Jepchirchir smashes women’s-only world record to win London Marathon

Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya smashed the marathon world record for a women’s-only competition when she stormed to the finish of the London Marathon in 2:16.16. The category requires that a course be run without any male athletes in competition on the course and is tracked separately than the standard women’s record, set at 2:11.53 by Tigist Assefa of …

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Dubai marathon: Tigist Ketema runs fastest marathon debut in history

25-year-old Ethiopian Tigist Ketema won the Dubai marathon in 2:16.07 this morning (Jan. 7), setting a new world record for fastest marathon debut. Ketema’s time, which shaved over a minute off the course record, surpasses Letesenbet Gidey’s debut time of 2:16.49, set in Valencia in 2022. It also makes her the eighth-fastest woman in history. Formerly a middle-distance runner, Ketema …

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Sifan Hassan runs second fastest time in history to win Chicago Marathon

Sifan Hassan outpaced back-to-back defending champion Ruth Chepngetich to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 8. Her time of 2:13:44 beats the course record and one-time world record of 2:14.04, set in 2019 by Brigid Kosgei. Hassan, of the Netherlands, would be the new world record holder were it not for Tigist Assefa’s stunning 2:11.53 set in Berlin two …

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Tigist Assefa smashes world marathon record by over two minutes

Ethiopian Tigist Assefa smashed the women’s world marathon record as she won the Berlin marathon in 2:11.53 on Sunday (Sept. 24). That time is over two minutes shorter than the previous record of 2:14.04, set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei in Chicago in 2019. The race was only 26-year-old Assefa’s third competitive marathon. A former 800m specialist and Olympian, Assefa also …

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Katie O’Brien Wins Gold- Weekend Roundup

KPMG Women’s Irish Open- Maguire and Walsh Miss Out The Irish Women’s Open returned to the Ladies’ European Tour after a ten-year hiatus. Ireland’s Leona Maguire made a remarkable comeback from a difficult beginning which had left her ten shots behind, but missed making the 14-under-par required to make it into the play-off by just one shot. This left a …

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