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Petros, Vainio set new championship records to win Euro marathons / Photo: Paul ELLIS - AFP
Petros, Vainio set new championship records to win Euro marathons
Eritrean-born German Amanal Petros and Finland's Alisa Vainio won the men and women's marathons at the European championships in Birmingham on Sunday.
Petros, the Olympic silver medallist, claimed victory in a championship record of 2hr 09min 11sec, beating by 40sec Belgian Koen Naert's previous best set in Berlin in 2018.
Italy's Pietro Riva, who took European silver in the half-marathon in Rome two years ago, claimed silver in 2:09.18, just 3sec ahead of Ethiopian-born Israeli Gashau Ayale.
Vainio, who finished fifth at last year's world champs in Tokyo, clocked a dominant winning time of 2:22.26, her long solo effort beating by almost three minutes the previous championship record set by France's Christelle Daunay in Zurich in 2014.
Hungary took silver through Lili Anna Vindics-Toth, in a personal best of 2:27:21, while Britain's Abbie Donnelly picked up bronze (2:27:33).
L.Girard--SMC
