The ladies’s marathon world report holder, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, is taking over one other marathon main that isn’t Berlin. Assefa has been introduced because the headliner of a world-class girls’s elite race subject on the 2024 TCS London Marathon on April 21.
Final September, Assefa ran a staggering two hours, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds on the 2023 Berlin Marathon to take practically two and a half minutes off the earlier report of two:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei, who can also be within the London 2024 subject. Kosgei has received the London Marathon twice (2019 and 2020) and was a runner-up to her Kenyan compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot in 2018.
The 2019 world marathon champion, Ruth Chepngetich, will even be within the subject, which implies three of the 4 quickest girls in historical past will compete in London. Race director Hugh Brasher mentioned in a press launch that he believes we’re within the golden age of ladies’s marathon operating, and expects Mary Keitany’s women-only world report of two:17:01 to be challenged with this star-studded subject.
Including extra energy to the elite subject is the reigning Olympic marathon champion and probably the greatest tactical feminine marathoners on this planet, Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, who returns from an harm sustained final fall to get in prime kind earlier than the Paris Olympics.
“I think that with Assefa, Kosgei, and the likes of Chepngetich, Jepchirchir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw within the subject, and the place a complete of 10 girls have run underneath two hours, 17 minutes and 30 seconds, Keitany’s world report goes to be underneath critical menace,” Brasher mentioned in a press launch.
The reigning New York Metropolis Marathon champion, Tamirat Tola, headlines the lads’s subject. The Ethiopian marathoner and 2022 world champion is at present the odds-on favorite to win Olympic gold in Paris, attributable to his success on powerful marathon programs. He will likely be up in opposition to fellow countrymen Kenenisa Bekele and Mosinet Geremew, the seventh quickest man in historical past. From Kenya, final yr’s second-place finisher, Geoffrey Kamworor leads the way in which. Alexander Mutiso (2:03:11) and 2024 RAK Half-Marathon champ Daniel Mateiko, who will likely be making his marathon debut, will be part of Kamworor on the beginning line. Mateiko is the ninth-fastest of all time over the half-marathon distance and paced the late Kelvin Kiptum throughout his world record-setting run on the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
There aren’t any Canadian athletes on the lads’s and ladies’s elite listing for the 2024 London Marathon. You may view the complete listing of elites in London right here.
