Santa Fe's Rotich Racing in Daegu this Evening

Caroline and the Kenyan banner

Santa Fe's Caroline Rotich is on the start list for this evening's World Marathon Championship in Daegu, South Korea, (9am local starting time in Korea, 6pm MDT). Caroline is competing for team Kenya with hopes that a good performance may give her an edge to be named to next year's Olympic team. She has been running strong over the last year and may be taking a bit of a gamble running Worlds over a fall major like New York or Berlin where she could cash in a bit from her 9^th at NYC last fall, and a 4^th at Boston in April. Then again, it's possible she could torch Daegu since many of the top athletes will not be there due to commitments at Chicago, NYC, and Berlin. Team USA includes Boulder's ageless Colleen de Reuck, Tera Moody, Zoila Gomez, Kathy Newberry, and Alisa McKaig. None are expected to contend for a top ten finish. Cheers to home town gal Caroline, clean pair of heels and a bit of good fortune to her this evening. 

The live race feed and archived race video will be available on UniversalSports.com for what looks like $3.99. 

Updated:  Tough night/morning for Caroline. I don't know how the first half of the race went for her but the finish was less than optimal, crossing the line in 29th in 2hr37min. Her teammates swept the podium places up front. American Tera Moody had a fine showing in 17th, 2hr32min. Full results here.

WR	2:15:25		Paula RADCLIFFE	GBR	London - 13 Apr 2003
CR	2:20:57		Paula RADCLIFFE	GBR	Helsinki - 14 Aug 2005
WL	2:19:19		Mary Jepkosgei KEITANY	KEN	London - 17 Apr 2011

FINISH
Place	Bib	Name	Country	Result		Time Behind	Split Time
1	578	Edna Ngeringwony KIPLAGAT	KEN	2:28:43			7:13
2	575	Priscah JEPTOO	KEN	2:29:00		+00:17	7:21
3	572	Sharon Jemutai CHEROP	KEN	2:29:14	SB	+00:31	7:33
4	340	Bezunesh BEKELE	ETH	2:29:21		+00:38	7:15
5	534	Yukiko AKABA	JPN	2:29:35		+00:52	7:15
6	250	Xiaolin ZHU	CHN	2:29:58		+01:15	7:16
7	829	Isabellah ANDERSSON	SWE	2:30:13		+01:30	7:31
8	240	Jiali WANG	CHN	2:30:25		+01:42	7:23
9	718	Marisa BARROS	POR	2:30:29		+01:46	7:31
10	547	Remi NAKAZATO	JPN	2:30:52		+02:09	7:46
11	218	Rong CHEN	CHN	2:31:11		+02:28	7:43
12	349	Aberu KEBEDE	ETH	2:31:22		+02:39	8:22
13	581	Irene Jerotich KOSGEI	KEN	2:31:29	SB	+02:46	8:04
14	339	Atsede BAYSA	ETH	2:31:37		+02:54	7:43
15	223	Chaofeng JIA	CHN	2:31:58		+03:15	7:51
16	880	Tetyana GAMERA-SHMYRKO	UKR	2:31:58		+03:15	7:52
17	963	Tera MOODY	USA	2:32:04	SB	+03:21	7:58
18	552	Yoshimi OZAKI	JPN	2:32:31		+03:48	8:03
19	549	Azusa NOJIRI	JPN	2:33:42		+04:59	7:42
20	182	Lishan DULA	BRN	2:33:47		+05:04	8:16
21	876	Olena BURKOVSKA	UKR	2:34:21		+05:38	7:55
22	542	Mai ITO	JPN	2:35:16		+06:33	8:41
23	778	Margarita PLAKSINA	RUS	2:35:39		+06:56	8:16
24	403	Susan PARTRIDGE	GBR	2:35:57		+07:14	7:56
25	634	Diana LOBACEVSKE	LTU	2:36:05	SB	+07:22	7:54
26	241	Xuequin WANG	CHN	2:36:10		+07:27	8:59
27	271	Lisa Christina STUBLIC	CRO	2:36:41		+07:58	8:07
28	608	Sung-eun KIM	KOR	2:37:05	SB	+08:22	8:00
29	587	Caroline ROTICH	KEN	2:37:07	SB	+08:24	9:10
30	966	Kathy NEWBERRY	USA	2:37:28	SB	+08:45	8:27
31	737	René KALMER	RSA	2:38:16		+09:33	9:22
32	960	Alisa MCKAIG	USA	2:38:23	SB	+09:40	8:57
33	881	Tetyana HOLOVCHENKO	UKR	2:39:25	SB	+10:42	9:09
34	611	Sook-Jung LEE	KOR	2:40:23		+11:40	8:41
35	594	Yun-hee CHUNG	KOR	2:42:28		+13:45	8:55
36	859	Bahar DOGAN	TUR	2:42:56		+14:13	8:54
37	742	Annerien VAN SCHALKWYK	RSA	2:43:59	SB	+15:16	8:46
38	932	Colleen DE REUCK	USA	2:44:35	SB	+15:52	9:51
39	653	Luvsanlundeg OTGONBAYAR	MGL	2:45:58		+17:15	9:21
40	943	Zoila GÓMEZ	USA	2:46:44	SB	+18:01	6:36
41	697	Judith TORIBIO	PER	2:47:21		+18:38	7:12
42	385	Alyson DIXON	GBR	2:50:51		+22:08	10:05