Rio Olympian Thanackal Gopi won the men's title in the second edition of the IDBI Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon today. Monika Athare claimed the honours in the women's section.In Men's full marathon New Delhi today, Gopi clocked 2 hours, 15 minutes and 37 seconds to win the race in his first appearance in the event. Gopi, who is from Army Sports Institute in Pune, has already qualified for the World Athletics Championships to be held in London in August. He had clocked 2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds while finishing 25th during Rio Olympics. The second and third finishers also breached the World Championships qualifying time of 2 hours and 19 minutes. Bahadur Singh Dhoni, who is also from Army Sports Institute in Pune finished second, while T H Sanjith was third. In women's full marathon, Monika Athare from Nashik completed the race in 2 hours, 39 minutes and 08 seconds, to bag her maiden title at this distance. She also qualified for the World Championships breaching the entry standard. Athare was followed by Jyoti Gawate in the second position, while Ranjan Kumari finish third. Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and legendary distance runner Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia flagged off all the categories of the New Delhi Marathon. In the half marathon, G Lakshamanan won the title. Man Singh was second while Olympian marathoner Kheta Ram finished third. Manju Yadav won the women's half marathon. Arpita Saini was second while Neetu Singh was third.