The Tata Steel Kolkata 25K, India’s largest running festival and World Athletics Elite Label Road Race, will feature Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw in the women’s category and Kenyan Daniel Simiyu Ebenyo in the men’s category. The US $100,000 prize money race will feature equal prize money for men and women winners, with the first three in each race earning $7500, $5000, and $3500. International Elite runners will receive an Event Record Bonus of US $3,000.
Yehualaw broke the world 10km record in the Castellón 10K, clocking 29:14 at the World Athletics Label Road race in Spain. She also became the first woman in history to dip under the 29:30 and 29:20 barriers on the roads. Kenya’s Daniel Simiyu Ebenyo won two world championship silver medals this year, including the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon in October. His Kolkata appearance will be his debut at the 25K distance.
Speaking about the immensely competitive international athlete line-up in the elite category Vivek Singh, Joint MD, Procam International, said: “The presence of seasoned winners like Daniel Ebenyo and Yalemzerf Yehualaw will not only raise the bar for the race but also give our Indian distance runners much-needed exposure to some of the world’s best distance athletes.”