The race had barely passed the first kilometer when Brigid Kosgei, 2019 and 2020 London Marathon winner and mixed race distance world record holder, began to limp and eventually rolled onto her side slightly. After.
The 29-year-old Kenyan athlete said on Friday that his preparation was hampered by an injury. “I was well prepared but a few weeks ago I had pain in my hamstrings and in my knee”she explained at a press conference, even if she then assured that the injury was not “not so serious anymore”.
However, the women’s field remains very high, with the Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw who won last year in 2 hours 17 minutes and 26 seconds.
She will have to be wary in particular of the Kenyan Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir or the Dutch Sifan Hassan, gold medalist in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and who is making her marathon debut with a view to competing maybe the test at the Paris Olympics next year.
