{"id":12664,"date":"2013-01-19T04:32:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T04:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2013-01-19T04:32:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T04:32:35","slug":"top-indians-to-feature-in-2013-mumbai-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12664","title":{"rendered":"Top Indians to feature in 2013 Mumbai Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" alt=\"Indian-Elite-Athletes-pic\" src=\"images\/athletics\/Indian-Elite-Athletes-pic.jpg\" height=\"155\" width=\"250\" \/>Mumbai:&nbsp;<\/strong> The tenth edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon has an impressive field of over hundred Indian men and women in the full and the half marathon category.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Among the ones present today at the press conference were runner-up of last year\u2019s Marathon Elam Singh, Karan Singh, B C Tilak, Sanaton Singh, Ashish Singh and Monika Athare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Elam Singh who clocked 2:18:27 last year is focusing on improving his personal best this time around. \u201c I have been training hard and I think I have a good chance to win .\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>B C Tilak, winner of the 2011 Half Marathon, is for the first time attempting to run the Full Marathon this year. Karan Singh, bronze, medalist at the Allahabad Marathon in 2012 with 2:24:00 hopes to enjoy his first Marathon in the city.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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 these are seasoned 10km runners with personal best of 30 minutes and below and have also run the half marathon.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leading the women\u2019s field is Monika Athare, has many feathers in her cap. Winner of the 2012 Overall Women at the TCS World 10K and gold medallist at TCS World 10k is looking forward to give her best shot this year at the Mumbai Marathon. She said, \u201cThis is my first year in the Mumbai Marathon and I\u2019m very excited to be running alongside leading athletes Lalita Babar, Sudha Singh and Kavity Raut. I\u2019m sure it will be a learning experience as I think the Mumbai Marathon is a big platform for me to put my best foot forward.\u201d <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The notable names among the full marathon women are defending champion Lalita Babbar, last year\u2019s runner-up Kiran Tiwari, besides Shastri Devi, Bhagwati, Anisa Devi and M Sudha.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Indians have an extra incentive of Rs 1 lakh for a new course record. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s full marathon winners stand to gain Rs 4.5 lakh each, while the men\u2019s and women\u2019s half marathon winners will win USD 2000 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" alt=\"Indian-Elite-Athletes-pic\" src=\"images\/athletics\/Indian-Elite-Athletes-pic.jpg\" height=\"155\" width=\"250\" \/>Mumbai:&nbsp;<\/strong> The tenth edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon has an impressive field of over hundred Indian men and women in the full and the half marathon category.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Among the ones present today at the press conference were runner-up of last year\u2019s Marathon Elam Singh, Karan Singh, B C Tilak, Sanaton Singh, Ashish Singh and Monika Athare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-more-sports-more-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top Indians to feature in 2013 Mumbai Marathon - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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