THIS ARTICLE IS TRANSLATED USING GOOGLE TRANSLATORDuring the 25th Dam to Dam, on Sunday, September 20, is both an international and national topveld at the start. The organization recently managed the successful Kenyan brother and sister, Moses and Linet Masai, to bind. Linet Moses won a gold and a bronze medal at the recent World Championships in Berlin. Of the current top Dutch athletes appear at the start.
The previously contracted former winners Zersenay Tadese, Charles Kamathi and Francis Kibiwott have formidable opposition including Moses Masai and William Kipsang. Kipsang know what winning in the Netherlands. In 2003 he won the Amsterdam Marathon, one years later he wrote the OWN Egmond Half Marathon in his name and in 2005 he won the Dam to Dam. Last year he was the first marathon in Rotterdam. Another eye catcher is Moses Masai. He finished in third place at the World Championships in Berlin in the 10,000 meters, Kenenisa Bekele and Tadese behind. It meant a first medal at a major international tournament for the 23-year-old Kenyan talent, during the Olympic Games in Beijing in fourth place just off the medals grip. These African athletes take on the Dutch to include Hugo van den Broek, Michel Butter, and Patrick Martin Lauret Stitzinger. Van den Broek, and Lauret Stitzinger have been many miles in their legs, because the leading Dutch Marathon Championship in Amsterdam. Butter contrast, focuses on the shorter distances yet what gives him more speed. It promises to be an exciting battle over 10 EM. The 37-year-old Martin Lauret, working on his second athletics career, last Sunday showed Dutch are still behind competitors during the NK 10 kilometer in Tilburg.
In women it is a nice battle between our own Hilda Kibet and her former compatriot Linet Masai. The 19-year-old Masai surprisingly won the gold medal at the World Championships in Berlin in the 10,000 meters, where they defeated the slain dyed Ethiopian favorites. The Kenyan running only been four years hard and was two years ago at the World Cross Country champion youth. Kibet focuses entirely on the Dam to Dam run since June and has therefore not taken part in competitions, but said her training first. She is in training for the NK Marathon in Amsterdam, where her personal best of 2.32 is significantly improved. In June of this year, she improved her PR in the 10,000 meters at a meet in Utrecht and brought it to 30.51 minutes.
While many athletes Dam to Dam for a dress for the Amsterdam Marathon was indeed a serious game where much is at stake. There is the now famous mutual match between the men and women. The women start 5.46 minutes earlier than the men. Brother Moses and sister Linet Masai will also fight with each other to the best of this "familie'wedstrijd to be. The overall winner receives the Grand Prix Zaanstad.
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