The reigning Olympic and world particular person triathlon champion will use the Valencia 10km as preparation for the London Marathon
Alex Yee will compete over 10km in Valencia this Sunday (January 12), marking a return to standalone street racing for the primary time in 5 years.
The present Olympic and world particular person triathlon champion, who boasts a ten,000m private greatest on the monitor of 27:51.94, is one among many British entries for the Valencia 10km and can use it as preparation for the London Marathon.
Final month, Yee introduced that he would make his marathon debut over 26.2 miles at this yr’s version within the British capital.
“London for me was a no brainer,” Yee mentioned. “It’s a spot that has given me a lot as a toddler and I keep in mind racing the mini-marathon a number of instances. It was one among my greatest and most fun races of the yr.
“With the London Marathon being such an enormous a part of my life rising up, I’d love to return again and race properly right here. The marathon has at all times been an itch I’ve wished to scratch and there wasn’t one other place I wished to start out that journey.”
Secure to say, Yee has working pedigree, boasting a private better of 13:26 over 5km. He additionally completed 14th for Nice Britain over 10,000m on the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.
Will probably be subsequently be fascinating to see what he can produce within the 10km over the weekend.
Marc Scott and Jess Warner-Judd (Getty)
Energy in depth within the British area
Marc Scott and Jess Warner-Judd lead numerous British entries for Valencia.
The historically fast course within the Spanish metropolis will see a lot of Brits trying to decrease their private bests over 10km and climb up the home all-time rankings.
Within the males’s area, Scott is the quickest Brit with a private better of 28:03, which sees him place seventh on the UK all-time 10km record.
The 31-year-old ran 28:27 within the Wrexham 10km final season and can intention to be simply the fifth Brit to go beneath the 28-minute barrier over the space.
Zak Mahamed (Graham Smith)
Zak Mahamed, Ellis Cross and Rory Leonard, who have been all a part of the GB squad that secured workforce bronze within the senior race eventually month’s European Cross Nation Championships, are additionally right down to compete in Valencia.
The British trio boast 10km private bests of 28:10, 28:40 and 29:03 respectively.
Scott Beattie, who has a better of 13:32 over 5km, makes his 10km debut in Valencia.
Additionally be careful for Phil Sesemann, the GB Olympic marathon runner who has clocked 2:08:02 over 26.2 miles.
Sesemann’s greatest for 10km is 28:24 from 5 years in the past however final month the Brit clocked 28:26 in Telford, emphasising he’s nice type.
Phil Sesemann (Coros)
Within the girls’s area, Warner-Judd has each probability of ending within the high 5 in Valencia, given her private 10km private greatest is 30:41 and he or she is fourth on the UK all-time record.
Solely Eilish McColgan, Paula Radcliffe and Liz McColgan have gone faster over the space than Warner-Judd.
Abbie Donnelly and Amelia Quirk will little doubt hope to interrupt into the highest 10 on that record and, having already each gone beneath 32 minutes for 10km, are greater than succesful with good runs in Valencia.
Alex Bell (Dave Woodhead)
Alex Bell, who introduced final yr that she was retiring from monitor, will compete in simply her third ever 10km, having clocked 32:28 and 32:56 on the earlier two events.
Amy Eloise-Neale – a European indoor 3000m champion – can also be on the beginning line and has recorded a time of 32:35 for 10km.
Lily Partridge, Jenny Nesbitt and Mhairi Maclennan full the British contingent – the trio have respective 10km private bests of 31:29, 32:30 and 32:58.
Dominic Lobalu (Getty)
The calibre of worldwide athletes is outstanding
Ethiopians Tadese Worku, Getnet Wale and Samuel Tefera lead a powerful line-up in Valencia.
Worku – a world under-20 3000m champion – has clocked 26:56 for 10km and is joint-Twelfth on the all-time record.
Tefera, who’s a double world indoor 1500m champion, makes his a lot anticipated debut over 10km within the Spanish metropolis.
Don’t be shocked if the European document of 27:04 – at the moment held by France’s Etienne Daguinos – additionally falls, given Dominic Lobalu, Isaac Kimeli and Andreas Almgren are all competing.
Lobalu and Almgren are ranked fourth and sixth on the European 10km all-time record, whereas Kimeli ought to undoubtedly enhance on his better of 28:17 from 5 years in the past.
Fotyen Tesfay (Getty)
The ladies’s area is headed up Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay and Kenya’s Christine Cheshire.
The pair, with respective bests of 29:54 and 29:56, are the one two athletes within the area to have gone sub-Half-hour over 10km and can doubtless battle it out for the win.
Warner-Judd is the main European athlete competing however be careful for Slovenia’s Klara Lukan and France’s Mekdes Woldu.
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