Kenyans Sabastian Sawe and Margaret Kipkemboi win the Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday as Jakob Ingebrigtsen is humbled by the gap
After a summer season observe season that ended simply two days earlier with victory within the Diamond League 1500m closing in Brussels, Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s audacious half-marathon debut in Copenhagen fell aside after 10km.
Passing that time with the leaders in 27:27, he pulled up sharply, grimacing in ache with the trouble. Quickly after he resumed working and rumbled dwelling in 63:13. Up forward, victory went to Sabastian Sawe because the Kenyan out-sprinted Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo to win in 58:05.
Ingebrigtsen’s participation got here after a summer season which has included an Olympic 5000m title, fourth place within the much-hyped Olympic 1500m closing and a world 3000m file of seven:17.55. In such kind, he prompt his objective was to interrupt world information in all distance occasions from 1500m to marathon, together with steeplechase, however after struggling on Sunday (Sept 15) he admitted he has a good bit to search out to be able to combine it with the world’s greatest on the roads.
A humbled Ingebrigtsen stated: “I feel 21km is unquestionably too lengthy. I’m positively not going to attempt (a half-marathon) once more for a few years. It was enjoyable however powerful. I attempted to stick with the main group for so long as I might.”
With Ingebrigtsen’s seemingly last-minute entry there have been shades of Steve Ovett, who in his 1500m and mile heyday within the late Seventies received the Dartford Half Marathon over a hilly course in 65:38 as a coaching run. Coincidentally, this 12 months’s version of the Dartford race came about on the identical day as Copenhagen too.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Sparta)
The Norwegian, who turns 24 on Thursday (Sept 19), added: “I feel I ran a Norwegian file for 10km however I had no likelihood of staying the complete distance right this moment. It was a enjoyable technique to finish the season. That is positively not my factor. Not but at the least.”
Copenhagen had a top-class subject as effectively. Sawe received the world half-marathon title in Riga final 12 months whereas Kiplimo, who clocked 58:10 on Sunday, holds the world file with 57:31. As an extra measure of the standard, one of many pacemakers was Berihu Aregawi, who completed runner-up to Ingebrigtsen in his world 3000m file race in Poland and who received the Diamond League 5000m closing in Brussels earlier within the week.
Sabastian Sawe (Sparta)
Sawe’s win got here right down to a dash on the finish, too, as he noticed off Kiplimo by 4 seconds with Isaia Lasoi an extra second behind. At a vital level within the lengthy run-in to the end, Kiplimo discovered himself on the incorrect facet of the highway and veered diagonally again towards Sawe, an error which probably price the Ugandan the win.
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Within the girls’s race, Margaret Kipkemboi of Kenya received in 65:11 from Judy Kemboi, who ran 65:43, and Reline Amanang’ole, who clocked 66:09.
Margaret Kipkemboi (Sparta)
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