{"id":27646,"date":"2023-04-18T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/tanzania-geay-grabs-silver-in-boston-marathon\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:09:40","slug":"tanzania-geay-grabs-silver-in-boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/tanzania-geay-grabs-silver-in-boston-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Geay Grabs Silver in Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TANZANIAN youth Gabriel Geay proudly waved the national team flag, clinching a silver medal after finishing second in the Boston Marathon on Monday.<\/p>\n

The upcoming long distance hero clocked 2 hours, 6 minutes and 4 second to claim a silver medal.<\/p>\n

Geay also reaped 75,000 US dollars cash prize (about 176,100,000\/-).<\/p>\n

Geay’s victory in the Boston Marathon brings up the memory of the legendary marathoner Juma Ikangaa, a sentimental favourite in the Boston Marathon after finishing second in three Boston Marathon in 1988,1999 and 1990.<\/p>\n

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Ikangaa is a long-living memory in Tanzania, who won gold in the 1989 New York City Marathon in a course-record time of 2:08:01; he also won gold in Tokyo marathon twice in 1984 and 1986.<\/p>\n

Besides bringing good memories, Geay holds the national marathon record after winning a silver medal in the 2022 Valencia Marathon last December, clocking 2 hours and 03 minutes.<\/p>\n

Apart from Geay winning yesterday’s marathon, Alphonce Simbu sealed a bronze medal on Sunday in Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon.<\/p>\n

Geay finished yesterday’s marathon behind Kenyan runner Evans Chebet who clocked 02:05:54.<\/p>\n

It is Chebet’s second consecutive win in the Boston Marathon men’s elite race. Chebet becomes the first man to defend his title since Robert Cheruiyot did so in 2008.<\/p>\n

But the Tanzanian youth managed to beat the third-placed Kenyan Benson Kipruto by a close margin of just two seconds.<\/p>\n

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Unexpectedly the Kenyan record breaker Eliud Kipchoge failed to complete the race in the top three places, finishing sixth in 02:09:23.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Geay began the marathon at a low pace snatching ninth place in the fifth kilometre. He spent 14 minutes and 18 seconds completing it.<\/p>\n

He improved his pace to fourth in the tenth kilometre, recording 28 minutes 52 seconds.<\/p>\n

Three Kenyan runners, including John Korir in third, were ahead of him, while Eliud Kipchoge and Benson Kipruto finished ten kilometres leading.<\/p>\n

Geay dropped to tenth in the fifteenth kilometre with 43 minutes and 57 seconds with a slight margin of seconds with other runners.<\/p>\n

The Tanzanian star maintained his position and completed the first half of the marathon in an hour, 2 minutes and 20 seconds.<\/p>\n

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Kenyan runners dominated the twenty-one kilometres–Kipchoge leading, followed by John Korir, Kipruto and Mark Korir. In fifth came an Ethiopian runner Andualem Belay.<\/p>\n

Geay leapfrogged the list in the 25th kilometre after taking the lead, recording an hour 14 minutes 4 seconds. Kipchoge and John Korir followed Geay behind.<\/p>\n

Geay looked in good shape, maintaining his pace at an average of four minutes and 51 seconds per kilometre from his start to the 25th kilometre.<\/p>\n

After Geay snatched the three places, he maintained his chances by battling against Kenyan runners Kipchoge and John Korir, whiles Andualem and Evans Chebet hunted behind them, a few times switching positions with the other leaders.<\/p>\n

In the 37th kilometre, Geay maintained his command, recording an hour, 50 minutes and 19 seconds.<\/p>\n

Kipchoge lost top positions in the 33rd kilometre and dropped to seventh, then eighth in the 37th and 38th kilometre.<\/p>\n

In the 40th kilometre, Geay dropped to third, recording one hour 59 minutes and 14 seconds behind a second with two Kenyan runners, Chebet and Kipruto.<\/p>\n

Geay stretched himself further as the finish line was edging; his pace enabled him to seal a second place in the marathon, clocking 2 hours, 6 minutes and 4 seconds behind Chebet, who completed the race in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 54 seconds. Kipruto took third place and recorded 2 hours, 6 minutes and 6 seconds.<\/p>\n

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TANZANIAN youth Gabriel Geay proudly waved the national team flag, clinching a silver medal after finishing second in the Boston Marathon on Monday. The upcoming long distance hero clocked 2 hours, 6 minutes and 4 second to claim a silver medal. Geay also reaped 75,000 US dollars cash prize (about 176,100,000\/-). Geay’s victory in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[151,72,155,157,160,153,88,152,161,156,13776,154,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-27646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-east-africa","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tanzania","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}