Kenyan distance runner Ruth Chepngetich accomplished the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56 on Sunday, smashing the ladies’s full marathon world report. Chepngetich grew to become the primary lady to ever run underneath 2:10 on the full marathon distance.
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🇰🇪’s Ruth Chepngetich destroys the marathon world report in Chicago with an unimaginable 2:09:57 😮💨
That is nearly 2 minutes quicker than the earlier world report 🤯
She finishes in tenth place general of the @ChiMarathon 👏 pic.twitter.com/ftM1J0j1F1
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 13, 2024
Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa held the earlier girls’s world report of two:11:53, a feat she achieved on the 2023 Berlin Marathon.
Chepngetich, 30, received gold within the girls’s marathon on the 2019 World Championships. Getting into Sunday, Chepngetich’s private finest in a full marathon was 2:14:18, set two years in the past on Oct. 9, 2022. Her report for a half marathon is 1:04:02, set on April 4, 2021.
Sunday marked Chepngetich’s third win on the Chicago Marathon after 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 time in historical past for the half marathon distance, based on World Athletics. She devoted her world report to the late Kelvin Kiptum, a Kenyan runner who died in a automotive crash in February after breaking the boys’s world marathon report in Chicago final 12 months.
“I really feel so nice. I’m very happy with myself,” Chepngetich mentioned Sunday, based on World Athletics. “That is my dream. I fought lots, eager about the world report. The world report has come again to Kenya.”
Sutume Asefa Kebede of Ethiopia completed second with a time of two:17:32, whereas Irine Cheptai of Kenya was third (2:17:51). Within the males’s race, John Korir was first with a time of two:02:44. He beat Huseydin Mohamed Esa of Ethiopia in second (2:04:39) and Amos Kipruto of Kenya in third (2:04:50).
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