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Marathon world record progression. The late Kelvin Kiptum during his world record run at the 2023 Chicago marathon with 2:00:35. Mary Keitany during her women-only world record run at the 2017 London Marathon with 2:17:01. World records in the marathon are ratified by World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of athletics ...
Fiona Oakes. Fiona Oakes (born 1 August 1966) is a British distance runner who holds four world records for marathon running. [1][2][3][4][5] In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon. She runs despite losing a kneecap due to a tumour when she was 17. [6][7] Oakes has been vegan since she was 6 years old. [8]
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [2] She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985.
On Sunday, we saw the fastest marathon ever run by a woman, while a hometown hero helped to equalize a 50-year record in the MLB playoffs. That’s not to mention a WNBA Finals record being broken ...
Lexi Chambers broke the world record for the fastest marathon in a non-racing wheelchair (female). Here is a list of the 18 Guinness World Records achieved at 2022’s London Marathon, from 34 ...
Kiptum, whose record was officially confirmed last week by World Athletics, ran the first sub-two-hour, one-minute marathon in an official race at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. He came just 35 ...
Commonwealth Games. 2002 Manchester. 5000 m. Paula Jane Radcliffe MBE (born 17 December 1973) is a British former long-distance runner. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005 World Champion in the Marathon from ...
The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the fastest marathon time by a female runner without male pace makers – set by Mary Keitany in 2017 by 45 seconds. ... I was not expecting to run a ...