Rome, 12 April (LaPresse) – Yeman Crippa triumphs at the Paris Marathon, one of the world’s biggest marathons, with nearly 60,000 runners at the start, setting a personal best of 2h05:18. He is the first Italian in history to conquer the 42.195 km course in the French capital, an event that no European athlete had won for a full 24 years (the Frenchman Benoit Zwierzchiewski in 2002). Crippa took the lead with around five kilometres to go inside the Bois de Boulogne park, Paris’s green lung, and then launched his decisive attack one and a half kilometres from the finish, on a slightly downhill cobbled stretch, pulling away from the Ethiopian Bayelign Teshager (2h05:23), Kenyan Sila Kiptoo (2h05:28) and Djiboutian Mohamed Ismail (2h05:38).
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