Nairobi — Athletics Kenya (AK) have knowledgeable athletes that they should have a set private greatest (PB) occasions if they’re to compete within the marathon and half marathon for this 12 months’s Nairobi Marathon.
In an announcement, the federation stated all male marathoners should have a PB of below 2:20 whereas their feminine counterparts should have run a PB of below 2:32.
Alternatively, these all for competing within the half marathon should have PBs of below 1:05 (males) and below 1:15 (girls).
” athletes will likely be required to offer proof of the place their respective PBs have been attained,” the federation stated.
They added: “Please make sure you present your identification and registration particulars when reaching out. This can facilitate the verification course of and guarantee a clean expertise.”
This 12 months’s version of the street race is slated for July 7 in Nairobi, with majority of the competitors being run on the scenic Nairobi Expressway.
Lots of of runners are anticipated to compete throughout 4 classes, together with 42km, 21km, 11.7km and the 4km household enjoyable run.
Final 12 months’s version was received by Robert Kipkemboi who clocked 2:08:30 within the males’s marathon because the 2020 Sofia Marathon champion Naom Chebet triumphed within the girls’s race in 2:24.33.
Within the half marathon, Ugandan Maxwell clocked 1:00:10 to clinch the boys’s race whereas the 2022 Napoli Metropolis Half Marathon champion Gladys Chepkurui received the ladies’s race in 1:09:06.
