Yalemzerf Yehualaw, Winfridah Moseti, Tsegaye Getachew and Philemon Kiplimo among the many line-up for Sunday’s race
Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Winfridah Moseti are aiming to interrupt Almaz Ayana’s girls’s course document of two:17:20 on the TCS Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday (Oct 20) whereas Tsegaye Getachew and Philemon Kiplimo might be hoping to get near Tamirat Tola’s course finest of two:03:38.
Yehualaw, 25, already has a finest of two:17:23 – set in Hamburg final 12 months – and the Ethiopian received the London Marathon in 2022.
She says: “I wish to give my finest on Sunday, and naturally, I’ve come to win. I’m wanting ahead to the assist from the Amsterdam crowd.”
Kenya’s Moseti, who set a PB of two:18:25 earlier this 12 months, provides: “Coaching has gone properly, so I anticipate a very good consequence.”
With circumstances anticipated to be good for marathon operating with temperatures of round 15C and a light-weight southerly breeze, Kiplimo, whose finest is 2:04:56, says: “Coaching has gone properly, and I really feel match. I anticipate a very good consequence.”
Getachew is probably the favorite within the males’s race, although, given the actual fact he received the race in 2022. “Amsterdam modified my life,” he says. “I bear in mind not having the ability to run the final kilometre, however the unbelievable crowd actually carried me.
“I’ve run in Tokyo and Paris, however Amsterdam’s course actually fits me. I’ve educated properly, and I’ve two objectives: to win and to set a private finest.”
His private finest stands at 2:04:49.
The occasion might be proven on Discovery+ and Eurosport and begins 9am native time within the metropolis’s Olympic stadium.
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