19-year-old Emmanuel Wafula dominated the lads’s race after reaching the 10km mark in 28 minutes and 14 seconds and ending the marathon in 59’58”.
Kenyan athletes recorded a double triumph on the first version of the Rome Half Marathon, which passed off on Sunday morning within the central streets of the Italian capital.
According to official outcomes, 19-year-old Emmanuel Wafula dominated the lads’s race after protecting the ten kilometers in 28 minutes and 14 seconds.”.
Wafula broke away from fellow Kenyans Gideon Kiprotich Rop and Antony Kimtai, operating solo close to the Colosseum earlier than ending in 59’58”.
Rop completed second with a time of 1h00’57”, whereas Kimtai accomplished the rostrum with 1h02’23”.
Daniele D’Onofrio, the primary Italian to cross the end line, completed sixth with a last time of 1h05’34”, behind the European 5,000 meters champion Ilias Fifa, who accomplished the lads’s race in 1h05’22”.
In the ladies’s race Nancy Sang shone with a private greatest over the 10km distance in a time of 31’39, recorded in April. The time ranks among the many high 30 international performances of the season. Sang completed the Rome half marathon in 1h06’52.
Behind her was the Ethiopian Fantu Worku Taye, who completed in 1h07’30” and the Kenyan Evaline Chirchir in 1h07’47”. Seventh place for the Italian Sofia Yaremchuk in 1h13’28”.
According to the organizers, over 17 thousand members registered for the marathon which noticed them run alongside the historic websites of Rome.
