The reigning champion Joyciline Jepkosgei promised fast times at this year’s London Marathon on Sunday.
The 28-year-old Joyciline Jepkosgei shared that she has been training very well for the past four months and expects a strong result from herself.
“I’m much better now than I was in April, so I expect a fast race if the pacemakers do their job. We have four female athletes with results under 2 hours and 18 minutes. I’m the second fastest of them”, said Joyciline Jepkosgei.
Joyciline Jepkosgei is a Kenyan female long-distance runner who competes over distances from 10,000m to the marathon. She is the former half marathon world record holder in contests with mixed-gender fields with her personal best of 64:51 minutes, and additionally the former world record holder in the 10km with 29:43 minutes.
Joyciline Jepkosgei was a bronze medallist over 10,000m at the African Championships in Athletics in 2016. She ran a pending world record for the half marathon of 1:04:52 at the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon in April 2017, becoming the first woman ever to break 65 min. She also unofficially broke the IAAF-ratified records for 10km, 15km and 20km along the way, breaking a total of four world records in a single event. She also became the first Kenyan ever to break six world records in six months.
