The ladies’s marathon world file holder, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, is taking over one other marathon main that isn’t Berlin. Assefa has been introduced because the headliner of a world-class ladies’s elite race discipline on the 2024 TCS London Marathon on April 21.
Final September, Assefa ran a staggering two hours, 11 minutes, and 53 seconds on the 2023 Berlin Marathon to take practically two and a half minutes off the earlier file of two:14:04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei, who can also be within the London 2024 discipline. Kosgei has received the London Marathon twice (2019 and 2020) and was a runner-up to her Kenyan compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot in 2018.
The 2019 world marathon champion, Ruth Chepngetich, may even be within the discipline, which suggests three of the 4 quickest ladies in historical past will compete in London. Race director Hugh Brasher stated in a press launch that he believes we’re within the golden age of ladies’s marathon working, and expects Mary Keitany’s women-only world file of two:17:01 to be challenged with this star-studded discipline.
Including extra energy to the elite discipline is the reigning Olympic marathon champion and among the finest tactical feminine marathoners on the earth, Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, who returns from an harm sustained final fall to get in high type earlier than the Paris Olympics.
“I believe that with Assefa, Kosgei, and the likes of Chepngetich, Jepchirchir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw within the discipline, and the place a complete of 10 ladies have run below two hours, 17 minutes and 30 seconds, Keitany’s world file goes to be below critical menace,” Brasher stated in a press launch.
The reigning New York Metropolis Marathon champion, Tamirat Tola, headlines the boys’s discipline. The Ethiopian marathoner and 2022 world champion is at the moment the odds-on favorite to win Olympic gold in Paris, because of his success on powerful marathon programs. He will probably be up towards fellow countrymen Kenenisa Bekele and Mosinet Geremew, the seventh quickest man in historical past. From Kenya, final yr’s second-place finisher, Geoffrey Kamworor leads the way in which. Alexander Mutiso (2:03:11) and 2024 RAK Half-Marathon champ Daniel Mateiko, who will probably be making his marathon debut, will be part of Kamworor on the beginning line. Mateiko is the ninth-fastest of all time over the half-marathon distance and paced the late Kelvin Kiptum throughout his world record-setting run on the 2023 Chicago Marathon.
There are not any Canadian athletes on the boys’s and girls’s elite record for the 2024 London Marathon. You’ll be able to view the total record of elites in London right here.
