Kejelcha, Barega, and Mateiko are set to fly the quickest within the Valencia Half Marathon on 27 October 2024.
- Girls’s 10K document holder Agnes Jebet Ngetich will make her debut at 21,097.5 meters within the metropolis the place she achieved her WR in January
Valencia, 3 September 2024.- The Valencia Half Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich has confirmed the names of the worldwide elite athletes who will fly by means of the streets of the Ciudad del Operating on 27 October. The race, organized by SD Correcaminos and Valencia Metropolis Council, nonetheless holds the ladies’s world document (Gidey, 1:02:52 in 2021). The second quickest time on this planet (Kandie, 57:32 in 2020), and might be trying to proceed enhancing on these information this 12 months in a half marathon wherein eight of the highest ten quickest occasions over the space have been achieved.
Within the males’s class, Ethiopians Yomif Kejelcha (57:41) and Selemon Barega (57:50) will compete with Kenya’s Daniel Mateiko (58:26) to be the quickest over the space. The extent of European runners can also be excessive, with the presence in Valencia of athletes comparable to Samuel Barata (Portugal), Pietro Riva (Italy), Amanal Petros (Germany) and Emile Cairess (Nice Britain), who might be joined by the Spanish elite quickly to be confirmed.
And within the ladies’s class, the Valencia Half Marathon (which has the 2 quickest occasions in historical past) will deal with Kenyan runner Agnes Jebet Ngetich, who will make her debut over the space in Valencia. On this metropolis, final January, she broke the world document within the 10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun (28:46, additionally setting the world document for 5K along with her 14:13). Ethiopia’s Tsigie Gebreselama and Kenya’s Lilian Kasait Rengeruk and Catherine Amanang’ole might be her most important rivals vying for victory.
Marc Roig, coach of the occasion’s worldwide elite athletes, assessed this checklist as “the most effective half marathon this 12 months, with high-level duels that intention, as soon as once more, to attain 57-minute performances by a number of athletes. And a transparent problem to the stopwatch within the ladies’s race. By no means earlier than has a debutant taken to the beginning line who has run a 10K in beneath 29 minutes. We’re actually wanting ahead to seeing how briskly the race might be on 27 October”.
See full checklist of worldwide athletes:
| MEN | WOMEN | ||||
| Yomif Kejelcha | 57:41 | ETH | Agnes Ngetich | DEBUT | KEN |
| Selemon Barega | 57:50 | ETH | Tsigie Gebreselama | 1:05:14 | ETH |
| Daniel Mateiko | 58:26 | KEN | Catherine Amanang’ole | 1:05:39 | KEN |
| Tadese Worku | 58:47 | ETH | Ftaw Zeray | 1:06:04 | ETH |
| Isaia Kipkoech | 58:55 | KEN | Tiruye Mesfin | 1:06:31 | ETH |
| Edward Cheserek | 59:11 | KEN | Sheila Chelangat | 1:06:47 | KEN |
| Bravin Kiprop | 59:21 | KEN | Godu Melat Tekle | 1:06:53 | ETH |
| Weldon Langat | 59:22 | KEN | Jesca Chelangat | 1:07:03 | KEN |
| Gemechu Dida | 59:31 | ETH | Samantha Harrison | 1:07:10 | GBR |
| Samuel Barata | 59:40 | POR | Emily Durgin | 1:07:54 | USA |
| Pietro Riva | 59:41 | ITA | Viola Chepngeno | 1:08:05 | KEN |
| Sondre Moen | 59:48 | NOR | Desi Mokonin | 1:08:10 | BRN |
| Tadesse Abraham | 59:53 | SUI | Fotyen Tesfay | 1:08:46 | ETH |
| Amanal Petros | 1:00:09 | GER | Abbie Donnelly | 1:09:10 | GBR |
| Pasquale Selvarolo | 1:00:32 | ITA | Domenika Mayer | 1:09:46 | GER |
| Marc Scott | 1:00:39 | GBR | Margaux Sieracki | 1:09:49 | FRA |
| Denis Kitiyo | 1:00:48 | KEN | Fadouwa Ledhem | 1:09:59 | FRA |
| Diego Estrada | 1:00:49 | USA | Yumi Yoshikawa | 1:10:07 | JPN |
| Emile Cairess | 1:01:01 | GBR | Clara Evans | 1:10:11 | GBR |
| Richard Ringer | 1:01:09 | GER | Jasmin Lau | 1:10:13 | NED |
| Yohanes Chiappinelli | 1:01:14 | ITA | Hanne Verbrugen | 1:10:15 | GER |
| Samuel Fitwi | 1:01:17 | GER | Daniela Torres | 1:10:22 | MEX |
| Iliass Aouani | 1:01:32 | ITA | Esther Pfeiffer | 1:10:24 | GER |
| Birhanu Balew | 1:01:44 | BRN | Moira Stewartova | 1:10:44 | CZE |
| Hillary Bor | 1:01:47 | USA | Lilian Kasait | DEBUT | KEN |
| Morgan Pearson | 1:01:47 | USA | Diana Chepkorir | DEBUT | KEN |
| Davor Aaron Bienenfeld | 1:01:49 | GER | Religion Chepkoech | DEBUT | KEN |
| Rodrigue Kwizera | 1:01:53 | BDI | Ejgayehu Taye | DEBUT | ETH |
| Vincent Langat | DEBUT | KEN | Amanda Vestri | DEBUT | USA |
| Yongzheng Huang | DEBUT | CHN | |||
| Peiyou Feng | DEBUT | CHN | |||
| Santiago Catrofe | DEBUT | URU | |||