Ethiopia's Guye Adola and Gotytom Gebreslase won the men's and women's Berlin Marathons on Sunday but compatriot Kenenisa Bekele, a two-time former winner, had to settle for third in the men's race as he failed in his bid to break the world record.

Adola won the men's race in an official time of two hours, five minutes, 45 seconds -- well short of Eliud Kipchoge's world record 2:01:39 set in the German capital three years ago -- with second-placed Bethwel Yegon of Kenya 29 seconds behind.