Kenyan athletes were the absolute protagonists of the 45th edition of the San Sebastian Marathonin a slower men’s trial with the favorite’s victory Benson Tunyo and worthy for its formation entirely alone from his countrymen Emma Cherutowho achieved success among women.
The weather allied itself with the runners, with cool but windless weather and an ally to cool the morning’s chilly temperatures, raising hopes that some of these marathon records will be may fall.
The men’s event, without hares, first formed a group of four athletes in which the three candidates for victory, with Geoffrey Yego, Kelvin Kimutai Muro and Benson Tunyo Murkomen who had the best time among all participants from more than 60 countries.
The African athletes found it easy to set a comfortable pace for themselves that, at kilometer 15, was confirmed to be very far from the big marks, so that in the record attempt decided, everyone’s tactics will be decisive for being the champion of 2023.
Moses Kimulwo, also a Kenyan, will accompany him until the middle of the race, until he gives up and, with 8 kilometers to go, the young Kimutai Maru will do so, leaving the victory now exclusively a matter of the two runners, while the Guipuzcoan Imanol Larrañaga, from less to more, fights for the third place on the podium in some great last kilometers.
Ice and Tunyo They continued together for a few more kilometers until the second of them picked up the pace with 4 kilometers to go and went off alone to cross the ribbon at the finish line on San Sebastián Boulevard.
The women’s test is colorless because of the first step Emma Cheruto Nwida He set a pace so high that no competitor could follow him, not even his compatriot and main contender for the victory, because of the record with which he arrived in Donostia, the also Kenyan Leah Jerotich.
Jerotich fell for the first time and turned Cheruto’s race into a monologue, which, despite this, worked better against the clock than the men’s race and even for a while dreamed of getting close to the record of this event. (2:23.09), though the lack of competition caught up with him in the final kilometers.
Cheruto’s competition turned into a time trial that, in the absence of pressure, it was expected that the record at the finish line would be far from the mark achieved last season by her compatriot Rebbeca Sirwani, by surpassing the record of the historic Spaniard which was Ana Isabel Alonso in 1995. Esther Rodríguez from La Rioja would be second in the long distance.
Classification of men
1.- Benson Tunyo (KEN,) 2h. 12 min 14 sec.
2.- Geoffrey Yego (KEN.) in 22 seconds
3.- Imanol Larrañaga (ESP) at 6:59 minutes.
Classification of women
1.-Emma Cheruto (KEN.) 2h 31 min. 24 sec.
2.-Esther Rodríguez (ESP) at 12:59 min.
3.- Mylene Da Costa (FRA) in 15:14 min.
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Source: La Verdad
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