BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Uganda’s Victor Kiplangat won the men’s marathon at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday with a time of two hours, 8 minutes, 53 seconds, while Maru Teferi of Israel finished with silver despite taking a tumble.
2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kiplangat broke away with about 4 km (2.5 miles) to go, crossing the finish line with an advantage of 19 seconds.
Teferi, a silver medallist at last year’s European Athletics Championships, recovered from a fall in the latter stages of the race to surge past Ethiopia’s Leul’s Gebresilase in the last 200 metres to finish second. Gebresilase took bronze.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
