He crossed the line alone after distancing Ethiopian Leul Gebresilase five kilometers from the finish. Ugandan Victor Kiplangat won Sunday, August 27, in the men’s marathon event of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The 23-year-old runner offers the world title to his country, ten years after his compatriot Stephen Kiprotic.
Victor Kiplangat completed the race in 2h 08min and 53s. Leul Gebresilase finally adorns himself with bronze (2 h 09 min 19 s), overtaken in the last meters of the race by the Israeli vice-champion of Europe Maru Teferi, who wins silver in 2 h 09 min 12 s .
Starting cautiously, Hassan Chahdi managed a superb comeback. He finished seventh (2 h 10 min 45 s), the best French place in the history of the discipline – until then the eleventh place of Philippe Rémond, in 1997, in Athens. Mehdi Frère finished eighteenth; Morhad Amdouni gave up.
Among women, Ethiopia believed in the triple
The day before, the women’s event had been marked by an Ethiopian double: Amane Beriso Shankule had beaten her compatriot Gotytom Gebreslase.
The 31-year-old athlete, second in the prestigious Boston Marathon in the spring, finished alone in Heroes’ Square in northern Budapest in 2:24:23, eleven seconds ahead of her 28-year-old junior. of the world title.
Ethiopia has long been able to believe in the hat-trick, but Yalemzerf Yehualaw stuck in the last kilometers (5th), in favor of the Moroccan Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi 2 h 2 min 17 s), in bronze.
