Eliud Kipchoge wins Berlin, photo by PhotoRun.net
Mare Dibaba wins World Champs! photo by PhotoRun.net
Eliud Kipchoge won the London Marathon and the Berlin Marathons in 2015, making him the best male marathoner of the year. Mare Dibaba had a busy marathon year: in January 2015, she ran 2:19:52 to win the Xiamen Marathon. In April, Mare was second in the Boston Marathon, and finally, in August, Mare Dibaba won the World Champs marathon in a run to the very finish line.
The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races gives this award out each year at the Athens Marathon (the classic). We at RunBlogRun thinks it is most appropriate to give out in Athens and love that AIMS does this important award.
Eliud Kipchoge and Mare Dibaba
ATHENS (GRE): Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge and Mare Dibaba of Ethiopia received the 2015 AIMS Best Marathon Runner of the Year Awards. The award was introduced by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) in 2013. The athletes were honoured during a gala in the Greek capital, where the Athens Marathon. The Authentic will be staged on the original course on Sunday. The winners were determined by a voting process amongst more than 380 member races of AIMS. The period under consideration for the 2015 AIMS Best Marathon Runner Awards was from the beginning of October 2014 to the end of September 2015. Informs Race News Service.
