{"id":28775,"date":"2025-04-18T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2025-world-record-holder-ruth-chepngetich-and-defending-champion-peres-jepchirchir-pull-out-of-race\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:16:18","slug":"london-marathon-2025-world-record-holder-ruth-chepngetich-and-defending-champion-peres-jepchirchir-pull-out-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-marathon-2025-world-record-holder-ruth-chepngetich-and-defending-champion-peres-jepchirchir-pull-out-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon 2025: World record holder Ruth Chepngetich and defending champion Peres Jepchirchir pull out of race"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World record holder Ruth Chepngetich has pulled out of the London Marathon along with defending champion Peres Jepchirchir.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kenya’s Chepngetich, 30, became the first woman to clock a sub-two hour 10 minute time at the 2024 Chicago marathon<\/a>, but said she was not ready for next weekend’s race.<\/p>\n

Chepngetich said she was “very sad to miss the race” but she hoped “to be back” for the London Marathon in 2026.<\/p>\n

“I’m not in the right place mentally or physically to race my best in London and I am therefore withdrawing,” she added.<\/p>\n

Fellow Kenyan Jepchirchir, who won last year’s London Marathon<\/a> in a record time of two hours 16 minutes 16 seconds, will miss the race with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

“Winning last year’s London Marathon was one of the highlights of my career and I was very much looking forward to returning this year to defend my title,” 31-year-old Jepchirchir said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, my injury has made this impossible but I am focused on getting healthy again and hope to return to London again in the future when I’m fully fit.”<\/p>\n

In the absence of Chepngetich and Jepchirchir organisers have announced that their compatriot Vivian Cheruiyot will take a spot in the elite field.<\/p>\n

Cheruiyot, 41, has run the London Marathon three times and won it in 2018. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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