Did the Mexicans win? an award for all the marathoners in the CDMX

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“Who won the Marathon?” Asked some runners as soon as they crossed the finish line. The press department responded: they were Mexicans. The smile at the good news added to the feeling of satisfaction, glory and mission accomplished that every non-elite marathoner feels who stops his timer after three hours.

There were a total of 14,000 runners with chip and registration in the 2021 Mexico City Marathon, an edition awaited by athletes who want a test of endurance, strength and above all of faith. In 2019 it was run in summer, with a gold label, in 2020 there were no due to the pandemic and in 2021 it returned with the elite label, thus endorsed by the World Athletics, which did not require the organization to bring international elite athletes, to help to economic recovery after a year without activity.

This year the race fell in winter, on the last Sunday in November, before dawn, with the first starting block at 6:20 am to the last at 8:30 am. For some, the warm-up, the trot, begins on the outskirts of the Ciudad Universitaria stadium. Some runners had to walk or run for about 2 kilometers to take their place at the starting line. Some gasp before leaving, look at each other, pat each other on the shoulder, smile, shout words of encouragement as the marching band on the stage plays and deafens the shouts of support.

As the hours go by, the people who fence along the 42 kilometers appear, very few at the beginning of the route on Avenida Insurgentes Sur, but as they move towards Roma, Condesa, Reforma, the streets begin to populate with cheers, photographers, motivators holding trays with fruit, sweets, bags of water and soda. They become corridors of human warmth.

For runners who make it past the 21km Half Marathon and begin to feel the tension in their legs, a baton from someone they don’t know becomes a lump in their throat, all they need to focus on striding.

RESULTS

MENS

  1. Darío Castro (Mexico) 2.14.51
  2. Eloy Sánchez (Mexico) 2.14.52
  3. Rodger Ondati Gesabwa (Kenya) 2.17.31
  4. Jorge Cruz (Mexico) 2.18.33
  5. José Antonio Uribe (Mexico) 2.19.06
  6. Nelson Ito Cruso (Peru) 2.19.18
  7. Hesiquio Flores (Mexico) 2.21.46
  8. Willy David Chanchanya (Peru) 2.21.56
  9. Rodrigo Villegas (Mexico) 2.23.34
  10. Erick Monyenye (Kenya) 2.25.02

WOMEN

  1. Lucy Cheruiyot (Kenia) 2.27.22
  2. Amare Shewarge (Ethiopia) 2.37.03
  3. Leah Jebiwot Kigen (Kenya) 2.40.34
  4. Sandra Marcela Rosas (Colombia) 2.43.56
  5. Argentina Valdespeña (Mexico) 2.44.08
  6. Cindy Meza Domíguez (Mexico)
  7. Yenni Susano Bermúdez (Mexico) 2.48.41
  8. Marisol Guadalupe Romero (Mexico) 2.49.09
  9. Ivón Domínguez (Mexico) 2.51.01
  10. Veronica Jerónimo (Mexico) 2.54.59

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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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