Ethiopian runners complete Berlin Marathon double

Ethiopia dominated Sunday's Berlin marathon, pinch winners successful some nan men's and women's races and runners successful 5 of nan six podium places.

Milkesa Mengesha, 24, hit Kenya's Cyrbian Kotut by conscionable 5 seconds successful nan men's event, pulling clear successful nan last agelong to decorativeness successful 2 hours, 3 minutes 17 seconds.

Fellow Ethiopian Haymanot Alew was third.

Tigist Ketema, 26, claimed triumph successful nan women's arena successful a clip of 2:16:42, much than 2 minutes up of compatriots Mestawot Fikir and Bosena Mulatie.

Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa collapsed nan women’s world grounds pinch a clip of 2:11:53 successful past year's race, but while Ketema was 5 minutes slower than that, her winning clip was still nan 3rd fastest successful nan event.

It was nan 50th moving of nan prestigious marathons but a number of large names were missing, pinch nan races coming conscionable complete a period aft nan extremity of nan Paris Olympics.

Kenya's five-time victor Eliud Kipchoge, who won nan 2022 men's title successful a past world grounds clip of 2:01:09, was among those not racing.