MENCHI RULES KILIMANJARO RUN ANEW

May 21, 2022 Community Billboard

Sandi Menchi Abahan repeated as the best female runner in the 2022World’s Highest Marathon Event at the highest mountain in Africa earlier this month.
The Baguio-based runner, who won the obstacle course race in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, clocked 2 hours, three minutes, and 12 seconds to rule the vertical kilometer where former SEAG marathon queen came in second at 2:18.03 and defend her title in the Mount Kilamanjaro race.
Kam Kaur of India was a distant third with a 3:01.03 clocking. In a marathon, Abahan ruled anew as she clocked 9:00.50 with Kaur at a distant second at 13:49.14. Martes did not finish. Abahan also topped the ultra marathon with a clocking of 11:03.22. Martes and Kaur were DNF and disqualified.
“I got lost,” Martes posted on her Facebook page. Meanwhile, Elias Tabac settled for two-second-place finishes and third as world champion Roberto Delorenzy took all three races.
The Swiss took the vertical kilometer in a record fashion of 1:17:20 and win it comfortably. Local Mussa Mwakyusa came in second at 1:52.57 and Filipino Elias Tabac finished third at 1:58.54.
In the highest marathon, the Swiss were also dominant after clocking 7:35.46 with Tabac running second at 7:59.17. Local Emmanuel Paolu was a distant third after clocking 8:54.29.
It was the same order in the highest ultra marathon with Delorenzi ruling it at 8:52.31. Some 32 minutes later, Tabac checked in while Paulo is more than an hour behind at 10:43.56.
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