Ruth Chepngetich completely dominated on the streets of Chicago on Sunday morning.
Chepngetich shattered the world document by virtually two minutes on the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. The 30-year-old Kenyan gained the ladies’s marathon in a document time of two:09:56. It marked her third win on the Chicago Marathon within the final 4 years.
Chepngetich broke the world document set by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:53 final 12 months. Chepngetich is now the primary girl in historical past to run a marathon in beneath 2:10.
“I really feel so nice. I’m very pleased with myself,” she mentioned, via The Associated Press. “That is my dream. I fought loads, serious about the world document.”
By comparability, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands gained gold within the girls’s marathon on the Paris Olympics earlier this summer time. She completed with an Olympics document time of two:22:55.
On the lads’s aspect, John Korir gained by almost two full minutes. The Kenyan completed in a time of two:02:44, which beat Ethiopia’s Huseydin Mohamed Esa’s time of two:04:39. Each instances have been considerably quicker than the Olympic document tempo that Tamirat Tola set when he gained the lads’s marathon in Paris.
Each Korir and Chepngetich honored former males’s world document holder Kelvin Kiptum on Sunday. Kiptum gained the Chicago Marathon final 12 months and set the world document by 34 seconds. He and his coach died in a car accident in February after they hit a tree close to a coaching space in Kenya. He was 24.
Kiptum was anticipated to be a significant contender on the Olympics earlier this 12 months, too. He’s the one man to interrupt the two:02 mark in a marathon thrice. He was reportedly trying to turn out to be the primary man to interrupt the two-hour mark on the Rotterdam Marathon in April, too.
“The world document has come again to Kenya,” Chepngetich mentioned, by way of The Related Press. “I dedicate this world document to Kelvin Kiptum.”
CJ Albertson was the highest American on the lads’s aspect, and Susanna Sullivan was the highest American girl within the race. Each completed in seventh.