Ethiopia dominated Sunday’s Berlin marathon, with winners in each the lads’s and ladies’s races and runners in 5 of the six podium locations.
Milkesa Mengesha, 24, beat Kenya’s Cyrbian Kotut by simply 5 seconds within the males’s occasion, pulling clear within the ultimate stretch to complete in two hours, three minutes 17 seconds.
Fellow Ethiopian Haymanot Alew was third.
Tigist Ketema, 26, claimed victory within the girls’s occasion in a time of two:16:42, greater than two minutes forward of compatriots Mestawot Fikir and Bosena Mulatie.
Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa broke the ladies’s world document with a time of two:11:53 in final 12 months’s race, however whereas Ketema was 5 minutes slower than that, her profitable time was nonetheless the third quickest within the occasion.
It was the fiftieth operating of the distinguished marathons however plenty of massive names had been lacking, with the races coming simply over a month after the top of the Paris Olympics.
Kenya’s five-time winner Eliud Kipchoge, who gained the 2022 males’s race in a then world document time of two:01:09, was amongst these not racing.