London Marathon - Kipchoge runs a course record time, Kosgei becomes youngest female winner

Eliud Kipchoge ran the second fastest marathon in history for his fourth London win, while 25-year-old Brigid Kosgei's victory made it a Kenyan double in the British capital.

Photo from The Telegraph

34-year-old Kipchoge broke the Marathon world record last year with a time of 2:01:39, and he finished in London just 59 seconds shy of that.
He broke his own London Marathon record - set in 2016 - by 28 seconds.
Britain's Mo Farah finished fifth, three minutes one second behind Kipchoge, while fellow Briton Callum Hawkins was 10th.
Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew and Mule Wasihun completed the elite men's top three.
Brigid Kosgei won the women's elite race, with Charlotte Purdue the highest placed Brit in 10th place.
The 27-year-old beat her personal best by almost four minutes to record the third-quickest time by a British woman of all time.
American Daniel Romanchuk and Switzerland's Manuela Schar had earlier won the men's and women's elite wheelchair races.

Photo from The New York Times

Farah's time of 2:05:39, although outside his personal best, is the second fastest by a Briton.
The leading group left him behind around the halfway point, with eventual winner Kipchoge dictating the pace.
Farah said he had yet to decide which race to contest in this year's World Championships in Qatar, where he could compete in either the marathon or 10,000m.

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Hawkins set a Scottish record on 2:08:14, in his first Marathon since collapsing from exhaustion in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, set a Scottish record of 2:08:14.
Alongside Farah, Hawkins and Purdue, Dewi Griffiths and Tish Jones also fulfilled the qualifying criteria for the World Championships, which take place in Doha in the autumn.
Reigning Olympic champion Kipchoge has now won 11 of the 12 marathons in which he has competed, only missing out in Berlin in 2013.

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Kosgei beat defending champion and compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot to win for the first time in London.
She crossed the finish line in 2:18:20, almost two minutes ahead of Cheruiyot as Roza Dereje of Ethiopia finished third.
The top three had left three-time London Marathon winner Mary Keitany behind at around 19 miles.
She finished fifth, two minutes 38 seconds behind Kosgei.
Kosgei is 25 days younger than Aselefech Mergia, the previous youngest winner, when she won the 2010 race.

RESULTS

Men's Elite Race

1. Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) 2:02:37
2. Mosinet Geremew (ETH) 2:02:55
3. Mule Wasihun (ETH) 2:03:16

Women's Elite Race
1. Brigid Kosgei (KEN) 2:18:20
2. Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN) 2:20:14
3. Roza Dereje (ETH) 2:20:51

Men's Wheelchair Elite Race

1. Daniel Romanchuk (USA) 1:33:38
2. Marcel Hug (SWI) 1:33:42
3. Tomoki Suzuki (JPN) 1:33:51

Women's Wheelchair Elite Race

1. Manuela Schar (SWI) 1:44:09
2. Tatyana McFadden (USA) 1:49:42
3. Madison de Rozario (AUS) 1:49:44

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