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Istanbul Half Marathon: Kenyan world marathon champion Ruth Chepngetich shaved 29 seconds from the world document, timing 1:04:02.
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Kenya’s 26-year-old world marathon champion Ruth Chepngetich shaved 29 seconds from the world document as she emerged winner in the N Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon — an Elite Label highway race — timing a mind-boggling 1:04:02 on Sunday. In the lads’s class, world-record holder Kibiwott Kandie topped the race with a course document of 59:35, after difficult early chief Benard Ngeno with about 12 minutes remaining. Chepngetich, winner of the occasion in 2017 and 2019, broke away from Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw in the ultimate levels to win by 38 seconds. Hellen Obiri, the two-time world 5,000m champion, was third in 1:04:51. Another document of kinds was created as this was the primary time three ladies completed inside 65 minutes in a half marathon.
This was Chepngetich’s third win in the Turkish metropolis and her third enchancment on the course document. She received the 2017 version in 1:06:19 seconds, got here again strongly in 2019 to win in 1:05:30 and, regardless of all of the disruptions as a result of pandemic in 2020, she returned to win in a world document time.
In the lads’s part, it was anticipated that Kenya’s Kandie would get a tricky competitors from compatriot Geoffrey Kamworor, and the 2 didn’t disappoint, with solely three seconds separating the winner and the second-place finisher.
Results: Women: 1. Ruth Chepngetich (Ken) 1:04:02; 2. Yalemzerf Yehualaw (Eth) 1:04:40; 3. Hellen Obiri (Ken) 1:04:51.
Men: 1. Kibiwott Kandie (Ken) 59:35; 2. Geoffrey Kamworor (Ken) 59:38; 3. Roncer Kipkorir (Ken) 59:46.
