2012 Berlin Marathon
Results -- Elite results
Table:
Position

Athlete

Nationality

Time

Aberu Kebede
Ethiopia
2:20:30 PB

Tirfi Tsegaye
Ethiopia
2:21:19 PB

Olena Shurkhno
Ukraine
2:23:32 NR

4
Flomena Chepchirchir
Kenya
2:24:56

5
Fate Tola
Ethiopia
2:25:14 PB

6
Alevtina Biktimirova
Russia
2:28:45

7
Caroline Chepkwony
Kenya
2:30:34 PB

8
Anna Hahner
Germany
2:30:37

9
Sonia Samuels
Great Britain
2:30:56 PB

10
Degefa Biruktayit
Ethiopia
2:33:27

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Aberu Kebede Shewaye ( born 12 September 1989 ) is an Ethiopian long distance runner who specializes in road running competitions . Her half marathon best of 1:07:39 is one of the fastest ever by an Ethiopian woman . She gained a bronze at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships with the performance and has won at the Berlin Marathon , Stramilano Half Marathon and the Rotterdam Marathon . She has a marathon best of 2:20:30 hours .
Ethiopia ( /ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/ ; Amharic : ኢትዮጵያ , ʾĪtyōṗṗyā , listen ( help·info ) , Tigrinya : ኢትዮጵያ , Oromo : Itiyoophiyaa , Somali : Itoobiya , Afar : Itiyoophiyaa ) , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north , Djibouti to the northeast , Somalia , and the de facto state of Somaliland to the east , Kenya to the south , South Sudan to the west and Sudan to the northwest . With over 109 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent with a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres ( 420,000 sq mi ) . Its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa , which lies a few miles west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the Nubian and Somali tectonic plates . Some of the oldest skeletal evidence for anatomically modern humans has been found in Ethiopia . It is widely considered as the region from which modern humans first set out for the Middle East and places beyond . According to linguists , the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations settled in the Horn region during the ensuing Neolithic era . Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BCE , Ethiopia 's governmental system was a monarchy for most of its history . Oral literature tells that the monarchy was founded by the Solomonic dynasty of the Queen of Sheba , under its first king , Menelik I . In the first centuries , the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region , followed by the Ethiopian Empire circa 1137 . During the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa , Ethiopia and Liberia were two nations that preserved their sovereignty from long-term colonisation by a European colonial power and many newly-independent nations on the continent subsequently adopted its flag colours . However , the country was later occupied by Italy in 1936 and became Italian Ethiopia ( part of Italian East Africa ) until it was liberated during World War II .
Tirfi Tsegaye Beyene ( born 25 November 1984 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races . She has won the Berlin Marathon , the Paris Marathon ( in a course record ) , the Tokyo Marathon ( also in course-record time ) , and the Dubai Marathon . Her personal best of 2:20:18 hours came as winner of the 2014 Berlin Marathon .
Olena Shurkhno ( Ukrainian : Олена Шурхно , née Samko - Самко ; born 8 January 1978 ) is a Ukrainian long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon . Her personal best for the distance of 2:23:32 hours is the Ukrainian record . She has won marathons in Baltimore , Tempe , Arizona and Nashville .
Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Україна , romanized : Ukrayina , pronounced [ ʊkrɐˈjinɐ ] ( listen ) ) is a country in Eastern Europe . It is bordered by Russia to the north-east ; Belarus to the north ; Poland , Slovakia and Hungary to the west ; and Romania , Moldova , and the Black Sea to the south . Ukraine is currently in a territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula , which Russia annexed in 2014 . Including Crimea , Ukraine has an area of 603,628 km2 ( 233,062 sq mi ) , making it both the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world . Excluding Crimea , Ukraine has a population of about 42 million , making it the 32nd most populous country in the world . Its capital and largest city is Kiev . Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic . The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodoxy . The territory of modern Ukraine has been inhabited since 32,000 BC . During the Middle Ages , the area was a key centre of East Slavic culture , with the powerful state of Kievan Rus ' forming the basis of Ukrainian identity . Following its fragmentation in the 13th century , the territory was contested , ruled and divided by a variety of powers , including the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , Austria-Hungary , the Ottoman Empire and Russia . A Cossack republic emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries , but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire .
Ukrainian records in athletics are the Ukrainian athletes ' results which Ukrainian Athletic Federation acknowledges to be the best in certain athletics events . The procedure for ratification of Ukrainian national records is largely based on the approach taken by IAAF in ratifying the world records and is set out in the Regulations for Ukrainian National Records in Athletics approved by the Council of the Ukrainian Athletic Federation on 16 September 2017 . Ukrainian Athletic Federation maintains national records in five age categories : under-16 ; under-18 ; under-20 ; under-23 ; senior . A record in each age category can be either absolute ( i.e. , achieved on an outdoor or indoor facility ) or indoor . The list of events , in which Ukrainian Athletic Federation maintains national records , in principle conforms to those , in which IAAF and EAA ratify the world records and European records respectively , subject to the following distinctions :
Flomena Chepchirchir ( born 1 December 1981 ) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in half marathon and marathon events . Chepchirchir has won half marathons in Venlo , Glasgow and Zwolle . She is a two-time winner of the BIG 25 Berlin race . She has a half marathon best of 1:08:22 hours and a marathon best of 2:23:00 hours .
Kenya ( /ˈkɛnjə/ ( listen ) ) , officially the Republic of Kenya ( Swahili : Jamhuri ya Kenya ) , is a country in Africa with 47 semiautonomous counties governed by elected governors . At 580,367 square kilometres ( 224,081 sq mi ) , Kenya is the world 's 48th largest country by total area . With a population of more than 47.6 million people , Kenya is the 29th most populous country . Kenya 's capital and largest city is Nairobi , while its oldest city and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa . Kisumu City is the third largest city and also an inland port on Lake Victoria . Other important urban centres include Nakuru and Eldoret . Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest , Ethiopia to the north , Somalia to the east , Uganda to the west , Tanzania to the south , and the Indian Ocean to the southeast . According to archaeological dating of associated artifacts and skeletal material , the Cushites first settled in the lowlands of Kenya between 3,200 and 1,300 BC , a phase referred to as the Lowland Savanna Pastoral Neolithic . Nilotic-speaking pastoralists ( ancestral to Kenya 's Nilotic speakers ) started migrating from present-day southern Sudan into Kenya around 500 BC . European colonisation of Kenya began in the 19th century during the European exploration of the interior . Modern-day Kenya emerged from a protectorate established by the British Empire in 1895 and the subsequent Kenya Colony , which began in 1920 . Numerous disputes between the UK and the colony led to the Mau Mau revolution , which began in 1952 , and the subsequent declaration of independence in 1963 .
Fate Tola Geleto ( born 22 October 1987 ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races . She represented Ethiopia at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and has won marathons in Thessaloniki and Vienna . She lives in Germany and trains with Irina Mikitenko . Since 2012 , she competes for the German club MTV Braunschweig . Among her first elite level appearances was the Great Ethiopian Run in November 2008 , where she came fourth behind Teyba Erkesso over the 10 km distance . She made her professional marathon debut at the Alexander the Great Marathon in April 2009 and she won on her first attempt , taking the women 's title in a time of 2:36:54 hours . The Ljubljana Marathon in October was her second outing over the distance and she was fourth , but improved her best time by a minute and a half . She represented Oromia Police at the Sululta Cross Country at the start of 2010 and came fourth . She significantly improved her marathon best at that year 's Rome City Marathon , taking fifth in a time of 2:28:54 hours , and won the Paderborner Osterlauf 10K soon afterwards . She was selected to represent Ethiopia at the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning in October and she came seventh , setting a personal best of 1:09:38 hours for the distance . Her last major race of the year came at the Turin Marathon and she again improved : it became a two-woman race between Tola and Priscah Jeptoo and although it was her Kenyan rival who claimed victory , Tola ran a best of 2:28:22 hours as the runner-up . Her 2011 season began with a second-place finish at the Berlin Half Marathon .
Alevtina Biktimirova ( born September 10 , 1982 ) is a Russian long-distance runner , who specialises in the marathon .
Russia ( Russian : Росси́я , tr . Rossiya , IPA : [ rɐˈsʲijə ] ) , or the Russian Federation , [ e ] is a European country located in Eastern Europe with a vast expanse of territory that stretches across Northern Asia . At 17,125,200 square kilometres ( 6,612,100 sq mi ) , it is by far the largest country in the world by area , covering more than one-eighth of the Earth 's inhabited land area , spanning eleven time zones , and bordering 16 sovereign nations . The territory of Russia extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east , and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south . With 146.7 million inhabitants living in the country 's 85 federal subjects as of 2020 , Russia is the most populous nation in Europe and the ninth-most populous nation in the world . Russia 's capital and largest city is Moscow ; other major urban areas include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Kazan and Chelyabinsk . The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD . Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants , the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century . In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire , beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium . Rus ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states , until it was finally reunified by the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 15th century . By the 18th century , the nation had greatly expanded through conquest , annexation , and exploration to become the Russian Empire , which was the third largest empire in history , stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east . Following the Russian Revolution , the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR/Soviet Union ) , the world 's first constitutionally socialist state .
Caroline Jepchirchir Chepkwony ( born 27 April 1985 ) nb is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running competitions . She started her career as a track runner and she was the runner-up at the African Junior Athletics Championships in 2001 and won the 800 metres bronze medal at the 2004 African Championships in Athletics . She represented Kenya at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2007 All-Africa Games . From 2007 onwards she focused more on German and French road races . She is a two-time winner of the Hamburg Half Marathon and was the 2012 winner of the BIG 25 Berlin . She has a 10K best of 32:32 minutes , a half marathon best of 68:36 minutes and a marathon best of 2:30:34 hours .
Anna Hahner ( born 20 November 1989 ) is a German long distance runner who specialises in the marathon .
Germany ( German : Deutschland , German pronunciation : [ ˈdɔʏtʃlant ] ) , constitutionally the Federal Republic of Germany ( German : Bundesrepublik Deutschland , listen ( help·info ) ) , [ f ] is a country in Central and Western Europe . It borders Denmark to the north , Poland and the Czech Republic to the east , Austria and Switzerland to the south , France to the southwest , and Luxembourg , Belgium , and the Netherlands to the west . Germany includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres ( 137,988 sq mi ) , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With 83 million inhabitants , it is the second most populous state of Europe after Russia , the most populous state lying entirely in Europe , as well as the most populous member state of the European Union . Germany is a very decentralised country . Its capital and largest metropolis is Berlin , while Frankfurt serves as its financial capital and has the country 's busiest airport . Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity . A region named Germania was documented before AD 100 . Beginning in the 10th century , German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire . During the 16th century , northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation . After the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire , the German Confederation was formed in 1815 . The German revolutions of 1848-49 resulted in the Frankfurt Parliament establishing major democratic rights .
Sonia Samuels ( born 16 May 1979 ) is a British long-distance runner . She competed in the marathon event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow , Russia . Samuels finished in seventh place at the 2017 Berlin Marathon with a time of 2:29:34 .
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK or U.K. ) or Britain , [ note 11 ] is a sovereign country located off the north­western coast of the European mainland . Existing under its current name since 1921 , the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain , the north­eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland . Otherwise , the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to the east , the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the southwest , giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea separates Great Britain and Ireland . The total area of the United Kingdom is 94,000 square miles ( 240,000 km2 ) . The United Kingdom is a unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy . [ note 12 ] The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II , who has reigned since 1952 , making her the world 's longest-serving current head of state . The United Kingdom 's capital and largest city is London , a global city and financial centre with an urban area population of 10.3 million . Other major cities include Birmingham , Manchester , Glasgow , Leeds and Liverpool . The United Kingdom consists of four constituent countries : England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland . Their capitals are London , Edinburgh , Cardiff , and Belfast , respectively .