Ruth Chepng'etich
Ruth Chepng'etich, often spelt Ruth Chepngetich, (born 8 August 1994) is a Kenyan road racing athlete, who competes in marathon and other long distance events. She is the reigning 2019 Marathon World champion. Chepng'etitch's best is fourth all-time in the world. She holds the third-fastest mark of all time for the half marathon.
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| Born | 8 August 1994 Rift Valley Province, Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Half marathon, Marathon, 10 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Athletics Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She is related to Rosefline Chepngetich.
Career
In 2018, Ruth Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon (World Athletics Label Road Race). She ran 2:18:35 (31:59 – 10 km, 48:15 – 15 km, 1:08:22 – Half marathon, 1:37:42 – 30 km), a race record, best performance ever on Turkish soil, and the seventh best time in history, becoming the 10th athlete of all time to go below 2:19 and 30th under 2:20.[1][2][3]
2019
At the 20th Dubai Marathon, Chepng'etich celebrated victory in a course record-breaking time of 2 hours, 17 minutes and 8 seconds.[4]
She ran the then-20th fastest Half marathon of all-time at the Bahrain Night Half Marathon in a time of 66m 9s.
Chepng'etich achieved the then-12th fastest Half marathon of all-time at the Vodafone Istanbul Half Marathon with a 65m 30s clocking.
On 28 September, she won the world title during the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, clocking 2:32.43 after a start at midnight. The silver medal went to Rose Chelimo representing Bahrain with 2:33:46 and bronze to Namibia's 39-year-old Helalia Johannes with 2:34:15. Chepng'etich's time was the slowest world championship winning time so far. The second slowest happened in 2007 when Catherine Ndereba won in 2:30.37 in Osaka. Only 40 out of 68 starters finished the race in Doha.[5]
2020–21
On 4 October, she finished third in London Marathon.
On 4 April 2021, Chepng'etich set a world record of 1:04:02 at the Istanbul Half Marathon in Turkey, taking 29 seconds off the previous best set by Ababel Yeshaneh in 2020.[6][7]
On 10 October, she won the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:22:31.
2022–present
On 13 March, Chepng'etich posted the second-fastest ever women-only marathon time to win the Nagoya Women's Marathon in Japan (World Athletics Elite Platinum Label). She ran a negative split 2:17:18 (69:03/68:15), which being also the joint seventh-fastest time in history, and obviously a course record, gave her 87 seconds margin of victory. She won $250,000, which was the biggest official prize in professional running up to that point.[8][9]
Personal bests
| Distance | Time (h):m:s | Location | Date | Notes |
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| 10 km | 31:12 | Port-Gentil, Gabon | 30 June 2019 | (also 30:57 not legal) |
| Half marathon | 1:04:02 | Istanbul, Turkey | 4 April 2021 | Mx previous World record, 3rd all-time |
| Marathon | 2:17:08 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 25 January 2019 | 4th all-time |
Results
References
- "2018 Istanbul Marathon". Podisti – Roberto Annoscia. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- "Ruth Chepngetich Smashes Istanbul Marathon Record with 2:18:35". Watch Athletics. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- "Ruth Chepngetich's amazing run at the 2018 Vodafome Istanbul Marathon". Run Blog Run. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- "Ruth Chepngetich shatters Dubai Marathon course record". Daily Nation. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- "Leichtathletik-WM: Chepngetich gewinnt langsamsten WM-Marathon - 28 Läuferinnen müssen aufgeben". Spiegel Online. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "İstanbul Yarı Maratonu'nda dünya rekoru!". NTV Spor (in Turkish). 4 April 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- Snider-McGrath, Ben (4 April 2021). "Ruth Chepngetich runs 1:04:02, breaks half-marathon world record in Istanbul". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- Dickinson, Marley (1 October 2021). "Nagoya Women's Marathon now offers the most prize money of any race". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- Whittington, Jess (13 March 2022). "Chepngetich runs 2:17:18 to win Nagoya Women's Marathon". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 March 2022.