LANZHOU INT’L MARATHON, CHINA – 15 JUNE 2013

This unique race run alongside China's Mother River — the Yellow River — resonates with the theme of "Perpetual Pace" and the Marathon spirit.

In the three years it has been held it has become the most popular race in Northwest China.

The race organisation invited 24 elite foreign athletes to compete alongside 55 of the local elite, and 38 foreign runners made their own way to the event.

MEN: 1  Solomon Tsige ASFAW            ETH  2:15:40 2  Dereje Abera Ali                    ETH  2:15:43 3  Oleksandr SITOVSKIY            UKR  2:16:00 4  Siraj Gena AMDA                   ETH  2:16:57 5  Luka Kipkemoi CHELIMO          KEN  2:17:18 6  Isaiah Kiplagat KOSGEI         KEN  2:17:31 7  Stephen Kipkemei TUM           KEN  2:19:46 8  Sirma George KIPRUTO           KEN  2:20:04 9  Eliud Kipchirchir CHEMWOK      KEN  2:20:12 10 Samson Kiptoo BUNGEI           KEN  2:21:13  WOMEN: 1  Ashu KASIM                         ETH  2:43:44 2  Shitaye GEMECHU                ETH  2:44:12 3  Wenrong ZHENG                  CHN  2:44:19 4  Tsegereda GIRMA                ETH  2:44:38 5  Jane Jerono ROTICH             KEN  2:45:03 6  Genet GETANAH                  ETH  2:45:21 7  Worknesh TOLA                  ETH  2:45:36 8  Yufen MENG                     CHN  2:46:14 9  Qiumei WANG                    CHN  2:48:12 10 Shuying LI                     CHN  2:53:21

Source: AIMSworldrunning.org