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The 2016 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon is the 20th edition of the popular running event, founded in 1997, held on January 17th 2016.
- The 25-year-old has a personal best time of two hours, 24, minutes and 27 seconds
- The Jakarta Asian Games silver medallist will be hoping to improve on her fifth place from her last Hong Kong Marathon appearance in 2013
The weather might have been unfamiliar, but one thing remained the same at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon as West African runners dominated.
Inspirational Fung Ying-ki makes it back-to-back wins in the Hong Kong Marathon 10km Wheelchair race
The conditions were unfamiliar, but the results the same as African runners dominated the 20th anniversary edition of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday.
First-time marathon runners are being offered free screening for heart disease by a University of Hong Kong research team in a bid to reduce the number of competitors who suffer cardiac arrest or even drop dead during long-distance races.
Organisers of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon have managed to squeeze in an extra 1,000 runners for next year's race, taking the total to 74,000, after eliminating a bottleneck in Canton Road.