Mare dibaba marathon beijing 2019
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Aga and Wolde run course records to win in Xiamen
Ruti Aga and Dawit Wolde achieved an Ethiopian double at the C&D Xiamen Marathon, both athletes setting course records to win the World Athletics Platinum Label Road race on Sunday (5).
Aga and Wolde were the fastest athletes in their respective fields and Aga won the women’s race in 2:18:46, claiming a dominant victory ahead of her compatriot Gutemi Shone Imana in 2:23:11, while Wolde secured the men’s title in 2:06:06 ahead of Lesotho’s Tebello Ramakongoana, who ran a national record of 2:06:18.
Aga lined up as the Chinese all-comers’ record-holder thanks to the PB of 2:18:09 she set in Dongying in 2023. The 30-year-old now owns the two fastest women’s marathon performances ever achieved in China, as she was just 37 seconds off that mark in Xiamen.
It was a return to winning ways for the 2019 Tokyo Marathon champion, who won the Daegu Marathon last April and then was runner-up in the Sydney Marathon in September.
Her time of 2:18:46 improved the previous course record by more than a minute. That course record of 2:19:52 had been set by Aga’s compatriot Mare Dibaba in 2015, the year in which she became the world marathon champion in Beijing.
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Dibaba was also part of the field in Xiamen on Sund
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Dibaba sprints be selected for thrilling labor win worry Beijing
BEIJING: Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba won interpretation women's longwinded at description world athleticschampionships after a thrilling gallop finish future the rub straight be in possession of the Peking National Ground on Sunday.
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Preview: women's marathon - IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019
It will be the women marathon runners who are first to experience unique circumstances for a championship race in Doha.
At midnight on day one, a field of about 70 runners will set off under floodlighting on a looped course along the waterfront of Doha’s famous Corniche connecting Doha Bay and Doha City Centre, set against the capital city’s towering skyline.
The temperature by that time is expected to have dropped from the predicted daytime range of 35C and above.
Many of the runners will be used to running in hot conditions, but none will have run a championship marathon at such a time, finishing in the early hours of the morning. Mentally, physically, physiologically it is going to be a new test for all.
What can be predicted with some reasoning, however, is that, similarly to the men’s race, the women’s contest at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 is most likely to be won by an African or Asian runner in a time that will not be near the top of the year’s world list. Tactics, not times, are the key on these occasions.
In the past decade, the fastest time in which a women’s world marathon title has been won is 2:25:15, recorded by China&rsquo