Bengaluru (Karnataka)[India], May 8 (ANI): Rhonex Kipruto, the boys’s world 10K highway race world-record holder, will go for gold on the landmark fifteenth version of the World Athletics Gold Label, World 10K Bengaluru on Sunday.
The Kenyan set a world mark of 26:24 in January 2020 in Valencia (Spain), a yr after claiming the ten,000m monitor bronze on the World Athletics Championship in Doha.
The 23-year-old, a former World U-20 10,000m champion, headlines an thrilling discipline within the USD 210,000 prize fund race that features 14 runners with private bests beneath the course file of 27:38 set final yr by defending champion Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli of Kenya.
The race guarantees to be a deal with for working aficionados given the proficient combine on the males’s begin line that features, aside from Kipruto and Kipkorir Kimeli, Gemechu Dida (successful the 10K in Lille, France in March), Birhanu Legese (the world’s fourth quickest male marathoner), Stephen Kissa (2:04.48 on his debut Haspa Marathon in Hamburg in 2022), and Sabastian Sawe (who completed seventh at this yr’s World Cross Country Championships in Australia).
The ladies’s discipline is equally thrilling, with defending champion Irene Cheptai (Kenya), Ethiopia’s Dera Dida, the 2019 World Cross Country silver medallist), and the proficient Tsehay Gemechu (who took second place at this yr’s Tokyo Marathon in 2:16.56), a launch mentioned.
The Elite winner takes residence USD 26,000, and an Event Record bonus of USD 8,000 additional incentivizes the athletes.
Kipruto got here fourth with a time of 27:09 within the Adizero Road to Records occasion in Germany final month, which was gained by Sawe in 26:49 to maneuver to fifth place on the boys’s world 10km all-time checklist. Kipkorir Kimeli was third within the race in 26:54.
“Considering the quality of the field there is big chance a new course record will be set this year. I hope that will be me! I’m thrilled to be coming to India. I’ve heard so much about this event and the field is truly exceptional,” Kipruto mentioned.
“This elite athlete field is amazing. It’s like a World Championship taking place here in Bengaluru. It’s going to be exhilarating, both for the Elites and the amateurs. Can’t wait for May 21,” mentioned Vivek Singh, Jt MD of race promoter Procam International. (ANI)