2nd Triple Stockholm marathon champ

Record time for ladies, Kenyans take top five mens places. The ever more popular event attracted a record 20,136 runners and set another record with 4,695 female runners. 

  • The start just outside the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Photo: Tommy Berlin.

  • While Kenyan men raced to take four of the top five places in the last weekend's 32nd Stockholm Marathon, a familiar female name in the race, Isabellah Andersson, had the led throughout the competition and won her third consecutive Stockholm Marathon.

  • Nearly six minutes ahead of the ladies' race second place runner Aberash Tesfaye from Ethiopia, Andersson became the second female to win three times in a row, and the sole Swedish girl to do so. The other three-timer was Ingrid Kristiansen, who won the event by outrunning her gender into Stockholm Stadium from 1980-1982.

  • The Kenyan winer, Joseph Langat, finished hardly one minute behind the course record of two hours, 11 minutes and 37 seconds set by British runner Hugh Jones in 1983.

  • Langat's winning time of 2:12:48 was barely a minute off UK runner Hugh Jones course record of 2:11:37 from 1983. Langat's time will go down as the fourth fastest. The event attracted a record 20,136 runners and set another record with 4,695 female runners.
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