Only three weeks after his last marathon, the Dublin City Marathon on October 29th, Sergiu Ciobanu ran his third fastest marathon to date this morning in Valencia 2.16.05 for 17th place. This was some three minutes faster than Sergiu ran in Dublin, where he placed 2nd in the National behind Gary O`Hanlon, and is also a European Marathon QT and the third fastest Irish marathon of 2017 (behind Paul Pollock and Kevin Seaward).