ZHOU Chunxiu suffered another setback in the Flora London Marathon 2009 (Running)

ZHOU Chunxiu suffered another setback in the Flora London Marathon 2009

Peter | 26th Apr 2009, 7:04 PM | running | (62 Reads)

It is still a mystery she couldn't even make it to the top 10. Was she injured ? She was spent?

A time of 2:29:02 at position 12th was way too slow from her PR.

Name	CHUNXIU, ZHOU (CHN)	Club
Runner No.	103	Age group	W18

TIMES
5 km	0:16:34	25 km	1:24:10
10 km	0:33:14	30 km	1:41:57
15 km	0:50:03	35 km	2:00:46
20 km	1:07:09	40 km	2:20:00
half	1:10:54	finish	2:29:02

TOTAL
Position (overall)	12	Position (age group)	11
Position (gender)	12	Finish time	2:29:02

Looking forward to her redemption real soon.

I wonder what has happened to the Beijing Olympic champion Constantina Tomescu too? At the age of 38 should she stop competing altogether?

The winner certainly is the hot German favourite Irina Mikitenko who successfully defended her title. The first runner up is Mara Yamauchi , a British diplomat married to a Japanese. This is her personal best making her triumphantly standing first time ever on the podium of this particular World Marathon Major race.

position	pl.age	no.	name	age	club	time
1	1	101	» MIKITENKO, IRINA (GER)	W18		2:22:11
2	2	111	» YAMAUCHI, MARA (GBR)	W18		2:23:12
3	3	118	» SHOBUKOVA, LILIYA (RUS)	W18		2:24:24
4	4	107	» ZAKHAROVA, SVETLANA (RUS)	W18		2:25:06
5	5	104	» ADERE, BERHANE (ETH)	W18		2:25:30
6	6	116	» ABITOVA, INGA (RUS)	W18		2:25:55
7	7	102	» NDEREBA, CATHERINE (KEN)	W18		2:26:22
8	8	110	» MORIMOTO, TOMO (JPN)	W18		2:26:29
9	9	108	» WAMI, GETE (ETH)	W18		2:26:54
10	1	105	» PETROVA, LYUDMILA (RUS) Please see Yamauchi Mara in action in the 2008 Tokyo International Women Marathon. I love her arm swing. BTW Yuri Kano(1st runner up here) is at 11th with 2:28:44. It's a huge tactical error for Japan not to field Yoshimi Ozaki (winner here). She has superb legwork.	W40		2:27:42