VILNIUS MARATHON HISTORY

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The story of international Vilnius Marathon goes back to 2001 when Lithuanian Athletic Federation organized first mass run Maxima Cup, which became the predecessor of Vilnius Marathon. In 2004 Vilnius Marathon debuted as a feast for runners and Vilnius city people alike. The event was positively met by Vilnius City Municipality, which saw it as a way to foster healthy lifestyle, to add a new festival to the city event-calendar and to put Vilnius on the lost of respected marathon cities worldwide.

The distance of 42 km 195 metres first covered by runners in Vilnius September 11, 2004, opened a new page in the history of Vilnius city. A little over 200 professional and non-professional runners from 10 countries around the world joined the event.

In 2006 half-marathon distance was added to the program.

Vilnius Marathon became member of AIMS in 2007.

Vilnius marathon race course record of 2:21:15 was set by Richard Rotich from Kenya in 2007. Record for women of 2:45:31 was set by Diana Maciušonytė Lobačevskė Lithuania during 2008 Vilnius maraton.

Year	Event	Prizewinners
Year	Event	Gold	Result	Silver	Result	Bronze	Result
2004	Men marathon	Dmitrijs Slesarenoks	2:23:35	Aleksandr Labuchenko	2:24:02	Česlovas Kundrotas	2:34:20
2004	Women marathon	Kristina Saltanovič	2:59:10	Giedrė Voverienė	3:08:06	Julia Bubenko	3:08:38
2005	Men marathon	Aleksandr Labuchenko	2:28:46	Tomas Venckūnas	2:30:47	Dainius Šaučikovas	2:31:43
2005	Women marathon	Alena Vinitskaja	2:46:59	Modesta Drungilienė	3:02:57	Ylia Bubenko	3:07:43
2006	Men marathon	Aleksandr Labuchenko	2:25:17	Dainius Šaučikovas	2:28:43	Tomas Venckūnas	2:32:29
	Women marathon	Modesta Drungilienė	2:55:16	Ala Zadorozhnaja	2:58:32	Sonata Milušauskaitė	3:02:30
	Men half marathon	Justinas Križinauskas	1:13:07	Mareks Floroseks	1:14:05	Kaspars Briška	1:14:37
	Women half maratahon	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	1:21:23	Remalda Kergytė	1:24:23	Gailutė Keliuotienė	1:29:00
2007	Men marathon	Richard Rotich	2:21:15	Reuben Kwambai	2:21:27	Pavel Mashei	2:26:25
	Women marathon	Natalija Chatkina	2:51:19	Volha Yudzinkova	2:51:29	Modesta Kaminskienė	3:06:52
	Men half marathon	Nerijus Markauskas	1:10:59	Mindaugas Viršilas	1:11:49	Kęstutis Jankūnas	1:12:15
	Women half marathon	Remalda Kergytė	1:19:13	Gailutė Keliuotienė	1:27:15	Regina Čistiakova	1:30:26
2008	Men marathon	Kęstutis Jankūnas	2:28:42	Marek Dzilgielewski	2:35:28	Darius Škarnulis	2:37:22
	Women marathon	Diana Lobačevskė	2:45:31	Justina Jasutytė	2:46:45	Kaja Vals	3:17:00
	Men half marathon	Mindaugas Viršilas	1:11:26	Andrius Ramonas	1:11:41	Petras Pranckūnas	1:13:16
	Women half marathon	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	1:14:53	Regina Čistiakova	1:29:08	Renata Siliuk	1:31:39
2009	Men marathon	Darius Škarnulis	2:33:16	Tomas Venckūnas	2:36:05	Ivar Valtass	2:41:54
	Women marathon	Vilija Damašickienė	3:13:53	Anna Beattie	3:30:45	Karina Onufrijeva	3:31:30
	Men half marathon	Stsiapan Rahautsou	1:06:11	Tomas Matijošius	1:08:49	Aurimas Skinulis	1:09:57
	Women half marathon	Diana Lobačevskė	1:17:01	Nicole Böhm	1:26:25	Olga Ziuganova	1:32:47
2010	Men marathon	Tomas Venckūnas	2:37:27.10	Antanas Žukauskas	2:39:21.00	Tadas Kavaliauskas	2:41:24.75
	Women marathon	Modesta Kaminskienė	3:14:36.00	Sada Bukšnienė	3:30:32.90	Ausrine Ward	3:40:48.60
	Men half marathon	Aurimas Skinulis	1:08:28.50	Darius Sadeckas	1:13:20.75	Konstantinas Tichonovas	1:14:55.00
	Women half marathon	Diana Lobačevskė	1:14:09.20	Monika Vilčinskaitė	1:32:09.60	Renata Siliuk	1:36:04.00
2011	Men marathon	Dzmitry Hryhoryeu	2:34:40.75	Saulius Valaitis	2:35:09.00	Tomas Venckūnas	2:37:34.30
	Women marathon	Modesta Kaminskienė	3:07:28.95	Sada Bukšnienė	3:18:11.95	Renata Siliuk	3:20:51.15
	Men half marathon	Darius Sadeckas	1:09:34.90	Aurimas Skinulis	1:09:49.70	Jonas Vytaustas Gvildys	1:11:20.30
	Women half marathon	Gailutė Keliuotienė	1:31:25.60	Olga Ziuganova	1:34:06.25	Giedrė Kazlauskaitė	1:34:45.55