on this lightning-quick course the best of them just last year when Kenya's idiot Kip Choji produced that jaw-dropping performance to lower the men's mark to two hours 1 minute and 39 seconds well they're the sights of the centre of Berlin the unmistakable TV tower and the famous race this famous race first run back in 1974 when just 286 people took part today nearly 40,000 thousands runners from a hundred and fifty nations will be on the start line the popularity of this international event continues to grow and grow the majority of calm course coming from Germany itself one Christian is alongside me is Stuart's story Stuart last year was all about that world record what can we expect from today's races well I think this year we're gonna have some good competitive races we really are because the the the men well the Kayle of course is unpredictable we don't know quite what sort of form is going to be in he's up against some other Ethiopians as a quartet of Ethiopians here today and certainly in the women then you have certainly a competitor a competition where the women could challenge the course record and look at this 47,000 it is big big isn't it and they all go off in phases you see those numbers on the level those letters on the left well that relates to the time that they are likely to perform on this course it's going to be a good one I think Tim and the conditions we'll see that later look good yeah perfect conditions here very little breeze I just wonder whether he will be able to perform the sort of performances that we saw him perform on the track where he was the world's best look at that world record split I mean that's just for information really because that sort of time is as far as through period what we're going to see today I'm sure but it's interesting to see how quickly that was it's 20 kilometers 21 kilometers an hour isn't it really it's very very quick indeed and see cos all that soiler rather and the Brandenburg Gate so many wonderful features around this course there really are and the men and women now preparing you can see the big names just jogging to and fro and the women as well in amongst them it's a mixed race this and of course the women have got two hours and 15 minutes to beat and that's really something very very difficult it really is but what you can say is that we're going to get some formidable competition indeed we really are big crowd the elite will start at the very front of this race and final congratulations before the race begins let's ever listen to what the women had to say so the stage is set conditions near-perfect there's just a glance at paula radcliffe world record that has stood since 2003 to 1525 I think we can safely say Stewart the values are going to be beyond the women in today's race we may get a course record but that is a world record that is set to stand for many many years to come yes I agree between 17 to 18 this is not bad you can see the the tree is hardly hardly bending it's a slight breeze temperature around 1415 degrees at this time in the morning here in Berlin and it's an interesting course this really is there's the temperature 14 degrees indeed that's confirmed humidity 75 degrees well we'll have a look at the course in a moment and that course is quite the fastest course on the map it really starts in the beautiful and it moves very very flat there it is there's the team in Germany heading towards Thomas Prosser 23 kilometers to the City Hall and then 25 in Rhine Strasse there's 25 that's on Rhine Strasse 28 is the wild-boar roundabout incidentally moving towards 30 kilometers you've got the Holland Zeeland dam and then at 34 kilometers the Kurfurstendamm and then the Terence terrassa towns the in Russia 35 kilometers the Countian Strasse in the National Gallery in the filler money at 38 kilometers through towards 40 kilometers that these rond are men not and then the 41 kilometres under the den Linden and then through the Brandenburg Gate to the finish it's a magnificent course it has slight undulations but nothing to trouble the athlete wonderful wonderful for well there's a reminder of the elites men can Anissa be Kelly the fastest in the field having one here as we heard back in that 2016 years by common consent the greatest track athletes we've ever seen but so the big question mark is that really has he managed to translate that success onto the marathon distance he made a brilliant debut in Paris he won here in Berlin three years ago are those the women's this and shirono of course is hoping to become the first woman to win this time that's a very good lineup it's a competitive lineup to the carry instead be it's a debut for her number six there she's won the Berlin half marathon last year under 70 minutes so she's a challenge she should be a challenge but that's a magnificent sight isn't it there all the major Marshman as we see that the masses and all of them are here look at their three three three hours 15 three hours 30 all those times they're on all of those layers as they line up so that they can so that they don't trip over each other as the coaches it's quite difficult it takes ages to get over the start line Chris it does indeed and one of the the magic feelings about running a marathon whether you're an elite runner or whether you're going to take six or seven hours to get round is that they're all running the same course and that is quite unique in top-level sport showing the same piece of tarmac four minutes away from the so this is the measurement a part of Ethiopia twice an Olympic champion twice the world champion at 5,000 meters it's a third marathon so she's a relative newcomer best so far fourth place in the foyer early in the own 22333 de far then watch out for her is an Olympic champion at 5,000 and really looking to move to longer distance Tom be on the road Malad Ababa Ethiopia will be next up though she is world's Masters champion in 2015 followed by an Olympic bronze in Rio in 2016 very experienced mouth and run us you'll need to repeat of in the defending champion one of the crop of young Ethiopians this has been dominated in recent years by Kenya it sees turn 25 years old only his third marathon and he ran 204 15 on his debut game Dubai last year alongside him Liam got missile assets ill and it's got some name that rings true he's no relation to the great mighty coverage laughing who won here of course so many times he's 25 years old Kaylee seen who 37 years old now it's his first run since London in 2018 he's a very very special talent question mark now kisses he has he put in the work if he has he could produce something very very special well 40 37,000 coiled Springs waiting to be unleashed on to this famous course it really is a picture the old tunnel colors just starting to to turn Stewart and I were walking out about along these streets yesterday in a masane very different conditions we had some torrential rain yesterday there's more rain forecast for later on this afternoon and most of these circuits will hope to be home and hosed by then and try and beat the weather we could shop see how their fun very funny 15:30 with just 15 seconds to go 46 berlin mouth world faces the big book one away they go forty two point two kilometres 26.2 miles whichever you prefer lie ahead and the 46th Berlin Marathon in the year of 2019 is under way what will be the story of this weekend in Berlin we've heard that last year was all about the world record in the men's race and the course record in the women's who will make a little bit of history I wonder today [Applause] [Applause] in 2000 at that time overtaking for the Souris said at the peasant workers put in that magnificent track record maybe he's really transferred yet he started off so well to the Debu in in Paris if I'm member will around to five but since then he's gone to many faster but it's unpredictable let's say that he is he's also a injury-prone he's failed to complete two of his last four races there's the famous Zico Zoila which is the first real monument on this iconic course they're coming down the 17th of June which passive is deep then you knees towards the Zika Zoila the victory column listening when it's sunny really does glisten in the sunshine that gold the reason it's so quick it's a a largely flat course there are one or two small undulations but nothing really too serious and that's why this course has produced so many world records over the years eleven world record eight of those in the men's race three of them in the wind [Applause] [Music] and it downhill piece it is very very slight and it won't trouble the athletes here [Applause] there really aren't beginning to break up already on and the Pacemakers are all good math and runners themselves and they will take through and there are pacemakers for those who are running around about 2 3 4 and those that are running around about 218 though there will be pacemakers in there for the women as well and they get mixed up this is why the mixed race is one has to consider that the mixed race time is 2 hours and 15 that is the world's best a bit complicated because 217 is the women only Kearney just beating Radford time wonderful sides now absolutely beautiful there the pacemakers doing their job number 70 just a marquis Cardona goosey under some on the left of picture there don't underestimate how difficult and how important the job pace making is it sir when it's done well it's a really important role in it sir it often we've seen it on the track this year the pace making the various distances has not been great just a point Chris that spirits there's Phillip spirit she's he's a 210 marathon man so that's not bad for pacemakers early on is it cool they're trying to identify some of the others for you on JUCO they're also his Kenyan he's pacing that first group got a mountain climb in finding quite easily certainly number 70 there is no juice Absalom Eritrea is placing the first group right the way through and only split time very early stages but I can tell you they went through the first kilometer in two minutes 50 which actually is almost exactly sucked to our marathon pace very very quick indeed yeah if you're looking at you know math and well records you're looking at 254 254 they're around throughout the whole so that's very very quick start you should get that and then they'll settle in a bit and and that the way Matthews will run these red they've run differently we show you the split times of world records but people run marathons in different ways so it's very difficult the negative split has become commonplace now between the first half and the second half of the race so it is really interesting to to see how the race develops and who in fact is there yeah quite often we say that the real racing doesn't start until after 30 kilometers when the handbrake comes off and we start some real terrific racing it's really just a question of clicking through those early kilometers and keeping fresh and making sure that you're nice and warm these runners many of them club runners amateur runners many of them will be running for personal reasons and worthy causes okay they just tucked in behind a three pacemakers everyone in stripper there is their plan moving in ways that this tells you something about the pace and the difference and you've got pacemakers in the second group would be probably running around to seven to eight probably a little bit slower than that but the gap is already emerging within just a couple of kilometers gone yeah this will be pre-arranged of course there is a the gesek heard from him at the top of the program one of the young Ethiopians on and stood a great chance here we were talking about the domination of a Pena in this race not just through Elliot Kip Jogi of course in recent years but Kenya have won eight of the last ten per they marathons and East Africa of course has been utterly dominant in this race both on the men's and the women's side we looked through recent winners Kip Fergie the last two years Hilke again in 2015 Dennis cameto at the time a world record Wilson Kip sang Jeffrey Moutai Patrick Makau it's Kenya all the way and today a real chance for Ethiopia led by Kenenisa Bekele to maybe get Ethiopia back on the map [Music] very encouraging crowd along with school [Applause] [Music] the guesser you mentioned this 24 is nice and that you showed potential it was a half mile consistent actually here in Berlin so we'll keep you up to date with the different races within the race of the leading men of course on the left there but it's all about the color and the the glitz and the glamour isn't it as well these people is still mentioned haven't even started yet they're not even over the start line it takes quite a while you imagine logistically to get 47,000 people actually over the start line yes it does and their 150 countries representatives or a captioner anaronnie gave you the breakdown of who who came from where but it was very very popular because we come here you do get a fast time it's wonderful to see really the gamma robbery and the friendship we developed from just meeting someone here that you've never met before jog along with them and you've got a long way to jog with them and once again you see those numbers with the letters rather on the side that's very well organized this mark build the meet director was very well he cared just through three kilometers as you can see [Music] slightly behind [Applause] no matter yes into the fourth kilometer and all the big names in the men's race still in there - clearly a guessing Gabrus elastic with the Pacemakers doing a nice job you mentioned dirt and it kept chugging earlier on and the sub two hour marathon pace that they sat in the first kilometer keep jogging currently training for another attempt to run the first ever sub to our mouths and that'll be in Vienna in a couple of weeks time are those taller that actually is is a very very good and look at the girls at the ladies the women in the middle of that Turk group that's a Helen Tola Ethiopian to 21 her first time surrounded by the men and they'll use the men there are official pacemakers for the top athletes but they will use the men around round them because that's the way you keep going that's why the records are different between a woman only race and a mixed race because of the assistance that one gets more Soyuz is surrounded and they protect you in some way I'm actually looking down that mr. Sarah Hall is therefore the United States she's 2:26 runner on the left of the shot list of Finley remain that are this year's literature oh no tucked in right in the middle of that large group behind Kid Rock and in the back room [Music] yes sir hawk is married to Ryan Hall the u.s. mail Mouser runner what was steeplechase are actually Sarah Hall 2:26 runner very comfortable indeed connection with Ethiopia as well they've adopted four daughters actually from Ethiopia it's a nice story that yep very nice story just improved continually during the past years personal bests in Opera last year - twenty six twenty looking to run a little bit quickly here he's got a very good half map in 69 27 that was set last year as well so she certainly at the top of the career she's 36 years old give her a little [Applause] so approaching the first five kilometers will give you the official splits of course as we get them the leading man no change they're really with bikini looking pretty comfortable but there is always just a question mark over his fitness he's 37 years old and of course anybody who was run marathons even for recreational reasons knows that if the body gets older the niggles and injuries tend to come more frequently it is still the fourth fastest marathon runner of all time at two oh three oh three here in Berlin was the second fastest fitness missed you at the event seems to move on doesn't that mean 201 39 with picture guy just took it to another level entirely last year getting around about two hours four and then one or two dipping under to four to two threes and then to twos and it was it was you know absolutely on that show gave all people who has the physicality and has the psyche has been the will he will not be defeated he said remember I often say about him he was no champion over 5,000 meters the world athletics chemist in 2000 when he was 17 I mean that chosen but a very good very good background and one of the guys he feats on that day was was Terry yes that's right it wasn't that Katie still holds those World Records at five and ten thousand meters it's absolutely astonished and it's just beginning to rain and that I hope it's only light rain the powerful casted promise from my crane but only light rain I certainly hope we don't get the torrential stuff that we got yesterday because it was quite they're quite difficult to move around biblical is one word that springs to mind that Stewart and I don't feel sorry for us we were absolutely sopping wet looking at the the inland skating and all that we'll bring you the highlights of that very shortly actually the wonderful spectacle of the inline skaters a little bit of light rain doesn't do any mom at all it's quite refreshing actually to to run in in light drizzle but mechanic those were records at Stewart's mention they've stood the test of time I'm like Oh 18 years ago now he set those that is some record and of course it was in this city in 2009 and the clearly took two world titles at the World Championships over in the and the big stadium which is not too far away from here there is no doubt at all about this pedigree on the track met many people quite simply the greatest track runner of all time when we've had so many athletes who could contest for that particular title but there is a question mark over whether he's done enough on the mountain I was just looking up I saw in the tape of Ethiopia is the 214 nine runner at the back of that living proof you're right he is and if he is then that's rather speculative I would think you run to the back sure there is is there yeah just in the red and white predicate right there 214 and his is dicing for the pace that is right at 3 5 kilometers - yeah the 5 kilometers 1424 for Kennedy said Ricky Lee is the guesser give us a nasty law career lemma Andy Carroll there come bring a gun they're all there in the leading fact not necessarily in the bleeding [Applause] [Music] visit cannon I've been 43 so 14 24 through five kilometers and again we shouldn't get carried away and as Stewart has mentioned that negative splits are very much the the way to run these mountains these days but if they maintain that sort of pace they will be coming in under 203 leading women just going through five kilometres in that what just outside 1624 the women 1620 through five kilometres haven't so that is there just obscure there by one of the pacemakers and I read to Barbara the former world champion the diminutive figure that picture yes she's just come into the picture to the barber [Music] just looking at the Barbarossa as an athlete the lady is quite formidable that won the World Cup title in 2015 she's very much the championship mouth and runner really there it is 1652 for the lead woman 1652 for the first five kilometers which means that they're running around about 222 place at the moment 2:22 just outside two hours 22 so nothing too much yet but then of course that will build as they get into the race I would think that if Serena's horse record of course from last year to 1811 so they're appreciably slower than that at the moment yeah there's but carry in the middle as well [Applause] yes in the orange sure oh no if you're worried about so Gladish churro know who's going to this poor victory is in there as well it's family the carry six siblings [Applause] the same places to nourish the barber Haile Gebrselassie will come from the same area it's quite formidable really in fact looking at the lineup today there's not much in the terms of elite athletes for marathon long distance running that aren't here yet a quality field and we can see on the left this picture just at the back there Lou Neely's got on his best that's Lula Debora Selassie one of the young Ethiopians we heard from at the top of the program who made that stunning debut in Dubai last year that was an extraordinary race in 2018 where the top ten all finish within a matter of seconds of each other in lightning-quick times Turner no separate querida Barbra kept yeh go there are loads of them those Deseret is far the newcomer the debutantes pelleted Jaykar she's there as well all at 1654 so they're the leading leading first athletes after the first five kilometers [Applause] so through six kilometers there you can see the Reichstag the German parliament coming interview with that famous to paula designed by the British architect Norman Foster movie is a terrific the many iconic landmarks in Berlin and there we get a first view of the spray the the river that just up winds its way through this wonderful city which has changed so much of course over the years just top of right a picture there we've got a view of the main railway station which in itself is is a really beautiful piece of architecture but there is the right time from Seelye the range starting to have a little bit of so it is raining not too much at the moment thankfully isn't a lot of wind out there which is important because as long as the rain doesn't get heavy as long as it abates of it some reasonable time this leading group is really shifting you know they really are and as that first five kilometer time tick told you with interest and see what happens at ten kilometers with well the character me looks pretty comfortable here it's still very early stages what we're just there into the 8 kilometer today but he's been making some positive noises in the lead-up to this race we have heard that before of course only to see him fail to complete the mouthing but word is he's been training well he's injury-free the same schedule as I said inside - - but that is going to be a bit too quick I think well this is quick isn't it oh very very Koki yes it is endure as word is that he's still hard in training up in Cup Tibet in in Kenya and he'll be watching this I'm sure with great interest he'll be back from his morning sunday run and the Great Rift Valley they're settling down I'm sure in his armchair watching some of his rivals here and I'll be part of him of course who would love to be out here on the streets of Berlin when he's had so much success but bikini that's a very easy natural style looking very comfortable indeed the look of concentration deep in concentration thoughts go through their mind they are running and they get into this sort of rhythm it is about rhythm too so often we get negative splits these days [Applause] inductive able to do that could watch something that could keep this place up we're certainly going to see something inside two three [Applause] so the men well underway here and of course this isn't just about the men's elite and women's race it's a festival of running that starts as is tradition on Saturday with the inline skating so let's just take you back to yesterday in really challenging conditions for over 5,000 people taking part and in the men's race it was all about whether Bart's wings could make it seven wins in seven years he's dominated this race over the last few years and well in the end he was a furious finish as we've seen before and it was Phoenix climbing from Germany who came through leading the way here in the final few hundred meters and there he is the first ever German to win the inline skating race speeds of up to 70 kilometers an hour so far swings beaten for the first time Norman Bethea from France in second place and another Frenchman Elton D'Souza in third of this of course was the final of the world inline skating Cup the conditions were very very poor indeed but women well they were challenging four points nearly all here in this race incidentally and that was the rumpus capadino rufus and she was first last year when first of course in this anticipation with second coming back brilliantly from behind centering cast Belgium and of view of Taiwan with the the leader of the championship adapter inline skating championship burning in fourth place so it's quite an interesting day yesterday but the conditions did really spoil it because the times were nowhere near the men were outside seventy minutes and women were outside that an hour and twenty five so it was much much slower than we did normally expect that these guys are going very very quickly indeed I just wonder we'll get a good flow is going to get the second time ticket NK yep just about a kilometer and a half away from that but but Kelly's still continuing to look very comfortable indeed and he his nights marathon he's got a couple of DNS as we mentioned including last time he was here in Berlin he's also very successful away from racing he's now an established businessman in Ethiopia's got a couple of hotels and he's also has a an all-weather track just outside addis ababa in a place called soluta which many of the top athletes use all year round including the likes of Mo Farah and he has a hotel just next door to this track so it's a very successful business he has there and of course sir it's all the question of dividing his time between putting in the training and attending to his various business commitments [Music] then comes up the route so gentle okay Lee I mean he is quite a remarkable after 16 World Championship gold medal track and when he moved to the mouth and before it started so well then of course is business saying earlier on in the program that is not finished in what two or three others laughter - good luck [Applause] he's also been quite honest and said that he doesn't always find it easy to put in there the hard work he's also admitted quite openly that he's underestimated in the past the importance of physiotherapy for example and now he's placing much more importance on that and making sure that he gets the required support well there we are right of picture [Applause] it's still waiting to cross the start line for the mass start there we have the Icelandic rhythmic clapping to get everybody get all the juices the competitive juices flowing still but they're not a lot of these people are running the charity as well go back to their offices tomorrow and they will boast a few personal bests some will be running for the umpteenth time some will be running for the very first time and some will have the experience that of running 42 kilometers which is quite something it really is quite something it's so much more demanding than thing and I always give advice to beginners to start off slowly and then go a bit slower so into the nine and a half kilometer mark so we're approaching this important 10k split a reminder they went through the first five kilometers in 1424 that put them on just outside blue a record pace which is something of a surprise really will be amazing if they maintained that an eclipse earlier last year went through his ten kilometers in 2901 that's the mark we're looking for 2901 just as a comparison at the ten kilometre point [Applause] I'm still not gonna be dead is there a bat so yeah I'm Gary yeah I'm just looking this is seriously [Applause] so hundred meters to go and so we reach ten kilometers and they are on world-record pace in okay let's look at the clock we'll give you the official time 28:52 2852 after ten kilometers that is inside will record pace rally skip show you last year 2901 a second [Applause] [Music] so so all the main protagonists are in there we have really mentioned their CSA lemma there in the blue left of picture another one of the ethiopians along with Micheli and Gabrielle Selassie lemma is a veteran of 17 marathons he's 28 years old now yeah just step behind the pacemaker wearing number 70 they're wearing Lee at the blue and green Cochran's in Frankfurt and Vienna and Ljubljana in Slovenia so there's plenty of quality in this in this mint race and all the main protagonists in that leading group are from Ethiopia yeah I mean lemma 15 Dubai last year with the best time to 482 408 dignity and improvement in that peopIe race last year in the bus another fine [Applause] [Music] but just outside the world record and as I said just outside the world record it is incredible but someone can expect if there is quarry here we can see just at the back of that group Jonathan career or sometimes referred to as that Jonathan Kip the tink he is left from Kenya so he's the the leading Kenyan in this group otherwise it's Ethiopia all the way so just to recap we've got makayley we've got yup missin a see we've got lemma in there the guess is well all Ethiopia just through ten kilometers into the 11th kilometer with the rain starting to fall quite steadily here so a group of that what five already broken away four of them from Ethiopia and one of them from Kenya Jonathan career [Music] [Applause] Kaleigh Jefferson less engaging Diego Fiamma can be full up there there is a bit of a split between that bleeding through the first five Gebrselassie is the fifth in that group which is just there 50 seconds outside the world bigger it really is the unexpectedness and I just wonder whether the weather so it's interesting you saw that young man galore right at beginning the 2:14 man he's all of a sudden he's disappeared yeah I'm not super [ __ ] I'm surprised about that so here the leading we're approaching 10 kilometers do it yes we'll get a timing of them there's the barber - ROH no this Tarou no looking very comfortable indeed [Music] [Applause] Toller is there as well seeing the blues but just going off shot on the right picture but incidentally I'd mentioned Tyrone overture owner looking for a fourth victory here they're out three other women have done it Renato the posture of Poland the pivot of course local favorite here in Ethiopia's a barrel to better so they those three women have already won the Berlin mouth and three times [Applause] [Music] Coronas run last year was quite special of course it was overshadowed and falls never heard by the world record from capture gave which made all the headlines but make no mistake churro nose run last year was really special [Applause] [Music] the bother just tuck it in there the diminutive figured Sharona [Applause] we should mention Bibby interior stood as well he was due to be in this race who sadly had to pull out with her recurrent tendinitis problems she's actually in Germany at the moment receiving some treatment from a leading [Applause] now we're just waiting for it to come back from the mainstream folks that's all there must been an interruption somewhere yeah I don't know what happened except for it still looks like it's something's happening from the mainstream let's see what we can do here realized by myself often or a pedometer for mobilizing [Music] [Music] fastest time on this course is 202 57 the previous world record held by Dennis Camacho that's on current standings is achievable so without getting too far ahead of ourselves we could be heading for the second fastest ever time on the Berlin Marathon course action now I'm starting to get a look at the men's math an all-time list to 255 is jeremu that's all that's all courses that that was in London in 2019 this year at to 255 so that's the second fastest of all time we could be seeing something that order but they are beginning to split a little bit out there and I'm not surprised that the early pace yes the Kenyan who's that the back of that group Jonathan Correa the only Kenyan in this leading group whose pin at the back he's not being dropped just yet [Applause] apps that if anybody is vulnerable in that leading group it's him it's a wonderful time of the year with the trees and the foliage just starting to turn as autumn approaches a brilliant race in terms of weather Stuart almost every year two years ago you and I were here and it was raining quite heavily we had some terrible rain yesterday but other than that it's usually really beautiful sunshine late late summer sunshine were heading between 15 and 20 kilometres they've gone with a licen Burgas processor at the 20-kilometer point just before the end of jobs there's 16 kilometers you can see that on the side of the road and of course the half mouth existence at the end of pop star Mustafa pulsar talking half-marathons we had a new world record set only a week or so ago by Jeffrey Kimura the Kenyan at some another look at SCC lemma who was forth here as you can see back in 2016 that was the year that pen Anissa - clearly won the race he comes from the same region in Ethiopia as Meharry region RC from a farming background as so many of the Ethiopian runners are and it's it's a it's a well familiar told story now isn't it of running to school and back the only means of transport the best way of getting to school running there and back and to Hadi gaps Gabourey Selassie famously did that and that's where a lot of these young runners decide or discover they've got a talent for running and sometimes are spotted and then they take it on to another level [Applause] I'd go so far ahead just to saved if you're watching math running for the first time and they are running 21 kilometers an hour well this shot gives us a great bit of perspective because the gentlemen there in the red t-shirt who's cycling is going along at a fair speed and having to work reasonably hard to keep up with these runners and he's on a bicycle [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] actually they're gonna stay together at this place because they're roundabout to 20 to 23 at the last time we saw so until this pace starts to go - oh no they're on the right - barbers in the middle there everyone is there Toller they're all there and one would expect that because of the pace at the moment nothing exceptional and precarious they're coming up to 15 kilometers for the other women now give you a rundown on that 15-kilometer time just looking at de Barber now as I said she's the championship performer to their f3 her back she's 29 now beamed at running marathons at the top level since 2010 really the half marathon since 2008 the best record of half marathon in 2000 and then vented it in 2002 not actually bettered that since then 67 13 cefe in the middle there is 25 years old former 3,000 meter runner in the world Junior arenas come through the ranks for the to 2013 to assist in Dubai last year just two is among a number of young Ethiopian mouths and runners who achieved a breakthrough during last year a mountain debut in January to 20 point to 22 hours 20 minutes and 13 seconds episode w time for fastest time ever by a debutante coming up there it is there's the 15 kilometer mark just outside 50 minutes we should be are getting due to our 50 12 at 15 to 50 12 of 50 12 15 kilometers gives us a roundabout yeah it's just outside it's around about 220 wirelessly that's two hours 21 so this speeded up just a little bit but at the moment it's a regular pace and I would expect the race to develop quite dramatically in the second half once they get beyond the halfway point and I think that's when the race will start to develop so approaching an hour into the race for the elite men and women of course we have the wheelchair events also unfolding on the same course and the the hand bikers will bring you up to date with them very shortly [Music] [Applause] wonderful scenes here so let's just pick up on what's happening on the in the hand bikers there we are finishing now 26.2 miles and it really is one of the most demanding disciplines and well the winner gets a plaque from the Netherlands the 28 year old who won Paralympic gold in Rio in 2016 understand coming in in second place of rate type finish between second and third and become a Klein the German the 42 year old the Paralympic champion there was a winner here last year become a Klein having to settle for third place in 2090 no change in the men's race heads down concentration [Applause] next check 20 kilometer just outside two hours to 20 still just try to read my apologist just trying to read the facial expression there at the Kaley how how is he looking to tick to you he looks pretty businesslike to me today yeah it's difficult to tell really we're looking at you know if he gets if he if he's feeling good three-quarters the way through the race then you know he's remember he's run two three three before I mean he's been under around about two hours three minutes so he knows he's been there before and this is the course on which he did it though this is a real opportunity for him to to challenge that time really because I think that's what it would be in the end facilities here in the city Livius - what's going on on the road yes normal life goes on but you can see why all the elite athletes particularly East Africans love coming to this wonderful city it just continues to deliver in terms of fast times and as you can see there the crowds coming out in in force despite the weather the rain is just about eased off for the moment so that was just a shower earlier on slightly heavier rain is surf forecast for later so approaching 19 kilometers 20 K the next important mark then quickly after that they'll be through the halfway point and then we can start to see what happens as this race unfolds [Applause] so Kenenisa Bekele still looking good hoping to follow up with a second victory here in Burley [Applause] just outside 2:256 still very very possible well I tell you what all the way through this weekend of competition with men and bikers wheelchairs and now we've got the bambini race and the bambini look at this the youngsters everyone's involved all age groups and everyone is involved the youngsters come out have a little race nothing on it a circus there we go fun all the way it's all about bump and that's within the context of this group of the exodus they will emerge next German marathon runner of note hollering Ana Hana who is also running in this race and in the women's race several qualifications for the Olympic Games on offer for athletes here today yet got to find time for those of you who like to follow this for the men the idea but they are double AF qualifying time for Tokyo 2020 is to 11:30 in the men's race and to 2930 for the women that's the world IWF qualify understanding approaching 20 kilometers then in the men's race and still we have now do we have still a group of five I think we do we have Jonathan career there who is at the back of that groove just obscure so we have the five still intact yeah they're coming up 20 kilometers in York's for us before heading down for the bottom of the course where you go and then start up again after you get the world wild or roundabout the Builder aber roundabout so they're heading down before they turn up again just looking at their mahi what's quite comfortable this knee there but he's looking at his times he only ran under to tear and under to ten three times in 2018 whose fifth in Dubai with to 408 and then second in Prague to seven and then one the Ljubljana race in two 458 so in a three marathons last year and two 22:08 this year he competed in the major in the Boston Marathon which is of course as a very quick the reputation it's downhill in the sense of math and terrain so the the times appear to be very fast and that 222 not particularly impressive so he'll be looking to come back to some sort of form here today there it is okay Lila gesslin lemma career Gebrselassie all together for 57 58 at 20 kilometers well that is still pretty close to the world record pace from last year just outside 57 58 he's very quick indeed 2 hours 2 minutes and 20 seconds on the on the the charts that's that's a prediction of course things can happen so what sort of target they're on running through these kilometers still on course then for the second fastest time ever on this course after the world record set last year by Elliot Kip Shogun certainly on schedule for the second best math and run of all time they are strung out a bit aren't they that which is quite interesting you just have a feeling that there might be a drop off but there it is just 18 seconds outside of the world record a moment that's that was entirely expected we weren't here to promote a world record because we didn't think that that would be anywhere near possible after the achievement is the greatest ever seen as all the armor food any man but the rest of trying and they're trying at a very very fast pace indeed I hope this develops into a good race at the end so that we don't have the speed that the single athlete their an jutsu is the place maker left now one place make a left at the moment this leading group well that's interesting isn't it it was so quick that we've been losing pacemakers yep down to a single place make up and well with an hour of running on the clock and we are comfortably inside coming up to 21 kilometers we're just about to hit the halfway mark in this race 21.1 km/h with this race but we still have five leading athletes and when GQ they're doing a really good job not just pacing it well but communicating you probably saw they're just having a little word with makayley and outstretched arm just to say okay let's just take it easy I'm in control here I'm controlling the pace take my lead yeah I think there may well be in pots dumbest faster here as they turn down into pots promised traffic off Tobin Strasse and then at halfway at the beginning of the navamsa I think again just by way of comparison Elliott captured it went through half way last year in 61 zero six there's the half marathon time 6105 well they're almost bang on yep so we're into the second half of the race here for the men now then will this be a negative split it would be extraordinary if they were to keep this place up the good news is we still have some good racing ahead we have five men still in contention here but as we've seen so many times over the years a lot can change particularly after 30 kilometers between 1335 that's when things start to change so far we have five we have one athlete who's just starting to drop off the back there a little bit and it's not Jonathan career Jonathan career is the athlete there you can see on the left of picture with the orange shorts clearly still looking good mr. nyet Stu is that which one of these men will want to start to make a move they've bunched up a little bit now which is quite nice that's good to see you helping each other for a while [Applause] it's Gabriel a see you can see at the back of that group and he's not been dropped her just yet he's just her slipstreaming behind a couple of his fellow fellow runners there so in the men's race into the second half of the race just outside will record pace which is astonishing really and we're into the second half [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] like in the women's race yes and did Barberton absolutely everyone still there's you can see it's it's quite it's a relaxed race at the moment if you can say that sort of thing they're all together and I'm not surprised because I would think that we're looking at roundabouts 15 kilometers I would think we're looking at fifty twelve and roundabouts 221 at the moment so that's why they're all there because this is all of these athletes are capable of at that time or thereabout so it's definitely going to hot up in the second half of the race I would think no question about that all the main names are in there just getting a glimpse there oh that's good barber they're probably thinking my goodness she's tiny I can tell you she's only five foot tall one meter fifty-two really diminutive but great compact isn't he and has got a really nice economic walking arm carriage not wasting energy any energy at all she's got two hand taller there just to her right the carrier you can see right of picture in the orange shorts all the main names are in there like this Sharona is in there somewhere as well this woman's rice I'm sure will come alive in the second yes there's no change at all it's absolutely as it was the querida barber toll that they're all there is they have been right the way through this raceless bar the Pacemakers just sitting in with them but they are de round about two hours 21 I would think I am just looking those two poor Gladys Sharona yeah I'm a little bit worried two hours towards seen her for a while that's true where is Gladys Corona we have to bother we have so low [Applause] iego I've been said they're all there then Holliday is the care unless unless she's gone ahead has she fallen by the wayside try and find out for you but we can only relate to the pictures thus far but we're looking for Sharona GLaDOS Terrano and she's certainly not there anymore unless she has moved ahead but that group is a long way behind the group in front was posed on with what approaching 20 kilometers will be able to confirm yes what's happened did she go GLaDOS sure a note for you when we hit the twenty kilometer mark but I think we can say with some certainty now that GLaDOS Turner is not in this this group but that's the leading group she was she was there at fifteen kilometers here we go this is that we're getting the solar 66 41 and halfway it was still around about the same pace but I'm looking there's note at the moment I have a feeling now Gladys Turner is there but she's on that 66-59 so she's around about 18 seconds down on that leading group of women so she's fallen by the wayside of munchies she is there but she's back through 20 kilometers it was Toller de ba ba ba Kerri Jeff yay go SEF a venture oh no in sixth place ahead of birth Melek cajeta the debutante is on 6704 so she's running very very quick I reckon the jet has gone quicker than she has over half marathon which i think is quite something for the big news unfolding here in the women's race the 3-time hoping to be four-time champion Gladys churro know there's off the leading group here and struggling to keep up with this set this leading pack [Applause] leading women approaching halfway or confirm the halfway time as soon as they hit it 21.1 km/h and Toller the carry all looking very very comfortable indeed the barber in particular looks just well yes indeed [Applause] the trip near going there as well the Kenyan 33 years old so much experience now they're issued those Gladys the glennister oh no there she is and she's obviously lost contact with that leading group of women going through a bit of a bad patch at the moment I we think or whether she can recover from that we have to see a little bit of ruffle rolling with the shoulders but that's how she runs she starts comfortable doesn't she well she does at the moment and we'll see whether she but this is a time which is bettered so many times in the past but that's the lead group there the women with Toller as we say Helen Tola she's been through the racks at 800-meter run of 5 kilometers on the road 10 kilometers on the road half marathon 6645 Toller for the half marathon and that incident it was this year the watch out for Toller Toller is is really looking for a very very fast time to 21 in Tokyo remember the Met has one of the majors she was second in that in March 6th in Berlin last year but this looks as though she's going to do better we must watch out for Charlie because that time the half marathon really that tells us quite a lot know of course in the second half of the race there we are approaching halfway stage there is the halfway point in the women's race 70 20 through halfway for the women yeah 70 20 at halfway [Applause] [Music] and there we are Stewart coming through now Gladys sure oh no 22 seconds of trivia yep yes it looks as though she's gone through a very bad patch indeed but she's still there and let's keep an eye on that to see whether she continues in the race 22 seconds is a peak Peters at this pace yeah an effort to get back into contention and of course she's hoping for one of these athletes to blow up she needs what one two three four four of these women to all have problems in the latest stages of the race we shouldn't discount Gladys Sharona completely well it's interesting Chris because that that they have speeded up a little bit because they're now on schedule if we can predict the schedule to 20 so they have improved a little bit so Gladys churro nose still on around about 221 so there is a there is really a gap that is significant but uh but there's the bar bitola on the far side could J go there now then all change in the men's race is that Gabrielle Selassie finding the heat a little bit too hard to take here and I think the group of five men is now a group of four I think that's certainly something we can say there is sick average Selassie Lola Gabrielle Selassie and that's the gap between him and those leading for so Stuart we have four women clear and away and now we have four men also clear two groups of four in the men's and women's race yes we do and this is really taking its toll on Gebrselassie too for his best and they're inside that of course so I will have decided that he's not going to try and stay with this 25 kilometers 11234 the men 25 kilometers one 12:30 and that is to 223 around 2 hours 2 minutes for 23 seconds though the guesser for real lemma and Gebrselassie now 13 seconds down so it looks as though he's dropped off the back of that group has surface said but guess it and bikini they're on their own aren't they already so this is very much about racing and the Pacemakers have gone the the big race now on leading men are at 25 and a half the women's race is beginning to warm up a little bit as well at 220 so we'll see what happens in the second half because they were running at 2:22 then 221 now 220 five big crowds on the on the road side here which is good though it looks to me as though lemma is dropping off the back of that group as well those who say lemur of Ethiopia on the back of that group that certainly this the pace is certainly taking its toll isn't it but lemon this year has a best of 228 to 22:08 he was 30th in the Boston Marathon in April so he was looking to do something a bit special here but it looks to me as though in May well in a little bit of difficulty but he's still there there isn't the green top just behind that nagisa glance look at the watch how we're doing with your doing well credibly quick time again this year how often we say that in Devon world records eight as crystal saying earlier on April will record for the man free to women lovely lovely blue now the women now coming past the a football game yes that's another pitch of the shelter don't even see it go a bikini and the men's race still looking pretty composed here the guess it is fellow Ethiopian just to his left Maria the Kenyan the sole Kenyan representative in this leading group down to four now and you could see just behind the guitar there the ever distant figure of loup-garou Selassie the other Ethiopian who's really struggling to go with this pace I think we can safely say now that he has been dropped and we are down to four in the men's race after 26 kilometers three Ethiopians and warned Kenya and a reminder that said the last Ethiopian to win this race was the Kelly himself 2016 20 year three years ago but that is that is a result that stands out because around those that year it was Kenya all the way as we mentioned eight out of the last ten years the men's race has been won by a Kenyan this could well be Ethiopia's day but certainly the guesser looks very determined doesn't he running that long at three races under tors-10 in 2018 to 4:15 there is Gebrselassie now really struggling in no-man's land that's the most difficult place to be with no one around you you're on your own and these three the Pacemakers have gone even for the leading three now look at this we've got three now this is really beginning to open up very early really well this is aggressive running isn't it yeah this is really aggressive and I think it's career Jonathan career the sole Kenyan who is looking vulnerable that is governor Selassie is certainly a way back it's your attic right Stuart it's a horrible place to be stuck in no-man's land on your own having to do all the work seeing the group that you were part of until a few minutes ago getting further and further away and the worried that those behind may well be closing in on you as you falter yeah a difficult situation to be in but career definitely is feeling it now as they come now career 61:10 half-bath he was four from the half miles in barcelona in february this year but according to me is only got three marathons under his belt is best to 651 in 2018 so when you consider the pace that they're running out there I'm not surprised he's dropped back yeah GABA Selassie no no relative no relation to Ty Lee the great Heidegger Bristol a CEO is well known in these parts yeah at 2:04 Oh - was a standing performance in Dubai that was a famous race where the top ten all finished within just a matter of seconds of each other but now Stewart were down to three and they're all Ethiopian it's Ethiopia all the way and barring any accident here surely we can be increasingly confident that there will be an Ethiopian winner in the men's race here for the first time since 2016 the question is which of these Ethiopians will it be but it's a pair long charged in isn't it 42 kilometers they've got a long way to go and the intensity actually I hope they stay together for as long as they can because that will make a really good race of this lamellar gas and Becky Lee Yabba Kaylie left the picture there with all the experience the the elder statesman if you like 37 years old lemma in the middle 28 with 17 marathons behind him so he's actually got more mouths and experience ironically than Bukhari himself the guess it 25 so he's the youngest of the three and there is the fourth Ethiopian who is off the back now ploughing a loan for oh but that's quite a sight isn't it those three the opions they'll know each other well yeah interesting isn't it that demo was fought in the race where Mikaela won it and so and he ran a a to 656 on that day so hoping to do a lot better if he can hold this sort of form together then he will do a lot better because he the next check we're gonna have is at 30 kilometers will then be able to give you some idea twenty minutes into this race approaching 30 kilometers these are the important times and top of the program that often the racing the race really starts to unfold after 30 kilometers there is Jonathan career the Kenyan who again has been dropped that's no doubt about it so he too is in no-man's land - I guess what that provides for Gebrselassie in fifth he's a target doesn't it yeah it does yes the target yeah yeah absolutely Jonathan career or completing isn't sometimes known he's a relative newcomer he started competing internationally in 2018 and he's already 32 years old so but the time that he's the best time it's its path to 6 which is way way off that is that lemon might be although they're taking refreshment so he missed his bottle that's that that's the nothing there so of the two athletes we see that of the three we see there for Kaylee and the gesek both picked up their bottle fine and at this stage of the race number four there in the blue has no drink now that could be important to later on - yeah it is important that something that the part of the strategy of the race and to miss your drink is is big it is a big and I just wonder whether that would play on his mind as the others throw their bottles away it's something we refer to earlier on it it's something that track athletes however successful they are one thing they don't have to do during a track race is take on liquid it's a whole new skill some of them do it well some of them practice some of them don't bother at all she's rather surprising the lever with no refreshment now then from the hand cyclists L have seen the leading men come home already the try get a glimpse of the the wheelchairs at some point as well [Applause] [Music] for the men twisting and turning it's still very flat but they're going from one little roundabout to another and the crowd starting to build in the second half of this race approaching 30 kilometers so we'll see what's happened to the women short there just to check on if Corona was able to get any wind near back to that group will soon see when we get the next to check 22 seconds was the was how far she was adrift at halfway stir it wasn't a 2000 seconds those did Barba now then where's Tolo gone this time where's Koehler yang all this [ __ ] just is there Leslie it's in the mitt I considered in that group she's fine she's our bird Bakari Yeager and Toller very very good they're all there except the woman we expected to be there Gladys Corona yes obviously in that group there is a following group there and she's obviously in that group or at the back of that group and we may well be able to get a look at her you can see there one or two athletes straggling behind and then there's another gap isn't there so there is she is quite a long way behind yeah so halfway Bannister oh no the reigning champion was 22 seconds of drift at 25 kilometers we'll try and bring you that gap there she is there's Gladish Corona yes he is the next to power the pacemakers are trying to get her helping her a long look just trying to push her along to see whether she can make any headway back in this race remember the course record last year and has obviously gone through a little bit of a bad patch here and it happened fairly early on in the in the race one would have expected that we'll see whether she can make any headway right at 25 kilometers we've got the leading women at just 225 it's gababa through in that 123 12 and then a carry ship Diego and Tola in that order 25 kilometers on 23 12 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we'll have a look in a moment at the completion of the the wheelchairs see who prevails in the the races [Applause] [Music] well we know that face that that is Marcel hug hug is coming through to take this this time he was second last year in a last gaps at last gasps print with their Brent the car toss but no mistake this year certainly one of the greatest the most successful male wheelchair mouths and athlete of all time is best one in 28 33 and that's a big big this David we're coming through into second place it would seem at the moment and there's the carcass on the left there's a real charge for the line on the right but David Weir and the car cross probably second and third would check on that there was one other athlete involved in there but that's that's how it is so certainly Marcel hood it's gone very much for the form book really yeah and it's his fifth win in Berlin disappointing last year as you say having to settle for second place behind at the carcass but back to winning ways for Marcel who well a real aggressive move now by the guesser trying to get away from this the remaining two and of course the Kaylee's gone off the back of that and all of a sudden I got his drink this time I was just watching that to see whether the drink lemon was taken by lemma and he missed his last one he's got it this time so that's good but makayley now having to work hard to stay on the back and the guess of this time isn't really putting the pedal down he's already won token now he's the man has already run in one of the majors thus far 30 kilometer marker there for the men let's see what's happening in that respect in a moment what we got 126 53 for 30 kilometers 126 53 is inside to 220 two hours two minutes and 20 seconds this is going to be very very quick indeed if it keeps going like this but there's still 14 kilometer 12 kilometers to go yeah now then is that gap we always have to allow for the foreshortening of the camera shot here but Lagasse has taken the handbrake off here I think it's a 30 kilometers and has laid down the gauntlet to the the other to his fellow Ethiopians lemma in second place in the blue and the question is what does the Kali got here in third place and is he looking vulnerable here yes he is he certainly is he's gone just dropped right off the back and that is significant so and Annisa by Kelly doesn't look as though he's gonna prevail on this occasion I have to say that all of a sudden he went didn't he and it was all down to the guesser who put the pedal down he really did he pushed hard and this man is is a fifty nine twenty half marathon runner back back in 2015 admittedly but he is still in very good form 59 20 that's his best time at half marathon but back a leap is he going through a bad patch has he got chance to come back will he come back I'm not so sure he has got form on this he has in previous races I think of London the last time outs me he suffered and found a way back to come back and finish in second place so let's not write him off just no no no but you're absolutely right Stewart that gap just how quickly that gap content can grow in the blink of an eye one minute he's he's up on the shoulder getting his drink and then he's what 20 30 metres behind the guess he's just checking the watch there the guests are looking nice never for me looking really comfortable up on his toes shoulders looking nice and relaxed and these two young Ethiopians we heard from them didn't we at the top of the program these are the two young pretenders if you like the new kids on the block and while the experience we all know about kinda needs to be clearly but at the moment it's the youngsters who are leading the way quite literally there certainly are there they're inside 2 hours 2 minutes 20 seconds they are inside this is a very fine performance indeed I'm not surprised that the Caddy's dropped off remember is best two three three so this is this would be inside his personal best but my goodness me a little look at the watch but the other two have gone for the moment whether they've gone too early only time will tell an interesting end to this race or live towards the end of this 248 for that last kilometer that is why that's an astonishing kilometer in 248 that is blistering that is Kip sugar esque by any standards that is extraordinary and all it takes is one kilometer like that just to blow the field apart but the the bad news for the gessie who made that move is that he hasn't shaken off lemma lemma is still there a terrific piece of running there the leading to and you can't see Kenenisa Bekele on that shot moment he's dropping further back and further back see if he comes into the shots and look how far he's dropped there is a mirror a hundred so the clearly the latest to find himself in no-man's land there he is winner here of course in 2016 - oh three oh three a brilliant performance on that occasion he's still the fourth fastest athlete over the mouth and distance of all time you'll just want to finish a race if he can finish in the top three here at the age of 37 I'm sure he'll feel pretty pleasing himself of course he wants to win those two DNFs in recent years will obviously be playing on his mind I'm sure the updated women I mean the 220 just outside 220 probably to 2020 it's around about that they went through 25 at 120 1 hour 23 minutes 12 seconds that was the barber the Kari Jaeger Ola and then sharone oh yeah how far back was she still 25 kilometres actually it says here that she's a long way about 124 10 she's almost a minute behind right so that gap has got bigger yeah yeah well here are the women so Gladys churro know the defending champion 22 seconds behind at the halfway mark and now over a minute down it won't be her day it seems indeed she really has dropped way way back so it's test Bay history has gone back as well a minute behind this leading group so the leading group in includes just Kohler Jeff Diego a carry and gababa there's Jeff Yeager tall figure in the center those orange shorts Toller on the far side where she's been throughout this race thus far the bother look comfortable yeah she does look good doesn't she diminutive figure very very experienced all she looks she is struggling again Corona is struggling that is a real struggle look about her and the Pacemakers are trying desperately to get it going again but no she's in she's in difficulty this is not going to be her day but she's going to be well outside two hours 20 at the way she's going at member to 20 to 23 at them to 22 still very good running mind you but she is struggling suffering selfie OPR dominating here in the men's race we have two Ethiopians well clear with that Macario third Ethiopian who's in the chasing group there and in the women we have three Ethiopians and a Kenyan still in there in chippy a go [Applause] and let's check we want is the women the next effect wouldn't that for the women will be thirty kilometers well they're just 328 yup looking at de Barbie you know des barber is certainly the the most experienced mouth and run around that field really just off shot less used just a tiny figure on the right and she's more experienced than all the rest rid and I began by saying that she is the world champion into was the world champion in 2050 so our bronze in Rio de Janeiro and in 2016 was 8th in the world championship marathon in 2000 something she really is a championship competitor there's no question about that but also that experiences is quite formidable yeah 29 years old now to barber to 1952 incidentally her personal bests which she's run not once but twice with the exact identical time in Dubai in 2012 and then again in China in 2015 I like this around her 18th marathon in her career which is which is quite something they say is very much more experienced than the rest Perry is up there as well you ever carry by contrast honey run a few marathons actually no it's their 20th I beg your pardon yes he's won her last two yep she's informed substantive experience in this leading group yeah I was just thinking to carry her first mouth and was in in India in 2008 two hours 39 minutes so she's come on a lot since then she's one Rotterdam incident the earlier on this year in April she won that in to 2255 though yeah there's GLaDOS is that the Pacemakers really tried very very hard just to get it to tag on but his way way down now and looked very uncomfortable yes you're struggling continue right arm just starting to play it out a little bit the shoulders of slumped very tight yes it's not going to be her day I'm just wondering whether she fit whether she'll finish you know the way she's looking at the moment she may not she may not finish well still over 12 K to go yeah their skipper said we said earlier was her personal pacemaker and he's really trying very hard to get her back but she's finding it very difficult to get on to the back of his running and he's slowing down all the time just to pick her up again and then move away again well this was where becomes a mental battle as well as a physical one three nines to go to that last kilometer for the women so meanwhile at the front we have apart from shirono most of the big names are all in there but carry the barber Toller Thomas just kept out of trouble there we haven't really seen much of her for them still there three Ethiopians and a canyon next check would get 30 kilometers we'll see whether they've speeded up anymore certainly no one yet is making a move and I just wonder who it'll be who's doing race I don't know I really don't this is a very very even race I thought Toller on the back of that 66 half math and if she can develop that into a full matter probably be barber well yes oh look at this the brake yeah the gas eat again stretching away really testing his compatriot Lema now then he couldn't shake him off last time at 30 kilometers he got rid of the k-league very comfortably indeed that was easy he put him away the guessing there's still a lot of running here there's still 9 kilometers to go the guess is gone early this is a confident bold move you've got to know what you're doing having you here and you've got to make it count and lemma has just got to start try and keep on the coattails he's something to look up over is this convincing for you sir well I'll tell you what was convincing the 248 kilometer where he broke away and really put the pressure on Micaela and then look at this he's really moving away very strongly from lemma and lemma really now I think he's resigned to settle for second place if he can hold on to that is still a way to go but the guess it putting the 248 in he really crunched it and then moved away and now he's done it again I'd be interesting to see what that last kilometer was now then who's that coming back in the Cayley that's that is Micaela coming back isn't it I said I said it is late he does have these little moments where he goes apparently goes walkabout has a little difficult moment let's be honest Stewart yeah it could have had a stitch she could have had anything that that maybe you just have to work through well this makes it very very interesting indeed doesn't it yeah and if he can come back to the guests and lemma first and if he gets to lemma that will give him the encouragement to go forward for ala guesser that something coming up in the next check will get his 35 kilometers and I tell you what that is that is going to be some a very interesting time check isn't it is that 10 seconds outside the world record at the moment my goodness me it is extraordinary most unexpected and now be Kelly is right back this is extraordinary for makayley we'd written him off just about but we had got the caveat that said don't let's write him off completely but now he's got the target this is all about targets as an issue it just picking up and look at the Kayleigh now setting about lemma this is amazing comeback from Becky Lee with what that's just under 8 kilometers to go well we'll get the 35 kilometer check in a moment to give you a time to come through and you know Lannister it's going to get the shock of his life in a moment because I'm not sure he knows that Michaela is about to come up on his shoulder let's look at the facial expression as lemma when he feels the presence of bikini on his right shoulder is having a look to his left there he is oh where did you come from [Music] I'm really interested to see what's happening at 35 kilometers I really am coming through there is the ticket yeah we're in the talent seean Strasse a thirty five kilometers point full of running there doesn't it guess it is he getting this there goes specail II look at that the speed at which he went asked lemma unbelievable unbelievable it's not the first time he's done this he does sometimes apparentiy come back from the daddy who writes him off at your peril Kenenisa Bekele is so at 35 we now have Lagasse leading 141 0-2 and now in pursuit the Kayleigh 141 0 to 35 it's bang on will record pace according to our statistics from last year it's very very close [Applause] well there's no doubt that unless he's getting information fed to him the guess 8 will not be aware I'm sure that it's now bakkali who is in pursuit apparently left for dead at 30 kilometers and now what he's got 20 meters or so on Lemmo so the gesek leading the caelian second in pursuit and look at that gap now Stewart that's that's the task facing pin Anissa bikini he's what about said Eric in about 70 or 80 meters behind Lagasse but closing perhaps and he's got what 20 or 30 meters on Lema inferred well he is closing there's no question about that at all well guesses really is put his pedal down very very early let me just tell you that the women to carry at 139 52 at 30 kilometers will give you 150 932 on 39:52 sorry his is inside two hours 20 between two hours 20 and yes just around about two hours 20 just over two hours 20 at the moment but the leading women Bakari Toller de Baba Jeff Yeager those and then you've got a male actor cajeta the debutante at 141 they're two minutes down not quite two minutes down a minute minute the busines just wonder whether this race will develop the way I hope it will when if Michaela can really close him down well this is this is all shaping up fasten your seat belts everybody we could be in for a bumpy ride here this is really shaping up has the makings of a thrilling finish here because they guess it 25 years old in only his third marathon made a bold move at 30 kilometers he thought he'd shaken off makayley he won in Tokyo as you can see there earlier this year so he's got good form but he's got in his wing mirrors he has the looming figure of Kenenisa Bekele with Lema in third well this is a real test of Lagasse he doesn't have the experience but this man does now here's the question for you Stu at this stage whose shoes would you rather be in would you like to be the chaser or would you like to be being chased I think I'd like I'd like to be the chaser at this point I think I would because he's there look is not that far ahead this is definitely a race I have a feeling this will be a big shock Paul I guess if he can come back to him it certainly will yeah 35 kilometers 140 102 just check that six kilometers to go in this race left the picture the leader in the men's race and right of picture just disappearing is the chaser it's just outside - two hours two minutes isn't it that's extraordinary heading for the second fastest ever marathon time in history that is - OH - 37 held by the world-record holder and he had picked sugar that was run in London early this year in April circuit chug it who ran 201 39 here exactly a year ago then followed it up with 202 37 in London so he has the two fastest times near history and we could be heading for perhaps the second-fastest here in Berlin but I'm waiting for the women's race to develop as well as this men's race emergen you can see the motorbike that is following makayley is closed FISA is closing in you can see him just behind that car the lead car there he is customer Jesus got off your shot now but the guesser let's just chat up on the women now and see if there is a break of any sort whatsoever ah there is Sharona I said she might pull out and she's gone that's GLaDOS sharona's finally withdrawn from the race he clearly very unhappy early on and dropped away from 20 seconds down - what - a minute down and now she's gone completely yeah it's a real shame I think we can see the moment when she when she dropped out here this - yeah she didn't look comfortable at all and I thought she might not make it it's a lot when you're in trouble it's it's it's a problem and she's gone and she'll probably shout to keep prop up front her face makers say I'm gone I'm sorry I've gone totally and utterly gone well a real shame yeah a real shame for GLaDOS Sharona who was Amy's really she's struggling so it won't be a fourth win for Lannister oh no but her course record I think will be safe today being attended to certainly after an hour and about 44 minutes it was that she pulled out I think the race roughly now though this is getting very exciting indeed the guess it's probably still not aware that miquellee is coming back this would be one of the greatest comebacks I think we've ever seen in a marathon from Kenenisa Bekele and he's on top of his toes as me you can sense look at that gap he's half dick Stewart in less than what a couple of minutes oh yeah I mean he's good he's gonna come up alongside there's no question about that that is astonishing absolutely astonishing was so far behind and then went past lemon lemon was shocked but note this man will be even more shocked but they know each other don't they they know each other well and it because they know each other he knows what his strengths and weaknesses are so and if you were the Kelly's coach now we're about to see him pass what does he do does he does he go past and continue to go past and and do that the basics that everybody says you should do on the track or does he sit in on the shoulder and save something for the end I think he's gonna have to make that decision I think I would probably wait a little bit and see if you've got a little bit more let's just calm down a little bit he said a lot of catching up to do but the point is he's so experienced he's caught up very very slowly he's not tried to really push it's hard hard oh look at that the first little look over his shoulder yeah I'm here yeah I'm here when he all have got the shock of his life there the guess it what on earth are you doing there and makayley is going on there we are we've got the answer to my question he's not hanging around he's pressing on and what went to the last five kilometers now that is absolutely astonishing now we're going to get another check at 40 kilometres to see where the men are the women at 35 kilometers will get them but 40 kilometers the next check for the men and the women well we'll see if there is any break at all in the women's racing what about this man world record holder 5,000 10,000 meters on the track 16 World Championship medals such experience and the marathon he's shown such well he's we never know which became is turning out has he worked hard enough is he going to finish the questions we ask are numerous yeah but on this day you have to say that the fortitude he showed is both physical and mental and he looks to me as though he's even moving away well we said sit behind no not having that he's off little look at the watch yes I'm gonna go to - I'm really looking for - - or beyond his personal best set on this course three years ago - oh three oh three a brilliant performance but he could be heading for something even better than that well he's out look at this this is extrordinary running from Becky Lee now he's into the last five kilometers he's the world record holder over 5000 meters 252 for that last kilometer this is extraordinary running I mean 252 is is is absolutely magic I mean the the earlier one by the guesser at 248 was what what put makayley behind that makayley just sat there and gradually came back that's a madman look how much advantage he's got now look guess I must have thought he was away it really must but as we said earlier you know there's still 9 kilometers to go and anything can happen and this man has been there before he's he's it he has the psyche of a champion he knows about records he's broken so many of them in the past and he's looking to break his own personal record here which I think he will certainly do what if he gets under 203 that will be a real coup for Kenenisa Bekele but it's the manner of the victory let's not give him the victory just yet there are still plenty of time for things to change but his cadence is good his body language as good as they approach the famous potsdamer platz and he must know now that he's getting very very close indeed to what would be a remarkable victory into the last one twelve or thirteen minutes of running yes indeed and when he goes through to that turn approaches that Brandenburg Gate then just 400 meters to go the Brandenburg gates that wonderful building we've mentioned some of the buildings on this course has such architecture the Brandenburg Gate built in the 18th century built on the orders of the Prussian King Frederick William ii they were a bit more history for you but history's in the making here as well because PK Lee is looking for a time approaching two hours two minutes [Applause] approaching forty kilometers and well he's still looking good as he's still looking pretty fresh and it will be fascinating to know what it was that caused him to drop off so dramatically was it a stitch was it a hat something with the shoe we don't know we remember that it kept sugar having problems with his insoles remember a few years ago and still winning the race and there is the chaser how quickly things can change and the gesek who was leading the way he had a hundred meter lead over Becky Lee and must have thought he was on his way to a famous victory to follow up the win in Tokyo early this year now then Shelly just needs to keep this going don't be fooled by the foreshortening yeah there is closing in you can see the world record there and he's just behind it as you can see 80 meters look at such as this the science today that was just 80 meters behind the world record yep of tips early last year which was exceptional yeah that's it I think that was a an event defining time last year the 201 39 many people saying that it would be many many years before that sir that's beaten but we could be heading for something special here the little check of the watch there for the Cayley it was almost a smile on his face there and then he looked look down at his watch and he thought this is quick and certainly he knows it's quick well he has a lot of supporters here all over the world that is the chasing man that is the guess it but we set it up pro-gun didn't we that miquellee had a lot to prove and he's proving it today well look at this still the women are all there do ba ba ba go and the Toller is still there in the background and that those women are the ones that are remaining now the forefront of this race under chip llego looking very easy so does Toller so twisted barber so does Meharry they'll be carry which mustn't forget her in the midst of that group so we've still got a big race on for women left in this women's race and it's going to be a good finish this gonna give you a 30 five kilometer time time check on the women as they come through that time to give you some idea of what they're doing but I reckon it's around about 220 at the moment there's half a kilometer or so to go before we get that check if you've got to choose isn't it between these four Stewart they're all looking pretty comfortable big news in the women's draw in the women's race is that so Gladys kurono the 3-time champion I'm afraid is out really struggling in depth but to be in a little bit of trouble no evidence of faltering at all here these women tucked in iego they're looking very comfortable sole Kenyan in other the men's or the women's race able to contend for the victory today yeah the pacemaker leading that is I'm a letter Naida and that he is the pacemaker incidentally for Toller but let's go back and have a look at the leading men now we're looking for the 340 yet three kilometers yeah Oddie kilometer time will come up and it's there let's go for the men the women at 35 139 50 to 35 I'm waiting for 35 that was the 30 kilometers waiting for 35 34 84 coming up to 35 kilometers for women that's that's tolas pacemaker on the left no detonator and Toller is behind him he's just a meal of glance to see where she is so Diego the carry Toller de barber a real race on here there's the 35 kilometer out let's have a look and see what we've got anything up on the screen yet official 156 36 or 35 156 36 so that is inside it's still out it's inside 221 but it's a it's 220 plus inside 221 there's going to be a pretty quick finish our thanks to this room is race I expected something more but anyway michaei lead now look at him digging in well miquellee is on his way he has the streets of Berlin it seems to himself inside the last two kilometers it's been a brilliant brilliant performance here just going round the Jean gum and muck and he will come out and emerge onto unter den Linden I reckon is only 10 seconds outside the world record this is extraordinary yeah I mean 150 530 at yeah to 138 is at 155 20 so he is certainly only ten seconds down on the world record Wow that is extraordinary approaching 41 kilometres so what can his compat really guess they find he thought he'd got this race won but the Kelly is going to take some shifting now and there you can see at 40 kilometers just 11 seconds it's outside the world record that was set remember only 12 months ago on this course Kenenisa Bekele has got the bit between his teeth and there a little smile he's enjoying himself as knee and why not this could be one of the greatest comebacks perhaps not the greatest victory we've ever seen but one of the greatest comebacks that we've ever seen in a world marathon 247 for the 41st kilometre quite outstanding and the gesek looks a broken man now really starting to hurt and he's becoming an ever distant figure as we approach two hours of running Kenenisa Bekele what a performance this is and very shortly he will emerge onto unter den Linden that famous famous road will be a left turn into unter den Linden and then for the first time he'll be able to see the Brandenburg Gate deep in concentration he is trying he is really going for this he is be watching his been looking at his watch time and time again and he's proving himself this time there's no drop out this time this is a formative performance to be dropped so much after a two forty eight by the guesser over a five seconds outside the world record is gonna be very very close it's astonishing well we saw history last year in Berlin quite astonishingly are we going to see history repeat itself here twelve months ago Elliott capture gate two hours one minute 39 seconds and now the track pedigree all those years on the track maybe start to come to help Kenenisa Bekele still the world record holder remember over 5,000 and 10,000 meters he's on unter den linden and there is the brandenburg gate approaching two hours and then we can get him home he was 10 or 11 seconds outside the world record but he's getting closer and closer and he's about to hit two hours yes he is two hours gone and 41 and a half kilometers just half a kilometer to go and that really is something look at this shouting the encouragement to him but he doesn't need encouragement he knows what he's doing and there is that Brandenburg Gate wow what a race what a run by Michaela quell the carry could be making history here approaching the Brandenburg Gate he was down and out at 30 kilometers remember he looked a broken man we don't know what the problem was but he got himself back into the race and now what a feeling this must be Kenenisa Bekele he's won here before remember in that 2016 - oh three oh three and now through the famous arches and he's into the last few hundred meters and he has exactly a minute inside a minute to get home inside the world record and he had kept sure he must be watching on feeling a very very worried man inside two hours and one minute approaching there and the crowd going berserk into the final few hundred meters this could be history again for the second year running Kenenisa Bekele one of the greatest comebacks of all time perhaps let's try and call him home here he may struggle to get inside the world record but he's going to give it a real girl Kenenisa Bekele 20 seconds to get inside the world record it's going to be as a bare minimum the second fastest time of all time he may well just fall short 201 13 I remember the winning time last year he's going to fall just outside that Kenenisa Bekele always feeling the hand of history on his shoulder and he's just outside would you believe it he's missed the world record by just two seconds Kenenisa Bekele a second victory here in Berlin the greatest comeback you will ever see surely in marathon running and Kenenisa Bekele has come just two seconds short of beating the world record of Elliott tip shogi set here 12 months ago 201 41 would you believe it the second bust best time ever but surely Stewart the greatest comeback ever such physicality over the last couple of kilometers such mental endurance and sheer determination took him to the line just two seconds short of that run last year but what about the guess analogous he played his par he really did he put in that 248 a kilometer he then well makayley was dropped off the back went behind Lema as well but then all of a sudden but Kelly had a second wind and came through at second place at to 249 Wow these times are terrific again up a to 248 is astonishing astonishing but to certainly Mackay Lee's comeback over the last 145 kilometers was as good as you'll ever see but the only missed the world record by 2 seconds is incredible lemma first of all was shocked when BK Lee came up on his shoulder but it wasn't lemma that was shot the guesser was shocked even more because he broke away he looked as though he'd got it so none he was so far ahead of lemma so far ahead of Mikayla then all of a sudden the great man eased his way slowly but surely Yard a meter after meter to haul in Lagasse and move ahead of him and there's another great performance 338 water race 336 that is as good a race as you'll see and it was a race in the end in every sense it was a race he had everything it had everything you couldn't write a script for a movie better than that they'd say no you couldn't get makayley to come through from that position so quickly and to be so close to the world Rocky can do it but of course we saw it happen what a moment for Kennedy said makayley the comeback hit in Berlin he had his doubters would he be fit would he put in the hard work what he put in the that he had the discipline to get himself into the shape that is needed to compete at this last level well the answer was yes he did to all of those questions of Meyer mind didn't he come close to seconds over 42 kilometers 42.2 kilometers Wow simply wild [Applause] [Music] well Kenenisa Bekele was just 2-seconds stewart from becoming the first man to hold 5,000 10,000 and world mouse and records at the same time that was absolutely astonishing wasn't it it really was it was I've never seen anything quite like that that was that was a great marathon it was a great race and really and you consider what he did it was super humor it really was superhuman oh he'll be very happy he looks so comfortable he didn't look comfortable then all of a sudden he did look comfortable and then there was a smile on his face as he came into the final stages brilliant absolutely well worth a watch and those who have not seen this will wonder and they'll say they'll blink twice when they see that time they really will because at the end of the day very very very fast well just a moment to catch our breath after the drama of the men's race we still have the women of course to bring home ten Aneesa the curry well you can hear the cheers well it looks as though the carry is now moving ahead of this field looking as though she's putting the pressure on Dee Barbara in second place at last they've broken free of their male counterpart chip Diego is behind her Toller looks as though she's not on that in that leaving group looks as though she's being dropped and it looks as though Bakari and de Barber are the two leaders and certainly that is Sally Kip jeguk chip Diego is that best of 223 so that's looks as though that wood is going to be bettered on this occasion the carry got a 70 36 alpha that's not incredibly impressive but she won Rotterdam as I said earlier on this year so she's got that under her belt and and of course we're looking at the sort of times look at it well get a look at 40 kilometers for you so that we can see how the women are going but they didn't really start racing until later on in the race and I'm surprised that toll is gone because I did raped Ola I thought she might she might prevail here to row no force went early that's a great shame for her but gababa looks good doesn't she she is the most experienced as we said many times before and winner of events in that year last year - 2114 look at that she's heading these are sort of times that she's capable of we've not seen anything scintillating in terms of you know we've not said inside two to twenty at any time during the commentary this bar and we've not said anything near into nineteen so that course record set last year by Gladys true and it will still stand there's no question your thoughts on this Chris well the barber I've said looks comfortable and has not comfortable for almost the entire race a demeanor her body language doesn't really change very much at all what a contrast in the light of these two runners two barber just five foot tall just tucking in they're maybe doing a little bit of slipstreaming to carry also looking very very comfortable indeed looks like it's gonna be theo pious day yeah it certainly does they had a real big team out is they need one kenyan if i remember correctly but it it the the race really didn't unwind until very late on we saw gladys churro no pull out after what one hour and about one hour and 40 minutes just everyone and one out forty two minutes he pulled out at the race as i said before was the brett-james win four in a row so kerry being used to say shield by the diminutive figure of de baba as I said you know math and world champion Olympic bronze medalist world championship finalist eighth place she's got it all as de Barbra she really has and in terms of experience when you've been good in the championships then you can come to these races and develop in a slightly different way the races in the major championships are often much slower as they were in Doha a couple of days ago in 239 but the conditions were race in that world championship finals sixty sixty eight sixty odd competitors 20:28 pulled out yes I think I'm somewhere around about fifteen withdrew before the race yeah British mean they're so brutal yeah absolutely brutal a lot of people even questioning why the race was allowed to go ahead give them those conditions two degrees very different here in Berlin today on this old tunnel Sunday morning with the women approaching forty kilometers well bakari's certainly taken this race on it concentrated too early on and the long road distances and internationally only competed in the half marathon route and I said to you the first marathon was in 2008 at the 239th corner lot then I mentioned that earlier with six siblings in the village of Burt which is in the RC region other world class runners mr. Baba Haile Gebrselassie enemies of the Kayle just missed the world's men record men's record all from that area played football actually she's a midfielder I've told in their local football team started running at the age of 13 and 14 big area just to give you a little bit of background there Barbour it's been there she's got more experience from Bono Vivian Jarrett Vivian Jared I'm sorry that chariot wasn't able to be here actually because that would have been a very good race indeed he's the tough competitor the Barbra remember her best Bessette back in 2015 which is surprising really last year she had two massive we saw in London she was seventh in London 227 11 in Frankfort 225 so she's not had the Fast Times just lately that's for sure but this is going to be it's gotta be somewhere around about 2 to 20 I would think to nearly to probably sub 221 anyway yeah it's certainly respectable it's not going to bother the course record set by shirono last year and of course paula radcliffe so alright well record says one out of region likely to remain so for many years to come coming up to the 40 kilometer mark [Music] run past the National Gallery in the alimony and potsdamer platz 40 kilometers they'll be what in jean darman market kilometers the barbers just taking a business thing earlier than into hunted in the end and then look through the Brandenburg Gate just won't even air whether that was a move it looked to be a possible move by Jabbar but it won't decisive 2:13 for moment [Applause] Carrie to 1309 40 kilometers well just have a 2k to go it's a two horse race it's Ethiopia against Ethiopia it's gonna be gonna be inside to drink this one it may be a little bit about has been finished to complete the race [Music] pretty we can't to name the male athletes in the picture because if we don't have start this going back fifty five thousand places a de Barbra looks very comfortable doesn't she look at this difference in stature between these two after forty kilometres have gone to 1309 looking at 2002 2020 it's about two twenty twenty something like that as well as twenty minutes twenty seconds unless there's a little bit of a push at the end well the next turn will be I got my job if you're right will be a left handed turn into unter den Linden [Applause] [Music] carry though it's all presence very upright looking very very comfortable indeed 31 years old he's the four mathletes Kofi's athletes of course world world-class but carry here looking to win her third consecutive marathon is some consistency here we are there's the left turn Stuart inter hunted in London approaching the Oh indeed and no action yet whatsoever who is going to make a break little look buddy Barbara's you can see for yourselves and then who's gonna break is the barber gonna take it on is to the carry gonna take it on who's going to attack first kilometer and a half to go you see that's the sort of time the world record at the moment this 250 yeah I mean that's how sort of drying up that's how far it a 1,500 meters behind it you know it's it's it's quite a significant world record that by Paula Radcliffe [Applause] sixteen years old now for a torch bits [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] approaching at 41 kilometres 42.2 of course the magic distance [Applause] [Music] either speeded up just a little bit but I've seen any evidence of anyone really taking this on yet there's no subtle increase of place by by bukhari here down to those two it's salad chef Diego is in third place the last time we looked he's got a best of two 2315 so you can I mean she would not have expected to have been there if it was we're talking about 218 and 219 so now then is this the move by de Barbic yes it is here she goes gonna care respond to this two barbers God's care responded what the definite move though yeah decisive enough and carriers covered it for the moment [Applause] they certainly speeded up a little bit that's for sure looking at the clock one and a half kilometers now they're on 200 inland and I was a little bit previous with my my previous comment now that's the left turn onto unter den linden this is the the final home strike yes and gababa it's not it's not significant as it carried as a subtle movement now look at that could just see it the care is responding though we're coming up to 2 hours and 18 minutes of course that to 1811 was the horse record set by Tyrone Oh had to pull out earlier in the race on the race three times in a row the barber leads carry in second place these two [Applause] [Music] still no real attack the bukhari come from behind when she attacked from behind will she but she'd take along but was dangerous she's look at that little glance over his shoulder see where she is from de barber barber of course a very famous name not related to the de barber sisters tarnish and Ergun Xebec but approaching 42 kilometers and from here just over 200 meters to go and it is going to be a little bit quicker than we thought because they've speeded up certainly over the last couple of kilometers here formerly of Azerbaijan gababa now then the carry has taken it on through the Brandenburg Gate magnificent Brandenburg Gate a symbol of reunification and now they'll see the finish to athletes who's got the sprint finish it's gonna be outside 220 as we said well they're about but it certainly has speeded up and carry and de Barba these two trying to win their way through the men the Barmes throttle down now the carries gone into the lead taken over from her look at that the carry and it looks that we can't quite see there in the way these chaps the carry an anxious look on the face where is the bomber to Barbara's gone and the carry is going to be the champion on the six running of the Berlin mass so a shepherd the carrot of Ethiopia 31 years old is coming home to win the marathon in two hours 20 and 15 to 20 14 drama malady baba in second place to 2024 wonderful performance I love these scenes at the end because though they could run again the barber couldn't quite match the power of the bigger woman look at that - 2014 8 seconds down in the end - 2022 so the predictions were pretty accurate throughout that race we'll see who comes through into third place I would think it'd be silly Diego unless sir she is faltered in the final stages of the race that's pretty consistency from the Macarius and third consecutive victory yeah Diego comes through now that sir that is a big big personal best by about two minutes I was just looking at pseudo knows the best time we've got her at 2:23 15 so that's a couple of minutes she's taken off her personal best carry come through very well her best personal best was to 2114 prior to this race minutes off yes about a minute off personal best coming through with that win in Valencia last year which is set that first previous personal best a new best is set here in Berlin so Ethiopia's day as we suggested it might be at the start of the day Kenenisa Bekele in one of the most astonishing performances we've ever seen anywhere in the world missing the world record by just two seconds and in the last few minutes our shettima carry with a big personal best to win the women's race so ethiopians winning the men's and the women's good finish wonderful celebration for Beqiri new personal best she is the champion last two marathons she's won so she is the champion the barber dinner best the diminutive bigger could match the power of the carrot [Music] the interviews will begin shortly fact is exactly a minute faster than a personal best theory - fabulous races but the men's race was sensational I use the word advisedly sensational is correct of astonishing two seconds outside world record ten there needs to be candy and all the doubts we had about him are thrown to one side Yemen he is the great man said many tell you can't win sixteen medals in the world chairmanship but this is the rundown of the race well what a race it was just over two hours ago it's amazing what can happen what you can pack into a two-hour window on a Sunday morning in Berlin Kenenisa Bekele [Applause] yep the Selassie was the the early pacemaker then he got dropped then makayley was dropped he was at least a hundred metres behind and then he came back working his way through in the end agonizing ly close for the Keely he gave it such a good go missing out on that world record by just two seconds which is astonishing that kinda needs to be Keely getting a second victory here a massive personal bests let's hear his thoughts now here he is the winner kena Lisa became was this your greatest performance ever in all the success you've had was today in Berlin your greatest race yeah was fantastic race just I'm sorry you know just few seconds I missed a world record of course I know my potential you know still I'm doing I still I will beat this but you know because of injury no it takes a long time when when you dropped back to third place what was going through your mind did you think you would lose no because you know only three of us in marathon you know you never feel losing you know till the it because you never know people who in front of you you never know what going happening to them so you don't have to give up all the time you have to be in confident so because I feel a little bit I'm strong amethyst ring pain that's why I slow down a little bit so I know my potential you know you know still so when you came into this race did you really think you were in world-record shape of course you know I still I I can I can do better than before you know my preparation well but of course my preparation was not hundred percent because of injury only few months this I was in rehabilitation centre three months ago so after my preparation was a little bit short for marathon you know it's especially for record you need four or five months so well from what you've done today two seconds outside the world record they've been doubts about you understandably because of injury but you're saying your career is not over of course I shall I I I think I showed the world leader you know my best today so still I have chance to do this I'm not to give up you know congratulations can release a wonderful race thank you very much well this is how he did it agonizing ly close but comfortably the best performance of his career and it's interesting to hear will you learn two things there stirred in me one it was a hamstring he felt tightness in the hamstring which explained why he dropped off the pace at about thirty kilometer will run two seconds off the world record Wow it is quite astonishing and of course those elite runners head above the rest of the field there were some very good Club runners coming through the Brandenburg Gate running personal bests and
