32 athletes achieved full marathon sub3 in the night race in Ho Chi Minh City

The 42km MetaSports Marathon Ho Chi Minh City Midnight has more than 1,600 runners participating. 32 of them reached the sub3 mark (under 3 hours), most of them belong to the movement system. This became the tournament with the most number of sub3 runners in the MetaSports Marathon system.

The athletes who reached sub3 are all familiar names of the Vietnamese movement village such as: Dang Anh Quyet, Vu Dinh Duan, Hoang Duc Huy, Le Van Tuan, To Tan Tai, Tran Tuan Vu, Truong Van Tam, Trinh Dinh An ... Ha Thi Hau is the only representative for female content.

Not only at the Ho Chi Minh City night race, these athletes always keep a stable performance in 2022, used to be pacers or stand at the podium at MetaSports Marathon tournaments.

"It's been a long time since I finished sub3 and won a prize. This is the motivation to aim higher this year, including the Boston Marathon that I'm about to attend," said Nguyen Tran Minh Duc. According to him, the familiar, flat road along with the tactics and experience from the previous tournament are the factors that help achieve this achievement.

In addition to the Kenyan champion, the competition in the domestic group at the Ho Chi Minh City night run on February 12 was quite intense. In the top 10, the three professional athletes have achievements that are not much different from the athletes ranked behind. Even, in order to break into the top 5, the male under 30 age group must achieve under 2 hours and 53 minutes.

Do Van Hoang (Hai Phong) finished 6th in the age group under 30, with a record of 2 hours 53 minutes 30 seconds, less than 30 seconds behind, no prize. He looked very regretful. "In the beginning, I maintained a fairly high pace, following the top group. At the last km of many slopes, my body was weak, constantly cramped, had to actively slow down to reach the finish line safely," Hoang shared. . He said this is a lesson for the next races, when everyone's performance is improving.

The average milestone in current marathons is 4 hours. According to some running coaches, regardless of gender, just practice, will complete the 42km sub4. However, to reach sub3, it takes both perseverance and quality. World-renowned prestigious tournaments such as Bostan Marathon also set the sub3 milestone as the standard for the 18 to 34 age group. The fact that VM Ho Chi Minh City Midnight 2023 has up to 32 athletes reaching sub3 shows the high professional quality and development. development of the current marathon.

MetaSports Marathon Ho Chi Minh City Midnight 2023 also has 68 full marathon runners with a sub3:30 record. At the half marathon distance with more than 5,000 athletes participating, 34 people achieved sub1:30.

In addition to setting a record for the number of sub3 runners, at the Ho Chi Minh City night run, the system's new record was also created by Kenyan athlete Ezekiel Kemboi Omullo. He finished the race in 2 hours 30 minutes 3 seconds. This achievement previously belonged to Trinh Quoc Luong (2 hours 31 minutes 6 seconds), made at the VM Hanoi 2020.

On the track, Omullo has no rivals. He took the lead after 10 minutes from the start, maintained this position until he finished, 11 minutes ahead of second runner-up Hoang Nguyen Thanh. This result is not surprising, as he was predicted to win right before the race started. Not long ago, Omullo won the Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon, with a time of 2 hours 20 minutes 20 seconds.

MetaSports Marathon Ho Chi Minh City Midnight 2023 ends at 6:30 on February 12. Most of the 10,000 participants completed the race. The organizers awarded more than one billion VND of prizes to athletes who won high rankings.