PRAGUE -- Lemi Berhanu Hayle of Ethiopia won the Prague international marathon Sunday while fellow countrywoman Bedatu Hirpa Badane won the women's race.
Hayle, who won the Boston Marathon in 2016 and successfully defended his title at the Mumbai Marathon in January, pulled away from Kenya's Kipkemoi Kiprono after 25 kilometers and cruised unchallenged to clock 2 hours, 8 minutes and 44 seconds.
Kiprono was second in 2:10:27 ahead of another Kenyan, Joshua Kipkemboi Kogo, in 2:10:51.
Badane won in 2:23:41.