PUMA PROJECT3 runners smash virtually three hours off their information and win greater than £58,000 in prize cash!
Contemporary off the again of the success on the Boston Marathon, PUMA’s Project3 contributors made waves as they shaved a mixed 2 hours, 51 minutes and 19 seconds off their collective private finest occasions on the 2025 London Marathon.
Ninety runners from 9 international locations raced throughout the capital sporting the newly launched Quick-R NITRO™ Elite 3, producing staggering leads to the method.
A complete of 39 runners set a private finest, with 23 of them besting their earlier finest by over three minutes, making them eligible for a $3000 money prize from Puma. In whole, PUMA can pay out $78,000 to Project3 runners.
It was a day to recollect for Lucy Jones, who completed first within the mass participation discipline, recording a time of two:30:23, whereas knocking a mindblowing 22 minutes and 31 seconds off her earlier marathon report. This consequence means she is going to take residence a complete prize of $9000 because the quickest Project3 feminine, breaking her earlier report by greater than three minutes and being the Project3 runner with the most important time enchancment.
Lucy Jones
The quickest male runner, Kevin Salvano, accomplished the course in 2:13:03, ending 18th total.
Kevin Salvano
Reid mentioned: “I went off at 2:33 tempo, discovered a pleasant rhythm and acquired to the midway level feeling allright. Then once I acquired to twenty miles feeling good, so I mentioned, ‘proper, let’s shut it’. I’m so pleased with the brand new PB. I wasn’t working competitively final yr, was a bit naïve and went out too onerous, which wasn’t as enjoyable. I knew if I ran smarter, I may take a while off my PB, however I actually didn’t anticipate that in any respect. The Quick-R NITRO™ Elite 3 had been unbelievably fast, they swimsuit me very well.”
One other athlete recording a private finest within the new Quick-R sneakers was Christa Cain of the Isle of Man. With a 2:37:25, she additionally recorded a brand new ladies’s Isle of Man report.
The sneakers have just lately been the topic of a research, the place outcomes indicated they might be as much as 3.15% extra environment friendly than competitor supershoes.
In January, PUMA launched Project3, a first-of-its-kind international working program that supplied contributors of the 2025 Boston and London Marathons the chance to expertise life as knowledgeable athlete and trial the Quick-R NITRO™ Elite 3, with the possibility to financial institution large performance-based money prizes.
Early this week, Puma Project3 runners achieved extra private bests on the Boston Marathon.
Project3 contributors shaved a complete of 1 hour, 51 minutes and 46 seconds off their private information on the Boston race and took residence a mixed $54,000 in prize cash as a part of the model’s trailblazing mission.
Debuting the Quick-R NITRO™ Elite 3, a complete of 90 runners from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, France, Spain, UK, Eire, Sweden, China and Indonesia, toed the road on the world’s most prestigious working race, and had been rewarded with a sensational variety of PBs.
Of the 90 runners competing, 30 beat their earlier information, with 15 smashing their information by over three minutes, making them eligible for the $3000 money prize.
Joseph Whelan
The quickest male, Joseph Whalen (2:12:16), completed in 20th total and knocked 1 minute 23 seconds off his PB, whereas Kylee Raftis (2:34:41) completed because the quickest feminine and took an unimaginable 4 minutes 4 seconds off her earlier finest. Perhaps most impressively, Manuel Diaz Callejero (2:33:35) smashed his earlier report by a mind-blowing 11 minutes and 41 seconds.
Kylee Raftis
Different notable wins got here within the males’s open division, the place PUMA Project3 runners completed in first and second place, in addition to taking residence first within the males’s masters division. In whole, three Project3 contributors completed within the males’s prime 25.
There have been additionally report highs for PUMA’s elite runners, with Annie Frisbie (2:23:21) obliterating her earlier PR by 2 minutes and 57 seconds, and Rory Linkletter (2:07:02), who completed 6th total and shaved 59 seconds off his earlier finest time.
