On Sunday on the 2024 Chicago Marathon, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich shattered the ladies’s marathon world file by almost two minutes, crossing the end line in an astonishing 2:09:57. This groundbreaking achievement makes her the primary girl to interrupt the two:10 barrier within the marathon, pushing the boundaries of girls’s distance working additional than ever earlier than.
For Chepngetich, this victory marks her third Chicago Marathon win within the final 4 years, having beforehand taken the title in 2021 and 2022.
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Watch it. Drink it in. We swear you’ll by no means see something like this once more. 😉#AbbottWMM #chicagomarathon2024 pic.twitter.com/rOsqgLyMFy
— Abbott WMMajors (@WMMajors) October 13, 2024
After Friday’s elite press convention, it was clear that each Chepngetich and Ethiopia’s Sutume Kebede had been eyeing Tigst Assefa’s world file of two:11:53. From the outset, the tempo exceeded expectations, with Chepngetich hitting the midway level in 64:16—a time that stands because the quickest half-marathon cut up ever recorded in a girls’s marathon. To place her unimaginable tempo into perspective, she was simply 12 seconds off the Kenyan half-marathon file, which she additionally holds. This time would have been the world file as not too long ago as 2021.
With the help of two male pacers till the 38-km mark, Chepngetich maintained a commanding lead, opening up greater than a four-minute hole over the remainder of the sector by 40K. She went on to safe her third Chicago Marathon title in dominant style. In 2023, Chepngetich completed second to Olympic champion Sifan Hassan, who set a course file of two:13:44.
After the race, Chepngetich described the win as a “dream come true” and devoted the file to the late Kelvin Kiptum. “The climate was good, and I’ve been in a position to put together for six months,” she mentioned. “I’m pleased with myself.”
WORLD RECORD ‼️
🇰🇪’s Ruth Chepngetich destroys the marathon world file in Chicago with an unimaginable 2:09:57 😮💨
That’s nearly 2 minutes quicker than the earlier world file 🤯
She finishes in tenth place general of the @ChiMarathon 👏 pic.twitter.com/ftM1J0j1F1
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 13, 2024
Kebede, the 2024 Tokyo Marathon champion, stayed with Chepngetich till the midway mark, however dropped again as Chepngetich pushed the relentless tempo. Kebede nonetheless managed a powerful end, coming in second with a time of two:17:32, seven and a half minutes behind the brand new world file holder. Kenya’s Irine Cheptai rounded out the ladies’s podium in 2:17:51.
Kenya now holds each the lads’s and girls’s marathon world information. The situations on race day had been ideally suited for record-breaking, with cool temperatures of 16 C and low winds initially.
Kenya’s John Korir gained the lads’s race in a world-leading time of two:02:43. For extra on that story, click on right here.
Susanna Sullivan high American
Susanna Sullivan, a schoolteacher from northern Virginia, was the quickest American girl in Sunday’s race, ending in 2:21:56 and seventh within the girls’s race. Lindsay Flanagan was the second U.S. girl (2:23:31, ninth) and Emma Bates was third (2:24:00).
High 10 girls
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- Ruth Chepngetich KEN 2:09:57 WR
- Sutume Asefa Kebede ETH 2:17:32
- Irine Cheptai KEN 2:17:51
- Buze Diriba Kejela ETH 02:20:22
- Joyciline Jepkosgei KEN 02:20:51
- Degitu Azimeraw ETH 02:20:52
- Susanna Sullivan USA 02:21:56
- Ashete Bekere Dido ETH 02:23:10
- Lindsay Flanagan USA 02:23:31
- Stacy Ndiwa KEN 02:23:42
