Paris Marathon: 5 April 2009
All runners
# | Pos | Name | Time | Cat | Club | Graded | Pace |
1 | 1 | Ian Sharman | 2:38:02 | SM | Serpentine | 79.0% | 6:02 |
2 | 2 | Paul Woodmansey | 2:52:06 | SM | Serpentine | 72.6% | 6:34 |
3 | 3 | Abdulrashid Abdi | 2:59:58 | V40 | Serpentine | 71.7% | 6:52 |
4 | 4 | Steve Davies | 3:00:58 | V35 | Serpentine | 70.1% | 6:54 |
5 | 5 | Richard Fanning | 3:02:34 | V35 | Serpentine | 69.5% | 6:58 |
6 | 6 | Ian Parry | 3:07:23 | SM | Unattached | 66.7% | 7:09 |
7 | 7 | Sam Phelps | 3:07:24 | SM | Serpentine | 66.7% | 7:09 |
8 | 8 | Joe Thompson | 3:11:37 | SM | Unattached | 65.2% | 7:18 |
9 | 9 | Sarah Edmunds | 3:12:09 | SL | Serpentine | 70.9% | 7:20 |
10 | 10 | Jonathan Hoo | 3:12:37 | SM | Serpentine | 64.9% | 7:21 |
11 | 11 | Alexander Percival | 3:12:39 | V35 | Serpentine | 65.4% | 7:21 |
12 | 12 | Fredrik Bjurenvall | 3:15:25 | V35 | Serpentine | 64.5% | 7:27 |
13 | 13 | Jonathan Moscrop | 3:18:58 | V35 | London Frontrunners | 62.8% | 7:35 |
14 | 14 | Stephane Schneider | 3:22:45 | SM | Serpentine | 61.6% | 7:44 |
15 | 15 | Angus Hodgson | 3:22:49 | V35 | Serpentine | 61.7% | 7:44 |
16 | 16 | Martin Leat | 3:26:30 | V45 | Serpentine | 66.9% | 7:52 |
17 | 17 | Gary Joyce | 3:26:48 | SM | Serpentine | 60.4% | 7:53 |
18 | 18 | Scott Paul Johnston | 3:35:42 | SM | Serpentine | 57.9% | 8:14 |
19 | 19 | Matthew Bragg | 3:42:27 | SM | Serpentine | 56.2% | 8:29 |
20 | 20 | Ann-Louise Mulhall | 3:42:27 | SL | Serpentine | 60.9% | 8:29 |
21 | 21 | Jane Harris | 3:46:03 | FV40 | Serpentine | 64.2% | 8:37 |
22 | 22 | Phil Kelvin | 3:48:46 | FV55 | Serpentine | 76.8% | 8:43 |
23 | 23 | Raoul Mansukhani | 3:51:43 | V35 | Serpentine | 54.4% | 8:50 |
24 | 24 | Sharon Lindores | 3:53:49 | FV40 | Serpentine | 61.4% | 8:55 |
25 | 25 | Graham Simister | 3:53:53 | V50 | Serpentine | 60.7% | 8:55 |
26 | 26 | Antoine Jacquier | 3:54:14 | SM | Serpentine | 53.3% | 8:56 |
27 | 27 | James Stephenson | 3:55:10 | SM | Serpentine | 53.1% | 8:58 |
28 | 28 | Riette Oosthuizen | 3:56:53 | FV35 | Serpentine | 58.3% | 9:02 |
29 | 29 | Matthew Chiles | 3:59:02 | V35 | Serpentine | 53.1% | 9:07 |
30 | 30 | George Allan | 3:59:42 | V55 | Serpentine | 61.5% | 9:08 |
31 | 31 | Mark Kell | 4:03:20 | SM | Serpentine | 51.3% | 9:17 |
32 | 32 | Graham Carson | 4:06:29 | V60 | Serpentine | 63.4% | 9:24 |
33 | 33 | Angus Searcy | 4:07:26 | V40 | Serpentine | 53.0% | 9:26 |
34 | 34 | Susan Kennedy | 4:07:27 | FV45 | Serpentine | 63.0% | 9:26 |
35 | 35 | Hans Ho | 4:25:57 | SM | Serpentine | 47.0% | 10:08 |
36 | 36 | Derinola Hall-Thompson | 4:33:35 | SL | Serpentine | 49.5% | 10:26 |
37 | 37 | Roberto Ramos | 4:52:56 | V50 | Serpentine | 48.0% | 11:10 |
38 | 38 | Helena Engstrand | 5:18:36 | FV35 | Serpentine | 43.6% | 12:09 |
Report
Paris was looking its best for the 2009 marathon, and running conditions were ideal – a pleasant max of 18C, without being hot or too sunny.
Paris puts itself out for its marathon. Unlike all but the last bit of London’s marathon, the route is a fabulous tour of many of the grand boulevards, and 10k in the wooded Bois de Vincennes. Bands and dance troupes of every musical persuasion are laid on, though it has to be said the tone is much more serious than London and the support rather patchy until the closing stages.
At least 29 Serpies took part this year. Fortunes were as usual mixed, ranging downwards from Ian Sharman’s storming 2:38:02 which gained him 112th place overall, a whole 20 minutes off his previous time in Paris.
There were also great first-ever marathons from Abdulrashid Abdi (2:59:58) and Stephane Schneider (3:22:45) both of whom pronounced themselves very happy with their results.
Our traditional eve-of-run pasta restaurant, Bel Canto, had morphed into an upmarket Moroccan place and nine of us rapidly took refuge in a nearby Italian place called Ristorante D’Ugo in the nearby Rue Heliopolis.
Beata Vogt and Ron Hagel supported us and put on a very welcome impromptu picnic in the finish area and Keith Evans also came to give support at the Bastille. Our thanks to them all.
All Paris’s marathon traditions were on full display, including the bands, the chaotic bag-deposit arrangements and the purveyors of Beaujolais, Calvados etc in the final 2km. There were a couple of serious bottlenecks round the course (notably at Bastille) which we must hope the organisers will address for next year. I would urge all Serpies who took part to fill in the feedback form on the organisers’ web site.
George Allan
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