Ethiopian victories in Germany on Sunday as Britain’s Abbie Donnelly clocks PB of two:24:11.
Buze Diriba clocked 2:19:34 to win the ladies’s race on the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon regardless of robust winds as fellow Ethiopian, Belay Asfaw, was a shock winner of the lads’s race in 2:06:16.
Abbie Donnelly, in the meantime, went No.7 on the UK all-time rankings with 2:24:11 as she improved her greatest of two:26:21, which was set on her debut in Rotterdam earlier this yr.
The one British lady to run faster this yr is Calli Hauger-Thackery, as Donnelly’s time is barely faster than the two:24:25 that Eilish McColgan ran when ending first Brit residence in London in April.
Kenyans Magdalyne Masai and Sharon Chelimo have been second and third within the girls’s race in Frankfurt with 2:20:23 and a pair of:20:29 respectively.
Within the males’s race, Taresa Bekuma was the runner-up in 2:07:01 whereas third positioned Shura Kitata, the winner from 2017, made it an all-Ethiopian podium with 2:07:02.
A report variety of 17,000 entries have been registered for the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon. Together with occasions at shorter distances the whole entry determine was 30,407 runners.
Men1. Belay Asfaw ETH 2:06:162. Taresa Bekuma ETH 2:07:013. Shura Kitata ETH 2:07:024. Yismaw Yitayew ETH 2:07:205. Yasin Haji ETH 2:07:476. Masresha Getachew ETH 2:09:327. Timothy Misoi KEN 2.09:358. Edwin Kibichiy KEN 2:09:419. Filimon Abraham GER 2:09:4310. Lulu Negera ETH 2:09:47
Women1. Buze Diriba ETH 2:19:342. Magdalyne Masai KEN 2:20:233. Sharon Chelimo KEN 2:20:294. Catherine Cherotich KEN 2:21:405. Mehret Gown ETH 2:23:296. Ayinadis Birle ETH 2:23:507. Dagnachew Asegu ETH 2:24:058. Abbie Donnelly GBR 2:24:119. Gladys Jeptepkeny KEN 2:24:5210. Pascaline Kibiwott KEN 2:24:56
