The world's fastest marathon runner Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the Media Maratón Internacional in Bogotá, Colombia, the only IAAF Gold Label Road Race in South America, at a high altitude of 2600m, yesterday.
He finished the 21km Half Marathon race in a course record of 1:02:20 beating the defending champion n course record holder Deriba Merga of Ethiopia who finished second in 1:04:49, followed by Wilson Chebet of Kenya, the reigning Rotterdam Marathon champion who was third in 1:04:57
This is his 4th consecutive road race title for the year after clocking the world's fastest time of 2:03:02 (not ratified by IAAF) in the Boston Marathon last April, winning the inaugural 10km Boston 10km 2 months later and the Castelbuono 10km in Italy last week
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