FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kenyan Koech claims victory at Belfast City Marathon
On May Day Monday 7th May 2018, close to 17,000 participants took part in
the 37th Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon. Including the Marathon Run
and Wheelchair Race, Marathon Team Relay, 8 Mile Walk and Fun Run.
The event is delighted to see a big surge in the number of marathon entries
this year with around 3,000 taking on 26.2 miles of Belfast. 2018 has also
seen an increase of Team Relay participants, with around 2,200 "five
person" relay teams signed up this year.
This was a great day for the Kenyan's with Eric Koech winning the 37th Deep
RiverRock Belfast City Marathon in a time of 2.18.20. Followed by Danu
Tanui in second place for the consecutive year, achieving a time of
2.20.20. Favourite for this year hoping for a 4th victory at the Belfast
City Marathon was Joel Kipsang Kositany in 2.23.41.
For the ladies, Laura Graham was hopeful for a second win this year after
her triumph in 2017 but was missed out by a matter of minutes with Kenyan
Caroline Jepchirchir coming in first at 2.41.17. Kilkeel athlete Laura
arrived in second place in 2.43.34 and our third place went to Christina
Bogomiakora in 2.46.43.
For the Marathon Wheelchair Race, Paul Hannon claimed victory in a time of
2.07.23 and Karol Doherty finished in second place in 2.46.34.
The Top 100 marathon finishers are represented here now. A full list of
the results from today will be available on the Belfast Live website this
evening at wwww.belfastlive.co.uk and on the Belfast City Marathon website
at www.belfastcitymarathon.com on Tuesday 8th May.
For further updates, follow the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon on
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon is sponsored by Athletics Northern
Ireland, Daily Mirror, Belfast City Council, Translink, Daily Mirror,
ASICS, Intersport, Centra, Belfast Live and U105. Sampling partners are
Musgrave Retailers, Deep RiverRock, Linwoods, Tayto and White Oats.
Mencap Northern Ireland is the official charity partner of the 2018 Deep
RiverRock Belfast City Marathon and they urge you to #MoveIt4Mencap.
41,700 people in Northern Ireland are living with a learning disability.
Mencap are the voice for people with learning disabilities, by challenging
yourself in this year's Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon you will help
Mencap support even more people with a learning disability through their
education, employment and family life programmes. The money you raise will
help Mencap provide its live changing services to local people all across
Northern Ireland. To find out more information about Mencap services in
Northern Ireland; and about the people with whom we work please visit
www.mencap.org.uk/ni
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