Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei’s dominant run on the Lisbon half marathon—the place she gained it by a margin of over 3 minutes in opposition to her nearest competitor—has left followers questioning what she might be able to reaching on the London Marathon subsequent month. Regardless of heat and humid circumstances, the previous marathon world document holder gained the race in 1:05:51 forward of Ethiopia’s Bosena Mulatie and Tigist Mengistu, who ran 1:09:00 and 1:09:14, respectively.
“This was preparation for the London Marathon subsequent month. I’m actually comfortable. I admire what I’ve run immediately. Due to the organizers, I admire what you’ve performed,” Kosgei stated after the race.After Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa lowered her world document mark of two:14:04 to 2:11:53 in September final 12 months, Kosgei’s run right here in Lisbon might point out that she could be plotting to reclaim the document.
The Villa De Laredo 10K was one other race that lived as much as its hype as Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha ran a spectacular solo run, simply to fade in direction of the tip and miss the world document as he recorded the third quickest time in historical past of 26:37. Ending behind him was Uganda’s reigning and three-time world 10,000m champion, Joshua Cheptegei, who registered an Olympic qualifying time of 26:53.
“I got here to Laredo to interrupt the world document, nevertheless it was unattainable. Across the eighth kilometer, I felt some discomfort in my hip and couldn’t preserve my pace,” stated Kejelcha.
The weekend of March sixteenth to seventeenth witnessed what appeared to be the weekend with essentially the most races occurring the world over.
Kenyan males dominated all the highest ten positions, besides the ninth, on the Rome Marathon, the place Asbel Kiprop Rutto set a brand new course document of two:06:24. They did the identical on the New Taipei Marathon, gained by Cyrus Mutai in 2:09:31, the place they solely spared the fifth of the highest ten positions for an Ethiopian runner.
April 17, 2023, photograph by Kevin Morris
Kenya’s 44-year-old Ednah Kiplagat and Ethiopia’s 41-year-old Kenenisa Bekele continued to encourage as they competed in opposition to the brand new era of runners on the New York Metropolis half marathon. Kiplagat completed third within the girls’s race in 1:09:46, whereas Bekele was seventh within the males’s race after working 1:03:59.
Kenya’s Grace Loibach Nawowuna bought the Olympics qualifying time after working 30:25 to win the Lille 10K race in France. In California, US, Grant Fisher gained the Sound Operating The Ten 10,000m occasion in 26:52.04 in a decent race that noticed seven different runners behind him hit the Olympic qualifying occasions of below 27 minutes.
The Ten by Sound Operating
March, 16, 2024, photograph by Kevin Morris