Tokyo 2020 Olympic marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir will make her second appearance at the London Marathon on April 21. The 30-year-old Kenyan athlete returned to training after a calf injury that forced her to withdraw from the New York City Marathon on November 5 last year.
Peres Jepchirchir is the winner of the 2021 New York and 2022 Boston marathons, hoping in London to record her third success in one of the world’s biggest marathons.
“The calf injury is healed and I’m back to training. The pain is gone and now I feel comfortable”, revealed the three-time world half-marathon champion.
Peres Jepchirchir won the gold medal in the women’s marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She was the champion at the 2016 and 2020 World Half Marathon Championships. She claimed victories at the 2021 New York City and 2022 Boston Marathon and finished third at the 2023 London Marathon. Her best time for the half marathon of 1:05:06 hours, set on 10 February 2017 in the UAE, is a former half marathon world record. She holds the women’s only half marathon world record of 1:05:16 set at the 2020 World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, which was an improvement on her own previous record.
