Delhi, October 6 2018: Saying that somebody is the \u2018world\u2019s greatest\u2019 in whatever they do is sure to provoke a likely debate and is a subjective judgement but, in many people\u2019s eyes, Tirunesh Dibaba deserves the honour of being called the world\u2019s greatest female distance runner. The Ethiopian legend has won three Olympic Games gold medals and five world titles on the track as well as four world cross country championships victories as a senior. She is also the current 5000m world record holder. Dibaba will now run the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2018 on Sunday October 21 in a bid to add to her list of accolades In the wake of her third place at last month\u2019s Berlin Marathon, her third run under 2:19 over the classic distance in the last 18 months, she will be chasing two half marathon marks in the capital city in addition to a win which comes with a cheque for USD $27,000, the Ethiopian national record and Delhi course record.<\/p>\n
Her compatriot Ababel Yeshaneh \u2013 who has been previously announced as running in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon \u2013 reduced the Ethiopian half marathon record to 65:46 on the same day, 16 September, in Copenhagen as Dibaba was running in the German capital over the full marathon distance. The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon course record has stood since 2009 at 66:54 to Kenya\u2019s Mary Keitany but with Dibaba and Yeshaneh in this year\u2019s race, along with a host of very strong other runners, this standard must surely be in danger.<\/p>\n
After Berlin, I felt good about myself and felt I could still run fast over the half marathon despite the short recovery time. I didn\u2019t achieve my aims completely in Berlin, although I certainly have to be pleased with my performance, because I went there to win and run faster than my time of 2:18:55 so there is no better race than the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon to make my return to racing. I am excited about coming to India and I look forward to make my presence felt,\u201d said the 33-year-old Dibaba. Strictly speaking, it will not actually be Dibaba\u2019s first race in India. She ran a 5000m in Hyderabad back in 2003 when she was just 18 but, by her own admission, can\u2019t remember much about that trip so her outing in Delhi will have the sensation of being like her debut on Indian soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Delhi, October 6 2018: Saying that somebody is the \u2018world\u2019s greatest\u2019 in whatever they do is sure to provoke a likely debate and is a subjective judgement but, in many people\u2019s eyes, Tirunesh Dibaba deserves the honour of being called the world\u2019s greatest female distance runner. The Ethiopian legend has won three Olympic Games gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shasakprashasak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}