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Peres Jepchirchir (born 27 September 1993) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner who competes mainly in road running competitions. She won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics .
Peres Jepchirchir was the women's winner of the 2024 London Marathon, and her time of two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds broke the women's only world record (that is, the world record for the fastest time by a female marathon runner without using male pace makers).
It was billed as a harder race to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won ...
Chepngetich will be joined in London by Dutch Olympic champion Sifan Hassan and compatriot Peres Jepchirchir, who holds the women-only marathon world record. Peres set a time of two hours, 16 ...
The women's marathon event at the 2020 Summer Olympics started at 06:00 on 7 August 2021 in Sapporo. [1] Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won gold in 2:27:20 followed by world record holder and Kenyan teammate Brigid Kosgei with silver, and American Molly Seidel winning the bronze medal in her third-ever marathon.
As a child in western Kenya, Peres Jepchirchir ran more than 3 kilometres to get to school each day. And it was as serious as it gets at the women's marathon in the Japanese city of Sapporo on ...
The IAAF has since 2011 also kept records for the fastest time run by women in women-only races (i.e. without male pacemakers). The best time for that category is held by Peres Jepchirchir, who ran 1:05:16 in Gdynia on 17 October 2020. There was some criticism of this change, as the IAAF originally intended to downgrade world records set in ...
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