World record holder, Chepngetich predicts a new World record at 2025 TCS London Marathon in April
Set to battle Hassan and Jepchirchir in a mouth-watering match-up of marathon greats
World record holder Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya has been added to the elite cast of runners at the 2025 TCS London Marathon in April and she will battle reigning Olympic marathon champion, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands and fellow Kenyan, Peres Jepchirchir who won the Olympic title in 2021 and has been twice World Half Marathon champion.
Chepngetich stunned the world at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon where she became the first woman in history to break the historic two hour 10-minute barrier for the marathon.
The 30-year-old Kenyan clocked a time of 2:09:56 last October, knocking nearly two minutes off the previous world record set by Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa in 2023.
Chepngetich is now setting her sights on making her mark at the TCS London Marathon where she will come up against the Hassan and the Jepchirchir in a mouth-watering match-up of marathon greats.
Jepchirchir, who is also the TCS London Marathon defending champion, owns the second world record which exists in women’s marathon running – the women-only race world record.
Unlike the Chicago Marathon, where the elite women run alongside their male counterparts, the TCS London Marathon has a stand-alone elite women’s race and Jepchirchir’s winning time of 2:16:16 in the 2024 edition was the fastest ever in this category.
Chepngetich believes with the calibre of field assembled that world record could fall again at the 2025 TCS London Marathon, which takes place on Sunday 27 April.
‘The TCS London Marathon always brings together the best athletes in the world and I am sure this year will be as competitive as ever.
‘Myself, Peres and the other women are strong, so it will be a competitive one and I want to prepare as best as I can and we will see if we can lower Peres’s world record of 2:16:16 from last year.
‘With the strength of the field, I think we can support each other and maybe the world record will fall,’ she told the official website of the TCS London Marathon.
