Press Release - Berlin Marathon - 9/13/13

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                Injury Prevents Makau From Running Berlin

A knee injury has forced marathon world-record holder Patrick Makau (Kenya) 
to withdraw from the BMW BERLIN MARATHON to be run on September 29. "I 
intended to attack my own world record in Berlin but now the first thing on 
my mind is to fully recover from this injury so I can return to training", 
said Makau. He had earlier consulted the Kenyatta National Hospital in 
Nairobi where he was diagnosed with an inflammation in his left knee and 
ordered to stop running completely and rest the knee until the inflammation 
subsides.

Makau won the BMW BERLIN MARATHON twice (2010 and 2011), setting the still 
standing marathon world-record of 2:03:38 hours in 2011. For this year's 
race, he planned to attack this mark together with compatriot Wilson 
Kipsang. In 2011, only a few weeks after Makau's record run in Berlin, 
Kipsang himself had missed the record by just four seconds in Frankfurt.

Among the 40,000 athletes participating in the BMW BERLIN MARATHON on 
September 29 there will be a high-class elite field which also features top 
German runners André Pollmächer, Falk Cierpinski, and Irina Mikitenko.


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