Strenuous field to line-up for Women’s race at BMW Frankfurt Marathon – IAAF Gold Label Road Race
With this year’s BMW Frankfurt Marathon approaching on Sunday, October 30, a strong line-up comprised of arch rivals from Kenya and Ethiopia is expected to display their potential at the 30th edition of the event.
Some prominent performers from both countries to show up on the track will be Merima Mohammed, Fate Tola, Agnes Kiprop and Mamitu Daska. Having a look over the names that will constitute the run, spectators can predict electrifying moments that they can
expect to watch in the event with is regarded as an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.
Germany, which just about five weeks ago had hosted the Berlin Marathon, is truly feeling the aura of athletics these days as after having the said successful event, the country is expecting to observe over 14,000 runners appearing on the track in last week
of next month. With such a strong and versatile filed, the results produced in the race will be no lesser entertaining as they had been in the German Capital.
Besides show stealers from Africa, there will be an equally forceful contingent of runners from Europe that will look forward to dominate the track in Frankfurt. Some big names European spectators are looking forward to see performing will be local runner,
Sabrina Mockenhaupt – the girl who bagged the Frankfurt run in 2008 for clocking her personal best of two hours, twenty six minutes and twenty one second, Liz Yelling, the English runner with a personal best of two hours, twenty eight minutes and thirty three
seconds, Aniko Kalovics, the runner from Hungary who boasts of a personal best of two hours, twenty nine minutes and four seconds.
Other contestants include Kirsten Melkevik, the girl from Norway with a PB of two hours, twenty nine minutes and twelve seconds, Germany’s Susanne Hahn whose best finish stands at two hours, twenty nine minutes and twenty six seconds and Austria’s Andrea
Mayr with a personal best of two hour, thirty minutes and fourty three seconds.
What spectators are expecting from the run is a traditional battle between runners from Kenya and Ethiopia, however, keeping in the mind the European field, the event can also see a less favourite runner prevailing in the event.
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