Geremew in line for a hat-trick at TCS World 10K

Ethiopia’s Mosinet Geremew will look to complete a hat-trick of victories when he lines up at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru here on May 21.

The 25-year-old Geremew is among a clutch of top quality runners announced on Friday for the event, with world record holder Leonard Komon also standing out in the list.
Geremew arrives in Bengaluru with a 60:56 win in a strong field at the Yangzhou International Half Marathon in China last month.

Komon had set his world record of 26:44 in the Dutch city of Utrecht back in 2010 but this year, his results haven’t been that impressive, with a 12th place finish at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in March and a 17th spot in Yangzhou.

The other runners expected to challenge Geremew are two men who have run faster than the defending champion’s personal best of 27:36 — New Zealand’s Zane Robertson and Ethiopia’s Birhanu Legese.

Robertson, a Rio 2016 Olympic Games 10,000M finalist, ran his best of 27:28 when winning in Berlin last October, the fastest time in the world last year.