Amanal Petros wins marathon gold at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham

Amanal Petros won gold in the marathon on the last day of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, succeeding Richard Ringer as European champion. The German record holder confidently prevailed on the difficult course in the city center after a solo over around 15 km in the championship record time of 2:09:11 hours ahead of the Italian Pietro Riva (2:09:18) and Gashau Ayale (2:09:21) from Israel. Samuel Fitwi came ninth as the second best German runner. Defending champion wrestler tenth. Together with Petros, they were able to celebrate silver in the team ranking, behind Israel and ahead of France. »This route was terrible. It hurts everywhere. I think I need to go to physio straight away. The joints really hurt,” said Petros after his gold coup on ARD. The hilly and winding route was a “huge challenge,” said the happy winner, who had prepared for an altitude of 2,500 meters in Kenya. Petros won Germany's fifth gold medal at the European Championships in Great Britain. After Ringer, Petros is only the second German European marathon champion. The runner, who fled Ethiopia, won silver at the World Championships in Tokyo almost a year ago. At the European Championships, he gave the competition no chance after increasing the pace. Four years ago in Munich, Petros came fourth.