thiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw recovered from a fall to win the ladies’s race on the London Marathon.
Yehualaw appeared to journey on a pace bump with six miles remaining however recovered to rejoin the main pack.
The 23-year-old got here residence in 2 hours 17 minutes and 25 seconds – the third quickest time on the occasion – as defending champion Joyciline Jepkosgei, of Kenya, needed to accept second.
London debutant Amos Kipruto, a world bronze medallist in Doha in 2019, gained the boys’s race.
The 30-year-old Kenyan clocked 2:04.39 forward of Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase with Bashir Abdi of Belgium in third.
The primary Briton residence was 28-year-old Weynay Ghebresilasie, who was born in Eritrea however certified to signify Nice Britain final yr.
Ghebresilasie completed ninth in a brand new private greatest time of two:11:57, adopted intently by compatriot Philip Sesemann.
Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner clinched a wheelchair race double for Switzerland, with British pair David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper successful bronze for Nice Britain of their respective males’s and girls’s occasions.
