• 25-year-old Kenyan ran 2:14:04 at the
Chicago Marathon• Briton’s mark, which stood for 16 years, beaten by 81 secondsOn a swirly Chicago morning, Brigid Kosgei delivered a dizzying head-twister of a performance to blow away Paula Radcliffe’s world marathon record. The Briton’s mark of 2hr 15min 25sec had stood, imperious and unchallenged, for 16 years. Yet Kosgei obliterated it by an astonishing 81 seconds.
Wearing a variant of the controversial Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% running shoes that had helped to propel Eliud Kipchoge to become the first man to break two hours for 26.1 miles on Saturday, the 25-year-old Kosgei blasted home in 2hr 14min 4sec – a time that had seemed unthinkable when dawn broke over the Midwest.