“BIG THREE” WOMEN TO RUN TCS LONDON MARATHON
By David Monti, @d9monti
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(15-Jan) — The reigning Olympic champion Sifan Hassan, the 2021 Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir, and present world report holder Ruth Chepngetich have all been contracted to run the TCS London Marathon on Sunday, April 27, organizers introduced final evening.
Hassan, a Dutchwoman, gained the Paris 2024 Olympic Marathon in a Video games report 2:22:55. She out-sprinted then world report holder Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia who completed three seconds behind. Hassan additionally gained bronze medals within the 5000m and 10,000m on the Paris Video games, an unprecedented triple for a lady.
“Each second within the race I used to be regretting that I ran the 5000 and 10,000,” Hassan admitted that day. “I used to be telling myself if I hadn’t finished that, I might really feel nice as we speak. From the start to the top, it was so laborious.”
Hassan gained the TCS London Marathon in 2023, additionally in a dash end, in her debut marathon. She has a private greatest of two:13:44, the European report and the third-fastest of all time.
Jepchirchir, a Kenyan, gained the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathon (held in Sapporo in 2021), and is the reigning London Marathon champion (she was additionally third in 2023). Her 2024 profitable time of two:16:16 was a women-only world report, surpassing the two:17:01 that compatriot Mary Keitany had run in London in 2017. Jepchirchir was additionally the 2021 TCS New York Metropolis Marathon champion and the 2023 World Half-Marathon gold medalist.
Chepngetich, additionally from Kenya, gained final October’s Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon in a jaw-dropping 2:09:56, a world report. Chepngetich, the 2019 world marathon champion, would have completed eleventh had she been entered within the males’s division. Not like Hassan and Jepchirchir, Chepngetich has but to win the London Marathon, ending third in her solely look within the particular COVID-safe version held in October, 2020, in St. James’s Park.
“The TCS London Marathon at all times brings collectively the perfect athletes on the planet and I’m certain this 12 months will likely be as aggressive as ever,” Chepngetich mentioned by way of a press release. “Myself, Peres and the opposite girls are robust, so will probably be a aggressive one and I wish to put together as greatest as I can and we are going to see if we will decrease Peres’s world report of two:16:16 from final 12 months. With the energy of the sector, I believe we will assist one another and possibly the world report will fall.”
Definitely, the three girls could have Paula Radcliffe’s absolute London Marathon girls’s report of two:15:25 in thoughts, a mark set in a mixed-sex race in 2003.
“Ruth’s world report on the Chicago Marathon final 12 months was an unbelievable efficiency that re-defined what is feasible in girls’s marathon operating,” mentioned Spencer Barden, the TCS London Marathon elite athletes chief. “So, we’re delighted to welcome her again to the TCS London Marathon and are very excited to see her tackle the Olympic champion Sifan Hassan, plus final 12 months’s champion and girls’s solely world report holder Peres Jepchirchir right here in London in what will likely be one of many nice marathon contests.”
The TCS London Marathon is a part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, the premiere collection of worldwide marathons. The race reported a report 53,790 finishers in 2024 making it the fourth-largest marathon on the planet.
