A year after his victory in the streets of New York, Kenya hopes to finish a largely disappointing 2015 on a high note by winning Sunday’s most famous marathon in the world for the second time.
2015 has not kept its promises to the former holder the world record in the marathon in April in London, it has been the law of his compatriot Eliud Kipchoge and had to settle for 2nd place, and then he hit bottom in August at the Beijing World-2015 where he was forced to retire.
“I like running in the heat, but the weather was too extreme in Beijing”, was defended this week the Kenyan who went down six times below 2 h 05 min on 42.195 km of the marathon.
“My training for New York went well, I’m ready, I’m going to still win the race and improve my time in 2014,” he added the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2012 Olympics.
“Last year, weather conditions were difficult with the wind and cold, forecasts are optimistic for Sunday,” he . noted
In 2014, Kipsang had won with a relatively modest chrono (2: 10.59), away from his personal record (2: 03.23), the former world record of the distance established Berlin in 2013.
“In preparation for this meeting, I trained on relatively similar profiles, this is a very technical and challenging course with a raised competition”, he warned .
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The Kenyan, aged 33, should be wary of two young Ethiopians Lelisa Desisa (25), the runner up in 2014 and twice winner of the Boston Marathon (2013, 2015), and Yemane Tsegay (30 years), the vice-world champion in 2015.
Also note his compatriots Stanley Biwott, already dropped below 2 h 04 min, or the world champion cross country Geoffrey Kamworor, 2nd of 10,000 m of Global-2015 behind Briton Mo Farah.
The Kenyan Mary Keitany will also be present in the “Big Apple “to defend his title won in 2014.
” The race will be very tough, but I will do everything to keep my title, “Keitany said, double winner of the London Marathon (2011 and 2012) .
Facing it, Tigist Tufa Ethiopian, who had preceded him in London in April, his compatriots Helah Kiprop, vice world champion in Beijing 2015 or Caroline Rotich, who won in Boston.
As every year, the New York marathon as part of the World Marathon Circuit Majors, will attract over 50,000 runners on a course fingering the most iconic sites in the “Big Apple” as Staten Island , Brooklyn and Central Park.
In the anonymous crowd, this year, several celebrities like singer Alicia Keys, the actor Ethan Hawke or the former tennis player James Blake.
01.11.2015 10:24:43 – New York (AFP) – AFP © 2015
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