Kejelcha, Barega and Mateiko set to fly the quickest within the Valencia Half Marathon

Kejelcha, Barega, and Mateiko are set to fly the quickest within the Valencia Half Marathon on 27 October 2024. 

• Ladies’s 10K report holder Agnes Jebet Ngetich will make her debut at 21,097.5 meters within the metropolis the place she achieved her WR in January

Valencia, 3 September 2024.- The Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich has confirmed the names of the worldwide elite athletes who will fly by the streets of the Ciudad del Working on 27 October. The race, organized by SD Correcaminos and Valencia Metropolis Council, nonetheless holds the ladies’s world report (Gidey, 1:02:52 in 2021). The second quickest time on the planet (Kandie, 57:32 in 2020), and might be trying to proceed enhancing on these data this yr in a half marathon through which eight of the highest ten quickest occasions over the space have been achieved.

Within the males’s class, Ethiopians Yomif Kejelcha (57:41) and Selemon Barega (57:50) will compete with Kenya’s Daniel Mateiko (58:26) to be the quickest over the space. The extent of European runners can also be excessive, with the presence in Valencia of athletes equivalent to Samuel Barata (Portugal), Pietro Riva (Italy), Amanal Petros (Germany) and Emile Cairess (Nice Britain), who might be joined by the Spanish elite quickly to be confirmed.

And within the girls’s class, the Valencia Half Marathon (which has the 2 quickest occasions in historical past) will concentrate on Kenyan runner Agnes Jebet Ngetich, who will make her debut over the space in Valencia. On this metropolis, final January, she broke the world report within the 10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun (28:46, additionally setting the world report for 5K together with her 14:13). Ethiopia’s Tsigie Gebreselama and Kenya’s Lilian Kasait Rengeruk and Catherine Amanang’ole might be her predominant rivals vying for victory.

Marc Roig, coach of the occasion’s worldwide elite athletes, assessed this listing as “the perfect half marathon this yr, with high-level duels that intention, as soon as once more, to realize 57-minute performances by a number of athletes. And a transparent problem to the stopwatch within the girls’s race. By no means earlier than has a debutant taken to the beginning line who has run a 10K in below 29 minutes. We’re actually trying ahead to seeing how briskly the race might be on 27 October”. 

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