In 2 hours 24 min 23 sec, Shankule (31), second in the prestigious Boston Marathon in the spring, finished alone in Heroes’ Square in the north of the city, eleven seconds ahead of Gebreslase (28), defending champion. world title.
Ethiopia could have believed in the hat-trick for a long time but Yalemzerf Yehualaw got stuck in the last kilometers (5th), in favor of the Moroccan Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi (2h25’17), in bronze.
