Yasemin Cana Turkish athlete of Kenyan descent, hung up the 10,000-meter gold medal in Munich that he had already won in Amsterdam European 2016after dominating a race where two Spaniards, Beatriz Alvarez and Maitane Melerofinished fifteenth and seventeenth, respectively.
After some initial trials and errors, a lot of strategy and a steady rhythm, the race broke at four kilometers, when the main group broke up, down to four with Yasemin Can with the British Eilish McColganthe German Konstanze Klosterhalfen and Israel Lonah Salpeter.
The change of pace that Can carried out at kilometer seven had no reaction from his opponents, so the Turkish gradually opened the distance with the other athletes without much opposition.
In the end, Yasemine Can took the win in 30:32.57, nine seconds ahead of Eilish McColgan, recent winner of Commonwealth Games. Third was Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, bronze medalist in the marathon at the last World Cup in Eugene and champion of the 10,000 at the European Championships in Berlin 2018.
The Asturian Beatrice Alvarez rookie in a fully European outdoors, finished fifteenth with a time of 33:04.18, 2:32 behind the winner, while Navarran Maitane Meleroeighth at the 2018 European Championship and current Spanish distance champion, finished penultimate in seventeenth place with 33:46.71.
Source: La Verdad
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