With the notable presence of Eliud Kipchoge and Peres Jepchirchir, champions at Tokyo 2020, Kenya confirmed the six marathon runners who will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Kipchoge, who also won Olympic status in Rio 2016, will seek a new gold medal at 39 and will be accompanied by Benson Kipruto (winner in Boston 2021 and Chicago 2022) and Alex Mutiso, recent winner of the London Marathon.
The substitute will be Timothy Kiplagat, winner of the last Tokyo marathon, while Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich is the one who was left out of the selected ones. Kelvin Kiptum, owner of the world record (2h 00:35) and who died in February at the age of 24 in a traffic accident with his coach Gervais Hakizimana, will be the biggest absentee on the streets of Paris.
The women’s team is led by Jepchirchir, who will defend the title won in Tokyo and who arrives in Paris with a great record: on April 21, she broke the world record in a women-only marathon with 2h 16:16.
Hellen Obiri, double world champion of 5,000 in London 2017 and Doha 2019 and winner of the 2023 Boston and New York Marathon, is the second member of a team that will complete Brigid Kosgei, who has five ‘majors’ in her career (two in Chicago, two in London and one in Tokyo) and was the owner of the world record (2h 14:09) until the Ethiopian Tigst Assefa pulverized it last year in Berlin 2023 (2. 11:53).
The substitute will be Sharon Lokedi, winner of the New York Marathon in 2022, while shortlisted Ruth Chepngetich and Rosemary Wanjiru were left out of the Kenyan team.
The men’s final will be held on Saturday, August 10 and for the first time the closing will be for the women’s marathon, a day later. Kenya won the last two editions for both men and women: Kipchoge is a double Olympic champion and before Jepchirchir, Jemima Jelagat Sumgong had been consecrated in Rio de Janeiro.
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