It appeared that prerace talk about a championship record on the flat, three-loop course would be wrong. In great marathoning weather (overcast, temperatures in the 50s), the race started conservatively. His advice for the American women racing this marathon tomorrow? “Don’t fall.” How the Race Was Won His cramping was so bad that he needed a wheelchair after the race. Although he popped back up quickly and adrenaline took over, the incident caught up with him on the second lap, and he began cramping. Mickow took a spill at a water stop around 7 miles into the race. “It went out good from the beginning, and then when we hit 30K, they made a move and my body was tired a little,” he said. Kibet said he felt fatigued on the final lap of the three-lap course. World Champs Day 3: Men’s Marathon and 10K.

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There’s some unbelievable athletes that are going to be there. It will be a pretty incredible day if I can pull it off. “That’s what it’s always been ever since I found out Eugene was going to have the championships. “Certainly the goal is to go in there and compete for the win,” Rupp said. Last summer he finished eighth in the marathon in Tokyo.īut a successful performance next weekend in his former college town would be something else, he said.

Rupp, 36, won Olympic silver in the 10,000 meters during the 2012 Summer Games in London and won bronze in the marathon in Rio in 2016. Rupp, who lives in Portland, also had a mild case of COVID-19 in June. He’s been rehabbing with physical therapy, as well as core stability and muscle strengthening exercises. In an interview earlier this week with reporter Sarah Lorge Butler from Runner’s World, Rupp said an MRI after that race in New York revealed a herniated disc and pinched nerve in his back. It will be his first race since dropping out at the 5K mark of the NYC Half Marathon in March. Former Oregon distance star and four-time Olympian Galen Rupp is entered in the World Athletics Championships for the first time since 2015 and the first-time ever in the men’s marathon, which takes place the morning of July 17.

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