ATHLETES ELITE MEDELITIA INFOE & FASTATHL FAECTTSES TABLE OF CONTENTS ELITE ATHLETES ELITE ATHLETE ROSTER ............................................................................................ 28 MALE ATHLETE PROFILES Raji Assefa .............................................................................................................. 30 Diego Colorado ........................................................................................................ 32 Shami Dawit ............................................................................................................ 34 Jeffrey Eggleston ...................................................................................................... 35 Jimmy Grabow .......................................................................................................... 37 Jason Gutierrez ........................................................................................................ 38 Takashi Horiguchi ..................................................................................................... 39 Hiroki Kadota ........................................................................................................... 40 Tsegaye Kebede ....................................................................................................... 41 Bernard Kipyego ....................................................................................................... 43 Michael Kipyego ....................................................................................................... 45 Sammy Kitwara ........................................................................................................ 47 Koji Kobayashi ......................................................................................................... 49 Laban Korir .............................................................................................................. 50 Wesley Korir ............................................................................................................. 51 Takeshi Kumamoto ................................................................................................... 53 Craig Leon ............................................................................................................... 54 Feyisa Lilesa ............................................................................................................ 56 Levy Matebo ............................................................................................................ 58 Yuki Moriwaki ........................................................................................................... 60 William Naranjo ........................................................................................................ 61 Samuel Ndungu ....................................................................................................... 62 Drew Polley .............................................................................................................. 63 Tilahun Regassa ...................................................................................................... 64 Dathan Ritzenhein .................................................................................................... 66 Patrick Rizzo ............................................................................................................ 69 Patrick Smyth ........................................................................................................... 71 Carlos Trujillo ........................................................................................................... 73 Dadi Yami ................................................................................................................ 75 FEMALE ATHLETE PROFILES Deanna Ardrey ......................................................................................................... 76 Atsede Baysa ........................................................................................................... 77 Addie Bracy.............................................................................................................. 79 Devon Crosby-Helms ................................................................................................. 81 Belainesh Gebre ...................................................................................................... 83 Rita Jeptoo .............................................................................................................. 85 Lucy Kabuu .............................................................................................................. 87 Werknesh Kidane ..................................................................................................... 89 Maria Konovalova ..................................................................................................... 91 Renee Metivier Baillie ............................................................................................... 93 Dot McMahan .......................................................................................................... 94 Merima Mohammed ................................................................................................. 96 Stephanie Pezzullo ................................................................................................... 97 Caroline Rotich ........................................................................................................ 99 Fatuma Sado ........................................................................................................... 101 Liliya Shobukhova ..................................................................................................... 102 27 ELITE ATHLETE ROSTER ELITE ATHLETE ROSTER 2012 ELITE ATHLETE ROSTER WOMEN (as of September 17, 2012) Name Country Personal Best Liliya Shobukhova RUS 2:18:20 MEN Lucy Kabuu KEN 2:19:34 Name Country Personal Best Atsede Baysa ETH 2:22:04 Levy Matebo KEN 2:05:16 Merima Mohammad ETH 2:23:04 Tsegaye Kebede ETH 2:05:18 Rita Jeptoo KEN 2:23:38 Feyisa Lilesa ETH 2:05:23 Maria Konovalova RUS 2:23:50 Dadi Yami ETH 2:05:41 Caroline Rotich KEN 2:24:26 Shami Dawit ETH 2:05:42 Fatuma Sado ETH 2:25:39 Laban Korir KEN 2:06:05 Werknesh Kidane ETH 2:26:15 Wesley Korir KEN 2:06:15 Belainesh Gebre ETH 2:26:17 Raji Assefa ETH 2:06:24 Dot McMahan USA 2:31:48 Bernard Kipyego KEN 2:06:29 Devon Crosby-Helms USA 2:38:50 Michael Kipyego KEN 2:06:48 Lindsay Tollefson USA 2:43:00 Samuel Ndungu KEN 2:07:04 Deanna Ardrey USA 2:43:12 Takeshi Horiguchi JPN 2:09:16 Addie Bracy USA 2:44:34 Dathan Ritzenhein USA 2:09:55 Renee Metivier Baillie USA 1:11:51 (half marathon) Takeshi Kumamoto JPN 2:10:13 Stephanie Pezzullo USA 1:13:12 (half marathon) Yuki Moriwaki JPN 2:11:52 Hiroki Kadota JPN 2:12:25 Jimmy Grabow USA 2:12:35 Koji Kobayashi JPN 2:12:52 Jeffrey Eggleston USA 2:13:12 Jason Gutierrez COL 2:13:24 Patrick Rizzo USA 2:13:42 Drew Polley USA 2:14:58 Patrick Smyth USA 2:15:00 William Naranjo COL 2:15:39 Craig Leon USA 2:15:42 Diego Colorado COL 2:16:45 Malcolm Richards USA 2:17:29 Tim Tollefson USA 2:18:26 Stephen Muturi KEN 2:18:51 Thomas Frazer IRL 2:19:42 Carlos Trujillo USA 2:20:56 Sammy Kitwara KEN 58:48 (half marathon) Tilahun Regassa ETH 59:19 (half marathon) Stephen Pifer USA Debut 28 29 MALE ATHLETES MALE ATHLETES RAJI ASSEFA OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Birthdate: September 29, 1986 Date Race Place Time Citizenship: Ethiopia 10/12/08 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 14th 1:04:32 Resides: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 10/14/07 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 12th 1:00:31 Agent: Mark Wetmore Sponsor: Adidas PERSONAL RECORDS Marathon 2:06:24 (Paris, 2012) Half Marathon 1:00:07 (Rotterdam, 2008) 10,000m 27:15.68 (Hengelo, 2007) CAREER OVERVIEW Assefa has improved his marathon time by more than 10 minutes since his debut in Vienna in 2010. In January, he mounted a late challenge at the Mumbai Marathon, but lost out to Kenya’s Laban Moiben in a sprint finish (both athletes were credited with the same finish time). After a solid half marathon tune up in March, he returned to Paris for the full marathon, finishing second in 2:06:24. He has twice represented Ethiopia at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, and at the 2008 Rotterdam Half Marathon he ran a personal best of 1:00:07, good for ninth place in a race where six men broke 60 minutes. 2012 RACES Date Race Place Time 04/15/12 Paris Marathon 2nd 2:06:24 03/04/12 Paris Half Marathon 4th 1:01:13 01/15/12 Mumbai Marathon 2nd 2:10:48 CAREER MARATHONS Date Race Place Time 04/15/12 Paris Marathon 2nd 2:06:24 01/15/12 Mumbai Marathon 2nd 2:10:48 10/16/11 Beijing Marathon 4th 2:12:12 04/18/10 Vienna City Marathon 17th 2:16:42 30 31 ELITE MALE ATHLETES ELITE MALE ATHLETES Date Race Place Time DIEGO COLORADO 04/29/00 Country Music Marathon 11th 2:16:45 Birthdate: August 31, 1973 Citizenship: Colombia Resides: Medellin, Colombia OTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Agent: Luis Posso Date Race Place Time th Club Affiliation: Correcaminos 10/14/07 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 59 1:04:18 11/12/00 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships 23rd 1:06:27 03/22/98 IAAF World Cross Country Championships 12K 67th 36:55 PERSONAL RECORDS Marathon 2:16:48 (Nashville, 2000) Half Marathon 1:03 (Medellin, 1997) CAREER OVERVIEW Colorado is a two-time medalist at the Pan American Games Marathon, winning silver in 2011 and bronze in 2003. He also represented Columbia at the 2001 IAAF World Championships Marathon, finishing