Osaka marathon

think it maybe the other Luke Kibet--the one that won Vienna???

What an amazing race of Viktor RÖTHLIN !!! I was right beting on this guy, What an amazing race !!!!

rod

"We saw the marathon runners earlier and they certainly didn't enjoy these conditions, and neither will the shot putters."

4th looks about right, the top two Kenyans helped compensate for the slow one, and I totally overlooked Korea in my excitement (and POR and KOR looked too alike when just scanning), still a big HIP, HIP HOORAY to USA, two of whom came from Hansen's team. Isn't there money to the top six teams, also?

Renato Canova on tv saying Kibey was the only athlete to prepare "environmentally" for Osaka race

I don't see him in the results anywhere.

Do they give team medals? What color is fourth?

isnt renato canova shamis coach? as shami came in with the yearly world lead in the marathon 20719 in the heat 3 weeks after shami got 8th in mombassa world cross country. just asking for clues on who might do well in the next huge marathon in beijing next august?.

Nah, no medal - just like no dipshit post-of-the-day medals. So sorry, still no medal for you either way.

Canova was saying Kibet training "near" Shami. Predicting conditions in Beijing will be very similiar to today's. That's what he said.

I think they get ribbons and a gift certificate to Dick's Sporting Goods.

Seriously, still a fine achievement in awful conditions.

1 15 Luke KIBET KEN 2:15:59

2 4 Mubarak Hassan SHAMI QAT 2:17:18 +1:19

3 9 Viktor ROTHLIN SUI 2:17:25 +1:26

4 73 Yared ASMEROM ERI 2:17:41 +1:42

5 29 Tsuyoshi OGATA JPN 2:17:42 SB +1:43

6 30 Satoshi OSAKI JPN 2:18:06 SB +2:07

7 14 Toshinari SUWA JPN 2:18:35 SB +2:36

8 10 William KIPLAGAT KEN 2:19:21 +3:22

9 49 Janne HOLMEN FIN 2:19:36 +3:37

10 22 Jose Manuel MARTINEZ ESP 2:20:25 +4:26

11 59 Dan ROBINSON GBR 2:20:30 +4:31

12 47 Alex MALINGA UGA 2:20:36 +4:37

13 33 Tomoyuki SATO JPN 2:20:53 +4:54

14 8 Gashaw ASFAW ETH 2:20:58 +4:59

15 79 Ju-Young PARK KOR 2:21:49 +5:50

16 56 Mike FOKORONI ZIM 2:21:52 +5:53

17 18 Jose RIOS ESP 2:22:21 SB +6:22

18 60 Jose DE SOUZA BRA 2:22:24 +6:25

19 81 Seteng AYELE ISR 2:22:27 SB +6:28

20 66 Ali Mabrouk EL ZAIDI LBA 2:22:50 +6:51

21 45 Mbarak Kipkorir HUSSEIN USA 2:23:04 SB +7:05

22 50 Alberto CHAICA POR 2:23:22 SB +7:23

23 70 Mike MORGAN USA 2:23:28 SB +7:29

24 76 Young Chun KIM KOR 2:24:25 +8:26

25 27 Samson RAMADHANI TAN 2:25:51 +9:52

26 65 Myongseung LEE KOR 2:25:54 +9:55

27 2 Hendrick RAMAALA RSA 2:26:00 +10:01

28 82 Chia-Che CHANG TPE 2:26:22 +10:23

29 75 Khalid Kamal YASEEN BRN 2:26:32 SB +10:33

30 28 Getuli BAYO TAN 2:26:56 +10:57

31 12 Dejene BIRHANU ETH 2:27:50 SB +11:51

32 72 Kyle O'BRIEN USA 2:28:28 SB +12:29

33 64 Wei SU CHN 2:28:41 SB +12:42

34 85 Wodage ZVADYA ISR 2:29:21 +13:22

35 54 Luis FEITEIRA POR 2:29:34 +13:35

36 32 Haiyang DENG CHN 2:29:37 SB +13:38

37 86 Ulrich STEIDL GER 2:30:03 +14:04

38 17 Ambesse TOLOSA ETH 2:30:20 +14:21

39 78 Michael Tluway MISLAY TAN 2:30:33 +14:34

40 83 Asaf BIMRO ISR 2:31:34 +15:35

41 53 Yousf Othman QADER QAT 2:32:00 +16:01

42 44 Paulo GOMES POR 2:32:02 +16:03

43 51 Zhuhong LI CHN 2:32:44 +16:45

44 42 Rachid KISRI MAR 2:32:57 +16:58

45 25 Abderrahime BOURAMDANE MAR 2:33:26 +17:27

46 35 Pablo OLMEDO MEX 2:33:40 +17:41

47 90 Marcel TSCHOPP LIE 2:33:42 +17:43

48 67 Antoni BERNADO AND 2:34:28 +18:29

49 71 Longyun REN CHN 2:35:22 +19:23

50 40 Fernando CABADA JR USA 2:35:48 SB +19:49

51 62 Peter RILEY GBR 2:36:00 SB +20:01

52 41 Laban KAGIKA KEN 2:37:13 +21:14

53 93 George MOFOKENG RSA 2:40:22 +24:23

54 61 Rito REGULES MEX 2:45:26 +29:27

55 87 Ser-Od BAT-OCHIR MGL 2:49:06 SB +33:07

56 43 Mitsuru KUBOTA JPN 2:59:40 +43:41

57 88 Tumi MALEFETSANE LES 3:03:47 +47:48

74 Martin BECKMANN GER DNF

24 Migidio BOURIFA ITA DNF

84 Abdil CEYLAN TUR DNF

7 Hicham CHATT MAR DNF

89 Nelson CRUZ CPV DNF

37 Norman DLOMO RSA DNF

91 Patrick DUPOUY PYF DNF

92 Zongamele DYUBENI RSA DNF

36 Khalid EL BOUMLILI MAR DNF

38 Abdulhak ELGORCHE ZAKARIA BRN DNF

5 Abderrahim GOUMRI MAR DNF

11 Laban KIPKEMBOI KEN DNF

48 Francis KIRWA FIN DNF

34 Pavel LOSKUTOV EST DNF

23 James Mwangi MACHARIA KEN DNF

77 Takhir MAMASHAYEV KAZ DNF

68 Oscar MARTIN ESP DNF

80 Amos MASAI UGA DNF

55 Iaroslav MUSINSCHI MDA DNF

94 Bethuel NETSHIFHEFHE RSA DNF

58 Joachim NSHIMIRIMANA BDI DNF

21 Helder ORNELAS POR DNF

1 Julio REY ESP DNF

63 Geovanni SANTOS BRA DNF

26 Gudisa SHENTEMA ETH DNF

19 Tesfaye TOLA ETH DNF

52 Juan Gualberto VARGAS MEX DNF

69 Yunshan ZHENG CHN DNF

16 Luis JESUS POR DNS

57 Simeon Kiplagat SAWE USA DNS

Looks like they were 4th, impressed that the beat the Ethiopans. Good job guys.

JPN

Ogata 2:17:42

Osaki 2:18:06

Suwa 2:18:35

6:54:23

KOR

Park 2:21:49

Kim 2:24:25

Lee 2:25:54

7:12:28

KEN

Kibet 2:15:59

Kiplagat 2:19:21

Kagika 2:37:13

7:12:33

USA

Hussein 2:23:04

Morgan 2:23:28

O'Brien 2:28:28

7:15:00

ETH

Asfew 2:20:58

Birhanu 2:27:50

Tolosa 2:30:20

7:19:08

I don't see any other team with 3 finishers?

Wow! Great team performance by the Koreans. It's been really hot out here, so I guess conditions were perfect for those guys.

The Monk (In Korea)

28 DNF's

2 DNS's

That's around 1/3 of the field.

The last place guy jammed a 3:03. owie.

If Canova knows it, it must mean that Kibet is just another doper.

Oh well. I thought for a second he could be clean.

Ramala had aqnother major championship shocker. Can produce the goods in places like New York, but is yet to deliver in a major championship.

Ramala had another major championship shocker. Can produce the goods in places like New York, but is yet to deliver in a major championship.

Ramala had another major championship shocker. Can produce the goods in places like New York, but is yet to deliver in a major championship.