{"id":15768,"date":"2026-11-08T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2026-11-08T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:42:23","slug":"manazot-siyum-taferi-yatane-kormoshe-dusha-athens-marathon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tewnet.com\/index\/15768","title":{"rendered":"Manazot Siyum Taferi and Yatane Kormoshe Dusha Win the Athens Marathon in Record Times for Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopian runners Manazot Siyum Taferi and Yatane Kormoshe Dusha won the 43rd Athens Marathon (\u12a0\u1274\u1295\u1235 \u121b\u122b\u1276\u1295) in Greece on Sunday, November 8. Manazot won the men\u2019s race in 2 hours, 10 minutes and 3 seconds, a new course record. Yatane won the women\u2019s race in 2:30:04 in her first marathon, a new race record. Ethiopians took first and second place in both races, according to results published by Watch Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Close Finish in the Men\u2019s Race<\/h2>\n

Asefa Tefera Mengisa was second in 2:10:18, 15 seconds behind the winner. Patrick Kiplagat of Kenya was third in 2:11:22. The race runs 42.195 kilometers from the town of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens. Nearly 25,000 runners started the marathon, Hellas Journal<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Manazot passed halfway in 1:06:50 and 30 kilometers in 1:35:02. The two Ethiopians separated from the other runners after 35 kilometers. The win was decided in the last kilometer, the Greek news site Pelop.gr<\/a> reported. The site also said a tailwind helped the runners.<\/p>\n

His time took 31 seconds off the old record of 2:10:34, which Edwin Kiptoo of Kenya set in 2023. Asefa also finished faster than the old mark. Adane Nega, another Ethiopian, was seventh in 2:17:30.<\/p>\n

Manazot said after the race that he was very happy to come and win in Greece, Pelop.gr reported. He said that in the end the course was not so difficult. Asefa said it was his first race in Greece and that he wanted better water service at the drink stations.<\/p>\n

The organizers\u2019 race preview<\/a> on Saturday did not name either man. It named Asmare Bazezew of Ethiopia, with a best of 2:04:57, as a leading contender. He is not in the top 30 of the results list published by Watch Athletics.<\/p>\n

Yatane Wins in Her First Marathon<\/h2>\n

The organizers wrote in their preview that Yatane, who is 20, would run her first marathon in Athens. Her listed result this year was fourth place at the Pozna\u0144 Half Marathon in Poland in 1:09:17.<\/p>\n

Yatane and Tsiyon Abebe Temesgen moved clear of the field after halfway and raced together until the last kilometer, Pelop.gr reported. Tsiyon finished second in 2:30:29. Jane Bareikis of the United States was third in 2:32:59.<\/p>\n

Yatane\u2019s time beat the race record of 2:31:06, set by Rasa Drazdauskait\u0117 of Lithuania in 2010. It did not beat the course record. That mark is 2:26:20, run by Mizuki Noguchi of Japan at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n

Tsiyon also ran faster than the 2:32:37 personal best that the organizers listed for her. She set that time in Hamburg earlier this year. In 2022, she won silver in the 3,000 meters at the World Athletics Under 20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.<\/p>\n

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Atsede Baysa Tesema near the halfway point of the Boston Marathon in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, on April 18, 2016 (Gr5 \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>) [file photo]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atsede Baysa Tesema, who won the Chicago Marathon in 2010 and 2012 and the Boston Marathon in 2016, finished fourth in 2:33:10.<\/p>\n

More Ethiopian Wins This Autumn<\/h2>\n

The results in Athens add to a series of Ethiopian wins this autumn. A week earlier, Ethiopian women took the first five places at the Istanbul Marathon<\/a>. In October, Ethiopians won both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s titles at the Frankfurt Marathon<\/a> and the Dublin Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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