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Barcelona Half Marathon 2016: Ghirmay Ghebreselassie and Florence Kiplagat, clear favorites
The Eritrean athlete stunned the athletics world by proclaiming only 19 world champion marathon last August at the IAAF World Championships held in Beijing
February 10, 2016
The Eritrean athlete Ghirmay Ghebreslassie , marathon world champion in Beijing 2015, will be the favorite in the men in the last minute of Barcelona Half Marathon , which is run next February 14 in Barcelona which also compete the Kenyan Florence Kiplagat current world record holder of half marathon .
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie stunned the athletics world by proclaiming only 19 world champion marathon last August at the IAAF World Championships held in Beijing, becoming the first gold medal in a World Cup and Eritrea in the corridor youngest player to score the victory in the competition of athletics.
2h.12 with a time of 27 (his personal best in this distance is 2h.07: 47), left behind Kenyan favorites in this test, Wilson Kipsang and Dennis Kimetto, world record holder in the distance (2h. 2:53), who did not complete the race.
Now he wants to show in Barcelona that his victory in Beijing was not an isolated success. "I get to Barcelona with the intention to win and beat my own personal record in the half marathon," he assured. "I have spoken highly of the Barcelona test, and of course I am aware that here got twice the world record Florence Kiplagat. I am very happy because in Barcelona I will come with my training partner Merhawi Kesete, so my goal be on the podium and get my personal best in this distance, "said the Eritrean.
Ghebreslassie has its best record in the distance in 1h: 00.09 and you want to run under 60 minutes in Barcelona. Next to the London Marathon next April, the Barcelona Half Marathon will be a litmus test to measure his fitness, facing the Rio Olympics to be held this summer.
Besides Kiplagat and Ghebreslassie, African Legion also will feature the Ethiopian Hunegnaw Mesfin with a personal best 59.39 in half marathon, fellow Abera Kuma (1h.00: 19), the Kenyan Josphat Kiprono Menjo (1h.01: 43) and the Eritrean Merhawi Kesete (1h.01: 43).
The test will have an exceptional European participation, since the six-week test run before the World Half Marathon. In the case of elite names like Italian Simone Gariboldi , the Swedish Mustafa Mohamed and the French Nicolas Navarro and Dejamel Bachiri .
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