Ethiopia\u2019s Senbere Teferi on Sunday won the 21km women\u2019s race at the New York City half marathon held on Sunday in New York.<\/p>\n
Senbere took first place with a dramatic finish in the women\u2019s race with a record time of 1:07:35.<\/p>\n
Sembere took charge of the race with 1km remaining but Irene Cheptei gave her a hard time as she remained on her shoulder till the 50 meter that the Ethiopian made a final kick to forge ahead and cut the tape in a time of 1:0735 with Cheptai forced to settle in second place when she crossed the line two seconds later.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Ethiopia won a gold and Bronze medals in the women\u2019s 3000m title on the first day of the world indoor track and field championships in Belgrade, Serbia.<\/strong><\/p>\n Athlete Lemlem Hailu finished the women\u2019s 3000m with a composed performance on Friday night, crossing the line in 8:41.82, according Athletics Wold report.<\/p>\n Her victory meant the title came home for the ninth time in the last 10 editions. Her compatriot Ejgayehu Taye also finished third to win bronze for Ethiopia in 8:42.23.<\/p>\n USA\u2019s Elinor Purrier St Pierre finished second to win silver in 8:42.04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethiopia\u2019s Senbere Teferi on Sunday won the 21km women\u2019s race at the New York City half marathon held on Sunday in New York. Senbere took first place with a dramatic finish in the women\u2019s race with a record time of…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":59430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Senbere.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59431,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59429\/revisions\/59431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}