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10 Fastest Marathoners on Record-Eligible Course: Women Runner Finish Time Pace/Mile Marathon Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya) 2:09:56 4:57.4 Chicago, 2024 Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) 2:11:53 5:01.8 Berlin, 2023 Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) 2:13:44 5:06.0 Chicago, 2023 Br...
Romania’s Natalia Marasescu took another chunk out of the record with a time of 4:23.8 in 1977, before lowering her record to 4:22.09 in 1979. Three Records for Mary Slaney As the mile record was being re-written throughout the ‘70s, a future star was rising in the U.S. Mark...
wasn't downhearted when he realised he might never set a world record on his own."I knew I would have to try as part of a team. I had an idea and rang the Guinness Book of Records to ask whether there was a record for the fastest half marathon run by 13 people - one mile each...
As long as a joggler returns to spot of a drop before continuing, the record is valid. But the distance record is different. If there’s a drop, the attempt is over, whether that’s one mile in or 20 miles in. Another tricky element of this attempt is that a runner cannot accept...
01 hours in October, as he took the Chicago Marathon title in 2:00:35, breaking the previous record of 2:01:09 set by his compatriot Eliud Kipchoge in Berlin in 2022. The rising Kenyan also won the London Marathon in April and was named World Athletes of the Year for 2023 by World ...
Berlin Marathon, annual 26.2-mile (42.2-km) footrace through the streets of Berlin that traditionally takes place in late September. The Berlin Marathon is considered to have the fastest course of the world’s six major marathons—a group that also inclu
Four days south of the Equator she fell behind Joyon’s time for the first time, but when she recrossed that line on day 60, she had made up enough time to be 10 hr 50 min ahead of his record. MacArthur reached France to complete the 44,012-km (27,348-mile) journey through the...
ZURICH, Switzerland —Mary Decker Slaney broke the world record for the women’s mile Wednesday with a time of 4 minutes 16.71 seconds. The Weltklasse meet at Letzigrund Stadium was also marked by Said Aouita of Morocco running the second fastest mile in history and Carl Lewis finishing fourth...
When completed, it’ll cover a very generous 70 square kilometers (27 square miles) – although that’s still less than a tenth of the land area of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International. Saudi Arabia will be holding onto that world record for a while yet. ...