Amos Kipruto wins the men’s 2022 London Marathon as Yalemzerf Yehualaw clinches women’s gold

After the fall got here the rise. Not many athletes can climb up from a face-plant to win the London Marathon however Yalemzerf Yehualaw is quickly rising as a runner who doesn’t conform to the ordinary requirements.

The Ethiopian’s victory throughout two hours, 17 minutes and 26 seconds on Sunday was staggering, each in her revival from tumbling over a pace bump six miles from the tape, and likewise in what it heralded, with the 23-year-old turning into the youngest winner of this race in historical past.

That it was solely her second ever marathon, six months after profitable her first in Hamburg, would point out she has a greater shot than most in her acknowledged ambition of someday breaking the 2:14.04 world document of Brigid Kosgei.

Yalemzerf Yehualaw dominated to take a maiden victory in the women’s London Marathon race

Yehualaw recovered from a fall at the 33km mark after showing to journey on a pace bump

‘I had a dream to be a professional athlete and to run in these races,’ she stated. ‘I am so happy to win on my first time in London. London people were shouting a lot and it inspired me.

‘I am thinking of the longer plan I have that I would like to break the world record.’

Kosgei, the dominant Kenyan athlete, was amongst the many main names who withdrew injured forward of this race, which cleared a sizeable hurdle for Yehualaw. However, one other introduced itself after 20 miles, when she misplaced round 25metres on the main group of eight when she fell arduous over the pace bump.

Kenya’s Amos Kipruto stormed to victory to clinch his first-ever London Marathon win

‘I hurt my hip and knee,’ she stated, earlier than a member of her workforce confirmed she bumped her head as effectively. Despite that setback, she reeled the pack in and by the twenty fourth mile it had change into a two-woman showdown with the defending champion Joyciline Jepkosgei.

That was when Yehualaw ran a storming mile of 4 minutes and 43 seconds, the quickest ever recorded in a girls’s marathon, and left the Kenyan in her wake. Her time was the third quickest in the 42 years of the race.

The males’s occasion was received by Amos Kipruto in 2:04.39 after breaking three miles from dwelling. The main British runner was ninth-placed Waynay Ghebresilasie, who carried the flag for Eritrea at London 2012 earlier than searching for asylum right here. 

Weynay Ghebresilasie was the first Briton over the line in the men’s marathon race

The 28-year-old stated: ‘Before the 2012 Olympics my country was not in a good situation, that’s why I stayed in Britain. I was in Sunderland and then moved to Birmingham and I’m in Scotland now.

‘My plan is to run at the World Championships and the Paris Olympics for Great Britain.’

Meanwhile, Eilish McColgan, who pulled out due to blood sugar points which are exacerbated over the marathon distance, set a brand new European 10km highway document by clocking 30:18 at the Great Scottish Run.