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2014 Vienna City Marathon: Getu Feleke breaks CR with 2:05:41, Anna Hahner sensationally takes Vienna!

Larry EderbyLarry Eder
April 13, 2014
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Getu Feleke runs 2:05:41 CR at Vienna City Marathon, photo by PhotoRun.net

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Anna Hahner wins Vienna City in last 300 meters! 
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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 a1:24 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 2:0
5:41

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

For more information please visit: www.vienna-marathon.com or contact Andreas Maier (Press Officer): andreas.maier@vienna-marathon.com 

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    Larry Eder has had a 50-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."

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