Dutch multi-distance phenomenon Sifan Hassan set a race report to win the primary working of the Sydney Marathon as a world majors sequence occasion.
Hassan clocked a girls’s successful time of two hours 18 minutes and 22 seconds as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge fell wanting the rostrum within the males’s class on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Hailemaryam Kiros produced the quickest marathon ever run in Australia to win the boys’s occasion in 2:06:06.
The 28-year-old prevailed by 10 seconds over fellow Ethiopian runner Addisu Gobena, with Lesotho’s Tebello Ramakongoana third.
Kiros shaved 12 seconds off final yr’s report set by Kenya’s Brimin Kipkorir, who’s provisionally suspended after recording a optimistic check for a prohibited substance two months after his win in Australia.
Greater than 40,000 opponents made their approach over the Harbour Bridge in the course of the race. Supply: AAP / Dean Lewins
Hassan blitzed the earlier report of two:21:40 — set by Ethiopia’s Workenesh Edesa — as she received by 34 seconds from Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei, with Edesa third in 2:22:05.
Sunday’s race win is the 32-year-old’s third main marathon title.
Hassan had chosen to skip the upcoming world athletics championships in September to race in Sydney.
“The final 5 kilometres, I am lifeless,” Hassan mentioned.
“It is the primary main marathon in Australia, in Sydney, and I am the primary one to win, so it is massive historical past for me.
Marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge (left) was congratulated by race winner Hailemaryam Kiros. Supply: AAP / Bianca De Marchi
“I felt so good within the first 5ks, and I feel I pushed too onerous. I pushed actually onerous the final 10ks.
“I used to be like, ‘That is not likely sensible. I will pay the value’, however I really feel I obtained away with it. I am so grateful.”
Kipchoge, 40, completed ninth in 2:08:31 after dropping out of the main pack across the 31km mark.
“I am pleased to go throughout the end line. I’ve nothing to show,” Kipchoge mentioned.
“My mission is to carry all of the folks collectively. Allow us to surpass 55,000 (from 35,000 this yr), really, subsequent yr to run right here.
Jessica Stenson (left) was the primary Australian feminine athlete to cross the end line. Supply: AAP / Bianca De Marchi
“It is a lovely course. It is a course whereby there isn’t any different on this world.”
Canberra native Leanne Pompeani led the native cost within the girls’s race, crossing the end line in seventh with a time of two:24:47.
Pompeani was adopted by Olympians Jess Stenson and Lisa Weightman in eighth and ninth, respectively.
Melburnian Haftu Strintzos posted the very best outcome for Australia’s males in 14th in 2:11:27, forward of Sixteenth-fastest Thomas Do Canto.
Former nationwide report holder Brett Robinson was seventeenth in 2:15:00.
Swiss Marcel Hug received the wheelchair male marathon. Supply: AAP / Bianca De Marchi
Swiss star Marcel Hug smashed the report of 1:36:38 set by Australian legend Kurt Fearnley in 2011 to win the boys’s wheelchair marathon.
The seven-time Paralympic gold medallist and marathon world report holder outpaced the sector as he clocked 1:27:15 and received by greater than six minutes from final yr’s Paralympic marathon bronze medallist Tomoki Suzuki.
America’s six-time Paralympic medallist Susannah Scaroni was simply as dominant within the girls’s class to win in 1:45:52.
Scaroni’s time simply bettered Australian star Madison De Rozario’s report time of 1:54:10, set final yr.
De Rozario, who claimed back-to-back Sydney Marathon wins in 2023 and 2024, didn’t compete on Sunday.
