The 2022 world 3000m indoor champion and the 29:47 10,000m runner will face off within the tRUNsylvania 10km ladies’s race on September 22
Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu and Kenya’s Grace Loibach Nawowuna head an excellent ladies’s elite area for the 2024 tRUNsylvania 10km on Sunday September 22.
The tRUNsylvania 10km varieties a part of the fourth version of the well-known Brasov Working Pageant, which will even characteristic the European Highway Mile the day prior to this on September 21.
Hailu, the 2022 World Indoor Championships 3000m gold medallist, has solely had 4 street races over all distances in her profession however is shortly adapting to the floor and has the credentials on the observe – together with a sub-30 10,000m – which suggests she is due for an enormous revision of her comparatively modest 10km better of 31:23.
Nawowuna, who continues to be solely 20, made an enormous breakthrough in 2023 which noticed her end fourth on the World Cross Nation Championships and run 29:47.42 for 10,000m on the observe, making her the third quickest girl of the 12 months on this occasion.
She has adopted this up in 2024 with a sequence of constant performances together with profitable two high-quality 10km races in Lille, France and Boulder, USA earlier this 12 months.
Elle St Pierre, Lemlem Hailu and Ejgayehu Taye (Getty)
The sector additionally contains two ladies who’ve run underneath half-hour for 10km on the roads this 12 months, the Kenyan duo of Janeth Chepngetich and Loice Chemnung. They’re the quickest two ladies within the area on 10km instances and are presently sixth and ninth on the 2024 world checklist.
One other 5, together with Loibach Nawowuna, have 10km private bests of underneath 31 minutes.
As well as, there shall be quite a lot of curiosity within the efficiency of Ethiopia’s 20-year-old Godu Mulat Tekle who might solely have run 32:40 for 10km at altitude on dwelling soil however who gained the Berlin half marathon in 66:53.
The tRUNsylvania 10km is a World Athletics Elite Label Race and the one street race of this standing in Romania. It takes place over a super-fast three lap course within the trendy Coresi district of Brasov.
The main ladies’s runners are:
Janeth Chepngetich (KEN)
Loice Chemnung (KEN)
Grace Loibach Nawowuna (KEN)
Yeshanesh Asmarech Anley (ETH)
Christine Njoki (KEN)
Nelvin Jepkemboi (KEN)
Judy Kemboi (KEN)
Lemlem Hailu (ETH)
Daisy Jepkemei (KAZ)
Gladys Kwamboka (KEN)
Lili Anna Vindics-Tóth (HUN)
Stella Rutto (ROU)
Lemlem Nibret Alemu (ETH)
Godu Mulat Tekle (ETH)
Ronald Kwemoi (Getty)
“We now have a three-lap course that may be very fast and has been designed to provide quick instances in addition to enable followers to get shut up and expertise the thrills of watching world class runners in motion,” stated race director Daniel Santa. “With the sphere we’ve assembled I believe we will anticipate some performances this 12 months that may make an influence on the world all-time checklist.”
The ladies’s course file in Brasov is held by Kenya’s Sheila Kiprotich, who ran 30:07 in 2022.
The tRUNsylvania 10km males’s elite area options Olympic 5000m silver medallist Ronald Kwemoi and tRUNsylvania 10km defending champion Weldon Langat.
The Brasov Working Pageant 2024 takes place towards the spectacular backdrop of the Carpathian Mountains and near the centre of the historic and picturesque Transylvanian metropolis which may date its origins again to the thirteenth century.
Each the tRUNsylvania 10km and European Highway Mile shall be streamed dwell through the Brasov Working Pageant YouTube channel.
Particulars of all of the Brasov Working Pageant 2024 races, could be discovered right here.
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