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 Local Athletes Run Well in Duluth, Minnesota Naoko Ishibe Places Tenth in 2003 USA Women's Half Marathon Championship Courtesy of Grandma's Marathon June 23, 2003 Duluth, MN For the Washington Running Report
Photo above: Naoko Ishibe in the 2003 Lawyers Have Heart 10K
Church expects to qualify for the Olympic Marathon Trials "A"
standard of less than 2:20:00 at the LaSalle Bank Chicago
Marathon in October. Church placed eighth overall at the Walt Disney World Marathon
in 2:30:23 in January 2003, and, more recently, won the Oy Vay
10K in Rockville on Sunday, June 8. He also
ran the 2003 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Miler in 53:17 and
placed 7th in the Plaza America 5K with a time of 15:51. The Washington Running Report wishes Aaron Church the best of
luck in his Olympic quest!
Records Set During Grandma's Marathon Weekend
It all started at 6:15 a.m. this morning with the start of the
Half Marathon Championship. Colleen De Reuck, 39, of
Boulder,
Colorado and Christine Clifton of Kirkland, Washington led the
field of 65 athletes right from the gun, and the women ran one
and two respectively throughout the championship race. De Reuck
had a strong final kick to the finish, smashing the former Garry
Bjorklund Half Marathon record of 1:14:11, with a time of
1:10:00, but she wasn't the only one to beat the record time.
Clifton finished second in 1:11:31 with Jennifer Rhines
of
Ardmore, PA in third with a time of 1:11:59. Janet Robertz of
Shorewood, Minnesota was first in the masters division, placing
11th overall in 1:15:36. A $28,000 total prize purse was offered for the championship
race, and De Reuck will take home $6,000 with an additional
$2,000 in incentive money for running a sub 1:13:00. In
addition, she earned a spot on the USA team for the World Half
Marathon Championship along with Clifton and Rhines. The 13.1-
mile race will take place on October 4, 2003 in Vilamoura,
Portugal. Local athlete Naoko Ishibe, 34, of Silver Spring, MD
placed 10th
with a time of 1:15:24 ($1000). Ishibe ran a US Olympic
Marathon Trials qualifying time of 2:47:22 in Berlin, Germany on
September 29, 2002. This spring, she placed 7th in the Sallie
Mae 10K with a time of 36:06 and 2nd in the Lawyers Have Heart
10K with a 35:44 performance. In Grandma's Marathon, Fira Sultanova of Russia, broke a four-
year old women's course record, was crowned champion of the 26.2-
mile race and won the women's masters division. The 41-year-old
ran by herself for the majority of the race, and despite
suffering a sore hamstring, she broke the finish line ribbon in
2:27:05 - setting a new course record by two minutes and seven
seconds. Elena Makolova, who finished today's race in 8th place in
2:41:07, set the former record of 2:29:12 in 1999. Sultanova
will go home with $7,000 for taking first overall, $1,250 for
being the first women's master, $10,000 in incentives for
running a sub-2:29:00 marathon, and a new 2003 Toyota Matrix for
breaking the course record. Svetlana Tkach-Shepeleva, the 2000 Grandma's Marathon women's
champion, was second place in the women's marathon (2:33:53)
followed by Albina Gallyamova in third (2:34:18). Lee Di Pietro, 45, of Ruxton, MD placed 13th with a U.S.
Olympic Trials qualifying time of 2:47:16. Earlier this year,
Di Pietro ran a 2:55:00 in the Boston Marathon and placed 12th
in the Sallie Mae 10K with a time of 36:57. In the men's division, Joseph Kamau of Kenya claimed victory
with a winning time of 2:11:22. The 2002 Grandma's Marathon
men's champion, Elly Rono, led the race for much of the
way, but
couldn't hold off Kamau, who eventually pulled ahead, opening a
two minute, seventeen second gap. Kamau will take home $7,000 in
prize money and $2,000 in incentives for running a sub-2:12.
Rono crossed the finish line in second with a time of 2:13:39,
and Andrey Gordeev of Russia grabbed third in 2:14:52. Fedor Ryjov, 42, of Russia won the men's masters division
claiming his third Grandma's Marathon masters title and
finishing 7th overall with a time of 2:17:08. He will take home
$1,250 in prize money plus $500 in incentives for his efforts. In the men's wheelchair division Saul Mendoza of Mexico City was
hard at work wheeling to his fifth straight Grandma's Marathon
victory in 1:32:26, which will go down in the record books as
the fourth fastest Grandma's Marathon wheelchair division time.
Chad Johnson of New Salos Borit, Indiana was second place with a
personal best time of 1:37:45. Meanwhile, the 2003 race was Candace Cable's ninth win at
Grandma's Marathon crossing the finish line with a time of
1:50:00. She won't only be awarded for this achievement, but
will also be inducted into the Grandma's Marathon Hall of Fame
today for her commitment and contributions to the 26.2-mile
event. Ten-time champion and Grandma's Marathon Hall of Famer,
Tami Oothoudt, crossed the line second in the women's wheelchair
division with a time of 2:21:08. A record 9,578 people registered for the 27th annual Grandma's
Marathon, with 33 countries and all 50 states being represented.
Out of 6,968 starters, there were 6,847 finishers. Jason Lehmkuhle of St. Paul, MN was the first person to cross
the finish line of the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon. He won
with a time of 1:06:32 and was followed by Duluth native, Jeremy
Polson who came in at 1:06:54. Joseph Mahoney of Madison, WI
finished third in the men's division (1:07:22). Meanwhile in the
women's division of the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon, Kimberly
Anderson of Chanhassen, MN finished first with a time of
1:22:54. Jen Hess of Paynesville, MN crossed the line second in
1:24:11, and Amanda Mitchell was third with a time of 1:24:44. There were 5,368 registered participants in the Garry Bjorklund
Half Marathon, of those 4,778 started the race and 4,756
finishers. The date of the 2004 Grandma's Marathon weekend is June 17
through June 19, and will be the site of the 2004 USA Women's
Half Marathon Championship. Photo below: Lee Di Pietro in the 2002 Georgetown Classic
10K
Grandma's Marathon Results
Women's Top Finishers FN LN AGE Place PACE TIME 10K 13.1 Fira Sultanova 41 1 5:37 2:27:05 33:43:00 1:12:03 Svetlana Shepeleva 34 2 5:53 2:33:53 35:33:00 1:15:39 Albina Gallyamova 39 3 5:54 2:34:18 35:15:00 1:15:18 Carol Howe 37 4 5:54 2:34:29 36:26:00 1:17:13 Irina Permitina 35 5 5:57 2:35:53 - - Tatiana Titova 37 6 6:03 2:38:28 35:20:00 1:16:10 Volha Yudziankova 36 7 6:04 2:38:42 36:19:00 1:17:41 Elena Makolava 34 8 6:09 2:41:07 35:34:00 1:16:51 Danusia Teschner 31 9 6:16 2:43:57 36:26:00 1:18:20 Katherine Fonshell 33 10 6:19 2:45:16 36:57:00 1:18:29 Sharon Stubler 38 11 6:20 2:45:54 37:35:00 1:20:49 Maria Trujillo De Rios 43 12 6:21 2:46:20 38:10:00 1:21:54 Lee Dipietro 45 13 6:23 2:47:16 38:17:00 1:21:44 Carly Graytock 24 14 6:23 2:47:17 39:26:00 1:23:21 Mary Coordt 34 15 6:24 2:47:39 38:58:00 1:23:04 Jenifer Compton 31 16 6:25 2:48:10 39:26:00 1:23:33 Linda Huyck 31 17 6:28 2:49:13 39:21:00 1:22:54 Michelle Pomfrey 31 18 6:29 2:49:44 39:36:00 1:23:43 Jenna Richardson 23 19 6:29 2:49:49 39:22:00 1:22:55 Kari Bertrand 32 20 6:30 2:50:25 37:30:00 1:20:59 Patty Fulton 37 21 6:36 2:52:48 39:00:00 1:23:11 Lori Hageman 36 22 6:38 2:53:53 39:22:00 1:23:15 Jenna Boren 26 23 6:42 2:55:18 38:45:00 1:23:05 Julie Murphy 21 24 6:42 2:55:18 41:19:00 1:28:08 Lucie Mays 32 25 6:44 2:56:17 38:46:00 1:24:16
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