Kenyan clocks seventh quickest girls’s time in historical past, whereas Tadese Takele wins three-way dash end in males’s race in 2:03:37.
Brigid Kosgei confirmed a superb return to type to win the Tokyo Marathon girls’s race on Sunday (March 1) in 2:14:29. The 32-year-old received her first marathon main for 4 years and got here near her finest time of two:14:04, which was a world file when she set it in Chicago seven years in the past.
The lads’s race, in the meantime, noticed an exciting end with Tadese Takele of Ethiopia clocking 2:03:37 to carry off Geofry Toroitich Kipchumba – the Kenyan given the identical time as Takele – with one other Kenyan, Alexander Mutiso Munyao, only a additional second again in fourth.
For Kosgei it was the seventh quickest girls’s time in historical past and the second quickest efficiency of her life to regain a Tokyo title she claimed in 2021. She additionally improved the course file and Japanese all-comers’ file of two:15:55 set by two-time winner Sutume Asefa Kebede in 2024.
Kebede was distinguished for a lot of the race right here however pale to fourth within the latter levels as Bertukan Welde got here by way of for second place in 2:16:36 and Hawi Feysa pipped Kebede for third, each runners clocking 2:17:39.
Takele grew to become solely the second man to win back-to-back Tokyo titles. He noticed off a superb subject, too, which included Muktar Edris, the two-time world 5000m champion from Ethiopia who was fifth in 2:04:07.
Iliass Aouani ran an Italian file of two:04:26 in sixth.
One other prime Ethiopian, Selemon Barega, the Tokyo Olympics 10,000m gold medallist, was seventh in 2:05:00.
Men1 Tadese TKosgei (KEN) 2:14:29; 2 Bertukan Welde (ETH) 2:16:36; 3 Hawi Feysa (ETH) 2:17:39; 4 Sutume Asefa Kebede (ETH) 2:17:39; 5 Megertu 2:03:44; 5 Muktar Edris (ETH) 2:04:07
Women1 Brigid Kosgei (KEN) 2:14:29; 2 Bertukan Welde (ETH) 2:16:36; 3 Hawi Feysa (ETH) 2:17:39; 4 Sutume Asefa Kebede (ETH) 2:17:39; 5 Megertu Alemu (ETH) 2:18:50
