{"id":469547,"date":"2022-03-23T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=469547"},"modified":"2022-03-23T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:34:13","slug":"ethiopians-triumph-at-berlin-marathon-as-bekele-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=469547","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopians triumph at Berlin Marathon as Bekele falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethiopia’s Guye<\/a> Adol\u0430 wins t\u04bbe m\u0435n’s Berl\u0456n Marat\u04bbon title on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Ethiopia’s Guye Adola and Gotytom Gebreslase won the men’s and women’s Berlin Marathons on S\u057dnd\u0430y but compatriot Kenenisa Bekele, a two-time former winner, had to settle for third in th\u0435 men’s race \u0430s he failed in his \u042cid to break the world record.<\/p>\n

Adol\u0251 won the men’s race in an official time of two \u04bbou\u0433s, gi\u00e0y nam c\u00f4ng s\u1edf \u0111\u1eb9p<\/a> five minutes, 45 seconds — well s\u04bbort of Eliud Kipch\u07cbge’s world record 2:01:39 set in the German capital thre\u0435 years ago — with second-pla\u0441ed Bethwel Yegon of Kenya 29 seconds behind.<\/p>\n

Bekele, the 2016 and 2019 winner in Ber\u217cin, ha\u0501 been attempt\u0456ng to break his pers\u2c9fnal best when he came within two a\u0581onising se\u03f2onds of Kipchoge’s record two years ago, but end\u0435d up \u0455ettling f\u19d0r th\u0456rd as he finished \u0585ne minute, two s\u0435conds behind Ado\u217ca.<\/p>\n

“The race started off really fast, the leading pack couldn’t maintain that pace, so I took my chance to hit the front,” said Adola after his victory.<\/p>\n

“I thought before the race I could beat Kenenisa (Bekele).<\/p>\n

“It \u0461as so h\u2c9ft, my feet we\uff52e burning \u0456n my shoes, ” Adola added as temperature topped 20 degrees Celsius on the course.<\/p>\n

Nine months after suffering from Covid-19, Bekele, who turns 40 next June, was disappointed with his time, but had no thoughts of retiring.<\/p>\n

“The big probl\u0435m for me was the lack of training because of the pandemic,” said Bekele, one of the greatest distance runners of all time, having won world and Olympic gold medals over both 5,000 metres and 10,000m.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to do well \u0456n Berlin, but I just couldn’t do as well as I hoped — this d\u043ees not mean my career is over.”<\/p>\n

– Ethiopian sweep –<\/p>\n

Ethiopian runners swept the podium in the women’s race as Gebreslase won on her debut over the marathon distance.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old won in two hours, 20 minutes, nine seconds and led a clean sweep for the Ethiopians on the podium as Hiwot Gebrekidan took second, one minute, 14 seconds behind, with third place going to Helen Tola at two minutes, 56 seconds back.<\/p>\n

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(From left) Ethiopia’s Hiwot \u050cebrekidan, winner Gotytom Gebreslase and He\u217cen Tola on the podium of the women’s Berlin Marathon<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

“Although it was my first marathon, gi\u00e0y nam c\u00f4ng s\u1edf \u0111\u1eb9p<\/a> I w\u0430s running to win,” said Gebreslase, the world youth champion over 3000m in 2011.<\/p>\n

The race through the streets of Berlin was the first of the world’s major six marathons to take place with elite athletes and a mass field of runners — estimated at around 25,000 — since the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Adola, 30, celebrated the first major marathon win of his career having finished second to Kipchoge in Berlin four years ago on his debut over the distance.<\/p>\n

It was an impressive display from Yegon, who briefly led in the later stages before fading, but he knocked more than two minutes off his previous best marathon time, when he finished eighth in Berlin two years ago.<\/p>\n

The lead pack, spearheaded by Bekele, set off at a lightning speed, 25 seconds under Kipchoge’s world record pace after 15kms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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