A nice mixture of worldwide and Indian athletes will attempt to reap the benefits of the flat course and nice climate circumstances and set new marks within the Tata Steel Kolkata 25K right here on Sunday.
While Paris 2024 will likely be excessive on the elite runners’ agenda, the race – providing a complete prize purse of $100000, together with $7500 every for the winners in worldwide women and men classes and ₹2.75 lakh every for victorious Indians in women and men divisions– will take a look at them.
Two-time World championships silver medallist and Delhi half-marathon winner Kenyan Daniel Simiyu Ebenyo, Kenyan Benard Biwott and Ethiopian Haymanot Alew will likely be among the many high worldwide males within the subject.
Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw, the 10K world record-holder, Kenyan Betty Kibet, who has a half-marathon better of 1:06:37, Uganda’s Mercyline Chelangat, the third-place finisher right here final yr with 1:21:31, are among the many main worldwide girls.
Kenya’s Leonard Barsoton (1:12:49) holds the occasion report for males, whereas Bahrain’s Desi Jisa (1:21:04) owns the ladies’s report.
Former Asian marathon champion 35-year-old Gopi T. And Sawan Barwal, who received the bronze medal on the 2023 Asian half-marathon championship with 1:04:30, will likely be among the many distinguished Indian males.
The girls’s subject will likely be led by Ekta Rawat, who was eighth among the many Indians on the Delhi half-marathon, and Reshma Kevate, who completed nineteenth with 34:38 on the TCS World 10K Bengaluru, will likely be among the high Indian girls.
Avinash Sable (1:15:17) and L.Suriya (1:26:53) are the occasion report holders in Indian women and men’s classes.
