Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich beggarly the arena document to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

The 30-year-old clocked a presen of 2 hours, 9 mins and 57 seconds to surpass Ethiopian Tigst Assefa’s earlier document via just about two mins.

Chepngetich is the primary girl to run a marathon in beneath two hours and 10 mins.

Assefa prepared the former document with victory on the 2023 Berlin Marathon in two hours, 11 mins and 53 seconds.

“I feel so great, I’m proud of myself. This is my dream that has come true,” stated Chepngetich, the 2019 global marathon champion.

“I’ve fought a lot thinking about the world record and I have fulfilled it.”

Victory for Chepngetich is her 3rd in Chicago, the place she overlooked out on breaking compatriot Brigid Kosgei’s then-world document via 14 seconds in 2022.

4 of the 5 quickest girls’s marathon occasions had been run at the flat Chicago path over the latter six years.