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For a performance to be ratified as a world record by World Athletics, the marathon course on which the performance occurred must be 42.195 km (26.219 mi) long, [34] measured in a defined manner using the calibrated bicycle method [35] (the distance in kilometers being the official distance; the distance in miles is an approximation) and meet other criteria that rule out artificially fast ...
Kipchoge won the 2019 London Marathon in a time of 2:02:37, the second fastest marathon ever at that time, behind his 2018 Berlin Marathon win. [85] He became the first man to win the event four times and set a new course record, beating his own 2016 London Marathon best by 28 seconds. [86] The lead runner passed the half marathon mark in 1:01: ...
2023 Chicago. Marathon. Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot (2 December 1999 – 11 February 2024) was a Kenyan long-distance runner who currently holds the marathon world record. As of 2024, he holds three of the seven fastest marathons in history, [ 5 ] and was ranked first among the world's men's marathon runners at the time of his death.
Kiptum had immediate success by running the fastest time ever by a marathon debutant at the 2022 Valencia Marathon. The following year, he won the London and Chicago races, two of the most ...
Aurèle Vandendriessche won back-to-back marathons in 1963 and 1964. Ron Hill set a course record at the 1970 Boston Marathon. Bill Rodgers won the race four times between 1975 and 1980. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won the race four times, and set two course records. Geoffrey Mutai holds the current course record, 2:03:02, set in 2011.
sporthive.com. 20 October 2019. Retrieved 1 March2023. ^"Gebrselassie Clocks 2:04:30 Spanish All-comers Record at Valencia". IAAF. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December2018. ^"Abdi wins Rotterdam Marathon in European record of 2:03:36".
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. ... Chepngetich’s time of 2:09:56 smashed the previous ...
He made an explosive entry into the full 42.195km distance by running the then fourth fastest time on record (2.01.53) to win the 2022 Valencia Marathon on debut.