EUGENE, Ore. :Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won the World Championship men's marathon in dominant fashion on Sunday as he forged powerfully clear around 34km to come home more than a minute ahead to take gold in a championship record two hours, 05.37 minutes.Taking advantage of relatively cool conditions afforded b
EUGENE, Ore. :Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won the World Championship men's marathon in dominant fashion on Sunday as he forged powerfully clear around 34km to come home more than a minute ahead to take gold in a championship record two hours, 05.37 minutes.
Over a minute back in 2:06.44, Mosinet Geremew made it an Ethiopian 1-2 for the second World Championship in a row with his second successive silver. Belgium's Somalia-born Bashir Abdi matched his bronze from the Tokyo Olympics in 2:06.48, taking his country's first medal in the event for men or women.
The early pace was brisk, but manageable, keeping a pack of over 30 together at halfway, but Ethiopian defending champion Lelisa Desisa wasn't one of them as he fell off the back and eventually dropped out. Tola, 30, made what turned out to be the decisive move soon after, escaping solo to almost immediately open a 12-second gap at 35km and splintering the pack on the back of a 2.44 minute kilometre.
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