Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw secured a 3rd win within the Antrim Coast Half Marathon ladies’s occasion as Kenya’s Alex Nzioka Matata earned victory within the males’s race.
Yehualaw, who received the 2022 London Marathon, was effectively clear by midway and her ending time of 65 minutes and 34 seconds in moist and windy circumstances left her one minute and 16 seconds away from Kenya’s Loice Chemnung.
Joyciline Jepkosgei, the 2021 London Marathon winner, was anticipated to be Yehualaw’s most important challenger however needed to accept third place, a minute and 33 seconds off the tempo.
Amid the inclement climate on the 13-mile course in and round Larne, Yehualaw’s profitable time was effectively exterior her private better of 63:51.
Yehualaw, 25, thought she had set a brand new world document in her first run within the Northern Eire occasion in 2021 after crossing the road in 63:44 however that point was not ratified after the course was discovered to be 54 metres quick.
