{"id":16400,"date":"2024-04-21T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2024-elite-runners-world-record-bids-gb-athletes-to-watch-celebrities-and-weather\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:16:08","slug":"london-marathon-2024-elite-runners-world-record-bids-gb-athletes-to-watch-celebrities-and-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2024-elite-runners-world-record-bids-gb-athletes-to-watch-celebrities-and-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon 2024: Elite runners, world record bids, GB athletes to watch, celebrities and weather"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The elite women’s race will see three of the four fastest women in history go head to head in pursuit of victory – and perhaps a world record.<\/p>\n

The women’s-only marathon world record of 2:17:01 set in London in 2017 is expected to come under threat, with Ethiopia’s world record holder Tigst Assefa<\/b> leading the charge.<\/p>\n

Assefa, who ran 2:11:53 at the Berlin Marathon in September, said she was “sure” she can beat the course record<\/a> but stated: “I’m here to win.”<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old will be joined by former record holder Brigid Kosgei<\/b>, fellow Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich<\/b>, Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir<\/b> and 2022 London Marathon winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In the men’s race, Ethiopian Tamirat Tola<\/b> will seek to back up his New York City Marathon victory from November and improve on his third-place finish in London last year.<\/p>\n

His competition includes compatriot Mosinet Geremew<\/b>, ranked seventh-fastest in history, Valencia Marathon runner-up Alexander Mutiso Munyao<\/b> and distance running great Kenenisa Bekele<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The elite women’s race will see three of the four fastest women in history go head to head in pursuit of victory – and perhaps a world record. The women’s-only marathon world record of 2:17:01 set in London in 2017 is expected to come under threat, with Ethiopia’s world record holder Tigst Assefa leading the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16402,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16400\/revisions\/16402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}