Morocco's Yousef Banniz placed second in the BMW Malta Marathon on Sunday (February 25th), with a time of 2:21.31, behind Kenyan Philomen Metts Kipering.

Also Sunday, Algerian Souad Ait Salem won the women's event at the IAAF Roma-Ostia, Italy's biggest half marathon. Ait Salem finished the race with a time of 1:10:29. She was followed by last year's winner Nadia Ejjafini of Bahrain and two Italians Anna Incerti and Vincenza Sicari. Moroccan Hafida Izem was fifth. Cherkaoui Laalami of Morocco finished 6th in the men's event.

Moroccan, Algerian runners shine in marathon events