At first, the seven men's runners pulled away from the others, among them both Hässelby's Samuel Russom and Hälle IF's Samuel Tsegay.

The mile started promising in just under 30 minutes and it was clearly time for a new track record.

After a mile and a half, at the height of the Colonel on Östermalm in Stockholm, Tsegay was forced to let go.

After about half the race, Russom met the same fate.

Felix Kirwa took the lead and in the end only Tesfaye Lencho Anbesa and Merhawi Kesete managed to keep up with the Kenyan's pace.

Then the chaos began.

First, the three runners in the lead were pointed in the wrong direction.

A mistake that was corrected fairly promptly.

The next mistake, however, was not as quick to sort out.

That is when the runners ran straight ahead instead of turning up on Folkungagatan on Södermalm and it took until they were at the height of the Danviksbron before they realized that they had run wrong.

Clip: Here the dense cluster runs lost

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Here the dense cluster runs wrong - twice over.

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"Very happy"

In total, they lost almost two minutes in the process and in addition, they lost the lead to runners who have been addicted for a long time.

But Felix Kirwa refused to give up and a moment later he was back in the lead.

For obvious reasons, there was no track record, but a safe victory in the time of 2.11.07 - barely a minute from the track record from 2019. But Kirwa was not completely broken, despite the dizzying experience.

- I am very happy to have won the Stockholm Marathon and I thank God for the victory, says Kirwa in TV4.

The best Swede, and thus the Swedish Championship gold winner, was Samuel Russom, who finished in fifth place, just over four and a half minutes behind the winner.

- I am very happy, he says in TV4.

Olle Walleräng took the silver after a seventh place in the race and Archie Casteel the bronze through an eighth place.