Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich smashed the ladies’s world file by practically two minutes on the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, successful in 2:09:56.
Chepngetich grew to become the primary lady to interrupt 2 hours and 10 minutes within the marathon. The 30-year-old broke the earlier file of two:11:53, which was set by Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia on the 2023 Berlin Marathon.
Chepngetich has a powerful file on the Chicago Marathon: she additionally received the race in 2021 and 2022 and completed runner-up final yr. Sutume Asefa Kebede of Ethiopia completed second on Sunday in 2:17:32.
“I really feel so nice. I’m pleased with myself and I thank God for the victory and the world file,” Chepngetich advised NBC Chicago after the race. “That is my dream that has come true. I struggle lots interested by world file and I’ve fulfilled it and I’m a lot grateful.”
Chepngetich’s compatriot, John Korir, received the lads’s race in 2:02:44, forward of Huseydin Mohamed Esa of Ethiopia, who completed in 2:04:39. Korir and Chepngetich ran in honor of the late Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya, who broke the lads’s world file on the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
In February the 24-year-old Kiptum and his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, died in a automobile accident. Police stated Kiptum misplaced management of his car earlier than hitting a tree close to a coaching space in Kaptagat, Kenya.
Organizers held a second of silence for Kiptum earlier than the race and supplied the practically 50,000 runners a memorial sticker so as to add to their bibs.
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