World-record holder Ruth Chepngetich and reigning champion Peres Jepchirchir have withdrawn from the London Marathon, organizers said Friday, less than two weeks before the race. Kenyan ...

World record holder Ruth Chepngetich has pulled out of the London Marathon along with defending champion Peres Jepchirchir. Kenya's Chepngetich, 30, became the first woman to clock a sub-two hour ...

Women's marathon world record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, and reigning London Marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir have withdrawn ... 9:56 minutes to win the 2024 Chicago Marathon last October.“ ...

Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa smashed the women-only world record by 26 seconds at the TCS London Marathon, running 2:15:50* to win the World Athletics Platinum Label road race on Sunday (27). The Olympic ...

Assefa beat the previous record, set by Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya in London last year, by 26 seconds. Jepkosgei finished second with 2023 winner and Olympic champion Sifan Hassan in third.

She crossed the finish line in two hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds, beating the previous women’s-only record of 2:16:16 set last year in London by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir, and said the blazing ...

The 28-year-old clocked two hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds to finally finish on the top of the podium after collecting silver at last year's edition - where Peres Jepchirchir had set the previous ...

Assefa clocked an unofficial 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds, breaking the women’s only world record of 2:16:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir at the 2024 London ... a 2:02:05 to win in Valencia, ...

Assefa clocked an unofficial 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds, breaking the women's only world record of 2:16:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir ... a 2:02:05 to win in Valencia, Spain, in his ...