This year’s London Marathon winner Daniel Wanjiru will seek to extend Kenya’s record as the most successful nation in the history of the men’s marathon at the IAAF World Championships. The versatile Tola, who finished fifth at last year's IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and sixth at the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, followed his Dubai triumph with victory at the Prague Half Marathon in a PB of 59:37. Tsegay took silver in Beijing two years ago as Ghirmay Ghebreslassie earned Eritrea its first world title. Turkey’s 31-year-old Kaan Kigen Ozbilen could challenge for a medal given his personal best of 2:06:10 this year. The men’s marathon will get underway at 10:55am on Sunday 6 August, with the women’s marathon runners setting off later the same day at 14:00.

Source: Ethiopian News August 01, 2017 02:03 UTC