Yalemzerf Yehualaw, from Ethiopia, made history in Hamburg, Germany, on Sunday (24th), her first time in an all-Malaysian race, and she made her women's fastest marathon debut ever with a time of 2:17:23.
Ye Hualao's story
The 22-year-old won the prestigious 2022 Hamburg Marathon in Germany by nearly nine minutes, and Kipchoge's marathon also started with the Hamburg Marathon.
She also broke the Ethiopian women's national record, while the top two in the men's competition were only a second apart.
Kenya's Cybrian Kotut beat Uganda's Stephen Kissa in 2:04:47, all in the top four below Kipchoge's 2:05:30 men's track record set in 2013, showing that the Hamburg Marathon is also a good place to create excellent results.
From the beginning of the race, led by the male rabbit, Ye Hualao ran 10 kilometers at a speed of 32:39 and completed the half horse with a staggering result of 1:08:30.
In the second half, she slowed down only slightly, running 30 km at 1:37:34 and 35 km at 1:53:55.
The bronze medalist of the World Half Marathon finally reached the finish line with a time of 2:17:23. This performance put Ye Hualao at number six on the women's World Marathon History List.
The momentum-studded Serbian female athlete Yalemzerf Yehualaw has performed well this year.
In february, in castellon, Spain, she broke the women's mixed world 10 km record at 29:14, which was also the first time that the women's 10 km road race reached the 29:30, or even 20:20 mark, which was nearly 30 seconds higher than the previous women's mixed 10 km world record approved by the World Athletics Federation!
Yehualaw is an athlete who has frequently achieved excellent results in the half-horse, 10 km race in recent years.
In Ethiopia, where the strong players gathered, Ye Hualao did not enter the Tokyo Olympic team because she finished fourth in the 10,000 meters of the Olympic Trials, but after training, she ran a world record of 1 hour 03.44 seconds in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon in Northern Ireland last August, but the track was found to be shorter than 54 meters, which caused her results to not be recognized.
Two months later, she broke the women's half-horse world record at Valencia with a time of 1:03:51, but in that race, her opponent Gidy performed even better, leading her to win the championship with a world record of 1:02:52, With Ye Hualao second, and Gedy and Ye Hualao's excellent performance in Valencia, the women's marathon world record also reached the 1 hour and 3 minute mark in one fell swoop.
Ye Hualao had planned to break the 10 km world record in Valencia in early January, but because of a positive test for the new crown virus before the race, she lost the qualification for the race, and after two months of dormancy, she did not let the opportunity to slip away again.
Ye Hualao said after the race: "I regret not being able to participate in the Valencia 10 km race in January, but I have resumed training after contracting COVID-19, I am very optimistic about today's race, I know that I have the ability to try to break the world record in the near future".
Ye Hualao also said: "I may participate in the marathon in the next few months and participate in the World Half Marathon Championships in Yangzhou in November. ”
Ye Hualao fulfilled her promise, just over 2 months later, she participated in the all-Malaysian race and achieved excellent results, but I don't know if I can see her at the Yangzhou World Half Marathon Championships in November this year!
It is not known whether the epidemic will be alleviated by then, and whether many foreign athletes will be able to successfully participate in China.
Born in the village of Sigojam in the Amhara region north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ye hualao was the eldest of six siblings who grew up in the countryside.
She won the 3,000-meter track and field race at school at the age of 12, demonstrating her innate abilities. Throughout her student years, she continued to impress on all facets, winning a variety of cross-country, athletics and road races.
Her talent was recognised after winning the 3000m and 5000m youth titles in the highly competitive Amhara region and she was recruited to train in the Ethiopian Athletics Federation system in Addis Ababa.
Three years ago, she joined the training group of NN running group coach Tessema Abshero, who also coached 2019 Amsterdam marathon champion Degitu Azmirew and Ethiopian 10km road record holder Tsehay Gemechu.
Tessema mentored a group of high-level athletes, but he soon discovered Ye Hualao's special talent.
"Many Ethiopian athletes have excellent talent, but Ye Hualao has three very good qualities: speed, endurance and good core strength," he said.
The three tough points of top endurance athletes
For runners, endurance is of course the most important ability, but only endurance is still far from enough, if you want to improve the endurance, intensive speed training and core training are also essential, because the high level of endurance is manifested as the ability to maintain speed, speed does not go up, this endurance is a low level of endurance;
The core strength is also very important, and a good core strength plays a vital role in reducing the loss of force and improving the efficiency of force transmission.
At the 2020 World Half Horse Championships in Gdynia, Poland, on the last lap. Ye Hualao ran along the last seashore with Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir and German Melat Yisek Kejeta, and the three of them fought fiercely, however, after entering the last 150 meters, where the beach end was covered with carpets, she slipped;
Jepchirchir took the opportunity to win the gold medal in 1:05:16 and set a world record for the all-women's half horse, while Yalemzerf regretted the bronze medal in 1:05:19, when she already had the ability to break the world record.
Falling in the race, breaking the world record but being delayed by a comical track measurement error, failing to participate in the Olympic Games, breaking the women's half horse world record with Gidey but ranking second, Ye Hualao has created a lot of excellent results in recent years, it seems that it is always difficult to reach the peak, but she has not been knocked down by these "misfortunes".
This year's 10 km women's world record and sixth-best result in marathon history are the best affirmations of her efforts!
How difficult is it for a woman to run into the 220?
According to the latest edition of the Mainland's "Athlete Technical Level Standards" promulgated in 2021, the women's full horse can run into 234 is an international athlete, and the 240 is an athlete.
In the women's marathon of the Hangzhou Asian Games held not long ago, the first place from Gansu Zhang Xinyan and the second place from Yunnan Zhang Deshun were a good match, both created a personal PB, Zhang Xinyan's performance was 2:26:56, zhang Deshun's score was 2:27:01, indicating that both of them reached the international athletes, and it is also very close to Li Zhixuan's 2:26:15 in the 2019 Nagoya Women's Marathon, which is the best result of the Chinese women's marathon in recent years.
Professional marathon runner rating standards
Professional Half Horse Athlete Rating Standards
For women, running into 230 is a fairly high level, running into 225 generally belongs to the national or intercontinental level, and running within 220 is a world-class level. At present, there are about 50 female runners who can run within 220 worldwide.
Among the top 50 women's athletes of the World Athletics Federation, there is no distinction between mixed marathons and pure women's marathons.
For example, the first place in the ranking is that Kosge set a mixed women's marathon world record of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon;
In third place was The Net Women's Marathon World Record set by Keetani at the 2017 London Marathon 2:17:01;
Cheptych's 2:17:18 finish at the 2022 Nagoya Women's Marathon was also good enough, and she herself reached fourth place in the global ranking (with the 2019 Doha World Championships), behind Kosgai, Ketani and British star Radcliffe;
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) and the 2021 New York Marathon double champion Jeep Cheeche are ranked fifth, and the top five are all well-known athletes.
Among the world's top 50 or so women's athletes, Chinese athletes only have Sun Yingjie and Zhou Chunxiu 2, Sun Yingjie's score is 2:19:39, which is also a Chinese women's national record, and Zhou Chunxiu's performance is 2:19:51, which is also a very remarkable result.
Zhou Chunxiu was the bronze medalist in the women's marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and she also won the women's championship at the London Marathon, the only athlete in mainland China to win six Grand Slam championships.
Sun Yingjie
Zhou Chunxiu
The top 50 in the global women's marathon are basically within 220
brief summary
This year's World Women's Marathon has created excellent results continuously, and at present, it is still more difficult but relatively close for mainland women's runners to run into 225, and it is even more out of reach to enter 220, which requires the efforts of generations of people.
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