(July 08, 2012, Peachtree, Atlanta )--Tilahun Regassa kept looking over his shoulder. “It’s just a habit that I have,” said the 22-year-old Ethiopian. “I like to know who is behind me. It’s not that I was worried.” There was little reason to be.
Regassa broke away from the field and Atlanta Peachtree 10K champion Peter Kirui 3 miles into the race and ran away with the title in the 35th annual Boilermaker Road Race Sunday. Nearly 14,000 runners were entered, the largest field ever, and 11,360 finished – the second-highest number ever – on a day that started out at a pleasant 66 degrees at race time, but soon turned very humid.
Regassa, running for the first time in the 15-kilometer classic, finished in 43 minutes, 1 second, well off the record of 42:46 set by Lelisa Desisa but 32 seconds and a couple of hundred yards ahead of Kurui. Kurui, who was second and 2 seconds behind Desisa in 2010, finished in 43:33, and Shadrack Kosgei was third for the third year in a row, crossing in 43:36.
Mamitu Daska, of Ethiopia, won the women’s race in 49:26. A fifth-place finisher here in 2010, she won the women’s title at Peachtree last week. Risper Gesabwa, of Kenya, was second in 49:44. Viacheslav Shabunin, of Russia, defended his men’s masters title (48:39), and Tetyana Mezentseva, of Ukraine, won the women’s crown.
Regassa and Daska both won $6,000, and Shabunin and Mezentseva collected $1,500 apiece. The top American runners were Ian Burrell, a former University of Georgia star, who was 11th overall in 46:08, and Kathleen DiCamillo, a former Providence College star from Garden City, was seventh among the women in 51:24. They each earned $1,000. Read more from UTICAOD »
Regassa broke away from the field and Atlanta Peachtree 10K champion Peter Kirui 3 miles into the race and ran away with the title in the 35th annual Boilermaker Road Race Sunday. Nearly 14,000 runners were entered, the largest field ever, and 11,360 finished – the second-highest number ever – on a day that started out at a pleasant 66 degrees at race time, but soon turned very humid.
Regassa, running for the first time in the 15-kilometer classic, finished in 43 minutes, 1 second, well off the record of 42:46 set by Lelisa Desisa but 32 seconds and a couple of hundred yards ahead of Kurui. Kurui, who was second and 2 seconds behind Desisa in 2010, finished in 43:33, and Shadrack Kosgei was third for the third year in a row, crossing in 43:36.
Mamitu Daska, of Ethiopia, won the women’s race in 49:26. A fifth-place finisher here in 2010, she won the women’s title at Peachtree last week. Risper Gesabwa, of Kenya, was second in 49:44. Viacheslav Shabunin, of Russia, defended his men’s masters title (48:39), and Tetyana Mezentseva, of Ukraine, won the women’s crown.
Regassa and Daska both won $6,000, and Shabunin and Mezentseva collected $1,500 apiece. The top American runners were Ian Burrell, a former University of Georgia star, who was 11th overall in 46:08, and Kathleen DiCamillo, a former Providence College star from Garden City, was seventh among the women in 51:24. They each earned $1,000. Read more from UTICAOD »
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