Kiprugut Simon Kirui from Kenya won the Limassol Marathon on Sunday.  Kiprugut won the 42km race in 2 hours, 18 minutes and 28 seconds.  Second place was shared by Sehii Popov and Anatoliy Bondarenko of Ukraine.

Olivera Jevtic from Serbia was the first female runner across the finishing line with a time of 2 hours, 44 minutes and 26 seconds.

The half-marathon was won by Nelson Kipkogei, also from Kenya with Igor and Dmitry Polyanskiy, brothers from Russia finishing second and third respectively.

Cypriots, Pavel Borodin and Ioulia Andreou, runners of the GSP sports club were declared Cypriot marathon champions for this year.  Borodin finished fourth in the men's race and Andreou finished sixth in the women's race.

Some 15,000 runners from over 60 countries took part in the two-day event. 

Cyprus' President, Nicos Anastasiades open the Marathon on Saturday morning.