- Ruth Chepnegetich
The talk about when the primary human being would run a marathon in beneath two hours started when the boys have been already a couple of minutes from doing it. The late Kelvin Kiptum, who holds the world file at 2:00:35, was the closest to attaining that in an eligible marathon course. Eliud Kipchoge has already managed a 1:59:40, though not within the supreme marathon race setup.
October 13, 2014
Chicago, Illinois, USA, photograph by Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon / Kevin Morris
The subsequent appreciable debate about when the primary feminine runner would break the sub-2 hours and 10 minutes barrier would in all probability begin some years from now.
Nevertheless, on the streets of Chicago on October thirteenth, Chepngetich caught all the most important corporations on the planet off-guard. They could have been ready for the fitting time to attempt their Ineos 159 second.
In a race the place she crossed the primary half of the race within the quickest time ever run by a lady on US soil for that distance and fifth quickest time ever of 1:04:16, Chepngetich proceeded to run an unbelievable world file of two:09:56 to win the Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon.
- Beatrice Chebet
In a single yr, Chebet achieved what could be a lifetime achievement for any world celebrity. She received two Olympic Gold medals in Paris, broke a world file, and received two world titles: the World Cross Nation and World Highway Working titles.
Chebet’s impeccable 10,000m season started in Eugene when she turned the primary lady to cowl 25 laps of the observe inside 29 minutes. In her third 10,000m race, the Kenyan clocked 28:54.14 to obliterate Letesenbet Gidey’s earlier world file of 29:01.03.
- Agnes Ngetich
On January 14th, Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich lowered the ladies’s 10K World File to twenty-eight:46 in Valencia. The earlier world file was 29:14, set by Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw in February 2022. Ngetich turned the primary lady to run 10km in beneath 29 minutes.
On her approach to the 10K world file, Ngetich crossed the 5K in 14:13, setting a brand new world file for the shorter distance as properly.
Ngetich additionally ran a world-leading time and a Kenyan nationwide file of 1:03:04 for the half marathon on October twenty seventh in Valencia.
- Religion Kipyegon
Kipyegon accomplished an unprecedented feat on the Paris Olympics, profitable three consecutive Olympic gold medals within the girls’s 1500m race.
On the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Kipyegon received her first Olympic gold medal within the 1500m. She turned the third athlete on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to retain an Olympic 1500m title. In attaining the feat on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Kipyegon set a brand new Olympic file of three:51.29 whereas profitable her third consecutive gold medal.
- Emmanuel Wanyonyi
If there was one race that seemed best all through this yr, it was the boys’s 800m. Wanyonyi’s journey, from almost lacking the finals on the Kenyan trials to profitable a gold medal on the Paris Olympics, will need to have been the sweetest victory.
Wanyonyi set three private finest instances to exhibit the competitors degree this yr. He received the Kenyan Trials in 1:41.70. He set one other PB by ending second on the Paris Diamond League in 1:41.58. He then received the Olympic gold in 1:41.19.
Behind him, 2023 World champion Marco Arop of Canada set a North American file of 1:41.20 to take silver. Djamel earned bronze, whereas Bryce Hoppel was fourth in a US file of 1:41.67.
- Mary Moraa
Moraa had a fantastic yr, profitable the Kenyan Olympic Trials, gold within the 400 m on the African Video games, the Diamond League last within the 800m, and a bronze medal on the Olympic Video games in Paris.
Moraa made headlines shortly after her bronze medal win on the Paris Olympics in 2023, breaking the world file for the ladies’s 600 meters at ISTAF in Germany. Her time was 14 hundredths of a second quicker than the earlier file held by Caster Semenya, showcasing her distinctive velocity and expertise in middle-distance operating.
- Sebastian Sawe
After profitable the World Highway Working gold medal in Riga for the half marathon, Sawe closed his spectacular yr on a excessive word after a spectacular run on the Valencia Marathon.
On December 1st, in his marathon debut, Sawe ran the fifth quickest time ever for the marathon distance, registering 2:02:05 for the historic win.
