Delhi Half Marathon 2023: Daniel Ebenyo, Almaz Ayana to will compete in elite race

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Kenya's 10,000m World Championships silver medalist Daniel Ebenyo and 2017 Delhi half-marathon victor Almaz Ayana (Ethiopia) will headline the preliminary elite athletes in the men's and women's categories at the 18th Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2023, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race. The event will be held at the Indian capital on Sunday, 15 October 2023.

Almaz Ayana, the 2016 Olympic 10,000m champion who won two back-to-back World titles in 2015 (5,000m) and 2017 (10,000m) ran an excellent race on the roads of Delhi to triumph in the 13th edition of the annual sporting extravaganza which commenced in 2005.

Speaking about returning to the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon, Almaz Said, "I am very excited to run the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon. It was here that I ran the world's fastest half marathon debut in 2017. After giving birth and having returned among the best athletes in the world, I look forward to coming back to the streets of Delhi and trying to be better than ever!"

The Ethiopian, who clocked a personal best 1:05:30 earlier this year to win in Lisbon and finished seventh at the full distance in the London Marathon thereafter, is now eying for the Delhi course record of 1:04:46 held by country-mate Yalemzerf Yehualaw since 2020.