Press Release - Dresden Marathon - 10/17/07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

             Shvetsov and Kenyans chase course record

Russia's national record holder Leonid Shvetsov will lead the chase for the 
course record in Sunday's 9th edition of the Morgenpost Dresden-Marathon. 
He is by far the fastest runner in the field with a personal best of 
2:09:16. Shvetsov had achieved a notable 13th place in the 2004 Olympic 
marathon in Athens and a year earlier had placed second in the Frankfurt 
Marathon.

Adding all running events on Sunday about 7,500 athletes are expected to 
take part in the Morgenpost Dresden Marathon. Among them is the defending 
champion Joseph Talam. The Kenyan had clocked the course record of 2:15:26 
in 2006. The strongest field signed so far for the race in Dresden will see 
more Kenyans in with a chance. Emmanuel Lagat and Josphat Rotich have 
personal bests of sub 2:17 while debutants Edwin Yano, Dominic Ondimu 
Nyabuto and Joel Kipchumba Jerutich could be in with a surprise. Nyabuto 
and Jerutich are coached by German Dieter Hogen who works with a number of 
Kenyan world-class marathon runners. Hogen had formerly been the coach of 
Uta Pippig, who won the marathons of Boston, Berlin and New York.

The women's race on Sunday will probably see a duel between Remalda Kergyte 
(Lithuania) and Kateryna Karmanenko (Ukraine). Kergyte had won the Dresden 
Half Marathon two years ago and then returned in 2006 to take second in the 
marathon. At an age of only 22 years she has improved her personal best to 
2:49:27 this year. It is her aim to further improve this time on Sunday. 
Kateryna Karmanenko is even one year younger than Remalda Kergyte. And the 
Ukrainian has been faster as well. Her personal best stands at 2:46:33 so 
far.

Further information is available online at: www.dresden-marathon.de


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