China Makes Clean Sweep in Dalian Marathon

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China Makes Clean Sweep in Dalian Marathon

Last year's silver-medalist Zhong Weifu of China went step further to claim Dalian Marathon men's title on Thursday as fellow Chinese Zhu Xiaolin cruised to the women's gold.

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Last year's silver-medalist Zhong Weifu of China went step further to claim Dalian Marathon men's title on Thursday as fellow Chinese Zhu Xiaolin cruised to the women's gold.

Zhong, champion of this competition in 2000, won the champion in two hours 21 minutes 23 seconds.

Cold weather and ankle injury worked against Zhong before he finally clinched the title. But the athlete, trained under the world renowned athletic coach Ma Junren, was not satisfied with his result.

"The result is not good enough," said Zhong.

Russian D. Lurbanov finished second in 2:22:09 and Chinese Li Yan collected the bronze in 2:22:20.

China's reigning national champion Gong Ke only got a mediocre fifth-place finish in 2:23:19.

Chinese women made a clean sweep in the competition as Zhu Xiaolin grabbed the gold in 2:42:56. Lv Ping and Sun Weiwei were the second and third in 2:42:58 and 2:43:00 respectively.

China also claimed both the relay titles earlier.

The annual international marathon event started in 1987 and hasattracted increasing number of athletes from scores of countries and regions of the world.

There were more than 2,100 athletes from 32 countries and regions participating in eight events of this version of the marathon competition.

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