Kenya's Jackson Limo Wins 13th BDL International Beirut Marathon
Kenyan runner Jackson Limo won on Sunday the 13th edition of the Banque du Liban International Beirut Marathon.
He broke last year's record, clocking in at 2:11:05.
Morocco's Kaltoum Bousayriya meanwhile won the women's 42 km race, with a time of 2:36:05.
Edward Maalouf won the special needs race crossing it in 1:18:24 and Britain's Elizabeth Anne Mac Terman won the women's special needs 42 km race at 1:38:57.
The marathon got underway on Sunday with participants from 85 countries.
The race kicked off in the early morning hours with over 37,000 runners.
The marathon consists of the main 42 km race, women's race, youth race, and half race.
World record marathon holder Paula Radcliffe is serving as Beirut marathon's ambassador.
She holds the record time of 2:15:25, which she set at the 2003 London Marathon.
The British runner's prolific career has seen her win the London and New York marathons three times each and the Chicago marathon once.
The 41-year-old retired earlier this year.
Ethiopian athlete Fikadu Girma was the winner of the 2014 BDL Beirut International Marathon.
08 November 2015, 09:08
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Sadly they chose remembrance Sunday ,will the race stop at midday for 2 minutes silence
08 November 2015, 14:03
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pretending to be in a well developed city like paris new York or London by holding a marathon... what a joke.
08 November 2015, 18:30
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bravo djumblar! i knew M8ers like you are satisfied to live among garbage, with a pityful infrastructure, pollution, low salaries ... and call Lebanon developed country and hold a marathon like in western countries to try to make look they are developed too!! but then again you are accustomed to lies arent you? LOL
08 November 2015, 14:41
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You are obviously an uneducated idiot. Where a Marathon is held has nothing to be with holding it in a developed city or other. Every major city holds a marathon. Try Mumbai or other city. You are obviously a hate mongol. Have you ever run a marathon other than your mouth in ur life?
08 November 2015, 21:11
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To run so longly in the overpolluted Beirut needs courage and a very good fitness ! I usually run 30km every week in France but last summer in Beirut I felt I am gonna die from the dirty air: went back home after 10 minutes of running between juwar and agressive taxi drivers
08 November 2015, 23:14
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@1anonymetexasusa, can you please post something positive about the event? After all, you do support it, don't you?
08 November 2015, 23:18
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Personally, I was a great distraction to the problem known as "Lebanon". Excuse the pun, but everyone was putting their best foot forward showing what we could achieve because we worked together. In the smallest of windows, we saw what Lebanese cooperation looked like. Personally, it was refreshing. I wish we had more events like this so we can continue to show the rest of Lebanon what is possible.
