An amazing morning today (Sunday) for the marathon runner Geshao Ayala, who set an amazing result of 2:05:33 hours in the Seville Marathon, smashing the Israeli record and thereby setting the criteria for the World Championships in Budapest this year and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
The 26-year-old Ayala, European champion in the team competition and bronze medalist from the European Championship in the individual competition, was ranked fourth overall and thus broke by 1:10 minutes, the previous record of Maro Tepri at the end of last year.
This is Ayala's third marathon in her career and she also holds the Israeli record for 10,000 meters.
This is the ninth time since 2018 that the Israeli record in the marathon has been broken, when he also set the Olympic criterion of 2:08:10 hours.
If that's not enough, Girma Emre ranked 12th with 2:07:40 hours and in 15th place finished Aymeru Alamia, with 2:07:55 minutes, and they also stand within the Olympic criteria.
Geshau Ayala breaks the Israeli record in the marathon // Credit: The Athletics Association
In doing so, Ayala, Amra and Alemia join European vice-champion Tefri, who participated in the Fukuoka Marathon at the beginning of December, where he won the gold medal with the previous Israeli record of 2:06:43 hours, which earned him a place in Paris.
In addition, Luna Chemtai Salpeter also holds a ticket to Paris, after she participated in the New York Marathon on November 6 and won the silver medal with a result of 2:23:30 hours, while the Olympic criterion A for women in the marathon is 2:26:50 hours, so whose result in the United States is enough to reach another Olympics in her career.
It should be remembered that in the marathon it is possible to share up to three athletes and three athletes per country, as was the case with the men in Tokyo, and the athletics association will determine the manner of deciding between them.
Currently, Israel's delegation to the upcoming Olympics consists of nine athletes, when in addition to the marathon runners, the artistic gymnastics team also secured its place through the silver medal in the all-around competition at this year's World Championships in Sofia.
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