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Ruth Chepng'etich

Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1994)

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Ruth Chepng'etich: Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1994)
Ruth Chepng'etich is a Kenyan road runner who is the current women's world record holder in the marathon, with a time of 2:09:56 set at the 2024 Chicago Marathon. She is the 2019 world champion in the marathon, and is a three time winner of the Chicago Marathon, having won in 2021, 2022 and 2024, where she set the world record. Chepng'etich is the first woman to break the 2:11 and 2:10 barriers in the marathon, and also holds the sixth-fastest women's mark of all time for the half marathon, at 1 hour 4 minutes and 2 seconds which was at lstanbul Half-Marathon.

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World record holder Chepngetich to run London Marathon

world record holder chepngetich to run london marathon
Women's world record holder Ruth Chepngetich, of Kenya, is set to race in the London Marathon on 27 April.
BBC Sport - Published
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