Yangzhou International half marathon (Apr 28)

Yangzhou. Cheng Tao from Shandong won the men's race in 63:22 to beat Kenyans while Xiaomen's marathon champion, Zhu Xiaolin ran a moderate 73:24 to win women's race. Jiang Yuanyuan and Seoul Marathon winner, Wei Yanan rounded up the women's podium with the time 73:30 and 73:39, respectively. Zhu's time was amost 3 and a half minutes slower than the split time of Zhou Chunxiu in winning London marathon (69:58). Both Zhu and Wei ran quality times in marathon earlier so this may serve as a training session for them. National record was held by suspended Sun Yingjie in 68:40 when she won world half marathon championships in 2004.