
| Race Detail |
| Metro Group Rhein-Marathon Dusseldorf Germany Dusseldorf Marathon May info@metrogroup-marathon.de http://www.rhein-marathon.de "Iaroslav Musinschi breaks course record and establishes European lead in Duesseldorf Iaroslav Musinschi took the 8th edition of the METRO Group Duesseldorf Marathon with a great course record of 2:08:32. The 33 year-old Moldavian also established a European season’s lead. Additionally he is the first European marathon runner this year to clock a sub 2:10 time. Russia’s Natalya Volgina won the women’s race with 2:30:47. Adding all running events a record number of 13,000 athletes had entered the METRO Group Duesseldorf Marathon. Among them were 4,200 marathon runners.In the men’s race Iaroslav Musinschi ran his own pace right from the start. Guided by a pacemaker he reached the half way mark in 64:04 minutes and then almost kept his pace. Musinschi was more than three and a half minutes ahead of Andrej Toptun (Ukraine/2:12:08) and Pawel Ochal (Poland/2:13:23). Germany’s Falk Cierpinski came in fourth with 2:17:18." |
