Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:50 pm Women's Champion Denisova Sets Course Record
With the "double" win, Saina earned $110,000 ($75,000 as Challenge champion, $25,000 as the men's winner and a $10,000 time bonus) and a Honda Accord EX V-6.
Denisova, 33, handily won the women's race in 2:26:11, a new course and California state record (old course and state record, 2:26:23 by Madina Biktagirova in 1992), and she took home $35,000 plus the Honda car. Zivile Balciunaite of Lithuania, who finished third here last year and in 2003, was the second women in 2:28:10.
After the race, Denisova expressed disappointment in finishing third in The Challenge (46 seconds behind) and believed the 15:50 handicap favored the men."
http://www.runningusa.org/media/wire200 ... 05-17.html
Can you believe this? Not satisfied that she is given a huge head start and a separate women's prize, she whines that women weren't given enough of a start time advantage to let her come in "first" and thus win the challenge champion prize money as well. What a twit. This woman's time was slower than the man who came in tenth, yet look at the difference in prize money:
MEN
1) Mark Saina (KEN), 2:09:35, $110,000 plus Honda Accord EX V-6
2) Ben Maiyo (KEN), 2:09:45, $26,500
3) Laban Kipkemboi (KEN), 2:10:51, $17,500
4) Simon Bor (KEN), 2:12:13, $9,500
5) Wesley Kimutai (KEN), 2:15:22, $6,500
6) Benson Mbithi (KEN), 2:17:48, $5,500
7) Matthew Birir (KEN), 2:19:07, $2,250
Bruce Raymer (CAN), 2:22:04, $1,750
9) Motofumi Amano (JPN), 2:24:07, $1,500
10) David Busienei (KEN), 2:24:44, $1,250
WOMEN
1) Lyubov Denisova (RUS), 2:26:11*, $35,000 plus Honda Accord EX V-6
2) Zivile Balciunaite (LIT), 2:28:10, $22,500
3) Hellen Kimutai (KEN), 2:28:36, $18,500
4) Dire Tune, (ETH), 2:30:48, $11,500
5) Tatiana Pozdniakova, 50, (UKR), 2:31:05#, $9,500
6) Anna Pichrtova (CZE), 2:33:02, $6,500
7) Yelena Burykina (RUS), 2:36:14, $4,500
Tatiana Titova (RUS), 2:37:51, $3,500
9) Aurica Buia (ROM), 2:40:49, $1,500
10) Malgorzata Jamroz (POL), 2:42:57, $1,250
"Denisova expressed disappointment in finishing third in The Challenge (46 seconds behind) and believed the 15:50 handicap favored the men."
This illogical statement just shows that radical feminist thinking and value systems causes imbecility.
So why aren't the men protesting about getting shafted by the race organizers? I believe that is the real story here. Rad fem junk thought we know about all too well but the bovine like complacency of the men is rather disturbing.
