The ING Amsterdam Marathon has succedeed in contracting the first four top athletes for the 33rd edition of Sunday October 19th. With the Kenyans Robert Cheboror and Solomon Bushendich two former winners will return to Amsterdam. Their fellow countrymen Paul Kirui (fourth in the ING Amsterdam Marathon 2007) and Benjamin Limo, world champion 5,000 metres of 2005 who will make his debut on the marathon, will compete them.
Robert Cheboror surprised in 2004. The 29-year-old Kenyan won that year in his personal best of 2.06.23. The 24-year-old Bushendich experienced a personal highlight as a debutant on the marathon in 2006. In 2.08.52 he crossed the finish in the Olympic Stadium of Amsterdam as number one, a time that is still his personal best. Last year less then a second kept Paul Kirui off the stage of honour in Amsterdam. However his time of 2.07.12 showed his world class. The world champion on the half marathon of 2004 ran his fastest marathon in 2006 in 2.06.44. Finally the 34-year-old Benjamin Limo will make his debut on the marathon. Limo experienced his biggest triumph during the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005. He won the gold medal on the 5,000 metres, after winning silver on the same distance in Seville in 1999.
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