Buze Diriba sets Amsterdam Marathon course record
Buze Diriba won the women’s Amsterdam Marathon in 2:16:12, taking 40 seconds off the course record and improving her personal best.
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Ethiopia’s Buze Diriba won the women’s Amsterdam Marathon in a course-record time of 2 hours 16 minutes 12 seconds, cutting 40 seconds from the previous mark, Nieuws.nl reports [1].
Diriba also set a personal best, improving on her previous top time of 2:19:34. Her compatriot Anyalem Desta, last year’s winner, finished second in 2:17:06, with Meseret Belete third in 2:18:06, completing an all-Ethiopian podium.
Mikky Keetels was the fastest Dutch woman, finishing 14th in a personal best of 2:30:36. She had hoped to break 2:30 after winning the Dutch title in Rotterdam this spring in 2:30:42. Bregje Smits was the second-fastest Dutch runner, finishing in another personal best, 2:30:57.
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