Siberian International Marathon

Siberian International Marathon
Siberian International Marathon
	Aleksei Tishchenko promoting the 2010 Siberian International Marathon
Date	First Saturday in August
Location	Omsk, Siberia, Russia
Event type	Road
Distance	Marathon, 10K run
Established	1990
Course records	Men's: 2:13:03 (1993); ; Women's: 2:30:21 (2002); Albina Mayorova
Official site	Siberian International Marathon
Participants	378 finishers (2021); 462 finishers (2019)

Siberian International Marathon (SIM) (Russian: Сибирский международный марафон) has been held in the city of Omsk since 1990, when the city was first opened to foreigners. The summer marathon is part of the City Days festivities. It takes place during the week of St. Ilya's Day, the patron saint of Omsk, in early August. The marathon itself takes place during the first Saturday of August. The winter half-marathon is during the January 7 Orthodox Christmas week.

The race date was moved forward a week in 2012 so that the start time exactly coincided with that of the 2012 Olympic men's marathon held in London.^[1] It was delayed until September in 2013 due to the 2013 World Championships in Athletics being held in Moscow during that period.

It was organised in 1990 by Dmitri Khodko and Sergei Govrilov as an attempt to open Omsk to foreigners. The foreign participation was headed by Claude Fisicaro, an Australian living in London, through a running club called World Runners, who ran in aid of ending hunger. Later directors of the Los Angeles Marathon and the New York City Marathon actively participated in the early years of the Siberian International Marathon. The first marathon was attended by 1800 athletes, including 32 foreigners from 9 countries one of which was British MP John Austin-Walker, and a Kenyan marathon runner who due to flight difficulty arrived the morning of the marathon. Since the early 1990s, the marathon has attracted thousands of participants (and many foreigners) each year and the number is growing annually.

It is designated as an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, making it the only such competition in the country to hold IAAF status.^[2] In spite of its international nature, only one foreign athlete ( of Kenya) topped the podium at the competition between 1990 and 2010.

Events[]

Currently, the events for the Siberian International Marathon include:

Marathon (42 km 195m - distance is certified by the AIMS). First 10 women and men receive monetary prizes.
Wheelchair marathon (42 km 195m). First 10 women and men receive monetary prizes.
Marathon relay (42 km 195m; 6 participants; legs of 5, 10, 5, 10, 5, and 7.195 kilometer). First 3 male and female teams receive monetary prizes.
(42 km 195m). Marathon on in-line skates. First 3 receive monetary prizes.

Past winners[]

Nadezhda Wijenberg won the women's race in 1994.

Key: Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	1990	(URS)	2:17:48	(URS)	2:42:13
2nd	1991	(URS)	2:16:54	(URS)	2:38:46
3rd	1992	(RUS)	2:17:28	(RUS)	2:32:15
4th	1993	(RUS)	2:13:03	(RUS)	2:38:20
5th	1994	(RUS)	2:17:05	Nadezhda Wijenberg (RUS)	2:33:49
6th	1995	Yakov Tolstikov (RUS)	2:14:37	Alina Ivanova (RUS)	2:32:21
7th	1996	(RUS)	2:15:20	(RUS)	2:35:16
8th	1997	(RUS)	2:15:54	(RUS)	2:35:22
9th	1998	(RUS)	2:19:15	Alina Ivanova (RUS)	2:31:44
10th	1999	(RUS)	2:15:14	(RUS)	2:35:09
11th	2000	(RUS)	2:18:05	Irina Timofeyeva (RUS)	2:34:07
12th	2001	(RUS)	2:20:43	Irina Safarova (RUS)	2:33:08
13th	2002	(KEN)	2:17:38	Albina Ivanova (RUS)	2:30:21
14th	2003	(RUS)	2:17:40	(RUS)	2:40:16
15th	2004	(RUS)	2:14:44	(RUS)	2:39:53
16th	2005	(RUS)	2:20:23	(RUS)	2:39:14
17th	2006	Sergey Lukin (RUS)	2:16:41	(RUS)	2:38:40
18th	2007	Sergey Lukin (RUS)	2:18:39	(RUS)	2:39:00
19th	2008	(RUS)	2:15:29	(RUS)	2:33:41
20th	2009	Sergey Lukin (RUS)	2:15:06	(RUS)	2:34:52
21st	2010	(RUS)	2:17:06	(RUS)	2:39:45
22nd	2011	(KEN)	2:14:25	(RUS)	2:37:22
23rd	2012	(RUS)	2:49:06	Volha Mazuronak (BLR)	2:44:47
24th	2013	Ketema Nigusse (ETH)	2:13:23	(RUS)	2:31:50
25th	2014	(KEN)	2:14:50	(KEN)	2:38:53
26th	2015	Laban Moiben (KEN)	2:18:18	Albina Mayorova (RUS)	2:34:14
27th	2016	(RUS)	2:21:34	(RUS)	2:36:13
28th	2017	(RUS)	2:18:58	(RUS)	2:39:20
29th	2018	(RUS)	2:17:03	(RUS)	2:36:25
30th	2019	(RUS)	2:19:56	(RUS)	2:35:50
31st	2021	Aleksey Reunkov (RUS)	2:15:39	(RUS)	2:29:11