HASPA MARATHON HAMBURG ON SUNDAY: Course records and Olympic qualification the targets in Hamburg

HASPA MARATHON HAMBURG ON SUNDAY

Course data and Olympic qualification the targets in Hamburg, by Race Information Service 

World-class fields will go for course data and goal Olympic qualification in Sunday’s Haspa Marathon in Hamburg. Kenya’s defending champion and course report holder Bernard Koech, who tied his greatest with 2:04:09 a 12 months in the past, is again. On the identical time, Gotytom Gebreslase, the World Champion from 2022, is the favourite within the ladies’s race. The Ethiopian, who has a PB of two:18:18, needs to safe the third spot for the Paris Olympic race in Hamburg. Fellow Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw holds Hamburg’s course report of two:17:23. Late entry Nienke Brinkman may also attempt to qualify for Paris. The Dutch runner is the bronze medallist from the European Championships in Munich in 2022.

Organizers of Germany’s largest and quickest spring marathon have registered a report whole of 38,210 runners. Amongst them are 15,000 athletes who will compete within the traditional occasion. “If all goes effectively on Sunday and the pacemakers run a bit extra even and barely sooner, we may see outcomes much like final 12 months. I’m curious to see if Gotytom Gebreslase manages to qualify for Paris and if she will be able to break the course report. However even a sub 2:20 time is particular since we solely have one thus far,“ mentioned chief organizer Frank Thaleiser, who launched an extra bonus of 20,000 Euros for the course data. All runners – women and men – who end contained in the course data share this quantity. If there have been one man and three ladies who clock sooner occasions than the earlier data, they’d every obtain 5,000 Euros. “This fashion, we need to encourage the runners in a number one group to go for a quick time after the final pacemaker has dropped out,“ defined Frank Thaleiser.

“Coaching was going effectively, and in comparison with final 12 months in Hamburg, I’ve reached the identical stage. So if the climate situations are positive then a quick time is feasible,“ mentioned Bernard Koech. It’s extremely unlikely that he may nonetheless be chosen for the Olympic marathon, however he mentioned: “I’ll give all the things, and if they need to choose me, then I might be prepared.“ Bernard Koech is certainly one of seven runners within the race who function private bests of sub 2:05:00. Whereas Ethiopia’s Getaneh Molla is the quickest on the beginning listing at 2:03:34, he has not reached such occasions lately.

Brimin Misoi and Philemon Kiplimo are tipped to be among the many strongest challengers for defending champion Koech. Each have carried out very effectively on German roads up to now. Misoi has gained the Frankfurt Marathon twice in a row. When he defended his title final autumn, the Kenyan improved to 2:04:53 regardless of windy and wet situations. He now intends to run sooner in Hamburg. “I ran the Paris Marathon originally of April. However due to respiration issues, I dropped out and determined to go for Hamburg,“ mentioned Misoi. In Berlin final 12 months, Philemon Kiplimo improved to 2:04:56 and completed eighth in a really aggressive race. “German roads are good for me, so I look ahead to Sunday. I need to run with the main group and enhance my time,“ mentioned Kiplimo, who has an excellent half marathon PB of 58:11.

“We’re planning a tempo within the area of the course report, perhaps barely sooner. Moreover, there might be a very large group of most likely 25 athletes who will goal the two:08:10 Olympic qualifying time“, mentioned Hamburg’s Elite Race Coordinator Jurrie van der Velden of Jos Hermens’ International Administration. “We aren’t fairly positive but, however the ladies’s main group would possibly run a tempo someplace between 2:16 and a pair of:18. There’s a group as effectively that targets Olympic qualification, working sub 2:26:50 tempo.“

“It’s my objective to qualify for the Olympics on Sunday,“ mentioned Gotytom Gebreslase, who surprisingly gained her debut marathon in Berlin in 2021, then went on to develop into World Champion within the following 12 months and took the silver medal eventually 12 months’s world championships in Budapest. Jurrie van der Velden defined that the Ethiopian federation often selects the 2 quickest runners in the course of the qualifying window after which picks the athlete who carried out greatest at main championships so long as that athlete confirms good type. When Gebreselase ran the Nagoya Marathon in March, she didn’t end. “I bought abdomen issues in the course of the race and dropped out after 35k. Then I skilled effectively and determined to run in Hamburg. I’m in good type now and need to run sub 2:18 right here. Maybe I can assault the course report. I’d assume such a efficiency must be sufficient to get chosen,“ mentioned Gotytom Gebreslase.

Nienke Brinkman joined Hamburg’s elite area at quick discover. The European bronze medallist from 2022 has nonetheless not achieved the qualifying time for the Olympics. She ran her PB of two:22:51 in 2022, outdoors the qualifying interval. A 12 months in the past, Brinkman clocked a positive of two:24:58 in Boston, however this course will not be record-eligible, and outcomes don’t depend as qualifying occasions. Nonetheless, it’s a far simpler activity for Brinkman to attain qualification in Hamburg than for Gebreslase. Reaching the qualifying customary 2:26:50 must be sufficient for the previous Durch report holder.

A debutant may effectively be within the combine for at the least a spot on the rostrum: Irine Cheptai, the 2017 World Cross Nation Champion, mentioned, “I began making ready for my marathon debut in January, and coaching went very effectively. I feel I’ll go together with the second group on Sunday,“ mentioned the Kenyan, who has already run a really quick and promising half marathon time of 64:53.

Amongst plenty of German runners, Katharina Steinruck might be the one who may produce the nationwide spotlight in Hamburg. She improved to 2:24:56 this winter and now hopes to interrupt the household report: It was precisely 25 years in the past when Katrin Dörre-Heinig, the bronze medallist of the 1988 Olympic marathon in Seoul, gained the Hamburg Marathon with 2:24:35. For a few years this remained the German marathon report. “It’s my purpose to interrupt my Mum’s report, and it will be nice if I may do it in Hamburg,“ mentioned Steinruck.

Elite Runners with Private Bests

MEN:

Getaneh Molla ETH 2:03:34

Bernard Koech KEN 2:04:09

Roland Korir KEN 2:04:22

Dickson Chumba KEN 2:04:32

Barselius Kipyego KEN 2:04:48

Brimin Misoi KEN 2:04:53

Philemon Kiplimo KEN 2:04:56

Oqbe Ruesom ERI 2:05:51

Haymanot Alew ETH 2:05:57

Tsedat Ayana ETH 2:06:18

Geoffrey Kirui KEN 2:06:27

Olivier Irabaruta BDI 2:07:13

Jake Robertson NZL 2:08:26

Amaury Paquet BEL 2:08:44

Martin Musau UGA 2:08:45

Benjamin Preisner CAN 2:08:58

Ebba Tulu Chala SWE 2:09:06

Therence Bizosa BDI 2:09:18

Maxim Raileanu MDA 2:09:22

Jorge Castelblanco PAN 2:09:24

Joaquim Arbe ARG 2:09:36

Yohannes Chiappinelli ITA 2:09:46

Paul Tanui KEN 2:09:57

Abraham Cheroben KEN Debüt

WOMEN:

Gotytom Gebreslase ETH 2:18:18

Winfridah Moseti KEN 2:20:55

Sharon Chelimo KEN 2:22:07

Kidsan Alema ETH 2:22:28

Nienke Brinkman NED 2:22:51

Natasha Wodak CAN 2:23:12

Margaret Wangari KEN 2:23:52

Jessica Augusto POR 2:24:25

Ayantu Kumela ETH 2:24:29

Katharina Steinruck GER 2:24:56

Fadouwa Ledhem FRA 2:25:50

Ellie Pashley AUS 2:26:21

Sara Ribeiro POR 2:26:39

Rabea Schöneborn GER 2:27:03

Daiana Ocampo ARG 2:27:16

Kristina Hendel GER 2:27:29

Isabel Oropeza Vazque MEX 2:27:57

Irine Cheptai KEN Debut

Aminet Ahmed ETH Debüt