Women's marathon 'Devil 2 hours 10 minutes' is broken...Kenna's Cheffen Getty, 2 hours, 9 minutes, 56 seconds. World New
Oct 14, 2024
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Kenya's Ruth Chaffengeti (30) crossed the finish line with a time of 2:09:56 at the 2024 Chicago Marathon held in Chicago on the 14th (Korea time). This is a new record that advanced the previous women's full-course world record of 2:11:53, set by Ethiopia's Tajik Asepa (26) at the Berlin Marathon in September last year by nearly two minutes. In second place was Sutume Asefa Kebebe (Ethiopia), who was more than seven minutes behind Chepchen Getty with a time of 2:17:32.
Cheptengeti became the first athlete to break through the '2 hours 10 minutes' wall, which was considered impossible in the women's marathon. Australian economist Professor Simon Angus said in a paper published in the Science of Sports and Exercise in February 2019 that `the limit of the record a female marathoner can achieve is 2 hours 05 minutes 31 seconds``````. Other experts also saw '2 hours and 10 minutes' as the limit of the women's marathon.
But there was nothing impossible. CHEPHENGETTY has crossed the 'limit' Chappen Getty shortened his previous personal best (2 hours, 14 minutes and 18 seconds) by 4 minutes and 22 seconds. Cephengeti ran the first 5km in 15 minutes with a fierce pace from the start. Local commentators also compared his tremendous run to 'the shock of man landing on the moon'. Chappen Getty broke through the 2 hours and 10 minutes wall with the men's middle and high-ranking player 'face maker'. In the men's team, only nine players completed faster than Chepchen Getty.
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Since then, global sports brands have actively supported Kenyan and Ethiopian women's marathoners, inducing them to break records. In the 2020s, as many as four people completed the race with a record of less than 2 hours and 15 minutes. When Asepa set a new world record in the Berlin Marathon that shortened Kosgei's record by 2 minutes and 11 seconds, a year later, Cheffen Getty made another history. As the Nike-sponsored Chepchen Getty broke Adidas' Asepa record, local media in the U.S. reported that `Nike surpassed Adidas.'
For reference, the best record for the Korean women's marathon is 2 hours, 25 minutes and 41 seconds set by Kim Do-yeon at the Seoul International Marathon in March 2018.
Cheffen Getty, the 2019 World Athletics Championships women's marathon champion, was especially compatible with Chicago. Chaffen Getty, who won the Chicago Marathon for the first time in 2021, will wear the laurel crown for the third time this year after 2022. This year, the joy was doubled by setting a historical record. After winning the championship, Chaffengeti said "My dream came true. The world record has always been in my mind." Chappen Getty then paid tribute to his colleague Kelvin Kieftum, who set a new men's world record (2 hours 00 minutes 35 seconds) in Chicago last year but died in a car accident in Kenya four months later. He said "I dedicate this world record to Kieftum"With him, I would have defended the title and set the world record again"
Meanwhile, in the men's event, John Corir (Kenya) won with a time of 2:02:43, beating Huseidin Mohamed Esa (Ethiopia) with a time of 2:04:39.
vanbasten@sportschosun.com
