{"id":9505,"date":"2026-03-03T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9505"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:03:33","slug":"tokyo-marathon-brigid-kosgei-wins-race-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9505","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Marathon: Brigid Kosgei wins race in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei set a new course record with a commanding victory at the Tokyo Marathon.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 32-year-old finished in 2:14:29 – more than two minutes ahead of Ethiopia’s Bertukan Welde, who was second in 2:16:36. <\/p>\n

Welde’s Ethiopian compatriot Hawi Feysa came third in 2:17:39.<\/p>\n

The previous course record was 2:15:55 – set by two-time Tokyo winner Sutume Asefa Kebede in 2024.<\/p>\n

Kosgei, who won marathon silver for Kenya at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is planning to represent Turkey at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.<\/p>\n

“We have a lot of athletes in Kenya,” said Kosgei. “I want some young generation to follow my step to join me in Turkey.”<\/p>\n

In the men’s race, Ethiopia’s Tadese Takele defended his title in a thrilling sprint finish with Kenyan duo Geoffrey Toroitich and Alexander Mutiso Munyao. <\/p>\n

Takele clocked 2:03:37, which was the same official time as second-placed Toroitich, with Munyao finishing just one second further back in third.<\/p>\n

“I knew that the final stage would be decisive,” said 23-year-old Takele.<\/p>\n

“Around 41km I wanted to wait and see what would happen and then I made my move right before the finish.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei set a new course record with a commanding victory at the Tokyo Marathon. The 32-year-old finished in 2:14:29 – more than two minutes ahead of Ethiopia’s Bertukan Welde, who was second in 2:16:36. Welde’s Ethiopian compatriot Hawi Feysa came third in 2:17:39. The previous course record was 2:15:55 – set by two-time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}