Current:Home > FinanceKiptum sets world marathon record in Chicago in 2:00:35, breaking Kipchoge’s mark-InfoLens
Kiptum sets world marathon record in Chicago in 2:00:35, breaking Kipchoge’s mark
View Date:2024-12-23 10:25:50
CHICAGO (AP) — Kelvin Kiptum set a world record in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 35 seconds to shatter fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge’s old mark by 34 seconds.
Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands also took advantage of cool and cloudy weather that’s considered ideal for a marathon to win the women’s race in 2:13:44 — the second-fastest ever for a woman at the 26.2-mile distance.
Kiptum won the London Marathon in the spring in 2:01:25 and shaved almost a minute off the world record set last year in Berlin by Kipchoge, a two-time Olympic champion and the most successful marathoner ever. Kipchoge also broke the 2 hour mark in 2019 in a specially designed Vienna exhibition that does not qualify for the world record.
Hassan’s time is second behind the women’s world record of 2:11:53 set last month in Berlin by Tigist Assefa of Ethiopia. Assefa shattered the women’s world record by more than two minutes.
More than 47,000 runners took part in Sunday’s event.
veryGood! (32223)
Related
- Ryan Reynolds Makes Dream Come True for 9-Year-Old Fan Battling Cancer
- Indiana sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot man, 19, who shot at them, state police say
- Michigan State Board chair allegations represent 'serious breach of conduct,' Gov. Whitmer says
- White House scraps plan for B-52s to entertain at state dinner against backdrop of Israel-Hamas war
- A crowd of strangers brought 613 cakes and then set out to eat them
- USPS touts crackdown on postal crime, carrier robberies, with hundreds of arrests
- California Gov. Newsom has rare friendly exchange with China’s senior diplomat Wang Yi
- Savannah Chrisley Pens Message to Late Ex Nic Kerdiles One Month After His Death
- Gavin Rossdale Makes Rare Public Appearance With Girlfriend Xhoana Xheneti
- Hungary hosts international training for military divers who salvage unexploded munitions
Ranking
- Jake Paul's only loss led him to retool the team preparing him to face Mike Tyson
- Nichole Coats’ Cause of Death Revealed After Model Was Found Dead in Los Angeles Apartment
- Winners and losers of NBA opening night: Nuggets get rings, beat Lakers; Suns top Warriors
- The Real Reason Summer House's Carl Radke Called Off Lindsay Hubbard Wedding
- The White Stripes drop lawsuit against Donald Trump over 'Seven Nation Army' use
- Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson's four-game unnecessary roughness suspension reduced
- Hunter Biden prosecutor wasn’t blocked from bringing California charges, US attorney tells Congress
- TikToker Sofia Hart Details Rare Heart Condition That's Left Her With No Pulse
Recommendation
-
Ready-to-eat meat, poultry recalled over listeria risk: See list of affected products
-
China said the US is a disruptor of peace in response to Pentagon report on China’s military buildup
-
Diamondbacks shock Phillies in NLCS Game 7, advance to first World Series since 2001
-
ESPN's Pat McAfee pays Aaron Rodgers; he's an accomplice to Rodgers' anti-vax poison
-
Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials
-
Facing dementia without a diagnosis is crushing. A new program in Kenya offers help
-
Tyson Fury continues treading offbeat career path with fight against former UFC star Francis Ngannou
-
China replaces defense minister, out of public view for 2 months, with little explanation