Tiru for Manchester, by Alfons Juck, EME News MANCHESTER (GBR): - TopicsExpress



          

Tiru for Manchester, by Alfons Juck, EME News MANCHESTER (GBR): Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba, the reigning World and Olympic champion at 10,000m, will defend her Bupa Great Manchester Run title on May 18, organizers are informing. The 28 year old won the 10km race in a course record 30:49 in 2013, winning by a margin of 1:32 from Jelena Prokopčuka. Dibaba then improved her 10km best to 30:30 in Tilburg on September 1. Her rivals in this year’s race in Manchester will include World marathon silver medallist Valeria Straneo (32:07, 2011) of Italy, European Cross Country medallists; France’s Sophie Duarte (32:21, 2014) and Great Britain’s Gemma Steel (31:36, 2013), and Portugal’s Sara Moreira (31:25, 2008).
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:32:09 +0000

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