The City of Los Angeles Marathon : Today’s Race at a Glance

* WHEN: Today, 8:45 a.m.

* TV: Channel 13 (8 a.m.)

* RADIO: KACD/KBCD-FM 103.1 (6 a.m.)

* WHERE: Starts at 6th and Figueroa streets; finishes at 8th and Figueroa.

* COURSE: 26 miles 385 yards winding through the streets of Los Angeles.

* PRIZE MONEY: $15,000 and a car to winners of men’s and women’s divisions. Also, bonuses to men of $25,000 for times under 2:10; $35,000 under 2:09; $50,000 for under 2:08; to women of $5,000 for under 2:32; $10,000 for under 2:30; $15,000 for under 2:28; $25,000 for under 2:26.

* RACE RECORDS: Men--Martin Mondragon of Mexico, 2:10:19 (1988); women--Madina Biktagirova (Commonwealth of Independent States), 2:26:23 (1992).

* WORLD RECORDS: Men--Belayneh Dinsano of Ethiopia, 2:06:50 (set in 1988 in Rotterdam); women--Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway, 2:21:06 (set in London in 1985).

* AMERICAN BEST: Men--Bob Kempainen, 2:08:47 (Boston, 1994); women--Joan Benoit, 2:21:21 (Chicago, 1985).

* RUNNERS TO WATCH:

(Men) No. 1, Salvador Garcia (Mexico), 2:09:16 personal record; No. 3, Alberto Cuba (Cuba), 2:10:40; No. 4, Driss Dacha (Morocco), 2:11:41; No. 5, El-Maati Chaham (Morocco), 2:11:55; No. 6, Wodajo Bulti (Ethiopia), 2:08:44; No. 9, Julio Hernandez (Colombia), 2:14:50.

(Women) No. F1, Tatyana Zabrialova (Ukraine), 2:27:05; No. F2, Irina Bogacheva (Kyrgyzstan), 2:28:57; No. F3, Nadezhda Ilyina (Russia), 2:30:44; No. F4, Iglindini Gonzalez (Colombia), 2:35:19; No. F5, Mariana Beleyewa (Russia), 2:33:59; No. F6, Lornah Kiplagat (Kenta), first marathon.

* RABBIT: Cosmas Musyoka (Kenya), assigned to take the field at a 1:03-1:05 pace for 13 miles.

* RECENT WINNERS: 1996, Jose Luis Molina (Costa Rica), 2:13:23, Lyubov Klochko (Ukraine), 2:30:30; 1995, Rolando Vera (Ecuador), 2:11:39, Nadia Prasad (French Caledonia), 2:29:48; 1994, Paul Pilkington (U.S.), 2:12:13; Olga Appell (U.S.), 2:28:12; 1993, Joseildo Rocha (Brazil), 2:14:28, Klochko, 2:39:48; 1992, John Treacy (Ireland), 2:12:29, Madina Biktagirova (Commonwealth of Independent States), 2:26:23.

* LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: The Los Angeles Marathon is the last of the “name” marathons in this country to have American male and female winners in the same year (1994, Pilkington and Appell).