Records Fall As Sifan Hassan And Hailemaryam Kiros Win Sydney Marathon

Dutch superstar Sifan Hassan and Ethiopia’s Hailemaryam Kiros person triumphed successful nan Sydney marathon arsenic Kenyan fable Eliud Kipchoge battled to ninth.

Dutch multi-distance arena Sifan Hassan has group a title grounds to declare triumph successful nan first moving of nan Sydney Marathon arsenic a world fields bid event.

Hassan clocked a women’s winning clip of 2 hours 18 minutes and 22 seconds arsenic Kenyan fable Eliud Kipchoge fell short of nan podium successful nan men’s class connected Sunday.

Ethiopia’s Hailemaryam Kiros won nan men’s arena successful 2:06:06 – different title grounds – prevailing by 10 seconds from young countryman Addisu Gobena pinch Lesotho’s Tebello Ramakongoana third.

Hassan blitzed nan erstwhile grounds of 2:21:40 – group by Ethiopia’s Workenesh Edesa – arsenic she won by 34 seconds from Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei pinch Edesa 3rd successful 2:22:05.

Kipchoge vanished ninth successful 2:08:31 aft dropping retired of nan starring battalion astir nan 31km mark.

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Swiss prima Marcel Hug smashed nan grounds of 1:36:38 group by Australian fable Kurt Fearnley successful 2011 to triumph nan men’s wheelchair marathon.

The seven-time Paralympic golden medallist and marathon world grounds holder outpaced nan section arsenic he clocked 1:27:15 and won by much than six minutes from past year’s Paralympic marathon bronze medallist Tomoki Suzuki.

America’s six-time Paralympic medallist Susannah Scaroni was conscionable arsenic ascendant successful nan women’s class to triumph by 1:45:52.

Scaroni’s clip easy bettered Australian prima Madison De Rozario’s grounds clip of 1:54:10, group past year.

De Rozario, who claimed back-to-back Sydney Marathon wins from 2023, did not compete connected Sunday.