), 11-Apr 2010, Florence 
28. Half Marathon MareMonti (1064), 11-Apr 2010, Sorrento (Naples) 
29. Naples Half Marathon (1056), 18-Apr 2010, Naples 
30. Palermo Half Marathon (1035), 21-Nov 2010, Palermo