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| September 26, 2005 | Monday | Sha'aban 21, 1426 |
Noguchi triumphs at Berlin marathon
BERLIN, Sept 25: Japan’s Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi won the Berlin marathon and set an Asian record in the process on Sunday with the third fastest women’s time over the 42.195-km distance. Noguchi was never challenged on a flat, fast course and her time of two hours 19 minutes 12 seconds left her trailing only world record holder Paula Radcliffe of Britain (who ran 2:15.25 in 2003) and Kenya’s Catherine Nederba (2:18.47 in 2001).
Kenya’s Philip Manyim won the men’s race in 2:07.41, making it the seventh consecutive year the race had been won by a Kenyan. He beat compatriots Peter Chebet in 2:08.57 and Jackson Koech in 2:09.06.
Noguchi, 27, was surprised to learn she had lowered the Asian women’s record of 2:19.39 set by Sun Jingjie of China.
The Berlin marathon is one of the world’s fastest courses; five world records have been set in past years in a race that wends its way through the government quarter and a half dozen districts before more than a million enthusiastic spectators.
The men’s world record of 2:04.55 was set by Kenyan Paul Tergat in Berlin in 2003.
Leading results:
MEN’S: 1. Philip Manyim (Kenya) 2:07:41; 2. Peter Chebet (Kenya) 2:08:58; 3. Jackson Koech (Kenya) 2:09:07; 4. Joshua Chelanga (Kenya) 2:09:10; 5. Joseph Ngolepus (Kenya) 2:10:10; 6. Shimeles Mola (Ethiopia) 2:10:11; 7. Michael Rotich (Kenya) 2:10:53; 8. Andrew Letherby (Australia) 2:11:42; 9. Romulo da Silva (Brazil) 2:12:03; 10. Terefe Yae (Ethiopia) 2:12:07.
WOMEN’S: 1. Mizuki Noguchi (Japan) 2:19:12; 2. Luminita Zaituc (Germany) 2:27:34; 3. Asale Tafa (Ethiopia) 2:28:27; 4. Melanie Kraus (Germany) 2:34:23; 5. Worknesh Tola (Ethiopia) 2:35:31; 6. Shona Crombie-Hicks (Britain) 2:38:42; 7. Anne-Mette Aagaard (Denmark) 2:38:44; 8. Anna Rahm (Sweden) 2:39:31; 9. Eva Maria Gradwohl (Austria) 2:39:51; 10. Jess Draskau-Petersson (Britain) 2:42:00.—Reuters #
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