Men's Marathon | World Athletics Championships Doha 2019

good day or good evening to you wherever you're watching welcome to the penultimate night of action here in Doha the Qatari capital at these 17th IWF World Championships where for nine full days now the action has unfolded with a series of breathtaking performances by the world's best track and field athletes we're on the seafront stretch of road on Doha Bay tonight known as the corniche and as for the ladies eight days ago the men's marathon fielder gathered to race over the standard 42 point two kilometer distance when it's warm evening but the width erased you off at 11:59 p.m. here that's in a round of 10 or 12 minutes it's much cooler this evening than for several days the athletes however still have to negotiate six anti-clockwise laps of this dead-flat for fast circuit and with no pacemakers with guaranteed world-class racing at high drama from the 73 starters were live counted no less than 30 27 athletes who have run under 210 for the marathon it's a high-caliber field I'm joined in the commentary box by Maruyama og two-time Olympian and second fastest Briton of all time as we see that glorious spiral mosque not far away Oh Maura this feel is strong humidity is down significantly from previous nights and great racing is surely very very likely yes Tim it certainly is a high quality field here tonight East Africans have really dominated the marathon in recent years and I'm sure we'll see more of that this evening but world championship marathons are well known for springing a few surprises and there are several athletes here tonight who could upset that African dominance and sneak on to the medal podium if you look at the historical medal tally at this what are these World Championships in the men's marathon Kenya and Ethiopia are top but Spain is the third nation in terms of medals and if you look at top eight Japan and Italy have also done very well in the past well the crowds built nicely for the women's race as the race war on bit of a war of attrition for the ladies I think 40 percent of the field failing to finish although the athletes have known the conditions here would be very warm and humid for a long time son just unable to cope up running themselves almost to a standstill this quick circuit where judgment is all the more essential well let's take a look at this circuit now here to the eastern side of Doha that glorious half moon-shaped to Doha baby athlete starts roughly in the center of the curve on the landside carriageway they go through the finish line after 195 meters and then they have six laps of this seven kilometer loop through 1k they're heading southwards to the southern extremity a left-hand turn will have them heading north from that right-hand carriageway and see to their rights nice breeze this evening by the way much cooler than any other evening so far as they head northwards up towards the central business district there are extra drinks tables out on the course as well as their own special drinks tables every 5k they took a u-turn there at the northern extremity up near the Sheraton Hotel heading back down south towards the conclusion of their first lap that's the six kilometre point and then they come down through their original start line still adding southwards of course through that start line to the finish line at which point they have got five four laps to go well the weather has been talked about very great deal over the last ten days or so twenty-nine degrees centigrade is a clear night and that north-northeast to win 14 kilometers now is quite strong compared with anything we've had over the previous days and these Championships NIT certainly has brought the humidity down it feels much much cooler outside our cabin here right beside the finish line when the athletes getting ready now Mara would that start what about eight minutes away something like that how much warm-up you actually need in conditions like this you know it's still 29 degrees centigrade out there yeah even though it's cooler than the previous nights we've been here at the Cornish it's still very warm so absolute minimal warmer is what I would be doing if I were in this race in in cooler conditions I might do five to ten-minute jog then some stretching then some stride outs but you could remember from marathon any energy you expend before the race isn't gonna be available to you during the race and also you don't want to heat your body up at all so you have absolute bare minimum is what's needed here Callum Hawkins there we saw the man who was fourth in the colours of Great Britain two years ago in London indeed five of the top ten from London are here there's the defending champion and he is defending one of that quartet of Kenyans because of course if you have a defend if you have a champion in your from your country they're gonna buy into the championship so three more athletes were allowed I'll tell you how good the Kenyan team is the other three athletes apart from kanui here Geoffrey Curie the reigning champion are quicker than him at the marathon distance it's a very high caliber Kenyan squad and indeed the last six titles have gone to the men from East Africa that said all three oath Ethiopian ladies dropped out in the women's race eight days ago so there are no guarantees of a strong run for anyone well the world record to a 1:39 bigger pipe cho gate that got a real shock just last Sunday in Berlin when Kenenisa Bekele run to a 141 he missed it by 2 seconds in the German capital the championship record by another curie that was back in 2009 in berlin to a 654 in the fastest time in the world this year well as I said Beckley in berlin six days ago as they were last week for the ladies race I mean these men relatively speaking are blessed because stepping outside our cabin I couldn't believe about 20 minutes ago when I went out the last time how much cooler it is it feels normal I know where acclimatize we've been here 10 or 12 days but it is so yeah it really feels different we were told a few minutes ago that the humidity was at 48.6% and in the ladies marathon a week ago it was 74 percent and the temperature was 32 degrees so much more favorable conditions this evening for the men's marathon and the walk at work the race walk events also have been held on this corniche 31 and 32 degrees and humidity in the 70% we saw for those races so today there's been a real change in the weather and I think we could see faster times than we were expecting well 73 starters are out there on the road just limbering up minimal warm-up required the Japanese well they're expected to put up a strong showing used to warm conditions like this although their squad includes the extraordinary Yuki Cowell eg who has done 95 marathons he's a man who normally does 9 to 10 marathons a year when of course most elite marathon runners run just two he is a phenomenon you kakera eg who turned a professional year or so back ironically this year he's broken his habit of running 9 attend marathons year and this tonight will be only his fourth marathon in 2019 let's remember Tim that the Japanese Olympic Trials were held just a few weeks ago and 30 of the top Japanese men stayed at home for that despite that the three Japanese here have personal bests of 208 209 and 210 so there's some way down the rankings in Japan but still very fast personal bests I was going to say that the conditions would be a bit of a level up when it's very very hot because some people just cannot cope with the heat but it is cool enough to say racing conditions might be normal for these men and let's have a look at them now there's a quite a big field here as you can see in this one the national record hold from Burundi Olivier Guetta biruta is here so is de almeida Paolo London 2012 8th place up from Brazil first nature there say there near the bottom of that page the Eritrean is a five-time world half marathon champion 7 37 years old now were the best of 208 he's never really got to grip to the marathon I wonder if tonight he can turn that around well the Ethiopians have the three fastest in the field indices that Gary get a mu and was even but Callum Hawkins of Britain fourth in London two years ago ran really well in London this year to show he's recovered from that collapse from heat stroke at the Commonwealth Games last year the European champion in 2014 Dion al Daniele Meucci goes in the field this one for Italy and that Kenyan trio with the defending champion Chloe quartet I should say is so so strong watch them will see plenty of them settled but a chair of Mongolia this is his ninth consecutive World Championship pearance he's 37 years old he'll celebrate his 38th birthday on Monday so as he finishes will beat tomorrow for him Alphonse Felix Simbu of Tanzania well he's the bronze medalist from London 2017 two years back just held off Callum Hawkins to take that pressured bronze medal and Eric an for Turkey is twice a European champion at 10,000 meters Stephen kipper touch but you can at the London 2012 Olympic champion in the following year he went out to Moscow and one there as well at the World Championships in sweltering conditions mootai as the Commonwealth Games silver medalist and Zimbabwe have entered a full tree of their personal bests in the 214 to do 15 rage we're not expecting them to feature significantly but I'd love to be proven wrong well there are a number of very strong athletes here tonight and we'll pick out just a few of them for you as they come to the line with a start just a couple of minutes away there is a man who'll be whirring 1107 news Bacchus Daniele Meucci of Italy the 2014 European champion he finished 6th in London a couple of years ago and you'd expect the Italians wouldn't you to cope well with these warm conditions have been won by men from Africa last time the European one goal Anton in Spain of Spain back in 1999 it was in Spain in Seville there's a Solomon Muto of Uganda's a Commonwealth Games silver medalist last year a bronze medalist at the World Championships in 2015 in Beijing where again it was very warm indeed he might be one to watch because on the Gold Coast what some 21 months or so ago it was very very warm as well jeremy of ethiopia well one of that tremendously strong trio he's the fourth fastest man in history the world number two this year as well he's in very very good form expect the ethiopians to run strongly Callum Hawkins well as I mentioned forth in the last world champ it's the Scottish record holder his mum and dad out here coached by his father he certainly learnt lessons at the Komaroff games when he was leading until the very very last stages in the collapse from heat stroke says he has been training his daughters Lisa to see sir reigning New York champion is two times Boston champion so consistent he was the silver medalist in 2013 in the sweltering heat of Moscow the Ethiopian and the defending champion last but not least Geoffrey Killary Boston Champion in 2017 a very very smart race of Boston's one of those courses where you need to run a clever race and he's done that time and again and defends his title here now [Applause] nervous moments then for these 73 starters from 42 Nations the officials making short toes behind the line please gentlemen so we are underway then with the men's marathon at these 17th IWF World Championships on this floodlit corniche they run south towards the finish line when they cross this second yellow line they've got a hundred metres to go and in the women's race the eventual champion Marah blasted through the last 100 meters she must have covered in about 14 seconds I couldn't believe how fresh she looked she did look like she had a lot left at the end didn't she really dominated that that ladies race cost much cooler conditions today here so I think we could see some fast times every single race we've seen at the corniche this week has been won in the slowest time in World Championships history the women's marathon was some two minutes slower than the previous slowest winning time which was recorded in Osaka in 2007 so let's see what the men can do this evening Sweden moving to the for very comfortable the only place understandably very very sheepish they were reluctant to push on strongly here nobody is gonna go out really hard early but of course if it is a slow first half then you can expect fireworks somewhere in the second half somebody will lose patience the Swedish athlete Abraha we just saw there tim is the oldest athlete in this field at 42 years of age yeah remarkable and well expect the unexpected as we see I Olivet heading out at a very crisp tempo and pushing it on so much faster than might have been expected at least see a lot of Paraguay he's a 210 performer so not somebody to be dismissed and this is uh well I guess it throws up a spanner into the works doesn't it it's it's it's fascinating I mean he's building up a big lead here the big names the main protagonists back in the pack behind the twenty nine-year-old don't want to go with it he has the ability to run a strong race here so they won't want this lead to become too huge if it does grow into a couple hundred meters or more than you will see people setting off after him I'm sure the Paraguay and I suspect Marv would be used to warm conditions absolutely yeah and he's the national record holder at 10,000 meters the half marathon and the marathon and so some pedigree quite experienced in the marathon eleven marathons run so far this really takes me back to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 we all expected it to be a roasting Li hot day but two days before it poured with rain and it was actually much cooler on the day and the woman who eventually won Romania's tomb SQ DITA took off a relatively early in the race not quite this early and we all said goodbye we'll see you at 40k and she just ran away and won the race but Ayala making a very very aggressive move here you can see his his pretty good progression there to 19 run it back in 2015 and he's improved pretty much every year down to 210 27 so the entire rest of the field just letting him go what is the Paraguay national record holder and he's quite useful he's run a sixty three minute half marathon nothing special at 5,000 or 10,000 on the track but he's running 1,500 and 3,000 in age group championships in years gone by so while he was only 130 fifth in Rio at the Olympic Games he's certainly come on a bit of his last three years deceased sir leading the chasing pack but look how strongly he's striding out of course it's easy to look strong and impressive and well-balanced and enjoying yourself in the early kilometers just about anybody in that big pack behind him could be doing this in the early miles this case of how well you can sustain it and maintain the temper but interesting Mara that decease has gone to the front of the main pack maybe a little bit frustrated just how slowly there are meandering along the road these silver Meadows from 2013 yeah absolutely the Ethiopians have an absolutely formidable team top three on the start list in terms of time but we did see all three Ethiopian women drop out of the women's marathon a week ago to see sir again the New York reigning champion we've been told he's going to be running the New York Marathon again just next month but let's see how he he fares today well they negotiate this first turn at the southern tip of the course and the corniche nice wide sweeping turn that plenty of big City marathons have got much tighter it turns that that than that at the different points the a u-turn at the far end of the course what about three and a half kilometers away people to remember this is a 7 kilometer looped almost exactly three and a half kilometers long is a slightly tighter one but it is a variable point it's what they call the stretch point on the course where the organisers were able to move and adjust the length of the entire strip along the corniche and that's how they've been able to make sure that from the finish line around one lap is exactly to the meter to the centimeter almost seven kilometers and I think that there is the Swedish athletes Abraha who we saw right at the beginning oldest in the field at 42 years of age a personal best of two 1444 so he now is the sole member of the chase group we've got to remember not just the weather conditions here but this marathon started at one minute to midnight which of courses is the time when most most athletes would be in bed asleep and the athletes will have had to adjust to that so for example some of them have been sleeping in until what's effectively lunchtime staying up late training in the dark in the evening because you can't expect to live your life normally getting up in the morning going to sleep in the evening and then turn up at midnight and be at your best so all of the athletes will have somehow in their own way adjusted to this to this very late start glorious images of the chasing pack gradually reeling in Abraha year former era train running in the colours of sweden recently won the Sweden vs. Finland 10,000 meters that is a monstrously important a two-way Athletics meeting flash between those Scandinavian nations which has been going on for decades and decades so there'll be many back in Sweden cheering him on of course ayala well look at that lead that is monstrous and he's got the jump in the field he's he doesn't exactly kiss the ground does he's not you can hear them going clump clump clump he's not really one of those athletes who seems to kiss the ground with his feet he does look quite smooth and relaxed he's obviously you know got his own race plan it's really interesting actually when you see athletes attacking races like this they've obviously got their own plan and they go out and do it come what may what's in the to race walks and the men's events we saw Japanese athletes go straight to the front and pretty much stay there the whole way this is actually a very fast course the road surface is very good you know no corners it's completely flat only to you turns to negotiate so in fact it's actually quite a fast course although warmer temperatures than you would really want for fast marathons seventy-three athletes on the start list representing 42 countries and there are full teams full quotas of three athletes from a number of countries Brazil Eritrea Ethiopia Italy Japan Kenya of course they have the extra athlete South Africa Tanzania Uganda USA and Zimbabwe well Matteo that to the left of picture with the dark glasses floodlights that have been fitting those huge towers all the way along the corniche spending specially raised for put up for the event but it's not that right it's ER its glories you could have a wonderful game of soccer or give me tennis on those red lights I've never seen such a vast expanse of roadway Tim ice to wear sunglasses all the time not so much to keep the glare off my eyes but to keep keep the wind and any rain out of my face so we have seen a few athletes wearing glasses in the last few days so the first personal refreshment station the athletes have been pretty much but anything they want here and their team coaches and officials are Manning the stations in such a big group it's pretty chaotic and accidents can happen here with athletes swerving across each other bottles and sponges and so on being thrown at the athletes so let's hope they all make it through this time standing up well the reason that Delhi's Ayala has built up such a big lead is because he run his first kilometer in 259 and then he's followed that up with a 303 and three minutes per kilometer is 207 pace to a 7:15 a look at that gap this will be really really interesting to see how long if they do it takes them to reel him in nobody's gone with him which I'm a little surprised at Ayala they're 32 seconds up with almost exactly 10 minutes on the clock the last time I remember something like this happening was at the Beijing Olympic Games when Sammy Wanjiru the late Sammy Wanjiru blessed of Kenya charged off into the distance from a very very strong field of course and never came back for an incredibly quick I think it was at 206 and the heat in Beijing 2018 humidity as well was really really high and when juror I think was in world-record form that day before he as he ran on to Olympic gold now there's an idea of the gap and that shot of the cornish it's so big it's hard to pick out the chasing pack in that shot I mean 32 seconds is getting on for about 270 meters something like that it's sorry about 170 meters we've never seen a medal sweep in this event at the World Championships and I think the main candidates for that if it were to happen what happen would be Kenya and Ethiopia but we do have strong other teams from East Africa notably Eritrea and also Tanzania Uganda yeah with the East Africans I mean I tend to bunch them together with that moniker but of course they're fiercely proud of their Nations Uganda I've got a growing reputation in the distance running world there's that Callum Hawkins perhaps the most favourite of the European certainly he ran a 208 personal best in London which was so so important it came what some 12 months after his dramatic collapse at the Commonwealth Games in March 2018 and he was well in the lead he said he felt absolutely fine and the next minute he was lying on the road eventually collapsing from heatstroke like that you think maybe they've done themselves some irreparable damage but Callum Hawkins bounced back and a year later running really well in London last April which signals in up to me and he says his preparation has gone really well as one of the serious non East African challenges in this race I Oliver taking a sharp right across the road towards that drink station it's almost like you only spotted it with about 40 yards to go but already feeling that he is he doing just the right thing there Mara pouring that cool water over himself absolutely yeah the athletes will use the water not just to drink but also to cool themselves down and we also saw at the end of that station some sponges he didn't take the sponges but water on on his head absolutely we've seen that throughout the outdoor races all of this where you get a bit cooler today but still 29 degrees is pretty warm for marathon running and keeping your body temperature down is really crucial in these circumstances and in fact there's been a conference here and I do believe conference here on on road running in these kind of environments here this weekend and there's actually been a project going on called the heat stress project where athletes in the endurance events have been asked to volunteer to swallow a very tiny thermometer in a capsule and that monitors their their core temperature and transmits information transmits their body temperature back to base and that data will be used to see how best the athletes can cope with high temperatures the organizers have really made a big effort to to mitigate the effectiveness of the Hat the heat and humidity on the athletes for 4k for our leader Ayanna was 1202 so he is running three minutes per kilometre he's on schedule for something just outside 2 hours 7 at the minute you need to get the 5 care fees to maintain that sort of temper in 15 minutes exactly obviously they can see the rest of the pack a long way down those names coming through shields and I think we just caught a glimpse of rat chick just a couple two or three seconds ahead of that big lead big second group Yassine rat chick of Italy the bronze medalist but last year's European Championships PB of 208 0 5 well we're going to get a chance now to show you just how tough it is to get your water at this speed athletes have to practice this in training and they all should updates of this caliber should on there longer training runs when you're fatigued try and grab the water now watch this three times this athlete tries to grab water misses once twice note slippery bottles there of course very very wet because they've come out of a fridge I think and it's just you've got to slow down that little bit but make sure you get it it's absolutely critical in any marathon to get the liquids on board to be drinking long before you feel thirsty but even more so in these warm conditions bar even though it's much cooler you know 29 to accentuate is very yeah absolutely I mean these athletes would have practiced carefully they'll have thought carefully about what they put in their drinks most of them I imagine will have got some sort of carbohydrates sports drinks in there but because it's very hot they might have had added a bit of salt or electrolytes some of them may include caffeine in some of their drinks but that water station we just saw that was a general water station so those bottles were just water and it's at their personal refreshment stations where they have their own personal drinks I think there are two personal refreshment stations on each lap so plenty of opportunity to get what they need but of course there is a limit to how much you can digest you know timewise per hour say well I've got news well you have a pullout all ready to race fifteen minutes old and I can tell you that unfortunately Stephano hoochie of Tanzania he's a 2:12 performer so he's at pretty usefull marathon runner has pulled out of the race BuChE wearing 173 - is a down and out he hasn't run a marathon this year no time for him this year Ayala has gone through 5k in 1506 the main pack they're going through in about 1556 so fifty seconds down that is a big gap that's got to be well known 280 meters something like that so I are on for a finish time of under 208 at the moment so he's really giving it some despite these hot conditions and you can see that they passed that 5 kilometer marker which of course they will pass every 7 K so look at the 12 K mark of the 19 kilometers on the 26 K kilometer 26 K marker and so on he is drenched he looks like he's just had a quick dip in Doha Bay I suspect he and many others feel like having a dip in Doha way but you know if you've got this these extra water stations Marah and the drinks and you've been you know practicing for these conditions then these are far more manageable conditions than we expected absolutely heat acclimatization is the absolute top priority so before the Asarco 2007 World Championships I spent two weeks training at home in Tokyo where it was very hot it was or late August and I got up very early in the morning initially and as I acclimatized started to train a bit later in the day so if these athletes have spent some time acclimatizing to hot weather they should be ok Callum Hawkins famously setup a heat chamber in his shed back at home so it's painful to watch you keep spected something to go down there's full bottles being knocked onto the ground and that massive pack running through them it looks like they got away with it that time that pack will thin out but maybe the density of that pack Maura suggests that they are going pretty slowly that pack I mean 1556 at 5k from them just checking down the list to 14 pace yeah so I mean that's you know the slowest winning time in this in this event just inside 2:16 that was in Asarco 2007 loop Quebec so comparable sort of sort of speed I mean il is taking it out from the front but don't forget this is very very early stages 5k into a 42 K race and I slightly fear for him that he's going to get swallowed up by this pack but I mustn't speak too soon tomorrow only 18 minutes on the clock they're coming up towards 6 kilometers the early stages but let's have another look at that drink station and the potential chaos of having the drinks only on one side I'm not sure why they can't be on two sides of the road those drink stations you've got athletes they're veering across from the right of picture towards those drink tables and the sponges and they slow right down that is so different to the way Iowa's neighbor able to negotiate that drink station grab a bottle nice and relaxed grab a sponge do his own thing and that sort of significant compromise already for many in that pack they probably lost five seconds to this man just slowing down there absolutely we saw athletes swerving across I saw one of the Bahrain athletes trying to get across and he wasn't able to so when you get a big pack going slowly like that the drink stations are absolute chaos and it's not just drinks thereafter in the races outdoor races we've seen this week we've seen hats full of ice being thrown we've seen ice neck collars that seems to be the key piece of heat equipment from the Japanese team we've seen quite quite tall hats being filled with ice by the German athletes we've seen ice packs being held in the athletes hands so all manner of things that they're trying just to keep cool well there's that big pack it's still what five or six men wide in the center of the pack maybe more he's gone through six clubs in 1811 that's a 305 Ayala out in front the Paraguay and so his slowest kilometer now and that is that an indication that he's beginning to feel the pace himself and look at this gap the pack to the extreme right of picture we swing left further and further and further in this wonderful shot on this lovely clear night because so much of the week there's been a sort of haze over the city with the high humidity and where is Ayala I can't even see him yet there he is Center a picture now chugging along on his own and that's got to be 300 meters up the road from the main pack and let's just give him recognition for this brave run some might call it a little bit foolhardy but Derleth Ramon Ayala Sanchez I love the name Dedalus Ramon Ayala Sanchez is a way out in front on his own not quite sure why he's not hugging that left-hand curb he's not running the shortest line but sent away he is 63 nineteen half marathon he ran the London Marathon back in April and Taurus League quick course he's a swung right to go to these specialists drink table as he's at about 7 K Ayala they're waiting patiently to get to the peas because they're in alphabetical order there is just looks like water to me well Callum Hawking is one man who will be absolutely focused on getting his drinks on board throughout this race there is Hawkins and the white fest central picture it was great to see Hawkins running so well at London in April after his horrible horrible experience at the Commonwealth Games leading with an enormous margin at the in the men's marathon there on the point of becoming Commonwealth champion and then collapsing on the road he then got up and tried to carry on collapsed again and at that point his race was over and said he didn't remember much after that after that second four so not a good experience at all for Callum Hawkins but good to see him back here he's had his heat chamber shed at home in Scotland up to 39 degrees apparently he said it's a brought a big Papa shed it's not a wee tiny one so nice to see Scott the Scottish record holder Callum Hawkins doing well there well I can tell you just checking the bio ayala then he actually run to ten a national record and a personal best on the 22nd of September so two weeks ago Ayala in Buenos Aires finished in fifth place in 210 27 it was of course a significant personal bests he's already run three marathons this year 20th in London in 213 fifth at the Pan Am Games that was only on the 27th of July so that was only what some nine weeks or so ago and then a 210 in Buenos Aires two weeks back so he's got to be running on tired legs here is this just a chance to grab the spotlights were indeed always seeing one of the most extraordinary front running performances of all time in world championship history through seven Cape him Ayala split was 306 but the chasing pack run 303 or there abouts so very gradually closing the gap but he's still over a minute ahead of the head of the lead group the second pack sorry yeah 21:17 for Ayala and the main pack 2218 going through 7k so he has built up a 1-minute lead abraha here in Sweden the 42 year old we mentioned earlier he's only a 2-14 performer grabs his bottle gets that one and of course there was so much peace in bara for having that clean run at the tables not being in the middle of a pack where you're pressurized by the bodies around it absolutely I mean normally it's easier to run in the in a pack because you know you can share the load at the front of the the group you could pace making duties if you like you can just switch off let other people do the work if it's a windy day you can let other people cover the wind for you but you do end up you know not being able to see exactly where you're going and especially at drink stations you can end up having horrible accidents I saw in one marathon an Ethiopian woman be pushed from behind at a drink station and went straight into the corner of the table and ended up having to retire from the race I'd be surprised if we get through this race without seeing any falls at the drink stations well those the two unexpected early leaders as we're in what twenty four and a half minutes into this world championship marathon race Iowa and Paraguay they're his second marathon in two weeks his fourth of 2019 looks fresh enough doesn't he look fresh after half an hour it's how he looked after an hour and a half that is a yeah I mean extraordinary that he's just done that marathon two weeks ago he's obviously recovered reasonably well to be here all the athletes here have all of course had to qualify and be selected by their national federations the qualified qualification standard for Doha was 2:16 for the men and we are already into the qualification period for the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer the qualification standard for that event is to 11:30 and the qualification started in January this thing goes on till the 31st of May next year and a finish in the top ten in this race also is a Tokyo qualifier and of course the world rankings now also will be used as a qualification route to Tokyo the athletes here will earn valuable points for those world rankings so it looks like the group just stretching out a little now getting a little bit more strung out I wonder if they've up the pace ever so slightly we'll bring you the latest split as soon as we get it well 24 22 for Ayala at 8 kilometers that was a 305 so it seems to be knocking out 305 and regularly now and the Pat 2525 so actually he's taken another couple of seconds out of the pack very very gradually he is moving away and in fact deceased sir leading the main pack that was Abraha he was a minute and three seconds ahead of the main pack as a minute and 13 seconds down on Ayala so he must be just about exactly 400 meters ahead of the main pack now that means we have to remember if you know your marathon running you know that means just about diddly nothing zero when there's so many kilometers to run he's run 8k he's got 34 to go and I suspect there's some trials and tribulations for a 29 year old Dallas Ayala to come there's Abraha in second place what do you think's going through his mind at the moment matters we see this chasing group where there seems to be a bit of indecision and of course it's the eritrean who's leading a thursday turd si the former world record holder in the marathon who's leading the pack has decided I think enough is enough is pushing on a little bit but what would be going through the mind of one of those two each of those two thrown out in front it's really interesting actually because the danger in a really hot championship race is that the race sets off very slowly and if you go with that what effectively happens is it becomes a half marathon race or a 15 kilometer race it's not a marathon race because the early stages are so easy this is exactly what happened in the Beijing Olympics when I was competing we went through 15k very easy it was well within the capacities of everybody there so it really kind of became a half marathon race or even a 10k race because it wasn't until the last 10k when we were really really suffering so this slow start for the big group the behind these two individual individuals on their own they're starting nice and steady and that means that the slightly slower runners the runners with slightly slower peepees will be in the mix there so 9k for Ayala in 27:31 that 90 kilometer fame though was 309 his slowest by several seconds so just wondering as the ten came out six mile marking effect approaches for him whether or not he is beginning to feel it a little bit the pack mind Joop running what 3:02 Abraha run at 3:02 transferee from Eritrea here Abraha action almost as a target for the pack who are being being led on who being dragged along the road perhaps to a more respectable temper by tad se and we saw a medal won by Sweden just yesterday in the men's 20k walk by Percy Kallstrom so I wonder if Abraha was inspired by that and at the head of that group is to DES a the five-time half marathon champion running for Eritrea he's also won the world cross country championships back in I believe it was 2007 not not quite got the hang properly of the marathon yet but he's he's joined a new coaching set up recently and certainly has the potential I mean five-time champion is pretty phenomenal so to their say and duo of China named duo Bujji he's a 210 performer up towards the front well as we have almost half an hour on the clock for those who have joined us in the last few minutes let's have a quick look at the way this marathon got underway here on the corniche about 30 minutes ago they were all wearing timing chips of course but marathon runners will press their own stop watches it's almost like preordained and away they go heading south a lap and a half ago now it's a 7 kilometer loop that they negotiate six laps to go is what they saw when they came through the start line the finish line rather to the first 195 metres leads them through to the finish line the Ethiopian trio expected to really do something here they are the three quickest in the field but the Ethiopians have a habit of perhaps under-delivering I don't think it's unfair to say that at major championships the affair ation tend to just select the fastest three athletes and that isn't necessarily the way to go bizarrely despite their strength Ethiopia only won this event once that was a bearer back in the 2001 in Edmonton well the 10k split their 30:41 our computers actually save 30-40 we're not gonna argue over one second 309 again the split there for Ayala and unless your name is Khoa Ichi the very concept of running a great marathon two weeks after your last 42 kilometers is almost absurd to contemplate by all our 30-40 let's see what the gap is are they closing are they beginning to reel him in as yet oh brother oh my charging that cross like a lightning that was Jerry of Zimbabwe I think so not much planning ahead going on as the athletes approach the drink station said I think it's a measure of how how hot they're getting already that they're obviously desperate to get to their drinks often in in in cooler races you sometimes see athletes just skipping the drink stops you know they're not that bothered but in this race everybody really making enough together and then the bottle is discarded on the ground easy to trip over so drinks drinks in such a crowded race lots of scope for accidents to happen well the gap is one minute at 10 kilometers 32 kilometers to go that's an awful long way big big distance you know the old adage that a marathon halfway point is that about 20 miles call it fragments sake 30 kilometers 32 kilometers in other words you have to get first hour and a half of running out of the way how did you approach that Mauro did you always think you know I've got to get half way feeling really comfortable and can you remember a marathon word for example you didn't feel great at halfway and it did indeed turned out to be a really bad experience yes so when I run the New York Marathon in 2010 I went into that race with a hamstring injury and well I was able to run and train it what didn't stop me running but it was difficult if I'm honest and I I was a bit lacking fitness I thought I was in better shape than I was and and it was a struggle but let's remember that when you set off in the first half of a marathon particularly in conditions like this you're running considerably slower than your top speed so it can feel really easy but in the first half you really need to conserve your energy not do anything flashy just keep your energy tick off those early kilometers with minimal effort as possible because the race definitely you know won't get going until into the second half and as you said even even past 20 miles or 30 kilometers that's when the the real racing begins but of course marathons can be won and lost well before the finish we've seen that a lot in the past Jeffrey Carew II the defending champion that his margin of victory from London 2017 was the second biggest ever at one minute and 22 seconds so the other athletes really need to be aware of of brakes being made but a 10k I think it's it's still very early days of course the paraguayan out in front if he can keep that going you know that the the chasing group will have lost touch with him but through 10k he was on pace for about two hours ten refinishing time he started off at sub 208 so he has slowed down slightly well I can tell you that he's gone through 11 K in 3352 mr. Ayala here and that 11th kilometre the writing beginning to get clearer and clearer on the wall 312 so he's gone from 305 clocking x' to well below that actually the early kilometers then 305's then a couple of 309 s and now at 312 he is slowing many many in that pack of course are just cruising along Karrueche by the way with 16 seconds down on the pack at that 10 kilometer mark so he is struggling already in what is his fourth marathon of the end we can have a look at the the gap here now you can see as they come towards this northern end of the course we're looking southwards you can see Ayala there bottom right of picture with that vehicle accompanying him and a motorbike of course with our camera on it but top left of picture there's the pact is coming into view so it's a couple hundred meters now maybe a little bit more but it seems inevitable not quite sure what's going through his mind maybe hoping upon hope that his legs would perform a miracle and draw him clear of this world championship field with all its talent for the full 42 kilometers and the Bravo Sweden has been swallowed up by that group led now by Kippur ditch of Uganda the 2012 Olympic champion from the London Games so Stephen kipper touch looking very relaxed and comfortable at the moment of course also the 2013 Moscow world champion in very hot conditions you're interesting does it see one of the big great big names moving to the fore there they negotiate that little chicane up towards the northern end of the circuit by the way I alla went through in 33 52 at 11k the pack in 34 56 they're still well over a minute behind him Abraham has switched from there to the left-hand picture with the biggest headband I've ever seen I think it is clearly something I've not seen before Maura but must have ice in it or a frozen gel in it to try and keep the head cool I'm wondering up about the application of the rules more and more in marathons when I watch them these days because of course this trend to be grabbing what is effectively bit different bits of equipment during the race we started off in Rio by Alberto Salazar with Galen Rock grabbing those cool hats at every 5k drink station there was a hats with an elastic band holding it to his drink spot if they effectively became not just drink station but equipment stations and I've never seen that before what Abraham this Swiss is wearing I don't if you have but I think I think he's definitely got ice in now I think they're ice packs we've seen the Japanese athletes wearing a similar thing around their necks and I'm pretty sure they're they're packs of ice in there to try and keep cool we were seeing all manner of things being being thrown at the athletes in the walks races we saw stockings full of ice we saw hats full of ice bags of ice towels with ice in water bottles sponges all manner of things if you read the rules the rules on the personal refreshment station simply say the athletes can provide their own refreshments it doesn't say only drinks or you're not allowed hats or towels it just says your personal refreshments so within reason the athletes can put whatever they want there however having said that there also another rule which which prevents athletes from receiving assistance so they're not allowed to receive you know any kind of help obviously you know getting a lift is going to be blatant cheating they're not allowed any kind of assistance from the side of the course and that includes receiving drinks outside the personal drink station so they're not allowed to receive drinks from people just standing on the course and that's Johan Dean is the 50k walk world record holder he twice received a drink back in I believe it was the London Olympics and was nearly disqualified by the referee so the race referee will be watching and ensuring that none of the athletes receive anything outside the drink station so another casualty duty though that's a marker Malagasy of turkic former Ethiopian running in their colours he's a 211 performer and he's had enough with what some 37 minutes on the clock caramel I guess a this was just a couple of minutes ago as he decided enough is enough can't can't be enjoying himself too much outfit 38 there are the splits he's 3702 the pack has gone through in 37 10 so here's 68 seconds in the lead bizarrely while he is slowing the pack is slowing as well he went through 11 K with a 312 split you've gone through 12 pay with a 310 split his last four case therefore gone 309 309 312 310 he's just gradually slowing but the pack don't seem to be closing and I suppose he's so far ahead Maura he's got that well virtually 400 meter gap on let's call it 350 metre gap and they can't really see him I mean there's a while this is a the sight lines are generally pretty good here the constant curve of the course probably allows you to see about 300 meters ahead he's just out of sight round the bend all the time I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some of these athletes don't even know he's ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics the eventual silver medalist Catherine Ndereba thought she was leading the race and then came into the stadium and there she saw Thomas qu dieter ahead of her she didn't see two mescaline the front of the pack of 15k and she thought she was about to win so some of these athletes especially if they're the back of the group they may not have seen IR Lopes at all except every three and a half K he goes passed out about 20 yards of course that's that's true yeah that doesn't necessarily mean they will spot him but certainly anybody with their wits about them should be aware of what's happened they they most of them surely would have seen him disappearing up the road over those first few kilometers he built up a big lead over the first ten minutes or so so anybody who's in that pack who thinks they're in the lead pack and think they're chasing this Ugandan vest at the moment well I've got nobody to blame but themselves and you know we they will see Ayala every they'll see that see ILO every every 10 minutes or so at each end of the course every 10 or 11 minutes each end of the course there's umpteen opportunities to see him yeah I mean if they've been paying attention they'll have spotted him going off but you know when you're focusing on yourself and just trying to you know stay in in the zone you can't occasionally miss things like this so there's Eric down the two times European 10,000 meter champion now running for Turkey and we've just heard him that the weather situation actually has improved at 11:30 p.m. it was twenty nine point O nine degrees Celsius and at half past midnight it's now 40 minutes past midnight it was twenty nine point O four degrees Celsius so the temperature has been dropping and the humidity also has dropped from forty eight point six to forty six point nine percent so weather conditions improving Jeffrey Kukui by the way the defending champion right in the middle of that pack he's cruising along and this is a huge pack I mean what it's got to be thirty five strong I haven't had a chance to count it man for man but my estimate is it's just north of 30 people in this pack big pack harry cohn there of course a former Kenyan law and gotta there one of that Kenyan trio Nanyan gas or I should say was third in Paris this year in 207 and his wife incidentally won the women's race in Paris back in April it was quite a quite a double for the family nice nice day nice earning day as well let's career just behind her run no lock Rui very compact style Big Shoulders only from mouth no he's not got that long linear shape we associate with so many of these two Africans you can see the bahraini there should I yeah if you look at career behind him ease of he's very petite I mean marathon runners typically a small and compact but you can see lawn young gutters quite tall so I mean very lean and lightest is the norm for the marathon by the way we saw Benson's arrived very briefly a former Kenyan running the colors of Bahrain he is the quickest 1500 meter runner in the field why do I know that because beside his name in my notes it says he run 331 in 2012 that's usual finishing speed for a marathon I'm not sure how necessary it would be but he hasn't run 331 back in 2012 his 145 800-meter runner and yet to his credit he's a 207 performer last year 208 this year here's mr. Ayala so what a great run he is having I think it's time we gave him fair credit he's up bouncing along with a lead of over one minute he's gone through 14 kilometers and 43:23 that means his last kilometers are 312 so he is certainly slowing is outside 310 for each kilometer that sir 215 page 312 remember his first 5k was 1506 then he got to 10k in 30 41 which means his second 5k was 15 what 15 35 so huge differential between his opening 5k in his second 5k clearly that opening 5k just wanted to get a gap on the field this he's running to a plan this isn't just hotheadedness he must have discussed this surely with his coach perhaps with the team management maybe with teammates oh definitely yeah I mean he'll have been able to see how the race is earlier in the week unfolded have the athletes cooked with hot weather and all respect to him he came here with a race plan and he's cuting it interesting shot there to see a lot of athletes wearing pink shoes what's the latest thing in shoes in endurance running his shoes with carbon plates in them very popular now well a pack 44:29 they are still 66 seconds behind him Callum Hawkins left her picture there has got his personal drink plenty on board this is something these athletes practice in training not just grabbing drinks from tables at speed and particularly when you're fatigued it becomes all the harder but drinking plenty of liquid when you're out running is not easy I can remember chatting to the great Steve Jones former working world record holder the Welshman at the marathon distance back in the 1980s and Steve said it even practiced going to the bathroom during a run dare I say number one but he practiced it because yes these bodily functions have to continue sometimes when you're in a race and you see athletes sometimes in all sorts of trouble but wanting to carry on running and if they can they very often do there is a limit to how much you can take on board and safely digest in a race like this and the athletes will have will have but measured that and practiced it and also how much you sweat varies from person to person so I'm sure these athletes will have measured whether they're a very sweaty sweater if I can put it that way you can weigh yourself before and after a run and then calculate how many litres you sweat per hour and then work out how you're going to replace that fluid of course you don't need to be fully hydrated on the finish line you want to be fully hydrated at the start but by the finish you can actually you can afford to be you know a fair a fair bit dehydrated because your body weight and any fluid is is weight that you have to carry so we understand Callum Hawkins has lost his timing chip now this happened to a German athlete in the 20 kilometers walk last night I believe are not quite sure why those chips are working loose or failing to function I wonder if actually and it doesn't sound like a plausible reason because they get plenty of water overwritten races in the rain and so on but it's wondering whether or not a little bit of that water these huge quantities of water the italics are pouring over themselves is getting into the works quite literally yep the athletes put the transponders on their shoes so in the in the 20 K walk yesterday partway through the race we saw no mention of the German athlete linker and then he eventually finished fourth and it turned out that there was a problem with his timing chip so Hawkins at the moment not appearing on our screens which rely on the chip timing but if we can if we can find out some split sperm we will bring you them well hopefully he's gonna be alongside somebody who has got a timing chip or shoe that works for up most of the time clearly where you can spot Calum Morgan's very easily in those British colors Ayala here has gone through 15k in 46:34 46:34 as you can see the pack have yet to go through 15k they'll go through it any second now but 46:34 mora at 15k has him on schedule I reckon for about to 11 to 12 yeah that's right I mean 3:11 was his last split just around around that level so he's been pretty consistent and whether we'll see him struggle a bit later on we don't know yet but he's really giving it someone and keeping it going so far so long younger talent beginning to stride out lovely relaxed arm he's got 47:36 for him at 15k so he's 62 seconds back so that might suggest this lovely language stride of one of the Kenyan squad is actually beginning to eat into the lead of Ayanna you can see the names going through and their positions in that big pack this is still a pack we're talking about these are athletes were very much there mootai Simbu Sarai of Bahrain matteo spain episode of the USA one of that USA squad and that pack remember on around 47:36 47:37 so once you get down to the 40's here you see people who are beginning to peel off the back of this pack perhaps at the top of this picture we're seeing athletes were 5 seconds down on blondie and gotta there who negotiates this curve around they go just beginning personally to thin out a little bit isn't it there's some Norwegian vest at the back of that pack said if that is the case that would be a giblets addict well doing their gosh give it its attic the only Norwegian competitor here the 32 year old he's a to a nine man last year pretty useful asylum seeker from Eritrea granted Norwegian citizenship ship back in 2017 well I are like 102 ahead at the moment the second group I've got them in sight now this is a long straight stretch at this stage but the vast majority of the what it's three and a half kilometers the the circuit isn't it the curve around the bay the vast majority of it they don't have him in sight that's right yeah they might get glances of him as he passes the other way at the same same part of the curve but this is really interesting because in a in a in a course where you're going through buildings and lots of turns and so on a leader can easily get out of sight and that's a big mental advantage because the lead group don't know how far they are ahead Iola has a big lead here they'll catch glances of him on the other side but if he once he's out of sight you know they out of sight out of mind I think is a useful phrase to use in this situation so Hawkins they're the lonely figure amongst a huge group of East Africans the East Africans have really dominated this race in recent recent years we go the if we go back to 2007 victor ruffling of switzerland was the bronze medalist then and since then all the medalists have been East Africans or East African born athletes at the silver medallist in 2007 just ahead of Rhuddlan was Mubarak Shami Kenyan born Qatari athlete and before ruffling we mentioned before Yoshio gato Japan was won bronze in 2005 and in 2003 Julio ray of Spain the silver and Stefano Baldini of Italy the bronze but in more recent times the East Africans have been utterly dominant but Callum Hawkins proved last time in London finishing in fourth that he's willing to really take it to the Africans and and be up there really interesting because now of course the standard of men's marathon running you know getting so fast we just saw can Anita Becky Lee come within two seconds of the world record just a week ago in Berlin keep choake the world record-holder attempting a sub two hour marathon in just about just over a week's time but it's next Saturday isn't it it's it's a week today actually that is supposed to be attempting that in Vienna now the Hat gets thrown aside there by brow javi 42 year old sweet I can tell you that the pack now is within a minute it's less than a minute the gap from Hawkins through to Ayala that was 56 seconds but Abraha here is what for five seconds ahead of them so actually Abraha is about 50 seconds down on Ireland Callum Hawkins is ship would appear to be working again it's appearing on our computers he went through 16 K and 50 42 so is I all up in court or is he not I know that in Paraguay they'll be many many of the running community watching this with a hearts in their mouth cheering him on so proud so confident that the race will go their way is a shower retiring lad the one in the middle [Music] well he used to be till he got into running IR lock locked into his own little pattern of thought he stayed there much longer than I expected Murray you know he's he's managed to build up that lead pretty quickly and the pack remaining relatively unconcerned at the moment Abraha looking strong not the aesthetically the most pleasing looking up runners in that Swedish yellow vests he has little glance of his shoulder there as the pack again it looks like chaos but the foreshortening effects of the camera shot probably making it look worse than it is at that drink station tad si to the extreme left of pics are grabbing a bottle off one of the athletes saying can I borrow your bottle I missed mine thank you very much personal bests they're capable of running way quicker than the pace they're going at at the moment so even if I Ella is a Minotaur or more ahead you know they they could if they need to in the last 10 K 12 K they can really speed up as long as they've got their the the heat under control the body heat and once they're running considerably faster per kilometer than I at the niala they can close that gap pretty quickly Ayala they're just glancing at his watch just wondering if he's perhaps starting to suffer he's had a lonely journey so far but still going strong through 17 K the last split 3:13 yeah but he's a gap back to Abraha has been cut to what some forty nine seconds now brought her here that's strange on that right hand comes up so high I put our heart it's the man who's getting closest to Ayala there is the leader now this wonderful shot which we're getting from a drone above Doha BAE we'll give us some idea as we sweep back along the corniche to the pack 49 seconds to Abraha 58 seconds to the pack who are clearly just about 9 or 10 seconds behind that that Swedish vest and it can form a kenya running for so I'll keep is in that pack which is still I don't know gotta be about 30 strong it will start thinning out although I suspect will not see the main protagonists really make their big moves until we're into the final quarter Mario do you think that or do you think somebody will lose patience in this third quarter that we're we're nearly in the third quarter and not very far from halfway of course we're still in the second quarter I'm getting ahead of myself I think I think we after half way they'll make a move I mean that they're still going at the same speed as as Ayala the main pack had the last bit of 313 I don't know I mean it's a funny race you know it's still 29 degrees let's let's not forget it's it's roasting Lee hot out there we've just starting to get a little bit spread out now they are they yes the chase is on that today see beginning to push on course what can happen in this situation is everyone just goes along at a nice steady pace and it takes somebody to go to the front and pick the speed up otherwise the group can just sort of dawdle along and not much happens and in the Asarco 2007 World Championships that was going on in just after half way and I went to the front of 29k because I I knew I didn't have the finish that some of the other athletes had over let's say 2 3 4 kilometers so I thought right I didn't have to make my move now but I just put too much into that surge of 29k and then was really suffering at around 34 35 36 and having dropped most of the lead group there were nine of us all together having dropped them they then caught me up and I finished ninth but this is what marathon running is all about it's tactics you know when do you put in a surge who do you allow to go up to let go ahead of you you know when do you put in your search how fast you go and a lot of these athletes will be really fantastic tactician but let's not forget that the city races they're often done in very good condition so races in places like London and Chicago Berlin Boston Valencia they're often done in very cool conditions and they're often set up for fast times and many of them will have pacemakers so a completely different scenario of racing to what's happening here well the slowest ever world championship marathon was in 2011 I think it was in 2007 in yes 2007 in Osaka when Luca bet took gold for Kenya and his Hobbs was 68 30 and 60 729 for his eventual winning time of 215 59 and just looking at the pack as they've gone through 16 kilometers for example 4946 call it 15 kilometers 46:34 yeah Packer on about 212 tempo conditions quite a bit kinder here than in Osaka 12 years ago but I alla holding his form pretty well considering while the chase is on he's gone through 18 kilometers in 56 12 and his Pat his lead has been cut to 43 seconds so he had just about a minute on the chasers deviously but that lead is now down to 47 seconds and sedessa looks like he's quick glance behind he wants to know what's good how far behind he's left that that pack so today see now surging and trying to get away from that group and chase down Ayala and Abra heard of him or abraha 5655 the pack actually for the four seconds back on that so the pack of what some 43 seconds down yesterday say chasing hardened he looks good actually doesn't he he looks comfortable he is we must remember to daresay an astonishing physical specimen look at his lifetime best and he is one of the great performers on road and track five times world half marathon champion he's never really got it right at the marathon but his track personal best listen to this 12:59 for 5000 26:37 for 10,000 and 58 23 of course that half marathon best which lasted for so many years there are his marathon career to 12 and then a to 10 then back to to 12 and 2017 and then it's weight in 2018 but Maura you know a guy who runs 58 minutes for the half you didn't expect him to be down there doing the two or three is two or fours absolutely but today's last split was 250 I believe so he's really put the hammer down and trying to get away from that group we saw him glancing behind just checking how far he was behind you see this kind of race is perfectly playing into an athlete like to Desi's hands because they've they've effectively gone nice and steady for for coming up to half of the race and to this is the five-time world half marathon champion this is this is now a half marathon race so if - this has been going easy enough in this first half he's gonna have a lot left and be in a really great position he is he is getting on a little bit 37 years of age now and also former World cross country champion this is thinning out look at this the way they come to this drink station no longer that massive pack it was solid chaotic Hawkins they're back in the middle of that pack he's got to be watering about 20th certainly in the 20s I would say he's perhaps going through a bad patch here the Briton I'm not sure how he's gone from being out in front of the main pack - buried further back maybes had to have a toilet break you can see top a picture that there was a blue pourcel here is Hawkins and there you can see the pack who are 25 seconds back from Ireland now they're reeling him in very quickly because this big acceleration initiated to begin with by Abraha of sweden and then tad s8 has continued to chase there they are in the background it looks like a cycling pack beginning to close them in with frightening speed tad sa is closing so Tim that the splits from the chase group were in around to 52 52 to 54 for that last kilometer and that is well inside 205 pace so a big injection of pace and that's that explains why it's got so strong out against Iowa's 315 that was his slowest kilometer the 19th kilometers so they've taken 25 seconds out of him in the space of one kilometer that is astonishing two and a half laps of the track 25 seconds that they have roared up towards him and I'm afraid his day is more or less done it's been impressive and a blood same lead through to the half marathon but I think it's going to be caught before then he's gonna he's what coming up towards 20 kilometers he's going to be passing 20 clubs and something like sixty two minutes yeah it's just come through 62-38 at 20k and if we extrapolate from that he's likely finishing time he's gonna he's on about to 12 tempos he'll being around halfway in about 66 minutes but I think he'll be passed before that I'm afraid so the lead group they're just behind Ayala on the point of catching him and that's that's going to be tricky for Isla but if he can just keep going and hang in there find somebody to run with you might be able to keep a good pace going in the second half but he'd have to they're moving at 250 255 tempo he's moving at 3:11 3:15 semo's last clumps actually 311 I don't if he's had a little glance around and recognized that he is being caught but he is gonna have to make a massive acceleration what I do wonder though Mara is whether or not it had been better off with this much good form in those legs which is still amazing considering he ran a marathon two weeks ago what do you been better off hanging back in the pack running the race with everybody else moving through and maybe just maybe has the potential to in the final shake-up come out in the top 10 or the top 12 you know he's I suspect he will get past now and swallowed up by many athletes he might not even finish the race which would be very sad because he's had a great go but I don't think he's maximized his ability here today possibly I mean he said he run that 210 and he set off at about two seven eight pace so now if he's improving rapidly maybe he can go quicker than 210 and he just decided right I'm gonna run as fast as I can from start to finish that's 208 pace so I all are now being caught this is such a difficult moment at a marathon when you get caught you've got it you know you've really got to keep your keep yourself positive and not let it get to you I've been there I really feel for him well let's look at this pack that are swallowing him up he's trying to tuck in with him and macoco that Steven Makoku has that lovely rolling style have seen him run the Great South run and the half marathon in the UK some of the big road races Kipruto is there so let's have a look there's tad s a former world half marathon record holder dis ISA is there for Ethiopia deceased of course a fabulous racer so experienced the boston marathon champion twice back into 2013 he won at the year of the bombing he dedicated his medal to the people of the city won again two years later he's the reigning New York champion DC sir will put up a good good account of himself a key ruie the defending champion is there Mirko Cro South Africa better known as a half marathon runner Mikolka Kipruto is there as well one of that Kenyan tree or a mosque Abruzzo running his eighth marathon he ran two marathons at 206 last year third in Tokyo and second in Berlin he had thee in Germany of finishing in second place will be at a distant second place to the world record of Elliot Kipchoge a in Berlin in September last year just over a year back there is ionic well he's had his moment in the Sun absolutely but I alla Paraguayan record holder from 5000 meters all the way up to the marathon 10k on the road and the track 20k half marathon so really gave it his all and let's hope he can keep a good pace going to the finish the personal refreshment station just a moment ago we sought to Dessay pulled something off the side of his bottle I think it was a gel or an ice pack he doesn't seem to have it in his hand right now so today I say keeping hold of his drink for a while and just taking his time with his hydration their soda sisa not letting tadesse a get away disease there is on this on the start line of the New York Marathon next month the half marathon split for dad sa 6556 6556 14 sa and Ayala is down and out well it was clearly a gesture of defiance to lead for as long as he could that's a sad sight but oh so predictable I know many many running experts will be watching the screen and just shaking their heads and saying of course he's been passed of course he's dropped out quite why he did that I don't know he must have known it was a full marathon not a half so it was both brave and fool-hearty and now we have a world championship marathon race in earnest and it is beautifully poised to deci the man who after one marathon and another has not been able to quite get it right I say that within inverted commas because of course he has a best the eritrean of two hours 8 minutes 46 seconds that was last year but you know he dropped out of his debut in London all of ten years ago he was 7th in London the following year 12th in London 2012 dropped out of Chicago dropped out of Boston in 2015 he's a man who has a checkered history at best at the marathon distance here is the reigning champion QE his teammate Kipruto who's a little quicker than him and get a mute there to the right of picture looks very comfortable as well not really sweating up getting me Jeremy had a fantastic race in London in April this year breaking the Ethiopian record and he was second on the all-time list behind world record holder Elliot Kip choker but he's just been bumped down to 4th following last weekend's Berlin Marathon bumped down by bikini with that incredible 201 41 just missing the world record and bahan Oleg si who finished second in Berlin weld up bad news I'm afraid if you're attends near support of the youngest man in the race Agostino Paulo surely has dropped out he's just 21 years old he is a 207 performer at his best only 212 this year but Sula is gone for Tanzania so they are beginning to feel the tempo at different points in the pack I'm going to work you broke the long-standing two white marker but he kanga jumera kanga said back in 1989 and Sampson Ramadan in 2003 when he ran that 207 46 national record too late but I'm afraid his vault is shot tad sae doing the work and he's gone very early are you a little surprised Mara that tadesse a is a has gone out in front like this I'd have thought he'd be one of the last people with his checkered past at the marathon his renowned speed and it still must be really substantial at the age of 37 his renowned speed that he is pushing the pace here and trying to break so many marathon runners who have run for five minutes quicker than him yeah I mean it's interesting because you know you don't want to go to too soon and waste your energy but at the same time if you haven't got a great spent great finish you don't want to spend too much of the race dawdling along at a pace where you could be going a lot quicker and today say he's a five-time world half marathon champion so he's got speed over a long period of time so I think where he's gone here is is probably good for him you know the first 18 kilometers probably pretty sturdy pretty comfortable for him he's now in his element although he keeps glancing behind which I have to say is not a great sign well I'll tell you what he's just trying to see what sort of damage is doing because listen to this his last kilometer getting two twenty two columns in 68-31 was at 235 I mean his virtually sprinting mid race that's middle distance tempo to see sir at 2:35 in his wake Mikolka the South African of 234 in his wake get him you or 237 he's beginning to feel the pace a ma skip bruto 237 Geoffrey Carew the defending champion and fine fettle 238 from him as well it was a short split I suppose from 21 point 1 to 22 kilometers but still under three minutes place I think sa really putting the other Thunder pressuring you can see how that that's strung out which means you know they're struggling to hang onto him if they were taking it nice and easy they'd all be much more bunched up so dude is he really trying to do some damage now yeah that's 27 kilometers just to a correct things was a 252 so still very fast for the front pack sedessa is another little glance let's see what sort of damage he's done and the the signs are good for him because he can see and he's got four men who have been dragged away at the 23 kilometer per his split 70 129 and we'll give you as quickly as we can some splits that indicate just how viciously he has accelerated this 5k for example from 20 to 25 K is going to be mighty impressive as he want to mark it cards those of you sitting there with your little pads his time at 20k to DES a if I can pull it up I will was around 62 38 give or take a second so what's that through to 25k there's kiddo e QE the defending champion if if he or Kip British could win this race today they will join multiple gold medalists Abel Anton of Spain Joad Gharib of Morocco and Abel career we of Kenya who each one to a piece already well the last two kilometers by the leader to daresay over 252 and 258 23 kilometers in 71 29 but he still got plenty of company for men there to see sir of Ethiopia Mirko Cro South Africa Gary mu of Ethiopia and a most Kipruto of Kenya and the defending champion Jeffrey Correa 23 kilometers 9 seconds back he's struggling he's looked fine until just the last few minutes and he's beginning to wilt under the ferocity of this assault from that light blue bested just nated se mokou cup stain to the right-hand side of the road and actually has the lead now not not quite sure why but to DES a was right over the left-hand side of the road running the outside of the curb it's like choosing to run in lane two on a track around the bends instead of in lane one and then he seemed to realize the error of his ways and he's moved over behind macoco this sir it was good from Mirko greet a lovely bouncy style but and it's very familiar style because we've seen him race a lot in the UK but I sometimes wonder if that is not the ideal for a marathon he looks a bit like a track runner I think very very family's he looks like he's got it's quite rangy but he does look very comfortable doesn't look like he's suffering too much normally in marathon races a blue line is painted on the road which shows the shortest way and we've been told that in this case a blue line wasn't painted on the road throughout because it would confuse the race walkers who have also used this course but it's entirely up to the athletes oh you know they can judge where the shortest courses for themselves it's not difficult and any deviation from that course it's going to be extra distance well this quintet each of them seeming to get their uh first Ibaka's without any trouble is a chasing pack Callum Hawkins there and that's a group of six there's Huey on his own isolated difficult period this for him does he run on hard here and hope those ahead of him will begin to peel away from what is admittedly almost an unrealistically vicious temper that is si is laying down the 24th kilometre was at 259 so that from 250 to 258 and 259 I think it's interesting Tim that Carew II was a little bit off that that first group he was some nine or ten seconds off because sometimes spurts which go too fast and macoco they're having a nice chat to the chap that running next to him looks very relaxed doesn't he sometimes if a surge is too fast especially this you know relatively still quite early it can do too much damage and then you see those who've gone with it suffering in the latter stages and those who've just taken it a little bit more steady catching them up so I just wonder if Carew is is letting them do the fast and furious surges just keeping them in touch about 910 seconds ahead and just biding his time well I would I'd be more ready to believe that if this pack didn't include athletes of the caliber of decease of Kipruto macoco for that matter who's sober over Uganda Uganda of course had a gold medal at these games in the women's 800 meters and Fred moose oboe world mountain running champion four years ago was a bronze medalist in 2017 in the world mountain running it's only his fourth marathon his last race in when he was second in the Rio half marathon on the 18th of August I suspect it was warm and humid down there so that wasn't bad preparation he ran 63 14 but is it 206 performer back in April he was third in Daegu in 206 56 that is his lifetime bet so he is strong and he looks strong - doesn't he looks pretty comfortable he's a isolate at the moment ahead of that group that's got Hawkins in it only 23 years old was so but so ill monitor his pace I wonder if he's trying to close on that lead group the only problem is that of course that if you want to close in this group you've got to be running sort of in the - 52 to 55 range per kilometre kanui is back with them so they've clearly eased off now that's a very interesting isn't it because to DES a led for what three four kilometers at a vicious pace really dragged this group away from the rest of what was only 15 20 minutes ago a massive pack and now they've eased off and I suspect those five they're behind kiddo it I'm just trying to recover from what was a really tough three or four K yeah kuru he looks very comfortable doesn't he the elder statesman of marathon running is having note having nothing to do with the surges of of today say the half marathon specialist so Currie now through 25k leading the men's marathon here at the Doha World Championships through 25k and 11738 and we can bring you news a little bit further down the field so through the top group of six are through 25k and any moment now Callum Hawkins who is down in eighth place will be going through 25k following him his rat chick of Italy and just behind sorry we're just just refreshing the splits and Steven kipper ditch looks like he's down in about 14th place so the former Olympic champion some way off of the lead and Mohammed Al Arabi of Morocco in about 13th place well at 25 Kokiri leading from Kipruto garum you mokou cup is there as well to daresay of course and he's making a very stout defense of his title at time at 25k 77382 can see and that was just a winning time of the around the 211 area could I suspect we'll see that gradually come down and the reason they're able to move so well is because if you have joined us in the last half hour or so and we haven't mentioned in that time conditions on the coronation here in the city of Doha the capital of cata this evening a far far kinder for the those walking around on the outdoors whether they're in a marathon race or not the humidity is way way down below 50% it's a about 29 degrees but it's much much cooler I think we're having difficulty again with Hawkins is chip he's running there with Lana and gutter and Korea who are currently in eighth and ninth place but there's no mention of Hawkins in our computer chip timing so there's definitely something gone wrong with his chip Porkins coming in about eighth and ninth place with that group well the race is a building nicely but just past halfway remember the leaders went through in 65 56 let's have a look at the story so far with the climax a little while away yet well the early stages of the race or the paraguayan leading and building up a very big lead at Delhi sir I'm on I Alice anchez the various international flags out along the side of the course a plenty remember 42 nations here amongst these 73 starters while the big pack tried to negotiate and look at that Johnny that I've seen Bob Wayne saying I couldn't get hold of a drink this is ridiculous you've got to look after yourself every man for himself why Loyola was building up a big lead that PAC was struggling at the drink stations but it was inevitable that he would be reeled in and indeed he was just before halfway and almost simultaneously dropping out about a minute after he was passed now they take the turn there at the northern end of the circuit this pack of what six athletes go through with caliber Hawkins in there and I think mayucchi is in there as well the Italian is that a couple of Moroccan vests there I think that the Italian in that group may have been ratchet will bring you confirmation of that in just a moment and mr. burr of Uganda completely isolated between the lead group of six and group three yeah we sober looks strong doesn't it I mean that group behind what probably 3040 meters back and yet they're not closing and he is running on very strongly interesting to see that left shin is taped under notes but suffered from shin splints here's the view from that chasing pack now this is the third pack you can see the leading group what about a hundred meters ahead you can see those two Ethiopian vests for example up in front then Musso boat is indeed isolated they come to this drink stage this not one of the specialists and personal drink stations no national flags at this just waters go over the head and sponges they're sponges scrubs my career and Hawkins ragic it is indeed of Italy and LRRP and Sally of Morocco running side by side McCallum more consumer seems to be rejuvenated a little bit by that cold water does it have that effects Bazaar if you're really suffering from the heat omni running plenty of really hot marathons do you get a wonderful cooling effect and a little surge from a cold sponge and cold water over your head absolutely I mean having water on your skin is how you cool down because this water or sweat evaporates and that is how you get rid of heat in your body so the athletes of course are going to be sweating profusely it's 29 degrees but if you can put water on your skin as well that will you know serve to provide extra evaporation and unholy cool you down even more of course it's also refreshing I'm not sure the sponges have been refrigerated so the water in them might be a bit warm well I've got more news on pull out for you I'm afraid that the rot has started for the Ethiopian Swasey who is out one of the Ethiopian tree are one of the fastest men in the field for Ethiopia that's a moon I was a hood who's won 203 16 this year has dropped out and so has a Ugandan vest this time filled by mootai Solomon moot I'm afraid he is down and out he's run 208 this year so it is taking its effect the heat the relatively lower humidity 27 kilometers then for this pack in 123 51 and that to death say get him you brute so kuru he disease from a coca well you could almost throw a blanket over the six we said at the beginning the East Africans have been very dominant in distance running and occasionally a non East African comes along and spoils the party for them but today very much an East African marathon absolutely yes they say get a new route okay do we just see sir looking a bit further down the field Tim Simbu of Tanzania good championship racer he's back down in 21st place Eric on the two times ten others been the European champion down in 26th place Japanese not having a good day today their top scorer at the moment down in 28th place well a decant is out that's a big European name in the colours of Turkey he is a former Kenyan of course at it can't he's a great track star from years gone by Paulette Kim boy addict and formerly Paul Kip Koz guy Kim boy the former track star ninth in the Olympic 10,000 meters back in 2012 he is a great track racer but not all great track races even at 5,000 10,000 take to the marathon he's a former European cross country champion he's won 27:35 for 10,000 but he's he's had enough he's a big fella maybe a little bit too much muscle mass who knows for the marathon his personal best is 208 which is beaten by many many athletes and lon young gutter is down and out the big names beginning to trickle through absolutely long young got a two-time Paris champion I think he's suffering from the heat there I don't think that's an injury I think that's he's suffering in the heat there Wow interesting actually that in hot conditions the smaller you are the better the easier it is to dissipate heat so these kind of conditions really favor the smaller athletes and LAN young that is one of the tallest taller athletes in this field so I just wonder if that's contributed to any suffering from heating my experience be experiencing these athletes look quite big on your screens but believe me they are absolutely tiny when I was racing I was down at about 49 to 50 kilos I met men Japanese Kenyan men who will be weighed less than that wow they must have been spoiled you know exact size of a barn door now so back to these six then and mu soba is isolated in seventh place checking his watch there he runs past he drinks stations and you should be towards the end of the line there in alphabetical order of course and he gets his drink and no trouble grabbing that one the pack behind him well I reckon there 30 35 metres back and maybe closing he's moving well but they've got to be moving pretty well also so this race is far from done the lead pack of six I rather suspect somebody in that pack is going to be able to kick off this tempo Marah but here we're looking at athletes who are vying for a place in the top 10 elite pack of six then we're so beau isolated and then that group of well we call it four for now they'll quite spread out there Tim so I just wonder if at the front of that pace somebody's injected someplace because they were quite bunched up a moment ago so you can see there it's down to about four they've lost one of the Moroccans off the back there and ratchet of Italy struggling to stay with them so I think it's career of Kenya putting his foot down at the front of that group but Callum hawkins looking pretty relaxed at the moment and I think they're gaining on the Ugandan who is just ahead of them my Sabu well I can tell you another pull-up sir daya Bahrain the lad I said who has run up 331 for 1,500 meters he's a 207 performer he's down and out as well so they are beginning to rack up and it's not really I think because of the steamy hot condition because they're not steamy hot conditions it's warm it's pretty warm but it's certainly not nearly as humid as for the last couple of weeks here but they are just athletes who have run too hard to this point and we certainly Tim haven't seen as many dropouts as we saw in the women's marathon quite early on in that race Peter some of the the athletes we're dropping out but we've we've seen much fewer in this race it is it is some three degrees cooler and but what I think makes the most difference is that the humidity has dropped dramatically what's interesting Kipruto they're passing a drink to Mikolka as if to say look the gloves aren't off yet we're all chums when we get to 30k maybe into the last 10k then I'm not sure it'll be quite so friendly I certainly think that's the way my up mentality would work is that we're all running along side by side relatively comfortable waiting the fireworks to really really begin but is it some a lot of coaches and say what are you playing at you're actually helping an opponent when they're getting towards the business end of a marathon yeah I mean I don't think you're really supposed to hand drinks amongst yourselves but you do see it a lot interesting then macoco keeps looking behind I don't know what he's looking for and he was a few moments ago we saw him chatting to the the man next to him I just wonder if he's really plugged into this race he certainly looks like he's going pretty easy what we saw both it's being reeled in and it is the Kenyan vest of Korea that is dragging him in Luverne Korean the average of his best 10 marathons career is 206 57 he's a fabulously consistent racer 19 Barcelona this year in 209 12th in Hamburg in 211 but he's run 205 twice three times he's run 206 twice he's run 207 goes all in the last four years or the period up from 2015 up to 2018 discounting 2019 years one of the most consistent of this last ten or twenty years Sally looking strong the Moroccan there in his wake and Hawkins I think there are loose over who the three of them have passed people talk when that yellow of Uganda's left a picture Hawkins just struggling to go with this this is a pretty vicious acceleration from Korea will not check with the splits as quickly as we can but I suspect the Templar the Corey's link down here mata is closing on that lead group of six yeah I think the way they've got spread out and suddenly Hawkins is is dropped back about I think he's really putting the pressure on interesting Sally seems to be looking pretty comfortable and going with career they have of course been some very good Moroccan marathon runners in the past Jody Arab two-time champion in this race in 2003 and 2005 and then his compatriots Al Arabi and in fact sorry not a CompactRIO at Sally himself the bronze medal winner at the 2019 so earlier this summer 2019 all Africa games well still that's a pack of six locked together at the front and Kure the defending champion negotiates that turn at the southern end of the course it is a compact fit a mosh kick Bluto right alongside him Steven macoco is there for South Africa giving a great encounter himself their time at 29 k1 3004 and here's the chasing pack and the past in 30k about 20 seconds down not much more this Mara still in the third quarter of the race well just but we're beginning to reach that point that I described earlier perhaps rather nonchalantly as the halfway point 30k is coming up but is this where you really start have dignity to have to start digging deep yeah I think this is the toughest part of a marathon they're in now because they're starting to really suffer they've done 29 kilometres and difficult conditions but you're still a long way from the finish no we said that halfway is not 21 kilometers it's more like 25 30 kilometers and you know they're racing now they're really piling on the pressure but they've they've been out there for an hour and a half but still some you know 40 45 minutes to go so this is where you really need to dig deep try and keep positive people say how do you keep positive when you're suffering what I used to do set myself small goals so get to the next kilometer get to the next lamppost get to the next whatever it might be palm tree and just just really try to keep focused on the here and now so that any negative thoughts in your heads don't affect your physical performance you see you're so young you can still remember that sort of a goal when you were racing my mind but when I'm talking about the next something nowadays at my stage of life is the next pub keep heading to the next pub game the next pub but of course for a nice bath of cooling coke well at pack of us six at 29 K 30 kids just clicked by 133 13 at 30 K so the pack of six remaining clear at the moment but they are being reeled in career doing that chasing has got them within 14 seconds they're about 70 or 80 meters down and look at my coca here now this is a significant surge from the little South African still bouncing along he looks fabulous doesn't he and decease her in the light blue who a minute ago looked win control he's twice taking big stints at the front and pushed the place along and tested the other five is struggling but coca here bouncing along and he's looking to see what the damage he's doing macoco has been looking really easy for the last few kilometers and he he he broke the South African record for the half marathon earlier this year in Buenos Aires 5950 and his 207 40 personal bests is also from this year 34 years ago so he's looking on rim great form he has 24 South African titles across three different surfaces well there's that leading sextet and who is dropping off the back I think that's cueing towards the back of the roof just begin him struggling to daresay is certainly feeling the pace as well the two Ethiopian vests who are looking good and remember one is the European was he hood has dropped out to Ethiopian vest looking good at the moment macoco there to the right of that glee group just glancing to his left almost though he's saying something to the Ethiopians I'm not quite sure what may be saying look I'm feeling good but I don't want to be the guy who has to lead the whole time and keep surging I think the coca is clean to break this group down from six at perhaps he feels it's a little too big and if he isn't that one continuing to push and it slows then all that hard work is wasted because you can see in the background athletes beginning to close in and I think that is the Moroccan vest of Sally Hamza Sally who is beginning to close in seventh place yes Ali was looking very fresh just a few minutes ago and he's definitely got that lead group inside there he is looking very comfortable so Sally he's dropped I think it was career he was with looking very strong at the moment so Hawkins they're in the third group from 19 seconds down on the leaders only five seconds behind career and Sally it's interesting to me Hawkins look well it looks like he's kept a bit more of a steady pace going whereas the head of him the others really it's all very well going with surges but if you burn off too much energy at this sort of stage you can really suffer in the final kilometers in this kind of race you really want to have a good finish we saw gia Vieira and Evan Dunphy in the men's 50k walk really come to the field in the final stages and then the German linker also Roberto groaner in the women's marathon coming up to sixth place in the final stages well here's some of the chasers matteo of spain along with abraham of switzerland remember him in the early stages looking good is that a bossy Ella bossy - of Morocco surviving at the moment having their times shouted out at them I think I saw or heard organs of britain being having information yelled at him a few minutes ago macoco kicking on again South Africa proudly roaring on this lad who has been around for quite a while it's not as if he's new to the scene he's 34 years old he's 24 times South African champion across three different surfaces he's a you know you look at the World Championships back in 2011 in tako he was 13 to the 10,000 meters there he has run 13 and 11 he's got real pedigree he's run 338 for 1,500 meters that's worth about a 355 mile he's run 27:44 10,000 and he's got great form on the roads as well he's a 207 performer esteemed macoco indeed has said a personal quest earlier on this year no athlete from South Africa team has won a medal of any kind in the history of these World Championships in the men's marathon so if he can keep this going he could be making history well I tell you what he's done he's the man who's asked as many questions as anybody over the last half hour so Sally they're passing QE QE has dropped back he wasn't sixth-place isolated now Sally has moved through it this is a strong run from the Moroccan the unheralded Moroccan Sally and you'd think you'd expect people at this stage of the race to be up at the front end to be subbed to ten performers his lifetime burst Hamza Sally to ten nineteen he's heading for something not much outside that in these conditions you having a great run a relative newcomer to the marathon Tim he's only done five marathons according to our records but he he did win the bronze medal at the African games half marathon earlier this year personal bests in the half of sixty to forty five twenty six years old so Hawkins there Hawkins I believe currently in ninth place we'll bring you the latest splits as soon as we get them and the the latest splits from the leaders macoco Kipruto Guerra Moo and two others they were on three minutes per kilometer which is just about 208 place so interesting that in these cooler temperatures were seeing a much quicker pace than I was expecting currently certainly not going to be the slowest ever winning time in these World Championships as we've seen in all the outdoor races so far here I'm just thinking great names from South Africa's Olympic marathon running story over the last 25 years or so you can go back to 1996 to as I took warning remember him he'd been shot in the face earlier on in his life but to gwanak went on to take gold on the streets of Atlanta Hendrick Ramallah took the New York Marathon title I think now he was a good example of a half marathon runner who had to really persevere and bet himself into the marathon distance he was a great half marathon runner several times under the 60-minute barrier when it was very rare took him I think wasn't until about his fifth or sixth marathon he actually got it right and of course a distance running South Africa is massively populist comrades marathon as they call it 56 miles comrades marathon him yeah and it alternates one year it's uphill overall and the other year down also the two oceans ultra another classic iconic race in South Africa well that you know I've heard in the past obviously that it's there as a downhill version an uphill version but apparently there's not much difference the downhill is still very very tough I understand so your rates probably the most the most famous ultra distance race and 20,000 30,000 run it some monstrous event yeah it's a huge event I've heard that the downhill is tougher also on your quads so sorry they're looking very comfortable but isolated well he is and there's I think he's having a little bit of a breather now maybe he's passed kanui in the background there was only about 30 meters back and kanui now being reeled in by Korea we saw that surge that charge from Korea a little while back and duck ironically the target he's had for the last few minutes has been his compact at a grimace they're from Korea jeffrey career the defending champion who himself is a fabulous track run at 26 55 for 10,000 meters back in 2012 i don't think he's going to be retaining his title here today and look at that little glance of kramer honoré from the defending champion to career who eases past him jeffrey career as only Kido iran's only 26 Larpent korea to the right of picture 33 years old maybe showing up the wisdom of experience of those additional years here's the man who has so much consistency over the full marathon distance again and again they negotiate this northern split this northern turn I should save Callum Hawkins going well well I thought the weight lab and Korea eased away from him 10 minutes ago Callum was hitting a bad patch but he's actually seems to be rejuvenated and they're still going strong Lee interesting there we saw Callum Hawkins take quite a wide path out of that turn you can go close into the turn and take it wide on as you leave as Callum just did there or you can go wide going into it I've called I'm sure these athletes would have been practicing doing a u-turn knowing that there were there were lots of new turns coming up in this course so now into the last 10k of this race they're past 33 so into the last 9k of this race and this is really where the race starts to rip to really get going so some of these athletes will be aiming to win they're looking at the whole field we've got 73 athletes here but out of the that 73 only a small number will really believe and plan that they can win and those athletes will be amongst this league group so these athletes probably now thinking okay if I'm gonna win or get a medal in this race when and how am I gonna try and get rid of my fellow runners in the group and get a gap Hawkins then Aziz passed Jeffery kurnooi and Hawkins up into eighth place I believe if Sally the rockin is in sixth behind this quintet that let's head there at the back of the group having a glance off his shoulder this is the man in sixth place Caputo in seventh Hawkins in eighth now I think I can trust my maths it's never been my strong point but I have that third 10k segment is at 2951 really really vicious the third ten 2951 off for the first 10k was thirty forty one the second 10k I got up 31:57 the pack really eased along there while the paraguayan didn't really charge through 20k but then they gathered themselves took a deep breath and it was tad sae who started doing the real damage at the beginning of that third 10k segment 29:51 the third 10k I suspect it would be the quickest of the raisins I think they see eased off at the front you can see Kipruto they're saying come on fellas share the pace help me with this because the longer they dawdle if they slow down I'm pretty sure they have the more you're going to see Sally behind closing in on them and all the hard work to build that gap is effectively wasted because others behind you are just holding more steady tempo surging slowing and surging and slowing looks impressive but ultimately is not the optimum way to cover a distance that's right yeah I mean the optimum way to cover any distance is even pace because as soon as you diverge from that when you're going faster than even pace you end up burning off at energy excessively burning off carbohydrate and let's remember these athletes are now into the dreaded hitting the wall territory where you you run out of carbohydrate they're of course very well trained for the marathon and they'll be supremely efficient at burning fat and running aerobic which is the key for the marathon but if you if you surged and then slow down surge slowdown you ended up burning off more carbohydrate than you need to if you're running at an even pace couple more drop outs for you Kipling rat of Azerbaijan Evan skip legate I'm afraid has dropped out along with that duo of China we saw him earlier on do a bougie of China who's a 210 performer he has gone as well so they are gradually dropping by the way cites Callum Hawkins up into seventh place and moving really well getting plenty of support now Marv I mentioned earlier a long time ago now that he's been training in his back in Scotland he said well look it's it's actually quite a big shed he tries to start giving it a respectability but basically he's been training in his garden shed he said he's bought a load of heaters from a local store stacked him up in the shed and just got on with running on a treadmill in there to acclimatize and I'll tell you what is paying dividends because he looks strong doesn't he's a lovely looking runner Callum Hawkins here on 60 minutes exactly for a half marathon in Japan a couple of years back and he appears to have dropped a kiddo E and career the pair of them back there in Calkins surging now got the bit between his teeth yeah he looks very comfortable no no signs really of heat stroke although of course at the Gold Coast it was in the very final stages the last mile or so when he collapsed but walking so far looking looking very comfortable it's interesting how athletes tackle this heat acclimatization thing so Hawkins has heat has set up in his shed at home other athletes I know some of the British athletes have been training in a heat chamber at the local university in South London near where I live others may have gone to hot countries some have been training in Cyprus in in Rome one of the Italian race walkers have been preparing in Rome another was Barcelona then of course if you can't get to a haunted hot country wearing lots of layers training when I was training in San Moritz and Switzerland years ago I used to wear lots of layers just to get into the habit of sweating a lot and and getting my body used to coping with the heat well Kipruto at the front of the marathon has gone through 34 gained 145 38 macoco the front right now that was a 315 that at 34th kilometre now this is low they've slowed significantly yeah 315 is just inside 218 finish time so definitely slowed down I'm not quite sure what happened there I just wonder if macoco got a bit fed up with the others not sharing the the pace making duties and that's why it slowed down but looks like he's he's pressing on and I think this next bit is going to be significantly quicker well you're right and you know it's lovely to see cuz he is a good-looking runner but I mentioned earlier that I think that rather bouncy style of the South African is is too bouncy it's extravagant 35k it's too extravagant for the marathon but who cares if he carries on running so strongly 148 48 at 35 K caputo get a mute des Issa and Ted Nesi and the gaps are there in to DES a about 25 meters down Sally over Morocco in six places beginning to close he's back behind this group and this is why I think Mikolka has a surge they can hear the bell one lap to run here on the corniche in doha Kipruto up alongside macoco it's beginning to thing out de sisa left a picture in 5th place maybe has shot his bolt he's done so much of the aggressive running mid race he was the man who initially pulled this little group away from a big big pack but he's paying the price now perhaps he should have kept his powder dry for later in the day to see so there in the background in those Ethiopian colors such a flat-footed looking runner at times his knee it's almost like he's running on eggshells not nearly as bouncies macoco that's for sure he needs to do his strength and conditioning if I were his coach I'd be telling him to activate his glute muscles Dominique Oxenberg so I have and I tell about 99% of my athletes to activate their glutes before running because sitting down for hours switches them off we've just seen Hawkins go past the front of our commentary box looking very relaxed well that would explain why I did a 20 minute job a few days ago my legs were sore for three days it was my first run for about two weeks macoco leading though Kipruto get him you and decease who were down to four it was six for a long time then 5qo he dropped away the defending champion and I think this ISA might have shot his balls Hawkins fourth in London chasing this man is in seventh place this is Sally of Morocco in sixth he surely has got to deci now in his sights the blue vest of the Eritrean here is a to daresay he's run really strongly this in a way perhaps his best ever marathon performance on a global scene you know he's had plenty of attempts has her stated there say he's never quite got it right he's run seven marathons it's just he dropped out of London oh nine he dropped out of Chicago 13 Boston 15 I think he started several marathons he's only finished five he actually run 206 51 in that Monza sub to attempt a couple of years back as he was supporting Eliot Kipchoge a but that was a an invalid performance let's be perfectly frank the rules of picks and chosen according to what they want to keep in well over tre up at the winner back in 2015 through germane Gabrus lassie who I think was only 19 at the time that's right the youngest ever winner of this event but I'm not sure they're gonna get a winner today as you can see daresay there in the background in the light blue she's struggling to stay with this quartet and macoco lovely style of his Kipruto has kept himself very much to himself hasn't he Amos Kipruto this is his eighth to marathon he's the lad who I said last year and 206 twice 27 years old and his personal best a couple of years ago in Amsterdam actually almost two years ago to the day on the 15th of October back in 2016 he ran 205 forty-three Kipruto that to the left of picture even the really good asset counter himself at the moment just dropping his arms there to try and relax the Guerra mute hasn't really taken a turn at the front either he's been feeding off what everybody else has done in fact just thinking about it you know attested certainly to test they left a picture on the blued dropping back and fift has been to the front of Times macoco has done plenty of leading keep fruit or things it the warm front once or twice but the two Ethiopian Wester garam you and dizzy sir surely getting succor from each other's presence ah athletes who have not yet hit the front and even now look they look reluctant to just get their nose in front keep letting Kipruto stay there one stride ahead of them that was a bit bizarre they ease past macoco slowed dramatically to try and get these two to go past him I think the coca is turning this into almost a track race with half a lap to run they've got very little ground to cover and I think today there is in danger now of being caught by Solly the Moroccan and Hawkins well this is solid coming through just a few seconds down he's in sixth place Hawkins in seventh place they've got a target there look at that they're very very close to all the first seven within about a hundred meters Sarli now being reeled in by Hawkins there's a a lowering of the hips there from the Moroccan he's tired and Hawkins is steaming up to his shoulder and as the coaching manuals say when he catch somebody put it in a little acceleration demoralized them pull away from them quickly you could see sorry there try to latch into the slipstream of the Briton Hawkins now has got quite a big gap ahead of him to DES they won't be his next target absolutely you've got to go right past athletes when you ever take them don't give them any chance to hang on to you and use you as a place maker so macoco now a bit in trouble in this lead group I think the Caesar has put his foot down and spread them out so the two Ethiopians trying to do some damage to the Kenyan Kipruto we know what they won't only be roaring this man on Lily's Odyssey so they would only be roaring upon in the streets of Addis Ababa but city of Boston as well twice winner in Boston in 2013 and 2015 ironically he didn't finish the one in between Boston 2014 he dropped out of an M finished second in New York later on that and November but his win in Boston 2013 was historic it was one of the most memorable performances not just because of his win but because of course it came just a few minutes before that awful awful bombing of the crowds near the finish line and he gave his mitt winners medal to the city as a marvel respect in view of the terrorist bombings same sport should never be used as a battleground of course it shouldn't but within the realms of sports itself battlegrounds are very very common and this is a battle going on now for does not go into three there are three medals up for grabs we're on the final straight here of this marathon and these men who are heading north woods they've got one about 12 minutes of running to go 37 kilometres done they've got 5k to go so probably a bit more than that 37 K 1 54 55 and deceased here beginning to turn the screw making it hurt all four in that group looked pretty comfortable to meet him I think we're in for a mighty burn up to the finish Jeremy that incredible - Oh 259 earlier this year which at the time was an Ethiopian record but now been bettered by Kenenisa Bekele just a week ago let's have a look at the gap there's that leading quartet remember - Ethiopians a Kenyan and a South African those are the bests in the leading for their garum you and to see Sir Kipruto and macoco and the gap 9 seconds back to descent - they say who is really suffering Hawkins he's a further 7 seconds behind to daresay that sir an awkward gap took two across for Callum Hawkins here has got to be hurting he's a fabulous physical specimen the young Briton 27 years old now he started six marathons he's finished five of course the infamous failing to finish from heatstroke at the Commonwealth Games last year but he was tenth in London this year in 208 14 he's definitely still a growing force fought in the World Championships in 2017 although 26 seconds off that bronze medallist coached by his father Robert and has had some advice from one of the grand old men he won't like you're saying old but one of the great races from Great Britain Steve Jones lives in Boulder Colorado and he has advised Callum on occasion this is a determined run the Brit who's clearly hurting my only fear as this battle between this leading fault may over these last four kilometers or so draw them clear from Hawkins even if he surges he would have to put a double acceleration to capital to catch them yeah absolutely a 303 was the sorry 302 for this ISA was the last split we had which is about 208 place so they're really not speeding up but they're certainly not slowing down and today say now isolated don't forget the top 10 finish here is a Tokyo Olympics qualifier so all these athletes at the moment on track to do that of course a lot of them have also done this the time required to 11:30 roaring on of the spectators that beside the course 38 ken 158 0 4 and that leading quartet have 8 seconds over to daresay at that point they have 16 seconds over Callum Hawkins that's an awkward 70 meters also back to the Briton but he can see them and I think maybe he's just beginning to close very very slowly yeah as soon as we have the latest splits we'll bring them to you so this lead group just past 38 K and that split was 309 for Kipruto just approaching 2 a.m. in the morning here in Doha Ron the corniche now here's a thing let's try and get Callum Hawkins is split Hawkins his split 307 so he's closed two seconds over the last kilometer the Britain has four kilometers in which to catch them the trouble is that he's 14 seconds down he might just run out of Qatari roadway and he's hurting we're missing hard there but he is closing on to their sake who was had a fabulous day at the races he really has at the age of 37 he's defied expectation whatever he finishes in now to DES is run a wonderful marathon here in Doha you have to give him credit it's been a very determined attempt from him and as ever he's always been an aggressive racer always likes to go to the front and rock from side to side and test his opponents wall today that testing has led to his own undoing he can't quite get back in touch with his court set macoco Kipruto get a mute to see sir I still rather like to see sir because he has that vicious finishing speed that's carried him to one finish one win after another but place your bets folks because two hours on the clock now these men are aiming for heading for a finishing time something in the 211 region I should think something like that so yeah not much more than ten minutes of racing to come and if Kipruto can win this men's marathon he'll join his compatriot Ruth Chapman get it she won the women's marathon last week that has been done before Kenyans Andrea and Luca bets both won the marathons at the Osaka World Championships back in 2007 well Kenya but won so many titles East Africans won the last six titles the last nine titles in total have been won by men from Africa that includes Moroccans of course it's a big old continent and Hawkins get some reward for his hard work over the last 20 minutes or so he reels into Dessay who tried to get into his slipstream there but couldn't hold that tempo and a little glance over his shoulder is telling us knit as Hawkins moves into fifth place with sixth place because although we haven't seen him for a while the Moroccan as far as we're aware is still in fifth place that would be Hamza sali there he is there's Sally as if by magic Sally actually back in seventh place now of course Hawkins passed him a few minutes ago he's been making such steady progress Hawkins I'm forgetting who he's past but he has moved up into a fifth place so Hawkins is last strict 304 and macoco at the front three fourteen so Hawkins is running 10 seconds per kilometer faster than the leaders with three kilometers to run and the gap on the latest split according to our computers is only four seconds that's right so only four seconds you can see in that shot there so Hawkins catching quickly on that lead group of 439 k201 18 as Maura says quite rightly Hawkins is flying there is the gap boy oh boy these 4a playing an awkward game they've been playing cat-and-mouse now for quite a few minutes it's in enabling the Briton who finished fourth two years ago to close up on them very quickly indeed and he has accelerated Callum Hawkins he's working hard he we've seen him grimacing a couple of times in the last 10 minutes or so there's a lot of relaxed faces misleading quartet particularly from Kipruto I have to say the Kenyan that's light forward lean of the torso that's wonderfully relaxed so Hawkins now he's doing brilliantly to close this gap but he really needs to just save something for the final stages cuz these four look very comfortable if Hawkins gets back on that group but he's completely spent he won't be at have anything for the sprint finish but he's he's pretty much back on that group now no British man has ever won a medal of any kind in the World Championships the Ethiopians they have four silvers three bronzes but only one gold medal so far at South Africa I've never won any medal of any kind Kenya multiple medals they've won let's see four gold medals five gold medals and three silvers so Hawkins now in a great place now Hawkins needs to just take a little breather now he's he's got back on that group but he doesn't want to he's going straight path on my word so get brutal that suddenly realizes just how much they've been dawdling for the last 15 minutes or so for changes to five and five certainly doesn't go into three any better than four does but who in this group is going to be the first to lose patience and cut loose Caputo looks very smooth indeed doesn't it lovely symmetry with balance to his running there he negotiates that final turn 200 for 20 as they turn make that final turn the northern end of the course and Hawkins contain lead continues his acceleration Kipruto there onto his shoulder almost banging elbows with Hawkins there's a tad si while the gamely rockin on the grand old man of half marathon racing back in the sixth place and through 40k now the last split a 306 for Kipruto 302 for Hawkins so Hawkins absolutely went like a train to close that gap Calem all kids of britain then we focused on him again and again in the race because he's such a tough racer and the images of him collapsing at the Commonwealth Games and the Gold Coast in March 2018 went viral around the world it was a heartbreaking scene and of course it took him a long time to get over it many people thought he'd never bounce back from it well he has he took his time wasn't really until late in 2018 we started hearing about performances wanted to the small low-key races that his showed he was returning to something like his best form and then of course in London this year the gloves came off and he showed that he was close to back to his best with a 208 clocking and he can see that Mikolka is dropping away off this group will Hawkins has done so much hard work to regain contact with the leading quartet he's gone up past them continues to surge and it has done possibly for the South African Stephen Makoku who I thought has looked fantastic for the second half of the race throughout but Hawkins finished fourth two years ago can you imagine finishing fourth a second time in the World Championships I'll tell you an athlete who does know that feeling a certain Britain called John Brown fourth in two consecutive Olympic marathons can you believe it means an angry man off the second performance because he felt he was competing against athletes who were let's just they not the real deal he's become a Canadian citizen now John Brown I know I'll be watching this over in Vancouver but Hawkins here a proud Scots but they'll be yelling him on in the pub's of Scotland in Glasgow and Edinburgh and every other city throughout that proud nation even though he's in the colours of Great Britain for those two Ethiopian fests and keep Bluto in particular for my money clinging on and looking pretty comfortable Hawkins I hope and pray is not becoming the sacrificial lamb here that has helped these are the three rid themselves of macoco because none of them put in the work to do so it was a quartet that probably for about a 20 minute period just looked so so comfortable none of them was able to whittle it down it's ironic that the man that's caught them has been working so much harder the last half hour has come up and has whittled it down that's right this is the danger if you're dawdling along and you really know you have to get the make the pace go faster and nobody will do the work you have to do it and so the three Africans Dow and Hawkins struggling to stay on that group can he just hang on and dig deep and hang on to the the Ethiopians and Kipruto of Kenya so Callum Hawkins now in fourth place this is what I feared that those three were a little bit fresher than Hawkins they've been idling almost if I can put it like that for about half an hour Hawkins had closed up on them Sally did so much of the hard chasing as well the Moroccan who was back still back in the seventh place but these three look fresh for my money three from East Africa Kipruto des ISA get a mute on paper all of them many minutes faster than Callum Hawkins let's just remind you that the Britain's lifetime best is 208 14 will Kipruto has run 205 43 two and a half minutes better they've gone through 41 K they have just over a thousand metres left and Hawkins cannot go with it agonizing for the Britain but Coker in the background in fifth place still trying to run on hard and maybe battled for one extra place in the finishing order but Hawkins here has done so well he's had targets for the last 40 minutes or so gradually reeling in one athlete after another Tim I run the Yokohama marathon in 2011 and exactly this situation occurred with about one kilometer to go and the woman who got dropped just found an extra gear and got back into the into the medal so Hawkins can he find something to get back and Kipruto now suffering so can Hopkins hang on to get root own close that gap well deceased has deceptive speed those arms rot from side to side in an ungainly manner look at his arm action compared with that to get Amir his compatriot a 1-2-3 Theo Perez in the offing Kipruto who I thought has just moved so wonderfully the beautiful tried to it cannot go with this surgeon it's a vicious attack here from the Caesar and it's coming down to two-way domestic battle for the big two from Ethiopia their compatriot remember dropping out long ago there was nothing that they could do about that I'm sure they're still not even aware that so was he who and he's gone but deceased here kicking on almost to ten on the clock yeah so these to me Theo pians going for an Ethiopian title for the first time since 2001 and their compassion a bearer one back in Edmonton in 212 and we want for a pretty fast time here this ISA gets daylight he's timed it to perfection 200 meters to right and it is to see Sir Shirley who was heading for gold get him you his compaction back in second place get Muto and get the bronze for Kenya now Candace Issa he caught at this stage surely not the finish line beckons there it is and it is going to be a win for the Lisa to see sir twice the Boston champion the reigning New York champion is world champion how he has worked for this day his time unofficially to 10:41 to 10:47 era mere it's a gold and silver for ethiopia what a championship they've had and a bronze the for camuto the best of the rest of best of the Kenyans in his eighth marathon Callum Hawkins another fourth your heart has to go out to the brick he's worked so desperately hard for this Hawkins his time in fourth place to 10:25 that winning time has come up as a season's best for Elise and to see sir at 2:10 and 44 sure about that of he's running to 759 this year but it max is not a jock this wasn't about time this was about racing no Pacemakers championship racing at its best [Applause] brilliant stuff from DC circuit immune Kipruto to Ethiopian is the kenyan nab the medals the men from East Africa do it again Callum Hawkins four into ten twenty five Stephen Mikolka fifth to 1033 he stayed clear of to DES a Sally in seventh place how he worked for that the top ten and the massed ranks of photographers getting the shot they want some what desire plays during these championships seconds in a race with pace makes on a dead flat course with almost perfect weather conditions as is the case year after year in good bad good weather conditions on a flat course there were no pacemakers race and the pace seesawed backwards of forwards through the first three quarters and then the front found themselves joined by Callan walkins and that was almost a spur to make this man to cease a kick away run to gold the party has started for the Ethiopians Mara rushed out of our commentary booth to head over for the interviews hopefully the interviews said the last Ethiopian gold the only Ethiopian gold at these championships was a Gaza heck they appeared in 2001 on the streets of Edmonton Canada he finished ahead of Simon's be world of Kenya so DeStefano Baldini of Italy at his moment in the Sun in 2000 would have his moment in the Sun in 2004 in in Athens at the Olympic Games were of course he to Morris gold for Italy that was great racing to witness wasn't privileged the halfway split 6556 so it was indeed negative splits here on the streets at streets of Doha the Lisa to see sir his winning time confirmed at 2:10 40 much faster and I think we'd have seen had we had the same conditions as for the women's race eight days ago wasn't it gamma ray ten to ten forty four four seconds down for the silver free theater as well and Kipruto 21051 in a third place who that brahms for Kenya Hawkins contributed to the unfolding acts macoco did far more than his fair share to DES a likewise he finished down in sixth place the aerotrain eventually in 211 29 so many athletes played their part to make it a truly dramatic world championship marathon at one day to go at these 17th I double F World Athletics Championships true drama here on the corniche okay well let's take a look back at some of the images of this race as we see the three medalist posing with their national flags and that satisfaction of a medal as reward this the winning moment from the Lisa to CSAT to 10:40 as he crossed the line that irresistible finishing speed that has taken him to one win after another over the years yet again worked it's magic he is so so strong and it's desperately hard to raise a sprint on tired legs he was second in Boston back in April a winner here in a race of intently more significance with all due respect my friends in Boston he is world champion this young man and the age of 29 loves racing in North America the personal best by the way was back in Dubai in 2013 in 204 and it was his debut that's all his debut he's run 15 marathons in fact 16 including tonight but he cannot go faster than that original races first ever marathon nearly what six and three-quarter years ago I suppose and celebrating with one let's be teammates I think there on the sidelines [Music] they say records are borrowed but medals are forever this sort of achievement in many people's eyes carries so much more merit just a super-fast time in a pace made race track over those barriers in a bit in these big strangled boys look give me another twenty minutes to recover will it enthusiasm his supporters it's extraordinary he's probably on that sit down don't you wasn't it get'em you who took the silver medal and 202 55 in London this year to finish second pine Eliot Cho gate and he was until last Sunday in Berlin the fastest loser ever get a mute loser tonight it's an unfair word isn't ready to describe the bravery of the Ethiopian who took the silver level medal second fastest time in history now is by another review up in legacy or Becca Lee rather who was second last week there it is then the win for the Lisa to see sir I sees the best of two 10:44 the Ethiopian gold for him here on the streets of Doha motor net get him he was kampachi at the silver medal to 1044 the sprint was won by two sisa a ma skip route to a brave run for that bronze medal they're getting Kenya on to the rostrum and Callum Hawkins the best of the rest the first European of course to 10:57 a brilliant run for the Brit but he will be desperately disappointed in many respects because he was fourth two years ago in London Mikolka attacked so many times in the second half the South African rewarded with fifth place to daresay likewise in the colours of Eritrea he ran a brave brave race well hurry up finishing down in 11th place Geoffrey Curie the 2017 champion having set for 14th he had a torrid last few kilometers for Neil a given event for Neil of Italy in 15th symbol Tanzania in 16th Stephen Kippur dates former world champion former and an Olympic champion in London 2012 down in 18th place behind the ugandan and 18th well here they are ahmed osman of the USA in 23rd place - 16 22 5 minutes 42 down a season's best for him giblets attic of norway coping well with these conditions in 24th place well inside the top half great run for the norwegian there on yamagishi of japan in 25th place good run for Malcolm X of New Zealand - in 27th place [Music] you

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