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Rotterdam Marathon Gets 3 Sub 2:07 Guys By David Monti with Wim Van Hemert (c) 2007 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved February 20, 2007 The organizers of the 27th Fortis Marathon Rotterdam announced today that three men who had broken the 2:07:00 barrier in the marathon had agreed to participate in their event on Sunday, April 15. William Kipsang, with a personal best of 2:06:39 set in Amsterdam in 2003, Wilson Onsare (2:06:47, Paris, 2003) and Charles Kibiwott (2:06:52, Rotterdam, 2006), all of Kenya, were announced today. All three athletes struggled in the last marathons. Kipsang finished seventh at the ING New York City Marathon last November in 2:11:54; Onsare was 21st at the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon last October in 2:16:12; and Kibiwott finished 13th at Chicago in 2:15:00. The Rotterdam organizers also announced that both Kipsang and Onsare would test their fitness at the City-Pier-City Half-Marathon in the Hague on March 17.
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