{"id":130492,"date":"2026-09-20T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/agnes-ngetich-breaks-women-only-half-marathon-record\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:55:57","slug":"agnes-ngetich-breaks-women-only-half-marathon-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/agnes-ngetich-breaks-women-only-half-marathon-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Ngetich breaks women-only half-marathon record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Agnes Ngetich broke the world record for a women-only half marathon as she took gold at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Kenyan claimed victory in one hour, five minutes and 15 seconds as she took a second off the previous record, which her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir set in winning the World half marathon gold in 2020.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey holds the overall women’s half-marathon world record with a time of 1:02:52.<\/p>\n

“My coach believed in me and told me that I could do it, that I could win the gold medal,” said Ngetich, 25. “So, I am very happy and very grateful to now hold the world half marathon record, too.”<\/p>\n

In April 2025, Ngetich set a new 10km world record<\/a> when she clocked 29:27 to become the first woman to run the distance in under 30 minutes in a women-only race.<\/p>\n

She also broke the 10km world record in Valencia<\/a> in 2024, becoming the first woman to run the distance in under 29 minutes when she won a mixed road race in 28:46.<\/p>\n

Ngetich added: “I am now going to discuss with my coach what is ahead of me. But I know I am coming back to track races in 2027, because there is a World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n

“It is my dream to win a gold medal on the track. It is the only one I am missing.”<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Andreas Almgren won the men’s half marathon as he broke his own European record by 35 seconds, crossing the line in 58:06 in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Agnes Ngetich broke the world record for a women-only half marathon as she took gold at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen. The Kenyan claimed victory in one hour, five minutes and 15 seconds as she took a second off the previous record, which her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir set in winning the World half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}