World marathon file holder Ruth Chepng’etich and girls’s solely world file holder Peres Jepchirchir are amongst elite athletes who will probably be in rivalry on this yr’s London Marathon on April 21.
Chepng’etich will probably be competing in her first marathon since smashing the world file in October final yr, clocking 2:09:56 to win the Chicago Marathon for the third time.
She consequently made historical past as the primary feminine runner to clock a sub-2:10 within the 42km.
Then again, Jepchirchir will probably be again to motion since a disappointing marketing campaign on the Paris Olympics in August final yr.
She clocked 2:26:51 to complete a disappointing fifteenth within the girls’s race, and relinquish her title, received three years earlier in Tokyo.
A profitable defence of her London Marathon title will probably be simply what the physician ordered, so far as amending her disappointing outing in Paris is anxious.
Nonetheless, it will not be a stroll within the park for the Kenyan duo who should take care of the specter of the indefatigable, towering determine of Sifan Hassan.
The Dutchwoman has taken to the highway races as a fish to water, storming to victory in her debut in London after clocking 2:18:33.
The 31-year-old the wrapped up her 2023 in one of the simplest ways potential, timing 2:13:44 to win the Chicago Marathon.
Final yr started on an underwhelming observe, clocking 2:18:05 to complete fourth within the Tokyo Marathon.
Nevertheless, her Paris Olympic marketing campaign confirmed why she deserves to function within the Best of All Time (G.O.A.T) conversations when she saved the very best for final with victory within the girls’s 42km.
Hassan overcame an elite area that included Boston Marathon champion Hellen Obiri, Jepchirchir, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa and Sharon Lokedi, amongst others, to cross the end line first in 2:22:55.
April’s occasion guarantees to be the newest episode in what is popping out to be cutthroat competitors within the girls’s 42km.
