Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands ran the second-fastest ladies’s marathon of all time on Sunday morning in Chicago, smashing the course document by 30 seconds to complete in 2:13:44.
Hassan has displayed an unparalleled vary within the final yr, taking bronze within the 1,500m and silver within the 5,000m on the World Athletics Championships, simply six weeks earlier than racing her second marathon in Chicago. Defending champion Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya completed second, in 2:15:37, and Ethiopia’s Megertu Alemu rounded out the rostrum in 2:17:09.
Hassan, who can also be the Olympic gold medallist in each the 5,000m and the ten,000m, made her marathon debut earlier this yr on the London Marathon, the place she managed to drag off the win in 2:18:33, regardless of stopping to stretch and having challenges along with her fuelling.
AREA RECORD
🇳🇱’s @SifanHassan storms to the second quickest ladies’s marathon in historical past as she wins the @ChiMarathon in 2:13:44 🔥
That is in fact an space document in simply the second marathon of her profession👏 pic.twitter.com/AsespTN7zi
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) October 8, 2023
Hassan and two-time Chicago Marathon champ Chepngetich set a blistering tempo from the beginning, hitting the 10K mark at 31:05–a outstanding 40 seconds quicker than world-record holder Tigist Assefa, two weeks in the past on the Berlin Marathon. Whereas Hassan dropped again by just a few seconds on the midway mark, she was again on observe by 25K, and with Chepngetich beginning to flag, set out determinedly for the win.
COURSE RECORD: In her U.S. marathon debut, Sifan Hassan takes the @BankofAmerica #ChicagoMarathon course document in an unofficial time of two:13:38! Wonderful efficiency Sifan! pic.twitter.com/0h7nxb50dy
— Chicago Marathon (@ChiMarathon) October 8, 2023
By 35 km, Hassan was 31 seconds forward of Chepngetich and effectively below the course document; like Kelvin Kiptum in his gorgeous world-record-breaking efficiency, the Dutch runner was alone after the 30 km mark. She smashed the course document by 40 seconds, working the second quickest marathon in historical past, second solely to Assefa, who reset the world document to 2:11:53 in Berlin.
Hassan’s course document (smashing the earlier course set by Brigid Kosgei in 2019, which on the time was a brand new world document) can also be a European document, smashing that smashing that set by Paula Radcliffe in 2003 by greater than two minutes. Hassan now holds each ladies’s European document from the 1,500m to the marathon.
Is a world document in her future? Pre-race, she instructed the media that, whereas Chicago is understood for its quick course, her marathon potential has not been realized. “That is only the start for me. I nonetheless haven’t carried out a full marathon construct.”
Sifan Hassan did a exercise instantly after her 1,500m ultimate
American ladies took three of the highest 10 finishes, with nationwide document holder Emily Sisson working 2:22:09–not a PB, however adequate for seventh place and the quickest time amongst American ladies. (Final yr, Sisson grew to become the third American girl ever to interrupt 2:20, ending second to Chepngetich in 2:18:29.)
Fan favorite and Olympic bronze medallist Molly Seidel adopted Sisson, working a PB in 2:23:07. Seidel was paced by high Canadian distance runner Rory Linkletter.
High 10 ladies
Sifan Hassan (NED) 2:13:44
Ruth Chepngetich (KEN) 2:15:37
Megertu Alemu (ETH) 2:17:09
Joyciline Jepkosgei (KEN) 2:17:23
Tadu Teshome Nare (ETH) 2:20:04
Genzebe Dibaba Keneni (ETH) 2:21:47
Emily Sisson (USA) 2:22:09<
Molly Seidel (USA) 2:23:07
Rose Harvey (GBR) 2:23:21
Sara Vaughn (USA) 2:23:24
There have been no elite Canadian ladies at this yr’s race.
Swiss athletes Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner swept the wheelchair division, setting new course information of 1:22:37 and 1:38:44. Hug toppled his personal course document from 2022 of 1:25:20, whereas Debrunner fought defending champion Susannah Scaroni (who completed in ) in a dash to the end.
For our males’s race recap, head right here. For full outcomes of the race, head right here.
