men’s marathon
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Kenya’s Geoffrey Kamworor suffered a career scar when he was run over by a motorcycle in training in June 2020, breaking his tibia and requiring surgery.
The 29-year-old from Nien has been named to the Kenyan team for the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22 alongside 35-year-old Barnabas Kiptam.
Confident and extroverted, Kamworor was flying high when he had an accident.
He showed a high level of performance on the track where he won the 10,000m silver medal at the 2015 Beijing World Championships, but won the world cross-country senior titles in 2015 and 2017, where he excelled on grass and road. was. 2014, 2016 and 2018 World Half Marathon titles.
In his first competitive marathon in 2012, he finished 3rd in Berlin in 2:06:12, and in subsequent World Major Marathons, notably in New York, where he was 2nd in 2015 and 1st in 2017. Consistently stood on the podium. In 2018 he was 3rd and in 2019 he is 1st again.
Kamworor secured a place on Kenya’s Olympic 10,000 m team after winning the Kenyan Police Cross-Country Championships, in his first race since his accident in January 2021, and the national competition, but suffered an ankle injury. had to withdraw due to an injury.
However, at the Valencia Marathon in December last year, he recorded a personal best of 2:05:23 and came in 4th place.
Like Kamworor, Kiptum finished third last year at the Milan Marathon with a personal best of 2:04:17.
It’s the depth of Kenya’s talent that can list 2017 World Champion Geoffrey Kirui as a reserve.
Meanwhile, Kenya’s long-time rival Ethiopia, whose current world champion Lelisa Desisa found a way to win in the sweltering heat of Doha three years ago, has maximized its wild card entry into this year’s competition. I hope that you will use it for
Lelisa Desisa wins the 2019 World Marathon title in Doha (© Getty Images)
Desisa enjoyed early track success, winning the African U20 10,000 m title in 2009. Since then, he has become a very consistent performer at the highest level, with four podium finishes for him in New York, including a win in 2018, and his four in Boston. He won in 2013 and 2015.
He also has a championship pedigree, winning world silver in 2013, six years before his gold in Doha, with a personal best of 2:04:45 in 2013.
When Desisa was confirmed to have Tamirat Tola, Mosinet Geremew and Seifa Tula as teammates, it became clear what a formidable talent Ethiopia could be looking for.
Tora won a bronze medal in the 10,000m at the Olympics in 2016 and a silver medal at the World Marathon in 2017. He set his personal best of 2:03:38 last year.
Geremew won silver behind Desisa at the 2019 World Championships. In his London marathon that year, he finished second with 2:02:55, the third fastest time ever.
Tula won the Chicago Marathon in 2:06:12 after posting a personal best of 2:04:29 in Milan last year.
Uganda, an emerging country in distance running, won the title in 2013 thanks to 2012 Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotić. But the 33-year-old wasn’t picked by Oregon, and Stephen Kissa, who set a national record of 2:04:48 in Hamburg earlier this year, was also the second-fastest time ever, putting him third. Victor his Kipurangat was also not selected. Ugandan, 2:05:09.
According to the Uganda Athletics Federation, Philex Kemonges, Fred Musobo and Jackson Kiprop will run the world championship marathon instead. Kiprop is back in the World Championships for the first time since 2015 after helping him win the world title in 2013.
Kissa, meanwhile, will run the 10,000 m in Oregon alongside fellow Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei, world record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000 m.
Holland’s Abdi Nageay and Belgium’s Bashir Abdi, who won surprise silver and bronze medals respectively at last year’s Olympics, confirmed their performance in Sapporo was no fluke. Abdi set his European record of 2:03:36, just two months later he won his marathon in Rotterdam. Meanwhile, Nageai surpassed Abdi by winning the Rotterdam Marathon earlier this year with his Dutch record of 2:04:56.
Both men will run the marathon in Oregon, but it wouldn’t be too surprising if they reached the podium only this time.
The US has taken notice of Galen Rupp’s very consistent numbers. After winning an Olympic silver medal in her 10,000 m in 2012, Rupp moved to road and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.
In 2017, he became the first American to win the Chicago Marathon since 2002 and finished second at the Boston Marathon. He earned his eighth place finish at last year’s Olympics and qualified for Oregon State.
The championship will be held in Rupp’s hometown, the same city where he made his first Olympic team in 2008 while a student at the University of Oregon.
Other US picks are Elkanah Kibet and Colin Mickow. Kibbett, who serves in the US military, placed 16th at the 2017 World Championships, and last year in New York he finished 4th in his marathon, where he set a personal best of 2:11:15.
Mickow is a 32-year-old full-time financial analyst who started road running six years after finishing his track career in college. He qualified for his first international best after topping the US men’s home at last year’s Chicago Marathon with his 2:13:31 finishing his sixth.
The trio of Japanese male runners will be led by Kengo Suzuki, who set a Japanese record of 2:04:56 at the Lake Biwa Marathon in Otsu in February 2021. Brazil’s Danieldo His Nascimento set a personal best of 2:04:51 this year.
The three-loop World Athletics Championships marathon course is only about seven meters high and low, and the weather can be significantly cooler than in Sapporo or Doha. Starting temperature was 29C/84F and humidity was 51%.
women’s marathon
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Ruth Chepngetich will defend her marathon title with a wild card at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on July 18th.
Chepngetich won his first gold medal at the 2019 World Championships, clocking 2:32:43 in the muggy heat to win his first major gold medal.
She finished 3rd at the 2020 London Marathon, set a world record of 1:04:02 at the Istanbul Half Marathon before the 2021 roller coaster, and although she didn’t finish the 2020 Sapporo Marathon, she finished in Chicago. I won the marathon. .
She won the Nagoya Women’s Marathon this year with a time of 2:17:18, just 10 seconds behind her personal best, making her the second fastest women’s marathon ever.
She joins Judith Geptum and Angela Tanui on the Kenyan team in Oregon. Jeptum set a new French record at this year’s Paris Marathon with a time of 2:19:48, while Tanui won the 2021 Amsterdam Marathon with a time of 2:17:57.
Ethiopia will be joined by Gotytom Gebreslase, who won his debut at the 2021 Berlin Marathon and finished third at this year’s Tokyo Marathon in 2:18:18, and set a personal best of 2:20 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon. Represented by Ababel Yeshaneh, who came in second. 51st, Ashete Bekele, who was third in his marathon last year in London with his 2:18:18, this year he is running in 2:17:58.
Ababelle Yeshane in action at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia (© Dan Vernon)
Keira D’Amato of the United States, who won the Houston Marathon in January with a time of 2:19:12 and broke the North American record by 24 seconds off the mark set by Deena Castor in 2006, has been selected to join the host nation’s team. I answered the late call. Withdrawal of Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel.
Seidel struggled with a hip injury that forced him to drop out of the Boston Marathon in April, and he left the team after failing to resolve the issue. She is reported to be in “top form” in 2017, although it took her three weeks to prepare.
Her teammates are last year’s Chicago Marathon runner-up, Emma Bates, and Sarah Hall, who finished second at the 2020 London Marathon and third at last year’s Chicago Marathon.
Japan has a personal best of 2:20:52 Mizuki Matsuda, Mao Ichiyama of 2:21:02 and Hitomi Shintani of 2:21:17.
The UK will feature Rose Harvey, who finished 10th in last year’s London Marathon with a personal best of 2:23:26, and Olympians Jes Piasecki and Charlotte Purdue.
Others include Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba, who ran 2:20:02 in Seoul in April this year, and Israel’s 10,000 runner, who won the 2020 Tokyo Marathon with a time of 2:17:45. m European champion Rona Salpeter is another player to watch. He was in the leading group at last year’s Olympic marathon, but dropped to 66th in the final stages.
After also dropping out of the 2019 World Championship Marathon, Salpeter is looking to make the global impact her talent warrants.
Meanwhile, Eritrea’s Nazret Weldu is another player to set a personal best of 2:21:56 this year.
World Athletics’ Mike Lowbottom
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