SaM winner with clear best performance in Nanchang

Gadise Negesa, who won the Salzburg Marathon on May 19th in front of the Großer Festspielhaus, achieved a new, clear marathon best yesterday, Sunday. At the Nanchang International Marathon, she reached the finish line in 2:30:30 and was only beaten by her Ethiopian compatriots Melkam Gizaw, who set a course record, and Bekelu Beji in third place. The 21-year-old improved her personal best in her second marathon by 16 minutes.

Nanchang is a city of around five million people in inland eastern China. The Nanchang International Marathon took place for the second time this year and is one of more than 1,500 marathon events in China, in which 5.83 million Chinese runners take part every year. These figures from 2018, which describe a huge boom in running in the world's most populous country in recent years - there were only 39 Chinese marathon events in 2011, were published last weekend at the AIMS Symposium in Athens by the Chinese Athletics Association (CAA). presents.