Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw earns a third win in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon women's event as Kenya's Alex Nzioka Matata secures men's victory.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw repeated her 2021 and 2022 Antrim Coast Half Marathon triumphs on a windy and rain-lashed day in Northern IrelandEthiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw secured a third win in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon women's event as Kenya's Alex Nzioka Matata earned victory in the men's race.
Joyciline Jepkosgei, the 2021 London Marathon winner, was expected to be Yehualaw's main challenger but had to settle for third place, a minute and 33 seconds off the pace. Yehualaw, 25, thought she had set a new world record in her first run in the Northern Ireland event in 2021 after crossing the line in 63:44 but that time was not ratified after the course was found to be 54 metres short.In the men's race, Nzioka Matata, 27, produced a brilliant run in the awful weather conditions to break 60 minutes as he clocked 59 minutes and 48 seconds.
Nzioka Matata's winning time left 41 seconds ahead of compatriot Hillary Kipkoech with Ethiopia's two-time Tokyo Marathon winner Birhanu Legese a further second back in third place.
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