Tanzanian Dickson Marwa
Tanzanian Dickson Marwa finished third at the 3rd Vodafone Delhi Half-Marathon last Sunday after running for 62 minutes and two seconds.
Rwanda`s Dieudonne Disi and Ethiopian Derebe Alemu claimed men and women`s titles respectively.
Philip Rugut, the Kenyan who won the inaugural edition here in 2005, led the men`s field at the initial stages before team-mates Wilson Kiprotich and Isaac Macharia took over around the 10km mark.
Disi, a pre-race favourite with a personal best 59:32 while finishing sixth in this year`s World Road Running Championship at Udine, charged the Kenyans with the company of Marwa when the leading group approached 15km in 42:38.
There was no stopping for Disi thereafter, as he went on to win the men`s trophy in 60:43, the fastest time on Indian soil for this distance.
Macharia attempted a late challenge, and finished five seconds behind the Rwandan for silver. Rugut was seventh in 62:58.
Atsede Habtamu of Ethiopia with a 68:29 clocking fifth place at Udine was a top-seed, along with Alice Timbilil of Kenya.
The Kenyan was ninth at the World championships with a time of 69:09, but had a personal best 68:56 while finished second at Philadelphia last month.
As expected, both Habtamu and Timbilil did the front-running. Alemu (24), the 2005 World Cross Country short course (4km) ninth placer, was in the bunch.
Timbilil, the World youth champion over 3000m in 1999 and a silver medallist at the World Cross Country Championships at Saint-Galmier two years ago, went past the 18th km in 59:53. But Alemu came from behind and emerged leader in the next kilometre at 63:36.
The Ethiopian made a strong finish with a career best timing of 70:30. Her previous mark was 72:47, when she finished sixth at Lisbon, three years ago.
Habtamu and Timbilil finished second and third respectively with 2006 European Cup 5,000m bronze medallist Nataliya Berkut of Ukraine fourth.
Disi and Alemu got a prize purse of USD 20,000 and USD 18,500 respectively for their wins.
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