Kenyan clocked 2:09:56 in Chicago closing 12 months and can now tackle Sifan Hassan and Peres Jepchirchir within the British capital on April 27
Global record-holder Ruth Chepngetich will run the TCS London Marathon on April 27 and she or he believes she will be able to set any other international mark on British soil.
Chepngetich shocked the sector on the Financial institution of The us Chicago Marathon closing 12 months when she become the primary girl in historical past to wreck the two:10 barrier for the marathon. The 30-year-old Kenyan clocked 2:09:56 closing October, knocking just about two mins off the former international checklist set by means of Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa in 2023.
Chepngetich, who has gained the Chicago Marathon thrice plus marathon gold on the Global Championships in 2019, will now set her points of interest on making her mark on the TCS London Marathon the place she is going to arise in opposition to the Olympic champion Sifan Hassan and the reigning London champion Peres Jepchirchir in a mouth-watering match-up of marathon greats.
In addition to being the protecting champion, Jepchirchir is the landlord of the second one international checklist which exists in women folk’s marathon operating – the women-only race international checklist.
Ruth Chepngetich (Getty)
Not like the Chicago Marathon, the place the elite women folk run along their male opposite numbers, the TCS London Marathon has a stand-alone elite women folk’s race and Jepchirchir’s profitable time of two:16:16 within the 2024 version used to be the quickest ever on this class.
Chepngetich believes with the calibre of box assembled that international checklist may just fall once more on the 2025 TCS London Marathon.
She mentioned: “The TCS London Marathon always brings together the best athletes in the world and I am sure this year will be as competitive as ever. Myself, Peres and the other women are strong, so it will be a competitive one and I want to prepare as best as I can and we will see if we can lower Peres’s world record of 2:16:16 from last year. With the strength of the field, I think we can support each other and maybe the world record will fall.”
Chepngetich has raced the London Marathon two times sooner than, completing 3rd within the distinctive 2020 version of the development, which used to be hung on a multi-lap path round St James’s Park all over the Covid-19 pandemic, after which 9th closing 12 months.
In general, she has run 3 of the ten quickest women folk’s marathon occasions in historical past and is the one girl to run within 2:16 on 3 separate events.
Within the males’s box it’s been introduced that protecting champion Alex Mutiso of Kenya will go back to shield his identify. Mutiso’s win eventually 12 months’s TCS London Marathon used to be the largest of his occupation and helped him win variety at the Kenyan marathon staff for the Paris Olympic Video games the place he completed twenty first.
Mutiso’s warring parties this 12 months will come with the reigning Olympic champion Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia.
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