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Ethiopia dominated Sunday’s Berlin marathon, with winners in both the men’s and women’s races and runners in five of the six podium places. <\/b><\/p>\n
Milkesa Mengesha, 24, beat Kenya’s Cybrian Kotut by just five seconds in the men’s event, pulling clear in the final stretch to finish in two hours, three minutes 17 seconds. <\/p>\n
Fellow Ethiopian Haymanot Alew was third. <\/p>\n
Tigist Ketema, 26, claimed victory in the women’s event in a time of two hours 16 minutes 42 seconds, more than two minutes ahead of compatriots Mestawot Fikir and Bosena Mulatie.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa broke the women’s world record with a time of 2:11:53 in last year’s race, but while Ketema was five minutes slower than that, her winning time was still the third fastest in the event.<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s Calli Hauger-Thackery, 31, was the first European home in seventh place, finishing less than five minutes behind Ketema in 2:21:24 – the sixth-fastest marathon run of all time by a British woman, external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n David Weir, 45, was second in the men’s wheelchair race, finishing one minute 47 seconds behind Switzerland’s Olympic champion Marcel Hug, who won in a time of 1:27:18. <\/p>\n It was the 50th running of the prestigious event but a number of big names were missing, with the races coming just over a month after the end of the Paris Olympics. <\/p>\n Kenya’s five-time winner Eliud Kipchoge, who won the 2022 men’s race in a then world record time of 2:01:09, was among those not racing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n