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Lemi retains the crown while Aberash clinches the women’s title at the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2024

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MUMBAI, 21 January 2024: Ethiopian Hayle Lemi Berhanu became only the second athlete to defend the men’s crown in the history of the Tata Mumbai Marathon, a World Athletics Gold Label Road Race, as he successfully crossed the finish line in 2:07:50.

With today’s victory, Lemi replicated the feat of the Kenyan runner John Kelai who won two back-to-back titles here during 2007-2008. 

After winning, Lemi, stated, “ It’s been an amazing run, am feeling extremely good. The best part is the support on the course. I was trying for the course record, but the last few kms were a little tough.  

Lemi was among the dozen athletes who set off together in the lead bunch with compatriots Kinde Atanaw, and Haymanot Alew as pacer Dominic Ngeno did the front running.  Kenya’s Dickson Kiptoo and Alew briefly took the lead slightly ahead of the others to cover the first 20K in 60:30.

At 30K, the leading group became thinner with Kenyan Joshua Kogo and Ethiopia’s Mitku Tafa remaining with Lemi, Alew and Kiptoo.  Both Lemi and Alew increased their pace and broke away from the rest thereafter.   Lemi, taking advantage of his previous experience on the Mumbai roads, started running fast and was alone in the last five kilometers.  With no one to push him, he had to make his assessment to run the waning stages of the race and hence missed an opportunity to improve his last year’s winning time and course record (2:07:32).  His teammates Haymnot Alew (2:09:03) and Mitku Tafa (2:09:58) took the next two places on the podium. 

Newcomer Aberash wins top prize on her debut

As in the previous edition, the Ethiopians dominated the scene once again and filled the podium spots in both men’s and women’s races.  While Lemi Berhanu was successful in defending the top spot among men, Anchialem Haymanot could not accomplish her ambition to win another title in Mumbai in the women’s race.

Haymanot, a pre-race favorite for the top spot, was running with the lead group of seven until midway and started showing fatigue thereafter to fall back to finish sixth (2:29:58).

Aberash Minsewo, who made her marathon debut here, started her career as a middle-distance runner and won the World Youth (U18) championships 3,000m gold in Nairobi in 2017.  Having pocketed a bronze medal at the same distance in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires the following year, she started taking part in the road races in 2021. 

She made her first appearance in India last year. Minsewo finished twelfth in the TCS World 10K in Bengaluru and barely missed the podium on her fourth-place finish in the Delhi Half-Marathon thereafter.

“I was so happy to win my first-ever marathon title on debut”, Minsewo said in the post-event press briefing.  With three Ethiopians with similar first names (Aberash) taking the starting line, no one imagined the grand prize would go to the 22-year-old runner.  However, Minsewo took the lead right from the beginning to the surprise of the rest and maintained her tempo throughout the race.  Her country-mates Ayinadis Teshome, Muluhabt Tsega, and Medhin Bejene trying to challenge her in the major part of the race.

With just 2K to go for the finish, Minsewo emerged as a clear leader with Tsega following her behind in a short distance.  The winner clocked 2:26:06 to become victorious on her debut with Tsega (2:26:51) and Bejene (2:27:34) completing the podium. 

Srinu, Nirmaben top Indian finishers        

Bugatha Srinu (2:17:29) and Thakor Nirmaben (2:47:11) were the top Indian finishers among men and women respectively.  

Srinu, who hails from Vijayanagaram in Andhra Pradesh, became the first Indian runner to finish within the top 10 in Mumbai with his eighth-place finish today.  Nirmaben from Gujarat, who finished 16th here last year improved her position with a 10th-place finish this time and rapidly improved her personal best to 2:47:11 from 3:08:33 last year.  The Indian winners took home INR 5,00,000 lakhs each. 

Sawan Barwal (1:05:07) and Amrita Patel (1:19:20) took the half-marathon titles in their respective categories.

Elite winners Hayle Lemi and Aberash Minsewo went home with USD 50,000 top prize from a total prize pot of USD 405,000.

Following are the Provisional results:

Marathon Elite Male

RankNameCountryTime
1Hayle LemiEthiopia2:07:50
2Haymanot AlewEthiopia2:09:03
3Mitku TafaEthiopia2:09:58
4Joshua KogoKenya2:10:00
5Dickson KiptooKenya2:10:00
6Yohans MekashaEthiopia2:14:39
7Alex KibarusKenya2:16:09
9Mesele KirosEthiopia2:18:00
16Dawit BelachewEthiopia2:27:00

Marathon Elite Women

RankNameCountryTime
1Aberash MinsewoEthiopia2:26:06 
2Muluhabt TsegaEthiopia2:26:51 
3Medhin BejeneEthiopia2:27:34 
4Ayinadis TeshomeEthiopia2:27:58 
5Aberash DemisseEthiopia2:29:04 
6Anchialem HaymanotEthiopia2:29:58 
7Ayantu GemechuEthiopia2:30:19 
8Fantu GelasaEthiopia2:30:31 

IMAGICA Run In Costume Winners:

Individual:

1st – Sachin Dhavan

2nd – Ridhi Solanki

3rd – Supriya Gurung

Group:

1st – Udayan Care

2nd – Miten Shah

3rd – Assam Association Mumbai

Contest Judge – Sanjana Banerjee

Marathon Elite Men Indian

RankNameTime
1Srinu Bugatha2:17:29
2Gopi Thonakal2:18:37
3Sher Singh Tanwar2:19:37
4Kalidas Laxman Hirave2:24:25
5Harshad Mhatre2:25:58
6Tirtha Kumar Pun2:26:03
7Pradeep Singh2:26:44
8Durga Bahadur Budha2:28:19
9Manoj Kumar Yadav2:28:55
10Sarvesh Kumar2:30:24

Marathon Elite Women Indian

RankNameAward Time
1Thakor Nirmaben Bharatjee2:47:11
2Reshma Kevate3:03:34
3Shyamali Sing3:04:35
4Seema3:08:51
5Laxmi KM3:09:59
6Jigmet Dolma3:14:09
7Divyanka Chaudhary3:31:24
8Preeti3:42:41

Half Marathon Open Women

RankNameTime
1Amrita Patel1:19:20
2Poonam Dinkar1:19:20
3Kavita Yadav1:20:45
4Jyoti.1:22:32
5Tashi Ladol1:26:37

Half Marathon Open Men:

RankNameTime
1Sawan Barwal1:05:07
2Kiran Matre1:06:24
3Mohan Saini1:06:55
4Aftab Ansari1:07:08
5Chagan Maroti Bombale1:07:08

Half Marathon Age Category (Women)

RankNameCountryTime
18 to 24 yrs Female
1Amrita PatelIndia1:19:18
2Poonam DinkarIndia1:19:18
3Jyoti.India1:22:30
25 to 29 yrs Female
1Kavita YadavIndia1:20:44
2Stanzin ChondolIndia1:28:42
3Anshu PathakIndia1:40:27
30 to 34 yrs Female
1Vrinda BhandariIndia1:34:31
2Jyoti ThakreIndia1:39:38
3Priyanka PhatakIndia1:41:31
35 to 39 yrs Female
1Swara AhluwaliaIndia1:36:48
2Bhumika TripathiIndia1:45:06
3Raina ChaudhariIndia1:46:45
 40 to 44 yrs Female  
1Cicily ThomasIndia1:36:35
2ReenaIndia1:40:18
3Rajalakshmi SwaminathanIndia1:41:30
45 to 49 yrs Female
1Ketaki SatheIndia1:36:35
2Neera KatwalIndia1:40:18
3Komal SawhneyIndia1:40:18
50 to 54 yrs Male
1    Subhash SinghIndia1:52:41
2Rudreswar DekaIndia1:56:02
3Ravi KalsiIndia1:56:11

Half Marathon Age Category (Men)

RankNameCountryTime
18 to 24 yrs Male
1Kiran MatreIndia1:06:23
2Aftab AnsariIndia1:07:07
3Chagan Maroti BombaleIndia1:08:19
25 to 29 yrs Male
1Sawan BarwalIndia1:05:07
2Kiran MatreIndia1:06:23
3Mohan SainiIndia1:06:55
30 to 34 yrs Male
1Anil KorviIndia1:12:46
2Shailesh GangodaIndia1:13:51
3Ishan SharmaIndia1:16:39
35 to 39 yrs Male
1Seva RamIndia1:21:16
2Pawan PrajapatiIndia1:21:19
3Vijay ThakarIndia1:22:55
40 to 44 yrs Male
1Parshram BhoiIndia1:18:01
2Malikarjun PardeIndia1:18:32
3Provash DasIndia1:19:59
45 to 49 yrs Male
1Jaipal BhoyarIndia1:17:52
2Sunder PalIndia1:22:11
3Major Surendra PuniaIndia1:24:44
50 to 54 yrs Male
1Harish ChandraIndia1:28:00
2Suresh Chander SharmaIndia1:28:25
3Mukesh RanaIndia1:29:16

Police Cup Team Results (Men)

Team RankTeam MembersTeam Time
1Sagar Shinde, Damusheth Rathod, Parag Makde28:18.0
2Bhiva Zite, Umesh Gavhane, Ashish Patil32:13.0
3Vikas Bajgude, Santosh Patil, Kunal Bandhankar28:59.0

Police Cup Team Results (Women)

Team RankTEAM MEMBERSTEAM TIME
1Arati Dudhe, Bharati Dudhe, Gouri Raut11:53.0
2Komal Khandekar, Vrundawani Avhad, Shubhangi Jadhav36:17.0
3Vasundhara Vaidya, Deepali Jadhav, Smita Bhoite57:40.0
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