The fifth edition of the event will also have women’s defending champion in L Suriya, the organisers announced Friday.
The 24-year-old Sable clocked 8:29.80 seconds at the 58th Open National Athletics Championship in Bhubaneswar in September to eclipse the old mark of 8:30.88 seconds recorded by Gopal Saini in Tokyo in 1981.
Sable is the course record holder with a time of 1:15:17 he clocked last year.
For company, he will have Kalidas Hirave, who was the first runner up at the TSK 2017 with a timing of 1:16:18; and the promising Abhishek Pal, who won the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon this year.
Suriya had clocked a timing of 1:26:53 last year to win the crown as she will face challenge from two-time Asian Games medal-winning steeplechaser Sudha Singh and young Monika Athare, who won the New Delhi Marathon 2018, will vie for top honours in the women’s section.
There will also be a special category which will be contested between the Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force with five/six teams from each of the three services.
Each team will have three members running the 25K and the aggregate of their individual timings will determine the winners
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