There are currently seven runners in the country who have been down for 2:10 hours - a figure that until a few years ago was a dream.
Until 2018, the record marathon was based on a relentless pursuit of Ayala Stein's record of 2:14:21 hours and Israeli marathon runners chased Olympic and World Championship criteria that revolved around their record results.
During these periods, the Tiberias Marathon was a one-time event in Israel - all senior marathon runners in Israel prepared for it in order to determine a result close to the Israeli record or the required criterion. Another factor that made the Tiberias Marathon an annual event was the bringing of quality pace dictators to Israel that would attract Israelis to the required results, often joined by one or two higher quality runners who were brought to break the track record and bear the Tiberias Marathon as a fast and optional marathon for senior runners. .
In 2018, something fell in the Israeli marathon - Marrow Teferi broke Stein's record when he set a time of 2:13:00.
Since then, like a snowball rolling, more runners have begun to break down barriers that until then had seemed impossible.
Girma said he broke the record 4 months later, Teferi regained the record two months later and said again 3 months later ... and so in fact the marathon snowball rolled until it stopped, for now, at 2:07:20 h in the Seville 2020 marathon - the same marathon All the senior Israelis who made do with a half marathon on Tuesday will travel there.
An interesting point is that since the Israelis began to set results that may challenge the peak of the track in Tiberias (10 seconds slower than the national record of Teferi and 2 seconds of the personal record of Amra), they keep their feet off it and prefer to participate in marathons that are considered fast and plenty of runners. Seniors around.
On Tuesday, all the senior runners participated in the half marathon in Tiberias.
Jember Malkam, who has already dropped in his life from 2:10 a.m., won the Israeli championship with a weak result for him, and the silver medal was won by Yaniv Krispel - an amateur runner.
Such a figure was not present in the Tiberias Marathon in its good years, in which the podium was always composed of the top runners in the country.
The fact that the senior runners do not participate in the marathon entails the failure to bring senior runners to Israel to participate in the marathon.
Whoever becomes the Israeli champion, he is far from being one of the best marathon runners in the country, and that is an unfortunate fact.
We would be happy to know that the Israeli champion was determined after a competition between all the best runners in the country, and not between the remaining selections.
The organizers of the marathon and the Athletics Association should think and understand that when the top runners in the country respect the marathon, the world will also respect it.
As long as the result of the winner is 2:17:08, those who aspire to run in Tiberias will only be amateurs.
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