Galen rupp prague half marathon

On Saturday 1st April, an elite list of runners including world record-holders and Olympic medalists, will take to the streets of Prague for the 19th edition of the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon.

The star-studded field of runners will attempt to break last year’s achievement of five athletes running sub-60:00.

The mens race will be contested between 4 Kenyan athletes, Galen Rupp of the US and Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia.

The four Kenyans athletes hoping for victory, have all ran sub-60:00 in the past, they are; Leonard Patrick Komon, Barselius Kipyego, Vincent Yator and Geoffrey Yegon.

Komon, has the fastest half marathon time amongst his fellow Kenyan’s, and is the current world record holder on the road for both 10k and 15K.

Olympic (London 2012) 10,000m silver medalist, Rupp will be out for a good performance, in what will be his first race of 2017. The US athlete, who is curr