Ruth Chepng'etich

Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1994)

Ruth Chepng'etich: Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1994) Ruth Chepng'etich is a Kenyan road runner who is the current women's world record holder in the marathon, with a time of 2:09:56 set at the 2024 Chicago Marathon. She is the 2019 world champion in the marathon, and is a three time winner of the Chicago Marathon, having won in 2021, 2022 and 2024, where she set the world record. Chepng'etich is the first woman to break the 2:11 and 2:10 barriers in the marathon, and also holds the sixth-fastest women's mark of all time for the half marathon, at 1 hour 4 minutes and 2 seconds which was at lstanbul Half-Marathon.

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