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John Hancock Financial announces 2013 Boston Marathon International Elite Field, release, note by Larry Eder

Larry EderbyLarry Eder
January 17, 2013
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John Hancock Financial, who have sponsored the BAA Boston Marathon for the past 27 years, enters year 28 with the announcement of a great field! The depth in the American and international sides is very good. 


The week surrounding the Boston marathon is one of my favorite weeks of the running year. The press conferences always pull together some of the great historical figures as well as build the interest toward Patriots Day, when nearly 25,000 runners will leave the start for the journey into Boston on one of the challenging courses of any major marathon. 

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John Hancock Financial Announces 2013 Boston 

Marathon International Elite Field

40 Elite Athletes From 14 Countries
Invited For 117th Running on April 15

BOSTON, MA, January 15, 2013–In its 28th year as principal sponsor of the Boston Marathon, John Hancock Financial today announced the elite field for the 117th running of the Boston Marathon on April 15. A complete field list follows.

Reigning champions Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop, both of Kenya, return to defend their titles, but will be fiercely challenged by a talented international field of Olympians, World Marathon Majors champions of Chicago, New York City and Boston, and multiple global marathon winners of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, Daegu, Dubai, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Hamburg, Houston, Istanbul, Krakow, Los Angeles, Milan, Rome, St. Paul, Soweto, Toronto, Turin and the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Last year Korir and Cherop battled not only one of the strongest fields ever assembled, but also blistering race day temperatures topping 85F. Korir prevailed over countryman Levy Matebo in the final mile and Cherop used past experience to surge on the final turn to win the women’s race by two seconds. 

Watch 2012 Boston Marathon Highlights: http://youtu.be/0l1HViI5wYM 

Challenging Korir for the coveted laurel wreath this year is a fast group of men including 2011 Boston runner-up and 2011 Chicago champion Moses Mosop of Kenya. Mosop’s 2:03:06 Boston performance was the second-fastest time ever run over the marathon distance. Joining him in the chase is two-time Olympian and 2010 New York City winner Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia. Gebremariam has experience on the course, finishing third in 2011 in 2:04:53. Matebo has also committed to return to Boston to improve upon his second place finish last year and brings additional credentials as marathon champion in Barcelona and Brussels. 

American Ryan Hall, who owns the 2:04:58 U.S. course record in Boston, and countryman Meb Keflezighi, past New York City winner and Olympic silver medalist, will work together to bring back a title for the U.S. Both Hall and Keflezighi have finished as high as third in Boston.

Former Boston champion and former course-record-holder Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya also returns to the John Hancock Elite Athlete Team and will be joined by the 2012 Eindhoven course-record-holder Dickson Chumba, also of Kenya. Additional talent from Ethiopia includes 2011 Los Angeles champion and course-record-holder Markos Geneti, 2012 Paris and Mumbai runner-up Raji Assefa and the 2012 Hamburg and 2011 Toronto winner Shami Abdullah Dawit.

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Guor Marial from South Sudan is also in the field. Marial was granted refugee status in the U.S. after fleeing Sudan during the Civil War. Eight of his brothers and sisters were killed in the conflict. Marial, now a U.S. resident, went to high school in Concord, New Hampshire, and college at Iowa State. After qualifying for the 2012 Olympics, but not yet having a country to run for, the International Olympic Committee honored him with entry to participate under the Olympic Flag.

Also in contention for the crown are four-time U.S. Olympian Abdi Abdirahman who will make his debut on the Boston course as will Australian Olympian Jeffrey Hunt and Canadians Robin Watson and two-time Olympian Eric Gillis. 

Americans Jason Hartmann and Fernando Cabada are also contenders. Hartmann finished fourth last year and Cabada holds the American record in the 25K. Joining them to round out the deep field is half marathon specialist Lucas Rotich of Kenya, who holds a 59:44 half-marathon best and countryman Micah Kogo, a 59:07 half-marathoner, 10,000m Beijing bronze medalist, and former 10K world-record-holder (27:01).

Headlining the women’s field are defending Boston Marathon champion Sharon Cherop of Kenya, Dubai’s two-time winner and 2:19:31 course-record-holder Aselefech Medessa Mergia of Ethiopia and 2012 World Half-Marathon champion and Amsterdam’s 2:21:09 course-record-holder Meseret Hailu Debele of Ethiopia. Past Boston champion and 2012 Chicago runner-up Rita Jeptoo of Kenya returns, as does Mexican national-record-holder Mada Pérez.

Top Olympians Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko of the Ukraine and Americans Shalane Flanagan and Kara Goucher will present a strong challenge. Gamera-Shmyrko placed fifth at the London Olympic Marathon and Flanagan and Goucher finished tenth and eleventh respectively. Flanagan is a three-time Olympian, winning the bronze medal in the 10,000m in Beijing, and finished runner-up in her marathon debut in New York City before winning the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon. Goucher has experience on the Boston course finishing as high as third in 2009 and fifth in 2011. 

Also focused on the podium are Mamitu Daska of Ethiopia, who is past champion of Frankfurt, Houston, and Dubai; Alemita Abera Begna of Ethiopia, champion of Houston, Daegu and Istanbul; three-time Olympian Sabrina Mockenhaupt of Germany, champion of Frankfurt and two-time winner of Cologne and two-time Olympian René Kalmer of South Africa, who is the past marathon champion of Soweto and Johannesburg.

Additional talent includes Diana Chepkemoi Sigei of Kenya, Yolanda Caballero of Colombia, and Olympians Karolina Jarzynska of Poland, Ana Dulce Félix of Portugal, and Burundi national-record-holder Diane Nukuri-Johnson. Additional Americans on the John Hancock Elite Athlete Team include Serena Burla, Stephanie Rothstein-Bruce and Alissa McKaig. 

The 2013 Boston Marathon marks the 28th year of John Hancock’s landmark sponsorship of the race. For additional information about the John Hancock Elite Athlete Team and sponsorship, please visit www.johnhancock.com/bostonmarathon/sportspartnerships.html or follow us @jhboston26 on Twitter.

About John Hancock Financial and Manulife Financial Corporation 

John Hancock Financial is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading Canada-based financial services group with principal operations in Asia, Canada and the United States. 

Operating as Manulife Financial in Canada and in most of Asia, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States, Manulife Financial Corporation offers clients a diverse range of financial protection products and wealth management services through its extensive network of employees, agents and distribution partners. Funds under management by Manulife Financial and its subsidiaries were C$515 billion (US$523 billion) as at September 30, 2012. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as ‘MFC’ on the TSX, NYSE and PSE, and under ‘945’ on the SEHK. Manulife Financial can be found on the Internet at manulife.com. 

The John Hancock unit, through its insurance companies, comprises one of the largest life insurers in the United States. John Hancock offers a broad range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, fixed products, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, long-term care insurance, college savings, and other forms of business insurance. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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2013 John Hancock Elite Athlete Team

117th Boston Marathon     April 15, 2013

MEN

Personal Best Time

Country

Moses Mosop

2:03:06 (Boston, 2011)

Kenya

Gebregziabher “Gebre” Gebremariam

2:04:53 (Boston, 2011)

Ethiopia

Markos Geneti

2:04:54 (Dubai, 2012)

Ethiopia

Ryan Hall

2:04:58 (Boston, 2011)

USA

Levy Matebo

2:05:16 (Frankfurt, 2011)

Kenya

Shami Abdullah Dawit

2:05:42 (Dubai, 2012)

Ethiopia

Dickson Chumba

2:05:46 (Eindhoven, 2012) CR

Kenya

Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot

2:05:52 (Boston, 2010)

Kenya

Wesley Korir

2:06:13 (Chicago, 2012)

Kenya

Raji Assefa

2:06:24 (Paris, 2012)

Ethiopia

Abdihakem “Abdi” Abdirahman

2:08:56 (Chicago, 2006)

USA

Mebrahtom “Meb” Keflezighi

2:09:08 (Houston, 2012)

USA

Jeffrey Hunt

2:11:00 (Beppu, 2010)

Australia

Jason Hartmann

2:11:06 (Chicago, 2010)

USA

Eric Gillis

2:11:28 (Toronto, 2011)

Canada

Fernando Cabada

2:11:53 (Houston, 2012)

USA

Guor Marial

2:12:55 (San Diego, 2012) NR

South Sudan

Robin Watson

2:13:37 (Rotterdam, 2012)

Canada

Micah Kogo

59:07 (South Shields, 2012)

Kenya

Lucas Rotich

59:44 (Den Haag, 2011)

Kenya

WOMEN

Personal Best Time

Country

Aselefech Medessa Mergia

2:19:31 (Dubai, 2012) CR

Ethiopia

Meseret Hailu Debele

2:21:09 (Amsterdam, 2012) CR

Ethiopia

Mamitu Daska

2:21:59 (Frankfurt, 2011) 

Ethiopia

Rita Jeptoo

2:22:04 (Chicago, 2012)

Kenya

Sharon Cherop

2:22:39 (Dubai, 2012)

Kenya

Madai Pérez

2:22:59 (Chicago, 2006) NR

Mexico

Alemita Abera Begna

2:23:14 (Houston, 2012)

Ethiopia

Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko

2:24:32 (London, 2012)

Ukraine

Kara Goucher

2:24:52 (Boston, 2011)

USA

Shalane Flanagan

2:25:38 (Houston, 2012)

USA

Ana Dulce Félix

2:25:40 (NYC, 2011) 

Portugal

Yolanda Caballero

2:26:17 (Boston, 2011) 

Colombia

Sabrina Mockenhaupt

2:26:21 (Berlin, 2010)

Germany

Diana Chepkemoi Sigei

2:26:53 (Dubai, 2011)

Kenya

Karolina Jarzynska

2:27:16 (Yokohama, 2011)

Poland

Serena Burla

2:28:27 (Seoul, 2012)

USA

Stephanie Rothstein-Bruce

2:29:35 (Houston, 2011)

USA

René Kalmer

2:29:59 (Yokohama, 2011)

RSA

Diane Nukuri-Johnson

2:30:13 (London, 2012) NR

Burundi

Alissa McKaig

2:31:56 (Houston, 2012)

USA

NR=National Record

CR=Course Record

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    Larry Eder has had a 51-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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