Organisers of the 2005 Toyota Great Ethiopian Run have announced four Kenyans for this year’s edition to be held on 27 November 2005.

Of the Kenyans, Abel Kirui is the most recognisable and in-form runner having won a 12km road race in Eldoret last weekend. He also finished third over the 3000m at the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial meeting in Warsaw, Poland on 12 June.

He will be joined in Addis Ababa by his training partner Peter Muriuki who is also coached by Kenya’s former world 10,000m record holder Yobes Ondieki.

Olga Kimaiyo, fifth in this year’s BUPA Great South Run, will lead the Kenya’s challenge in the women’s race. She also won the Bishop Auckland 10km road race in the UK in August. 

Joining Kimaiyo will be her compatriot Cathy Mutwa, winner of the 2005 Sheffield Half Marathon in Sheffield, England.

Organizers have also announced that former world 5,000m champion Gabriela Szabo will be attending this year’s race in her first ever visit to Ethiopia. Szabo, who has now retired from competition, is currently working as the Vice-President of the Romanian Athletics Federation.

Elshadai Negash for the IAAF