Kenyan distance runner Ruth Chepngetich finished the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56 on Sunday, smashing the ladies’s complete marathon international file. Chepngetich become the primary lady to ever run underneath 2:10 on the complete marathon distance.
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‘s Ruth Chepngetich destroys the marathon international file in Chicago with an implausible 2:09:57
That’s virtually 2 mins sooner than the former international file
She finishes in tenth playground general of the @ChiMarathon pic.twitter.com/ftM1J0j1F1
— International Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 13, 2024
Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa held the former ladies’s international file of two:11:53, a feat she achieved on the 2023 Berlin Marathon.
Chepngetich, 30, received gold within the ladies’s marathon on the 2019 International Championships. Coming into Sunday, Chepngetich’s private very best in a complete marathon used to be 2:14:18, prepared two years in the past on Oct. 9, 2022. Her file for a part marathon is 1:04:02, prepared on April 4, 2021.
Sunday marked Chepngetich’s 3rd win on the Chicago Marathon upcoming taking gold within the 2021 and 2022 occasions. She additionally received bronze on the 2020 London Marathon.
She clocked a 1:04:16 on the midway level on Sunday — the fifth-fastest life in historical past for the part marathon distance, in keeping with International Athletics. She devoted her international file to the overdue Kelvin Kiptum, a Kenyan runner who died in a automotive strike in February upcoming breaking the lads’s international marathon file in Chicago extreme date.
“I feel so great. I’m very proud of myself,” Chepngetich stated Sunday, in keeping with International Athletics. “This is my dream. I fought a lot, thinking about the world record. The world record has come back to Kenya.”
Sutume Asefa Kebede of Ethiopia completed 2nd with a life of two:17:32, hour Irine Cheptai of Kenya used to be 3rd (2:17:51). Within the males’s race, John Korir used to be first with a life of two:02:44. He beat Huseydin Mohamed Esa of Ethiopia in 2nd (2:04:39) and Amos Kipruto of Kenya in 3rd (2:04:50).
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