Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 3 (ANI): Kenya’s Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli and Irene Cheptai will return to defend their males’s and ladies’s crowns respectively on the World 10K Bengaluru on Sunday, May 21, after successful the distinguished World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, with course data final 12 months.Kipkorir Kimeli scorched the course in a time of 27:38 and Cheptai stormed to victory in 30:35 within the USD 210,000 prize fund street race, the landmark fifteenth version of which is able to function a formidable International Elite area. Enthusiastic amateurs from throughout the nation and the world descend on the Garden City, to absorb the ambiance and benefit from the race.”I am excited to be defending my title. I have prepared well and am feeling confident,” stated Kipkorir Kimeli as per a press launch from 10K Bengaluru.
The prime 12 runners within the males’s area, maintain private bests beneath the course report and the highest 3 have timed under 27 which makes the present line-up one of many closest and best. In the ladies’s part, the highest 4 runners have private bests beneath the course report.”I am thrilled to be back in Bengaluru and I have fond memories of India. I have trained well, but a lot depends on how you feel on race day,” stated Cheptai.Also within the males’s fray are Ethiopians Gemechu Dida and Birhanu Legese, Ugandan Stephen Kissa and Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe, who completed seventh at this 12 months’s World Cross Country Championships in Australia.Legese is a two-time winner of the Tokyo Marathon, a silver medalist on the Berlin Marathon and a former champion of the Delhi Half Marathon and the Kolkata 25K. However, the highest spot has eluded him on the World 10K Bengaluru the place he completed on the rostrum just a few occasions.”I am feeling very positive but I hope that things fall my way,” stated Legese, the world’s fourth quickest male marathoner in regards to the occasion which is sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).Dida is in good type after successful the 10K in Lille, France in March and in addition completed fourth on the RAK Half Marathon within the UAE in February.Kissa, a Tokyo Olympian over the ten,000m, brings years of monitor pace to the street and clocked a formidable 2:04.48 on his debut Haspa Marathon in Hamburg in 2022. He additionally secured a third-placed end on the 2020 Delhi Half Marathon in 58:56.On the distaff aspect, Ethiopia’s Dera Dida, the 2019 World Cross Country silver medallist, ran a private report and took dwelling her first marathon victory in 2:21:11 on the Dubai Marathon in February this 12 months. Dida is married to Tamirat Tola, the world marathon champion.Among the favourites for the ladies’s honours can be the gifted Tsehay Gemechu, who took second place at this 12 months’s Tokyo Marathon in 2:16.56.TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2023 elite fields (with 10km private greatest occasions)MEN: Nicholas Kimelli KEN/1998 26:51Sebastain Sawe KEN/1995 26:54Rodrigue Kwizera BUR/1999 26:56Mathew Kimeli KEN/1998 27:04Kennedy Kimutai KEN/1999 27:09Chimdessa Debele ETH/2003 27:10Gemechu Dida ETH/1999 27:12Stephen Kissa UGA/1988 27:13 Patrick Mosin KEN/2000 27.26Milkesa Menngesha ETH/2000 27:00:24Birhanu Legese ETH/194 27:34Muktar Edris ETH/1994 27:57Maru Teferi ISR/1992 28:18Mark Lomuket KEN/1999 28:27Solomon Berihu ETH/1999 27:02:26Hillary Chepkwony KEN/1999 DebutLevy Kibet KEN/2003 DebutWOMEN: Irene Cheptai KEN/1992 30:16 Jesca CHELANGAT KEN/1998 30:01Vicoty Chepnngeno KEN/1993 30:14Tsehay Gemechu ETH/1998 30:15Evaline Chrichir KEN/1998 30:43Purity Komen KEN/1998 30:49Dera Dida ETH/1996 30:51Yalemget Yaregal Mekuriyaw ETH/2003 30:54Aberash Minsewo ETH/2001 50:58Viola Chepngeno KEN/1998 31:05Dawit Seyaum ETH/1996 31:25Anchialem Haymanot ETH/2001 31:50Aminet Ahmed ETH/2000 31:56Rahel Daniel ERI/2001 32:23Fotyen Tesfaye ETH/1998 32:39Magdalena Shauri TAN/1996 32:40Catherine Reline AMANANG’OLE KEN/2002 Debut. (ANI)