{"id":121386,"date":"2025-09-14T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/second-gold-for-kenya-as-jepchirchir-out-sprints-ethiopias-assefa-to-win-womens-marathon-in-tokyo-worlds\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:15:54","slug":"second-gold-for-kenya-as-jepchirchir-out-sprints-ethiopias-assefa-to-win-womens-marathon-in-tokyo-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/second-gold-for-kenya-as-jepchirchir-out-sprints-ethiopias-assefa-to-win-womens-marathon-in-tokyo-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Gold For Kenya As Jepchirchir Out Sprints Ethiopia\u2019s Assefa To Win Women\u2019s Marathon in Tokyo Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TOKYO, Japan, Sept 14 \u2013 Returning to the country where she won the Olympic title four years ago, seasoned road runner Peres Jepchirchir ran a tactical race to out sprint Olympic silver medallist Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia to win her first World Athletics Championships title In Tokyo on Sunday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the better part of the race, it was neck-to-neck with the two top marathoners until the last kilometer where they were separated by a powerful final kick from Jepchirchir at 60 meters to joyfully cut the tape in a Season\u2019s Best of 2 Hours, 24 Minutes, 43 seconds .<\/p>\n<p>Assefa, who pulled the first move when they stepped into the National Stadium track, settled for silver once again at a global championships, clocking 2 Hours, 24 Minutes, 45 Seconds while Julia Paternain handed Uruguay its first medal ever after finishing third in 2 Hours, 27 Minutes, 23 Seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Jepchirchir\u2019s win ensured that Kenya not only reclaimed the title from Ethiopia for the first time since 2019 when Ruth Chepngetich won it in Doha, but also deliver a second gold for her country, and add the only missing medal in her cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>For Jepchirchir it was a bitter sweet revenge to Assefa who beat the Kenyan at last year\u2019s Paris Olympic Games where she won silver while the former finished to a disappointing 14th place.<\/p>\n<p>The gold has brought joy to Jepchirchir as well after having an injury hit season that saw her withdraw from the London Marathon in April this year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Japan, Sept 14 \u2013 Returning to the country where she won the Olympic title four years ago, seasoned road runner Peres Jepchirchir ran a tactical race to out sprint Olympic silver medallist Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia to win her first World Athletics Championships title In Tokyo on Sunday morning. For the better part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}