Sunday’s heat climate set a heated tempo for greater than 28, 000 runners within the Aramco Houston Half and the Chevron Houston Marathon, leading to some thrilling finishes in each occasions and a brand new American file within the half marathon by Emily Sisson.
Houston is understood for a quick course, and in 2022 Keira D’Amato broke the American file within the girls’s marathon, and Sara Corridor took the American file within the girls’s half marathon (each have been additionally damaged once more by Sisson in 2022).
Girls’s Half Marathon
Ethiopian runner Hiwot Gebremaryam broke away from the sector early on within the race, and set off at a blistering tempo, hitting the 5K mark in 15:14 (4:54 per mile). Gebremaryam couldn’t keep the heated tempo and slowed within the latter levels of the race, breaking the tape in 66:28 (a PB); American marathon file holder Sisson stormed to shut the hole.
Hiwot Gebremaryam wins the Houston Half Marathon in 1:06:28! Emily Sisson runs 1:06:52 and turns into the primary American lady to interrupt 1:07:00 on a record-legal course. She breaks her personal American file by 19 seconds.
— Quick Girls (@fast_women) January 15, 2023
Sisson did edge barely up on Gibrmaryam, coming from 29 seconds again mid-race to 24 seconds on the end, however she nonetheless wasn’t near Gebremaryam, clocking 66:52 to interrupt her personal file by 19 seconds. U.Ok. runner Jessica Warner-Judd rounded out the rostrum in 67:19.
Leslie Sexton was the highest Canadian lady within the race, ending in seventeenth place with a 1:10:05 end. “Low 72, that’s about the place my health is correct now, Sexton stated post-race.”I nonetheless haven’t felt actually nice since Worlds [championships, in July].”
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.
Girls’s Marathon
The ladies’s race noticed one other spectacular run with Japan’s Hitomi Niiya successful in 2:19:24, greater than six minutes forward of the runner-up. Niiya, a favorite heading into the occasion, narrowly missed taking the Japanese marathon file.
Hitomi Niiya wins the 2023 Houston Marathon in 2:19:24, a private finest of just about two minutes.
She is now #2 on the all-time Japanese record within the girls’s marathon, behind solely 2004 Olympic champ Mizuki Noguchi (2:19:12). pic.twitter.com/L4lyTZqLAQ
— Jonathan Gault (@jgault13) January 15, 2023
Whereas second-place finisher, Ethiopia’s Muliye Dekebo Haylemariyam led till near the half, Niiya step by step overtook her. Niiya held her sturdy tempo and was on monitor to interrupt the Japanese file (2:19:12) however missed by a mere 12 seconds. Niiya was adopted in by Haylemariyam in 2:25:35 and fellow Ethiopian runner Sintayehu Lewetegn rounded out the rostrum in 2:26:33.
Non-binary marathon outcomes
American runner Katy Value was the one competitor within the the non-binary class, and completed in 4:19:52.
For a full record of outcomes, head right here.
