Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a thrilling London Marathon in a women's-only world record time.
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a thrilling London Marathon in awomen's-only world record time. The Kenyan kicked for home as she turned down The Mall and won the race in 2:16:16, the previous world record for a women-only race was 2:17.01, set by Mary Jepkosgei Keitany in London in 2017. Four runners were in with a shout down the final straight as Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa came home in second , ahead of Kenya's Joyciline Jepkosgei in third , with Megertu Alemu fourth.
Marcel Hug, 38, won the men's wheelchair race for a record fourth consecutive time, clocking in at 1:28:33. It is the fifth time in total the Swiss has won the race. America's Daniel Romanchuk came second, finishing in 1:29:06, while Britain's David Weir was third in his 25th consecutive London Marathon, clocking 1:45:51. The women's wheelchair race was won by a distance by another Swiss, Catherine Debrunner, who broke the course record to win in 2022.
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