Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya celebrates after crossing the end line to win the 2024 Chicago Marathon with a brand new world document time of two:09:56 at Grant Park in Chicago on Sunday.
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Kenyan runner Ruth Chepngetich shattered the ladies’s marathon world document with loads of time to spare.
She completed the Chicago Marathon in 2:09:56 on Sunday, slashing virtually 2 minutes off the earlier world document.
The 30-year-old is the primary lady to run the 26.2 mile-distance in underneath 2 hours and 10 minutes.
Chepngetich positioned tenth total, with solely 9 males working sooner.
It was a happier ending than her end within the 2022 Chicago race, when she completed simply 14 seconds shy of the ladies’s world document.
“I feel so great,” Chepngetich mentioned after the race. “I’m very proud of myself. This is my dream. I fought a lot, thinking about the world record. The world record has come back to Kenya.”
She devoted her feat to Kelvin Kiptum, a self-coached Kenyan marathon runner who died in a automobile crash earlier this yr at age 24. He pushed the boundaries of long-distance working, and his marathon world document of two:00:35 set in Chicago final yr nonetheless stands.
Fellow Kenyan John Korir, 27, gained the lads’s race on Sunday, coming in at 2:02:43, the second-fastest time ever run in Chicago, behind Kiptum’s document.
