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Women Cross country running: 30.00 (8.08 km) Aruna Devi Waishram: 18 March 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships: Vilamoura, Portugal 23.31 (6.425 km) Poonam Taneja: 24 March 1991 IAAF World Cross Country Championships: Antwerp, Belgium 18.49 (5.05 km) Suman Rawat: 22 March 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships: Warsaw, Poland
The inaugural marathon was held on 15 May 2005 as the "Lipton Bangalore International Marathon". [1] [2] Organized by Crossover Consulting, the full marathon race had about 200 participants, with about 400 runners joining the half marathon, and 15,000 taking part in the 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) Celebration Run.
Kinzang Lhamo of Bhutan was the final runner to cross the finish line in the women's marathon, showing what it truly means to be an Olympic athlete.
Rabea Schöneborn (born 13 March 1994) [1] [2] is a German long-distance runner.She competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland, running a time of 1:12:35.
At the 2022 and 2024 TCS London Marathon she was the Elite Women’s Pacemaker. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2023, she ran a time of 2:25:01 at the Valencia Marathon , breaking the Welsh record and achieving the Paris Olympics qualification time.
New Bedford Half-Marathon comes back strong after pandemic. Shut down in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid concerns, the New Bedford Half-Marathon took a big step forward on Sunday by cracking 2,000 entries.
Letesenbet is the first athlete ever, male or female, to hold the 5000m, 10000m, and half marathon world records, simultaneously. Letesenbet holds the current world record in the half marathon, which she set in October of 2021. Remarkably, this was Letesenbet's first ever half marathon. Her record broke the previous mark by more than a minute.
She finished 19th in the half marathon at the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga. [2] [3] In March 2024, she was selected for the World Cross Country Championships in Serbia. [4] She ran at the African Athletics Championships in June 2024 over 1500 metres, qualifying for the final, and placing eighth overall. [5] [6]