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Ruth Chepngetich smashed the world record by nearly two minutes at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, winning in 2:09:56.
Chepng'etich broke the world record set by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:53 last year. Chepng'etich is now the first woman in history to run a marathon in under 2:10.
Chepng'etich is the 2019 world champion in the marathon, and is a three time winner of the Chicago Marathon, having won in 2021, 2022 and 2024, where she set the world record. [3] She is the first woman to break the 2:11 and 2:10 barriers in the marathon, [ 3 ] and also holds the sixth-fastest women's mark of all time for the half marathon, at ...
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich obliterated the women’s marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday as she completed the course in 2:09:56, becoming the first ever woman to break the 2:10 barrier.
Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref. Video 100 m: 11.35 A (+0.3 m/s) Maximilla Imali: 28 April 2022 Kenyan Championships: Nairobi, Kenya 11.19 A (+0.3 m/s) Maximilla Imali: 25 June 2022 Kenyan World Championships and Commonwealth Games Trials Nairobi, Kenya 200 m: 23.37 (+0.5 m/s) Ruth Waithera: 8 August 1984 Olympic Games: Los Angeles, United ...
Ruth Chepngetich (KEN) 2022-10-09 ... Masters W85 marathon world record progression; References This page was last edited on 2 January 2025, at 20:18 (UTC). Text is ...
Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya smashed the world record by nearly two minutes at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, winning in 2:09:56.
For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...