Kenya’s Benson Kipruto can declare fifth place on the marathon all-time listing after a 2:02:16 efficiency at Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, besting two-time Olympic champ Eliud Kipchoge‘s 2022 course report of two:02:40.Course information fell on the ladies’s facet as properly, with Sutume Kebede of Ethiopia clocking 2:15:55 to place her at eighth on the all-time listing. Each Kipruto and Kebede have now run the quickest males’s and girls’s marathons on Japanese soil.
Followers have been excited to see Kipchoge and Dutch distance star Sifan Hassan deal with their first marathon of 2024, however each fell in need of expectations, with Kipchoge ending tenth in 2:06:50, and Hassan taking fourth in 2:18:05.
Course information fall in Tokyo 🗼
🇰🇪’s Benson Kipruto strikes as much as fifth on the marathon all time-list with 2:02:16 👏
🇪🇹’s Sutume Kebede clocks 2:15:55, which places her in eighth place on the all-time listing. pic.twitter.com/H8ZJIqsor9
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 3, 2024
Males’s race
Kipchoge set a heated tempo from the beginning, main a males’s entrance pack that included Kipruto and compatriots Timothy Kiplagat and Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich (Kiplagat and Ngetich would end second and third respectively,in 2:02:55 and a couple of:04:18). The group set out at world-record tempo, however slowed by 15K; by 20K Kipchoge had started to fall again, hitting the 25K mark a minute behind the leaders.
Kipruto battled Kiplagat, who completed second with a time of two:02:55, for a lot of the race—the 2 athletes maintained a neck-and-neck race with Kipruto taking a definitive lead after the 35K mark. Kipruto received the Boston Marathon in 2021 (2:09:51) and the 2022 Chicago Marathon (2:04:24) and has constantly carried out properly in marathons, ending no decrease than third in his final seven races.
Kipchoge, 39, skilled solely his fourth defeat in 20 profession marathons. “That’s how it’s—not on daily basis is Christmas Day,” he advised Nippon TV post-race. The primary Japanese runner to complete was Yusuke Nishiyama in 2:06.31 and ninth place. As Nishiyama was in need of the Olympic qualification benchmark established by the Japan Affiliation of Athletics Federations, Suguru Osako, a two-time Olympian, secured the third and ultimate Japanese slot for the lads’s marathon on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games.
High 10 males
1. Benson Kipruto (KEN) 2:02:16
2. Timothy Kiplagat (KEN) 2:02:55
3. Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich (KEN) 2:04:18
4. Hailemaryam Kiros (ETH) 2:05:43
5. Tsegaye Getachew (ETH) 2:06:25
6. Bethwel Kibet (KEN) 2:06:26
7. Haimro Alame (ISR) 2:06:27
8. Simon Kariuki (KEN) 2:06:29
9. Yusuke Nishiyama (JPN) 2:06:31
10. Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 2:06:50
Girls’s race
The Tokyo Marathon additionally witnessed Ethiopia’s Kebede securing a stable victory within the ladies’s race, with a brand new course report of two:15:55 that bested Brigid Kosgei‘s mark of two:16:02, set in 2022. Kebede was adopted by the defending champion, Kenya’s Rosemary Wanjiru, in 2:16:14, and the present marathon world champ, Ethiopia’s Amane Beriso, in 2:16:58.
Kebede, Wanjiru and Beriso, adopted by Hassan, Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, American Betsy Saina and Buzunesh Getachew set the tempo in a lead group, clocking 48:38 on the 15K mark. On the 20K mark, Hassan was 4 seconds behind chief Wanjiru, however holding a constant tempo; by the 30K mark she had fallen again considerably. Whereas that is Hassan’s first loss in three marathons (she received the London Marathon and the Chicago Marathon in 2023), her ending time in Tokyo was nonetheless quicker than her successful time of two:18:33 in London. Kebede took the lead close to the top of the race and charged to the end.
American runner Betsy Saina was fifth in 2:19:17, the third quickest marathon in U.S. ladies’s historical past behind the final two American information run by Emily Sisson (2:18:29) and Keira D’Amato (2:19:12). Saina was a pre-race favourite on the U.S. Olympic Trials on Feb. 3, however was a DNF. The primary Japanese girl was Hitomi Niiya, in 2:21:50 and sixth place.
Canada’s Andrea Seccafien, in her marathon debut, had hoped to hit the Olympic marathon normal of two:26:50, however dropped out mid-race.
High 10 ladies
1. Sutume Kebede (ETH) 2:15:55
2. Rosemary Wanjiru (KEN) 2:16:14
3. Amane Beriso (ETH) 2:16:58
4. Sifan Hassan (NED) 2:18:05
5. Betsy Saina (USA) 2:19:17
6. Hitomi Niiya (JPN) 2:21:50
7. Meseret Abebayahau (ETH) 2:23:08
8. Khishigsakihan Galbadrakh (MGL) 2:26:32
9. Tigist Abayechew (ETH) 2:28:53
10. Ayumi Morita (JPN) 2:31:38
For full outcomes of the 2024 Tokyo Marathon, head right here.
