Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands ran the second-fastest girls’s marathon of all time on Sunday morning in Chicago, smashing the course file by 30 seconds to complete in 2:13:44.
Hassan has displayed an unparalleled vary within the final 12 months, taking bronze within the 1,500m and silver within the 5,000m on the World Athletics Championships, simply six weeks earlier than racing her second marathon in Chicago. Defending champion Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya completed second, in 2:15:37, and Ethiopia’s Megertu Alemu rounded out the rostrum in 2:17:09.
Hassan, who can also be the Olympic gold medallist in each the 5,000m and the ten,000m, made her marathon debut earlier this 12 months on the London Marathon, the place she managed to tug off the win in 2:18:33, regardless of stopping to stretch and having challenges along with her fuelling.
AREA RECORD
🇳🇱’s @SifanHassan storms to the second quickest girls’s marathon in historical past as she wins the @ChiMarathon in 2:13:44 🔥
That is in fact an space file in simply the second marathon of her professionđź‘Ź pic.twitter.com/AsespTN7zi
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 8, 2023
Hassan and two-time Chicago Marathon champ Chepngetich set a blistering tempo from the beginning, hitting the 10K mark at 31:05–a exceptional 40 seconds sooner than world-record holder Tigist Assefa, two weeks in the past on the Berlin Marathon. Whereas Hassan dropped again by a couple of seconds on the midway mark, she was again on observe by 25K, and with Chepngetich beginning to flag, set out determinedly for the win.
COURSE RECORD: In her U.S. marathon debut, Sifan Hassan takes the @BankofAmerica #ChicagoMarathon course file in an unofficial time of two:13:38! Superb efficiency Sifan! pic.twitter.com/0h7nxb50dy
— Chicago Marathon (@ChiMarathon) October 8, 2023
By 35 km, Hassan was 31 seconds forward of Chepngetich and effectively below the course file; like Kelvin Kiptum in his beautiful world-record-breaking efficiency, the Dutch runner was alone after the 30 km mark. She smashed the course file by 40 seconds, operating the second quickest marathon in historical past, second solely to Assefa, who reset the world file to 2:11:53 in Berlin.
Hassan’s course file (smashing the earlier course set by Brigid Kosgei in 2019, which on the time was a brand new world file) can also be a European file, smashing that smashing that set by Paula Radcliffe in 2003 by greater than two minutes. Hassan now holds each girls’s European file from the 1,500m to the marathon.
Is a world file in her future? Pre-race, she informed the media that, whereas Chicago is thought for its quick course, her marathon potential has not been realized. “That is just the start for me. I nonetheless haven’t accomplished a full marathon construct.”
Sifan Hassan did a exercise instantly after her 1,500m ultimate
American girls took three of the highest 10 finishes, with nationwide file holder Emily Sisson operating 2:22:09–not a PB, however adequate for seventh place and the quickest time amongst American girls. (Final 12 months, Sisson turned the third American girl ever to interrupt 2:20, ending second to Chepngetich in 2:18:29.)
Fan favorite and Olympic bronze medallist Molly Seidel adopted Sisson, operating a PB in 2:23:07. Seidel was paced by high Canadian distance runner Rory Linkletter.
High 10 girls
Sifan Hassan (NED) 2:13:44
Ruth Chepngetich (KEN) 2:15:37
Megertu Alemu (ETH) 2:17:09
Joyciline Jepkosgei (KEN) 2:17:23
Tadu Teshome Nare (ETH) 2:20:04
Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (ETH) 2:21:47
Emily Sisson (USA) 2:22:09<
Molly Seidel (USA) 2:23:07
Rose Harvey (GBR) 2:23:21
Sara Vaughn (USA) 2:23:24
There have been no elite Canadian girls at this 12 months’s race.
Swiss athletes Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner swept the wheelchair division, setting new course data of 1:22:37 and 1:38:44. Hug toppled his personal course file from 2022 of 1:25:20, whereas Debrunner fought defending champion Susannah Scaroni (who completed in ) in a dash to the end.
For our males’s race recap, head right here. For full outcomes of the race, head right here.
