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News19 Jan 2004


Clean sweep for Morocco in Marrakech International Marathon

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Marrakech   Morocco’s Khalid Boumlili won the 15th edition of the Marrakech International Marathon, which attracted a total of 5000 runners from 19 nations, on Sunday.

In his first appearance at a major marathon, Boumlili completed the 42.195 km course in 2 hours 10 minutes and 29 seconds, beating by nearly two minutes his compatriot Abderrahamane El Faryati (2:12:34). Third place went to Zaid Laaroussi in 2:12:58, with Kenyan Paul Tangus fourth in 2:13:14.

The women’s race also produced a Moroccan victory, with Hafida Narmouch breaking the tape in 2:43:11, in front of the Bulgarian Elena Deriabina (2:47:09) and French athlete Murielle Brionne (2:56:17).

In the half marathon race, Moroccans won both men’s and women’s races with Radouane El Kharoufi, who was tenth at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura and Malika Assahssah, 13th in the women’s race in Vilamoura, winning in 1:01:37 and 1:10:58 respectively.

Alongside the main competition, the Moroccan Federation (FRMA) also organised a 3.5 km race for schoolchildren between 8-13 years of age, with prices for the first 100 children to complete the course.

Notable participants of previous editions of the Marrakech Marathon have included Ethiopia’s Fatuma Roba, who won the 1996 race and went on to win gold in the Marathon at the Atlanta Olympics, six months later, and Abdelkader Mouaziz, who had three wins in Marrakech (1996, 1997 and 1999) and who still holds the course record of 2:08:15. Mouaziz went on to take sixth place at the Olympic Marathon 2000 in Sydney and in 2001 at the World Championships in Edmonton and has to his credit victories in the London (1999 and 2001) and New York (2000) Marathons.

Leading results in Marrakech

Marathon Men :

  1  : Khalid Boumlili(Mar):  2:10.49
  2 : Abderrahmane El Faryati Mar): 2:12.34
  3 : Zaid Laaroussi (Mar):2:12.58
  4 : Paul Tangus (Ken): 2:13.14
  5 : Rachid Ait Bensalem (Mar): 2:13.42
  6 : Hassan Oulhami (Mar): 2:16.35
  7 : Abdelkebir Marchane (Mar) : 2:17.40
  8 : Nigeri Tena (Eth) :2:18.18
  9 : John Kipchumba (Ken):2:18.36
 10 : M. Adilo (Eth):2:18.42

  Marathon Women :

  1 : Hafida Narmouch(Mar): 2:43.11
  2 : Elena Deriabina(Bul): 2:47.09
  3 : Murielle Brionne(Fra):2:56.17
  4: Andrea Raggio(Ita):3:07.01
  5 : Suzanne Venot(Fra):3h:08.23
 
   Half marathon Men
 
 1  : Radouane El Harroufi(Mar):1:01. 37
 2 : Rachid Ghnoumi (Mar): 1:01.40
 3 : Abdellatif Meftah (Mar): 1:02.05
 4 : Mohamed Azzouzi(Mar):1:02.23
 5 : Said Boumhamdi (Mar) : 1:03.36
 
 Half marathon Women

  1 : Malika Assahssah(Mar) : 1:10.58
  2 : Amina Darkaoui (Mar)  : 1:14.28
  3 : Iolena Vasile  (Rou)  : 1:14.49
  4 : Malika Mejdoub (Mar)  : 1:15.47
  5 : Kenza Skhayi(Mar)     : 1:15.54

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