Complete Elite Field of the Berlin Marathon

Where did you get that from?

BTW: The Samuel Kosgei starting, is it the same who has 30km WR?

i saw peter kirui who won the kenyan 10000 champs and finished ahead of rupp in daegu 10000, and geoffrey kipsang on the start list.

renato canova said kipsang is just a pacer, is kirui also just pacing?

field is really lacking in depth.

westerneuropean hope wrote:

Where did you get that from?

BTW: The Samuel Kosgei starting, is it the same who has 30km WR?

From

(Website of the German athletics federation).

Kosgei has the 25 km world record. He also paced Haile to the 30 k world record he set en route the 2009 Berlin Marathon.

Nailya Yulamanova out with flu

i am surpsrised at the lack of africans on the womens field. That being said. Flo Kiplagat can win it.

Why isn't Mary Keitany running?

She is running the Portugal Half on the same day. (Isn't she running NYC?)

kevin half wrote:

Why isn't Mary Keitany running?

A lot of older runners entered in the elites:

Dreher (40 yo)

Ramalaa (39 yo)

Mikitenko (39yo)

Geb (38 yo)

Simon (38 yo)

Radcliffe (37 yo)

Grigoryeva (37 yo)

El Himer (37 yo)...

The top 4 ranked women are all older than 37 yo

3 of the top 5 ranked men are older than 37 yo.

money ball wrote:

i am surpsrised at the lack of africans on the womens field. That being said. Flo Kiplagat can win it.

i thought atsede habtamu was running, she must have pulled out.

they have some excellent runners in this race who are pacing, maybe 1 or more will pull a sammy korir and run the whole race.

USA runner Joseph Chirlee 2:12:10? Never heard of this guy....any info on him? College? Etc

former kenyan got citizenship about a year ago.

Paula can't win. She can't run miles under 5.18.