by Larry Eder
Deriba Merga will be one of the elite field, trying to break the
10k road World best at the Ottowa 10k this weekend! To learn
more just read on!
A new 10K world record will yield $100,000 prize
Ottawa, Canada May 28, 2010
Elite racers competing for first place at the 2010 Ottawa Race Weekend
10K road race will be pacing themselves to smash the world record of
27:01 minutes set by Micah Kogo of Kenya in March 2009. Their incentive
is an unclaimed prize of $100,000 offered by ORW organizers in 2009.
The Ottawa 10km is a IAAF Silver Laber Road Race, the elite men will
start 4 minutes and 7 seconds after the women, the first man or women
across the finishline will add an additional $5,000 dollars to their
purse
Deriba Merga of Ethiopia will return for a second shot at the world
record and the purse. He comes to Ottawa after finishing third
(2:08:39) in the Boston Marathon in April – a race which he won in 2009.
“Last year in Ottawa I beat the 8K world best with a time of 21:48,”
says Merga. “I want to come back and see if I can do the same on the
10K distance.”
Meanwhile Dire Tune, whose personal best 10K time is 31:40, will be
looking to break the women’s 10K world record of 30:21 minutes set by
Paula Radcliffe in 2003. Tune won the 2008 Boston Marathon and finished
2nd in 2009 Boston Marathon, so she’s fully capable of blazing her way
to a best-ever finish.
Men
Deriba Merga Ethiopia
Eric Gillis Canada
Robert Letting Kenya
Hosea Rutto Kenya
Dereje Tadesse Ethiopia
Mohamed El Hachimi Morocco
Stephen Chemlany Kenya
Willy Kimosop Kenya
Matt Loiselle Canada
Dylan Wykes Canada
Reid Coolsaet Canada
Women
Dire Tune Ethiopia
Emebet Bacha Ethiopia
Rehima Kedir Ethiopia
Genoveva Kigen Kenya
Ogla Kimaiyo Kenya
Hyvon Ngetich Kenya
Lucy Njeri Kenya
Danette Doetzel Canada
Paula Wiltse Canada
