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Adhm 2019 elite fields press release final

Alberto Stretti
Alberto Stretti

The document announces that the defending champions of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, Andamlak Belihu of Ethiopia and Tsehay Gemechu of Ethiopia, will return to defend their titles at the 15th edition of the race on October 20th. Several other top runners from Ethiopia and Kenya are also listed as participants, including Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia making his half marathon debut. Both the men's and women's races offer $27,000 to the winners and total prize money of $275,000. Race promoters view the return of the defending champions as enhancing the profile and appeal of the event.

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Belihu and course record holder Gemechu to defend Airtel Delhi Half Marathon titles Wednesday 25 September 2019 (for immediate use) Race promoters Procam International are happy to announce that Ethiopias Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu will return to the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon to defend their titles at the 15th edition of this prestigious IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 20th October. Belihu won in Indias capital city last year in 59:18, just missing out on the course record of 59:06 held since 2014 by his compatriot Guye Adola. Immediately after last years race I said that I was going to come back to Delhi in 2019 as I had unfinished business with the course record and I am keeping my promise, commented Belihu, who will still be just 20 on race day. He returned to India in May to win the TCS World 10K title in Bengaluru, another IAAF Gold Label Road Race promoted by Procam International. In 2018, Belihu surged hard and made a decisive run for home over the final third of the race but still had to work hard to hold off his fellow Ethiopian Amdework Walelegn to win by four seconds and the latter also returns with the ambition of going one better in this years race. No less than eight men in the ADHM 2019 elite field have run under the world class benchmark of one hour but much of the attention will be on a man who has yet to run the distance, Hagos Gebrhiwet. Gebrhiwet had planned to make his half marathon debut in Delhi last year but a late bout of illness curtailed his training and he had to cancel his trip. However, he will stand on the start line this year and could come to Delhi clutching another world championships medal on the track, to add to the two he has already won over 5000m from 2013 and 2015. He has been named to the Ethiopian team for both the 5000m and the 10,000m and leads the world this year over the longer distance at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 which gets underway on Friday. The fastest man in Delhi this year will be Erick Kiptanui. The Kenyan notched up two impressive half marathon victories in 2018 when winning the high- quality Lisbon and Berlin, coming home in the German capital in a personal best 58:42, and he is currently equal seventh on the world all-time list. In 2019, Kiptanui has been concentrating mainly on the track but had a solid win at the Barcelona Half Marathon earlier in the year.
Last year, Tsehay Gemechu made a huge impact in on her debut over the distance when she set an Airtel Delhi Half Marathon womens course record of 66:50 and in 2019 she has shown it was no fluke with a string of sparkling performances both on the roads and the track, including taking the African Games 10,000m title. The 21-year-old Gemechu has also been named to the Ethiopian team for the 5000m and 10,000m at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019. The third and fourth-placed women from the ADHM 2018 also return with Ethiopias Zeineba Yimer and Kenyas Stacy Ndiwa coming back to do battle. The fastest woman in the ADHM 2019 elite field will be Caroline Kipkirui. The Kenyan-born runner, who now competes under the Kazakhstan flag, set a personal best of 65:07 in the 2018 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon and won the Prague Half Marathon in 65:44 in April this year. Like the mens race, the womens race will also have a highly rated debutant, with Ethiopias Letesenbet Gidey hoping to emulate the achievement of her compatriot Gemechu last year and win on her first outing over the distance. Gidey, also 21, has been twice a winner of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships U20 race and took the seniors womens bronze medal in this years event back in March. Kenyas Irene Cheptai will be another debutant over the distance. The 2017 world cross country champion followed up that victory with a win at the TCS World 10K in Bengaluru a few months later. Cheptai took a maternity break during 2018 but has started to return to world class form in recent months. Both the mens and womens races have first prize cheques of US$27,000 with a total prize money purse (combined men and women) of US$275,000. As we countdown to the landmark 15th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, we are humbled that ADHM, has become one of the most prestigious and highly regarded half marathons in the world. We are excited to have both our defending champions, back at the ADHM 2019, commented Vivek Singh, joint managing director of race promotors Procam International. The fact that they may be on the start line in Delhi with medals from Doha to their name will enhance the events profile and appeal, both within India and internationally. We wish our runners the best of luck on the track at the forthcoming IAAF World Championships in Doha, he added
Elite fields for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2019 (with personal bests) Men Andamlak Belihu (ETH) 59:18 Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) debut Erick Kiptanui (KEN) 58:42 Seifu Tura (ETH) 59:16 Bernard Ngeno (KEN) 59:16 Amdework Walelegn (ETH) 59:22 Kandie Kibiwott (KEN) 59:31 Moses Kurong (UGA) 59:50 Moses Kibet (KEN) 59:58 Aweke Ayalew (BRN) 60:10 Alfred Barkach (KEN) 60:22 John Lagat (KEN) 60:24 Afewerki Berhane (ERI) 61:17 Solomon Berihu (ETH) debut Abhishek Pal (IND) 64:14 Murli Gavit Kumar (IND) 65:26 Women Tsehay Gemechu (ETH) 66:50 Letesenbet Gidey (ETH) debut Caroline Kipkirui (KAZ) 65:07 Zeineba Yimer (ETH) 65:46 Edith Chelimo (KEN) 65:52 Eunice Chumba (BRN) 66:11 Stacy Ndiwa (KEN) 67:16 Dera Dida (ETH) 68:06 Sandrafelis Tuei (KEN) 68:14 Gete Alemayehu (ETH) 68:23 Yelamzerf Yehualaw (ETH) 69:13 Suriya Loganathan (IND) 70:31 Hawi Feyisa (ETH) debut Irene Cheptai (KEN) debut * For more information about the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2019, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, the website of the event is: airteldelhihalfmarathon.in * Other links www.facebook.com/runadhm twitter@runadhm instagram@runadhm https://www.youtube.com/user/procamrunning * Media contact: Neha Kandalgaonkar (Head Media & Public Relations, Procam International) neha@procam.in Tel: +91 22 2202 0284 / Fax: +91 22 2202 5112 / Mob: +91 9892194965 * The attached images are free-to-use for editorial purposes and have unrestricted media rights but please credit Procam International

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  • 1. Belihu and course record holder Gemechu to defend Airtel Delhi Half Marathon titles Wednesday 25 September 2019 (for immediate use) Race promoters Procam International are happy to announce that Ethiopias Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu will return to the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon to defend their titles at the 15th edition of this prestigious IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 20th October. Belihu won in Indias capital city last year in 59:18, just missing out on the course record of 59:06 held since 2014 by his compatriot Guye Adola. Immediately after last years race I said that I was going to come back to Delhi in 2019 as I had unfinished business with the course record and I am keeping my promise, commented Belihu, who will still be just 20 on race day. He returned to India in May to win the TCS World 10K title in Bengaluru, another IAAF Gold Label Road Race promoted by Procam International. In 2018, Belihu surged hard and made a decisive run for home over the final third of the race but still had to work hard to hold off his fellow Ethiopian Amdework Walelegn to win by four seconds and the latter also returns with the ambition of going one better in this years race. No less than eight men in the ADHM 2019 elite field have run under the world class benchmark of one hour but much of the attention will be on a man who has yet to run the distance, Hagos Gebrhiwet. Gebrhiwet had planned to make his half marathon debut in Delhi last year but a late bout of illness curtailed his training and he had to cancel his trip. However, he will stand on the start line this year and could come to Delhi clutching another world championships medal on the track, to add to the two he has already won over 5000m from 2013 and 2015. He has been named to the Ethiopian team for both the 5000m and the 10,000m and leads the world this year over the longer distance at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 which gets underway on Friday. The fastest man in Delhi this year will be Erick Kiptanui. The Kenyan notched up two impressive half marathon victories in 2018 when winning the high- quality Lisbon and Berlin, coming home in the German capital in a personal best 58:42, and he is currently equal seventh on the world all-time list. In 2019, Kiptanui has been concentrating mainly on the track but had a solid win at the Barcelona Half Marathon earlier in the year.
  • 2. Last year, Tsehay Gemechu made a huge impact in on her debut over the distance when she set an Airtel Delhi Half Marathon womens course record of 66:50 and in 2019 she has shown it was no fluke with a string of sparkling performances both on the roads and the track, including taking the African Games 10,000m title. The 21-year-old Gemechu has also been named to the Ethiopian team for the 5000m and 10,000m at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019. The third and fourth-placed women from the ADHM 2018 also return with Ethiopias Zeineba Yimer and Kenyas Stacy Ndiwa coming back to do battle. The fastest woman in the ADHM 2019 elite field will be Caroline Kipkirui. The Kenyan-born runner, who now competes under the Kazakhstan flag, set a personal best of 65:07 in the 2018 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon and won the Prague Half Marathon in 65:44 in April this year. Like the mens race, the womens race will also have a highly rated debutant, with Ethiopias Letesenbet Gidey hoping to emulate the achievement of her compatriot Gemechu last year and win on her first outing over the distance. Gidey, also 21, has been twice a winner of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships U20 race and took the seniors womens bronze medal in this years event back in March. Kenyas Irene Cheptai will be another debutant over the distance. The 2017 world cross country champion followed up that victory with a win at the TCS World 10K in Bengaluru a few months later. Cheptai took a maternity break during 2018 but has started to return to world class form in recent months. Both the mens and womens races have first prize cheques of US$27,000 with a total prize money purse (combined men and women) of US$275,000. As we countdown to the landmark 15th edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, we are humbled that ADHM, has become one of the most prestigious and highly regarded half marathons in the world. We are excited to have both our defending champions, back at the ADHM 2019, commented Vivek Singh, joint managing director of race promotors Procam International. The fact that they may be on the start line in Delhi with medals from Doha to their name will enhance the events profile and appeal, both within India and internationally. We wish our runners the best of luck on the track at the forthcoming IAAF World Championships in Doha, he added
  • 3. Elite fields for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2019 (with personal bests) Men Andamlak Belihu (ETH) 59:18 Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) debut Erick Kiptanui (KEN) 58:42 Seifu Tura (ETH) 59:16 Bernard Ngeno (KEN) 59:16 Amdework Walelegn (ETH) 59:22 Kandie Kibiwott (KEN) 59:31 Moses Kurong (UGA) 59:50 Moses Kibet (KEN) 59:58 Aweke Ayalew (BRN) 60:10 Alfred Barkach (KEN) 60:22 John Lagat (KEN) 60:24 Afewerki Berhane (ERI) 61:17 Solomon Berihu (ETH) debut Abhishek Pal (IND) 64:14 Murli Gavit Kumar (IND) 65:26 Women Tsehay Gemechu (ETH) 66:50 Letesenbet Gidey (ETH) debut Caroline Kipkirui (KAZ) 65:07 Zeineba Yimer (ETH) 65:46 Edith Chelimo (KEN) 65:52 Eunice Chumba (BRN) 66:11 Stacy Ndiwa (KEN) 67:16 Dera Dida (ETH) 68:06 Sandrafelis Tuei (KEN) 68:14 Gete Alemayehu (ETH) 68:23 Yelamzerf Yehualaw (ETH) 69:13 Suriya Loganathan (IND) 70:31 Hawi Feyisa (ETH) debut Irene Cheptai (KEN) debut * For more information about the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2019, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, the website of the event is: airteldelhihalfmarathon.in * Other links www.facebook.com/runadhm twitter@runadhm instagram@runadhm https://www.youtube.com/user/procamrunning * Media contact: Neha Kandalgaonkar (Head Media & Public Relations, Procam International) neha@procam.in Tel: +91 22 2202 0284 / Fax: +91 22 2202 5112 / Mob: +91 9892194965 * The attached images are free-to-use for editorial purposes and have unrestricted media rights but please credit Procam International