Eliud Kipchoge and American Keira D'Amato are top dogs in 2022 Berlin Marathon

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge and Keira D'Amato of USA will lead men's and women's elite fields at the BMW Berlin Marathon, a World Athletics Elite Platinum road race tomorrow, both of them returning to the streets of Berlin.

Kipchoge will be running alongside six other compatriots in Mark korir, Bethwel Yegon, Zablon Chumba, Abel Kipchumba, Abraham Kipyatich, and Leonard Barsoton.

The 37-year-old returns to race in Berlin for the first time since that remarkable record four years ago, now as a two-time Olympic champion and with an unofficial marathon best of 1:59:41 to his name following the non-record eligible INEOS 1:59 Challenge time trial in Vienna in 2019.

With wins in 2015 and 2017 also on his CV, Kipchoge could match the record number of Berlin Marathon victories achieved by Ethiopian great Haile Gebrselassie, who won four consecutive titles between 2006 and 2009.

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Defending champion in the men's race Guye Adola, who won last year’s race in 2:05:45, will be seeking to deny Kipchoge. The two are not strangers as they faced off in 2017, with the Ethiopian finishing behind Kipchoge.

Kipchoge and Adola are among six athletes in the men’s field to have dipped under 2:06 for the marathon, while 13 have gone sub-2:07. That list includes Kenya’s Yegon, who finished runner-up to Adola in Berlin last year in 2:06:14, and Eritrea’s Ghirmay Ghebreslassie, who won the world marathon title in 2015 and clocked his PB of 2:05:34 when finishing third in Seville in February.

Ethiopia’s 2019 Chicago Marathon runner-up Dejene Debela, Eritrea’s Oqbe Kibrom Ruesom and Kenya’s Mark Korir, who won the 2016 Frankfurt Marathon and 2015 Paris Marathon, also have PBs under 2:06.

Maurine Chepkemoi, Vibian Chepkurui, and Rosemary Wanjiru are the Kenyan women runners in the race and will battle it out with the 2:19:12 running American.

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Although D'Amato might be the only athlete in the field with a sub-2:20 PB, there are several athletes who will be looking to break that mark for the first time to challenge her for victory.

Ethiopia's Gutemi Shone Imana ran her personal best of 2:20:11 in Dubai in 2020 and then clocked 2:21:46 in Prague last year, while her compatriots Workenesh Edesa and Sisay Gola have respective PBs of 2:20:24 and 2:20:50, Gola's set when finishing second in Seville in February.

Kenya's Chepkemoi and Chepkurui are the other two sub-2:21 women in the field. Chepkemoi set her PB of 2:20:18 in Amsterdam in 2021, while Chepkurui will want to continue her progress after running 2:24:29 to win in Vienna on her debut last year and then 2:20:59 to retain her title in April.

Elite fields

Men

Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 2:01:39

Guye Adola (ETH) 2:03:46

Ghirmay Ghebreslassie (ERI) 2:05:34

Dejene Debela (ETH) 2:05:46

Mark Korir (KEN) 2:05:49

Oqbe Kibrom Ruesom (ERI) 2:05:53

Ashenafi Moges (ETH) 2:06:12

Deme Tadu Abate (ETH) 2:06:13

Bethwel Yegon (KEN) 2:06:14

Awet Habte (ERI) 2:06:25

Ryu Takaku (JPN) 2:06:45

Limenih Getachew (ETH) 2:06:47

Hiroto Inoue (JPN) 2:06:47

Zablon Chumba (KEN) 2:07:18

Kenya Sonota (JPN) 2:07:23

Kento Kikutani (JPN) 2:07:26

Kazuki Muramoto (JPN) 2:07:36

Tadashi Isshiki (JPN) 2:07:39

Atsumi Ashiwa (JPN) 2:07:54

Daisuke Doi (JPN) 2:08:13

Nguse Amlosom (ERI) 2:08:23

Rintaro Takeda (JPN) 2:08:48

Yuki Matsumura (JPN) 2:09:01

Byambajav Tseveenravdan (MGL) 2:09:03

Tatsuya Maruyama (JPN) 2:09:36

Abel Kipchumba (KEN) 2:09:39

Stephen Scullion (IRE) 2:09:49

Koshiro Hirata (JPN) 2:09:57

Masashi Nonaka (JPN) 2:09:57

Peter Herzog (AUT) 2:10:06

Abraham Kipyatich (KEN) 2:10:51

Jamsran Olonbayar (MGL) 2:11:02

Kamil Jastrzebski (POL) 2:11:08

Leonard Barsoton (KEN) 2:11:11

Gantulga Dambadarjaa (MGL) 2:11:18

Renqing Dongzhibu (CHN) 2:11:54

He Jie (CHN) 2:12:00

Johannes Motschmann (GER) 2:12:18

Mike Sayenko (USA) 2:13:00

Haftom Welday (ERI) 2:13:47

Frank Schauer (GER) 2:14:43

Konstantinos Gkelaouzos (GRE) 2:14:44

Erik Hille (GER) 2:15:04

Women

Keira D'Amato (USA) 2:19:12

Gutemi Shone Imana (ETH) 2:20:11

Maurine Chepkemoi (KEN) 2:20:18

Workenesh Edesa (ETH) 2:20:24

Sisay Gola (ETH) 2:20:50

Vibian Chepkurui (KEN) 2:20:59

Tigist Abayechew (ETH) 2:22:45

Bekelech Gudeta (ETH) 2:22:56

Sayaka Sato (JPN) 2:23:27

Risper Chebet (UGA) 2:23:45

Yukari Abe (JPN) 2:24:02

Meseret Belete (ETH) 2:24:25

Lisa Weightman (AUS) 2:25:15

Natasha Wodak (CAN) 2:26:19

Kanako Takemoto (JPN) 2:26:23

Sonia Samuels (GBR) 2:28:04

Rika Kaseda (JPN) 2:28:29

Ayuko Suzuki (JPN) 2:28:32

Hikari Onishi (JPN) 2:28:56

Ftaw Zeray (ETH) 2:29:15

Katja Fischer (GER) 2:42:39

Julia Mayer (AUT) 2:46:35

Rosemary Wanjiru (KEN) Debut

Nigsti Haftu (ETH) Debut

Additional information by World Athletics