​Ezekiel Cherop continued Kenya’s dominance of the Bath Half Marathon with victory in the 29th running of the race this morning.

The winner of last September’s Bristol half took the tape in a time of 1hr 03mins 03secs to finish ahead of British international Tomas Abyu, of Salford Harriers, who clocked 1:03:48.

Defending champion Simon Tonui, also of Kenya, had to settle for third place this time around after running 1:04:29.

The women’s race saw a British one-two, with Stoke’s Michelle Ross-Cope recording a personal best of 1:12:07 to beat Leeds’ Susan Partridge (1:12:45) into second place.

Kenyan Joyce Kandie was some way behind the pair in third spot in a time of 1:15:12.

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