There was double pleasure for Kenyan athletes on Sunday (7 December) on the 2025 Valencia Marathon as John Korir claimed his second win of the season within the males’s race earlier than Joyciline Jepkosgei set a brand new world result in win the ladies’s race.
Korir, the Boston Marathon winner earlier this yr and final yr’s Chicago Marathon champion, was seeking to bounce again from a disappointing outing in Chicago in October when he stepped off the highway.
There was no such incidence in the present day as he broke away from the lead group simply after 25km in and pushed to the tip, recording a detrimental break up (quicker second half of the race) to win in 2:02:25, a brand new private finest by 19 seconds.
“Individuals are saying the Korir identify goes down however I’ve come right here and proved to them that Korir continues to be there,” he stated after the race. “I’ve closed my yr with a PB. I take pleasure in myself right here in Valencia.”
In second place was World Championships silver medallist Amanal Petros representing Germany, who has loved a powerful season. Petros broke the German nationwide file by 53 seconds, clocking 2:04:03.
“It is not simple typically to say I am happy with me however lastly I can say I am happy with me,” he stated. “The season was so lengthy, I began final yr 3 December to coach for all of the competitions. I am so joyful that I made it. The primary objective was to interrupt my nationwide file and I made it.”
Norway additionally noticed their athletics file books re-written by third-place finisher Awet Kibrab, who took 1:24 off the nationwide file to complete in 2:04:24. Japan’s Osako Suguru in fourth additionally set a brand new nationwide finest mark by a second, ending in 2:04:55.
In the meantime, Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee turned the second-fastest British marathoner with a 2:06:38. Yee, who completed seventh, overtook Emile Cairess on the all-time GB leaderboard and now sits behind solely Mo Farah.
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