A very big surprise showed up with the 21-year-old Tadu Nare (Teshome),who otherwise competes for the South African Nedbank Running Club and often runs in SA-country.

There she is known as Tadu Nare and controls the running scene of this region. The young running talent had already opened the door to world athletic class in 2021 when she

finished the Barcelona marathon (2:23:53 hours) on her debut with a victory and course record.

In Copenhagen she convinced with a brilliant,and also tactically smart performance. In the end,her victory was clearer than the success of her male compatriot.

Her fellow competitor and countrywoman T. Gebreselama set the pace from the start with fast intermediate times,which initially indicated a possible final time and thus a new

course record of 1:04:35 hours. Tadu Nare cleverly stayed at the end of a larger group of runners and thus saved energy for the last third of the race.

After intermediate times of 15:19 (5km),30:41 (10km) and 46:39 (15km),the race between km 15-20 became significantly slower (16:03),so that Tadu Nare ,who had fallen behind a little in the meantime, was able to catch up again. At km 19,5 it was done and 200 metres further Tadu passed by her running fellow very strongly (see photo). At the 20km mark (1:02:41 hours) she already had a lead of 5 seconds, which she was able to extend to 22 seconds at the finish-line. She apparently won effortlessly in a new PB of

1:06:13 hours (previously 1:07:55 /set in Port Elizabeth,South Africa).

However, the course record of 1:05:08 hours (2021) remained untouched. Four women ran under 1:07 hours,three of them from Ethiopia. The km-average for the best women

was 3:09 minutes. 14 women were able to undercut 1:10 hours, including Lindsay Flanagan/USA with 1:09:59 hours,who won the Gold Coast Marathon in Australia in July 2022

with a new course record of 2:24:43 hours.

Tadu Nare received 10.000 Euros in prize money for her success and said that her next big goal is to plan the Valencia Marathon in Spain (December 4,2022).

There she would like to achieve a finish time of 2:18 to 2:19 hours.   -   That would establish her in the marathon world class for women.

All in all, more than 20.000 active people took part in Copenhagen, Great Britain (women) won a "European Team Battle" and  -  quite unexpectedly  - Switzerland (men),where-

by the 40-year-old Tadesse Abraham laid the foundation with a new PB in 59:53 minutes.

By Frank-N. Dietzel (copyright), the original article was published in German: see Hdsports.at/kopenhagen-halbmarathon-2022-aethiopische-dominanz (September 25th,2022).

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