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Keitany, Geremew Win RAK Half Marathon - IAAF

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RunnerSpace.com/RoadRacing   Feb 13th 2015, 4:37pm
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Keitany Clocks Super-Quick 1:06:02 in RAK Half Marathon

Published by IAAF on February 13, 2015

Kenya’s Mary Keitany continued her unbeaten streak after returning to racing last spring following a maternity break when she won the RAK Half Marathon in a super-quick 1:06:02 on Friday (13).

Keitany and three rivals - her compatriots Cynthia Limo and Josephine Chepkoech as well as Ethiopia’s Mamitu Daska - started the race at world record pace and went through 10km in 31:07, one second faster than Florence Kiplagat’s split in Barcelona last year prior to her clocking a world record 1:05:12.

Limo and Chepkoech dropped away during the next 5km as Keitany and Daska passed the 15km checkpoint in 46:41.

Over the next 5km, the chances of a world record ebbed away but while Keitany pulled away from Daska, the latter having the race of her life before clinching the win, just 12 seconds adrift of her own course record set in 2011, which was a world record at the time and stood as the global standard until Kiplagat’s feat in the Catalan city a year ago.



Read the full article at: www.iaaf.org

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