LONDRA (INGHILTERRA) (ITALPRESS) – It happened, there is the first time of a marathon under the two hours and the show is consumed in front of the royalty of Buckingham Palace: at the finish line fixed as from tradition to The Mall, it is the 31-year-old Kenyan Sabastian Sawe, fourth 42km in career (all vinte) that still conquers London and enters from the main door in the history of sport Third, and third also under the previous world record of the prematurely deceased Kelvin Kiptum, is the Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo, who in 2h00:28 must be satisfied “only” of the national primacy, as well as Kejelcha of the Ethiopian one. A ranking never seen, with the fourth place of the other Kenyan Amos Kipruto in 2h01:39, in a time that would make it the third performer ever until yesterday.
To be noted the construction of the world record of Sawe, 1h00:29 to the passage of half race and stratospheric 59.01 in the second part. In 2h02:59 the Olympic and world champion Tamirat Tola closed fifth. The best European is Irish Peter Lynch, ninth with the national record of 2h06:08.
On the unforgettable day of London falls for the third consecutive year the primacy of the world in race “women only”. After the 2h16:16 of the Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir in 2024 and the 2h15:50 of Tigist Assefa a year ago, it is still the Ethiopian Assefa to improve confirming the London success of 2025 in 2h15:41. Exciting race with the third of the best, Assefa along with the Kenyan Hellen Obiri and Joyciline Jepkosgei, who dominated the scene and composed the podium with Obiri second with the staff of 2h15:53 (first time in London) and third Jepkosgei (five podiums in as many participations in London) in 2h15:55, both very close to the old world record only female. The best of Europeans is the Scottish Eilish McColgan, seventh in 2h24:51.
In the wheelchair races he wins for the eighth time in London (the sixth consecutive) the Swiss Marcel Hug in 1h24:12 ahead of the Chinese Luo Xingchuan (1h28:45) and the British David Weir (1h29:23) and reconfirms also the other Swiss Catherine DeBrunner (at the fourth success on the Thames in 1h38:29) who wins a maratonacerta.
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