Tag: Results

Results of Mumbai Marathon 2006

The results: Men’s full marathon (42.195kms):

1. Daniel Rono (Kenya) 2:12:03

2. Desse Mandago (Ken) 2:12.18

3. Stanley Leleito (Ken) 2:12.47

Women’s full marathon (42.195kms):

1. Mulu Seboka (Ethiopia) 2:33.15

2. Inga Abitova (Russia) 2:33.55

3. Leila Aman (Eth) 2:36.17

Indian performances: Men’s full marathon:

1. Nathuram (Army Sports Institute, Pune) 2:24.25

2. Ajit Singh (Punjab) 2:27.27

3. Satya Prakash (Indian Army, Jabalpur) 2:33.02

Women’s full marathon:

1. Leelamma Alphonso (Western Railways) 3:02.4

2. Sanjini Devi (Northern Railway) 3:09.00

3. Indresh Dhiraj (UP) 3:10.06

Men’s half marathon (21.097kms):

1. Ram Bahadur Subba (BSF) 1:07.26

2. Mukesh Kumar Patel (UP1:07.31

3. Jagannath Lakade (ASI) 1:07.58

Women’s half marathon (21.097 kms):

1. Sarabjit Kaur (Punjab Police) 1:21.48

2. Dipika Biswas (Central Reserve Police Force) 1:23.50

3. Savita Devi (CRPF) 1:24.25

Pune Marathon results, Dec 4, 2005

Mens Marathon

1. Josephat Ndeti (Kenya) 2:19:35.
2. Gemech Kebede (Ethiopia) 2:20:38
3. Ambrose Makau (Kenya) 2:22:26
?. Jayabhay Dattatraya (India) 2:26:57 (best Indian)

Women Half Marathon

1. Nailya Yulamanov (Russia) 1:15
2. Joyce Kandia (Kenya) 1:17:05
3. Teringo Gelachew (Ethiopia) 1:20:19
?. Gurnule Madhuri (India) 1:22 (best Indian)

Singapore marathon results, Dec 4, 2005

Though I was unable to run this once :(, here are the results for all of you to share:

Position Marathon – Men Nation Time
1 Amos Matui (NR) KEN 02:15:55
2 Jote Ashebir Demissu (NR) ETH 02:15:58
3 Joseph Ngolepus (NR) KEN 02:16:34
Position Marathon – Women Nation Time
1 Irina Timofeyeva (NR) RUS 02:34:37
2 Hellena Cherono KEN 02:35:12
3 Slyvia Skortsova RUS 02:36:46

Indira Marathon at Allahabad

I was there in Allahabad during the last weekend, and was surprised to find out that there was a big marathon event there on Sat, November 19th. It was the 21st edition of the All India Indira Marathon. The results of the event were as follows:

Mens:
1. K C Ramu (2:21:00) (same guy who finished as 3rd placed Indian in Hutch Delhi Half Marathon)
2. Bhairav Singh Lone (2:21:37) (winner of previous 5 Indira marathons)
3. H A Chinappa

Womens:
1. Reena Das (2:58:38)
2. Sangini Dev (2:59:57) (previous winner)
3. Indresh Dhiraj

Delhi Half marathon results, and other musings

First of all, I would like to thank my friend Aditya for somehow finding out and providing the complete results of the Hutch Delhi Half marathon, 2005. The results can be accessed by clicking here.

I talked to Vivek yesterday (my colleague who participated with me), and he has some contacts with decent runners here in Delhi, and they mentioned that Delhi Marathon has only a 50:50 chance of being held. That should not be surprising, no media coverage, an absolute junk of a website with no updates, it would actually surprise me if they get more than 500 runners with this level of awareness. Mumbai marathon seems to be a more suitable event, and I will definitely be there.

Mumbai marathon registrations now start Nov 6th (from the earlier date of Oct 27th). I went through last years participation figures and was able to make out that about 4000 people participated in the Mumbai half and 1000 in the full marathon. This is quite comparable to the Hutch Delhi half where the half had about 5000 participants (or registrations, atleast).

And taking a look at the HDHM results, it is apparent that only 10% finished, 500 from 5000! This I find very surprising. I can think of three reasons to justify this. I believe the primary reason of this low finish is that very few actually participated. I will never be able to make out how many participants were there, but this is India, where people do not take these things seriously, and I can expect a dropout of even 50% or more. I believe that this is very unlike other countries like Singapore, etc. The second reason I can attribute to the low finishes is that most people simply did not opt for the Championchip. No chip, no timing, no result. The third reason would be people dropping out midway from the race, through I do not think this would be a significant category. Together, I think this would justify the 10% timed finishes from about 5000 registrants.

Keep Running!