Gilbert Kiprotich and Loice Chemnung gained as Kenya dominated the rostrum of the women and men’s races on the Malaga Half Marathon in Spain on Sunday.
Kiprotich clocked 58:27 to take first place, forward of fellow countrymen, Patrick Kabirech Mosin (58:44) and Richard Yator (1:01:21) who completed second and third respectively.
Japan-based Kiprotich was operating his first official race this 12 months, following his final in November final 12 months.
On that occassion, the 24-year-old timed 27:19.35 to complete third within the males’s 10,000m on the Hachioji Lengthy Distance competitors in Hachioji, Japan.
One-two Kenyan end
Alternatively, Chemnung timed 1:05:46 to prime the ladies’s race, forward of one other Kenyan, Miriam Chebet, who clocked 1:07:01 in second.
Ugandan Pleasure Cheptoyek accomplished the rostrum in third, clocking 1:08:00.
Victory in Spain was the proper comeback for Chemnung who failed to complete in her final race on the Osaka Girls’s Marathon in Japan on January 26.
Moreover, her time on Sunday was 12 seconds quicker than final 12 months’s version of the identical competitors when she cruised to victory.
Chemnung’s different victory this 12 months was on the Kenya Prisons Cross Nation Championships the place she clocked 33:09.7 to win the senior ladies’s 10km race.
Mwangi, Gesare shine in Milan
Elsewhere, Simon Mwangi and Morine Gesare gained the women and men’s races respectively, on the Stramilano Half Marathon in Milan, Italy.
Mwangi clocked 1:00:54 to chop the tape, forward of Rwandese Yves Nimuboma who completed second in 1:01:18.
The 2016 Africa Cross Nation bronze medalist Charles Mneria completed third in 1:02:08.
Within the ladies’s competitors, Gesare led a podium sweep for Kenya, timing 1:08:47 in first place.
Stellah Chebet got here second in 1:11:19 as one other Kenyan, Monicah Chebet Chepkwony, clinched third in 1:11:25.