He crossed the line alone after distancing Ethiopian Leul Gebresilase five kilometers from the finish. Ugandan Victor Kiplangat won on Sunday August 27 in the men’s marathon event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The 23-year-old rider offers the world title to his country, ten years after his compatriot Stephen Kiprotich.
Victor Kiplangat completed the race in 2 h 08 min and 53 s. Leul Gebresilase finally adorns himself with bronze (2 h 09 min 19 s), overtaken in the last meters of the race by the Israeli vice-champion of Europe Maru Teferi, who wins silver in 2 h 09 min 12 s .
Starting cautiously, Hassan Chahdi managed a superb comeback. He finished seventh (2 h 10 min 45 s), the best French place in the history of the discipline – until then the eleventh place of Philippe Rémond, in 1997, in Athens. Mehdi Frère, he finished eighteenth ; Morhad Amdouni gave up.
In women, Ethiopia believed in the triple
The day before, the women’s event had been marked by an Ethiopian double: Amane Beriso Shankule had beaten her compatriot Gotytom Gebreslase.
The 31-year-old athlete, second in the prestigious Boston Marathon in the spring, finished alone in Heroes’ Square, in the north of Budapest, in 2 h 24 min 23 s, eleven seconds ahead of his youngest, 28 years old, holding of the world title.
Ethiopia could have believed in a hat-trick for a long time, but Yalemzerf Yehualaw got stuck in the last kilometers (5e), in favor of Moroccan Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi 2 h 2 min 17 s), in bronze.