PARIS (Reuters) – Kenya’s Elisha Rotich received the boys’s race and Ethiopia’s Tigist Memuye topped the ladies’s podium on the Paris Marathon on Sunday.
Rotich set a course report as he crossed the road in two hours 4 minutes 21 seconds to complete forward of Ethiopia’s Hailemaryam Kiros. Kenya’s Hillary Kipsambu got here third.
Within the girls’s race, Memuye ran a time of two hours 26 minutes and 12 seconds. Yenenesh Dinkesa and Fantu Jimma got here second and third as Ethiopians swept the rostrum locations.
The Paris Marathon, that includes 60,000 contributors from 145 nations, was initially scheduled for April 11 this 12 months, however was delayed by six months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
The race was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru, modifying by Ed Osmond)
