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With six miles left, Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s race appeared to have been ruined after the Ethiopian was left sprawled on the highway after stumbling over a pace bump.
The incident triggered her to lose time over her rivals and later she admitted the faceplant “harm.”
However it didn’t cease the 23-year-old from making historical past on Sunday as she finally crossed the road first to change into the youngest winner of the London Marathon.
Her victory, in two hours, 17 minutes and 25 seconds, was the third quickest time ever within the ladies’s race, the quickest debut time in historical past and an Ethiopian file.
Yehualaw, who had solely ran her first aggressive marathon in April, made her break with 4 miles to go and clocked a outstanding 4:43 mile cut up on mile 24.
2021 champion Joyciline Jepkosgei completed 41 seconds again in second, whereas Ethiopia’s Alemu Megertu was third.
Within the males’s race, Kenya’s Amos Kipruto gained for the primary time, ending in two hours, 4 minutes and 39 seconds.
Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner set new course data as they took the lads’s and ladies’s wheelchair titles respectively.
