Final weekend, Spanish masters runner Jon Arzubialde, threw down a record-setting efficiency at his hometown Zurich San Sebastián Marathon, in San Sebastián, Spain. At a spry 60, Arzubialde not solely completed inside the highest 25 however shattered the Spanish M60+ masters marathon file, crossing the end line in a jaw-dropping two hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds.
🤯 EL ATLETA DEL DÍA: JON ARZUBIALDE
💥 RÉCORD DEL MUNDO M60 DE MARATÓN 💥⏱️ 2:34:06 – Zurich Maratón de San Sebastián.
● ¡A 3:39min/km!
● ¡Con 60 años!
● Anterior WR: 2:36:30 de Yoshihisa Hosaka 🇯🇵
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Zooming by way of the 42.2K course, Arzubialde recorded a median tempo of three minutes and 39 seconds per kilometre, leaving his M60+ competitors within the mud by 18 minutes. He breezed by way of the 10K mark at 36:28 and hit the half marathon level in a swift 1:16:46. In a subject of three,000, he was twenty third general, falling brief solely to girls’s champion Kenya’s Emmah Cheruto Ndiwa, who completed simply forward of Arzubialde in two hours and 31 minutes.
Breaking information is nothing new for Arzubialde. The masters runner holds a number of information within the M55+ class for each the three,000m (9:20.60) and the 100K (7:34:29) distance, proving he’s a drive to be reckoned with throughout numerous distances. Arzubialde advised native reporters that he has come a good distance since he first ran a four-hour marathon at this race when he was 16. His coaching routine consists of runs six days per week, averaging round 70 kilometres.
Sunday’s marathon wasn’t only a notch on Arzubialde’s belt; he was just some minutes shy of the M60+ masters world file of two:30:02, set by Irish Olympian Tommy Hughes in 2020. Hughes broke the earlier file held by Japan’s Yoshinisa Hosaka of two:36:30. Since setting the file, he has run sub-2:32 on three separate events. And get this—he nearly one-upped himself at 62, ending simply three seconds off his mark on the 2022 Manchester Marathon in 2:30:05.
El atleta donostiarra Jon Arzubialde se consagró con el file de maratón de atletas de más de 60 años, este pasado domingo. El corredor guipuzcoano consiguió un magnífico registro de 2:34.06, a una media de 3:39 por km acredita . Zorionak! pic.twitter.com/7agIaYMPyB
— Gipuzkoa Kirolak (@GipuzkoaKirolak) November 28, 2023
Arzubialde is just the second 60-year-old in historical past to run a marathon in beneath 2:35.
