WEBSITE FLORENCE MARATHON
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Florence Marathon for the first time in the name of Ethiopia. On a cold rainy morning, but marked by a fast race start, the success of the 22 year-old Tadese Toles Aredia who, during the 42.195 km, stopped the clock at 2:12 a.m.: 41, while compatriot Theshome Gelan beaten in the sprint on the line arrival in Piazza Santa Croce. In third place (2:13 a.m.: 30), the other Ethiopian Tola Bane Edea, who started with the task of "hare" (1:03 a.m. in transition: 43 to Half-ed) and then, around 33 km mark, evolved into a true lone leader of the race. An initiative that first led him to accumulate more than a minute ahead, but, in the last kilometers, I saw fading action until it was reassembled and finally overtaken by his two compatriots. The new location of the twenty-seventh edition, Ethiopia on the shields also Firehiwot female nut that, after that of the Rome Marathon in March, added another trophy to his victory here in imposing 2:28 a.m.: 58. His decisive attack at the 38th km, for which he took off on Meseret Mengistu (ETH), finished second in 2h30: 45 ahead of Russia Alena Samokhvalova (2:36 a.m.: 42). 2:44 a.m. in fifth: 00, behind Sweden's Anna Brigitta Von Schenck (2:40 a.m.: 28), the Italian champion marathon Marcella Mancini (Runner Team 99). Over ten thousand athletes to the 2010 via the event including the protagonists of the Marathon won by Paolo Cecchetto (1:18 a.m.: 35) and Francesca Fenocchio (1:57 a.m.: 11). Withdrawn, however, about 35 km mark, following a technical fault with its handbike, Alex Zanardi.
1 TADESE AREDO TOLESA 02:12:41
2 GELANA TESHOME 02:12:41
3 TOLA EDEA BANE 02:13:30
4 WHITBY BENEDICT 02:15:09
5 JIFAR TARIKU 02:18:06
6 BEDFORD THOMAS 02:19:30
7 HUTCHINS JOHN 02:21:51
8 NATALI PAOLO 02:22:59
9 ALGERS KRISTIAN 02:23:14
10 MERGA EJIGU EBISA 02:23:48
11 GROSS HENRY 02:26:19
12 ROZE RENARS 02:26:22
13 BLUNDEN MATTHEW 02:26:37
14 THOMPSON FRASER 02:27:08
15 CHESIRE BONIFACE KIPRONO 02:27:35
17 COLNAGHI PIETRO 02:29:04
18 TRENTADUE VINCENZO 02:29:06
19 MAROCCO SIMONE 02:30:54
20 MOSCA ALBERTO 02:31:33
21 STØLSMARK RAGNAR 02:32:15
ShareThis