MARATHON DES SABLES – DAY 4 RESULTS

Day 4 Results & Headlines

Stage 4 – 84.3kms

• Morabity takes the long stage for his fourth stage win.  He extends his lead over second place El Mouaziz by 3 minutes to 4min 26. Spanish runner Martinez holds third place and increases margin over fourth place El Akad to 7 minutes.  Clavery of France displaces Akhdar to take the fifth spot. (Note : unsure what has happened to Akhdar- UPDATE Akhdar is now in 8th place overall)

• Sedykh continues to lead the women’s race overall but was unable to take her fourth stage win. Mauclair makes up ground to take stage win and reduce the deficit to 23 minutes to Sedykh.  Maciel stays strong and for a solid third place overall, now 1hour and 6 mins ahead of defending champion Barnes.

• Top Brits are David Hellard drops one place to 16th place overall and Alastair King moving up to 19th overall. Selina McCole is top Brit female in 8th place on the women’s leader board and 76th place overall.

 

Men’s Race

1	Rachid El Morabity	08:11:24
2	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	08:14:28
3	Jose Manuel Martinez	08:25:55
4	Aziz El Akad	08:28:04
5	Erik Clavery	08:41:20

 

Women’s Race

1	Nathalie Mauclair	09:07:59
2	Natalia Sedykh	09:19:53
3	Fernanda Maciel	10:30:12
4	Elisabet Barnes	11:36:11
5	Sophie Laversanne	12:00:25

 

Leaderboard

Men’s Race – Cumulative Standings

1	Rachid El Morabity	17:49:40
2	Abdelkader El Mouaziz	17:54:06
3	Jose Manuel Martinez	18:48:26
4	Aziz El Akad	18:55:56
5	Erik Clavery	19:32:54

Sa 7th, Amdahl 9th, Schlarb 12th

Women’s Race – Cumulative Standings

1	Natalia Sedykh	21:00:14
2	Nathalie Mauclair	21:23:47
3	Fernanda Maciel	23:15:43
4	Elisabet Barnes	25:16:23
5	Aziza Raji	26:09:24

 

Top Brit’s

1	David Hellard (16th overall)	21:55:14
2	Alastair King (19th overall)	22:33:19
3	Kristian Morgan (21st overall)	22:53:14
4	Greg Dunning (26th overall)	24:04:30
5	Gary Evans (28th overall)	24:41:38