Each the 2023 Houston Half Marathon and Houston Marathon males’s races introduced followers a thrill on Sunday with extremely shut main runners sprinting proper right down to the final second.
Males’s Half Marathon
Ethiopian runner Leul Gebresilase Aleme, 30, took the general win in 60:34, preventing it out proper till the end, successful the race in a dash (leading to a photo-finish) to edge out runner-up Kenya’s Wesley Kiptoo, 23, by lower than a second (remaining time recorded as 60:35).
The pair had been a part of a males’s main pack that hung collectively till the previous couple of kilometres, once they broke away and commenced choosing up the tempo. Aleme has had an outstanding breakout season, ending second on the 2022 London Marathon in October.
Nice statement by Des Linden: males’s half chief Wesley Kiptoo is not sporting gloves anymore. This can be a man who wears gloves in each race, indoors or out, so you recognize it is getting severe!
Lower than 5k to go… pic.twitter.com/PUG85traa7
— Jonathan Gault (@jgault13) January 15, 2023
Ben Preisner was the highest Canadian finisher within the males’s race, operating to thirteenth place in 62:42. “A small PB, I’m blissful,” Preisner shared post-race. I had a little bit of a tough patch about 7 miles in so I eased it again to about 3 minutes (tempo/km). Then I recovered and acquired in with a superb group.”
Non-binary Half Marathon outcomes
An American trio took the rostrum within the non-binary genderqueer class, with Sam Bruns breaking the tape in 1:24:30. Bruns was adopted by Winter Elements in 1:26:55, and Andrea Werth in 1:55:20.
Chevron Houston Marathon males’s outcomes
Kenyan runner Dominic Ondoro leaned to a win in 2:10:36 in what was the closest battle to the end line on the Houston Marathon since 1996. Ondoro narrowly beat Ethiopia’s Tsedat Ayana to say the victory, whereas Ayana ran to 2:10:37.
That is Ondoro’s second Houston Marathon win, and he gained the 2022 Grandma’s Marathon in June. Teshome Mekonen (previously of Ethiopia, now American) took third place and prime American end in 2:11:05.
Photograph completed throughout in Houston at this time as Dominic Ondoro wins the 2023 @HoustonMarathon by 1 second in 2:10:37 🔥
Teshome Mekonen is the highest American in third in 2:11:05. pic.twitter.com/m835sCCVTN
— CITIUS MAG (@CitiusMag) January 15, 2023
Non-binary Marathon outcomes
American runner Katy Value was the one competitor within the marathon’s non-binary class and completed in 4:19.52.
For a full record of outcomes, head right here.
