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Ethiopians Selemon Barega and Medina Eisa won the men’s and women’s 10km races at the Great Manchester Run.<\/b><\/p>\n
Barega, who was Olympic champion in the distance on the track at Tokyo 2020, won Sunday’s men’s race in 27 minutes and 49 seconds.<\/p>\n
Uruguay’s Santiago Catrofe finished three seconds behind, while last year’s champion in Manchester, Vincent Ngetich Kipkemoi of Kenya, was third with 27:58.<\/p>\n
There were two British finishers in the top 10, with England’s Alfie Manthorpe fifth and Welshman Dewi Griffiths in eighth.<\/p>\n
Olympic 800m champions Keely Hodgkinson and Dame Kelly Holmes were in attendance to start the men’s 10km and the half marathons.<\/p>\n
In the women’s 10km, there was a comfortable win for 20-year-old Eisa in 30:42.<\/p>\n
American Emily Sisson was second in 31:11, with Eisa’s fellow Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase in third.<\/p>\n
British athletes Amy-Eloise Neale and Verity Ockenden finished seventh and ninth respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n