Yalemzerf Yehualaw, Winfridah Moseti, Tsegaye Getachew and Philemon Kiplimo among the many line-up for Sunday’s race
Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Winfridah Moseti are aiming to interrupt Almaz Ayana’s ladies’s course file of two:17:20 on the TCS Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday (Oct 20) whereas Tsegaye Getachew and Philemon Kiplimo will likely be hoping to get near Tamirat Tola’s course greatest of two:03:38.
Yehualaw, 25, already has a greatest of two:17:23 – set in Hamburg final 12 months – and the Ethiopian received the London Marathon in 2022.
She says: “I wish to give my greatest on Sunday, and naturally, I’ve come to win. I’m wanting ahead to the assist from the Amsterdam crowd.”
Kenya’s Moseti, who set a PB of two:18:25 earlier this 12 months, provides: “Coaching has gone effectively, so I anticipate consequence.”
With circumstances anticipated to be good for marathon operating with temperatures of round 15C and a lightweight southerly breeze, Kiplimo, whose greatest is 2:04:56, says: “Coaching has gone effectively, and I really feel match. I anticipate consequence.”
Getachew is probably the favorite within the males’s race, although, given the very fact he received the race in 2022. “Amsterdam modified my life,” he says. “I bear in mind not with the ability to run the final kilometre, however the unbelievable crowd actually carried me.
“I’ve run in Tokyo and Paris, however Amsterdam’s course actually fits me. I’ve educated effectively, and I’ve two objectives: to win and to set a private greatest.”
His private greatest stands at 2:04:49.
The occasion will likely be proven on Discovery+ and Eurosport and begins 9am native time within the metropolis’s Olympic stadium.
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