Race results
What follows is the race’s roll of honour from public sporting records: winners, winning times and nationalities across the Sant'Antonio years. It is the most useful single reference for the event.
Roll of honour, 2000–2016
Seventeen editions were run under the Sant'Antonio name, from the Jubilee edition of 30 April 2000 to the last in 2016. Winners are listed here as public-record results only: year, name, nationality and finishing time.
| Year | Men's winner | Time | Women's winner | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Migidio Bourifa (ITA) | 2:13:55 | Franca Fiacconi (ITA) | 2:30:20 |
| 2001 | Gideon Chirchir (KEN) | 2:11:52 | Rosaria Console (ITA) | 2:30:55 |
| 2002 | Douglas Rono (KEN) | 2:11:01 | Giovanna Volpato (ITA) | 2:37:23 |
| 2003 | Dawit Tefera (ETH) | 2:10:38 | Marcella Mancini (ITA) | 2:36:14 |
| 2004 | Benjamin Kiprotich Korir (KEN) | 2:10:44 | Tiziana Alagia (ITA) | 2:32:03 |
| 2005 | Paul Lokira (KEN) | 2:11:25 | Ivana Iozzia (ITA) | 2:35:55 |
| 2006 | Ruggero Pertile (ITA) | 2:11:18 | Marcella Mancini (ITA) | 2:34:52 |
| 2007 | Paul Kipkemei Kogo (KEN) | 2:10:38 | Vincenza Sicari (ITA) | 2:30:35 |
| 2008 | Francis Kirwa (KEN) | 2:11:00 | Marcella Mancini (ITA) | 2:35:24 |
| 2009 | Ben Chebet (KEN) | 2:09:41 | Woynishet Girma (ETH) | 2:31:03 |
| 2010 | Gilbert Chepkwony (KEN) | 2:10:46 | Rael Kiyara (KEN) | 2:30:18 |
| 2011 | Aredo Tadese (ETH) | 2:09:02 | Florence Chepsoi (KEN) | 2:29:25 |
| 2012 | Robert Kwambai (KEN) | 2:09:14 | Marily Dos Santos (BRA) | 2:34:49 |
| 2013 | Paulo Roberto Paula (BRA) | 2:13:00 | Janet Hanane (MAR) | 2:36:17 |
| 2014 | Pharis Kimani (KEN) | 2:12:03 | Fatna Maraoui (ITA) | 2:36:32 |
| 2015 | Robert Kiplimo Kipkemboi (KEN) | 2:09:32 | Nancy Waigumu Githaiga (KEN) | 2:41:28 |
| 2016 | Ruggero Pertile (ITA) | 2:12:16 | Federica Dal Rì (ITA) | 2:37:04 |
After the rename: 2017 onwards
The race was renamed the Padova Marathon in 2017 and is no longer the Maratona di Sant'Antonio. The winners below belong to the later event and its own organisation and are included only for continuity.
- 2017 — Michael Njenga Kunyuga (KEN) 2:10:43 · Fatna Maraoui (ITA) 2:32:52
- 2018 — Solomon Mogos Shumay (ERI) 2:12:23 · Waganesh Mekasha (ETH) 2:29:18
- 2019 — Samuel Lomoi (KEN) 2:12:20 · Ayantu Abera Demisse (ETH) 2:29:30
- 2022 — Alfonce Kibiwott (KEN) 2:10:01 · Rebecca Cheptegei (UGA) 2:31:21
Course records
The men's course record is 2:09:02, run by Aredo Tadese (ETH) in 2011 — the first edition to start from Campodarsego, and the fastest of the three courses. The women's record is 2:29:18, run by Waganesh Mekasha (ETH) in 2018, after the rename. A quicker men's time, 2:08:22 by Timothy Kipchumba (KEN), was recorded in 2024, well into the Padova Marathon era. Marathon record-keeping conventions and course measurement standards are set out by World Athletics.
What the results show
Two patterns stand out. On the men's side Kenya dominates, with Ethiopian and Brazilian winners breaking the run and only two Italian victories in seventeen years. On the women's side the reverse is true: Italian runners won most editions of the Sant'Antonio era, and the race was a reliable place for a good Italian marathon time in spring.
Marcella Mancini won three times — 2003, 2006 and 2008 — the only three-time winner of either race. Ruggero Pertile bookended the era, taking the men's title in 2006 and again in 2016, in the last edition run under the Saint Anthony name. Almost every winning men's time falls between 2:09 and 2:13, which is a remarkably tight band across seventeen years and says as much about the flat course and the late-April weather as it does about the fields.
The race also hosted the Italian marathon championship in 2005 and in 2006, which is the clearest measure of the standing it had reached within five or six editions of the rename. National-championship records for those years sit with FIDAL.
Fields and finishers
Participation figures survive only in fragments, but they sketch the arc. In 2003 there were 2,536 starters. In 2004 the race drew 3,502 participants, of whom 2,815 had finished within seven hours — the high-water mark of the Sant'Antonio period. Much later, in the Padova era, finisher totals read 1,244 in 2019, 1,147 in 2021 and 1,044 in 2022: the marathon field contracted while the shorter distances grew, a pattern common across Italian road racing rather than anything particular to Padua.
Wheelchair and handbike racing
The race was an early Italian leader in welcoming athletes with disabilities, and the results deserve to be recorded alongside the rest. In 2004 Thomas Geierspichler (AUT) set a world best in the tetraplegic category in 1h48'20", and Francesca Porcellato (ITA) set an Italian record in 1h44'06". In 2008 a former racing driver competing on a handbike finished 13th overall. Classification rules for these events are maintained by World Para Athletics.
The Italian pages carry the same material with edition notes attached: see the albo d'oro and le edizioni. For the roads these times were run on, see the course.