Cologne - It goes back around in Cologne! Clock at 11.30 is the starting bell for the 11th Ford Cologne Marathon - Saturday times have tested the mini-athletes at the 2nd Rhein Energie Marathon Kids Run the wonderful weather - and the October sun shone with a race.
Not only the mouse fired nearly 600 young runners in the dance fountain: Elite runners Benjamin Itok (35), second in the Cologne Marathon in 2006 and tournament favorites to win, wanted to give young, with tips on the track.
The Kenyan warmed up with the CRAZY and answered all questions. Then he told his young admirers: "When the weather cooperates, I want to create the track on Sunday in 2 hours and 10 minutes."
To clock 13.45 then dropped the first starting gun: The youngest runners (born 2003) sprints through the 250-m distance. When Malin first Jansa came (4) from Mainz to the finish. Their mother, herself a runner, was very happy, "Our little one would ever, with our legs. Now she has won its first run. Booyah! "But the other participants could look forward to: all the mini-marathon runners were given a certificate and a medal.
Also of interest
The 2nd Rheinenergie Kids Run - the pictures HERE
