Gebreslase and Kiplimo win Bahrain Half Marathon

Ethiopia’s Gotytom Gebreslase and Kenya’s Philemon Kiplimo claimed victory at the Bahrain Royal International Night Half Marathon – a World Athletics Label road race – when the event returned for its second edition on Sunday.

After running 2:20:09 to triumph when making her marathon debut in Berlin in September, Gebreslase achieved another impressive result as she improved her half marathon PB to 1:05:36 in Manama to win by 11 seconds ahead of home favourite Kalkidan Gezahegne – the Olympic 10,000m silver medallist who was making her half marathon debut after breaking the world 10km record with 29:38 in Geneva in October.

The men’s race was much closer, with Kiplimo outsprinting his compatriot Collins Koros to the tape – both athletes recording a time of 1:00:01.

Women
1 Gotytom Gebreslase (ETH) 1:05:36
2 Kalkidan Gezahegne (BRN) 1:05:47
3 Sheila Kiprotich (KEN) 1:07:01 
4 Irene Cheptai (KEN) 1:07:05
5 Daisy Cherotich (KEN) 1:07:11