Eisa clocks 30:42 to take the ladies’s title as Barega runs 27:49 within the males’s 10km occasion
Medina Eisa and Selemon Barega ensured that Ethiopian runners dominated the 2025 AJ Bell Nice Manchester Run as they took convincing victories over 10km on Sunday (Might 18).
Eisa, the world under-20 5000m champion and Olympic 5000m seventh-placer from final 12 months, ran away from a robust discipline to clock 30:42 within the girls’s race amid blue skies on a advantageous early summer time morning in north-west England.
Emily Sisson of the USA completed runner-up in 31:03 as she got here by way of strongly within the latter levels to cross Gotytom Gebreslase of Ethiopia (31:11) and Hellen Obiri of Kenya (31:16) within the latter levels.
Issy Batt-Doyle of Australia was fifth in 31:30 with Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya sixth in 31:35.
First Brit house was Amy-Eloise Neale with 31:37 adopted by Dominique Scott of South Africa (32:05) and Britain’s Verity Ockenden (32:21).
Sisson clocked a PB and stated: “I assumed on a extremely good day I may sneak into the highest three however to complete second is de facto good for me. It’s undoubtedly a quick course nevertheless it was a bit extra tactical at the moment.”
Barega was additionally dominant however waited till simply over 400m to go earlier than unleashing his dash, coming house in 27:49.
“I am actually proud of that run,” stated Barega, who’s now stepping on to the roads after a profitable observe profession that included successful Olympic 10,000m gold in 2021. “However the marathon could be very completely different from 10km, so let’s examine.”
Santiago Catrofe of Uruguay was runner-up in 27:52 with Vincent Ngetich, the 2024 Nice Manchester Run winner from Kenya, third in 27:58.
Mosinet Geremew of Ethiopia completed fourth in 28:21, simply forward of Britain’s Alfie Manthorpe, who continued his advantageous enchancment as he clocked 28:22, simply forward of Australian Brett Robinson, who was sixth in 28:27.
Kenya Sonota of Japan was seventh in 29:02 with Britain’s Dewi Griffiths eighth in 29:10.
David Weir received the lads’s wheelchair race by a giant margin in 21:19 as Jade Jones-Corridor was first girl house.
