That is the story of the 2025 Cali Marathon, in Cali, Colombia. The story is from Race Information Companies and pictures by Victah Sailer of PhotoRun.web
CALI MARATHON IN COLOMBIA:
Evans Mayaka comes from behind whereas Emmah Ndiwa dominates in Cali
When Evans Mayaka dropped off the lead he was sharing with Kenyan colleague Bonface Kiplimo at 35k within the inaugural Maratón de Cali (Colombia) on Sunday morning, it seemed just like the five-minute distinction of their private bests, 2:10:00 for Mayaka and a couple of:05:05 for Kiplimo, was asserting itself. Kiplimo’s growing lead over the subsequent 5 kilometres solely served to underline that. However, with two kilometres to run, Kiplimo started to falter; Mayaka noticed his alternative and with lower than a kilometre to the end, Mayaka swept into the lead and raced to victory in 2:11:04, nearly half a minute forward of his compatriot.
Emmah Ndiwa’s distant victory within the ladies’s race, in 2:29:26 made it yet one more Kenyan double-header in a world marathon, however that was removed from assured on the onset of proceedings, since Gabriel Geay of Tanzania was the excellent favorite within the males’s race, as was Helalia Johannes of Namibia on the ladies’s. The latter by no means featured within the main group, which was already down to 3 – Ndiwa and the Ethiopians Nigist Muluneh and Adenech Mekonnen – by midway in 74:50. And Geay was additionally threatening to drop off effectively earlier than the lead pack of eight handed midway within the males’s race in 64:56.
Geay was quickly gone, and by gradual attrition, Richard Rop’s tempo proved an excessive amount of for an additional Kenyan colleague Eric Kiptanui, Daniel Paulus of Namibia, Mogos Soloman of Eritrea and Peter Qambaway of Tanzania. When Rop dropped out at 32k, that left Mayaka and Kiplimo to play out their thrilling endgame.
‘I believed I had the race received at 35k when Evans fell again,’ mentioned Kiplimo, however I ran out of power with three kilometres to go, and I couldn’t reply as he got here previous’. An exuberant, Mayaka, who bears a facial resemblance to former world file holder Eliud Kipchoge, mentioned, ‘I used to be resigned to second place till after 40k, after I realised Bonface was slowing. It was an incredible feeling to go him at 41k and know that the race was mine’.
In distinction, Ndiwa dropped her rivals shortly after midway, at which level she caught former (males’s) world file holder, 41 12 months previous Dennis Kimetto. She mentioned afterwards, ‘I didn’t anticipate to be working alone from 21k, so I focussed on holding my kind and attending to the end line in first place’.
The drizzle for the primary hour of the race, earlier than daybreak may have been very welcome for almost all of the 11,000+ contributors from 39 international locations for this inaugural occasion, as will the salsa bands and vibrant murals dotting the largely flat course round Santiago de Cali. However given the 19C (66F) temperature on the 5am begin, the 95% humidity and the 1000+ metres altitude of Cali, Mayaka’s precedence now must be to discover a temperate sea-level marathon the place he can publish a time adjoining to that of Kiplimo and forge on together with his profession.
RESULTS, MEN:
1 Evans MAYAKA KEN 2.11.04
2 Bonface KIPLIMO KEN 2.11.27
3 Daniel PAULUS NAM 2.15.19
4 Mogos SOLOMAN ERI 2.17.25
5 Jorge CASTELBLANCO PAN 2.17.47
6 Peter QAMBAWAY TAN` 2.18.04
7 David GOMEZ COL 2.19.59
8 Santiago ZERDA COL 2.21.33
WOMEN:
1 Emmah NDIWA KEN 2.29.26
2 Nigist MULUNEH ETH 2.32.24
3 Adenech MEKONNEN ETH 2.36.18
4 Helalia JOHANNES NAM 2.37.29
5 Alexandra ALDANA COL 2.40.41
6 Mildrey ECHEVARRIA COL 2.41.07
7 Rosa CHACHA ECU 2.41.29
8 Kellys ARIAS COL
Extra info is out there on-line at: https://maratondecali.co/en
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