Marathon-world class half-price: Dubai has halved the premiums of its annual run. However, the participants were on Friday morning does not impress. The Ethiopian debutant Getaneh Molla was shortly after eight o’clock in the destination, an hour after sunrise, and earned the victory in 2:03:34 hours, the sixth fastest Marathon in the athletics history of $ 100,000. So fast no one had run his first Marathon. Herpassa Negasa took six seconds longer and was rewarded with $ 40,000 and a rank of eight among the fastest marathon runners in the world. The so far nameless Renner displace their great compatriot Haile Gebreselassie from the Top Ten; the Ethiopian, with his 2:03:59 from Berlin in 2008, the first Marathon in less than 124 minutes, his second world record on this distance, now on place eleven of the best list. In the past year, the Kenyans Eliud Kipchoge ran alone at the time of his world record of 2:01:39 hours in Berlin faster than the other two.

Michael Reinsch

a correspondent for sports in Berlin.

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The victory of Ruth Chepngetich in 2:17:07 hours, with a $ 100,000 reward, appears to be even more spectacular. The Kenyan has established itself as the third-fastest marathon runner in history. Ruth Chepngetich had improved in November to win the Istanbul marathon in your best time by four minutes to 2:18:35 hours. Now she ran further one and a half minutes faster. The Ethiopian Worknesh Country, the winner in Dubai two years ago, when there was still a $ 200,000 bonus, according to 2:17:41 minutes in goal – the fourth-best time in the history.