{"id":517,"date":"2013-10-16T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:38:08","slug":"quality-field-for-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/news\/quality-field-for-frankfurt","title":{"rendered":"Quality Field for Frankfurt Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Frankfurt<\/a>

Frankfurt Marathon<\/p><\/div>\n

When it comes to the depth of the elite fields the BMW Frankfurt Marathon is Germany\u2019s number one road race. Once again there are amazingly deep quality fields for the event on 27th October. Organisers confirmed that 21 men are on the start list who have run under 2:10 and five of them even have personal bests inside 2:05:30. The women\u2019s field will see ten athletes who have run faster than 2:30 with eight of them featuring PBs of sub 2:25.<\/p>\n

The BMW Frankfurt Marathon is an IAAF Gold Label Road Race. Around 15,000 runners are expected to compete in the 32nd edition of Germany\u2019s oldest city marathon. Race entry is still available online at: www.bmw-frankfurt-marathon.com<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the World Championships this summer we were able to put together a very good field,\u201d said Race Director Jo Schindler. The extraordinary quality of the fields arouses strong expectations. A fast race is likely if weather conditions are better than last year, when temperatures were just above freezing in the morning. It will still be a tough task to break the course record, which stands at 2:03:42, requiring more or less world record pace to be put under pressure. The fastest runners in the field were announced earlier in the month: Dino Sefir (2:04:50), Feyisa Lilesa (both Ethiopia\/2:04:52), Vincent Kiprutu (2:05:13), Levy Matebo Omari (2:05:16) and Albert Matebor (all Kenya\/2:05:25) are those with PBs of sub 2:05:30. Eric Ndiema (2:06:07) is also regarded as one of the big favourites, but Moses Masai (both Kenya\/2:11:00) could produce a surprise.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s field sees two major additions, apart from those already announced. Tirfi Tsegaye (Ethiopia) returns to Germany a year after her second place in the Berlin Marathon with a PB of 2:21:19. In the meantime she has won the Dubai Marathon and placed fifth in Boston. As last year there is a promising debutant from Ethiopia: Gelete Burka will run her first marathon in Frankfurt on 27th October. The 27 year-old has won major medals in the 1,500 m and cross country. She\u2019s also demonstrated her all round talent on the roads in the past two years, running a world class 30:53 at 10 k in Madrid\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve race in 2012. Burka has not run further than 15 k in competition but this might not turn out to be a disadvantage since the same applied to another Ethiopian, Meselech Melkamu, 12 months ago. The Ethiopian made a great debut, winning the BMW Frankfurt Marathon 2012 with a course record of 2:21:01. Melkamu will return to Frankfurt and has no need to be reminded of Burka\u2019s achievements. This potent mix could set up an attack on the course record and possible sub 2:20 performances for the leading women in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

photo credit: PhotoRun.net<\/em><\/p>\n

Elite Fields for the BMW Frankfurt Marathon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men:<\/p>\n

Dino Sefir ETH 2:04:50
\nFeyisa Lilesa ETH 2:04:52
\nVincent Kipruto KEN 2:05:13
\nLevy Matebo Omari KEN 2:05:16
\nAlbert Matebor KEN 2:05:25
\nEric Ndiema KEN 2:06:07
\nGilbert Kirwa KEN 2:06:14
\nFeyisa Bekele ETH 2:06:26
\nBenjamin Maiyo KEN 2:07:09
\nDmytri Baranovskiy UKR 2:07:15
\nAssefa Girma ETH 2:07:43
\nTadesse Abraham\u00a0 SUI 2:07:45
\nElijah Kemboi KEN 2:07:51
\nGidena Mirach Gebremedhin ETH 2:08:28
\nDereje Raya Tadesse ETH 2:08:46
\nRobert Kwambai KEN 2:09:14
\nUrige Arado Buta NOR 2:09:27
\nJacob Chesari KEN 2:09:43
\nMeftah Abdellatif FRA\u00a0 2:09:46
\nLema Feiysa ETH 2:09:47
\nJonathan Kiptoo KEN 2:09:57
\nJohnstone Maiyo KEN 2:10:03
\nG\u00fcnther Weidlinger AUT 2:10:47
\nMoses Masai KEN 2:11:00
\nEdwin Kipyego KEN Debut
\nRichard Sigei KEN Debut
\nAbraham Chebii KEN Debut<\/p>\n

Women:<\/p>\n

Meselech Melkamu ETH 2:21:01
\nTirfi Tsegaye ETH 2:21:19
\nEunice Jepkirui KEN 2:21:41
\nMamitu Daska ETH 2:21:59
\nCaroline Kilel KEN 2:22:36
\nBirhane Dibaba ETH 2:23:51
\nFlomena Chepchirchir KEN 2:24:21
\nHilda Kibet NED 2:24:27
\nYeshi Esayias ETH 2:25:31
\nHayley Haining GBR 2:29:18
\nAnna Hahner GER 2:30:14
\nMaja Neuenschwander SUI 2:30:50
\nLisa Hahner GER 2:31:28
\nAgnieszka Ciolek-Mierzejewska POL 2:33:36
\nCatherine Bertone ITA 2:34:54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the depth of the elite fields the BMW Frankfurt Marathon is Germany\u2019s number one road race. Once again there are amazingly deep quality fields for the event on 27th October. Organisers confirmed that 21 men are on the start list who have run under 2:10 and five of them even have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,53,47,1,75],"tags":[405,407,406,475,474,477],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-germany","category-marathon","category-news","category-pre-event","tag-bmw","tag-elite-field","tag-frankfurt","tag-germany","tag-marathon","tag-pre-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}