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World marathon record holder Ruth Chepng’etich and women’s only world record holder Peres Jepchirchir are among elite athletes who will be in contention in this year’s London Marathon on April 21.<\/p>\n
Chepng’etich will be competing in her first marathon since smashing the world record in October last year, clocking 2:09:56 to win the Chicago Marathon for the third time.<\/p>\n
She consequently made history as the first female runner to clock a sub-2:10 in the 42km.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Jepchirchir will be back…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> World marathon record holder Ruth Chepng’etich and women’s only world record holder Peres Jepchirchir are among elite athletes who will be in contention in this year’s London Marathon on April 21. Chepng’etich will be competing in her first marathon since smashing the world record in October last year, clocking 2:09:56 to win the Chicago Marathon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7887,30598,10804,15404,39182,4688,430,3426,5150,257,5267,254,5093],"class_list":["post-188738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-chepngetich","tag-glory","tag-holder","tag-jepchirchir","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-london","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-record","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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