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  2. Half marathon world record progression - Wikipedia

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    On 30 March 1991, Arturo Barrios ran a world record distance of 21.101 km in one hour, becoming the first man to run the half marathon distance in under one hour. [11] On 3 April 1993, Moses Tanui became the first man to run a half marathon race in under one hour, with a time of 59:47. [12]

  3. Ruth Chepng'etich - Wikipedia

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    Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon, a World Athletics Label Road Race.She ran 2:18:35, with split times of 31:59 at 10 km, 48:15 at 15 km, 1:08:22 at the half marathon mark, and 1:37:42 at 30 km. Chepng'etich's performance was a course record, the best performance ever on Turkish soil, and, at the time, was the seventh fastest time in history.

  4. Letesenbet Gidey - Wikipedia

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    Letesenbet became the first woman to break the 64 and 63-minute barriers in the half marathon and the 45-minute barrier in the 15 km. She recorded the fastest women's marathon debut in history at the 2022 Valencia Marathon, placing her seventh on the respective world all-time list with a time of 2.16.49.

  5. Paula Radcliffe - Wikipedia

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    Her time was the second quickest in women's marathon history behind the world record of 2:18:47 set by Catherine Ndereba, of Kenya, in Chicago. [ 75 ] Later that year, Radcliffe set a world record time of 2:17:18 in the Chicago Marathon on 13 October 2002, [ 76 ] breaking the previous record by a minute and a half.

  6. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    The women's vault record has been advanced 9 times indoors by three different women, each ratified as a world record. The last record to be set indoors was in 2004. Sergey Bubka 's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect.

  7. Brigid Kosgei - Wikipedia

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    She won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the 2021 Tokyo Marathon. Kosgei was the marathon world record holder for women running in a mixed-sex race, with a time of 2:14:04 achieved on 13 October 2019 at the Chicago Marathon. [2] She won the silver medal in the marathon event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

  8. Grete Waitz - Wikipedia

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    Cooksey won the San Diego Half Marathon on 26 Aug in 1:15:04. [9] Waitz' winning time there was a world record. During 1978, the world record in the women's marathon was 2:34:47.5 set on 10 September 1977 by Christa Vahlensieck at the Berlin Marathon. [10] In 1981, the 1978 NYC course was remeasured and found 151 meters short.

  9. Joyciline Jepkosgei - Wikipedia

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    Joyciline Jepkosgei (born 8 December 1993) [1] is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000 metres to the marathon.She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with her personal best of 64:51 minutes, and additionally the former world record holder in the 10 km with 29:43 minutes.