The London marathon, on April 27, will showcase the first face to face confrontation between the Olympic women’s gold medalists for decades.
The female elite field includes the Olympic champion of Paris Sifan Hassan in the Netherlands, the Olympic champion of Tokyo Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and the holder of the Ruth Chepngetich world record of Kenya.
More Ethiopian Tigst Assefa, which means that the field includes the three fastest women in history: Chepngetich (2:09:56), Assefa (2:11:53) and Hassan (2:13:44).
Hassan and Jepchirchir would be the first gold medalists of the Olympic female marathon to run on 26.2 miles since the Ethiopian Fatuma Roba and the Valentina Yegorova Russian went to one to the Nagano 2004 marathon in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan in Japan , according to Tilastopaja.
In Paris, Hassan won the gold marathon after bronze in 5000m and 10,000m. She became the second person to win a medal in the three longest races at the Olympic Games after the Czech Emil Zátopek, who won the three in 1952.
Hassan won the London marathon in 2023 when he started at the distance.
“London is also the place where I learned to be patient, to trust myself and to continue to push even when it seems impossible,” She said in a press release. “It is a place where I grew up, not only as an athlete, but as a person.”
Jepchirchir is the only person to win the Olympic, Boston and New York marathons during a career. She did it in eight months in 2021 and 2022.
On October 13, Chepngetich lowered the world record to 2:09:56, becoming the first woman to beat 2:10 in the marathon and breaking the previous Asfa record of 1:57.
The male field of the London marathon includes the Olympic gold medalist from Paris Tamirat tola of Ethiopia, as well as the Olympic and global bronze medalist of 10,000m Jacob Kiplimo in Uganda during his 26.2 miles beginnings.
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