MARY KEITANY: can she take down Paula's Legendary 2:15:25 WR

2:21:10

She'd need to become a man, take lots of drugs, be followed around by a team of doctors and have the blessing of the Queen.

I think Mary Keitany can break Paula's record if she stays healthy and avoids injury.Right now Renato Canova sho is Keitany's coach has focussed on her as her number one athelete after what happened with Shaheen.Keintany has the right balance and ingridients in place i.e the best coach in the world,lots of pure/natural talent.Also she trains with the likes of Florence Kiplagat and Moses Mosop.I think she will run a 2.19 in her first marathon in fall.

Vipam, why not ask a less obvious more intriguing question.

How long before Alan Web annihilates all distance records from 5k to marathon?

After Dibaba, Defar, Melkamu, etc. all move to the marathon... get them in a race with Keitany and others and we could see this legendary record go down.

No

Maybe one of the Ethiopians competing on the track at the moment

She has all it takes to break Paula RecordlMarathon running has changed alot,track runners have no place in marathons.Fast marathoners are young flesh athletes,not them that retire from track

She's proabably capable of 2:18 - doubt she could go 2:15 though.

Remember Paula ean a 65:40 half-Marathon at South-Shields which wasn't ratified (slightly downhill I think) in 2003. So that should be a rough guiding point (though Paula could probably go faster still in 03)

She will exceed even Tadese's accomplishments in moving up to the marathon!

VIPAM wrote:

The stunner is how much she destroyed the record by with an over 2 minute improvement.

In Mary Keitany's run today she become the first women to run sub 1:20 for 25km.

In 2006 she became the 3rd women to run a 1/2 marathon under 1:07 club. Joining 1/2 marathon WR Lornah Kiplagat and South Africa retired star Elana Meyer; however, they only accomplished the feat once in their careers. Mary Keitany in 2009 ran three incredible 1/2 marathons in the span of three months:

1:06:36...Oct 2009

1:06:54...Nov 2009

1:07:00...Sep 2009

1.) Do you think Mary Keitany is the lady to take down Paula Radcliffe mindbogging world record of 2:15:25 from 2001?

2.) Mary Keitany will make her marathon debut in the fall, what would you predict her time to be in her marathon debut?

Keitany was actually the fourth, not third, sub-67 woman on a record-quality half-marathon course; Ester Wanjiru also broke 67 in finishing second to Meyer in Tokyo back in 1999. The women's half-marathon record is weak, and the women's 25k record that Keitany broke was absurdly weak; Paula's marathon times (whether one considers the mixed-race paced performance or the women-only performance) are in a different league. I don't know which marathon Keitany is debuting at. If it's Berlin, then I'd predict sub-2:20, but not sub-2:18.

isaac macharia wrote:

She has all it takes to break Paula RecordlMarathon running has changed alot,track runners have no place in marathons.Fast marathoners are young flesh athletes,not them that retire from track

Who hold the world records for men and women?

p.s.

Paula's mixed-race male-paced sub-2:16 was in 2003, not 2001. At the time, she was probably capable of sub-30 for 10,000m (at least with a little track-specific sharpening) and solidly sub-66 for the half-marathon; I would expect similar stats at shorter distances for the next woman who achieves a similar marathon performance.

i think it will be one of the current track runners as mentioned, defar, t. dibaba, melkamu, linet masai, vivian cheruiyiot, mercy cherono.

these are who i think can challenge the 2:15.25 world record.

some consider the 2:17.42 the world record, because it was in a all womens race, all the ones i mentioned except mercy cherono can run that right now, add flanagan to that list and my pick for the next womens american record holder in the marathon lisa koll.

also workinesh kidane is capable of it, although she has not run that well since her 3 years off from running during the time she had 2 kids.

"some consider the 2:17.42 the world record, because it was in a all womens race"

What is the Men's WR in an all "All Men's Race" Marathon?! I can't stand the logic of a "All Women's Race" records. Who cares if it done in a "Mixed" race. I think that they should add cheetahs or horses to men's track and road races to provide better competition and lower the current "slow" Men's WRs....

Who cares about Paula Radcliffe Record. She can't run 2:15 anymore and if they go head to head keitany would beat her probably 2:21:14 to 2:29:27.

Paula Radcliffe ran only 2:29:27. That's her f***ing record not 2:15:25. It's what you ran lately that counts. She doesn't deserve her f***ing record. If Keitany beats 2:18:47 then that's the real record.

Atsede Baysa, Teyba Erkesso, Amane Gobena, Mamitu Daska, Aselfech Mergia broke Paula slowish 2:29:27 timing.

douglas burke wrote:

some consider the 2:17.42 the world record, because it was in a all womens race

It's only relatively recently that some marathons have created separate starts for men and women. Prior to that, I must assume, the records were not set in "all women's races". Was Joan Benoit's Boston WR set in an "all women's race"?