52 year old Israeli in WC Marathon

Oh Canada!

Am I missing something?

The start list for tomorrow's Men's Marathon does have anyone from Canada!

They could have at least sent Ed Whitlock.

Even French Polynesia is sending someone and his PB is 2:54:03.

25 august 2007 - 700Bib Athlete Country 2007 Personal

1 Julio Rey ESP 2:11:36 2:06:52

2 Hendrick Ramaala RSA 2:07:56 2:06:55

4 Mubarak Hassan Shami QAT 2:07:19 2:07:19

5 Abderrahim Goumri MAR 2:07:44 2:07:44

7 Hicham Chatt MAR 2:07:59

8 Gashaw Asfaw ETH 2:09:53 2:08:03

9 Viktor Röthlin SUI 2:08:20 2:08:20

10 William Kiplagat KEN 2:10:47 2:06:50

11 Laban Kipkemboi KEN 2:08:38 2:08:38

12 Dejene Birhanu ETH 2:08:46

14 Toshinari Suwa JPN 2:07:55

15 Luke Kibet KEN 2:10:07 2:08:52

16 Luís Jesus POR 2:08:55

17 Ambesse Tolosa ETH 2:11:15 2:08:56

18 José Ríos ESP 2:07:42

19 Tesfaye Tola ETH 2:10:45 2:06:57

21 Hélder Ornelas POR 2:11:49 2:10:00

22 José Manuel Martínez ESP 2:10:12 2:08:09

23 James Mwangi Macharia KEN 2:10:27 2:10:27

24 Migidio Bourifa ITA 2:10:30 2:09:07

25 Abderrahime Bouramdane MAR 2:10:41 2:10:41

26 Gudisa Shentema ETH 2:09:46

27 Samson Ramadhani TAN 2:10:43 2:08:01

28 Getuli Bayo TAN 2:14:17 2:10:45

29 Tsuyoshi Ogata JPN 2:08:37

30 Satoshi Osaki JPN 2:08:46

32 Haiyang Deng CHN 2:10:50

33 Tomoyuki Sato JPN 2:11:22 2:09:43

34 Pavel Loskutov EST 2:14:49 2:08:53

35 Pablo Olmedo MEX 2:11:34 2:11:34

36 Khalid El Boumlili MAR 2:11:40 2:10:49

37 Norman Dlomo RSA 2:11:47 2:11:47

38 Abdulhak Elgorche Zakaria BRN 2:11:49

40 Fernando Cabada Jr USA 2:12:27

41 Laban Kagika KEN 2:12:36 2:10:24

42 Rachid Kisri MAR 2:12:46 2:12:46

43 Mitsuru Kubota JPN 2:12:50 2:12:50

44 Paulo Gomes POR 2:12:51 2:12:51

45 Mbarak Kipkorir Hussein USA 2:08:10

47 Alex Malinga UGA 2:17:17 2:12:12

48 Francis Kirwa FIN 2:14:38 2:13:09

49 Janne Holmén FIN 2:14:20 2:12:10

50 Alberto Chaíça POR 2:09:25

51 Zhuhong Li CHN 2:13:17 2:10:46

52 Juan Gualberto Vargas MEX 2:13:17 2:13:17

53 Yousf Othman Qader QAT 2:13:18 2:13:18

54 Luís Feiteira POR 2:13:37 2:13:37

55 Iaroslav Musinschi MDA 2:13:39

56 Mike Fokoroni ZIM 2:14:01 2:14:01

57 Simeon Kiplagat Sawe USA 2:23:24 2:13:33

58 Joachim Nshimirimana BDI 2:17:38 2:13:31

59 Dan Robinson GBR 2:14:14 2:13:53

60 José de Souza BRA 2:14:19 2:13:25

61 Rito Regules MEX 2:14:23 2:14:23

62 Peter Riley GBR 2:14:31

63 Geovanni Santos BRA 2:14:45 2:14:45

64 Wei Su CHN 2:14:48

65 Myongseung Lee KOR 2:14:48 2:13:42

66 Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi LBA 2:14:49 2:14:49

67 Antoni Bernadó AND 2:14:52 2:14:25

68 Óscar Martín ESP 2:14:55 2:14:24

69 Yunshan Zheng CHN 2:18:15 2:13:20

70 Mike Morgan USA 2:15:11

71 Longyun Ren CHN 2:17:00 2:15:13

72 Kyle O'Brien USA 2:15:13

73 Yared Asmerom ERI 2:15:14 2:15:14

74 Martin Beckmann GER 2:15:22 2:15:06

75 Khalid Kamal Yaseen BRN 2:15:36

76 Young Chun Kim KOR 2:15:55 2:15:55

77 Takhir Mamashayev KAZ 2:15:20

78 Michael Tluway Mislay TAN 2:16:27 2:14:23

79 Ju-Young Park KOR 2:16:58 2:14:07

80 Amos Masai UGA 2:16:58 2:16:58

81 Seteng Ayele ISR 2:35:58 2:14:21

82 Chia-Che Chang TPE 2:22:06 2:17:19

83 Asaf Bimro ISR 2:17:35 2:14:52

84 Abdil Ceylan TUR 2:17:43 2:17:43

85 Wodage Zvadya ISR 2:17:45 2:16:04

86 Ulrich Steidl GER 2:19:47 2:13:56

87 Ser-Od Bat-Ochir MGL 2:20:13

88 Tumi Malefetsane LES 2:20:28 2:20:28

89 Nelson Cruz CPV 2:22:43 2:19:15

90 Marcel Tschopp LIE 2:26:56 2:26:56

91 Patrick Dupouy PYF 2:54:03

92 Zongamele Dyubeni RSA 2:16:10 2:16:10

93 George Mofokeng RSA 2:13:50 2:13:50

94 Bethuel Netshifhefhe RSA 2:14:08 2:11:44

Will the Women fare any better in their marathon September 2nd?

The Ethiopians use a different calendar system than the one we use.

The Israeli is of Ethiopian origin, and is between 10-15 years younger than his stated age, making him between 37-42 years of age.

He is definetely not 52 years old in chronological age.

Let's just say he is around Masters age, but we will never know his true age, because his identity papers have changed a few times with different birth dates.

Ghost in Korea

I'm Israeli, and his age is probably right.

He ran 2:22 for 19th place! Pretty impressive.

over 99% on the age grade system - IMHO probably will be the best performance of anyone at this world champs. As a comparison Webb would need to run 3:29 in the 1500m to get same score.

mbarek hussein at 42 and the 52 year old israeli equal 3.5 normal runners.

Guy0307 wrote:

I'm Israeli, and his age is probably right.

I'm American, and his age is probably wrong.

I've seen interviews with him where he says that his age is wrong. He says he is not sure exactly what his age is, but it is probably off by about 12 years. A very impressive runner regardless.

master full wrote:

over 99% on the age grade system - IMHO probably will be the best performance of anyone at this world champs. As a comparison Webb would need to run 3:29 in the 1500m to get same score.

who cares about age graded percentages - this is a world championship and not some pensioners gathering

so use it

Seteng Ayele