At the start of the presen, the 28-year-old Kenyan had clinched silver on the Global Part Marathon Championships in Riga, Latvia. The contest in Latvia used to be a lot harder, and it used to be extra of a for the reason that he would win the Global Athletics Gold Label Highway Race on the 2023 Vedanta Delhi Part Marathon (VDHM) on Sunday.
Ebenyo lived as much as the peak billing and gained the race in 59 mins: 27 seconds, staving off pageant from countrymate Charles Matata, who used to be just about a tiny slower (60.05). Addisu Gobena of Ethiopia got here 3rd, clocking 60:51. Protecting champion Chala Regasa of Ethiopia left the race halfway.
Curiously, some of the top-9 elite global runners within the males’s division, 8 have been Kenyans – the exception being Ethiopian Gobena.
Ebenyo, on the other hand, used to be dissatisfied with the ‘pacers’ of the race and concept he may’ve damaged the direction report (58:53 through Ethiopia’s Amedework Walelegn in 2020) had the pacers no longer been sluggish right through the preliminary levels of the race.
“It was amazing to run in Delhi. However, I am disappointed with my timing. I was aiming for the event record but fell short. But, nevertheless, it was a fantastic experience. Hopefully, I will be able to break the event record next year,” Ebenyo, who steadily trains with the mythical Eluid Kpochoge again in Kenya, stated.
“The pacers were not fast enough. They were especially slow in the first 5 kms, otherwise I could have broken the record,” he rued.
Ebenyo has been in red-hot mode over the utmost two years. But even so the Global Part Marathon silver, he gained the ten,000m silver on the Global Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He had additionally bagged the ten,000m silver on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham utmost yr.
The elite global girls’s race used to be gained through Rio Olympics champion in 10,000m, Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia. Ayana, a winner on the Delhi Part Marathon six years again, gained through clocking 1:07.58 – 30 seconds forward of Uganda’s Stella Chesang (1:08:28). For Chesang, it used to be one playground up from her utmost yr’s end in Delhi. Kenya’s Viola
Chepngeno finished the rostrum, coming house in 1:09:09.
Ayana, identical to Ebenyo, pulled clear of the gather next the primary 5 kms and after simply saved on expanding the govern.
“It was not an easy race and the weather was a bit hot as well. But I am quite happy about winning here (in Delhi),” Ayana stated.
The 31-year-old Ayana used to be out of motion for almost 5 years as she underwent surgical procedure on each knees. In between, she additionally turned into a mom. Ayana began competing once more from April utmost yr, and made the quickest ever girls’s marathon debut on the 2022 Amsterdam Marathon in October.
She gained the race and beat the direction report through virtually 40 seconds.
