Taipei International Marathon

Starting of 2006 ING Taipei International Marathon

The Fubon Taipei International Marathon is a series of road races sponsored by Fubon (formerly sponsored by ING from 2004-08 until Fubon acquired ING's Taiwan division) in Taipei, Taiwan. This marathon competition made great impacts on recruiting local volunteers from financial, academical, and governmental people, importing "ChampionChip" timer system for elite marathon runners, and setting up "Kids Running Group" and "Polices & Firefighters Group" from 2005.

Due to the bad traffic issues in Taiwan, many academic, foreigners, and media criticized this issue at 2004.^{[citation needed]} ING Antai even attempted to quit the sponsoring, but finally canceled this idea with a coordination between Chinese Taipei Road Running Association and Taipei City Government, who promised for good traffic quality to participants on December 15, 2006, and the marathon has been sponsored by ING, and later Fubon, since then. After the success in 2006, this competition was finally nominated to "Taiwan Sports Elite Awards".^{[citation needed]}

Past winners

Key:       Course record

Edition	Year	Men's winner	Time (h:m:s)	Women's winner	Time (h:m:s)
1st	2002	Mluleki Nobanda (RSA)	2:14:38	Anfisa Kosacheva (RUS)	2:36:25
2nd	2003	Wu Wen-Chien (ROC)	2:22:41	Hu Xiuying (CHN)	2:41:41
3rd	2004	Wilson Chelal Cheruiyot (KEN)	2:14:52	Jennifer Chesinon (KEN)	2:34:14
4th	2005	Luke Kibet (KEN)	2:11:54	Jane Auro Ekimat (KEN)	2:33:39
5th	2006	Luke Kibet (KEN)	2:11:05	Jane Auro Ekimat (KEN)	2:30:56
6th	2007	Hillary Bett Kiplagat (KEN)	2:17:09	Tabitha Tsatsa (ZIM)	2:33:01
7th	2008	Sammy Kipkosgei Chumba (KEN)	2:15:37	Caroline Cheptanui Kilel (KEN)	2:30:44
8th	2009	Gebreselassie Tsegay (ETH)	2:15:57	Yeshi Esayias (ETH)	2:30:05
9th	2010	Yusuf Songoka (KEN)	2:14:04	Yeshi Esayias (ETH)	2:30:37
10th	2011[1]	Yemane Adhane Tsegay (ETH)	2:10:24	Helena Kirop (KEN)	2:27:36
11th	2012	Josphat Jepkopol Kamzee (KEN)	2:15:27	Caroline Kilel (KEN)	2:30:19

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