Recent Houston Marathon Purse Money Update
$172,900 purse for Houston races
by David Monti (c) 2003 Race Results Weekly via MarathonGuide.com, all rights reserved
(items italicized added by WalkSports.com)
Organizers of the 2006 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half-Marathon scheduled for Jan. 15 announced last week (actually, Nov. 3rd) that their event would offer a $172,900 prize money purse. (Up to $35,000 of the $172,900 is predicated on times faster than winning times from 2005.) The event is the site of the U.S. Men's Half-Marathon Championship.
"While we are still finalizing the fields, already the competitive slates are very strong," said David Chester, elite athlete coordinator.
Thirty-five year-old David Cheruiyot of Kenya plans to return to defend his Chevron Houston Marathon title. (The last person to repeat as a winner as Stephen Ndungu, who won from 1998-2000. Ndungu is the only male ever to repeat as a winner at the Houston Marathon.) Last year, he led the race from mile 9 to claim victory in 2:14:50. Challenging him again this year will be the men who took second, third and fourth in 2005: Andrej Naumov, 32, Ukraine; Marek Jaroszewski, 30, Poland (and 2004 Houston Marathon winner) and Russian Olympian Dmitry Burmakin, 25. Also competing will be Sisay Bezabeh ofAustralia, who ran a 2:11:08 at the 2003 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.
In the women's race, headliners include two Russians: Tatiana Borisova, with a 2:30:37 personal record in the marathon, and champion at the Freescale Austin Marathon the past two years, and Julia Vinokurova, who ran a 2:32:29 at Frankfurt in 2004. Returning for her third Houston appearance will be Canadian Nicole Stevenson. She competed in the half here last year and placed second in the 2004 marathon at 2:33:37, the year's fastest performance for a Canadian woman (but not good enough to meet Canada's tough Olympic Committee qualifying standard of 2:28:14).
The accompanying Aramco Houston Half-Marathon will host the USA Men's Half Marathon Championship for the second consecutive year. With a national title at stake and $52,100 in prize money -- of which $21,000 will be reserved for the national championship purse-- the race is attracting a deep field of some 50 U.S. men.
Early registrants include Team USA Minnesota members Matt Gabrielson, 27, and Jason Lehmukuhle, 28, who finished in third and fourth last year, only two seconds apart. Peter Gilmore, who finished 11th in Houston in the 2005 half, also plans to compete.
On the women's side, defending champion Olga Romanova, 25, of Russia, will attempt to better last year's 1:12:36 winning performance.
by David Monti (c) 2003 Race Results Weekly via MarathonGuide.com, all rights reserved
(items italicized added by WalkSports.com)
Organizers of the 2006 Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half-Marathon scheduled for Jan. 15 announced last week (actually, Nov. 3rd) that their event would offer a $172,900 prize money purse. (Up to $35,000 of the $172,900 is predicated on times faster than winning times from 2005.) The event is the site of the U.S. Men's Half-Marathon Championship.
"While we are still finalizing the fields, already the competitive slates are very strong," said David Chester, elite athlete coordinator.
Thirty-five year-old David Cheruiyot of Kenya plans to return to defend his Chevron Houston Marathon title. (The last person to repeat as a winner as Stephen Ndungu, who won from 1998-2000. Ndungu is the only male ever to repeat as a winner at the Houston Marathon.) Last year, he led the race from mile 9 to claim victory in 2:14:50. Challenging him again this year will be the men who took second, third and fourth in 2005: Andrej Naumov, 32, Ukraine; Marek Jaroszewski, 30, Poland (and 2004 Houston Marathon winner) and Russian Olympian Dmitry Burmakin, 25. Also competing will be Sisay Bezabeh ofAustralia, who ran a 2:11:08 at the 2003 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.
In the women's race, headliners include two Russians: Tatiana Borisova, with a 2:30:37 personal record in the marathon, and champion at the Freescale Austin Marathon the past two years, and Julia Vinokurova, who ran a 2:32:29 at Frankfurt in 2004. Returning for her third Houston appearance will be Canadian Nicole Stevenson. She competed in the half here last year and placed second in the 2004 marathon at 2:33:37, the year's fastest performance for a Canadian woman (but not good enough to meet Canada's tough Olympic Committee qualifying standard of 2:28:14).
The accompanying Aramco Houston Half-Marathon will host the USA Men's Half Marathon Championship for the second consecutive year. With a national title at stake and $52,100 in prize money -- of which $21,000 will be reserved for the national championship purse-- the race is attracting a deep field of some 50 U.S. men.
Early registrants include Team USA Minnesota members Matt Gabrielson, 27, and Jason Lehmukuhle, 28, who finished in third and fourth last year, only two seconds apart. Peter Gilmore, who finished 11th in Houston in the 2005 half, also plans to compete.
On the women's side, defending champion Olga Romanova, 25, of Russia, will attempt to better last year's 1:12:36 winning performance.
posted by WalkSports.com | 2:52 PM
1 Comments:
The afternoon is the best time to look for stuff online. Sometimes, I wonder why I surf so much. Your site is cool. I like to find sites that have stuff I like on them, like purse or whatever. Gotta run. purse.
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