{"id":875,"date":"2017-04-22T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/?p=875"},"modified":"2017-04-23T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T08:17:30","slug":"olivera-jevtic-wins-belgrade-marathon-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/news\/olivera-jevtic-wins-belgrade-marathon-2017","title":{"rendered":"Olivera Jevtic wins Belgrade Marathon 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Olivera<\/a><\/p>\n

Belgrade, Saturday, April 22 – In the first event of a big marathon weekend in Europe<\/a> \u2013 with London, Vienna and Hamburg tomorrow \u2013 Saturday morning\u2019s Belgrade Marathon celebrated its 30th anniversary with a third victory by local hero Olivera Jevti\u0107. <\/p>\n

Stephen Kipngetich wins Belgrade Marathon 2017<\/h3>\n

The men\u2019s race was won by Stephen Kipngetich Katam of Kenya<\/a>, in 2.21.12. Kipngetich, whose debut win came in Tel Aviv 2016, went into the lead after six kilometres, and eventually won by nine minutes, from Darko Zivanovi\u0107 of Serbia, 2.30.15, with Kennedy Kipruto Mayo of Kenya in third, in 2.33.40.<\/p>\n

Olivera Jevti\u0107 wins 3rd Belgrade Marathon title<\/strong><\/p>\n

The five-time Olympian, now in her 40th year won in 2.38.03.<\/p>\n

On a cool, sunny morning with the temperature at 8C, Jevti\u0107 whose career highlights include a European silver in 2006 and a third place in Boston 2004 took over the lead at halfway from colleague, Teodora Simovi\u0107, and eventually won by close to four minutes. Nevertheless, marathon debutante, Simovi\u0107 finished second in a creditable 2.41.47, with another Serb, Nata\u0161a Culafi\u0107 third in 3.02.41.<\/p>\n

Jevti\u0107 said, \u201cThough this is my third win in Belgrade, this was the best. I expected to run a bit faster, maybe we started too quickly and into a tough headwind. I\u2019m pleased with that\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoyed the race, and I liked the course,\u201d said men\u2019s winner Kipngetich. The support along the course was great, and I\u2019d like to come back again\u201d.<\/p>\n

With the other \u2018Legends\u2019 ie former race promoters – Mike Powell, Javier Sotomajor, Lasse Viren, Rosa Mota, Galina Chistyakova, Kevin Young and Stefano Baldini present, Bob Beamon said how much they been impressed by the enthusiasm of the youngsters to whom they gave coaching seminars, and to the crowds which lined the tough Belgrade course.<\/p>\n

BELGRADE MARATHON 2017 RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

MEN<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stephen KIPNGETICH KATAM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 KEN\u00a0\u00a0 2.21.12
\n2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Darko ZIVANOVIC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SRB\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.3015
\n3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kennedy KIPRUTO MAYO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 KEN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.33.40<\/p>\n

WOMEN<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Olivera JEVTIC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SRB\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.38.03
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\n3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nata\u0161a CULAFIC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SRB\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.02.41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belgrade, Saturday, April 22 – In the first event of a big marathon weekend in Europe \u2013 with London, Vienna and Hamburg tomorrow \u2013 Saturday morning\u2019s Belgrade Marathon celebrated its 30th anniversary with a third victory by local hero Olivera Jevti\u0107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"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":[5,78,47,1,328],"tags":[425,520,521,492,522],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-kenya","category-marathon","category-news","category-serbia","tag-425","tag-belgrade-marathon","tag-olivera-jevtic","tag-serbia","tag-stephen-kipngetich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}