Mosop back to winning ways Back in 2011, Mosop made a promising start to his marathon-running career, clocking 2:03:06 on Boston’s record-ineligible course on his debut at the distance and then winning the Chicago Marathon with a course record of 2:05:37 later that year. But in recent times, the 29-year-old has struggled to recapture that form. He finished eighth at the 2013 Chicago Marathon and a distant 12th in Prague last May, clocking 2:20:37. So when he lined up in Xiamen, he was something of an unknown quantity. Unlike the women’s race, the men’s contest was more competitive. It was only in the last few kilometres that Mosop broke away from Ethiopia’s Tilahun Regassa, crossing the finish line in 2:06:19 to take more than a minute off the course record set in 2013 by Ethiopia’s Getachew Terfa Negari. Mosop’s time was also the fastest marathon ever recorded on Chinese soil, bettering the 2:06:32 set by the late Samuel Wanjiru when winning the 2008 Olympic title in Beijing. Regassa was also inside the previous course record, clocking 2:06:54 in second place. Ethiopia’s Abrha Milaw finished third in 2:08:09, nine seconds ahead of Kenya’s Robert Kwambai.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:09:26 +0000
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