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Kenyan track and field athlete
Ruth Chepng'etich is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She holds the world record in the marathon with a time of 2.09:56, set at the 2024 Chicago Marathon. Chepng'etich also won a gold medal in the event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Her fastest half marathon time is 1.04:02, which she ran in Istanbul in April 2021.
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Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1996)
Tigst Assefa Tessema is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and the current world record holder in the women's marathon. She has won four World Marathon Majors, twice in Berlin and twice in London. A former 800 metres specialist, Tigst switched to road races in 2018 and ran her first marathon in 2022.
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Capital and largest city of Germany
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union (EU). The metropolis is also one of the states of Germany, being the third-smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, bordering Brandenburg's capital Potsdam to the southwest. The urban area of Berlin has a population of 4.5 million, making it the second most populous in Germany after the Ruhr.
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BERLIN: Sabastian Sawe, the first man to run the marathon in under two hours, believes even faster times are on the horizon both for him and the sport.
Berlin Marathon has recorded 13 world records during the race’s history. This is a record in itself because there is no other marathon race worldwide ...
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