A aggressive area, together with the in-form defending champions Daniel Ebenyo and Sutume Kebede, poses a menace to occasion data on a flatter course and in cooler climate within the Tata Metal World 25K Kolkata to be held right here on Sunday.
Ebenyo and Sutume are eager to run quick and decrease their very own occasion data, 1:11.13 and 1:18:47, in males’s and girls’s occasions respectively and declare the winner’s purse of $15,000 every other than the report bonus of $5,000.
Other than the return of the defending champions for the world’s richest 25K race, providing a complete prize cash of $142,214, the participation of Olympic bronze medallist Benson Kipruto has lifted the profile of the primary World Athletics Gold Label occasion.
The Indian area appears to be like aggressive too because of the presence of title holder Sawan Barwal, 5000m and 10,000m Nationwide report holder Gulveer Singh, former champion Abhishek Pal within the males’s part and TCS World 10K winner Sanjivani Jadhav and Delhi half-marathon winner and native woman Lili Das within the girls’s part.
The Indian winners will get ₹3 lakh every. An occasion report will fetch an extra ₹1 lakh.
The occasion data for Indians stand within the names of Olympian steeplechaser Avinash Sable (1:15:17) and L. Suriya (1:26:53) in males’s and girls’s classes respectively.
Altogether 20,537 runners have registered for the occasion.
Printed – December 14, 2024 05:30 pm IST
