Ethiopian Abeje Ayana and Kenyan Helaba Kiprop won the Paris marathon this Sundaya race held in difficult conditions due to rain and wind.
Ayana, just twenty years old, clocked 2:07:15 to prevail at 42.195 kilometers over his compatriot Guye Adola (who entered by 15 seconds) and Kenyan Josphat Boit (25 seconds later).
In the women’s category, Kiprop finished in 2:23:17beating Atalel Anmut by just two seconds and Fikrte Wereta by five, both Ethiopians.
The 46th edition of the Parisian test had 52,000 registeredincluding the Frenchman Charly Brancarel, who at the age of 92 is running his eleventh marathon, and Mayor Anne Hidalgo is in charge of firing the starting gun.
The race passes the main monuments of the city and its surroundings, because it starts on the Champs-Élysées and passes through the Places de la Concorde and Bastille, Château de Vincennes, the Opera, the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre and the Orsay museum, before ending next to the Arch of Triumph .
Source: La Verdad
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