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Reigning World Road Running bronze medallist, Catherine Reline Amanang\u2019ole ran the third fastest time in Abu Dhabi winning the women\u2019s 42km race at sixth edition of the \u00a0Abu Dhabi Marathon held \u00a0Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n The 22 year-old who also took the bronze medal at this year\u2019s Copenhagen Half Marathon, took charge of the race from the halfway mark and strolled on with her two pacemakers after dropping Ethiopia\u2019s Dolshi Tesfu\u2019s who could not respond to her kick and surged further alone on her second marathon debut, cutting the tape first in a new personal best of 2:20.34.<\/p>\n Amanang\u2019ole was followed in second place by the two-time Olympian for Eritrea Tesfu in 2:23.47 with Aurelia Jerotich Kiptui from Kenya cutting over five minutes from her previous life time as she sealed the podium in a new personal best of 2:26.28.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m thrilled at the result, it being my first marathon. I have been training for this but I wasn\u2019t so sure that I would win,\u201d said Amanang\u2019ole.<\/p>\n \u201cThe flat course and cooler weather very good for the run and the weather patterns were very good for the run. My pacemakers in the race did a good job to keep me going until the end,\u201d said the Sirikwa Classic Cross Country third place finisher.<\/p>\n The race course record of 2:19.15, set last year by Kenya\u2019s Brigid Kosgei remains standing.<\/p>\n\n Meanwhile Ethiopia\u2019s Chala Ketema Regasa produced a strong finish to become the first Ethiopian to win the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n Regasa raced in the leading group all through the 42.2-kilometre distance before kicking for home to cross the line in 2hrs 6mins and 16secs, just missing out in bettering his personal best of 2:06.11.<\/p>\n His timing was the fourth best in six editions of the Abu Dhabi Marathon behind the record 2:04.40 set by Kenyan Reuban Kipyego set in 2019.<\/p>\n Ibrahim Bouh of Djibouti was 17 seconds behind Regasa in second and joining them on the podium was Kenyan Wilfred Kigen, who crossed the finishing line in 2:06.47 in third.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything panned out well for me today. The course and the weather were fantastic, and of course the result was, like, over the moon for me,\u201d Regasa said of his win.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m also very proud and honoured to become the first from Ethiopia to win the Abu Dhabi Marathon. I\u2019m going to take a small break and then continue with my training and bring more glory to my country.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Catherine Amanang\u2019ole wins Abu Dhabi Marathon<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Reigning World Road Running bronze medallist, Catherine Reline Amanang\u2019ole ran the third fastest time in Abu Dhabi winning the women\u2019s 42km race at sixth edition of the \u00a0Abu Dhabi Marathon held \u00a0Saturday. The 22 year-old who also took the bronze medal at this year\u2019s Copenhagen Half Marathon, took charge of the race from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}