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Press Release - Los Angeles Marathon - 1/23/14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  Defending Champion Faces Last Year's Runner-Up in 2014 ASICS LA Marathon

         Erick Mose, Julius Keter Among Top International Elites 
                          With Eyes Set on the Win 
		
LOS ANGELES (January 23, 2014) - A stacked line-up of more than 20 of the 
world's most competitive distance runners-including defending men's 
champion Erick Mose and 2013 men's runner-up Julius Keter-headline the 
field for the 2014 ASICS LA Marathon, which will be held on Sunday, March 
9th 2014.

This year's ASICS LA Marathon, which will once again follow its popular 
Stadium to the Sea course, starting at Dodger Stadium and finishing near 
the Santa Monica Pier, will be the 29th edition of the race, which became 
an annual event following the historic 1984 Olympic Game in Los Angeles. 

Kenya's Mose, whose come-from-behind surge in the final two miles 
ultimately overtook fellow countryman Keter-the grandson of Olympic legend 
Kip Keino-and clinched last year's title, heads a talented list of 11 top 
male runners who have committed to this year's race, including rising 
Americans Aaron Braun, Adam Roach and Stephan Shay. 

The women's field is equally competitive, with five top Ethiopian talents 
who each sport sub-2:36 marathon PRs, including Genet Getaneh, the top 
finisher at the 2007 and 2007 IAAF World Half Marathon Championship, as 
well as Ukranian Olena Burkovska, a former winner of Europe's venerable 
Košice Peace Marathon, along with four emerging young American talents. 

"As we are continually looking to attract an ever growing number of 
world-class marathoners, we know this year will elevate the level of 
competition being able to field last year's men's champion Erick Mose and 
runner-up Julius Keter," said Tracey Russell, CEO LA MARATHON LLC. "The 
2014 ASICS LA Marathon will be an exciting year for the elites, general 
runners and the spectators."

Fresh off the heels of a second place finish in the 2014 U.S. Half Marathon 
Championship earlier this month, Aaron Braun will make his marathon debut 
alongside two-time defending Big Sur International Marathon champion Adam 
Roach and Stephan Shay, who placed in the top five at the 2012 U.S. Half 
Marathon Championship, to lead the elite U.S. runners competing in Los 
Angeles this year. Among the women, the Americans are also well represented 
with athletes who include three-time Olympics Trials qualifiers Kristen 
Fryburg-Zaitz and; Heather McWhirter, the second-place finisher at last 
year's Buffalo Marathon; and Lindsey Scherf who placed second at the 2012 
U.S. 25K Championship. 

Additional top international male qualifiers include Ethiopian Raji Assefa, 
the 2012 Paris International Marathon runner-up; Lani Rutto of Kenya, a 
top-ten finisher in the 2013 BMW Frankfurt Marathon and Canadian Greg 
Wieczorek, a three-time Blue Nose Marathon winner. 

A list of the elite runners who have committed to this year's ASICS LA 
Marathon on March 9 is below. More information on additional runners who 
have committed to the race will be announced in the coming weeks. 

For more information, visit www.lamarathon.com. 

2014 ASICS LA MARATHON 

Elite Runners Confirmed

MEN
NAME                     PERSONAL BEST                        COUNTRY 
Gezahegn Alemayehu       2:09:42 (Košice, 2013)               Ethiopia 
Raji Assefa              2:06:24 (Paris, 2012)                Ethiopia 
Fikre Assefa             2:10:23 (Linz, Austria, 2013)        Ethiopia 
Aaron Braun              2nd - 1:01:38 (Houston Half, 2014)   USA 
Julius Kipyego Keter     2:10:31 (Los Angeles, 2013)          Kenya 
Erick Mose               2:09:44 (Los Angeles, 2013)          Kenya 
Adam Roach               2:24:30 (Sacramento, 2013)           USA 
Lani Rutto               2:10:01 (Frankfurt, 2013)            Kenya 
Stephan Shay             2:16:48 (Houston, 2012)              USA 
Greg Wieczorek           2:25:56 (Houston, 2012)              Canada 
Dawit Wolde              1st – 1:00:46 (Egmond Half, 2012)    Ethiopia 
Gabriel Proctor          1:02:22 (Houston Half, 2014)         USA
                            						
WOMEN 
NAME                     PERSONAL BEST                        COUNTRY 
Olena Burkovska          2:27:07 (Hannover, 2013)             Ukraine 
Gulume Chala             2:36:04 (Danzhou, 2013)              Ethiopia 
Degefa Bruktayit Eshetu  2:26:22 (Houston, 2014)              Ethiopia 
Kristen Fryburg-Zaitz    2:37:50 (Sacramento, 2013)           USA 
Genet Getaneh            2:25:38 (Amsterdam, 2012)            Ethiopia 
Agnes Jepkosgei          2:39:17 (Nairobi, 2013)              Kenya 
Heather McWhirter        2:45:33 (Buffalo, 2012)              USA 
Elfnesh Melaku           2:31:41 (Chongqing, 2013)            Ethiopia 
Lindsey Scherf           2nd – 1:25:12 (U.S. 25K Champ, 2012) USA 
Tigist Tufa              2:29:24 (New York City, 2013)        Ethiopia 
Lauren Kleppin           2:42:17 (Carlsbad, 2013)             USA 

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