{"id":2983,"date":"2017-04-24T02:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2017-04-24T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:46:13","slug":"mary-keitany-sets-womens-only-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/news\/mary-keitany-sets-womens-only-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Keitany sets Women&#8217;s only World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary-keitany-wr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2985\" title=\"mary keitany - london marathon wr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-content\/uploads\/mary-keitany-wr.jpg\" alt=\"mary keitany - london marathon wr\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Mary Keitany took 41 seconds off the women\u2019s-only world record* at the Virgin Money London Marathon, running 2:17:01 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 23 April 2017.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Mary Keitany &#8211; London Marathon 2:17:01<\/h3>\n<p>In an incredible display of front-running, the 2009 world half marathon champion set off on her own with just a pacemaker for company in the early stages, passing 5km in 15:31, 10km in 31:17 and half way in 1:06:54. Her pace in the first half suggested a finish time faster than the outright world record of 2:15:25, set by Paula Radcliffe in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Keitany\u2019s pace started to slip in the second half, but she still maintained enough form to stay on course to break Radcliffe\u2019s women\u2019s-only world record set in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>At 30km she was 78 seconds ahead of her nearest challenger, three-time Olympic gold medallist Tirunesh Dibaba. The Ethiopian began to make inroads into Keitany\u2019s lead in the final stages, but then suffered from stomach cramps just a few kilometres from the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Keitany held on to her lead and charged down The Mall to win in 2:17:01, the second-fastest time in history. Once recovered from her stomach cramps, Dibaba finished strongly to take second place in an Ethiopian record of 2:17:56, moving to third on the world all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>IAAF<\/p>\n<p><em>*Pending the usual ratification procedures<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Mary Keitany took 41 seconds off the women\u2019s-only world record* at the Virgin Money London Marathon, running 2:17:01 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 23 April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,29,30,1],"tags":[97,557,594],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","category-kenya","category-london","category-news","tag-97","tag-london-marathon","tag-mary-keitany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}