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26-595: The marathon is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics . The course is certified by AIMS . Beijing Marathon is the first international sport event ever to be held in China. The race is also the first marathon race to use lottery system to allocate entries and the first full marathon race only in China. The Beijing International Marathon has been organized by the Chinese Athletics Association annually since 1981. The creation of

52-649: A half marathon best of 58:46 minutes (making him the third fastest ever) and a marathon best of 2:07:06 hours. On the roads, he has won the Philadelphia Half Marathon , Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon and Stramilano races. He has represented Kenya on the track and on grass. He was fourth at both the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 2010 African Championships in Athletics . Kisorio has been banned twice for doping violations. His first competition ban

78-785: A time of 2:07:06. In 2003, Sun Yingjie of China set the current women's record of 2:19:38 – this run was an Asian record and the fourth fastest ever at the time, and it remains the Chinese record for the event. The marathon starts in Tiananmen Square between the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong and the National Museum of China , and finishes in Celebration Square in the Olympic Green , slightly north of

104-861: The 2011 New York City Marathon in November and had a fair first performance, finishing tenth in a time of 2:10:58 hours. His last race of the year was the Saint Silvester Road Race in Brazil and he came third over the 15K distance. He ran at the Discovery Kenya Cross Country in January 2012 and was third behind Wilson Kiprop and Geoffrey Mutai . This prepared him for the Kagawa-Marugame Half Marathon , which he won two weeks later in

130-532: The Association of Road Racing Statisticians ) regard this as the true course record, in respect of reports that the 1986 course was around 400 m short of the marathon distance. After 27 years unbeaten, Taisuke Kodama's course record was improved by Tadese Tola in 2013 as the Ethiopian beat the previous mark by nineteen seconds with 2:07:16 hours. In 2019 Mathew Kisorio improved the course record with

156-733: The Beijing National Stadium and the Beijing National Aquatics Center . World Athletics Label Road Races World Athletics Label Road Races are races that World Athletics (until 2019: IAAF ) designates as the "leading road races around the world." The classification was first introduced for the 2008 running season, upon the suggestion of the IAAF Road Running Commission. The races are split into three categories: marathons , half marathons and other. Within

182-536: The Delta variant of the virus. The postponement closely followed an earlier postponement of the Wuhan Marathon days before its scheduled date. The 2022 edition finally took place in November 6, and got around 30,000 runners, becoming first Beijing Marathon since 2019 after Covid cancelled previous races. When the online registration of runners for the 2012 event started on November 8, 2012, it did so without

208-429: The "other" category are traditional road race distances, over which World Athletics world records can be set, along with some "Classical races", which span unusual distances. The Labels are considered a prestigious award by race organisers, and include the six World Marathon Majors . Platinium Label races have the strictest requirements, followed by Gold, then Elite, and general Label Races. All categories require what

234-806: The 10,000 metres in 28:50.1 minutes, in Nairobi . In 2007 he won the bronze medal in the junior race at the World Cross Country Championships , and won both the 5000 and 10,000 metres at the African Junior Championships. At the 2008 World Cross Country Championships he finished sixth in the junior race. On the track, he had achieved 8:00.39 minutes in the 3000 metres in September 2007 and improved this to 7:48.73 in September 2008 in Dubnica nad Váhom . In

260-733: The 10,000 metres, achieved in June in Utrecht . He made his debut at the World Cross Country Championships senior race and in the competition in Amman he finished sixth. He finished fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2010 African Championships , but only set one personal best on the track that year; 12:57.83 in the 5000 metres at Bislett stadion in June. He instead turned to road running . In March 2010 in Lisbon he ran

286-536: The 15 kilometres in 42:11 minutes and the 20 kilometres in 57:44 minutes. At the Porto Half Marathon in October he made his debut in the time of 1:00:10 hours. In the same year he announced his decision to concentrate fully on road running from then on, in his own words "after realising I did not have the finishing speed required" for track running. He continued to compete in cross country, however, and

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312-717: The 2021, the Platinum Label was renamed Elite Platinum Label, the Gold Label was renamed Elite Label, and the Silver and Bronze Labels were merged into Label Races. Then, in 2023, the Elite Platinum Label reverts to the Platinum Label and the Gold Label re-emerges, becoming an intermediate tier between the Elite and Platinum Labels. The Labels are assessed and awarded each year. Race organisers have to apply to

338-619: The 5000 metres he improved himself from 13:28.43 achieved in September 2007, to clocking in 13:11.57 minutes at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz , winning the silver medal. In 2009 he improved all his personal bests on the track: 7:34.29 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in September in Rieti ; 13:02.40 minutes in the 5000 metres, achieved in July in Rome ; and 27:15.44 minutes in

364-657: The Kenyan men (including minor medallists Paul Tanui and Vincent Chepkok ) to the team gold medal. Soon after he ran a half marathon best of 60:03 minutes to win at the Stramilano race. He came third at the Giro di Castelbuono 10K in July. He ran the fourth fastest time ever for the distance at the Philadelphia Half Marathon in September, completing the distance in 58:46 minutes to break Haile Gebrselassie 's United States all-comers record. Kisorio made his marathon debut at

390-485: The World Athletics describes as an international elite field , that requires at least five nations for the highest labels to be represented by runners with times faster than the World Athletics's guidelines. Additionally, the race course must be closed to vehicular traffic, and measured to the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) standard, with full electronic timing used to generate

416-441: The World Athletics for recognition, and show that their race can meet a number of criteria. The criteria vary for the different levels; The race must be organised in a way that minimizes ecological damage to the surrounding areas. A specified number of doping tests must be carried out, and prize money for the participants should be equal, irrespective of gender or nationality, though additional rewards can be given to runners from

442-532: The host nation. In 2017, Japan had the most road race Label events, with 9, although the Czech Republic hosted the most Gold Label events, 7. 3 races on the African continent received Label status in 2015. Mathew Kisorio Mathew Kipkoech Kisorio (born 16 May 1989) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes in road running and cross country running competitions. He has

468-464: The marathon for the 2005 National Games of China – Sun Yingjie took the Games gold medal for women while seventh placed Zhang Qingle (18 years old at the time) was the highest placing Chinese man and won the men's Games gold. Also in 2005, the men's race winner Benson Kipchumba Cherono missed some 800 metres out of the course due to being misdirected. The race organisers accepted the blame for

494-498: The mishap and, although James Moiben was the first to finish the complete course (2:12:15), Cherono was declared the official winner as he held a large leading margin before the incident. The marathon hosted the Asian Marathon Championship races in 2006. At the 2009 edition of the race, 4897 runners finished the marathon course, which included 556 women. The 2014 edition of Beijing International Marathon

520-523: The option for Japanese to do so. The events organizers said that Japanese couldn't enter this year because of "safety concerns" due to tension between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands dispute . The Japanese embassy protested the decision. This move attracted a large amount of criticism and on the night of November 10 the option for Japanese runners re-appeared, although there was no Japanese-language version available, which had been available

546-469: The previous year. The Chinese Athletic Association subsequently claimed that Japanese runners had never been rejected. CAA Deputy Director Shen Chunde said that in the past Japanese athletes had mainly applied through Japanese organizations so no individual registration was available. In 1986 Taisuke Kodama of Japan set a men's course record in a time of 2:07:35. Ethiopian runner Abebe Mekonnen equaled this time in 1988 and some commentators (including

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572-560: The race, which was international in nature from its inception, was part of a wider movement to open up China and its culture to foreign innovations – a change which was led by Deng Xiaoping , who sought to move China away from its Maoist past. In 1997, the marathon hosted the Chinese men's national marathon championships, with the title going to race winner Hu Gangjun , who had won in Beijing two times previously. The 2005 race served as

598-532: The results. In the first year, only Gold and Silver Labels were awarded, and 49 races were recognised. A third tier was introduced in 2010, entitled the Bronze Label, and in 2015, 88 races were listed in total. Starting in the 2023 season, only four tiers are used: Platinum Label, Gold Label, Elite Label and Label. In October 2018, the IAAF announced to introduced the Platinum Label for the 2020 season. For

624-657: Was for two years from 2012 to 2014 after admitting use of steroids. He also claimed that medical staff in Kenya had promoted a system of doping to athletes. His second ban of four years was issued in 2022 for whereabouts breaches relating to missed tests and filing failures. He was born in Kapchumba in Nandi North District as a son of runner Some Muge . His brothers Peter Kimeli Some and Nicholas Kipchirchir Togom are active runners as well. In July 2006 he ran

650-400: Was held on October 19 under intense smog. The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic . In 2021, although participation was initially restricted to permanent residents of Beijing and invited domestic elite athletes, and strict coronavirus protocols were put in place, the marathon was postponed days before the scheduled date of October 31 due to an outbreak of

676-807: Was runner-up to Joseph Ebuya at the Cross Internacional de Soria . After a national circuit win in Nyahururu , he came second to Leonard Komon at the Cross de Itálica in January 2011. He gained a place on the Kenyan national team after finishing as runner-up at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships in Nairobi in February. At the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships he claimed fourth place and helped

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