Sifan Hassan speeds to 2:18:22 Sydney Marathon win

Olympic champion beats Brigid Kosgei whereas Hailemaryam Kiros takes males’s victory in 2:06:06 as Eliud Kipchoge is ninth

Sifan Hassan and Hailemaryam Kiros ran the quickest occasions ever seen in Australia to win the TCS Sydney Marathon on Sunday (Aug 31) because the race joined the World Marathon Majors sequence for the primary time.

Hassan clocked 2:18:22 within the ladies’s race whereas Kiros ran 2:06:06 to be first man residence. It was not Eliud Kipchoge’s day, although, because the Kenyan legend wound up ninth on this undulating course in 2:08:31.

Kiros, 28, gained by 10 seconds from fellow Ethiopian Addisu Gobena with Tebello Ramakongoana of Lesotho third.

Dutch runner Hassan, 32, gained by 34 seconds from Kenya’s former world record-holder Brigid Kosgei with Workenesh Edesa of Ethiopia third in 2:22:05.

“The final 5 kilometres, I’m lifeless,” Hassan mentioned. “It’s the primary main marathon in Australia, in Sydney, and I’m the primary one to win, so it’s large historical past for me.

“I felt so good within the first few 5kms and I feel I pushed too laborious. I pushed actually laborious the final 10km. I used to be like, ‘That’s probably not sensible. I’m going to pay the value’, however I really feel I obtained away with it. I’m so grateful.”

Kipchoge, who turns 41 in November, fell again from the lead group after 30km and mentioned: “I’m blissful to go throughout the end line. I’ve nothing to show.“

Leanne Pompeani was first Australian lady residence in seventh in 2:24:47 with Jess Stenson and Lisa Weightman in eighth and ninth. Haftu Strintzos was the main Australian man in 14th in 2:11:27.

On what was general a barely downhill course and ineligible for file functions, Marcel Hug clocked 87:15 to win the lads’s wheelchair race as Susannah Scaroni took the ladies’s win in 1:45:52.