SEARE, HAMBESE WIN BOSTON 5-K IN SPRINT FINISHES
By David Monti, @d9monti.bsky.social
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BOSTON (19-Apr) — Eritrea’s Dawit Seare (Hoka) and Ethiopia’s Gela Hambese (adidas) won the 15th edition of the Boston 5-K presented by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in sprint finishes this morning in 13:33 and 14:53, respectively. The two athletes got to enjoy the grand finish line of the Boston Marathon which was used for the 5-K this year, a change from the traditional finish at the Public Garden four blocks to the east. Both athletes won $8000 in prize money.
The men’s race featured many pace and leader changes, and the 20 year-old Seare was in the thick of it the entire time. After the leaders split the first kilometer in a sluggish 2:55, Seare took the lead and was followed by Britain’s Henry McLuckie. The pace stayed tepid through the first mile (4:39), and not a single athlete had been dropped from the 20-man elite field.
“The pace was a little slow at the beginning,” Seare told Race Results Weekly with translation help from his manager, Hawi Keflezighi. “So, I started surging. I wanted to surge so they wouldn’t out-kick me (at the end). I wanted to take the kick out of the other runners.”
Seare, Canada’s Thomas Fafard (Brooks), Kenya’s Amon Kemboi (Puma Elite Running), Britain’s Patrick Dever (Puma Elite Running), and Biya Simbassa (Asics) were in the front at 2-K (5:42) when Seare surged again and the leaders went through 3-K in 8:26. At that point Dever and Kemboi started to work together to break the race open.
“When we hit that 3-K I just said, drop the hammer straight away,” Dever told reporters. “I knew Amon would be right there with me. Our coach (Alistair Cragg) is always telling us, when you’re making moves like that, try not to think too much. Just turn the brain off and go for it.”
Kemboi and Dever’s surge brought the race through two miles in 9:01 (4:22 for the second mile), and that cut the field to just four: Kemboi, Dever, Seare and Simbassa. That set up an all-out, straight-line, 800-meter sprint on Boylston Street to the finish. Simbassa slipped off the back first and would finish fourth in 13:40. Seare started to lose touch, too, but he was really just gathering himself for the final sprint.
“I was exhausted after all the surging,” Seare said. “But, I knew they would be more exhausted and beat-up. I felt like I had the energy to go.”
Seare sped…
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