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London Marathon 2024 results: Peres Jepchirchir breaks women’s only world record
The sphere for the ladies’s race was thought-about among the best ever assembled with three of the 4 quickest girls in historical past competing.
They have been on observe for ladies’s solely report – a report for a marathon run on a course with none male athletes within the race – all through with the main pack instantly placing distance between themselves and the remainder of the sphere.
When the lead group started to skinny it was Jepchirchir, Assefa, Jepkosgei and Alemu left standing.
They stayed collectively till Jepchirchir kicked for residence in the previous few hundred metres and the 30-year-old Kenyan was capable of see off Assefa to win in London for the primary time.
“I’m feeling grateful. I’m so comfortable for the victory. I used to be not anticipating to run a world report – I knew it is perhaps beat however I didn’t anticipate it to be me,” Jepchirchir instructed BBC Sport.
“I knew the historical past and the women have been sturdy. I used to be working further exhausting. My time was decrease however I’ve come good at this time and set a PB.
“I’m so comfortable to qualify for the Olympics and I really feel grateful. I am comfortable to be at Paris and my prayer is to be there and run properly to defend my title. I do know it will not be straightforward however I will attempt my finest.”
Mhairi MacLennan was the primary British finisher in eleventh place.
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