Overview

• Sebastian Sawe capped a dominant year with victory in Berlin after running the second half alone and signaled plans to return.
• Japan’s Akira Akasaki finished second in 2:06:15 and Ethiopia’s Chimdessa Debele took third in 2:06:57, with Germany’s Hendrik Pfeiffer eighth in 2:09:14.
• Kenya’s Rosemary Wanjiru won the women’s race in 2:21:05, edging Ethiopia’s Dera Dida by three seconds, with Azmera Gebru third in 2:21:29.
• Organizers reported about 80,000 participants, more than 5,700 volunteers, and up to one million spectators along the course.
• Sawe said he arranged 25 unannounced anti-doping controls in the two months before the race and received €60,000 in prize and time bonuses.