World document holder Tigst Assefa heads a high-class subject within the girls’s elite race on the London Marathon.
The Ethiopian’s gorgeous two hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds on the 2023 Berlin Marathon took greater than two minutes off the earlier document of two:14.04 set by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei.
With Kosgei and fellow Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich additionally working, three of the 4 quickest girls in historical past will compete in London.
The race takes place on 21 April.
The ladies’s-only world document stands at 2:17:01 and was set by one other Kenyan, Mary Keitany, on the 2017 London Marathon.
That document might fall with Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Assefa’s fellow Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw, winner in London in 2022, additionally among the many group able to chasing it down.
“We’re in a golden age of ladies’s marathon working,” Hugh Brasher, occasion director of the London Marathon, stated.
“Regardless of this, the ladies’s-only world document of two:17:01, set by the good Mary Keitany right here on the London Marathon in 2017, has amazingly stayed intact.
“Nevertheless, I think that with Tigst Assefa, Brigid Kosgei and the likes of Ruth Chepngetich, Peres Jepchirchir and Yalemzerf Yehualaw within the subject and the place a complete of 10 girls have run beneath two hours 17 minutes and 30 seconds, Keitany’s world document goes to be beneath critical risk on the 2024 London Marathon.”
New York Metropolis Marathon champion Tamirat Tola headlines the lads’s subject.
The Ethiopian might be up in opposition to fellow countryman Mosinet Geremew, the seventh quickest man in historical past, and Kenya’s Alexander Mutiso Munyao, who completed second on the 2023 Valencia Marathon.
Emile Cairess is the main Briton within the males’s subject. He turned the third-fastest Briton in historical past when he ran 2:08:07 eventually yr’s London Marathon.
Marc Scott, bronze medallist over 3000m at 2022 World Indoor Championships, will make his marathon debut.