On the 2024 TCS London Marathon, 76-year-old operating sensation Jeannie Rice shattered her personal world file within the girls’s 75-79 age group, clocking in at a formidable three hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds. She surpassed her earlier world file set simply final October in Chicago (at age 75) by greater than a minute.
Rice not solely gained the W75-79 age class on the TCS London Marathon by half-hour, she additionally would’ve gained the lads’s 75-79 class by 11 minutes. She averaged a ridiculous 5:03/km (or eight-minute mile tempo) at age 76 for 42.2K.
Rice advised media post-race that she was glad to have run an age-group file, however hoped to complete nearer to 3 hours and half-hour. “I fell off within the first few miles… I suppose I’ll must determine it out and run higher in Berlin,” she mentioned.
This isn’t Rice’s first grasp’s world file. She additionally holds the ladies’s 70-74 marathon file of three:27:50, which she set in 2018 at 70. This accomplishment provides to her spectacular resume of grasp’s world data in distance operating.
Final 12 months, Rice ran 10 seconds quicker (3:33:15 on the Boston Marathon), however Boston’s point-to-point, net-downhill course makes it ineligible for file functions. She has accomplished all six Abbott World Marathon Majors, and gained her age class in every.
Rice considers herself a snowbird, as she lives and trains in her hometown of Mentor, Ohio for six months of the 12 months earlier than heading to Naples, Fla., for six months each winter.
Rice’s file on the 2024 London Marathon is pending ratification from World Masters Athletics (WMA).
