Tirop, Kamulu to challenge Gudeta at World 10K Bengaluru 2018
Monday - May 21, 2018 6:58 pm ,
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Tirop, Kamulu to challenge Gudeta at World 10K Bengaluru 2018
Bengaluru May 21 (IANS) A strong womens field with elite runners from across the globe has been assembled to challenge Ethiopias IAAF World Half Marathon Valencia 2018 winner Netsanet Gudeta at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 next Sunday.
Gudeta s rivals this weekend will include the Kenyan pair of Agnes Tirop and Pauline Kamulu.
Tirop still only 22 won the 2015 world cross country title and has proven herself to be a formidable competitor on the track as well.
She won the IAAF World Championships 10 000 metre bronze medal in London last summer and showed she is in excellent form earlier this month when she finished second over 3000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha with a personal best of 8:29.09.
Kamulu 23 has spent several years based in Japan but this will be her first trip to India. She surprised many when she took the bronze medal at the IAAF World Half Marathon Valencia 2018.
A third Kenyan Caroline Kipkirui doesn t have the international championships credentials of her two compatriots but has shown stunning form recently while winning the Doha 3000m in a personal best of 8:29.05 and also running a 10km best of 30:28 when finishing second in Prague last month which makes her the fastest woman in Bengaluru and the equal-seventh fastest ever.
Gudeta will also have her compatriots Senbere Teferi and Zeineba Yimer to contend with.
Teferi celebrated her 23rd birthday earlier this month and has silver medals from the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 2015 IAAF World Championships 5000m to her name.
Yimer doesn t turn 20 until next month but won the high-quality Ethiopian half marathon championships in January and followed up that victory with fifth place in Valencia but this will be her debut over the 10km distance on the roads.
However while the favourites for the 2018 women s title appear to be from Ethiopia and Kenya TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 race promoters Procam International have recruited elite athletes from across the world with top runners from Europe Oceania and South America.
The TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 an IAAF Gold Label Road Race has a total prize fund of $213 000.
--IANS tri/bg
Gudeta s rivals this weekend will include the Kenyan pair of Agnes Tirop and Pauline Kamulu.
Tirop still only 22 won the 2015 world cross country title and has proven herself to be a formidable competitor on the track as well.
She won the IAAF World Championships 10 000 metre bronze medal in London last summer and showed she is in excellent form earlier this month when she finished second over 3000m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha with a personal best of 8:29.09.
Kamulu 23 has spent several years based in Japan but this will be her first trip to India. She surprised many when she took the bronze medal at the IAAF World Half Marathon Valencia 2018.
A third Kenyan Caroline Kipkirui doesn t have the international championships credentials of her two compatriots but has shown stunning form recently while winning the Doha 3000m in a personal best of 8:29.05 and also running a 10km best of 30:28 when finishing second in Prague last month which makes her the fastest woman in Bengaluru and the equal-seventh fastest ever.
Gudeta will also have her compatriots Senbere Teferi and Zeineba Yimer to contend with.
Teferi celebrated her 23rd birthday earlier this month and has silver medals from the 2015 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 2015 IAAF World Championships 5000m to her name.
Yimer doesn t turn 20 until next month but won the high-quality Ethiopian half marathon championships in January and followed up that victory with fifth place in Valencia but this will be her debut over the 10km distance on the roads.
However while the favourites for the 2018 women s title appear to be from Ethiopia and Kenya TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 race promoters Procam International have recruited elite athletes from across the world with top runners from Europe Oceania and South America.
The TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2018 an IAAF Gold Label Road Race has a total prize fund of $213 000.
--IANS tri/bg
