Spain's Fiz wins Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon
AFP
5 March 2000 - Otsu, Japan - Spain's Martin Fiz beat off a challenge from Japan's Shinji
Kawashima to win Sunday's Lake Biwa
Mainichi men's marathon for the second straight year.
Fiz and Kawashima ran side-by-side from the 31-kilometer point before the Spaniard tore
himself away to cross the finish line in
two hours 8 minutes 14 seconds.Kawashima finished in 2:09:04, followed by Japan's Ryuji
Takei in 2:09:23.
Results:
1. Martin Fiz (ESP) 2hr 08min 14sec
2. Shinji Kawashima (JPN) 2:09:04
3. Ryuji Takei (JPN) 2:09:23
4. Atsushi Sato (JPN) 2:09:50
5. Kazuhiro Matsuda (JPN) 2:10:24
6. Yasuaki Yamamoto (JPN) 2:10:44
7. Shigeru Aburaya (JPN) 2:10:48
8. Leonid Shvetsov (RUS) 2:11:07
9. Toshiyuki Hayata (JPN) 2:12:14
10. Nobuhiko Chiba (JPN) 2:13:24
