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May 2026

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Patrick Kiprop and Rebecca Mwangi win the BOLDERBoulder as 47,645 finish in Folsom Field

With three-time champion Conner Mantz not racing, two Kenyans took the Memorial Day 10K pro races in 28:35 and 32:23 at a mile above sea level.

May 25, 2026
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Abeba Aregawi sets a Swedish marathon record of 2:23:12 in the rain in Ottawa

Aregawi won the Ottawa Marathon on 24 May; Kenya's Elvis Cheboi took the men's race in 2:09:22 from a pack of six that included Rory Linkletter.

May 24, 2026
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Eliud Kipchoge runs 2:13:29 for 16th in Cape Town, his first marathon on African soil

Cape Town was the first stop of the seven-continent tour he announced after New York; he finished eight and a half minutes behind Mohamed Esa's 2:04:55.

May 24, 2026
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Mohamed Esa runs 2:04:55 in Cape Town, the fastest marathon ever on African soil

The Ethiopian took more than three minutes off the course record and 97 seconds off the continental best; the first ten men were all inside the old record.

May 24, 2026
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Suldan Hassan wins Göteborgsvarvet by one second from Sondre Nordstad Moen

The Gothenburg local won the 55,000-runner half marathon in 1:03:30 into a strong wind; Meraf Bahta's 1:13:03 was the first Swedish women's win in 24 years.

May 23, 2026
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Fukuda and Keetels run furthest as 346,527 people race the Catcher Car

Jo Fukuda's 78.9 km in Fukuoka and Mikky Keetels' 62.2 km in Breda led the world on 10 May, in a run held in 173 countries that raised 9.2 million euros.

May 10, 2026
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Mercy Chebwogen runs 2:22:08 on her 30th birthday to break the Copenhagen Marathon record

The debutant took more than a minute off the race record on 10 May; Tadesse Kassa won the men's race in 2:08:26, five seconds outside the course record.

May 10, 2026
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Mikky Keetels sets a Vancouver Marathon record of 2:33:02 as 25,000 run the city

The Dutch runner took 85 seconds off the event record on 3 May; Kosuke Fujiwara won the men's race in 2:22:03 and Natasha Wodak set a half marathon mark.

May 3, 2026
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Berehanu Tsegu wins the Prague Marathon in 2:05:52, nearly two minutes clear

The Ethiopian beat Kenya's Felix Kipkoech by 1:54 on 3 May; 9,076 runners finished, and Yann Havlena was first Czech home in 2:17:49.

May 3, 2026

April 2026

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Sabastian Sawe runs 1:59:30 in London, the first marathon under two hours in a real race

Sawe took 65 seconds off Kelvin Kiptum's world record; Yomif Kejelcha ran 1:59:41 on his debut and Jacob Kiplimo 2:00:28 for third.

April 26, 2026
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Tigst Assefa defends London in 2:15:41, a women-only world record, by 12 seconds

Assefa, Hellen Obiri and Joyciline Jepkosgei all broke 2:16 in the same race for the first time; Obiri ran 2:15:53 on her London debut.

April 26, 2026
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El Goumri wins Hamburg in a Moroccan record; Kipkoech sets a 2:17:05 course record

El Goumri's 2:04:24 is the first Moroccan win in 40 editions; Samuel Fitwi was second in 2:04:45, Germany's first men's podium there since 1999.

April 26, 2026
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Nuguse runs 3:54.06 in Des Moines, a US all-comers road mile record; Addy Wiley wins

Nuguse beat two-time champion Vince Ciattei at the USATF 1 Mile Road Championships; Wiley won the women's race by 0.22 and both earned Copenhagen places.

April 21, 2026
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Sharon Lokedi wins Boston again in 2:18:51; Jess McClain fastest American woman there

Kenya swept the podium, McClain was fifth in 2:20:49, Annie Frisbie beat Shalane Flanagan's old American mark too, and four Americans made the top ten.

April 20, 2026
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John Korir runs 2:01:52 to win Boston again and take 70 seconds off the course record

With a tailwind from Hopkinton, Korir beat Geoffrey Mutai's 2011 mark, three men broke 2:03 and Zouhair Talbi ran 2:03:45, the fastest marathon by an American.

April 20, 2026
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Tigist Gezahagn, a two-time Paralympic 1500 m champion, breaks the Vienna course record

The visually impaired Ethiopian ran 2:20:06 to beat Haftamnesh Tesfaye by 12 seconds; Fanny Kiprotich won the men's race in 2:06:53, alone from 32 km.

April 19, 2026
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Guye Adola wins Rotterdam in 2:03:54; Mekides Shimeles, 20, breaks the course record

Adola came past Bashir Abdi in the last two kilometres; Shimeles ran 2:18:56 to beat Tiki Gelana's 2012 women's mark by two seconds.

April 12, 2026
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Yemaneberhan Crippa wins the Paris Marathon; Shure Demise sets a 2:18:34 course record

Italy's Crippa broke clear at 39 km to win in 2:05:18; Demise took more than a minute off the women's record and the top four all beat it.

April 12, 2026
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Graydon Morris and Emma Grace Hurley take USATF 10 mile titles at a record Cherry Blossom

El Youssfi beat Morris by a second and Asayech Ayichew won the women's race in 50:37, as a record 20,079 finished Phil Stewart's last race as director.

April 12, 2026

March 2026

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