{"id":107820,"date":"2025-08-31T01:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107820\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:45:07","slug":"records-fall-as-sifan-hassan-and-hailemaryam-kiros-win-sydney-marathon-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107820\/","title":{"rendered":"Records fall as Sifan Hassan and Hailemaryam Kiros win Sydney marathon | Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch multi-distance phenomenon Sifan Hassan has set a race record to claim victory in the first running of the Sydney Marathon<\/a> as a world majors series event.<\/p>\n

Hassan clocked a women\u2019s winning time of two hours 18 minutes and 22 seconds as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge fell short of the podium in the men\u2019s category on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia\u2019s Hailemaryam Kiros produced the fastest marathon ever run in Australia to win the men\u2019s event in 2:06:06.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old prevailed by 10 seconds over young countryman Addisu Gobena, with Lesotho\u2019s Tebello Ramakongoana third.<\/p>\n

Kiros shaved 12 seconds off last year\u2019s record set by Kenya\u2019s Brimin Kipkorir, who is provisionally suspended after recording a positive test for a prohibited substance two months after his win in Australia.<\/p>\n

Hassan blitzed the previous record of 2:21:40 – set by Ethiopia\u2019s Workenesh Edesa – as she won by 34 seconds from Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei with Edesa third in 2:22:05.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last five kilometres, I\u2019m dead,\u201d Hassan said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first major marathon in Australia, in Sydney<\/a>, and I\u2019m the first one to win, so it\u2019s big history for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt so good in the first 5Ks and I think I pushed too hard. I pushed really hard the last 10Ks. I was like, \u2018That\u2019s not really smart. I\u2019m going to pay the price\u2019, but I feel I got away with it. I\u2019m so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eliud Kipchoge runs past the SCG during the Sydney marathon. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Kipchoge, 40, finished ninth in 2:08:31 after dropping out of the leading pack around the 31km mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to go across the finish line. I have nothing to prove,\u201d Kipchoge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mission is to bring all the people together. Let us surpass 55,000 [from 35,000], actually, next year to run here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful course. It\u2019s a course whereby there is no other in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Runners join 35,000 people taking part in the Sydney marathon. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

Canberra local Leanne Pompeani led the local charge in the women\u2019s race, crossing the finish line in seventh with a time of 2:24:47.<\/p>\n

Pompeani was followed by Olympians Jess Stenson and Lisa Weightman in eighth and ninth, respectively.<\/p>\n

Melburnian Haftu Strintzos posted the best result for Australia\u2019s men in 14th in 2:11:27, ahead of 16th-fastest Thomas Do Canto.<\/p>\n

Former national record holder Brett Robinson was 17th in 2:15:00.<\/p>\n

Swiss star Marcel Hug smashed the record of 1:36:38 set by Australian legend Kurt Fearnley in 2011 to win the men\u2019s wheelchair marathon.<\/p>\n

The seven-time Paralympic gold medallist and marathon world record holder outpaced the field as he clocked 1:27:15 and won by more than six minutes from last year\u2019s Paralympic marathon bronze medallist Tomoki Suzuki.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s six-time Paralympic medallist Susannah Scaroni was just as dominant in the women\u2019s category to win in 1:45:52.<\/p>\n

Scaroni\u2019s time easily bettered Australian star Madison De Rozario\u2019s record time of 1:54:10, set last year.<\/p>\n

De Rozario, who claimed back-to-back Sydney Marathon wins from 2023, did not compete on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch multi-distance phenomenon Sifan Hassan has set a race record to claim victory in the first running of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-107820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}