Chala Regasa of Ethiopia and Kenya's Irine Cheptai produced impressive performances to claim the men's and women's titles respectively in elite races at the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon here on Sunday.
Regasa won the race with a time of 1 hour 30 seconds, while Cheptai came up with a personal best of 1:06:42 to top the women's event.
In the Indian elite men's category, it was an incredible photo finish as defending champion Avinash Sable and Kartik Kumar took the first two positions respectively, receiving tremendous applause from the spectators.
The duo clocked an identical 64 minutes, but it was the top-billed Sable who was declared the winner by the technical officials of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) after going through the footage.
There were no surprises in the Indian women's elite race with Sanjivani Jadhav bagging the crown after two previous podium finishes, with a timing of 1:17:53.