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Berlin half marathon champion; Arusei, chases course record

Peninah Arusei will go for a unique double on 4th May: Never before has a woman won both the big Berlin spring races in the same year.

Peninah Arusei will go for a unique double on 4th May: Never before has a woman won both the big Berlin spring races in the same year. Last Sunday the 29 year-old Kenyan took the Berlin half marathon in fast 68:22 minutes. After that Peninah Arusei decided to go for the BERLIN RUNS ... 25 k on 4th May. Organisers announced that meanwhile close to 5,000 runners have entered the traditional event, which will be started in front of the Olympic Stadium. The finish will be inside the arena on the famous blue track, which will see the World Championships in athletics in 2009.

Peninah Arusei has already won the Berlin 25 k race two years ago. Additionally she had placed third in 2005 and was second a year go. Her personal best stands at 1:26:17 from Berlin 2007. But her current form suggests that she should be able to clearly improve. â€œMay be she is the one who finally manages to break the course record which is now already nine years old,â€ said Christoph Kopp, the Elite Race Director of the race. Back in 1999 world-class marathon runners Susan Chepkemei (Kenya) had clocked 1:24:29 in Berlin.

Berlinâ€™s 25 k race has a unique background. It had been founded by the French forces in West-Berlin back in 1981. At that time it was Germanyâ€™s first major city race. And it used to be the biggest German road race again and again until 1990. The 25 k race had well over 10,000 runners at that time. The course leads runners past a number of Berlinâ€™s most famous landmarks like the Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, FriedrichstraÃŸe, Potsdamer Square and KurfÃ¼rstendamm. The course is a fast one as well. Kenyan Paul Kosgei ran the current world record of 1:12:45 in Berlin in 2004.

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