World 5000m bronze medallist Dawit Seyaum defended her title at the 41st edition of the Silvesterlauf BOclassic Alto Adige 5K held on Saturday (31) in Seiser Alm, Italy.
The 26 year-old lived to the race expectations as she missed her own course record mark with four seconds when defeating the World 10,000m bronze medallist, Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi from Kenya.
Seyaum who is also the 2015 African Games 1500m champion, broke away from the leading group with four laps to go to cut the tape in a time of 15:22 with the reigning European 3000 steeplechase champion, Luiza Gega and Kipkemboi fighting for the second place with a psrint finish but the latter crossed first in 15:42 with the Kenyan forced to settle in third place in 15:44.
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