Ram Singh Yadav, Lyngkhoi Bining, Lalita Babbar, Kavita Raut, Sudha Singh among top Indians to feature in SCMM 2013
Mumbai, 14th January 2013: India’s best full marathon runner, Ram Singh Yadav, the defending champion and the course record holder among Indians, having clocked 2:16.59 in 2012 will lead the Indian full marathon field in the 10th edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon to be run on January 20, 2013.
Yadav, who finished a creditable 12th overall to win his fourth title among Indian men, and also qualified for the Olympics in the bargain, will be looking to salvage some pride after a poor run in the Olympics when he takes the starter’s flag at the Mumbai Marathon.
The other fancied Indian names among the men are last year’s runner-up and 2:18 athlete Elam Singh, besides Lyngkhoi Bining, Angad Kumar, Ashish Singh, K C Ramu and Sanaton Singh, all who have personal best of below 2:20 in the full marathon.
The Half Marathon field will see the return of defending champion Soji Mathew and he will have a fight on his hands from the likes of M D Yunus, V L Dangi, Kheta Ram, Man Singh, Budha Ram and Laxman Singh, all fast 10km runners with personal best of 30 minutes and below, who also run the half marathon.
The notable names among the full marathon women are defending champion Lalita Babbar, last year’s runner-up Kiran Tiwari, besides Shastri Devi, Bhagwati, Anisa Devi and M Sudha.
The women’s half marathon has the most competitive field with names like Kavita Raut, Sudha Singh, Monica Athare, Priyanka Singh Patel and Anuradha Singh, to name a few.
The Indians have an extra incentive of Rs 1 lakh for a new course record. The men’s and women’s full marathon winners stand to gain Rs 4.5 lakh each, while the men’s and women’s half marathon winners will win USD 2000 each.
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