London Marathon 2024: All results and times as women's-only world record broken
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London Marathon 2024 results: Peres Jepchirchir breaks women's only world record
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir storms to victory in a women's only world-record time of two hours 16 minutes and 16 seconds at the London Marathon.
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London Marathon: Peres Jepchirchir breaks record as elite runners secure Olympic places – video
Peres Jepchirchir sprinted clear of three rivals to claim the women’s-only world record, finishing with a time of 2hr 16min 16sec. After the race, Jepchirchir said: 'I was not expecting to run a world record – I knew it might be beaten but I did not expect it to be me.' Jepchirchir's performance was also enough to secure her place at Paris 2024, an achievement also claimed by the men's elite winner Alexander Mutiso Munyao and Britain’s Emile Cairess who finished in third. ‘I’ve come good...
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Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir wins London Marathon women’s elite race and breaks women’s-only world record
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...