Atsedu Tsegay 58:47 at Praha Half marathon!!

Great

He also broke Haile Gebrselassie National Record

1 TSEGAY ATSEDU 58:47

2 HENRY KIPLAGAT 60:01

3 PHILEMON LIMO 60:03

4 JOSPHAT BETT 61:01

5 MERGA SENTAYEHU 61:02

6 KENNETH KIPKEMOI 61:25

7 GEOFFREY KANYAJUA 61:52

8 DAWID WOLDE 62:19

9 DANIEL KINYUA 62:32

10 ERICK KIBET 62:33

IN the women race

1 Joyce Chepkirui 67:03

2 Lydia Cheromei 67:26

3 Gladys Cherono 68:18

4 Rose Chelimo 71:35

5 Tetiana Gamera 72:15

Atsedu is register for Paris Marathon in two weeks!

Amazing, that is way up there on the all-time list. Don't know about doing that two weeks before a marathon, but I guess we'll see.

After he finished he said that he would have broken the world record hadnt there been a strong headwind. The weather was really bad this year.

very impressive I suspect he will be in hunt for the win at Paris in several weeks.

2:04-2:05 seeming quite possible.

All Time Rankings

1 58:23 Zersenay TADESSE 82 ERI Lisboa (POR) 21/03/2010

2 58:33 Samuel WANJIRU 86 KEN The Hague (NED) 17/03/2007

3 58:46 Matthew KISORIO 89 KEN Philadelphia (USA) 18/09/2011

4 58:47 Atsedy Tsegay 91 ETH Praha (CZE) 31/03/2012

5 58:48 Sammy KITWARA 86 KEN Philadelphia (USA) 18/09/2011

6 58:52 Patrick MUSYOKI 85 KEN Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) 20/02/2009

7 58:54 Stephen KIBET 86 KEN Den Haag (NED) 11/03/2012

8 58:55 Haile GEBRSELASSIE 73 ETH Tempe (USA) 15/01/2006

9 58:59 Wilson KIPSANG 82 KEN Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) 20.02.2009

10 59:02 Jonathan MAIYO 88 KEN Den Haag (NED) 11/03/2012

All Time Rankings

1 58:23 Zersenay TADESSE 82 ERI Lisboa (POR) 21/03/2010

2 58:33 Samuel WANJIRU 86 KEN The Hague (NED) 17/03/2007

3 58:46 Matthew KISORIO 89 KEN Philadelphia (USA) 18/09/2011

4 58:47 Atsedu TSEGAY 91 ETH Praha (CZE) 31/03/2012

5 58:48 Sammy KITWARA 86 KEN Philadelphia (USA) 18/09/2011

6 58:52 Patrick MUSYOKI 85 KEN Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) 20/02/2009

7 58:54 Stephen KIBET 86 KEN Den Haag (NED) 11/03/2012

8 58:55 Haile GEBRSELASSIE 73 ETH Tempe (USA) 15/01/2006

9 58:59 Wilson KIPSANG 82 KEN Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) 20.02.2009

10 59:02 Jonathan MAIYO 88 KEN Den Haag (NED) 11/03/2012

Yawn. East African runs fast time. Tell me if you haven't heard this story before.

now you see wrote:

very impressive I suspect he will be in hunt for the win at Paris in several weeks.

2:04-2:05 seeming quite possible.

Zero chance at Paris.

UNFORTUNATELY TRUE

The guy is amazing, he's only 14 too.

world record was close wrote:

After he finished he said that he would have broken the world record hadnt there been a strong headwind. The weather was really bad this year.

Winds have absolutely no impact on results as was thoroughly proven after Boston.

Should be noted wrote:

Winds have absolutely no impact on results as was thoroughly proven after Boston.

Nah, not true.

What the experts told us about Boston was that headwinds to slow down a runner, but tailwinds don't speed a runner up.

Pretty simple stuff really.

Or was it tailwinds don't affect Africans but headwinds do? I can't remember what Canova said now.

I was on the media lead car throughout the race, and can tell you this was a very impressive run given the conditions. The wind was very strong, the course has a number of small hills (although by no means hilly), the footing isn't very good with substantial stretches of cobblestones and steel tram tracks which caused the athletes to constantly adjust their racing line to avoid stepping on them. Tsegay ran the full course as certified with no corner cutting.

My full story is here:

http://www.runnersweb.com/running/news_2012/rw_news_20120331_RRW_Prague.html

David Monti, Editor & Publisher

Race Results Weekly

those of us not in our trailers would like to appreciate the great run by ATSEDU (i don't see "EAST AFRICAN" listed in front of the time).hopefully "they" see american results and say "yawn. American runs slow time."

Truth Sayer wrote:

Yawn. East African runs fast time. Tell me if you haven't heard this story before.

David Monti. wrote:

My full story is here:

http://www.runnersweb.com/running/news_2012/rw_news_20120331_RRW_Prague.html

David Monti, Editor & Publisher

Race Results Weekly

Your story might be good but that's a terrible webpage.

The print is tiny and the frame can't even be seen all at once. It's necessary to keep moving the page back and forth at the beginning and end of each line. Expanding the size of the print makes this worse. Clicking "view this frame only" doesn't work, because the page is set to kick back to all frames and won't show just the one frame. Is there really a story on there anyway? I have better things to do with my time.

David Monti (on his link). wrote:

Living in Addis Ababa and only running three years, Tsegay reminded reporters that his modest 13:51.0 5000m personal best was set in Ethiopia's thin air, and that his career was just beginning.

Umm... yeah right.