Amane Beriso Shankule led an Ethiopian one-two in the women’s marathon at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, clocking 2:24:23 at the finish in Heroes’ Square ahead of defending champion Gotytom Gebreslase, who took silver in 2:24:34. Kenya’s Wanjiru and Kaptich were in the hunt, although not running together, along with Salpeter, Gardadi and Nazret Weldu of Eritrea. Salpeter led a group of nine runners through 30km in 1:44.26; by 32km the lead group, going through in 1:50:59, was down to Salpeter, Wanjiru and the Ethiopian unit. At 40km, Shankule led in 2:16.50, with Gebreslase at 2:17:14, Yehualaw at 2:17:33 and Gardadi another 20 seconds back. “We got the lead group down to six and then we pushed away with four of us.

Source: Ethiopian News August 26, 2023 09:27 UTC