On Sunday, in her half-marathon debut, Weini Kelati, 27, ran 66:25 on the Aramco Houston Half Marathon to complete fourth, besting Keira D’Amato‘s former American document of 66:39, set in June at Australia’s Gold Coast Half Marathon.
Born in Eritrea, Kelati was an NCAA 5,000m and cross-country champion, working for the College of New Mexico.
Each males’s and girls’s fields within the Houston Half Marathon have been loaded with expertise keen to check their health on the quick, flat Houston course (albeit a bit windy Sunday morning, runners reported).
Ladies’s race
Ethiopia’s Sutume Kebede gained the ladies’s race in a blistering time of 64:37, adopted by famend distance runner and 2023 New York Metropolis Marathon champ Hellen Obiri of Kenya in 66:07 and third-place Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba Kejela, who ran 66:24. Diriba gained the 2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October 2023 in 2:23:11.
Sutume Kebede wins the Houston Half Marathon in 1:04:37. pic.twitter.com/gtU5ldHWOd
— Quick Ladies (@fast_women) January 14, 2024
Kebede and Obiri ran carefully by a lot of the race, setting off at a heated tempo and working by the primary 5K in 15:16.
In sixth place, Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat ran the second-fastest half marathon time of her profession at age 44, ending in 67:52. Jasmine Fehr was the highest (non-elite) Canadian within the ladies’s race, ending twenty fifth in 1:14:09.
Prime ladies:
1. Sutume Kebede 1:04:37
2. Hellen Obiri 1:06:07
3. Buze Diriba 1:06:24
4. Weini Kelati 1:06:25
5. Mestawut Fikir 1:07:36
6. Edna Kiplagat 1:07:52
7. Calli Thackery 1:08:20
8. Makenna Myler 1:08:28
9. Nell Rojas 1:08:52
10. Mercy Chelangat 1:08:58
Males’s race
It was an extremely tight males’s race on Sunday morning, with the highest males ending inside a number of seconds of each other. Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer gained in a dash fimish (Yimer additionally gained in 59:25 in 2020), crossing the road in 60:42 with Kenya’s Wesley Kiptoo on his heels, in 60:43. Milkesa Tolosa of Ethiopia took third in 60:45, crossing the road with first American runner Abbabiya Simbassa of Flagstaff, Ariz., who additionally completed in 60:45, a hair behind Tolosa.
#NYCMarathon entrance runners #TamiratTola and #JemalYimer pic.twitter.com/ccxEBGblCE
— Sudhir Chaturvedi (@Sudhir_Chat) November 5, 2023
With Canada’s Moh Ahmed out of the race after struggling a hamstring harm in considered one of his remaining coaching periods, Rory Linkletter was the lone Canadian athlete within the males’s elite half-marathon area. Linkletter completed in 61:02, a PB. His private better of 61:08 was set at this race in 2022 (a Canadian nationwide document on the time). Linkletter advised Canadian Working that he was joyful together with his race, regardless of wishing he had been capable of run three seconds quicker to make sub-61. “Good for a month out from Seville,” Linkletter stated, referring to his objective race, the Seville Marathon, on Feb. 18, the place he can be aiming for the Olympic commonplace of two:08:10.
Two thumbs up from Linkletter!
A private better of 61:02 and a seventh general end on the Houston Half!
📷: @alnbrookes pic.twitter.com/w53wGZSlBC
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) January 14, 2024
Prime ten males
- Jemal Yimer 1:00:42
- Wesley Kiptoo 1:00:43
- Milkesa Tolosa 1:00:45
- Abbabiya Simbassa 1:00:45
- Diego Estrada 1:00:49
- Rory Linkletter 1:01:02
- Peter Njeru 1:01:13
- Yemane Haileselassie 1:01:34
- Andrew Colley 1:01:39
- Fearghal Curtin 1:01:45
For full outcomes of the 2024 Aramco Houston Half Marathon, head right here.
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