Uganda’s Victor Kiplangat (2s:08.53) surprises the big favorites He will achieve his first major international success by winning the men’s marathon at the World Championships in Athletics, which ends in Budapest this Sunday, where Spain is third in the medal standings. On the podium he was accompanied by Israeli Teferi (fifth in 7km from the end) and Ethiopian Gebresilase, while the Spaniards were far from the finalists and very close to each other (Tariku Novales 21st, Ayad Lamdassem 22nd and Mohamed Chakir 24th).
The story of the new 23-year-old marathon king is curious. Kiplangat was only 19th in the 5,000m at the U20 World Championship in 2016 and finished in the same position in the junior race of the Cross Country World Championship the following year. so much that switched to mountain racing and was declared world champion in Premana in 2017 Five years on the 13-kilometer test, he won the Commonwealth Games marathon in 2022, and this Sunday reigned worldwide.
The participation of the public was remarkable throughout the trip. Despite the early hours (seven o’clock in the morning), it is a clear sign that road tests are gaining public attention. The most confusing note was that the thermometer rose and was already approaching 28 degrees in the final stage of testing (it is expected to rise to 37 on this final World Cup day).
With Ayad Lamdassem as head of theorist ranks at age 41 The Spanish team, who finished fifth at the Tokyo Games, finished the race in principle with İbrahim Chakir and Tariku Novales, with reference to Meritxell Soler’s 27th place in women’s 24 hours ago.
It was initially marked by the fleeting departure of the race. Ser-Od Bat-Ochir is a true character of athletics. The 41-year-old Mongolian was making his eleventh World Cup He led the big leader group in 34 seconds, covering the first five kilometers in a row in less than three minutes (14:59). It didn’t take long for the Asian driver to be caught, and after a few minutes of victory in an occasional practice before, he backed out after the 10th kilometer.
This tenth millennium was completed at 30:35 when Kenyan Timothy Kiplagat led an African-majority group; here Lamdassem (26 to 10) and Chakir (27 to 11) made tires further back (44 to 21) with Novales. . . As the temperature increased, the tonic did not change at the edge of the equator during the transition from the 20th and 2nd floors. Kiplagat still ahead in the half marathon (1 hour:01.36) Hispano-Moroccans are at the same distance 29th and 30th, and Hispano-Ethiopians 38th at 20 seconds.
Ethiopian-based Italian Chiapellini led the 25th kilometer (1hr:17.05) of the marathon just before the crucial moment of the test took place. Its hero is the Ugandan Kiplangat. African changed around 28 and pressed again the entrance of Avenida Andrassy next to the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky útca metro; this meant, among other things, that Lamdassem finally got away with it, as Chakir had already done.
Mountain scene shot of Kiplangat, an athlete with a strong lower body, indirectly led to the fall of his compatriot Stephen Kissa in a collision with one of the Kenyans, and past 30 the truth is that the race was definitely broken, with Kiplangat ahead and a group of 11 behind him. Lamdassem advanced from 20 to 19, Chakir advanced from 26 to 45, and Novales advanced from 29 to 50.
Finally Kiplangat backed by Ethiopian Laul Gebresilase and both prevailed by going 35 (1 hour: 46.53) time giving the impression that they could play the gold medal; Abyssinian Tamirat Tola was third to 15 seconds and the rescued Kissa was fourth to 17 seconds. Lamdassem, who didn’t have the option to be a finalist anyway, lost 1:36. (22nd), Chakir 2:18 (24th) and Novales followed him in five seconds, continuing to climb positions.
kiplangat, current Commonwealth champion and gold medalist in the World Mountain Races six years agoHe kept tightening the rope and gradually began to overcome the resistance of the Ethiopian to imitate his compatriot Joshua Cheptegei (gold at 5,000 meters in this World Cups). The Ugandan athlete was 12 seconds ahead of Gebresilase with 2,175 meters (2 hours:01.52) and 44 seconds ahead of Ethiopian-Israeli Maru Teferi, whose comeback gave him a bronze chance. Lamdassem is twentieth, Novales is already 23rd and Chakir is 24th.
So some things Kiplangat already knew he was the winner as he passed under the Andrassy Avenue footbridge. She began to smile as she stepped onto the orange carpet at the entrance to Plaza de los Héroes. He took the Ugandan flag and began to wave it in front of the Magnificent Monument to the Founders of the Magyar Nation. He won with 2 hours:08.53 and thanked God as soon as he crossed the finish line, completing the climb behind Teferi, reaching silver (2 hours:09.12) and reducing Gebresilase to bronze (2 hours:09.19).
What about the Spanish trio? Step forward in the last third of the test Novales took the 21st place to be the best (2p:12.39), 20 seconds before Lamdassem with Chakir 24. (2 hours: 13.44) followed him (22nd). He was born in Africa in a series of top 11 classified, placing the Japanese Yamashita in twelfth place.