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| Dominic Ondoro ran a 2:12:05 to win the 2017 Houston Marathon. Photo by Kristine Kelly, TexSport Publications Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved |
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HOUSTON, TEXAS (January 16, 2019) Dominic Ondoro, the 2017 Houston Marathon champion, will return in 2019, in an attempt to his second Houston Marathon in three years. The thirty-year-old Kenyan posted the time of 2:12:05 in winning the 2017 event. He is three No. 3 ranked runner in the Elite Field with a posted entry time of 2:08:00, which was achieved on January 10,2 013 in See Genezarethm Israel. In last year's event, he failed to finish, as he did on his second race of 2018, in Los Angeles Marathon on March 18. He followed these two races with a seventh place finish (2:15:16) in Ottawa on May 27 and second place finish (2:16:55) in Melbourne on October 14.
The Sunday's race in Houston, he will competing against the top two seeds; Ethiopians Abayneg Ayele (2:06:45) and Yitayal Atnafu (2:07:00). Ondoro will be joined in the elite field by countrymen Albert Korir (2:08:17), Justus Kimutai (2:09:29), Wlisha Barno (2:09:45), and Henry Leiei (in his debut marathon).
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