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MEN ELITE ATHLETES STANDARD CHARTERED MUMBAI MARATHON

1. Evans Ruto KEN/1984 2:07:49

2. Henry Sugut KEN/1985 2:06:58

3. Jacob Cheshari KEN/1984 2:07:46

4. Dereje Debele ETH/1986 2:07:48

5. Felix Kiprotich KEN/1988 2:08:05

6. Luke Kibet KEN/1983 2:08:52

7. Shume Hailu ETH/1987 2:09:06

8. Michael Chege KEN/1991 2:09:12

9. Benard Rotich KEN/1986 2:10:18

10. Peter Kosgei KEN/1987 2:12:24

11. Silas Kipruto KEN/1984 debut (59:39)

12. Tesfaye Abera ETH/1992 debut (60:32)

13. Bernard Kihanya KEN/1994 debut (61:19)

14. Abdenasir Fathi MOR/1987 debut (28:33)

PACEMAKER

51 Michael Mutai KEN/1983

52 Philemon Yator KEN/1992

53 Edwin Kiptoo KEN/1993

54 Ezekiel Chepkorom UGA/1992

55 Sibusiso Nzima RSA/1986

WOMEN ELITE ATHLETES STANDARD CHARTERED MUMBAI MARATHON

1. Dinknesh Mekash ETH/1985 2:25:09

2. Marta Megra ETH/1990 2:28:02

3. Gladys Kipsoi KEN/1986 2:29:53

4. Radiya Adilo ETH/1989 2:29:00

5. Halima Hussen ETH/1983 2:33:26

6. Yenealem Ayano ETH/1986 2:34:10

7. Zeytuna Arba ETH/1983 2:35:05

8. Monica Wangari KEN/1986 2:42:56 (70:33)

9. Kumeshi Sichala ETH/1995 debut (70:56)

PACEMAKER

56 Stijn Fincioen BEL/1980

57 Rorisa Bacha ETH/1983

MEN ELITE ATHLETES MUMBAI MARATHON 2015

1. Evans Ruto KEN/1984 2:07:49 Adidas

Last year’s winner Evans Ruto comes back to Mumbai to defend his title. He started competing internationally in 2005 and ran his first marathon in 2008 in Dusseldorf. Since then he competed in several marathons in Europe and Asia. Besides running, Evans enjoys watching football and spending time with his wife and his two sons Eldoret.

2014 Hannover Marathon 3rd 2:11:34

2014 Mumbai Marathon 1st 2:09:33

2013 Gyeongju Marathon 4th 2:09:55

2012 Kosice Marathon 3rd 2:07:49

2010 Ljubljana Marathon 1st 2:10:17

2009 Cologne Marathon 1st 2:08:36

2. Henry Sugut KEN/1985 2:06:58 Nike

Henry Sugut, also known as mister Vienna, won this city marathon three times in his career, in 2010, 2012 in a new CR and in 2013. Sugut took up running in school and eventually had a lot of success on the track recording personal bests in the 5,000m and 10,000m of 13:08.90 and 27:51.34 respectively. In 2009 he made his marathon debut in Reims where he took the third place.

Henry, who is married and has two young children, runs to earn money for his family and to build a better life than he had as a child. He grew up in Nakuru district, Rongai division, in a village called Visoi. For now, he hasn’t decided yet what he will do after finishing his athletics career but farming is one of the things he has in mind. After having an injury in 2014, Henry is ready for a strong race in Mumbai.

2013 Toronto Marathon 4th 2:11:17

2013 Vienna Marathon 1st 2:08:19

2012 Amsterdam Marathon 9th 2:09:07


2011 Frankfurt Marathon 10th 2:08:56

2011 Paris Marathon 7th 2:08:22


3. Jacob Cheshari KEKN/1984 2:07:46 Nike

After some years on the track, where Jacob recorded some fast 5000m times, he made his marathon debut in the 2013 Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. He ran a strong race and finished as runner up behind Jackson Kiprop. He smashed his personal best by almost two minutes in that same

year, finishing fourth in Frankfurt.



2013 Mumbai Marathon 2nd 2:09:43

2012 CPC Half Marathon 12th 62:32

2011 FBK Games 5000m 3rd 13:01.03

2010 Heusden 5000m 1st 12:59.72

4. Dereje Debele ETH/1986 2:07:48 Adidas

Mumbai Marathon will already be the 14th marathon of Debele and he finished 9 times top 4. His only win was the 2013 Dusseldorf Marathon where he set a personal best. This year’s Mumbai Marathon won’t be his Mumbai debut as he finished here 8th in 2011.

2014 Lisbon Marathon 4th 2:15:08

2014 Xiamen Marathon 3rd 2:09:32

2013 Hengshui Marathon 4th 2:11:01

2013 Dusseldorf Marathon 1st 2:07:48

2012 Chongqing Marathon 3rd 2:10:41

2011 Mumbai Marathon 8th 2:12:44

2009 Vienna Marathon 2nd 2:09:08

5. Felix Kiprotich KEN/1988 2:08:05

Felix has only run three international marathons but has a lot of confidence after his win in Rennes last October and will definitely try to be on top in Mumbai.

2014 Rennes Marathon 1st 2:08:05

2014 Vienna Marathon 9th 2:14:18

2013 Rennes Marathon 2nd 2:09:43

2012 Nairobi Marathon 9th 2:12:03

6. Luke Kibet KEN/1983 2:08:52

Luke Kibet is one of the most experienced athletes in the field. He already started running marathons back in 2004. He hopes his experience will give him some advantage over the younger athletes in Mumbai. His career already brought him podium places in big city marathons as Eindhoven, Vienna, Enschede, Singapore, Frankfurt and Zagreb. But clearly, the most impressive victory of his career was

winning the 2007 World Championships Marathon in Osaka.

2014 Zagreb Marathon 1st 2:14:11

2013 Singapore Marathon 4th 2:17:14

2012 Singapore Marathon 2nd 2:17:26

2009 Singapore Marathon 1st 2:11:25

2008 Singapore Marathon 1st 2:13:01

2007 World Championships Marathon 1st 2:15:59


2006 Eindhoven Marathon 3rd 2:10:06


2004 Enschede Marathon 2nd 2:11:13

2004 Lisbon Half Marathon 6th 60:00

7. Shume Hailu ETH/1987 2:09:06 Nike

Shume Hailu is a very consistent Marathoner who has wins in Nice, France and Rome, Italy. He is a very good racer who takes a tactical approach to his racing that allows him to control a field. He is not the fastest Marathoner in the world but he has the ability to adapt to his surrounding and race conditions and just win. He runs very well in many different types of weather conditions as well.

2014 Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes 1st 2:09:27

2014 Rome Marathon 1st 2:09:47


2011 Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes 2nd 2:09:06

2010 Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes 3rd 2:12:24

2009 Kosice Peace Marathon 2nd 2:11:36

8. Michael Chege KEN/1991 2:09:12

Michael Chege is an upcoming athlete from Kenya who has only run three marathons so far. He hopes to come closes to his personal best of 2:09:12 again which he ran back in 2011.

2014 Santiago de Chile 4th 2:15:21

2013 Shanghai Marathon 6th 2:09:56

2011 Ljubljana Marathon 3rd 2:09:12

9. Benard Rotich KEN/1986 2:10:18

Benard used to be a track athlete but changed to road racing in 2010. Since then he has run 10 marathons. He will run the Mumbai marathon for the second time after finishing 10th in 2011.

2013 Brighton Marathon 2nd 2:10:51



2011 Great Scottish Run Half Marathon 2nd 61:28

2008 Utrecht 10km 3rd 28:05

2008 Kenya Prisons Championships 1st 27:09.80

10. Peter Kosgei KEN/1987 2:12:24 Nike

Peter Kosgei is a newcomer in international road racing. So far he only ran races in Kenya and took podium places in Eldoret and Nairobi marathon which is a great achievement considering the high altitude and the very competitive field in these races.

2014 Nairobi Standard Chartered Marathon 1st 2:12:24

2012 Eldoret Kass Marathon 2nd 2:18:47

2011 Eldoret Kass Marathon 3rd 2:16:57

11. Silas Kipruto KEN/1984 debut Adidas

Silas Kipruto will make his marathon debut in Mumbai and is an experienced half marathoner. He finished on the podium for seven times in the past four years and is now ready to take up the longer distance. After some years on the track, Silas moved to the road in 2010. His half marathon personal best of 59:39 promises a lot for his marathon debut!

2014 Half Marathon Marrakech 1st 61:26

2014 Jakarta 10km 1st 28:52

2014 Lisbon Half Marathon 2nd 60:17

2013 Berlin Half Marathon 2nd 60:12

2012 Delhi Half Marathon 3rd 61:57

2010 Milan Stramilano Half Marathon 2nd 59:39

2010 Delhi Half Marathon 4th 60:21

12. Tesfaye Abera ETH/1992 debut Nike

Tesfaye Abera is a promising athlete from Ethiopia who will make his marathon debut in Mumbai. His last race in preparation for Mumbai was a 15km race in the Netherlands where Tesfaye finished only 13 seconds behind 2:05 marathoner Abera Kuma.

2014 Seven hills race 15km 4th 42:31

2014 Langeux 10km 4th 28:24

2013 Rabat Half Marathon 4th 61:06

2013 Buenos Aires Half Marathon 3rd 62:54

2013 Nice Half Marathon 3rd 60:32

13. Bernard Kihanya KEN/1994 debut Nike

14. Abdenasir Fathi MOR/1987 debut

Abdenasir Fathi is a debut Marathoner from Morocco; who boasts a track resume that would assume he is going to be a very good marathoner coming. He has been training now to adapt to the longer distances and road racing and coming along very nicely to make a solid debut in Mumbai.

2014 Casablanca 10km 19th 29:39

2014 National Championships 10.000m 4th 29:07.19

2013 Marrakesh 10km 9th 28:40

2013 Paris 20km 12th 59:37

2012 Rabat 5000m 8th 13:12.15

2012 Fes 3000m 3rd 7:56.91

2011 Rabat 10.000m 3rd 28:33.34

WOMEN ELITE ATHLETES MUMBAI MARATHON 2015

F1. Dinknesh Mekash ETH/1985 2:25:09 Nike

Dinknesh, which means “wondrous one” in Amharic, grew up in the town of Bekoji, the renowned “Town of Runners”. As a young athlete she was brought to Addis Ababa by the organization ‘Running Across Borders’ and given coaching, accommodation and support to pursue a running career. She was the first to be part of the program and a classic example of what they are trying to do in East Africa: use sport to help youth achieve success in life. In 2010, Mekash traveled outside of her country for the first time, flying to Scotland to participate in the Loch Ness Marathon. She won in 2:46:39. She was surprised by seeing radiators used for heating the home. The arrival of the mail each day also caught her attention. She was inspired by her niece Elfenesh Alemu (4th in 2004 Olympic marathon, 2003 Tokyo winner) in the beginning of her running career.

After a second place in Mumbai in 2013 and a win in 2014, she hopes to defend her title successfully!

2014 Hengshui Marathon 3rd

2014 Hamburg Marathon 2nd 2:27:29

2014 Mumbai Marathon 1st 2:28:08

2013 Paris Marathon 4th 2:25:09


2012 Hamburg Marathon 6th 2:29:56


2011 Riga Nordea Marathon 2nd 2:38:04

2010 Loch Ness Marathon 1st 2:46:39

F2. Marta Megra ETH/1990 2:28:02 Adidas

Marta Megra will return to the streets of Mumbai after making her debut here in 2013. She has run five marathons since her debut and seems ready to better her result of 2013. This year she aims for a podium spot in Mumbai.

2014 Vienna Marathon 3rd 2:31:10

2014 Osaka Marathon 5th 2:28:06

2013 Kosice Peace Marathon 2nd 2:28:02

2013 Hannover Marathon 3rd 2:31:05


F3. Gladys Kipsoi KEN/1986 2:29:53 Adidas

Gladys Kipsoi will return to Mumbai after taking the second place last year. She became second in all three marathon she ran in 2014 and is hoping to start 2015 with a first place in Mumbai!

Gladys has run many races in France as her husband Duncan Kiptanui is based in France.

2014 Toulouse Marathon 2nd 2:33:00

2014 Lodz Marathon 2nd 2:34:20


2013 Paris Half Marathon 1st 69:11

2013 Rabat Half Marathon 2nd 70:23

2013 Strasbourgh Half Marathon 1st 72:38

2013 Nancy Half Marathon 1st 71:14

2013 Reims Half Marathon 1st 71:45

F4. Radiya Adilo ETH/1989 2:29:00 Nike

Radiya Adilo is one of the most consistent female marathoners over the last 3 years. Radiya has performed well is a very wide range of races but short and long distances and she runs very well in all different types of weather; making her a good fit for the Mumbai climate. She is the younger sister of Coach Haji Adillo of Ethiopia.

2014 Warsaw Marathon 4th 2:33:59

2013 Taiyuan Marathon 2nd 2:31:50

2012 Toronto Marathon 3rd 2:30:49

2012 Chongqing Marathon 7th 2:29:00

2012 Dalian Marathon 2nd 2:33:10

2011 Ottawa Marathon 3rd 2:36:59

2010 Ottawa Marathon 2nd 2:35:05

F5. Halima Hussen ETH/1983 2:33:26

Halima is young athlete with only 2 marathon that she run. Her first marathon in Venice in 2013 went ok when she finished second with 2:38, and she decided that with every race she will cut her time and get a new PB, so at her second marathon in Valencia last November she finished fourth with 2:33. Now preparing well for Mumbai Marathon 2015, Halima is focused on new PB and a podium finish.

2014 Valencia Marathon 4th 2:33:26

2013 Venice Marathon 2nd 2:38:49

F6. Yenealem Ayano ETH/1986 2:34:10

One of the more experienced athletes in this year’s women race is Yenealem Ayano. She already started competing internationally in 2003 and made the Ethiopian Junior team for the World Cross Country Championships in 2004. After competing in international road races for a few years, Yenealem made her marathon debut in 2006. She left athletics for a few years and returned to international competitions in 2010 and set a new personal best of 2:34 in Barcelona.

2014 Munster Marathon 1st 2:40:42

2012 Kinmen Marathon 2nd 2:49:13

2010 Barcelona Marathon 4th 2:34:10

2006 Wurzburg 10km 1st 31:30

2005 Great Ethiopian Run 3rd 33:14

2004 World Cross Country Championships Junior 7th

F7. Zeytuna Arba ETH/1983 2:35:05

Zeytuna’s last race was Buenos Aires Marathon where she placed second, while her previous marathons were marked with wins in Brescia Marathon 2014, Lago Maggiore Marathon 2013 and Reims Marathon 2012. She trains together with Halima Hussen in Addis Ababa under coach Erpassa and coach Getamesay.

2014 Brescia Marathon 1st 2:35:05

2014 Buenos Aires Marathon 2nd 2:39:18

2013 Lago Maggiore Marathon 1st 2:37:17


2012 Reims Marathon 1st 2:38:45

F8. Monica Wangari KEN/1986 2:42:56

She ran her personal best under very warm conditions in Milan where she placed second. Her half marathon personal best of 70:33 looks promising and she will definitely try to break her personal best in Mumbai. This race will only be her second marathon. Monica was on maternity leave in 2012 and 2013 but is back in racing since last year.

She took podium places in her last two races in Kenya, winning the Imenti 15km and placing third in the Samusua Half Marathon.

2014 Samusua Half Marathon 3rd 73:43

2014 Imenti 15km 1st 58:04

2011 Milan Marathon 2nd 2:42:56

2011 Rome-Ostia Half Marathon 3rd 71:37

2010 Prague Half Marathon 3rd 70:33

F9. Kumeshi Sichala ETH/1995 debut Adidas

Kumeshi Sichala is a newcomer in marathon running as she will make her debut in Mumbai. She is only 19 years old but already ran a few strong half marathons.

2014 Karlovy Vary Half Marathon 2nd 1:10:56

2014 Stramilano Half Marathon 3rd 1:12:06

2013 Trento Half Marathon 1st 1:15:06

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