30-year-old Ruth Chepngetich ran to a crushing world marathon record during the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. – I am very proud of myself, and proud of the victory and the record. This is a dream come true and I have fought hard for it. I am very grateful, says the recent world record holder to NBC With a time of 2.09.56, she became the first woman under two hours and ten minutes and beat the previous world record by almost two minutes. – It’s absolutely raw. I’m so grown up that I remember the first woman under 2.20 and under 2.15, says news’s athletics expert Vebjørn Rodal. – It is a fast course and there must have been good conditions. Nevertheless, it is almost incomprehensible fast, says Rodal. – Is this as if a man were to run under two hours? – Yes, at least. That’s close to three minutes per kilometer, 42 times on the rap. It is unbelievably strong, says Rodal. ATHLETICS EXPERT: Vebjørn Rodal follows athletics closely for news. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB – Almost like watching someone land on the moon Tigist Assefa from Ethiopia held the previous world record for women with a time of 2.11.53, set in Berlin last autumn. Kenyan Chepngetich previously had a personal record of 2.14.18, from the Chicago Marathon in 2022. – It’s almost like watching someone land on the moon, NBC’s commentator Carrie Tollefson said, according to athletics journalist Jonathan Gault. – This was a sick time – almost too good to be true. An insane achievement. In Norway, only Sondre (Nordstad Moen) beats this time on a good day, says Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal – who has announced a marathon commitment for next year – to news. news’s athletics commentator Jann Post also thinks the record race is almost incomprehensible. – It is perhaps the wildest long-distance race I have ever seen, regardless of gender and distance. It was not many years ago that this had been a Norwegian record for men. It’s completely crazy, says Post. – She also did it the hard way. She opened so hard and I was sure it was going to end in a crash. But she resisted. She pushes the boundaries of what was thought possible quite far. It is incomprehensibly good. I can’t quite understand how it went, he says, and continues: – She passed 10 kilometers faster (30.14) than Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal has run (30.52). It really shouldn’t work. It came a bit out of the blue, says Post. At the press conference after the race, Chepngetich, who trains herself, says that she was scared by the speed, but that she followed the plan. – My plan was to run 2.09-2.10. It was my dream and it has come true, she says. Had finished tenth in the men’s class Chepngetich’s new record time is only nine minutes and 21 seconds slower than the world record for men, which the now deceased Kelvin Kiptum set in Chicago last year, with a time of 2:00.35. – This world record is for Kelvin Kiptum. Maybe he could have taken the world record here, she says to NBC. John Korir won the men’s class in this year’s Chicago Marathon with a time of 2.02.44. Only nine men were faster than Chepngetich in Sunday’s race. In the women’s class, Sutume Asefa Kebede was the closest to Chepngetich. Kebede finished in a time of 2.17.32. Ingrid Kristiansen holds the Norwegian record for women with a time of 2.21.06 from 1985, which was also a world record at the time. Only two Norwegian men, Sondre Nordstad Moen (2.05.48) and Zerei Kbrom Mezngi (2.07.10) have run under two hours and ten minutes in the marathon. In addition, Weldu Negash Gebretsadik has a personal marathon record of 2.09.14 from 2014. He has represented Norway since August 2018. Published 13.10.2024, at 16.56 Updated 13.10.2024, at 18.53
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