Both course records fall at the 30th Ljubljana Marathon as Primož Kobe runs his last race
Kenya's Enock Onchari won in 2:04:55 and Ethiopia's Haftamnesh Tesfay Haylu became the first woman to break 2:20 in Ljubljana.
Gašper Kos · Sport and travel writer · · · Ljubljana
- Men
- Enock Onchari (Kenya), 2:04:55
- Women
- Haftamnesh Tesfay Haylu (Ethiopia), 2:19:17
- Runners
- More than 22,500
The 30th Ljubljana Marathon on Sunday produced two course records. Kenya's Enock Onchari won the men's race in 2:04:55, three seconds faster than the record Sisay Lemma set in 2018. Ethiopia's Haftamnesh Tesfay Haylu took a full minute off the women's record with 2:19:17, the first time a woman has run under 2:20 in Ljubljana.123
“I am very happy and grateful that I ran in Ljubljana. The people here are wonderful, they cheered the whole way,” said the 27-year-old Onchari.4
Slovenian champions
Anže Roblek was the surprise Slovenian champion, fifth overall in 2:22:53. Saša Pisk, seventh among women in 2:49:39, won the women's national title. Primož Kobe, the Olympian who set the Slovenian course record in 2025, finished seventh in 2:25:38 in the last race of his professional career, and was greeted at the finish by his family.13
In the half marathon, Slovenia's Dora Suljanović won the women's race in 1:17:17 and France's Antoine Villechenaud the men's in 1:03:43. More than 22,500 people ran across the day's events.12
Hung on these sources
Gašper Kos checked each fact against the sources below. Numbers in the text lead to them.
- 1Atletska zveza SlovenijeAnže Roblek in Saša Pisk državna prvaka, padla rekorda proge
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- 3NLB Ljubljanski maratonJubilej z dvema rekordoma proge in slovesom Primoža Kobeta
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