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Marathon prize money going up
Advertiser Staff
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First-place prize money for men and women in this year's Honolulu Marathon will almost triple from last year.
Winners will get $40,000, up from $15,000 last year, said Jim Barahal, who will oversee his 20th race as marathon president. The 34th annual event will be held Dec. 10.
Total purse for men and women will increase from $65,000 to $150,000 with money for second through fifth doubling. Money for men and women will be distributed equally.
The bonus structure will remain the same. A winner who breaks the Honolulu Marathon men's or women's record will get an extra $10,000. There are also 11 different time incentive bonuses applicable to men and women that pay between $1,000 and $50,000.
The Honolulu Marathon began offering prize money in 1985, paying the winner $2,000.
Kenyans have won the men's division here 16 times since 1985 and runners from former Soviet republics have won the women's title nine of the past 10 years.
The defending men's champion and race record holder is five-time winner Jimmy Muindi of Kenya. His record is 2 hours, 11 minutes and 12 seconds, set in 2004.
The defending women's champion is Olesya Nurgalieva of Russia. The women's race record is held by three-time winner Lyubov Morgunova of Russia in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 33 seconds, also in 2004.
DIVING
JOHNSON, JOE EARN ALL-AMERICAN HONORS
Brandon Johnson of Manoa and Norinston Joe of Pa'ia Maui, earned All-America honors in the 3-meter event at the AAU diving nationals at Mission Viejo, Calif., last weekend.
Johnson and Norinston, who competed for the Tropic Lightning Diving Team, both earned the status for the second consecutive year.
Johnson, 13, finished ninth and Joe, 12, placed 11th (the top 12 finishers earned All-America status).
Johnson and Norinston were born in the Marshall Islands and attend Hawai'i Center for the Deaf and Blind.
AQUATHON
MAUI'S ROSELL EARNS SPOT ON TEAM USA
Maui's Kalani Rosell, 16, became the youngest member to earn a spot on Team USA for the 2006 World Aquathlon Championship Aug. 30 at Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The event consists of a 2.5-kilometer run, a 1-kilometer swim and another 2.5-kilometer run. The championship is considered the top international sporting event in its field, and attracts athletes from more than 50 countries each year.
Rosell, a Wailuku resident, was selected to Team USA last month by the Team USA Department of USA Triathlon. In July, Rosell won his age group at the nation's oldest aquathlon at Howell, Mich.
Also this summer, Rosell was named one of two Outstanding Male Swimmers at the 2006 Hawai'i State Age Group Swimming Championships.
Rosell is the only member from Hawai'i on Team USA. The 53 aquathletes are between 16 and 69 years old.
