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Press Release - Vienna City Marathon - 4/14/14

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           Getu Feleke Breaks Course Record With 2:05:41,
              Anna Hahner Sensationally Takes Vienna

Getu Feleke clocked a superb course record at the 31st Vienna City 
Marathon. The Ethiopian won the race in good weather conditions with 
2:05:41. He was well ahead of the Kenyans Alfred Kering (2:08:28) and 
Philip Kimutai Sanga (2:08:58). There was a major upset in the women's 
race. With 300 metres to go Germany's Anna Hahner passed a struggling 
Caroline Chepkwony. Hahner clocked 2:28:59 in her first marathon victory. 
The Kenyan was second with 2:29:18 and Ethiopia's Marta Lema took third in 
2:31:10. A record number of 42,078 runners from 127 nations entered the 
various events of the Vienna City Marathon. The event is an IAAF Gold Label 
Road Race.

A very fast men's race developed in fine weather conditions with 
temperatures of 10 Celsius at the start, overcast skies and hardly any 
wind. However in the later stages it started raining and the wind picked 
up. A group of twelve runners passed the 10 k point in 29:45 minutes. With 
the high pace the group was reduced to eight runners by half way (62:42). 
Surprisingly one of those who lost contact was defending champion Henry 
Sugut. The Kenyan, who had hoped to become the first runner to win in 
Vienna for a fourth time, started struggling around the 15 k mark and later 
dropped out of the race. 

At 25 k there were four runners in contention behind two pacemakers: Feleke 
plus Kenyans Philip Kimuta, Felix Kiprotich and Wilfred Kirwa Kigen. The 
group continued to run very fast, covering the 5 k section from 20 to 25 k 
in 14:32. Once the last pacemaker dropped out at 30 k (1:28:48) it was 
Feleke who took the initiative. The 27 year-old, who has a PB of 2:04:50 
and is the fastest runner ever entered into the Vienna City Marathon, burst 
away, covering the 31st kilometre in 2:46. This was the decisive break with 
noone able to follow the Ethiopian. "Before I pushed the pace I had a look 
at the others and thought that I should go," explained Feleke, who said: 
"It was my goal to win and to run under 2:06. However if I would have had 
company in the final part of the race I could have run under 2:05." Feleke 
broke Sugut's course record of 2:06:58 by well over a minute and was almost 
three minutes ahead of second placed Kering.

The women's race was a completely different story. Caroline Chepkwony, who 
was the pre-race favourite, took control from the start. Running in a 
leading group of four with Lema, Alice Chelangat (Kenya) and Mai Ito 
(Japan) she moved ahead before the 20 k mark. At half way (1:12:13) 
Chepkwony was already 20 seconds ahead. While Chelangat, Lema and Ito all 
faltered badly Chepkwony soon had a huge lead. Well behind her Germany's 
Anna Hahner, the twin sister of Lisa, overtook one after another and was 
finally second at 35 k. "That was the best I could have hoped for," Hahner 
later explaiend. At this point Chepkwony was 2:23 minutes ahead of the 
German, who had broken 2:30 in last year's Frankfurt Marathon for the first 
time (2:27:55). 

While Chepkwony looked a certain winner the picture suddenly changed. With 
a few kilometres to go the Kenyan dramatically slowed and Anna Hahner made 
up ground. But at 40 k there was still a 1:24 minute gap between the two. 
However with 300 metres to go Hahner indeed caught the Kenyan, who could 
barely run any more. "I am totally overwhelmed and still in dreamland," 
said Hahner, who waltzed in the finish are since this year's motto of the 
race was "Everybody waltz". Hahner sealed the first German victory in 
Vienna since Christa Vahlensiek in 1989.

Results, Men:
1. Getu Feleke             ETH 2:05:41
2. Alfred Kering           KEN 2:08:28
3. Philip Kimutai-Sanga    KEN 2:08:58
4. Duncan Koech            KEN 2:09:17
5. Oleksandr Sitkovskyy    UKR 2:10:44
6. Ryo Yamamoto            JPN 2:10:59

Women:
1. Anna Hahner             GER 2:28:59
2. Caroline Chepkwony      KEN 2:29:18
3. Marta Lema              ETH 2:31:10
4. Alice Chelangat         KEN 2:32:46
5. Olga Glok               RUS 2:33:23

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