World medalists, Olympic medalists, continental champions and winners of the main athletic events will be the main runners of the Media Bogotá Marathonwhich will take place on July 28.
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From Namibia it will be present Helalia Johannes, bronze in the marathon at the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships, champion of the 5,000 meters event at the 2019 World Military Games in China and two-time champion of the Dublin Marathon (Ireland).
This year the Bogotá Half Marathon takes place on July 28.
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The Kenyan Edwin Soi, bronze in the 5,000 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, third in the 3,000 meters at the Istanbul 2012 World Indoor Athletics Championships, champion of the Pacific 10K Race in Cali and the Bogotá 2022 half marathon.
Omar Ait Chitachen, from Morocco and Daisy Kimeli, from Kenya, will defend their titles won the previous year.
Feyisa Lilesa (left) was a medalist in Rio 2016 and Ruth Chepngetich won the Dubai half marathon with a time of. Both are favorites in the MMB.
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In South America will be the Peruvian Jovana de la Cruz, marathon runner at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
“Also running in Bogotá will be Alfred Barkach, from Kenya, champion of the Enschede Marathon (Holland); Daniel Teklebrhan, from the United States, holder of the Arizona and Philadelphia half marathons (USA) and Edward Koonyo, from Kenya, current winner of the half marathons of Gent (Belgium) and Yangzhou (China)”, said the organizing body.
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