Blue to discover the Big Apple – OA Sport

Ayoub Faniel will run the 2021 New York Marathonscheduled for Sunday, November 7. The Italian record holder will run the most famous, most famous and most prestigious 42.195 km in the world for the first time in his career. The Classic in the Big Apple returns as the protagonist after an absence last year due to the health emergency and promises to be a great show between Verrazzano Bridge and Central Park. The policeman will be one of the few Italians at first, since the target ban in force in the USA forbids amateurs from Bill Pais and Europe (obviously the speech is very different from Ayoub Vaniel, because he is the professional).

Blue, which landed in the United States today, appears on schedule after a Double period of work on higher ground, also in Africa: first in Asmara (Eritrea), then in Kapsaber (Kenya). It must be remembered that a file The 28-year-old is now followed by new coach Claudio Berardelli. Vicenza, fresh from He finished 20th in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, in the second marathon of the year, breaking the national record in the half (1:00:07 in February in Siena). Our flag-bearer will try to be a great hero along a challenging and one-on-one path Very high thickness competition.

The Ethiopian Kenessa Bekele stands out (2h01:41 two years ago in Berlin and back from third place in the German capital two weeks ago), l’olandese Abdi Naji (According to recent games), Knyano Kibbut Candy (world half marathon record holder with 57:32), Kenyan Albert Currier and Ethiopian Girma Bekele (2nd and 3rd, respectively in New York in 2019).

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