Top Results 2013 Rock N Roll New Orleans Half Marathon: Mo Farah and Meseret Defar Win
by: LetsRun.com
February 24, 2013
Flash results.
(Update, there is a very cool recap of this race via social media below the results, via LetsRun.com visitor Alberto Stretti, check out his athletics site here: http://www.albertostretti.org)
At the 2013 Rock N Roll New Orleans half-marathon, Meseret Defar, the reigning two-time Olympic 5000m champion, got the convincing win over American Shalane Flanagan in 1:07:25, a new personal best for Defar, as fellow American Kara Goucher was further back in 5th in 1:11:49.
This was the second half-marathon for Defar who made her debut in 2010 winning at Rock N Roll Philadelphia in 1:07:45. Also in that race? Shalane Flanagan who ran 1:08:37, her personal best until today. 52 seconds separated them then and 1:06 separated them today as both set personal bests.
The World’s greatest distance runner, double Olympic champ, Mo Farah won the men’s race in 1:00:59 in a kick over former NYC Marathon champ Gebre Gebremariam. Just last week Farah was running a 3000m in Birmingham. Farah’s half-marathon debut was a win in 1:00:23 over Galen Rupp in 2011 in New York City.
Full results here.
Race play by play from the LRC forums here.
Women’s Results:
GenderPl | Name | Time |
1 | 01:07:25 | |
2 | 01:08:31 | |
3 | 01:10:32 | |
4 | 01:11:46 | |
5 | 01:11:49 | |
6 | 01:12:50 | |
7 | 01:13:57 | |
8 | 01:16:00 | |
9 | 01:21:17 | |
10 | 01:21:53 |
Men’s Results:
GenderPl | Name | Time |
1 | 01:00:59 | |
2 | 01:01:00 | |
3 | 01:02:48 | |
4 | 01:04:02 | |
5 | 01:04:03 | |
6 | 01:04:51 | |
7 | 01:04:51 | |
8 | 01:05:12 | |
9 | 01:05:25 | |
10 | 01:06:52 |
Excellent Race Blow by Blow via Social Media and Storify from LRC Alberto Stretti, check out his athletics site here: http://www.albertostretti.org)