Palau Marathon

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Palau Marathon is an annual marathon race in the Pacific island state of Palau, which has been organized by the Palau Track and Field Association since 2004. The route varies, in 2017 the marathon started in Ngardmau and led over the Koror-Babeldaob Bridge at 20 miles to the finish on the beach of the Palau Pacific Resort on Ngerekebesang Island. [1]

Statistics

NumberDateMenTime (h)WomenTime (h)Finisher
5. [2] April 5, 2008Minoru Suzuki3:26:10Olai Polloi6:31:403 + 1
6. [3] [4] April 11, 2009Toshikazu Misawa4:14:42Noemi Neipert4:14:422 + 3
7. [5] [6] April 3, 2010Joynal Mize4:11:48Joyleen Chilton7:55:495 + 1
8. [7] [8] April 2, 2011Brook Kintz3:36:078 + 0
9. [9] April 7, 2012unknownunknown5 + 1
10. [10] May 18, 2013Joynal Mize3:42:25Haley Cash4:44:06
11.April 5, 2014 [11] unknownunknown
12. [12] [13] April 4, 2015Nathan Cogswell3:26:22Angela Sy4:11:2010 + 5
13. [14] [15] September 3, 2016Denefher Flores4:09:03Miho Nagaya6:08:3810 + 1
14. [16] [17] April 8, 2017Joynal Mize4:26:05Yen Nguyen6:45:327 + 1
15. [18] April 7, 2018Aaron Salvador4:44:13Imee Delos Santos5:30:149 + 5
16. [19] April 6, 2019Denefher Flores4:44:13Mayumi Sone4:34:2613

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