Excitement for the Champions

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With a surprising and also untouchable winner the World Mountain Running Long Distance Challenge ended yesterday in Sö,ll. Marc Lauenstein (Swiss) won the Kaisermarathon with almost 6 minutes advance before all-time-Kaisermarathon-favorite Jonathan Wyatt, who did a real great finish. The third place went to Ricky Lightfoot from England. Only a few seconds away from the medal winners there was Raymond Kemboi Chemungo from Kenia, but his team was able to win the team-ranking.

The ladies-ranking the last-year-winner Anna Pichrtova (Czech) again dominated. In a fantastic time of 3.28.57 she finished the Kaisermarathon, and so she was only 23 minutes away from the new Champion.

" "For Austria it is great to have with Christian Brü,ndlinger an athlete who finished with a top ten-result, especially because of the international starting list including more than 22 nations.

A lot of running-fans, walkers and visitors had an exciting race to the top of the Hohe Salve, even the weather was against all prognoses good.

The Tour de Tirol ends on Sunday with the Kaiserwinkl Halbmarathon. Also this race seems to become exciting until the last seconds. Jonathan Wyatt, who won the races of the last years, leads the Tour de Tirol-ranking only with one minute advantage.

Annette Wö,rgö,tter for IAAF

Results &ndash, individual:

,	WOMEN	,	,	,
1	Pichrtova Anna	73	CZE	3:28:57
2	Danilova Evgeny	81	RUS	3:29:23
3	Frost Anna	81	NZL	3:33:20
4	Rukhlyada Elena	86	RUS	3:38:19
5	Bateup Angela	69	AUS	3:48:35
6	Pankovskaya Irina	86	RUS	3:48:55
7	Haverd Vanessa	77	AUS	3:49:27
,	MEN	,	,	,
1	Lauenstein Marc	80	SUI	3:06:20
2	Wyatt Jonathan	72	NZL	3:12:05
3	Lightfoot Ricky	85	GBR	3:14:05
4	Chemungor Kemboi	86	KEN	3:14:51
5	Sturm Marco	77	GER	3:18:23
6	Bett Daniel	82	KEN	3:19:02
7	Yegon R.Kipkemoi	85	KEN	3:21:11

Results &ndash, team:

,	WOMEN	,
1	RUS	10:56:37
2	AUS	11:28:11
3	GER	12:03:20
4	SCO	12:14:25
5	AUT	13:03:28
,	MEN	,
1	KEN	9:55:05
2	ENG	9:58:16
3	SCO	10:13:58
4	GER	10:20:22
5	AUT	11:13:53

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