He won the race in 2 h 4 min 21 s. In women, Ethiopian Tigist Memuye who won, in 2 hours 26 min 11 s.
Le Monde with AFP
The Kenyan Elisha Rotish, 31, won, Sunday, October 17, the Paris marathon under a great sun. It has completed the 42.195 km of the race in 2:44 minutes, thus improving the record of the Paris event, held since 2014 by Ethiopian KENENISA BEKELE (2 h 5 min and 4 s).
Ethiopian Hailemaryam Kiros and another Kenyan, Hillary Kipsambu, end up second and third, respectively at 19 and 21 s of the winner. The best Frenchman, Yohan Durand, closed the race at the e place, in 2 hours 9 min 21 S, winning the title of champion of France.
In women, a trio of Ethiopian adjudged the podium in a pocket handkerchief, in the absence of the big names of the discipline: Tigist Ménye arrives in the head in 2 h 26 min 11 s, in front of Yenenesh DINKESA (2 h 26 min 14 s) and Fantu Jimma (2 h 26 min 21 s). The best French, Alice Mendes, ends at 11 e place, in 2 h 42 min 23 s.
Thirty months after his last edition in April 2019, with two reports and a cancellation in 2020, then a date fixed in the fall rather than in the spring of 2021, the Paris event has allowed tens of thousands of Lovers to find the Parisian bitumen, subject to presenting a sanitary pass and wearing a mask in the starting area.
Part of the Champs-Elysées, the test has led the riders to the eastern Paris by opera and the Bastille to the Bois de Vincennes, before the return to the west by the quays of Seine to the wood of Boulogne and on arrival Door Dauphine.
In the absence of title holders, Ethiopians Abrha Milaw and Gelete Burka, Kenyans Nicholas Kirwa and Joel Kimur, in the Gentlemen, and Ethiopian Sifan Milaku and Kenyan Antonina Kwambai, at the ladies, were figured from favorites.