“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 document holder Ruth Chepngetich have all been contracted to run the TCS London Marathon on Sunday, April 27, organizers introduced final night time.
Hassan, a Dutchwoman, received the Paris 2024 Olympic Marathon in a Video games document 2:22:55. She out-sprinted then world document holder Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia who completed three seconds behind. Hassan additionally received bronze medals within the 5000m and 10,000m on the Paris Video games, an unprecedented triple for a girl.
“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 accomplished that, I might really feel nice as we speak. From the start to the top, it was so arduous.”
Hassan received the TCS London Marathon in 2023, additionally in a dash end, in her debut marathon. She has a private finest of two:13:44, the European document and the third-fastest of all time.
Jepchirchir, a Kenyan, received 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 document, 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, received final October’s Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon in a jaw-dropping 2:09:56, a world document. 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 all the time brings collectively the most effective athletes on the earth and I’m positive this 12 months can be as aggressive as ever,” Chepngetich stated via a press release. “Myself, Peres and the opposite ladies are robust, so it is going to be a aggressive one and I need to put together as finest as I can and we’ll see if we are able to decrease Peres’s world document of two:16:16 from final 12 months. With the energy of the sphere, I feel we are able to assist one another and possibly the world document will fall.”
Actually, the three ladies may have Paula Radcliffe’s absolute London Marathon ladies’s document of two:15:25 in thoughts, a mark set in a mixed-sex race in 2003.
“Ruth’s world document on the Chicago Marathon final 12 months was an unbelievable efficiency that re-defined what is feasible in ladies’s marathon working,” stated 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 ladies’s solely world document holder Peres Jepchirchir right here in London in what can be one of many nice marathon contests.”
The TCS London Marathon is a part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors, the premiere collection of world marathons. The race reported a document 53,790 finishers in 2024 making it the fourth-largest marathon on the earth.
