On Sunday in her half-marathon debut, Weini Kelati, 27, ran 66:25 on the Aramco Houston Half Marathon to complete fourth, besting Keira D’Amato‘s former mark of 66:39, set in June at Australia’s Gold Coast Half Marathon. (D’Amato’s file beat Emily Sisson‘s half marathon file of 66:52, set on the 2023 version of the Houston Half.) Born in Eritrea, Kelati was an NCAA 5000m and cross-country champion on the College of New Mexico.
Each males’s and girls’s fields within the Aramco Houston Half Marathon have been loaded with a gifted elite discipline keen to check their health on the quick, flat Houston course (albeit a bit windy Sunday morning, runners reported).
Girls’s race
Ethiopia’s Sutume Kebede gained the ladies’s race in a blistering time of 64:37, adopted in by famend distance runner and 2023 New York Metropolis Marathon champ Hellen Obiri of Kenya in 66:07 and third-place Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba Kejela, who ran 66:24. Diriba gained the 2023 TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October of this yr in 2:23:11.
Sutume Kebede wins the Houston Half Marathon in 1:04:37. pic.twitter.com/gtU5ldHWOd
— Quick Girls (@fast_women) January 14, 2024
Kebede and Obiri ran intently via a lot of the race, setting off at a heated tempo and operating via the primary 5K in 15:16.
In sixth place, Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat ran the second quickest half marathon time of her profession, ending sixth in 67:52.
Congratulations to @EdnaKiplagat4 (@PUMARunning) on a unbelievable 67:52 & sixth place in Aramco Houston Half-Marathon. The 2nd-fastest time of her profession, lacking her 2012 PB by simply 11 seconds. Handed 10k in 31:37. Three months till @bostonmarathon. Publish-race pleasure with @s_grotewold. pic.twitter.com/zOnNbAGMwt
— Boulder Wave (@BoulderWave) January 14, 2024
Jasmine Fehr was the highest (non-elite) Canadian within the ladies’s race, ending twenty fifth in 1::14:09.
Prime ladies:
1. Sutume Kebede 1:04:37
2. Hellen Obiri 1:06:07
3. Buze Diriba 1:06:24
4. Weini Kelati 1:06:25
5. Mestawut Fikir 1:07:36
6. Edna Kiplagat 1:07:52
7. Calli Thackery 1:08:20
8. Makenna Myler 1:08:28
9. Nell Rojas 1:08:52
10. Mercy Chelangat 1:08:58
Males’s race
It was an extremely tight males’s race on Sunday morning, with the highest males ending inside a number of seconds of each other. Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer gained the boys’s race in a dash fimish (Yimer additionally gained in 59:25 in 2020), crossing the road in 60:42 with Kenya’s Wesley Kiptoo was proper on his heels in 60:43. Milkesa Tolosa of Ethiopia took third in 60:45, crossing the road with first American runner Abbabiya Simbassa of Flagstaff, Ariz., who additionally completed in 60:45, a hair behind Tolosa.
#NYCMarathon entrance runners #TamiratTola and #JemalYimer pic.twitter.com/ccxEBGblCE
— Sudhir Chaturvedi (@Sudhir_Chat) November 5, 2023
With Canada’s Moh Ahmed out of the race after struggling a hamstring harm in one among his last coaching classes, Rory Linkletter was the lone Canadian athlete within the males’s elite half-marathon discipline. Linkletter completed in 61:02, a PB for Linkletter. His private better of 61:08 was set at this race in 2022 (a Canadian nationwide file on the time). Linkletter instructed Alan Brookes (race director of the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon) that he was completely happy together with his race, regardless of wishing he had been capable of run three seconds quicker to make sub 61. “Good for a month out from Seville,” Linkletter mentioned.
The longer term is now. Nice run by these two immediately! https://t.co/oPTdP0tfj2
— Rory Linkletter (@ThePapaLinks) January 14, 2024
Linkletter was racing in preparation for the Sevilla Marathon on Feb. 18, aiming for the Olympic customary of two:08:10.
Prime ten males
- Jemal Yimer 1:00:42
- Wesley Kiptoo 1:00:43
- Milkesa Tolosa 1:00:45
- Abbabiya Simbassa 1:00:45
- Diego Estrada 1:00:49
- Rory Linkletter 1:01:02
- Peter Njeru 1:01:13
- Yemane Haileselassie 1:01:34
- Andrew Colley 1:01:39
- Fearghal Curtin 1:01:45
For full outcomes of the 2024 Aramco Houston Half Marathon, head right here.
