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Lead Stories: Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Exciting Sprint Finishes Highlight RAK Half

Posted February 8th, 2008 at 11:00 AM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

No half-marathon in the world pays more prize money than the Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, and it looks like race organizers got their money’s worth with today’s edition.

The road race, in only its second year, wrapped up this morning with thrilling sprint finishes on both the men’s and women’s sides. When all the dust had settled, Kenyans Patrick Makau and Salina Kosgei were declared the winners, and will take home USD 25,000 (tax free!).

Makau, a lanky and boyish athlete at age 22, continued to be impressive over his signature distance of 21,097 meters, dipping under the one-hour mark for the fifth time in his still-budding career.
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Marathon in Dubai to Offer $1MM Prize Money Purse

Posted April 18th, 2007 at 1:11 PM by David Monti

Section: News & Results, Marathons

The Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon announced last week that the next edition of their event, scheduled for Friday, January 18, 2008, would offer a $1,000,000 prize money purse plus an additional $1,000,000 world record bonus. Both the male and female winners will receive $250,000, the largest guaranteed prize money payments in marathon running.

The money will come from directly from Dubai’s ruler, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, whose official title is “Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai.”

The race, which had its 8th edition this year, implemented a new course for 2007. William Rotich of Kenya (2:09:53) and Magarsa Askale Tafa of Ethiopia (2:27:19) own the current course records, well north of the current men’s and women’s world records of 2:04:55 and 2:15:25 set by Paul Tergat and Paula Radcliffe, respectively, in Berlin and London in 2003.
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