The World Record That NOBODY Thought Could Fall 

I would be very interested in a video dedicated entirely to the guys who serve as elite pacers.

Ruth's average pace was within half a second of my flat-out mile PR, which is just absolutely mind-blowing to me 😳

Cool how the "shortest" and "longest" distances in athletics hold the iaaf score records.

The pacer got tenth overall in the men's just think about that.

What an achievement! Chicago 24 was sooo awesome. Ran it myself and set a PR of 2:48:29. To see these elites doing things like this is wild.

At the three minute mark, where is Sidney McLaughlin Leverone’s 400 m hurdle world record? That comes in at 1323 points.

It was only 57 years ago that men first broke the sub 2:10 and in official marathon still the last 10 minute barrier anyones broke so far.

Roger Bannister’s first ever sub 4 minute mile. That’s the only answer I will accept.

Amazing to say the least! A little bit of history of the Marathon. As a high school jr and senior (1966-1967) I had the honor of running and training with American born runner Buddy Edelen who held many American records in his day, including the first man or women to break 2:15 minutes in the marathon. His world record of 2 hr. 14min. 28 sec was set in 1963. Distance running in this country had not taken hold during Buddy's best years where he mostly competed in Europe with the world best distance runners. He was crowned by kings and queens in some events for winning in Europe where distance has long been a favorite sport. I met Buddy out on the roads one day, when he came to train for the 1968 Olympics in the high altitude of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. The elevation in my hometown Alamosa, Colo was the same 7000 ft above sea level as Mex. City. By this time Buddy was experiencing some severe nerve pain in his legs and hips during his runs...so the altitude training literally lowered the number of miles he needed to train compared to sea level. he wanted one more shot at an Olympic medal at the 1968 Olympics which was the second time he would represent the USA, he placed 6th in 1964, 11th in 1968. Buddy was a great distance runner, but also a college professor and that allowed him to join the faculty at Adams State College, (now university) to teach and train. His influence on distance running has helped make ASC famous for its XC and track programs. I learned so much from buddy about training... I increased my own h.s. times many times under his guidance... my practiced times going into my senior year, (4:17 mile and (9:11 two mile) would have erased the state records for those distances in 1967, but unfortunately soon after running these times in late summer of 1966, I tore up my ligaments playing basketball going into my senior xc season. I still managed to run some good times. but the12 week layoff and the phycological damage it did to me, I never ran as fast before I left high school. But I continued to be a lifelong runner and eventually a well respected xc and track coach.... I used many of the training tips I got from buddy, which helped me build championship xc and track teams during the 1990's-early 2000's ...and over 30 state individual and team champions... Buddy was a big part of my coaching success, and I will honor his gift to me forever. His passing away in 1997 at age 60, was just a few years before the amazing evolution in distance running. I think buddy would be totally blown away how distance running has evolved and truly amazed at what women are capable of... I too am excited and proud of them. Running across the world in every distance is just plain extraordinary to say the least... and I Love it!

Bro that opening half marathon is insane…like wtf

Missing Karsten Warholm's 1341 in the top ten bro

wonder how much super shoes advantage more diminutive runners versus those of bigger stature in terms of their energy return? Maybe she's in some sort of sweet spot for hi tech shoe solutions biomechanically

Thank you for bringing up Chicago '22, this was that except she was able to finish as well as she started.

Pharma is the true game changer😂. Diet woke

Ingebrigtsten, Chepngetich and some others would never have broken the world record without their supershoes. It gets easier and easier to break records. I think that by far the strongest performance over 3000 m was still that from Komen.

Absolutely nuts!!! And wow, you’d have to feel sorry for Tigst Assefa, getting beaten at the Olympics, and then losing her already INSANE WR only a few months later.

Medicine strength is also “unbroken”…

In the top 10 list, you didn't include Sydney McLaughlin 400mH WR that gave her a score of 1322

99% chance she’s juicing. She’s never shown potential anywhere close to sub 2:10, and considering she ran 2:24 in london earlier this year, that would be like Eliud or Kelvin having ran a 2:15 prior to running a WR

It’s funny how they were thinking Kabede was gonna break the world record. She got demolished

Breaking 2:10 is insane. Men usually take 10% off so they have to break 2 hours

Kenyan women now hold World records in 1,500m, 3000m steeplechase, 10,000m, 10 km road race and now again th womens marathon. The only long distance record missing is the women's 5,000 after Faith Kipyegons world record in this distance was broken earlier this year. This is simply amazing

Ryan Crouser's 23.56 meter shot put throw in May 2023 was worth 1334 points on the World Athletics (WA) scoring table. Yeah, I know it's not running, but worth pointing out!

2:33 karsten record is vauled at 1341 points

This record is a joke, and a sad one. (Huge performance jump at age 30, totally declassing competitors, coach Federico Rosa caught with doping in the past, Kenya not testing properly, ...)

There's another way of looking at this: once the distances starts to get long then the relative difference between men and women decreases. It could be argued that Radcliffe's record wasn't as tough as believed and that only now are women attacking the long distance records in increasing numbers and with the same regimes as the men.

For me, it's too good to be true. The win margin is out of this world.

I’d love to think Chepngetich is really clean…but it’s hard to deny it’s a big possibility she’s enhanced in some way

06:00 In this case, wouldn't that be Ruth-full, not Ruth-less? 🙂

Didn't Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone exceed 1320 pts with her 50.37? 1323 I think ...

Ruth is juiced and drafted off the pacers the entire run. She ran about her half-marathon PB 2 times in a row??? No way if clean. Still fast of course but no way clean. Please note these "pacers" would have won almost all men's marathons up until about 10 years ago. I am very sure there will be a video in the near future of doping or other PED.

Doping is getting more and more sophisticated

I want to know what the announcer meant by saying "Bring it on Neil Armstrong,we have another women who has done something just like you"

People who think that a woman can run 2:09 without doping also believe that Father Christmas really exists... Running marathon like it was 100 m, athletics today is a scam

That’s epossible.

When will that cool aid be available to normal runners?

Yep, my best mile time in high school was 5:07. LOL.

Where is the 400m hurdles World Record of Karsten Warholm? Don't you count hurdles as running? Because it would be rank 3 with 1'341 points. If you add fields, you get the single highest scoring moment of all time, Javelin world record of Jan Zelezny of 98.98m with 1'365 points.

Some o the best sports reporting is here on TRP and this report is a great example. The story is structured in an suspenseful way, the facts and figures are presented clearly, the imagery is perfectly matched and the payoff is perfect! The payoff is the respect and honor due to the awe-inspiring athlete: Go Ruth!. Very satisfying - even for those of us who are not sports addicts.

I always like to give the benefit of the doubt, but when your 2nd half of the marathon is faster than what you could have done for a half marathon alone only a couple of years ago... i get skeptical.

She is still human. I hope everybody remembers Lance Armstrong's super human efforts as well. When something seems too good to be true It probably is. Let history be a lesson for us.

Didn’t her coach have two other athletes get suspended for PEDs? Kinda suspect if you ask me

Absolutely doped up to the nines

EPO?

Did anyone see this coming from Ruth? How does this compare to her previous times and lifetime progression?

But, the women's progression involves the use of pacers breaking the wind resistance for the entire race. Kipchoge's sub-2 doesn't count because of it but women get it? Hmmm

How long until we here that she was doping somehow? Doesn't seem POSSIBLE for that big of a gap between 1st and 2nd without some type of performance enhancement!

Supershoes - look at radcliffe's time if the 3-4% improvement of the shoes is factored in, it brings the time down to 2.10

I thought Flo Jo would be much higher

”Ruthless” mark

Supershoes must help a lot

I find it weird that there isn't even a mention of potential doping or at least saying all the things she passed to prove it isn't likely. There's "it's worse than we thought" doping videos and "this world record was beat by 4 minutes!" Videos and nary a crossover comment.

East African countries are losing credibility with all their athletes doping and getting caught. So it wont be a surprise that she gets caught doping getting this record its hard to take these recent records seriously anymore despite them being official from World Athletics.

I just pray she's clean because that is truly out of this world record

I want to see Letesenbet Gidey give it a try at some point in her career

I don't like to cast blame without evidence or take away from a great achievement but for her to run this speed seems impossible to me without PEDs. What was her previous best/ last race times. Please could you do a breakdown on whether this is reasonable to say. The margin of victory to the next women being so big is evidence to me.

She is probably doping. They have taken 5 minutes of the WR in a few years ,that is massive.

Interesting 🧐 I hope Ruth isn’t doping..

She’s sauced out of her mind

Incredible🎉 Massive Respect!🔥

Good to see these numbers, but I hate to think about these shoes mate... I really do!

I thought Sydney McLaughlin's world record got 1322 point. Why is she not on the list?

i’m really hoping she ain’t roided 😭

It's a pity for her that Kenya has been embroiled in so many recent doping scandals that the immediate reaction isn't "wow!" but rather "hmm...".

shoutout to the pacer

The answer to the question is, it now depends on how well top level runners can adapt their techniques to shoe technologies.

My pace isn't even fast enough to keep up with her holding the Kenyan flag. Ruthless Relentless. Incredible achievement. While the World runs, Ruth rocks!!

Great Chicago marathon. I do not understand the issue with super running shoes. Should we go back to leather shoes with wood soles and running on cinder tracks? Should we make every athlete eat nutritionally relevant to the early 1900’s? With all of the pre and post training modalities should each athlete stop using them because they were not available in years past? Athletes are getting better, technology is getting better, and sports in general are getting better b

Those shoes are getting crazier and crazier, that’s bot fair .

Are they immediately drug tested after the race?

Find it's hard to believe this is a clean result?

She's wearing the single greatest shoes of all time.

The greatest finish of all time is Dave Wottle hands down. Timeless. It also enhanced the reputation of the USA for individualism and invention e.g. Wottle, Fosbury etc.

I'm sure there are plenty of people advocating to get rid of pacers in the marathon but, super shoes or not, would these times be possible without them?

Did the other chick have two pacers for their race? Anyway, the record will be broken again within a couple years at most. Super shoes will continue to progress, they're still relatively new, data is still constantly being gathered and evaluated, hence most of the models changing from iteration to iteration, and not just being some new upper/colorway. AI will develop the greatest shoe ever with new materials that haven't even come out yet.

Ng'etich is pronounced with the second "NG" sound in the word Gong not the first "Go" sound.

Records are always set to be broken ;). It was time that women recognize they could run decently fast as well. Now they're only 10min behind men, though the top is not as dense. The world athletics scoring table judges this a bit to high because it's only the first time it has been done. Same thing as in the 400m hurdles, where men and women figured this out over the past 3-4 years or so. Funny to say in a moment of greatness for a marathon performance ^^ I'd call it at least 2h09m56s of greatness... 11th on the mens side.

That time is amazing. I just cant see it getting any faster

The fact that faith kipyegon has never got 1300+ for her 1500/mile shows how flawed the scoring system is.

But the pace maker!! They always look like they are having a Sunday jog. Even the one who paced throughout, hitting 2:10. Probably the anxiety of a race does affect the competing runners....

What about Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone? I thought she scored in the 1300's for her last world record.

Huge talents... But let's be honest, in all distances records are being shattered very quickly year after year... Tecnology in shoes are getting out of control

I *really* hope she's squeaky clean

The scoring system is not objective, it rates a pole vault 10cm lower than Duplantis' PB as being better than Bolts 100m wr

5:29 They are running faster than the cyclist on the side… (obviously he’s not any kind of professional cyclist, but that’s still crazy)

When Assefa did the previous WR with help of pacers, I thought OK, that's new sphere for records, they've now used this tool and there probably won't be new WRs without male pacers. While correct, didn't think there'd be another as big leap to WR time right after. Certainly want to wonder what's physically possible though. This WR is closer to men's WR than in many races, which makes me think this might not be humanly possible in women's only marathon. If this gets broken, surely it'll be by seconds, not minutes next time.

It’s ridiculous to think she is clean. Just use common sense

“Shoutout to the pace makers who literally ran a sub 2:10 marathon whilst pacing ruth” no, he didnt. He ran 2:10:02 so factually he just missed sub 2:10

Can this time really been taken legitimately?!

All records are meant to be broken at some point.... But i hope some action is taken on the shoes and technology usage before it starts hurting the sport

EPO is an incredible compound.

Was it new shoes that made ladies beat Paula Radcliffes record?

How does Flo-Jo's 100m time only places 8th on the all-time rankings? The record stands for 36 years and only 1 athlete since then his come .05 close..

He got the wrong lingering questions in everyone's mind

Good job Federico Rosa!

i hope her tests come back clean, i dont wanna be a debbie downer but every time a Kenyan breaks a distance record im always sceptical thanks to all the systemic doping thats been going on, fingers crossed

I don’t understand the use of pacers. If they run the marathon then are they not just runners in the marathon like everyone else? They just choose to let someone else finish in front of them.

However, she ran with the men competitors, which shielded for the wind and 'de facto' acted as rabbits. The question is, how would she have performed in a women's only marathon.

Ok, looks like women will get a sub 2 hour time faster than men...

Steve magness mentioned the unfortunate possibility of doping? Amazing she raced this but what are your thoughts chat?